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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5rm, 1914.

THE TRADE OF FOOCHOW FOR 1913.

BY MR," CONSUL Y. E. VILKINSON.

Both the gross and net value of the trade of Foochow in 1918 show, a consider- able increase over the figures of the pre- vious year. Reckoned in silver currency, the totals are in each case a record in the history of the trade of Foochow; though in the Bourishing days of the tea trade, Home 40 years ago, the gold value of the trado far exceeded the present figures. The gross value of the trade, as shown by the returns of the Chinese Maritime Customa, was Tls. 20,185,484 (£4,207,184), Ds compared with The. 23,025,183 (£3,513,586) in 1912, and the net value; Tl. 23,200,413 (£8,505,135) as against Tis. 18,033,325 (£2,751,860). Every branch of the trade has shared in the increase, but it is native imports which show the most substantial advance. To arrive at the real value of the trade of Foochow the returns of the junk traffic, which is under. the supervision of the native, customs, must also be taken into account. Taking the steamer and junk trade together we arrive at a grand total for the year of TIs. 36,472,029 (£5,608,557), and total of Tis. 31,403,558 (4,758,828), com posed of imports, Tls. 10,608,848 and exporte (loss re-exporia), Ths. 14,884,710,"

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Though the figures quoted make an excellent showing as compared with those of recent years, the trade unfortunately was not quite as satisfactory for the dis- trict as might be gathered from the totals, It has been laid down as an axiom in a previous report that the quantity of food- stuffs, capecially rice imported into Foochow in any given year is the best indication of the general prosperity of the locality during the period, since no in- port at all, or only a trifling one, betokens. a bountiful focal harvest, whereas a large one obviously implies the failure of the crops. From the fact that the import competition of India and Ceylon, a great of rice alone increased from 7,632 piculs deal of the land under tea went out of in 1912 to 480,275 piculs, valued at cultivation altogether, while even in the Tls. 1,067,675 in 1913, and that of flour most favoured districts the quantity from 210,571 piculs to $70,801 piculs grown was reduced and the shrub inter- valued at Tls. 1,284,280, it is evident that planted with other crops, more especially the harvest was a poor one, and that heavy sweet potatoes, since the farmers could no imports of cereals were necessary to make longer depend on the profits from tea up for the local deficiency. These two alone for a living. Having ceased to be items between them account for a consider the valuable erop it once was, it was no able proportion of the increase in imports,longer given the same attention by the A further indication that the year was growers that it received in the days of its not a prosperous one for the district prosperity, with the natural result that generally is the continued decline in the the quality declined simultaneously with import of foreign pièce-goods, whereas the quantity produced, to the further yarn and the courser qualities of native injury of the trade.

"The best hope for the future lies in an cloth show a substantial increase, the obvious conclusion being that the people increased demand for the local product, were less able than ever to indulge in and particularly for the better qualities, luxuries. Fortunately, the te harvest which will make it worth the farmers WAS B fair one, and a considerable while to extend the area under cultivation increase as compared with 1912 in the and give proper care and attention to quantity of tea exported, as also in that their plants. Improved communications of timber--denoting, it is to be feared, are, perhaps, the chief need of the indus- nore rapid deforestation-holped to ad- try, for not only would they cheapen the just the balance between imports and cost of the tea, but they would permit the exports. The net value of the imports,

neo in the Belds of fertilisers, of which nevertheless, excelled that of the exports the soil is badly in need, but which, owing by Tis. 1,724,138, whereas in previous to the cost of transport, cannot under years the balance has almost invariably present conditions be profitably employed, boen in favour of the latter However, if Until railway communication is estab- the year was not entirely propitious forlished with the interior any revival of the the province generally, the merchants of industry will be a slow one, but there Foochow, through whose hands the business appears to me no reason any langar to passed. have nothing to complain of. The believe that the trade is moribund. best evidence of local prosperity is that ninė now native banks have opened their doors since the end of the year.

TEA - THE FUTURE OF THE INDUSTRY.

INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS.

