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HONGKONG
6,019 vessels of 1,275,201 tons cleared in ballast. The total of the shipping including trading junks, river steamers and steam launches, entering and clearing at Ports in the Colony during the year 1917, amounted to 621,090 vessels of 34,105,067 tons which compared with the figures for 1916, shows a decrease of 21,704 vessels, with a decrease of 2,276,390 tons. A Parliamentary paper issued in August 1905, showed Hongkong to be, in respect of tonnage, the largest shipping port in the world. The trade chiefly consists of opium, cotton, sugar, salt, flour, oil, cotton and woollen goods, cotton yarn, matches, metals, carthenware, amber, ivory, sandalwood, betel, vegetables, granite, etc., etc. There is an extensive Chinese passenger trade, chiefly restricted, however, to the Straits Settlements, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, Siam, and Indo-China.
Hongkong possesses unrivalled steam communication. The P. & O. S. N. Co. and the M. M. Co. conveyed European mails weekly, and before the outbreak of the war, which eliminated German and Austrian shipping, the Norddeutscher Lloyd maintained a regular fortnightly mail service between Bremen and Hongkong. The China Mail S.S. Co., the Pacific Mail S. S. Co., the Toyo Kisen Kaisha and the Java Pacific Line maintain a service with San Francisco, and the Canadian Pacific Ocean Services, Ltd., maintain a regular mail service with Vancouver, B.C. The Bank Line, Ltd., and the Osaka Shosen Kaisha, run regular steamers to Victoria, Vancouver, Scattle and to Tacoma, and the Bank line maintains regular services to New York; the Australian Oriental Line keep up a regular monthly service with the Australian Colonies, and the Nippon Yusen Kaisha maintain services to Europe, Australia, and the United States (Seattle). In addition to all these, several great lines of merchant steamers run between ports in Great Britain and Hongkong, of which the China Mutual S. S. Co., Ocean S. S. Co.. and the Glen, Bank, Mogul, Ben, Royal Mail, Shire, Barber, and Shell lines are the most conspicuous. Regular steam communication between Java and Hongkong is maintained by the Java-China-Japan Line and the Nederland Royal Mail Line. Between the ports on the east coast of China, Formosa and Hongkong the steamers of the Douglas S.S. Co. and the Osaka Shosen Kaisha ply regularly, and there is constant steam communication with Hoihow, Manila, Saigon, Haiphong, Tourane, Bangkok, Borneo, etc. With Shanghai, Tientsin, and the ports of Japan there, is frequent communication by steamers of the Indo- China S.N. Co., China Navigation, and other lines, in addition to the English and French mail steamers. Between Hongkong, Macao, and Canton there is a daily steam service, and steamers run as far as Wuchow on the West River.
DIRECTORY
COLONIAL GOVERNMENT
Governor, Commander-in-Chief, and Vice-Admiral-SIR FRANCIS HENRY May, K.C.M.G. Aide-de-Camp-D.S.P., P.P.J. Wodehouse
Private Secretary-R. Ponsonby-Fane
Hon. Extra Aide-de-Camp-Capt. G G. Wood, H.K.D,C.
Hon. Extra Aide-de-Camp-Capt. J. H. W. Armstrong, H.K.D.C.
Hon. Extra Aide-de-Camp-Suhadar Major Roshan Khan, II.K.S.B., E.G.A.
Do. Do. Do.
-Subadar Mehr Khan, 74th Punjabis
—D. S. P. (R) F. C. Jenkin
-A, S. P. (R) T. F. Iough
His Excellency The Governor
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
局政議 I Ching Huk AK¤
His Excellency Genl. Officer Commanding
Hon. Colonial Secretary
Hon. Attorney-General
Hon. Colonial Treasurer
Hon. Director of Public Works
Hon. Secretary for Chinese Affairs Hon. Sir C. P. Chater, Kt., C.M,G. Hon. E. H. Sharp, K.C., O.B.E.
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