12. The arrival of the 23 new coaches from England enabled the introduction on 1st January, 1963, of a new passenger train time-table of 34 trains per day, as against 24 trains per day under the old time- table.
13. On Ching Ming Festival Day, 5th April, 1962 and on Chung Yeung Festival Day, 7th October, 1962, 32 and 31 special trains respec- tively were run, in addition to the normal service, to facilitate passengers visiting the cemeteries at Wo Hop Shek and Sandy Ridge. On these two days, 71,050 and 57,567 passengers respectively (excluding season, monthly and scholar ticket holders) were carried.
14. On 27th January, 1963, the third day of the lunar year, the total number of passengers carried was 86,226 which was a 39% increase over the 1962 record of 62,010 for Chinese New Year travel.
15. The figures for passenger traffic, showing the number of journeys and revenue, appear in Appendix IV.
16. Goods Traffic. Goods traffic improved over the previous year by 50,807 metric tons, yielding an additional $219,626 in revenue. This represented increases of 14.59% and 10.46% respectively. The overall receipts on handling charges decreased by $16,127 (1.72%) as the result of the lower contracts awarded during the year.
17. The principal commodities imported by rail into Hong Kong during the year under review are shown below:
Apples Beans
Beer
Calcium carbonate
Canned goods
9,721 metric tons
Cardboard
Caustic soda
Cement
Chestnuts
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Chinese medicine
**
Coal
Cotton clothing
Cotton piece goods Eggs
Fish, frozen
Fish, salt
Glass sheets
Malthoid roofing
Meat, frozen
Newsprint
Oranges Paper Pears
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RJA
3
نیا
16,688 4,400
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梦梦
**
"
1,290 1,517 2,580
>
婆碧
**
**
6,070 10,363
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**
"
29
2,489
劈章
25
3,743
**
梦梦
3,020
+
劈
1,063
**
10,460
25,166
>>
**
4,962
**
1,494
>>
4,345
>>
39
1,923 3,836
梦梦
**
**
7,190
9,595 5,800 10,496
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21
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