The Archive · 1924

Million Tael Value Commodi

There are scores of other commodities of quite considerable im-Portanee, yet they find themselves! relegated unceremoniously to "sundries." Tt may appear a very astute thing to be able to do, but, I find that I am in the position of imparting information regarding most of these, and set forth below a list of those taken out in ships' bottoms in 1922 to the tune of one mi wan taels and over. This is the list—there are many that run over half a million:

Beancake (1.1), beans (black, broad, green, "red, white, yellow—41), printed ' books (1-7), bran (1.7), bristles (3.8), carpets (14), cereal (5), raw cotton! (20.6), hemp (1), ramie (3), flour "(104), grasseloth (5.7), groundnuts "(kernels—6.1), hair nets (28), intestines (1.4), lace (4.1), cow leather (1.9),' mats! (straw and rush—12), medicines (8.4), paper all kinds '(43), seed cake (cotton—1.2), goat (untanned—5.2), strawbraid (1.4), tobacco (4.4), varnish (1.6), wool (sheep's 3.4).

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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