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KOBE-HYOGO

4,529,335 Rice

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The values of the principal articles of Export in the same year were as follows:- Beverages and Comestibles Yen Cotton Yarn & Cotton Goods Drugs etc. (mostly Camphor) Matches

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Mats for Floor

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Metals (chiefly Copper)....

17,496,142 Straw-plaits ..

... 4,130,872 Tea

7,471,879 Sundries... 6,551,689

5,391,487 Total Exports

5,748,163

2,862,763

3,725,141

16,840,672

Yen 74,748,143

The quantity of tea shipped from Kobe-Hyogo during the season 1901-1902 was 17,693,970 lbs. Practically the whole of this went to the United States of America and Canada.

The following table of values in Yen shows the rapid increase of the foreign trade of the port from 1893 to 1902.

1893 1894

Imports 41,294,276

Exports Total

Imports Exports Total

24,968,974

56,910,503

29,438,113

1895 63,098,427 1896

66,263,250 1898 86,348,616 38,307,955 101,406,382 | 1900

138,133,798

60,119,645 198,253,443

1899

120,289,524

75,320,884 195,610,408

137,484,281

69,706,549 207,190,830

82,546,593 40,317,817 122,864,410 1901 125,979,022 1897 110,741,830 51,408,080 162,149,910 | 1902

144,516,111

77,206,226 203,185,248 74,748,143 219,264,254

DIRECTORY

ABENHEIM BROS., Merchants 76, and at New York, London, Chaux-de-Fond and Yokohama

Richard Abenheim (London)

F. B. Abenheim (New York)

R. E. Abenheim

Russel Leeds

ABRAHAM & Co., L. D., Comsn. Merchs.---51

L. D. Abraham

V. E. Abraham (absent)

J. W. Ottoson

AHRENS & CO., H., Nachfolger, Merchs.-10

E. Wismer (absent)

M. Suerth (Yokohama)

A. Hofmann

E. Kroneck

G. Erich

H. Hoffmann

Agencies

Norddeutscher Lloyd Steam Nav. Co. Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society London Assurance Corporation Navigazione Generale Italiana Chinese Eastern R. Co. S.S. Service

AILION, I. A., Import and Export, Com-

mission Agent, 21в, Harima-machi

D. Ailion

ALL SAINTS' CHURCH (Anglican)

Chaplain-Rev. G. H. Davies, M.a.

AMERICAN TRADING Co., 99, Kita-machi

E. A. Sargent, agent

C. Albertson, sub-agent and manager

engineering department

E. J. Marshall, accountant

W. D. S. Edwards

W. Hardy

P. H. Wootton

F. N. Shea Percy Entickna K. Yendo

E. Ogden

R. Schofield

Justus Briggs

Agencies

Law Union & Crown Ins. Co. (Fire) American & Oriental Transport Line

of Steamers to the Far East

AMOORE, H. E., Commission Agent and Ex- porter of Plants, Seeds, Bulbs, &c.—c/o 16

ARRATOON, M. J., Commission Agent, 52,

Kitanagasa-dori

ARTHUR & BOND, Commission Agents and

Curio Exporters-51

AVERILL, OLMSTED& Co., Merchants, Ohno:

Tel. Ad. Olmsted

J. O. Averill (New York)

F. H. Olmsted

C. S. Averill (Yokohama)

L. E. Charnley

BANK OF TAIWAN, LIMITED, Sakaye-machi,

Shichome: Tel. Ad. Taiwangink

J. Kajuvara, manager

BECKER & Co., 31, Akashi-machi

E. Becker (Yokohama)

Th. Bunge

Hans von Hammerstein, signs p. p. K. Bandelow

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