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Frequent and regular steamer communication is maintained with Hongkong, Swatow, Foochow and Formosa, and steamers occasionally run direct to the Straits Settlements and Manila. There has always been a comparatively good trade done at Amoy, and notwithstanding that the tea trade, for which it was long famous, has now practically disappeared, it is significant that the shipping tonnage employed by the port has quintupled since the decade 1864-73, and almost trebled since the decade 1874- 83. In 1915 for the first time for many years the tonnage figures failed to reach the million mark. In former times, ere the glory of Amoy had departed, the staple export was Tea-the local product as well as the superior blends brought over from Formosa- but, largely owing to the deterioration of the local product, and the indifference of the grower to the changing conditions of the foreign market, locally-grown tea has long since ceased to be exported, and the Customs Commissioner made a fairly safe prophecy that it only required the development of Keelung harbour to cause the total disappearance of the foreign tea merchant from Amoy. Before the Japanese obtained possession of Formosa the Formosan teas were "settled" and warehoused in Amoy whence they were shipped to the foreign markets. Now no Formosan tea is "settled" in Amoy, and with Keelung still unimproved to any considerable extent, quite 50 per- cent. of the Formosan product is being shipped direct to America from Keelung. The foreign tea merchant at Amoy has practically lost his occupation, and we are witnessing the fulfilment of the prediction that "the row of quaint, rambling, old hongs on the Amoy side, and many picturesque residences on Kulangsu will be offering for the occupation of the wealthy returned emigrant or the missionary school." The net value of the trade of the port coming under the cognisance of the Foreign Customs in 1916 was Hk. Tls. 17,397,562 as compared with Hk. Tls. 20,217,220 in 1915, Hk. Tls. 18,571,525 in 1914, Hk. Tls. 20,068,932 in 1913, and Hk. Tls. 20,882,834 in 1912.
局總報電國法大
Ta Fa-ko-tien-pao-tsong-kok
DIRECTORY
ADMINISTRATION FRANÇAISE DES POSTES
ET DES TELEGRAPHES
Receveur Principal-P. J. Verdeille
AMOY CHINESE HOSPITAL
J. W. Hartley
F. S. Wong
AMOY CLUB
Committee-Dr. J. W. Hartley (chair-
man)
Finance Hartley and Sibley
Games-Bathurst and Lowder
Property-Hartley and Weed
Bar-Sibley and Bathurst
Library-Weed and Lowder
Secretary-P. H. McIntyre
AMOY GAZETTE AND SHIPPING REPORT,
Daily Newspaper
J. F. Marçal, manager
司公船駁門厦
AMOY LIGHTER Co., THE, Cargo Lighters, Stevedores, Water Boats, Steam Launch for any Towages, Compradores, Ship- Chandlers, Sail Makers, Painters, Com-
mission Agents, Importers and Exporters,
Navy Contractors, &c.-Teleph. 241; Tel.
Ad: Lighters
K. Koh San, manager
Tiu Sui Hoon, accountant
Mah Tai Choon
司公話電門廈
Ha-mun-tin-wa-kung-sze
AMOY TELEPHONE COMPANY-Kulangsu
院書華英
ANGLO-CHINESE COLLEGE
H. F. Rankin, F.E.I.S., principal
H. J. P. Anderson, M.A., actg. do.
Rev. H. W. Oldham
E. Murray
Rev. L. G. Phillips, M.A. Mrs. G. M. Wales
P. L. Tay (House Master)
ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (South China), LTD.
J. C. Sibley
R. A. Ramsay
il fu
Wo-kee
BATHURST, CAPT. H., A.I.N.A., Harbour Pilot
and Surveyor for Bureau Veritas