LUNGCHOW-MENGTSZ AND YUNNANFU
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Nanning with its succession of gorges and rapids is well worth seeing but accommo- dation for Europeans on the motor boats is not of a luxurious type though each vessel has one special cabin for official travellers. The climate of the port is damp and very hot for some eight months of the year, but the winter is cold enough to be very pleasantamid such picturesque surroundings.
TRADE IN 1934
The city of Lungchow, situated though it is in the very south-west corner of the province of Kwangsi, no longer holds the isolated position it once did. Since 1932 the district has been brought into closer touch with Nanning and Wuchow by the completion of a motor highway on that route, and, by the inauguration of a regular airplane service during the year under review, mails and passengers can now be carried between Lungchow and Canton (via Nanning and Wuchow) in the space of about five hours. The trade across the China-. Tonkin border is unimportant, and the long-established Custom House at Lungchow fuctions chiefly as a frontier preventive post. Such trade as there is would appear to be on the decline, the value of the inward section amounting to only 36,000 dollars as against 57,000 dollars during 1933 and the value of the outward movements of cargo amounting to only 108,000 dollars as against 119,000 dollars.
DIRECTORY
BIBLE CHURCH MEN'S MISSIONARY SOCIETY
關州龍 Lung chow kuan
CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME
Acting Commissioner-C. A. S.
Williams
Clerk-Ho Shun Kin
FRENCH CONSULATE Cable Ad: Fransulat,
Longtcheou
P. A. Simon, Consul for Longtcheou & Nanning with residence in Longtcheou
J. V F. Tseng, Chinese Clerk
FRENCH HOSPITAL
Dr. Ch'en Ting-wok
局郵州龍
POST OFFICE (CHINESE)·
Shu Kwan Luen, postmaster
ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION
Rev. Father G. Caysac, Societe des
Mission Etrangeres de Paris
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