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Government are two and four-tenth cents per ton on all ocean-

going vessels and nine-tenths of a cent per ton on all river

steamers which enter the waters of the Colony.

(43) Petroleum oil and spirit accommodation. Apart from an

Admiralty oil depôt in Canton Road, Kowloon, there are three oil

concerns owning installations, two of which those of the

Asiatic Petroleum Company, (South China) Limited, and the Socony-

Vacuum Oil Company have sites within the Harbour limits. The

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third, belonging to the Texas Company (China) Limited, is

located at Tsun Wan in New Territories. The two first-named

have piers on the usual form of lease expiring in 1949.

(Left) Each of these Companies in addition to the piers owns

pipe lines, tanks and godowns and they have altogether storage

for about 53,500 tons of paraffin oil, 39,900 tons of fuel oil,

25,000 tons of diesel oil and 90,000 tons of miscellaneous oil.

This represents & total storage capacity of over 208,000 tons of

all kinds of oil.

(45)

Dry docks and shipbuilding. The shipbuilding and ship-

repairing industry is the largest of what may be termed the

manufacturing industries in the Colony. There are three

excellent main shipbuilding and ship-repairing establishments in

the Port,

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those of

The Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Company,

Limited;

Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering Company, Limited; and

Messrs. W. S. Bailey & Company, Limited.

Between them they have seven dry docks varying up to

787 feet in length together with ample slipways, piers, quays, cranes and equipment necessary for the building of vessels of upwards of 10,000 tons and for the carrying out of repairs to

all vessels using the Port.

(47) In addition, there are four native-owned and managed

shipyards in Kowloon capable of repairing vessels of up to about 1,100 tons displacement, and one in Hong Kong capable of taking