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one, abounding in natural hazards, and is well patronised. A neat little Anglican Church has also been erected. A Japanese Settlement was marked out in 1899- and a fair number of Japanese, officials and others, reside there. There is a slipway at Amoy, owned and managed by foreigners. The Standard Oil Co. of New York have erected oil tanks at Sing-Su on the mainland, and close to the site of the new station of the Amoy-Changchow railway kerosene oil tanks, capable of turning out 4,000 tins. a day, the property of the Asiatic Petroleum Company, have also been erected. The foreign residents number about 280. At the end of October, 1908, the Chinese Government welcomed part of the American battleship fleet at Amoy, the officers and inen being entertained on a lavish scale.
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. Until the shortage of shipping caused by the European war the tonnage figures for many years topped 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 pro- duct, 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 ware- housed 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 Kee- lung. 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 1917 was Hk. Tls. 14,602,519 as compared with Hk. Tls. 17,397,562 in 1916, Hk. Tls.. 20,217,220 in 1915, Hk. Tls. 18,571,525 în 1914 and Hk. Tls. 20,068,932 in 1913.
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(ab.)
Do.
-J. Etoret, acting
AMOY CHINESE HOSPITAL
J. W. Hartley
AMOY CLUB
Finance-Fowler and Leyte
Games-Leyte and Sibley
Committee-E. Gordon Lowde (chair-
man)
Property-Gordon Lowder and Wilson Bar-Sibley and Wilson
Library-Gordon Lowder and Fowler House-Gordon Lowder Secretary-Fowler and Leyte
AMOY GAZETTE AND
Daily Newspaper
SHIPPING Report·
J. F. Marçal, manager
所船造門廈
AMOY SHIPBUILDING YARD, THE, Dry Dock,.
Shipbuilding, and Engineering Works-
Teleph. 52; Tel. Ad: Dock; General Code
used: A. B. C. 5th Edition
H. T. Ching, manager
C. C. Carvalho
T. C. Chen
A. A. Carvalho
司公船駁門厦
AMOY LIGHTER Co., THE, Cargo Lighters,.
Stevedres, Commission Agents,
Im-
porters and Exporters, etc.- Teleph..
241; Tel. Ad: Lighters
K. Koh San, manager