SAMSHUI-WUCHOW
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winter, and an occasional pheasant, partridge, quail or duck may be added to the bag. The attractions of good sport and pleasing, surroundings have made Samshui a week end resort for some of the Canton community confined to the small island of Shameen.
A telegraph service is maintained from Sainam. A nice building for the Post Office, situated alongside the road leading from the railway-station to the stone jetty, was completed and opened to the public on September 9th, 1921. There are no Consulates established; the Consuls within whose districts Samshui lies reside either in Canton or Hongkong.
TRADE IN 1934
As in 1933, the trade of the year under review has been far from satisfac- tory. The continued stringency of the money market and the lack of confidence in the business world were among the main factors tending to retard an early recovery of trade. Furthermore, with the development of highways in the North River districts, which permits of the area being served by Canton, the importance of Samshui as a distributing cente for foreign goods from Hong- kong is diminishing. The principal items contributing to the decline were rice, wheat flour, cement, salt fish, metals and kerosene. There was an advance in the total value of export trade due almost entirely to an increase in the shipments of tin, the other staples of the outward trade making a poor showing?: on the whole. The steamer-borne interport trade controlled by the Customs remained on an insignificant level. The total value of imports from, and exports to abroad coming under the cognizance of the Customs during 1934. were G.U. 1,061,000 and Standard $1,230,000 respectively as against G.U. 3,533,000 for imports and St. $840,000 for exports in 1933.
DIRECTORY
亞細亞
ASIATIC
PETROLEUM
Co.
CHINA), LTD.-Cable Ad:
(SOUTH Petrosilex;
Code: 6th edn. A.B.C.
Assistant-Chan I-kan
Acting Tidesurveyor and Harbour
Master-T. Thoresen
Examiner A. R. Kimber
Asst. Examiner-Shi Man Chung
關水三
CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME
Asst.-in-charge-Chan Pak Hong
YAT KEE, Commission Agents
WUCHOW
州梧
Trú-chau
Wuchow, opened to foreign trade on June 4th, 1897, by the Special Article of the Burmah Convention, is situated on the Sikiang or West River at its junction with the Fu or Kuei (Cassia) River. By the steamer routes at present authorised it is distant about 220 miles from Hongkong and Canton. Wuchow is the limit of navigation for ocean-going steamers; but, during eight months in the year, vessels drawing not more than 3 feet can reach Kueihsien (150 miles beyond Wuchow), and Nanning (360 miles from here) can be reached almost all the year round by boats drawing 2 ft.
23 The population of the city, according to a recent census taken by the local Police- Authorities, is 81, 658. The annual inundations caused by the rise in the river-there is an average difference of 60 feet between the winter and summer levels-are a source
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