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LOCAL POPULATION.

THE HONGKONG `·. TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1927.

MOTOR CAR TOUT.

JAPANESE TRADE.

·STATISTICS COMPILED BY

·CHARGED WITH SOLICITING NEAR STAR FERRY.

INCREASED EXPORTS DURING LAST MONTH.

FIRE PROOF

THE

M.O.H.

concoin-

Interesting statistics ing the Colony's population are given in the annual report of the Medical Officer of Health, which deals with Hongkong, Kowloon and New Kowloon but not the New Chinese detective stated that he saw a few soldiers, who carried

Territories.

The estimated population of the

Colony at the middle of 1920 was as follows: Non-Chinese Civil population 16,500 Chinese population:

City of Victorin (including

the Peak) Villages of Hongkong .... Kowloon (including New

Kowloon)

Now Territories (land) Population afloat

A Chinese was charged before The report of commercial con- Major C. Willson yesterday after-ditions in Japan, received by the noon with touting for motor car local Japanese Consulate General, passengers outside the Star Ferry states that the financial market is on the night of August 14.

still chay and with the object of Prefectural district, the Govern finding the necessary funds for the

ment has decided to grant

between them certain musical in-

GOLD

900 yen from the Deposit DepartMEDAL

struments, come off the ferry.ment of the Finance Office to the Defendant called out to them and Prefectural authorities. said "Motor Car! Motor Car"! The Of this sum, 60,000,000 yen is soldiers, however, ignored this to be utilised for the refunding 465,000 man and went further down to of the local high-rate loans and 50,000,000 yen for the relief of 33,010 another car, No. 347.

the silk traders who have suffered from the continuous decline in the silk market.

The defendant was then arrested, 200,000

87,500 the detective going to the Central 72,380 Police Station with him in the car,

As a result, it is believed that It is claimed by the detective that the agricultural districts will be 857,920 the defendant asked to be given relieved of the tight money mar

kets.

Total Chinese population Total Civil population. 874,420

ir

Since 1915 the population in the aren has increased by 46 per cent. The British and foreign community in 1926 numbered 10,500, against

18,300 ten years before.

Liable to Variation,

The

a chance, but the reply was that the Inspector in the Charge Room The readjustment measures in was the only man who was in afconnexion with banks which have position to do that.

had to suspend business are pro The defendant's version of the of the new banking programme is eceding apage, and the realisation story was datirely different. He in sight, said he knew that the soldiers In the field of "foreign trade were procceding to the Lee there are signs of the removal of Theatre, as he had seen them on the business depression. previous nights. They had order trade figures show an increase of The population of the Colony sed car No. 347, and when the 17,000,000 yen in exports, and a liable to much variation depend-soldiers appeared the defendant decrease of $14,000,000 in imports ant on political conditions in

In South China and the state merely pointed out the right car to as compared with last year.

them.

sympathy, the stock markets which trade in Hongkong.

have been dull for some months His Worship discharged the sup-are now displaying a brighter posed "tout" and added that the tone. detective might have made a genu-] ine mistake.,

of

Following the strike towards the end of June, 1925 large numbers of Chinese left the, Colony.

Later many returned but that a large number did not return seems obvious from Agures furnished by the Harbour Master and the Man- ager of the Kowloon-Canton Rail) way.

Mr. Horace Lo represented the

defendant.

per

The real emancipation of women

mates.

will never be realised until they are free to choose their The vote is a poor thing compared with the right to pick a husband (says Dorothy Dix, in Tit-Bits.) any a middle-aged woman would per like to go to some widower who is struggling with a household full kong and neighbouring Chinese The total number of deaths re- of children, and say to him- Territory by river steameship and gistered in the Colony during the "Marry me. I'm fond of you. I'm railway shows a balance of 183,-year 1926- was 12,516 (14,991 in a good cook and manager, and I'll 978 in favour of emigrants.

registered births was 4.18 During the year 1926 the ex-1000 as compared was 4.25 change of people between Hong-1,000 in 1925.

The actual figures so furnished dre shown in the following table.

Immigrants Emigrants By railway 147,840 248,952 By Steamships 128,601 210,527

Total

276,501 460,479

1925).

I

The general civil death rate was 15.9 per 1,000 (19.05 in 1925),

The Chinese deaths numbered 12,336 (14,735 in 1925).

The Chinese death rate was 16.01 per 1,000..

Infant Mortality.

mother your children and make you happy" Many a rich girl would like to say to some.. poor, fellow "You struggling young are just the sort of a real, ambi- tious man I want for a husband. Marry me and I'll put my money into your business and we will make a prosperous and congenial couple." But the blundering The Non-Chinese deaths num-widower marries a flapper who bered 180 including 14 from the quarrels with his children, and Navy and Army.

the poor man is so afraid of being The death rate for the "Non- thought a fortune-hunter that ho Chiese civil population was 10.9 marries a girl who has no more per 1,000 (14.6 in 1925).

than he has and they live in dis- The number of deaths of child- comfort ever after. Woman's in Hongkong it is essential to ren under one

year was 3,424 next step in securing equal pri- remember that Registration of(4,711 in 1925), of which 3,409 were vileges with, men is the right to Births is largely evaded by the Chinese and 15 Non-Chinese. propose Chinese especially in regard to Of these 829 Chinese and 12 female children.

These figures do not take into account the large interchange of population by sailing vessels.

Birth Statistica.

In dealing with Birth Statistics

Non-Chinese were under one

The births registered during month of age. the year 1926 numbered 2,541,

The ratio of deaths of infants to the total deaths registered Was The birth rate of the Non-27.3,per cent (31.4 in 1925), Chinese civil population was For the Chinese deaths above 19.21 as compared with 22.6 In the ratio was 27.5 per cent (31.7 1925,

in 1925), while for the Non-Chi- The birth rate for the Chinese nese it was 8.3 per cent (15.6 in

1925). population as calculated from the

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