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METEOROLOGICAL Return.
The following Table records the meteorological conditions which prevailed during the
year :--
Month.
Barometer
at M.S.L.
TEMPERATURE.
HUMIDITY.
Max. Mean. Min.
Rel.
Abs.
Cloudiness.
Sunshine.
WIND.
Rain.
Dir.
Vel.
ins.
p. c.
ins.
p. c.
hours.
ins.
Points.
miles p. h.
January,
30.16 66.3 61.4 57.0
February, 30.14 61.8 58.7 55.2 75
March.......
April,
30.08
29.96 72.9
68.4
63.8 59.7
69.2 65.7
May.
29.85 80.6
76.2
73.0
June,
29.75 84.3 79.9
76.4
July,
29.74 87.1
82.5 79.1
August,
29.70
86.7
81.9
78.3
September,... 29.81
85.1
80.6
76.6
October,
November, 30.08
29.96 83.4
79.0
75.4
76.0 71.51 67.5
December, 30.19
67.0 61.9 57.2
8 2 8 3 = ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ to 28
69
0.38
44
195.8 3.445
E by N
12.4
0.38 80
80
0.50
84
0.61
82
0.74
2 8 8 8
96.5 0.165
E by N
15.3
80
86.8 0.335
E by N
12.8
86
78.3 11.755
E
13.5
77
164.0 11.280
E by S
13.9
80
0.82
72
181.0 13.170
SE by E
11.6
80
0.88
72
81
0.88
62
78
0.82
59
80
0.79 66
73
0.57
73
63
0.35 59
N N * 3 + 3
210.5 7.385
S by E
10.3
222.5 14.855 |
E by S
11.7
187.9 19.465
E
11.3
191.2 8.965
A
13.6
122.9 1.265 NE by E
12.0
165.5 1.460 NE by E
12.4
76.6 72.2 68.4 77 0.64 69 |1902.9 93.545
E
12.6
Mean or Total, 29.95
Total
The average annual rainfall during the ten years ending 1897 was 92-6 inches, while for the decade ending 1907 it has fallen to 77-3 inches. The rainfall for last year therefore (93.5 inches) is well above the average of recent years.
POPULATION.
The population of the Colony exclusive of the New Territories at the Census taken on November 20th, 1906, was as follows:- *-
Non-Chinese Civil Community,
Chinese:
City of Victoria (including Peak and Stonecutters' Island),......174,937
Villages of Hongkong,
Old Kowloon,
New Kowloon,......
Floating population,
Mercantile Marine,
Total Chinese Population,...
Army,
Navy,
12,415
17,032
52,331
17,836
42.744
2,508
307,388
4,537
4,298
328,638
Total Population of the Colony, exclusive of New Territories
(except New Kowloon) in 1906,
At the Census taken in 1901 the Civil population of the Colony, exclusive of the New Territories, was 283,975, so that the increase in the Civil population during this period has been 17,992 exclusive of New Kowloon and the rest of the New Territories.
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