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 Santu 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 1918, coming under the control of the Maritime Customs, was Hk. Tls. 1,739,972, as compared with Hk. Tls. 2,502,562 for 1917, Hk. Tls. 2,927,460 for 1916, Hk. Tls. 4,028,031 for 1915 and Hk. Tls. 2,564,881 for 1914
DIRECTORY
亞細
亞
ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (SOUTH CHINA),
LTD., THE-Tel. Ad: Petrosilex
Wong Siu San, agent
W. Hurlow, Oil Hulk "Rhameses"
官事領總利大義大
Tai I-tai-li Chung-ling-sz-kún
CONSULATE ITALY
Consul-General (residing in Canton)
關海福
Fu-hai-Kwan
CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME
Commissioner-P. B. de Rautenfeld
Assistant - A. S. Deane
Examiner-F. W. Rowland
和英
ODELL & Co., Merchants
Mei Chi-chao, agent
Steamers "Kongmun" and "Chanpo"
局郵澳都三
POST OFFICE, CHINESE
Postmaster-Wang Hung Chung
(N.B.-Letters should be addressed:
Santuao via Foochow)
竿
美
STANDARD OIL Co., OF NEW YORK
H. W. Livingston, manager (Foochow)
Hsü Baik King, agent
司公船輪安太
Tidewaiters-J. D. Spencer, A. E. V.
Nielsen
TAI ON STEAMSHIP Co.
Medical Officer- A. Sharp Deane,
F.R.C.S.
祥天
Tieng-siong
DODWELL & CO., LTD., Merchants
Wong Tai Wo, manager
TELEGRAPHS, CHINESE
Y. D. Wei, manager
Y. S. Wei,
clerk
Yuet Sang Wei, do.