14. On Mid-Autumn Festival Day, 10th September, 1965, 14 special trains for Tai Po Market and 2 special trains for Fanling were added to the normal train service for the picnickers to spend their holidays in the New Territories. On that day 45,848 passengers were conveyed to all stations.
15. On Chung Yeung Festival Day, 3rd October, 1965, 26 special trains were run to Wo Hop Shek in addition to the normal train service for the convenience of the grave visitors. On that day 67,768 passengers were carried.
16. On 23rd January, 1966, the Third Day in the First Moon of the lunar calendar, which was the peak for railway travel during the Chinese New Year period, a total of 89,958 passengers were conveyed to all stations.
17. The figures for passenger traffic, showing number of journeys and revenue, appear in Appendix IV.
18. Goods Traffic. Goods traffic improved over the previous year by 176,730 metric tons yielding an additional $861,032 in revenue. This represented increases of 24.60% in weight and 22.49% in revenue. The overall receipts on handling charges also increased by $405,085 or 42.26%.
19. The principal commodities imported by rail into Hong Kong during the year under review are shown below:
Apples
Bamboo poles
Bars, iron Bars, steel
Beans
Bean noodle
Beer
Bricks
Canned goods
Cardboard
Caustic soda
...
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Cement
Chestnuts
Chinese medicine
Coal
Commodes
Cotton clothing
Cotton piece goods
Eggs
Fish, frozen
Glass sheets
***
21,188 metric tons
1,998
"
12,043
多
32,727
**
16,272
2,093 26.352
**
**
4,116
**
**
7.161
**
**
19,427
**
6,720 5,855
33
**
**
2,135
27
39
5,618
多多
3,516
"
1,471
3,166
***
26,737
寥寥
3
37,001
10,200
9,487
管壁
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