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“...greater
quantities of coal (principally Japanese, North China and Hongay)
passing through Hongkong direct to Canton than heretofore, also to
the falling off in ocean tonnage.
Of the many varieties of coal imported, Japanese heads the list.
Next come North China and Hongay. The importation from Pulo
Laut is increasing.
There was only one cargo of Cardiff coal commercially imported.
Xo Australian coal was discharged throughout the year.
Kerosene Oil shows a big increase in bulk oil of 62,367 tons or
liri% and in case oil an increase of 4,112 tons or 8"8^, while
liquid fuel has increased by 7,759 tons or 82"3 %. The huge increase
in bulk oil can be attributed to a great extent to the cutting of
rates between the Standard Oil and Asiatic Petroleum Companies,
also to the fact that stocks were left short in 1910, and that much
oil hitherto shipped direct to coast ports was last year trans-shipped
in Hongkong, because the revolution in China caused a restriction
of sales in the interior. The increase...”
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“...latter half of the year, however, there has been very little trade
in either morphine or cocaine owing to further restrictions placed on
the import of these drugs at the various ports in China and the
neighbouring countries.
Sugar.The imports of sugar show-a decrease 42,076 tons or
Cotton and Cotton Yam.Here is shown a large decrease amount-
ing to 34,730 tonB or 87 5% chiefly due to high prices ruling for
cotton during the year, which made it prohibitive to the poorer
Chinese and so checked business. The last two or three months of
the year were particularly bad for business owing to the Revolution.
Flour.Our returns show a great increase of 49,679 tons or
153'8% due to the poor rice and wheat crops in China throughout
the year. Districts, which were supplied last year from the abundant
crops of China, have this year been compelled to fall back on the
American products. The price of rice has also enhanced the demand
for American flour, this being used as a substitute for rice and rice-...”
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“...the year the Revolution in China dislocated business and the
outlook is still unsatisfactory.
Rope Manufacturing.There is very little requiring special com-
ment, and the trade for the year has gone on without any distinguish-
ing feature. The power of absorption of the local and adjacent
markets seems to vary very little. The price of hemp has been
fairly steady throughout the year, the extreme fluctuation not exceed-
ing $3 per picul in Manila.
Cement.There has been a fair demand throughout the year.
Brewing.The Oriental Brewery, of which hopes of succcss
were confidently expressed in 1910, was unfortunately unable to
compete with other breweries and has passed into liquidation.
(ii.)Under Chinese Management.
Rattan and Fibre Furniture.Business showed a slight falling
off. There are forty-one firms, large and small, in the trade.
Native Tobacco.There are twenty-six factories in existence.
Business is still unsatisfactory owing to the competition in China
of foreign tobacco corporations...”
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“...between Hongkong and Canton
was established but, owing to the disturbances in Chinese Territory,
traffic on the Chinese section was suspended at the request of the
late Viceroy on November 7th and was not resumed until the 14th
of December. Thereafter the traffic to the end of the year was
below normal. The local traffic, was steady during the year and
receipts were more than was anticipated.
Passengers carried between 5th October and 31st December-
are as follows :
British Section to China, ..........
China to Hongkong and Kowloon,
.29,338.
.27,053....”
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“...dwelling
by the new premises erected in accordance with the Public Health
and Buildings Ordinance 1903 is effecting a slow, but certain, im-
provement in the healthiness of the native quarters; but this has been
somewhat discounted during the past year, by an abnormal influx of
Chinese refugees from the Canton district, which was coincident
with the revolutionary movement in South China. It has been
estimated that at least twenty thousand people arrived in Hongkong
within a period of a few weeks during the months of April and May
from this cause, and although some of these fugitives had no doubt
returned to China before the close of the year, yet there is ample
B evidence that a sufficient number have remained to throw a consi-
derable strain upon the housing accommodation of the Colony. A
further, but smaller, influx due to similar causes occurred during the
month of November. The chief sufferers from this cause would
seem to be the Portuguese, who are largely employed as clerks,
accountants...”
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“...that on Hongkong copper cents varied from 9 to
12 %. The loss on such coin collected as Revenue came to
$49,434.96.
His Majesty's Government made the Colony a grant of £12,000
for the year 1911-12 on account of an estimated loss of $225,860
incurred during that year in respect of opium revenue.
By the agreement of the 8th May, 1911 between Great Britain
and China, no Indian opium can be imported into China, unless
accompanied by a certificate issued by the Indian Government that
such opium has been exported from India for consumption in China.
