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KIUKIANG
distant, amongst which is Kuling, some 3,600 feet high, the well-known summer resort, and the existence of which, within 24 hours' of the port, gives Kiukiang a high position among the Treaty Ports. The former foreign Settlement lies to the west of the city and is neatly laid out. It possesses a small bund lined with trees, a club, and a Roman Catholic cathedral. Since the end of 1927 the foreign settlement has been changed into a Special Administrative District under control of the Chinese authorities. Roads and innumerable houses are being rapidly constructed, and thus a new residential and business district, close to but outside the city, is rapidly coming into being. During 1921 a system of drainage of approved foreign style was initiated. Pinhingchow now comprises either in or adjacent to it the following prominent buildings: the railway station and godowns, the electric-light power-house, the Yü Sung Match Factory, the Kiuhsing Spinning and Weaving Company's factory a large four-storied hotel, and the Kiukiang Customs Lights Repair Yard..
The idea which led to the opening of Kiukiang was, no doubt, its situation as regards communication by water with the districts where tea is produced. But the hopes entertained respecting the port have never been wholly realised, Hankow having become the market for black teas. The general trade of the port, however, has in- creased considerably in recent years, a large development of inland steam navigation in the Poyang Lake contributing to this result. Its now completed connection by rail with the provincial capital, Nanchang, may further improve matters. The net value of the trade of the port for the yoar 1928 was Hk. Tls. 69,216,274, as compared with Hk. Tls. 50,331,289 in 1927, and Hk. Tls. 56,034,253 in 1926. Kiukiang is the port whence the ware made at the far-fained porcelain factories at Kin-tê-chên is shipped. The specimens sent to the Paris Exhibition in 1900 secured a silver medal in competition with European porcelain. Rice, beans and peas, hemp, indigo, paper, melon and sesamum seeds, tungsten ore, and tobacco leaf are also important exports.
DIRECTORY
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
P. H. Munro-Faure, manager
J. T. Ford
J. J. Lester
G. S. Garrard
E. T. Westbrook, instal. manager
BAKER, HENRY E., Civil Engineer-Ku-
ling, Kiangsi
BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO Co. (CHINA),
LTD.
John H. Crocker
古
太
Ta koo
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE (John Swire & Sons,
Ltd.), Merchants-Tel. Ad: Swire
S. H. Edkins, signs per pro.
Hulk-"Pasha"
Agencies
China Navigation Co., Ld. Ocean Steamship Co., Ld.
China Mutual Steam Nav. Co., Ld. Canadian Govt. Merchant Marine, Ld.
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co.
of Hongkong, Ld.
Taikoo Sugar Refining Co., Ld.
London and Lancs. Fire Insce. Co., Ld. Royal Exchange Assurance Corpn. Orient Insurance Co., Ld. Guardian Assurance Co., Ld.
Union Insce. Society of Canton, Ld. British & Marine Foreign Insce.Co., Ld. Standard Marine Insurance Co., Ld. Sea Insurance Co., Ld.
CHINA AIRWAYS (Fed. Inc. U.S.A.)-Head
Office: 3, Canton Road, Shanghai
J. B. Knox, radio operator
司公險保和濟仁
Zing chi wo pau hsin kung sze
CHINA MERCHANTS' MARINE INSURANCE CO.
Cheng Yuet-ngam, agent
A
Chou Shan Shin Chuk
CHINA MERCHANTS' STEAM NAVIGATION Co.
Cheng Yuet Ngam, manager
CHURCHES & MISSIONS
會地內
CHINA INLAND MISSION
F. Tull and wife
Nee ti hui