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The following table shows the junk trade of the Colony for the years 1921 and 1922:-
IMPORTS.
1921.
1922.
Junks.
Foreign Trade,...... 13,742 Local Trade,
5,495
Total,
19,237
Tons.
1,755,153 244,730
1,999,883
Junks.
12,927 3,516
16,443
Tons.
1,578,924
162,521
1,741,445
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OPIUM.
Four hundred and seventy-one (471) chests of Persian opium were imported during the year. 471 chests were exported to Formosa.
Six hundred and five (605) cheets of uncertificated Indian Opium were imported; 475 chests for the Macao opium farmer, and the remaining 130 cheats for the government opium monopoly.
The table below shows the total imports and exports since 1914:-
Imported 788,294 tons us under :-
Cattle, 945 head.....................................
Swine, 9,309 head, ...............................
Earth and Stones,
Tons.
111
541
27,127
760,515
Total.........
788,294
EXPORTS.
1921.
1922.
Foreign Trade,...... 13,783 Local Trade,......... 5,655
Tons.
1,736,583 258,516
Junks.
19,228 3,613
Tons.
1,616,084
160,990
Total,
HIMA
19,438
1,990,099
16,841
1,777,074
Exported 1,138,280 tons as under :—
Tons.
Kerosine, 1,658,035 cases,......................................0.........nom....................
55,417
439,409
231,702
Generat,
411,752
Total.............1,138,280
Stock in hand on
1922. 1021. 1920. 1910. 1018. 1017. 1018. 1975. 1014. Cheats. Chests. Chests. Chests Chests Chests Chests. Chests. Chests.
Ist January, ..... 226+ 3:29 329 253 7901 9771,309 2,350 4,5801 Imported during
658 1,525 1,290 1,259 1,657 1,706 1,879 3,059
the year, SER 1,076
Tutal, 1,802
Boiled by Oplam
Farmer,
Boiled by Govern.
ment,
Spurious Opium
destroyed,
Used locally...-----| Missing or stolen, Sold to Govern.
ment.
Exported during
the year,
987 1,61 1,543 2,068 2,884 8,009 4,129 7,640
T
811+ 2001 226 377 539
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IHILI
946
Total
1,257)
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352
366 340 +13
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Stock remaining oal
81st December,..!
518 1,2971 837 1,265 1,469 1,867 2,469 | 4.911
7601 1,525 1,214 1,805 1,835 2,082 2,836 5,8834
2261 329
320 283 7901 977 1,308 2,266
Emigration and Immigration.
Ninety eight thousand three hundred and ninety-three (98,393) emigrants left Hongkong for various places during the year 1922. (156,011 in 1921). Of these, 52,038 were carried in British ships, and 45,755 in foreign ships.
One hundred and forty-three thousand five hundred and forty- seven (143,547) returning emigrants were reported to have been brought to Hongkong from the several places to which they had emigrated either from this colony or from coast ports, as against 159,064 in 1921. Of these, 85,057 arrived in British slips, and 58,400 in foreign ships.
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