To prevent attempts to smuggle non-certificated Indian opium from
Hongkong into China, an Ordinance was passed on 1st September,
1911, prohibiting the import of non-certificated Indian opium into
Hongkong except for the use of the Hongkong Opium Farmer.
In August, 1911, the port of Macao was added to the list of places
to which the export of morphine and compounds of opium is not
permitted except on production of an official certificate from the...”
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“...English supervision. The
practice of giving grants in aid of rent to vernacular boys' schools
occupying leased premises is being discontinued. The reason for
this restriction of expenditure is that the grant hitherto offered to
vernacular schools was too high for the standard of work attained.
On 4th October the Chinese Section of the Kowloon-Canton
Railway was opened for through traffic, thus completing direct com-
munication by rail between Kowloon and Canton.
The revolutionary movement in China was reflected in the
Colony on 6th November by an ebullition iamong the Chinese com-
munity, which for some days was in a state of great excitement. A
proclamation under the Peace Preservation Ordinance 1886, as amend-
ed by Ordinance No. 52 of 1911, was issued on 29th November and
was si ill in force at the end of the year. It was also found necessary...”
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to introduce the use of the "cat" under the Flogging Amendment
Ordinance No. 12 of 1911. This punishment was awarded in 29
cases during December. The Police succeeded in preventing any
serious outbreak of lawlessness, though the influx of undesirable
characters from Canton and other parts of China was disagreeably
apparent; and many cases of disorderliness, assaults and petty thieving
were reported. Military assistance was provided in the form of
armed patrols, and the Police Force was temporarily augmented by
enlisting 20 special constables.
On 21st January, Sir Henry May vacated the office of Colonial
Secretary to take up the office of Governor of Fiji and High Com-
missioner for the Southern Pacific. His place was filled by the
appointment of Mr. W. D. Barnes from the Federated Malay States
Service, whose untimely death on the 28th October again rendered
the Colonial Secretaryship vacant. Mr. Claud Severn of the Federated
Malay States Service was subsequently appointed, but...”
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“...53 7,837-64
Balance of Nursing Sisters' Quarters Fund. i 6,814.20 0,814.20 Sanitary Department ...... ,................. Do., Special Expenditure ...... ... ;: 363,880.00 20,000.00 339,788.07 10,000.00 338,445.28 1,34279 x 0,000.00
r : .,96,000.00 j $2,802.14 I 95.8io.83 3)008.69 Botanical and Forestry Department ... ^ 48,041.00 45.62852 41.70 7-95 3,920.57
t Education ..........!j 264,337.00 237,942-35 225,605.56 12.336-79
Half estimated loss on working of Postal Agencies in China 27,000 00 2,998-37 2,998-37 i Military Expenditure ........................; 1,392,587.00 1,390,568.66 1.407,231-03 16,662.37
Imperial Contribution on account Opium Revenue ..... 133,953-49 ; 99,3'0.34 34,643-i5 1 i i 1 Public Works Department.....................! I Do. Recurrent .....................! 352,455.00 416,200.00 308,408.12 4S6,940.80 309,784.71 429,835.24 57.105-56 1,376.59
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“...General, a precau-
tion taken to prevent their being forced into prostitution. Thir-
teen girls were struck off the list, and three married. The total on
the list at the end of the year was 44.
The number of persons reported to the Po Leung Kuk as miss-
ing during the year was 244, of whom only 39 were found. The
corresponding figures for 1910 were 221 and 48. The number of
boys reported missing was 71 against 90 in 1910. The total num-
ber of persons reported missing, including reports from China and
Macao, was 41G, of whom 59 were found. The corresponding
figures for 1910 were 395 and 75 (for 1909, 390 and 50).
The timidity and docility of Chinese girls make them still as
easy a prey as ever to procuresses and render it very difficult
to obtain convictions against such women. Several cases of alleg-
ed forcing into prostitution were investigated during the year, but
the only action that it has been found possible to take has been to
send suspicious cases to the Po Leung Kuk: in no case...”
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Every society, registered or exempt, is required to supply
on demand from the proper officers true copies of its constitution
and rules, and information as to its officers and membership.
It is not intended that permission to be registered under the
Ordinance shall he withheld except in the case of a society which
is likely to be used for unlawful purposes (or for purposes in-
compatible with the peace and good order of the Colony), or which
may possibly excite tumult and disorder in China.
No. 52 of 1911.Peace Preservation Amendment Ordinance.
