INDUSTRY, COMMERCE, SHIPPING, ETC.
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The trade of Hong Kong and the United Kingdom (Board of Trad* returns) for five years is given as follows : —
Imports (consignments) into Gt. Britain from Hong Kong ....
Export* of British Pro- dnce to Hong Kong
Exports of Foreign and Colonial produce . .
1913 (pre-war)
675,276
4,354,222
200,36.3
1917
£ 1,456,580 1,096.519 47,535
1918
£
M-.C.3-2
3.744,833
50,888
1919
1920^
£ £
2,*2C,J11 2,506,333
4,493,560 13,112,752
331,816 302.33s
1 Provisional figures. The principal items of trade for 5 years are given as follows : —
f
1913 (pre-war)
1916
1917
19 18
1919
Imports (consign-
ments) into Uni-
ted Kingdom :
£
£
£
£
£
Preserved Gin-
ger
81,485
69,418
52,550
58,197
309,629
Silk, all kinds
75,975
58,629
46,165
82,622
18,012
Drugs . Feathers Jtdown
57,256
45,730
49,805
104,278
163,771
55,669
95.167
30,036
45,146
89,404
Hides, raw
3,519
113,135
441,082
275,260
215,941
Tin in blocks,
ingots, bars,
and slabs
192,337
197,277
197,806
—
7,399
Exports from Uni-
ted Kingdom :
Cottons k, yarn
2,422,539
1,862,561
1,814,720
2,090,568
2,222,792
Woollens A: yarn
401,003
347,107
341,123
217,621
286,293
Iron and steel
and manufac-
tures .
309,979
423,261
164,923
286,875
490,982
Michinerv
93,618
75,972
54,560
343,981
192,868
Painters'
colours, &c.
51,949
117,005
65.997
89,827
125,374
Soap
64,251
104,644
71,870
65,706
59,422
Tobacco .
137,860
232,143
86,877
133,959
69,738
20,987 vessels, including 10,353 junks and 2,509 steam-launches, re- presenting altogether 10,489,114 tons, entered in 1919, and 20,998 vessels, including 10,357 junks and 2,526 steam-launches, representing 10,584,312 tons, cleared in 1919. The number of fishing and other boats frequenting the harbour and bays of Hong Kong in 1919 may be estimated at abont 20,000.
There is an electric tramway of 94. miles and a cable tramway connect-
he Peak district with the lower levels of Victoria. The British section
of the Hong Kong-Canton Railway was begun in 1907, and opened to
traffic on October 1, 1910. The branch line from Fanling to Sha Tau Kok
was completed and opened to traffic in April, 1912.