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18. A total of 7,438 cold storage wagons was sent over to the British Section by the Chinese Section, containing the following goods:

No. of wagons

Description of goods

15

Bamboo root shoots

146

Chestnuts

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1,677

Eggs

209

Fish

2,481

Fresh fruits

1,248

Meat

53

Meat, preserved

422

Poultry

48

Prawns

7

Sea Shells

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6

Sundries

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37

1,089

Turnips Vegetables

7,438

Weight in metric tons

211

2,845

25,441

4,783

46,111

29,176

1.113

9,133

1.055

102

180

753

15,348

136,251

19. During the year under review, among the goods transported to China by rail were 33 metric tons of diplomatic belongings, 31 metric ons of sewing machines, 27 metric tons of relief parcels to East 'akistan and 22 metric tons of newspapers.

20. 5,384 metric tons of mail and mail packets, compared with ,671 metric tons in the preceding year, were conveyed by rail to China for the Post Office. This amount was distributed fairly evenly wer the whole year.

21. Details relating to goods traffic appear in Appendix V.

22. Operation. Train punctuality for the year under review was ot satisfactory. This was caused mainly by the imposition of speed estrictions on trains for the rock blasting works at Tai Po Tau nd Hung Hom by the Public Works Department, repairs to several ridges on the main line, the construction of an underground drain cross the main line at Railway Mile 14, and the running of addi- ional special passenger trains and goods trains on this single line ailway.

2

Trains on time

Trains delayed for less than 5 minutes Trains delayed for 5 minutes and over

Total No. of passenger trains run

5

No. of scheduled

Percentage

passenger trains

5,470

44.09

3,874

31.22

3,063

24.69

12,407

100,00

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