This Ordinance gives the Magistrates power, during the continuance
of any proclamation under the Ordinance, to inflict the punishment
of flogging for a number of offences against peace and good order,
in addition to the ordinary penalties.
No. 53 of 1911.The Chinese Partnerships Ordinance. This
is an Ordinance to provide for the registration of Chinese partner-
ships, and to enable partners therein to register and thereby to
limit their...”
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Page 58
“...Chinese
Affairs at Singapore, 249 Chinese who were repatriated from the
Straits Settlements were sent on to their destinations in China and
given travelling expenses.
Under similar arrangements made with the Protectors of
Chinese in British North Borneo and at Penang, four decrepits
from Borneo and eight from Penang were likewise sent back to
their homes.
The Anti-spitting Society under the organisation of Mr. S.
W. Tso continued to display considerable activity. The Society's
lecturers still deliver lectures on the river steamers, and further
notices have been affixed to walls and trees in prominent positions
throughout Victoria requesting people to spit in the gutters, and
not on the pavements and side-walks.
Labour Trouble.
A serious strike of the printers and compositors occurred
towards the end of the year. The trouble originated in the office
of the South China Morning Post, in an assault by a European on
a Chinese employe, and was nursed by the agitators of a powerful
guild which controlled...”
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“...finding their new hands unsuitable, gave in
to the men's demands.
This strike was closely connected with a strike among the
shipyard carpenters at Aplichow, where the arrest of two agitators
led to a general strike. The dispute between masters and men
was, however, soon compromised.
There was also a short strike of the members of the black-
wood workmen's guild, who demanded more favourable terms from
their masters, to which the latter eventually assented.
Owing to the prevailing unrest in China and bad harvests in
many Provinces, the price of rice rose to abnormally high figures
during the year ; several large rice-shops were accused of attempt-
ing to corner the supply and measures were under consideration by
the Government to secure a sufficient supply at proper rates for
the Colony. The arrival of supplies from Bangkok and Siam
relieved the tension before furthur steps were necessary.
A permit was granted for special theatrical performances in
aid of the distress caused by the floods...”
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“...good
year for all merchants, but the state of China upset many calcula-
tions towards the Autumn. There were not however (as was at
one time feared) any serious bankruptcies, and the very large sub-
scriptions sent by the Colony to the Revolutionary Government
showed that the Chinese had still been able to make their business
pay. The rice merchants seem to have been the hardest hit. The
variations of price were most marked in this commodity, and the
consequent gambling was often unfortunate or ill-judg6d. Large
profits seem to have been made in no particular line except perhaps
in fancy goods and European clothing, hats and boots. The boom
in these goods, the direct result of the Revolution, is reported to
have benefited the few firms concerned to the extent of over four
lakhs of dollars in the closing months of the year.
The prospects for the coming year are not brightened by the
fact that largo accounts are still owing from customers in China to
Hongkong merchants. The disturbed state...”
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“...Gift to boatman Li Tso Fulc, ..................... $ 50.00 400.00 55,845.30 I 1 j 56,295.30
Interest, ................................................ Fung Wa Yau,..................
Total, ........................$ Total, ........................$
Disposal of Balance.
Deutsch-Asiatische Bank,...................................................... $ 30,000.00
Holland China Trading Co.,................................................... 25,845.30
Total, ............................................................$55,845.30
Note:This Fund was formed out of the gift of 30,000 Taels made by H.M. the Emperor of China
towards the relief of the sufferers in the 1906 Typhoon. (See 7522/06 C.S.O.)...”
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“...in the Po Leung Kuk on the 1st
January, 1911, was 40, and 514, of whom 117 were children, were
admitted during the year. The circumstances of their admission
and the action taken regarding them are detailed in Table A.
201 were admitted with their own consent, 10 were lost
children, one accompanied her parents, and 19 were runaway maid-
servants.
On leaving the Po Leung Kuk 194 were placed in the charge
of their husband, parents, or other relative ; 37 were sent to
Charitable Institutions in China ; 17 were married ; 17 adopted ;
and 20 released under bond. The Italian Convent, the Eyre
Refuge, and the Victoria Home are all ready to receive suitable
Li Chung-chik,
Li Wing-kwong,
Leung Hok-lau,
Yung Yik-ting,
Lam Heung-lun,
Li Sui-kam,
Un Wan-kiu,
Wu Chu-wan,
Wu Wan-cho,
T.p Yung-sun,
Li Shun-fan,
Kwok Sui-cho....”
