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The following Table in which the figures represent tonnage, shows the principal articles of import in the year 1906 in vessels of European construction, compared with similar returns for 1905 :-

Articles.

1905.

1906.

Increase.

Decrease.

Beans,.

2.113

3,360

1,247

Coal,.

1,083,987

971,365

112,622

Cotton Yarn and Cotton,

32,949

41,871

Flour,

54,508

79,635

8,922 25,127

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Hemp,..

26,784

23.356

Kerosine (bulk),

43,411

43,932.

521

(case),

74,506

28,937

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3,428

45,569

Liquid Fuel,

850

5,850

5,000

Lead,

800

800

Opium,

2,983

3,286

,803

Rattan,

3,430

12,531

9,101

Rice,

566,171

624,369.

58,198

Sandalwood,.

3,386

2,561

825

Sulphur,

100

100

Sugar,

311,787

482,178

170,391

Tea,...

900

900

Timber,..

66,324

52,242

14,082

General,

1,594,862

1,633,604

58,742

Total,

3,869,751

4,029,177

337,652

178,226

Transit,

3,415,418

2,878,360

537,058

Grand Total,

7,285,169

6,907,537

337,652

715,284

Nett,........

377,632

During the year 1906, 15,519 vessels of European construction of 19,793,354 tons (net register), reported having carried 9,759,648 tons of Cargo, as follows:-

Import Cargo,....

Export

Transit

29

Bunker Coal shipped,

In Imports there is an increase reported of 159,426 tons.

In Exports there is a decrease reported of 232,864 tons.

.4,029,177 tons, ..2,163,344

71

.2,878,360

688,767

27

9,759,648 tons.

In Transit Cargo there is a decrease reported of 537,058 tous.

In Bunker Coal there is an increase of 24,349 tons.

The total reported Import Trade of the Port for 1906 amounted to 22,408 vessels of 11,249,233 tons carrying 7,372,075 tons of cargo of which 4,493,715 tons were dis- charged at Hongkong. This does not include the number, tonnage, or cargo of vessels in Local Trade.

Similarly, the Export Trade from the Port was represented by 22,142 vessels of 11,203,844 tons, carrying 2,778,441 tons of cargo, and shipping 690,689 tons of bunker coal.

Seventy-six thousand seven hundred and twenty-five (76,725) emigrants left Hongkong for various places during the year. Of these 63,830 were carried by British Ships and 12,895 by Foreign Ships; 134,912 were reported as having been brought to Hongkong from places to which they had emigrated, and of these, 105,780 were brought in British Ships and 25,586 by Foreign Ships.

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