HANGCHOW
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Halfway between Hangchow and Shanghai is Kashing, where the Grand Canal joins the Whangpoo River on which Shanghai is situated. Kashing is a Customs Sta- tion under Hangchow and was first opened in 1898 for collecting duties on foreign opium owing to fiscal arrangements being against the collection at Hangchow. It now collects duties both on imports and exports, but has not yet acquired the status of a Treaty Port.
A railway from the Settlement to the further end of Hangchow City near the Chien Tang river was completed in September, 1907. It was built solely by Chinese and with Chinese capital. There is now railway connection with Shanghai via Kashing. Twenty-eight miles north of Hangchow is situated the well-known summer resort Mokanshan. It can be reached from Shanghai by way of the railway and a motor-boat in ten hours. There are now over two hundred houses on the slope of a hill about 3,000 feet high. The scenery is magnificent and the view unequalled. Bamboo forests cover the mountain and afford shade to all the roads. Clear mountain springs abound, chairs and coolies for baggage are always available, and are under contract with the Mokanshan Association. Houses more or less completely furnished can be rented at Tls. 100 to 350 per season (four months). The Shanghai Municipality has lately purchased two houses as a sanatorium for its employes, and a competent nurse is in charge. The difference in temperature from the plain amounts to 10° in the day and 15° at night.
The climate of Hangchow-save for the prevalence of malaria in the Foreign Settlement- is salubrious. July and August are hot, but the spring and autumn are delightful and the winter is bracing. The minimum temperature recorded within the period 1911-1919 was 15.5° Fahrenheit in January, 1916, and the maximum was 104° in August, 1917. The mean maximum for the years 1911-1919 was 83.2 Fahrenheit, the mean minimum 43.3°, and the mean 63.2°. Snow usually falls in two or three months of the year. The temperate and sub-tropical zones meet in the neighbourhood, and the flora is accordingly extremely rich: the latter remark is also true of the fauna, especially bird life.
DIRECTORY
CHEKIANG PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
H.E. LU YUNG-HSIANG, Military Governor
H.E. SHEN CHIN-CHIEN, Civil Governor
司公油火亞細亞商英
Ying-shang A-si-a-huo-yu-kung-sz
ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (NORTH CHINA),
LTD.-Tel. Ad: Doric
E. C. Robinson, local manager
C. Cheetham
W. E. Hughes
B. Hemingway (Kashing)
W. Howells (up-country inspector)
Miss G. Gearey
BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO Co.--Tel. Ad:
Powhattan
A. Eite, local manager
H. B. Lilley A. Berthet (Lanchi)
M. J. Butler (Lanchi)
司公險火巴
Pa-lah-ho-hsien-kong-sze
CHINA MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO., LTD.
-Teleph. 287; Tel. Ad: Adanac
所分核稽浙兩
CHINESE GOVERNMENT SALT REVENUE
ADMINISTRATION
W. H. Chien, Chinese district insp.
K. Tanabe, foreign
do.
T. H. Chow, Chinese asst. do.
A. Bookless, foreign do.
CONSULATES
GREAT BRITAIN
Consul-V. L. Savage
JAPAN
Acting Consul-C. Seino
do.
Police Inspector-K. Tokuyama
關海州杭
CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME
Commissioner-W. MacDonald
special duty)
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