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“...interest.
Coal.1,115,120 tons were imported during the year. This
quantity, compared with the imports for 1909, shows a decrease of
11,716 tons, or 1'04 per cent. This decrease is so small as to be
negligible, but is explained by the dull tone of the market in the
Colony throughout the year 1910, and the necessity of adjusting
stocks after the somewhat largely increased imports of 1909. Of
the various varieties of coal imported, Japanese heads the list.
Next comes that from North China and Manchuria, which holds
its own, it not actually increasing1. Cardiff, though only used by
men-of-war, and imported almost solely by the Admiralty, comes
third. There have been increased shipments from Hongay; but
from Australia and India large decreases appear, while no Labuan
coal was imported during the year.
I remarked last year upon the fact that, in spite of the large in-
crease in coal imported, the shipments of bunker coal in the Colony
had fallen off considerably. This year, the opposite occurred...”
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