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The only signs of industrial progress It is not unreasonable to expect that establishment by a German firm of an during the year under review are the the suppression of the opian trade will albumen factory, and an extension of the give a fillip to the import of other foreign plant of the local electric light company goods by diverting to their purchase some which, under the able management of of the money now expended on the drug.

three brothers who were granted the There was a small increase in the concession, is proving a financial success. quantity of tea shipped to foreign coun-

No royalty, I should mention, has been, tries, the total exported amounting to by the company, the same charge being or is, paid to the provincial government 145,010 piculs as compared with 136,523 made for the lighting of the public offices pienis in 1912. The following notes on the tea trade at Foochow during 1013 have and streets as if they were private pro- been kindly supplied to me by a British perty. Apparently these were the only GOING AND RETURNING WITHIN PERIOD 1st JUNE-31st OCT. morchant-The position generally of the foreign tes trade here can only be said to be very unsatisfactory, and the experi ences of all those interested have been such during the past two sonsons that there

There is some talk of establishing at appears to be no alternative, but to be

enormous cost a new naval base for the helpless participants in the still further hinese feet at Samsah Inlet, a magni- decline of the trade. A temporary inficent harbour on the coast of Fukien about provement may take place next season if 70 miles north of Foochow. Without a exchange krops low, but there are so many foreign loan for the purpose the project factors militating against any permanent is not feasible improvement that this can only be of temporary assistance. The 1013 crop was about 30 per cent. smaller than that of I have remarked earlier in this report the previous year, and there is very little on the small dimensions of the foreign remaining unsold this year. In this import trade in proportion to the area respect the position is better, as at the end and population of the district for which of 1912 there was a largo unsold stock, Foochow serves as a distributing centre. great deal of which was ultimately But for the increase in Indian yarn and taken by Chinese for the north, princi: |în a few commodities which have become pally the Oolongs, the manufacture of necessaries to the Chinese of recent years, which is similar to the so-called green tea such as kerosene oil, flour, and matches, constituting the bulk of the shipments | the trade, in spite of the natural increase to that market.

of the population, has shown little or The tea exported to Chinese ports went no improvement during the last 30 years. mostly to Tientsin. The total quantity In several classes of piece-goods, in which shipped amounted to 137,503 picule, British trade is mainly interested, the valued at Tls, 4,078,634, as compared with import has, in fact, steadily diminished. 111,350 piculs in 1912. The bulk of the The explanation is without doubt the export consisted of Orange Pekoes, 99,665 extreme poverty of the province, which is piculs, and Oolonga, 14,966 pienls.. mainly due to over-population, to the It has been the custom for years past poorness of the soil, which is becoming to refer to the tea trade of Foochow as more and more exhausted, and to lack of moribund, and the reports on the subject energy and enterprise on the part of the furnished to this Consulate by tea inhabitants. The gentry in the interior merchanta have been almost invariably live under much the same conditions as pessimistic in tone. Of the decline of the the peasantry in the wealthier provinces trade since its palmy days in the seven of China, while the poverty of the working ties, when the quantity exported to classes may be gauged from the fact that foreign countries averaged over 600,000 in the country districts the wages of an piculs annually, there can be no question, able-bodied labourer are not more than but, on the other hand, for the last 10

£.6 (1jd. a day), Rice is a luxury which tears or so the foreign trade has shown very few can afford, potatoes being the little variation, while the quantity staple diet. There are people who are shipped to Chinese ports for native consanguine that with the suppression of sumption has steadily increased. As this opium smoking, the people, among whom latter trade is almost entirely in native the habit has been very prevalent, will to hands and in competition to a great some extent be roused from their lethargy, extent with the foreign trade, its increase but it is difficult to see how, in view of has been no great comfort to the foreign the poverty of the soil, any serious tea merchant, but it has this advantage, development of the province is practicable that the extension of the trade may very without at any rate the expenditure of well prove an incentive to the tea growers considerable capital in the extension of to increase and, it may be hoped to industries and the improvement of com- improve, their production to the ultimate munications by the construction of rail- benefit of both trades. Originally, the ways. But taking into consideration the cullivation of tea in this province was mountainous nature of the province and greatly stimulated by the enormous foreign the poornesa of the soil, perhaps the best demand which sprang up for it on the hope for the future of Fukien lica, not in opening of the port to foreign trade, but its agricultural possibilities, but in the when the price fell, as the result of the development of its mineral resourocs,

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