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WENCHOW—SANTUAO
DIRECTORY
亞細亞 A-si-a
ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO., LTD., The
Yah Foong, agent
BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCo Co., Ltd.
C. Cance, representative
司公船輪業商
CHINA MERCHANTS' STEAM NAVIGATION CO.
Hsieh Chung-son, manager
Chue Tsing Fu, chief clerk and
secretary
局 政郵 華中 大州温
CHINESE Post Office
Act. Sub. Dist. Postmaster-Yea Hong
Yue
Hsieh Heung-ming, clerk
Wou Hee Kew,
CHINESE TELEGRAPH Co.
Zee Kwei, manager
do.
Ou-Hai-Kwan
CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME
Actg. Comsner.-C. Talbot Bowring Assistant-T. Aida
Act. Tidesurveyor and Harbour Master
-C. Tonkin
Examiner D. Verner
Tidewaiter-H. W. Butte
CONSULATES
門衙事頜國英大
Da Ying-kwoh-ling-sz-ya-mén
GREAT BRITAIN
Acting Consul G.W.W. Pearson
—
(residing at Ningpo), also in
charge of Austro-Hungarian
interests
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Consul in Shanghai
FUKIEN STEAM NAVIGATION Co., THE
Tin Ven La, agent
Kai Kiu Her, manager
HOSPITAL JEAN GABRIEL
Sr. St. Clair Deville, supériuere
4 Sisters of Charity
ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION
Rev. C. Aroud
Rev. Prost
Rev. J. Salon (Chuchow) Rev. Boisard
STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK
Yung Chin-jin, agent
SANTUAO
Santuao was voluntarily opened to foreign trade by the Chinese Government on the 8th May, 1899. The port includes the whole of the magnificent Samsah Inlet, which is situated some 70 miles North of Foochow. The foreign settlement is on the island of Santu in the centre of the Inlet. The harbour is certainly one of the finest on the China coast: the approaches to it are well-defined, and vessels of the largest size may enter at any time, regardless of the state of tide. H.M.S. Waterwitch surveyed the whole of the Inlet in 1899, and an Admiralty chart has been published. A telegraph cable was successfully laid from the mainland to the Settlement in July, 1905, and communication established with all China ports.
The port of Santuao serves important Tea districts. Much of the Tea exported from Foochow to Europe is first shipped from Santuao; and there is a growing demand in North China for certain varieties grown in the neighbourhood. The chief towns of the district are Funing, Fu-an, Ningte, and Shouning. There is a prosperous and increasing junk-trade, and regular steamship communication with the provincial capital. The net value of the trade of the port for 1912 was Hk. Tls. 2,283,755, as com- pared with Tls. 2,876,378 for 1911, Tls. 2,916,984 for 1910, Tls. 2,615,032 for 1909, and Tls. 2,659,287 for 1908.