WHAMPOA--CHINESE KOWLOON

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of repair. A good-sized tree grows from the brickwork at the summit. The other pagoda, called the First Bar Pagoda, is nearer to Canton, and occupies a hill which is considered the guardian hill of the province. It was built between the years 1621 and 1628 as a palladium to the waterway of the provincial capital.

The importance of Whampoa is now a thing of the past. The place will always however, possess some interest for foreigners, since the earliest recollections of foreign commercial intercourse with China are associated with it, all foreign ships being in old times compelled to anchor at Whampoa.

Director-H. E. Wei Han

DIRECTORY

CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME

Boat Officer in charge-A. E. Pfan-

kuchen

Tidewaiters

A. L. Demée, W. H. Barnes, P. M. Larson

DOCK YARD-IMPERIAL

Director-H. E. Wei Han

Secretary-P. K. Yang

FISH AND SUBMARINE TORPEDO DEpôt-

IMPERIAL

In charge of Torpedoes-E. K. Liu Secretary P. K. Yang

MILITARY SCHOOL-IMPERIAL

Director--H. E. Wei Han Sub-Directors—T. C. Chang, T. T.

Wang, E. K. Liu

Secretary-S. K. Zen

NAVAL AND TORPEDO SCHOOL-IMPERIAL

Director-H. E. Wei Han

Professor in charge-P. H. Woo Secretary-S. Y. Ling

CHINESE KOWLOON CUSTOMS

This is the inclusive name given to the Chinese Customs stations placed around Hongkong for the purpose of collecting duty on the trade carried on by_Chinese junks between Hongkong and Chinese ports. In 1899, when the New Territory was taken over by Hongkong, the Customs stations had to be removed from their former locations which had been brought within the British boundary, and the present stations are situated at Taishan, Lintin, Shamchün, Shatowkok, Shayuchung, and Samun (Tooniang), besides which there are a number of frontier patrol posts on the north shores of Deep and Mirs Bays and between the two bays. The net value of the trade of 1905 was Tls. 42,946,800, against Tls. 43,771,566 in 1904; Tis. 42,507,795 in 1903, Tls. 46,784,280 in 1902, and Tls. 49,128,622 in 1901. The largest on record was in 1899, viz.: Tls. 56,532, 226.

關新龍九

Kow-loom Sin-kwan

IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS

DIRECTORY

Act. Commissioner-W. R. M’D. Parr

Deputy Commissioner-T. E. Cocker

First Assistant-F. Clayson

Second do. -W. S. Dupree

Third do. -C. A. R. Cabral Fourth do.

-J. P. T. Jokl

Medical Officers-F. O. Stedman, G. M.

Harston

Tidesurveyor-E. C. Tregillus Acting Tidesurveyor-W. J. Hewett

Assistant Examiner--H. A. Adamsen Tidewaiters-A. L. Knight, W. J. Potter, E. M. Lundberg, J. S. T. Brandão, J. W. Adams, W. H. Barley, Á. D. Nelson, C. L. Hack, O. C. Miller, A. K. Tellefsen, J. S. Chubb, C. de Bédoire, F. G. McIntosh, W. Moore, P. J. Blick, R. Whitmore, J. T. S. L. St. G. Treffry, W. Anderson, W. Burnes, L. L. Lopes, T. Buckley. C. P. Winckel, F. Huber, C. H. J. Ross, G. E. Cross, T. Rees, G. St. M. Stocker, J. Gires, E. M. S. Gallo,

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