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亞細亞 A-si-a
WENCHOW—SANTUAO
DIRECTORY
ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (NORth China),
LTD., THE-Tel. Ad: Doric
Yung Shing Fu, agent
司公煙美英
BRITISH - AMERICAN TOBACCO Co., LTD.—
Tel. Ad: Powhattan
C. Cance, representative
司公船輪業商
CHINA MERCHANTS' STEAM NAVIGATION Co.
Hsieh Chung-son, manager
T. C. Hsü, secretary
Chue Tsing Fu, chief clerk
局政郵華中大州温
CHINESE POST OFFICE
First Class Postmaster-Yea Hong-yue
Woo Kee-kaw, clerk
CHINESE TELEGRAPH Co.
Chen Ping-kuo, manager
關海甌 Ou Hai Kwan
CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME
Commissioner J. Acheson
Examiner-D. Verner
Tidewaiter-C. W. Stocks
CONSULATES
門衙事領國英大
Da Ying-kwoh-ling-se-ya-men
GREAT BRITAIN
Actg. Consul-Archibald Rose, C.I.E
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Consul in Shanghai
FUKIEN STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD,
Tin Ven La, agent
Kai Kin Her, manager
HOSPITAL JEAN GABRIEL
Sr. St. Clair Deville, supériuere
4 Sisters of Charity
MISSIONS
(For Protestant Missionaries see separate "Directory")
ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION
Rev. C. Aroud
Rev. Prost
Rev. J. Salon (Chuchow)
Rev. Boisard (Pingyang)
Assistant-S. Kaneko
Chief Tidesurveyor and
Master-E. Stevens
Harbour
STANDARD OIL Co. OF NEW YORK
D. L. Smith, 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 Samsa 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 1914, coming under the control of the Maritime Customs, was Hk. Tls. 2,564,881, as compared with Tls. 2,736,191 for 1913, Hk. Tls. 2,283,755 for 1912, Hk. Tls. 2,876,378 for 1911 and Hk. Tls 2,916,984 for 1910.