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“...CONTENTS --- Page Maps Kwantung leased territory. Manchuria.. Currency ..........................................................................................3 Weights and measures ..............................................................................................................................4 Territory, extent and population of.......................................................4 General remarks...............................................................................5 Port Arthur.......................................................................................5 Loan systems .....................................................................................5 Colonisation Bureau ....................................................................................................................................6 Harbour works ....................................................................................................................................6...”
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“...4 Weights and measures.Business with the Chinese is done in catties and piculs, and with the Japanese according to Japanese measures, a list of which is appended. The beans come down from the interior in bags, each of which weighs from 185 to 200 lbs. avoir. Bean cake is reckoned by the piece, the weight of which is nearly 60 lbs. Bean oil is sold by the picul and exported in old petroleum tins, one tin holding about 37 lbs. The South Manchuria Railway statistics are made up in short tons (2,000 lbs.): Chinese 1 catty 1 picuj lli...... 1 mow Japanese 1 kin ...... 1 ken (6 shaku) ... 1 ri (36 cho) 1 tsubo ...... 1 koku (liquid) (10 to) 1 koku (dry) 1J lbs. 133J lbs, J mile 736£ square yards 1-323 lbs. 5-965 feet 2-44 miles 36 square feet 39-703 gallons 4-963 bushels Territory, extent and population of.The Consular district of Dairen comprises the Kwantung leased territory and has an area of 1,220 square miles. The population at the end of 1910 was about 425,000, of whom 33,600 were Japanese...”
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“...SKETCH MAP of part of MANCHURIA Ordnance? Survey Office. Southampton., 1911....”
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“...the returns furnished by the two departments, but there is agreement in the main facts that imports have increased considerably, while exports have slightly declined, and that the total trade of the port shows a small advance over 1909. The fact that Dairen has done little more than hold its own during the year under review goes a long way towards endorsing the opinion that there is ample room for the two ports of Newchwang and Dairen as ports of entry for goods destined for the markets of Manchuria. The nature of the bulk of the business at Newchwang differs greatly from that at this port and the system of commercial exchange is on a different basis. The natural superiority of Dairen consists in its freedom from ice, whereas Newchwang is closed for some months during the winter. This is, of course, an important factor in the situation, particularly as the closure coincides with the busy export season ; but there is a factor of equal importance militating in favour of Newchwang, viz., the...”
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“...present northern breakwater in a south-westerly direction to the shore. The total length will be 12,000 feet. At the present time the inner harbour is exposed to the strong north-westerly gales which prevail in the winter months. Pilotage.Under the recently amended harbour regulations, pilotage is compulsory, but free. Breakwater lights.Lights are in position at the ends of the break- waters, so that the harbour can now be safely navigated during the night time. Steamship services.The South Manchuria Railway Company maintain a service with Shanghai, with sailings twice a week. The Osaka Shosen Kwaisha provide similar communication with Japan. The Nippon Yusen Kwaisha operate a bi-weekly service to Japan via Corean ports, with intermediate sailings. The Hamburg-America Line make Dairen a port of call on the weekly service from Shanghai and Tsingtau to Tientsin, and vice versa....”
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“...dairen. 7 The South Manchuria Railway Company have ordered two new steamers, one of 1,000 tons from Osaka and one of 1,300 tons from Hong-Kong, for use between Antung, Dairen, Chefoo and Tientsin. The Indo-China Steam Navigation Company and the China Navigation Company now maintain a weekly service between Shanghai and Dairen, calling at Newchwang on the outward journey. Gas.The condition of the gasworks undertaking appears to be promising. The number of customers is now nearly 3,000 and the daily consumption about 100,000 cubic feet. The plans for 1911 include an extension of 3 miles of pipes. Electric lighting.The demand for electricity has increased from 3,310,000 kilowatts in 1909 to 6,020,000 kilowatts in 1910, and the number of lights from 16,000 to 27,000. This year's demand for power is thirty times as great as that for 1909 the demand in 1910 was 115,975 kilowattschiefly owing to the expansion of the small bean mill industry, under Chinese capital. In the Dairen power station four...”
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“...1909-10 season ... 1910-11 season j Tons. 268,480 ... 175,354 Tons. 72,480 181,893 Tons. 340,960 357,247 An examination of the above figures will show that the recent epidemic of pneumonic plague has exercised little, if any, effect on the bean trade of the present season. It is in the coming season, and possibly two seasons, that the real influence will be felt. It is already time for preparing the land for next season's crop ; labour is scarce and the quarantine restrictions in Shantung and Manchuria will undoubtedly result in a large reduction of coolie immigration at a time when it is most urgently needed. One-half of the shipments of beans during the year 1910 were to Port Said to await orders, and over a quarter went to Japan, whence a considerable amount was transhipped to European markets. The following remarks on bean oil and bean cake are contributed : Bean oil.Exports to the United Kingdom, the Continent and the United States of America had not assumed any great proportions at the...”
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“...comprised the new season's beans, the quantity shipped was some 63,000 tons. The cakes are all made to a uniform weight of 46 kin, but are in two kinds, one with rims and the other plain, the former being a sen or two dearer. Prices varied considerably during 1910, the year commencing with more or less original prices round about 1 yen (silver) per cake, while when the new season's crop came along cakes went to 1 yen 18 sen (silver) to 1 yen 25 sen (silver) per piece. Silk.A department of the South Manchuria Railway Company commenced operations in the silk spinning industry on the lines given in last year's report of the trade of this district, but the filature was obliged to suspend work in November. It appears that the Japanese hands employed in this establishment were inferior; they were, perforce, all imported from Japan proper, and the wages payable here, compatible with a possible business profit, were not high enough to secure the services of really skilled labour. From the opening of the...”
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“...Kaoliang stalks it was found that the Kaoliang pulp is " less sticky and pliant than is desirable for a paper manufacturing material. It may serve better as a mixture for the manufacture of ordinary Japanese paper by the popular process." As an industrial potentiality little can be urged at the present time. There is a keen Chinese demand throughout Manchuria for Kaoliang cane for fuel and various other domestic purposes, and unless coal supersedes Kaoliang cane as a fuel and the cost of the latter is reduced by about 60 per cent., the future of a Kaoliang paper industry is not very promising. Raisins.It is claimed that the climate and soil of Manchuria are admirably suited to the raisin industry, and that very favourable competition with the American import can be obtained. The matter has not yet passed the experimental stage, so comment is deferred. Sesamnm seed.The export of sesamum seed continues to increase; the Government returns do not give it any special mention, but the customs figures...”