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“...Committed under Warrant j from Emigration Office. 1 Pending the opening of the Registrar General's Office. Sent with their own consent by Registrar General. Sent with their own con- sent. from Singapore. Manila and Swatow. j Sent with their own con- | sent by the Police. Lost Children. i; ; bp i* § si S 3 < | Runaway maid-servants. "ci H j Released after enquiry. | ! Released under bond. 1 l CO p O ci -a a S rf JS £ Placed in charge of parents and relatives. Sent to Charitable Jnstitu-j tion in China. j o a 2 o xi JO O S fj Adopted. j T3 Cases under consideration, j | i i o
In the Po Leung Kuk on | 1st January, 1911, ......I 4G 26 10 3 3 2 2 46 8 3 12 5 2 10 5 46
Admitted during the year,... 614 187 ] 71 1 19 130 13 58 ! 16 1 19 514 142 23 ' 1 23 I 169 36 42 15 7 67 1 514
Total,......... 560 213 81 19 133 16 60 16 1 i 21 560 150 26 | 23 171 37 47 j 17 17 -! j 560 1
Remaining in the Po Leung j Kuk on the 31st .Decern- ber, 1911, ..................J 72 35 9 j i 6...”
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“... (1911 35*3 on 269 cases. 1910 48 per cent, on 25
cases.)
In small-pox 69"4 for the second period as against 69*1 for the
first. (66-4 1911 on 271 cases, 63*6 on 22 cases 1910.)
For plague the figures may I consider be taken as satisfactory ;
in considering the slight set back in the percentage of 1911 as com-
pared with 1910, the difference in the total number of cases must be
taken into account, as must also the exceptional number of strangers
in the Colony as a result of the troubles in China. This influx
must naturaliy have tended to throw back the sanitary education
of the Chinese.
For small-pox, the results cannot be called altogether satis-
factory. The total percentages (always too high) have risen slight-
ly, and last year shews a bad return. The influx would be expected
to have more effect in connection with small-pox than with plague;
for the small-pox education even of residents of the Colony being
necessarily more exacting is far short of the plague education.
Sanitary ...”
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“...HARBOUR MASTER
FOR THE YEAR 1911.
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Tables.
I.Number, Tonnage, Crews and Cargoes of Vessels entered.
II.Number, Tonnage, Crews and Cargoes of Vessels cleared.
III.Number, Tonnage, Crews and Cargoes of Vessels entered
at each Port.
IV.Number, Tonnage, Crews and Cargoes of Vessels cleared at
"each Port.
V.Number, Tonnage and Crews of Vessels of each Nation
entered.
VI.Number, Tonnage and Crews of Vessels of each Nation
cleared.
VII.Junks entered from China and Macao.
VIII.Junks cleared for China and Macao.
IX.Summary of Arrivals and Departures of all Vessels.
X.Licensed Steam-launches entered.
XI.Licensed Steam-launches cleared.
XII.Number of Boat Licences issued.
XIII.Statement of Revenue.
XIV.Chinese Passenger Ships cleared by the Emigration Officer
(Summary).
XV.Return of Emigration.
XVI.Return of Male and Female Emigrants.
Table of Contents.
Report.
-Shipping.
-Trade.
-Revenue and Expenditure.
-Steam-launches.
Emigration and Immigration.
-Registry of Shipping...”
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“...D .2
XVII.Vessels bringing Chinese Passengers to Hongkong from
places out of China (Summary).
XVIII.Return of Immigration.
XIX.Return of Male and Female Emigrants returned.
XX.Vessels registered.
XXI.Vessels struck off the Register.
XXII.Comparison in Number and Tonnage of Vessels in Foreign
Trade entered and cleared since 1902.
XXIII.Revenue and Expenditure of the Harbour Department.
XXIV.Diagram of Tonnage of Vessels entered.
Annexes.
A.Report on Mercantile Marine Office.
B.Report on Imports and Exports Office.
C.Report on Marine Surveyor's Office.
D.Report on Gunpowder Depot.
1.Shipping.
The total of the Shipping entering and clearing at Ports in the
Colony during the year 1911 amounted to 543,570 vessels of 36,179,152
tons, which, compared with figures for 1910, shows a decrease in
numbers of 3,594 vessels, w ith a decrease of 355,209 tons.
Of the above, 44,978 ve ssels of 23,063,108 tons were engaged in
Foreign Trade, as against 40,714 of 23,160,256 tons in 1910...”
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