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MOJI AND SHIMONOSEKI
There is a fairly strong tidal current through the Straits, but the anchorage, which is at Moji, is only affected by an eddy, and good_holding ground is general. Steamers entering from the West can get pilots at Rokuren Light, where boats have to stop in any case for medical inspection and harbour- master's instructions. From the eastward this inspection takes place at Hesaki Light. Means of transport are good. Liners run regularly to all foreign ordinary ports of call; and, while from Shimonoseki the Sanyo Railway taps the north, from Moji the Kiushiu Railway taps the south of Japan. The Shimonoseki Station Hotel, which for many years provided good accommodation for foreigners, was destroyed by fire in July, 1922; but a new thoroughly up to date hotel has been rebuilt on the former site and was opened on the 1st April, 1924. The Imperial Railway Department has also four large ferry boats plying between Moji and the Shimonoseki Station, while a ten-minute ferry plies between the usual landing places at Moji and Shimonoseki. There is a project on foot to construct a tunnel under the Straits. Both towns have municipal waterworks, are lit by electricity, and are connected by telephone with the principal towns, from Kagoshima and Nagasaki, in the south, to Tokyo in the north-east. Imports at Moji for 1923 amounted to Yen 68,645,072, and exports to Yen 22,881,141, as compared with Yen 64,446,609 and Yen 24,919,122, respectively, for the previous year. The population of Shimonoseki at the close of 1923 was 84,110 and of Moji 91,990. It should be specially noted that photographing and sketching are forbidden within a radius of ten miles round Shimonoseki and Moji on land and sea. The law in this respect is strictly enforced and ignorance is not accepted as an excuse.
DIRECTORY
BABCOCK & WILCOX, LTD., Patent Water Tube Boilers and Auxiliary Plant- 3102, 2-chome, Uchihama-cho; Teleph. 689; Tel. Ad: Babcock
Birnie, Leonard, Importer and Ex-
porter
Nutter & Co., agents
CONSULATES
GREAT BRITAIN (Consulate at Shimo-
noseki); Teleph. 705 (Shimonoseki)
Consular Agent-R. McKenzie Shipping Clerk-Y. Musashi
NORWAY
Vice-Consul-R. McKenzie
PORTUGAL--Mainichi Building; Telephs.
866 and Long Distance 1305
Vice-Consul-Horace Nutter
SWEDEN
Vice-Consul-R. McKenzie
CUSTOM HOUSE
Director-S. Izumi
Controller-S. Takahashi
Chief Examiner and Chief Appraiser
-S. Nakamoto
Examiner and Appraiser-I. Suyehiro Chief Secretary-S. Takahashi
Chief, Accounts Office- T. Koyama Chief, Shimonoseki (East)-S. Noguchi
Do. (West) T. Ueno
HARBOUR OFFICE
Harbour Master-K. Akashi
Chief Quarantine Officer-Hisano Chief Medical Officer-H. Mizunuma
2nd
do.
-T. Ikeda
Chief Vet. Surgeon – K. Adachi
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & Co. (JAPAN),
LTD. -2,
Karato-machi, Shimonoseki; Teleph. 1543; P.O. Box 3 (Higashi); Tel. Ad: Mackinnons
R. E. Kozhevar (Kobe)
W. H. Evans, manager
Agencies
Peninsular and Oriental S. N. Co. British India S. N. Co., Ld.
Eastern and Australian S.S. Co., Ld. North China Insurance Co., Ld.
MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, LTD.-Tel. Ad: Mitsui; Codes, A.B.C. 5th edn. and improved, Al, Scott's and Bentley's
S. Hasegawa, manager
J. Kanai, assist. do.
Agencies
Hamburg-Amerike Linie Norddeutscher Lloyd Rickmers Line
Ellerman-Bucknall S.S. Co. Toyo Kisen Kaisha, Tokyo