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42. LIGHTS AND BUOYS. For the guidance of vessels making for and leaving the Port, the Government maintains lighthouses at Waglan and Gap Rock, 15 minor harbour lights, of which two have skeleton staffs, and three lighted navigational buoys. There are also two signal stations, one at Green Island, and the other at Blackhead. The light dues imposed by the 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.
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43. PETROLEUM OIL AND SPIRIT ACCOMMODATION. Apart from an Admiralty cil depot in Canton Road, Kowloon, there are three oil concerns owning installations, two of which those of the Asiatic Petroleum Company, (South (hina) Limited, and the Socony-Vacuum Oil Company have sites withir. the Harbour limits. The 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.
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44. Each of these Companies in addition to the piers cwns 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 a total storage capacity of over 208,000 tons of all kinds of pil.
45. DRY DOCKS AND SHIPBUILDING. The shipbuilding and ship- repairing industry is the largest of what may be termed the manufactur- ing industries in the Colony. There are three excellent main ship- building and ship-repairing establishments in the Port, those of
The Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Company, Limited;
Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering Company, Limited; and
Messrs. W. S. Bailey & Jompany, Limited.
46. Between them they have seven dry docks varying up to 787 feet in length together with ample slipways, piers, quays, cranes and equip- ment 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 vessels up to 60 tons displacement.
48. PILOTAGE. Pilotage is not compulsory at the Port of Hong Kong but there are pilots who are licensed by the Harbour Master. In practice, foreign-going vessels employ a pilot, but locally-registered vessels which are in and out of the Port many times in the year, do not.
49. The pilots use their own craft, usually sampans, for boarding ships but they may use a launch belonging to the particular steamship company whose vessel they are to meet.
50. RAIL COMMUNICATION. The Port is connected by railway on the Kowloon side where the Kowloon-Canton Railway, (British section), has its terminal. This section is Government-owned and runs from Kowloon for a distance of 22 miles to Lowu on the border of the New Territories. In 1911 a connexion was made at Lowu with the Chinese Government line
running to Canton, (Canton-Kowloon Railway Chinese section), thus effecting a through conexion to the latter place. In 1937 a connexion was made close to Canton with the Canton-Hankow Railway, so giving a through connexion to Hankow.
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