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construct an electric tramway on the bund and to erect wharves. Up to the present its chief activities have been confined to a survey of the locality and to the sale of foreshore lots.
The climate of Swatow is reputed to be very salubrious. The town occupies, however, an unenviable position as regards typhoons, on account of being opposite the lower mouth of the Formosa Channel, and it has on many occasions been subjected to all the violence of these terrible storms, which almost every year sweep across the lower coast of China. The population of Swatow is estimated at 7,060 famílies, representing from 50,000 to 60,000 inhabitants.
A Chinese syndicate with a capital of three million dollars obtained the necessary sanction for the construction of a railway from Swatow to Ch'ao-chou-fu, and work was commenced on the line in 1904. The line, which is 28 miles in length, was opened to traffic on November 25th, 1906. The contractors were Japanese, who supplied all material, the rails and engines coming from America and the carriages from Japan. The construction of the line has brought about a great inflation of land values.
Swatow has now an electric light plant of its own, and on account of the cheap price at which the current is supplied this method of lighting is finding favour with the Chinese, and, to some extent, replacing the use of kerosene lamps. A new waterworks was completed early in 1914, the reservoir being at Kia-kun, about eight miles inland. In the midd'e of 1919 a telephone service was introduced.
The foreign trade of Swatow has never been large. Tea and sugar were formerly the principal exports, but the tea trade here, as in other China ports, has to a very large extent passed away. Increased attention is being given to the cultivation of vegetables, fruit, indigo and tobacco leaf. It is thought probable that in the near future minerals will assume increased importance in the export trade of this port, as prospecting discloses more of the latent wealth of the district. The net value of the trade of the port coming under the cognisance of the Foreign Customs for 1920 was Hk. Tls. 63,83.119, as compared with Hk. Tls. 58,440,581 in 1919, Hk. Tls. 50,182,937 in 1918, Hk. Tls. 51,900,351 in 1917, and Hk. Tls. 58,529,443 in 1916.
ANGLO-CHINESE COLLEGE
DIRECTORY
Rev. H. F. Wallace, M.A., B.D., principal
A. W. Edmunds, B.A., B.A.I., and wife
Ah-si-ah
亞細亞
ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (SOUTH CHINA),
LTD. (Incorporated in England)-
Teleph. 8; Tel. Ad: Petrosilex; Codes:
A.B.C. 5th edn., Bentley's (Oil edn.) and private
S. R. Waller, local manager
J. B. Harrison
J. A. Ozorio
J. D. Dickie, installation manager Agency
The Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co., Ld.
Astor House Hotel-Teleph. 61; Tel.
Ad: Stirling
T. Sai, proprietor
行銀灣臺
BANK OF TAIWAN, LTD.-Tel. Ad: Tai-
wangink
T. Wutsumi, manager
T. Narita, p. p. do.
S. Kobayashi
T. Yoshitsu
T. Hayasaki
H. K. Sim
How Cheong
Barrett & Co., E. G., Import and Ex-
port Merchants, Lace and Embroidery
Head Office: Shanghai
R. F. Wrench, manager
M. F. Wrench
BRANGWIN, DR. C. H., Medical Practitioner
記德 Tek-kee
BRADLEY & CO., LTD., Merchants
Thomas Wm. Richardson, governing
director (England)
Robt. H. Hill (England)
J. A. Plummer (Hongkong)
G. A. Richardson (London)
A. Macgowan (Swatow)
T. G. Drakeford (Shanghai)
J. Robinson
A. R. Pollock, engineer H. A. Ozorio
Agencies
Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corpn. Mercantile Bank of India, Ld.
International Banking Corporation
Peninsular and Oriental S. N. Co. Ben Line of Steamers