18. The figures of livestock imported by rail during the year are as follows:
Buffaloes Cows Pigs
**
1,574 head
36,542
1,040,794
多多
19. A total of 6,579 cold storage wagons travelled to the British Section from the Chinese Section, containing the following goods:
No. of wagons
Description of goods
10
Bamboo root shoots
22
Beer
100
Chestnuts
1,275
Eggs
124
Fish
2,742
Fresh fruits
4
***
985
Meat
***
:
34
Meat, preserved
**
350
Poultry
:
47
Prawns
***
***
11
Sundries
21
Turnips
858
Vegetables
6,579
Weight in metric tons
156
607
1,722
19,565
***
2,780
50,025
23,226
814
***
7,744
1,193
214
470
10,997
119,513
20. During the year, among the goods transported to China by rail were 46 metric tons of sewing machines, 24 metric tons of diplomatic belongings, 23 metric tons of newspapers and 26 metric tons of personal effects.
21. 3,671 metric tons of mail and mail packets, compared with 4,190 metric tons in the preceding year, were conveyed by rail to China for the Post Office. This amount was distributed fairly evenly over the whole year.
22. Details relating to goods traffic appear in Appendix V.
23. Operation. Train punctuality during the year was not satis- factory. This was caused mainly by the imposition of speed restric- tions on trains during the construction of the overhead footbridge at Sha Tin, repairs of bridges along the main line, and the running of additional special passenger trains and goods trains on this single line railway.
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