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“...valued at
1,064,618?. ; this being about 230,000?. above the average of recent
years. The sheetings (135,726 pieces, at 74,921?.), drills (24,410
pieces, 15,118?.) and yarn (10,683 cwts., 30,361?.) produced by the
mills now operating at Shanghai and elsewhere in China, constitute
items in the import list sufficiently considerable to rank alongside
the corresponding grades of foreign production among the principal
imports of this district. Raw cotton, however, seems to show a
distinct tendency to decline. Very considerable quantities must be
required for padding clothing worn in winter, for bed quilts, &c.,
but weaving and spinning, as household or cottage industries, are
being surely and rapidly supplanted by the introduction of ready-
woven materials, and there are no mills as yet worked by power in
this district to create a compensating demand.
In certain articles, notably those in which the junk import is
large, I am unable to present average figures for the entire period
1906-10....”
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“...total bulk of trade from Manchuria both to
foreign countries and along the China coast is increasing, but that
facilities of handling, advantages of winter climate, &c., tend to divert
it to Dairen rather than to retain it at Newchwang, these advantages
operating more markedly on the large ocean-going vessels engaged
in the foreign trade, which are better able to load at Dairen than
here.
To judge by the figures for bean cake and bean oil, the local bean
mills of Newchwang would seem to have enjoyed a prosperous year.
One of the largest mills was destroyed by fire in May, but has been
rebuilt and will be working again this year. Bean cake, as usual, has
Dnly been shipped to Japanese and Chinese ports. Both took larger
quantities than in 1910, but, whereas in that year the export to Japan
>vas considerably more than twice as great as that to native ports,
Dr nearly 69 per cent, of the total, in 1911 Japan only took a little
)ver 62 per cent.
In bean oil the increase is very large, from 381...”
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