WENCHOW-SANTUAO
DIRECTORY
879
亞細亞 A-si-a
ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (NORTII CIINA),
LTD., THE-Tel. Ad: Doric
Yung Hsing-fu, agent
司公煙美英
BRITISH - AMERICAN TOBACCO Co., LTD.
Tel. Ad: Powhattan
C. Cance, representative
司公船輪業商
關海甌 Ou Hai Kwan
CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME
Commissioner-C. E. Tanant.
Assistant-U. Matsubara
Do. -Wong Haiu Geng
and
Acting Tidesurvey or
Master W. A, Lloyd Examiner-T. A. Ehtman Tidewaiter-
HOSPITAL JEAN GABRIEL
CHINA MERCHANTS' STEAM NAVIGATION CO.
T. C. Sze, manager
MISSIONS
局政郵華中大州温
CHINESE POST OFFICE
First Class Postmaster-Deng Yong Yü
CONSULATES
門衙事領國英大
Da Ying-kwoh-ling-sz-ya-mén
GREAT BRITAIN
Acting Consul-W Stark Toller,
residing at Ningpo
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Consul General in Shanghai
Harbour
(For Protestant Missionaries sec
end of volume)
ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION
Rev. C. Aroud
Rev. L. Marques
Rev. Prost
Rev. J. Salon (Chuchow)
Rev. Boisard (Pingyang)
PAO HUA STEAM NAVIGATION CO.
Wang Lan-chi, agent
STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK
T. A. Beall, manager
G. B. Campbell
YUNG CHUAN STEAM NAVIGATION Co.
Chen Tzu-ts'ai, 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 1916, coming under the control of the Maritime Customs, was lk. Tls. 2,927,460, as compared with Hk. Tls. 4,028,030, for 1915, Hk. Tls. 2,564,880 for 1914, Hk. Tls. 2,733,191 for 1913, Hk. Tls. 2,283,755 for 1912, and Hk. Tls. 2,876,378 for 1911.