WENCHOW-SANTUAO
793
CONSULATES
門衙事領國英大
Da Ying-kwoh-ling-sz-ya-mên
GREAT BRITAIN
Acting Consul-R S. Pratt, residing
at Ningpo
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Consul General in Shanghai
關海甌 Ou Hai Kwan
CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME
Commissioner-C. E. Tanant
Assistant-U. Matsubara
Do. -Wong Haiu Geng
Acting Tidesurveyor and
Master-C. Ahlberg Tidewaiter-A. Jönsson
HOSPITAL JEAN GABRIEL
MISSIONS
Harbour
(For Protestant Missionaries see
separate Directoy)
ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION
Rev. C. Aroud
Rev. Prost
Rev. L. Marques
Rev. J. Salon
Rev. Boisard
院醫望若董州温
SOEURS DE LA CHARITE DE ST VINCENT DE
PAUL
S. Ste Claire-Deville, sup.
S. Chauvel
S. Costarton
S. Rey
S. Gonçalves
MUSTARD & Co.-Tel. Ad: Mustard
C. Cance, representative
PAO HUA STEAM NAVIGATION CO.
Wang Lan-chi, agent
STANDARD OIL Co. OF NEW YORK
T. A. Beall, manager
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 1917, coming under the control of the Maritime Customs, was Hk. Tls. 2,502,980, as compared with Hk. Tls. 2,927,460, for 1916, Hk. Tls. 4,028,030 for 1915, Hk. Tls. 2,564,880 for 1914 and Hk. Tls. 2,736,191 for 1913.