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means of transport. The emigrant trade continued to flourish, with a corresponding increase in tonnage. Emigrants to Manila are estimated to have been 12,594, while those to the Straits
the Straits Settlements, etc., numbered 75,000 adults and 14,247 children. With mountainous hinterland
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and the menace of bandits, further improvements in the export trade can hardly be expected in the near future. The decrease in foreign cigarettes is due to keener competition from those of native manufacture. Materials for manufacturing sugar candy, im- ported mainly from Java, were adversely affected towards the end of the year by unfavourable rates of exchange, and several candy factories were obliged to suspend operations. The decrease in the import of beancake is mainly due to the suppression of the planting of the poppy. An up-to-date aerodrome was erected near the fort on the south-western corner of Amoy Island. It contains a workshop and other modern equipment and at present houses four Avian aeroplanes. A feature of world- wide public interest was the arrival from Europe in May 1929 of Captain Chen Wen-lin, the head of the Air Department of the National Navy at Amoy, completing his transcontinental flight in a small Avian aeroplane from Germany to Amoy. portion of the seawall in front of the Custom House, which collapsed in 1928 and was subsequently rebuilt, sank again in July. A new contract has now been entered into with the Netherlands Harbour Works Company for rebuilding the bund. Quar- antine against Hongkong and other ports was declared at various dates during the year, and the port was kept free from epidemics. A longer dry spell than usual occurred, there being practically no rain during the last three months of the year.
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The net value of the trade of the port coming under the cognisance of the Foreign Customs in 1929 was Hk. Tls. 35,865,853, as compared with Hk. Tls. 37,227,163 in 1928, Hk. Tls. 41,509,023 in 1927, Hk. Tls. 37,648,311 in 1926, Hk. Tls. 31,088,712 in 1925, and Hk. Tls. 30,946,688 in 1924.
DIRECTORY
AMOY CANNING Co., LTD.
Canning
Tel. Ad:
Ng Teng Guan, manager
AMOY ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER Co.-
Tel. Ad: Eleclight
Ng Se Kim, manager
S. T. Suen, engineer
司公限有房藥大方東門廈
AMOY PHARMACY, LTD. (Successors to A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd.), Chemists and Druggists, Perfumers, Stationers, Wine and Spirit Merchants, Ice and Aerated Water Manufacturers and Commission Agents, &c. -Tel. Ad: Pharmacy; Codes: A.B.C. 5th edn. and Bentley's
C. B. Lim, general manager K. S. Peck, manager (Drug dept.)
H. C. Ong, treasurer
U. T. Cheung
AMOY WATERWORKS Co.-Tel. Ad: Water- works; Codes: Bentley's, A.B.C. 5th edn.
Ng Se Kim, managing director
Oei Tjoe,
do.
Homer C. Ling, engineer-in-chief V. Wlassow, assistant
院書華英
ANGLO-CHINESE COLLEGE
P. L. Teh, principal and house-master
H. J. P. Anderson, M.A.
R. Tully, B.Sc.
E. A. Preston, M.A., B.D.
Herbert C. Chiu
S. C. Wang, assist. house-master
S. Y. Shen
H. S. Su, B.SC. Y. L. Chen
H. Y. Chen, B.A.
C. C. Ch'iao
Y. H. Wu, B.SC. C. H. Chang, B.A.
ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (SOUTH CHINA), LTD.-The Bund; Teleph. 498; Tel. Ad: Petrosilex
J. B. Harrison, manager
T. D. E. Pendered, assistant H. Bullock,
do.
G. W. Reid, installation manager
Miss Arthur, stenographer Miss Anderson, do.
BANKS
AMOY COMMERCIAL
Amobanco
BANK - Tel. Ad:
Au Yong Tek, manager