A460
PAKHOI-HOIHOW
堂主天
FRENCH CATHOLIC MISSION (Foreign
Missions of Paris)--
Rev. Fathers :
Rt. Rev. L. Penicaud, bishop
Rev. P. S. Celland, assist. steward
Rev. C. Toulhazan, super. of
Seminary
Rev. V. Tsiu, prof. of Seminary
Rev. N. Lay,
Rev. F. Lam, vicar
do.
會潔聖節旬五
Miss Laura M. Hylton
Rev. G. C. Legge (On furlough)
Mrs. G. C. Legge
OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA-
局郵海北
POST OFFICE—
do.
Postmaster-Chan Warbeck
Secretary-Chen Chu Tsai
Accountant--Chiu Ming-chang
STANDARD- VACUUM OIL Co.-
PENTECOSTAL
HOLINESS
CHURCH
Ching Tai & Co., agents
MISSION
Rev. C. H. Herndon, supt.
YEETSOONG TOBACCO DISTRIBUTORS, Ltd.
Mrs. C. H. Herndon
Shok Kwan Shang
HOIHOW
州瓊
Kiung-chau
口 海 Hoi-hau
Hoihow is the seaport of the prefectural city of Kiungchow, the capital of the Island of Hainan. The two towns are separated by a distance of some three miles of low hills dotted with graves; and across these lies a semi-macadamised road.
The port of Hoihow was opened by the establishment of a branch of the Chinese Maritime Customs in April, 1876. The harbour of Hoihow is an open roadstead, un- protected against the North-east monsoon, which blows with undisturbed vigour from September to April. The working of cargo is, therefore, normally difficult during those months, and at times impossible. In addition to the above disadvantages those months are also the dry months when no rain falls up-country, and consequently no water comes down by the Po Chung River to the sea. Again, the tides are more erratic in the winter than they are in the summer: sometimes there are two tides during the 24 hours, sometimes one, and sometimes none. Cargo then, having been loaded with difficulty into a cargo-boat alongside the importing steamer, has to face a stormy passage of two to three miles to the spit, which runs parallel to the town of Hoihow and a mile distant from it. Once at the spit the cargo-boat may be able to pole up the two miles of shallow muddy water which separates it from Hoihow.
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As regards health, there is less fever in Hoihow than anywhere else in Hainan. There is excellent water to be had by the sinking of artesian wells, and several are already in existence. A harbour light and a light at Lamko (western entrance of the Hainan Straits) were opened in 1894; also one at Cape Cami on the lower tip of the peninsula in 1895. An Aga Lantern apparatus was installed on the West Fort close to the city at the commencement of 1916.
TRADE IN 1938
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Despite the coastal blockade, occasional air raids, and the evacuation of large numbers of residents to the interior and Hongkong for safety, the trade of the port of Kiungchow was well maintained, the trade statistics as recorded being as follows: direct importations from abroad, $3.6 million as compared with $3,6 million; coastwise importations of Chinese merchandise, $7.4 million as against $5.7 million; direct exportations to foreign countries, $4.3 million as against $3.5 million; and coastwise exportations of Chinese produce, $7.6 million as compared with $8.2 million, Among foreign imports there was little advance, most commodities either maintaining the