1924

HONGKONG
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Industries
Manufactures are yearly increasing in importance. There are three large sugar-
refineries : the China Sugar Refining Co.’s establishments at East Point and at Bowring-
ton, and the Taikoo Sugar Refinery at Quarry Bay. In connection with the first-named
Company there is also a large Distillery, where a considerable quantity of rum is manu¬
factured. There is an Ice Factory at Bowrington, a large Rope Factory in Belcher’s Bay,
Steam Saw Mills at Bowrington, a Glass Manufactory at Causeway Bay, and a large
Cigarette factory and an up-to-date Biscuit Manufactory at Wanchai, a Match
manufactory, a Cigar factory and a tannery, at Kowloon, a Feather Cleaning and Packing
[ Establishment at Kennedy-town, a Soap Factory at Shaukiwan, and two or three
Engineering Works. The Green Island Cement Company has works at Deep W ater
I Bay, on the south side of the island, and at Hufighom, in Kowloon. A Paper Mill on a
| considerable scale, fitted with the best English machinery, was erected at Aberdeen*
j in 1891 and is successfully run under Chinese management. Among the industries
pursued by the Chinese are glass blowing, soap making, vermilion and soy manufacture,.
| tanning, dyeing, knitting and weaving, cigarette-making, biscuit baking, boat building,
5 e^c-
i The works of the Hongkong and China Gas Company are situated at West Point and-
at Yaumati, and those of the Hongkong Electric Company at Wanchai. A new power-
i station for the Electric Company has recently been completed at North Point, on a site-
| reclaimed from the sea for this purpose. The city is illuminated partly by gas and
! partly by electric light, the latter having been introduced at the end of 1890.
| Electricity is supplied in Kowloon by the China Light and Power Co., Ltd.
) There is excellent Dock accommodation in the Colony. The Hongkong and Whampoa
[ Dock Company, Limited, have three extensive establishments—one at Hunghom,.
Kowloon, one at Tai Kok Tsui, and the third at Aberdeen on the south side of
■ Hongkong Island. The establishments of this Company are fitted with all the
j best and latest appliances for engineering and carpenter’s work, and the largest vessel in
H.M.’s Navy on the China Station has been received into the No. 1 Dock at Hunghom.
if The docks and slips are of the following dimensions :—Hunghom :—No. 1 (Admiralty)
I Dock—700 feet in length, 86 feet in breadth at entrance at top and 70 feet at
f bottom, and 30 feet depth of water over sill at ordinary spring tides. No. 2 dock-
1 —Length on keel blocks, 371 feet;breadth atentrance, 74 feet; depth of water over sill at
f ordinary spring tides, 18 feet 6 inches. No. 3 dock—Length on keel blocks, 264 feet;
t breadth at entrance, 49 feet 3 ins.; depth of water over sill at ordinary spring tides, 14 feet,
i Patent Slips: No. 1—Length on keel blocks, 240 feet; breadth at entrance,60feet;depth
| on the blocks, 14 feet. No. 2—Length on keel blocks, 230 feet; breadth at entrance,
60 feet; depth of water on the blocks at ordinary spring tides, 12 feet. Tai Kok Tsui :
| Cosmopolitan dock—Length on keel blocks, 466 feet; breadth at entrance, 85 feet
6 inches ; depth of water over sill at ordinary spring tides, 20 feet. Aberdeen: Hope
j dock—Length on keel blocks, 430 feet; breadth at entrance, 84 feet; depth of Avater over
| sill at ordinary spring tides, 23 feet. Lament dock—Length on keel blocks, 333 feet;
? breadth at entrance, 64 feet; depth of water over sill at ordinary spring tides, 16 feet,
The Hunghom and Cosmopolitan Docks are in close proximity to the shipping in port
I and are well sheltered on all sides. The approaches to the Docks are perfectly safe and.
I the immediate vicinity affords capital anchorage^ The docks are substantially built
I[ throughout with granite. Powerful lifting shears with steam purchase at Hunghom and
. Cosmopolitan Docks stand on a solid granite sea wall alongside which vessels can lie
{and take in or out boilers, guns and other heavy weights. The shears at Hunghom are
\ capable of lifting 70 tons and the depth of water alongside is 24 feet at low tides. In
,1916 the capital of the Company was increased to $3,000,000. New land was purchased
(from the Government and 4 building berths and a new shipbuilding yard were built on
jthe East of the old yard. The plant was extensively overhauled and at present the
two yards are replete with all modem shipbuilding machines. The Hongkong and
! WhampoaDock Company is capable of turning Out steamers of 700 feet in length. Several
l large steamers have been launched in the Colony by this Company for the Controller
l of Shipping in Great Britain. In 1908 the new docks constructed by Messrs. Butter-
t field jc Swire at Quarry Bay, just inside the Lyeemoon Pass, were completed. The
1 dock has been built to British Admiralty requirements, and has been designed to
| permit of further increasing its length if it should become necessary at some future
I time to do so. The dimensions of the dock are:—787 feet extreme length; 750 feet
oj on the blocks; 120 feet wide at coping; 77 feet 6 inches wide at bottom; 88 feet.