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“...Hong-Kong.
Shipping.The amount of shipping entered and cleared at this
port during 1909 was 19,012 tons less than in the previous year. In-
ward cargoes decreased by 9,870/. and outward by 3,041/. The
Dutch flag was represented during the year by one steamer with a
cargo of time-expired coolies from Muntok in Batavia.
General.The future of Pakhoi as a commercial centre is extremely
gloomy, and there will be little hope of a revival of trade until the
construction of a railway from the port to Nanning or Yulin. Failing
the railroad the improvement of the existing roadways and the
adoption of stricter police measures for the protection of life and
property in the interior would tend to arrest the decline of the port.
This fact has at length forced itself on the attention of the authorities
and an attempt has been made to reconstruct the road from Pakhoi
to Lienchou (the local trade centre). The new roadway is, however,
but 10 feet wide and is devoid of dressing, so that the surface is
unre...”
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