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of 34ft. 6in. As a shipbuilding centre the place is rapidly developing, and several large ocean-going steamers averaging 12,000 tons have recently been launched there. A battle cruiser of 27,500 tons displacement has also been constructed there. During the past two years Nagasaki has gained considerable importance as a base for steam trawlers, of which there are now about 120 operating under the Japanese flag. The Municipality has erected a large fish market on the wharf near the railway station and is construct- ing piers for the use of the trawlers. Special facilities have been granted the trade by the Railway Board and a great development is expected in the near future. The waterworks, owing to the growth of the town, were found to be insufficient for its wants and a large extension of the works was completed in March, 1904. The reservoirs hold 405,210,000 gallons, and there are three filter beds and a service reservoir. The railway developments of recent years have made it possible, with a brief sea passage of ten minutes, between Moji and Shimonoseki, to travel by rail from Nagasaki to Kobe and thence to Tokyo. The climate in Nagasaki is mild and salubrious, and there are several very popular health resorts in the neighbourhood, the most famous being Mount Unzen, on which an excellent nine-hole golf course was laid out in 1911.
In 1912 the imports were valued at Yen 12,685,713, an increase of Yen 2,252,940 on the figures for 1911, while exports amounted to Yen 3,953,504, an increase of Yen 548,321.
The population of the port has increased greatly during recent years. In Decem- ber, 1912, it was returned as 154,351, nearly double what it was fifteen years ago. The foreign population, exclusive of Chinese, was 256. The Chinese number about 771. An English newspaper, the Nagasaki Press, is published daily.
DIRECTORY
AHRENS & Co., H., Nachf., Merch ants
Holme, Ringer & Co., agents
Agencies
Norddeutscher Lloyd
London Assurance Corporation Chargeurs Réunis
BANZAI AERATED WATER FACTORY-44,
Sagarimatsu; Teleph. 137 L.D.
R. Walker
BELLEVUE HOTEL-Teleph. No. 993
K. Nishizaki, proprietor
BOEDDINGHAUS, C. E., Merchant
H. Peters
Agencies:
Hamburg-America Line of Steamers Bureau Veritas, Paris Germanischer Lloyd, Berlin Hainburg & Bremen Underwriters Northern Assurance Co., Ltd, London Netherlands Fire Ins. Co., The Hague Transatlantic Marine Ins. Co., Berlin Deutscher Lloyd, Transport Versiche- rungs Actien Gesellschaft, Berlin Deutsche Riick & Mitversicherungs
Gesellschaft, Berlin
Deutsche Transport Versicherungs
Gesellschaft, Berlin
Salamandra, Versicherungs Gesells-
chaft, St. Petersburg
Providentia, Allgemeine Versiche-
rungs Gesellschaft, Wien Rheinisch Westfalischer
Lloyd,
ransp. Vers. Act. Ges., M.-Gladbach Nord-Deutsche Versicherungs Gesells-
chaft Hamburg
Schweizerische National Versiche-
rungs Gesellschaft, Basel
Neuer Schweizerischer Lloyd, Transp.
Vers. Ges., Winterthur
General Ins. Co., for Sea, Land &
River Transp., Dresden
Kölner Lloyd, Allgem. Vers. Act.
Ges., Köln
Russian Comp. for Sea, Land & River
Transp., St. Petersburg Basler Transport
Gesellschaft, Basel
Versicherungs
Sjöförsäkrings Aktiebolaget "Ocean,"
Gothenburg
Sjöförsäkrings Aktiebolaget "Aegir”
Stockholm
Allianz, Versicherungs Actien Gesells-
chaft, Berlin
Agrippina, M. L. & R. Insurance
Company, Cologne
Oberrheinische Versicherungs Gesells-
chaft, Mannheim
Eidgenössische Transport Versiche-
rungs Gesellschaft, Zürich Lloyd Sabaudo, Turin
Fonciere, Pester Versicherungs An-
stalt, Budapest,