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Vegetables

Bean oil Hemp seeds

Chillies dried

2,216

""

"

2,175

""

**

1,919

35

27

1,914

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Melon seeds

1,891

"

"

Gunny bags

1,869

"?

**

Ground nut cakes

1,686

""

Tea seed cakes

1,324

**

>>

Cotton waste

1,257

要

Nutgall

1,230

>>

Resin

1,199

19

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Hemp

1,179

Gypsum

1,013

Since the middle of September, cattle have also been imported by rail, presumably due to better prices in the local market.

The number of animals imported is set out below:-

No. of pigs

No. of buffaloes

No. of cows

160,000 head

1,769 1,666 →

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In August, live pigs from across the border which were sold to the markets in the New Territories were unloaded at Fanling Station. On the advice of the local health authorities, this practice was discontinued and now the pigs have to be off- loaded at Yaumati Station and transported to the New Terri- tories again by other means.

Local goods traffic, tonnage and receipt, were almost the same as those of last year. The figures appear in Statement No. 6.

Handling receipts affected by the decreased foreign goods traffic declined by 29.69%, from $390,467 to $274,556.

14. Operation. Train punctuality has improved. The Police have shown good co-operation by abstaining from holding up the trains at Fanling Station to carry out routine searches

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