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Matches...
Paperware
Peanuts
Peanut Oil
HONGKONG H
Principal Articles of Exports Continued
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...
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Rattans...
Rice, Meal (Rice Bran)
(Broken)
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(Cargo)
99:
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(Glutinous)
(White)
in husk (Padi)
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Shirtings, White, 40/43 Yards
Silk Piece Goods
Sugar, Candy
Raw
""
Refined...
19
Tea
Tinplates
...
Tin Slabs and Ingots
Tobacco, Prepared, Native
Tobacco, Raw
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...
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Vermicelli
Wood Oil
Yarn, Cotton
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7
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1921
1922
1923
534,618
434,890
383,963
346,656
334,947
364,245
354,187
285,332
318,782
384,906*
405,477
492,837
!
345,582
346,756
363,309
680,175
696,759
812,786
2,202,620
2,345,556
2,445,267
908,594
1,221,146
776,797
669,583
526,812
505,812
יי
5,278,244
5,760,219
7,284,664
594,687
1,118,221
864,227
...
893,262
622,829
453,339
1,419,249
1,135,136
939,828
606,302
354,277
477,9861
2,774,115
1,772,342
2,245,316
7,774,824
4,545,793
5,621,754
587,616
551,4151
609.997
...
280,546
174,614
325,900
...
1,387,800
1,898,771
1,607,388
...
513,478
471,252
419,402
322,966
265,717
361,218
514,911
500,887
459,021
106,997
81,728
370,379
5,257,802
4,601,102
3,054,963
It was anticipated that the prolonged political strife and internecine warfare and generally lawless conditions of South China would be reflected in a marked decrease in ́ the figures of the trade for that section of the country, but the trade goes on in spite of the unsettled conditions. The 1923 total value of exports to South China is £24,990,731, as compared with £24,914,072 for 1922, an increase of £86,659. There is a significant drop in the value of the trade exported by the Kowloon-Canton Railway, the 1923 value showing as only £181,968 while the value in 1922 was £839,975. Railway connection with China was seriously interrupted during the year owing to the commandeering of trains by the Chinese military. The British Section of the railway sent no express trains through Chinese territory for a total period of 10 months during 1923, and no slow trains during a total period of over 5 months.
The statements that have been made that Hongkong was losing the rice trade by reason of the direct shipments being made from the exporting countries, are not borne out by the figures. Hongkong imported 20,464,730 piculs of rice of all kinds during 1923, as compared with 18,271,582 piculs in 1922 and 17,270,624 piculs in 1921. Exports show corresponding increases 16,084,645 piculs in 1923 as against 14,281,361 piculs in
1921.
Wheat flour imports have increased from 1,779,114 piculs in 1922 to 1,824,449 piculs, in spite of the reports that a great deal of the flour formerly handled in Hongkong is now shipped direct to outports.
The main items in Imports showing an increase over 1922 are manures (chemical and mineral), peanut oil, rice broken and rice white, sugar raw and refined, and tin slabs. The first named has shown a remarkable increase in two years, the value of the importations having risen from £91,277 in 1921 to £614,265 in 1923.
There has been a falling off in the total value of many classes of goods exported, th most notable being cotton yarn, which has fallen from £4,601,102 in 1922 to £3,054,963 in 1923. Other decreases are kerosene, silk piece-goods, white shirtings and tin slabs. Raw and refined sugars show an increase of approximately £1,500,000 between them, and white rice shows about the same increase of a million and a half sterling.
The total of the Shipping entering and clearing at ports in the Colony during the year 1923 amounted to 778,222 vessels of 53,402,239 tons, which, compared with the figures for 1922, shows an increase of 69,978 vessels and of 6,835,475 tons. Of the fore-
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