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PAKHOI
The export of pigs to Hongkong was also handicapped by infrequency of steamers during the later months of the year when demand in Hongkong was strongest. Gypsum in considerable quantities from near-by districts was exported to Canton for use in the manufacture of cement. No other minerals were exported during the year, the two mines of the Yu Sheng Manganese Ore Mining Company remaining closed.
Total tonnage entered and cleared during the year was 373,071 tons, representing a decrease of 177,737 tons as compared with 1936. The fortnightly French steamer between Haiphong and Hongkong was withdrawn from the Pakhoi run at the opening of the year and the weekly Douglas steamer from Canton, Hongkong, and Hoihow ceased to call after November. The weekly service of Messrs. Butterfield & Swire's Shanghai-Hongkong-Haiphong ships functioned regularly during the first half of the year, but was much interrupted later. The use of national currency increased considerably during the year, and the provincial currency remained close to the fixed rate of $144 Provincial to $100 National. The air service operated by the South-western Aviation Corporation was suspended during the last four months of the year.
DIRECTORY
ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (S.C.), LTD.-
Ming Kwong Co., Pakhoi agents
CENTRAL BANK OF CHINA-Cable Ad: 2639
Ma Kwong Wing, director
司公船輪洋東
COMPAGNIE
GATION
INDO-CHINOISE DE NAVI-
CONSULATES
府事領國法大
Tai fat kwok ling sz fu
FRANCE (The Chief Office is Temporarily
Established at Hoihow)
Annexe Secty.-M. P'an Chao-pan
官事領國英大
Tai ying kwok ling sz kun
GREAT BRITAIN
Consul General (Residing in Canton)
關海北
CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME
Acting Comr.-H. B. Hawkins Assistants-Chin Neng Wen, Chang
Hong-kwei and Yeh Yuh Gie
J
Clerks Kwok Chiu Hon, Su Yan Ko, Wong Pik Yu, Cheung King Lau, Liu Fook Pui, Hsu Chao Ling, Ma Kwok Wing, T'u Shou Young and Yang Ch'in
Medical Officers-Drs. Ngo Si Quy
and Samuel Yongnyien Sing Acting Tidesurveyor and Acting
Harbour Master D. M. Nicoll Assistant Boat Officers-Au Yeung Ting Hin, Kwok Chung Wing and Chen Ming Siong
Chief Examiner E. F. Melnik Examiners--Liu Mun Pang and Li
Ka Ü
Tide waiters-Hsü Chao-hsien, Woo Sin, Ho Kwai Pang, Li Te-tsing, Chung Yan Wai, Hu Wei Ming, Lee Lin Chang, Ma Tang Kow, Wang Shou Chen, Chung Yu Siang, Kong Sau Lai, Kwok Chung Wo, Tong Su Ye, Yu Tung You and Zia Shiang Hsien
FI 昌 LAS
KWONG CHEONG WO-Cable Ad: 4801:
Agency:
China Navigation Co., Ltd.
MISSIONS
CHURCH MISSION SOCIETY HOSPITAL
-Cable Ad: C.M.S. Pakhoi
Dr. Lam Kow-cheong, M.B., B.S.,
supt.
Dr. G. L. Russell, M.B., CH. B.,
CH.B.,
supt. (Affiliated C.M.8. Leper Settlement)