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AMOY

for many years past. The explanation of the growth in shipping tonnage would there- fore appear to be exclusively indicative of the development of the coolie traffic to the the staple export of Amoy (The returns Malay Archipelago, humanity being now of the native passenger traffic for 1905 show that 76,329 left Amoy, most of them for the Straits, and 49,105 landed at Amoy, about two-fifths of them from the Straits.) In former times, ere the glory of Amoy had departed, the staple export was Tea-the local product as well as the superior blends brought over froin Formosa-but, largely owing to the deterioration of the local product, and the indifference of the grower to the changing conditions of the foreign market, locally-grown tea has long since ceased to be exported, and the Customs Commissioner makes a fairly safe prophecy when he remarks that it only requires the development of Keelung harbour to cause the total disappearance of the foreign tea merchant from Amoy Before the Japanese obtained possession of Formosa the Formosan teas were settled and warehoused in Amoy, whence they were shipped to the foreign markets. Now no Formosan ten is "settled" in Amoy, and with Keelung still unimproved to any considerable extent, quite 50 per cent. of the Formosan product is being shipped direct to America from Keelung. So that at no distant date the foreign Tea merchant at Amoy in all probability will have lost his occupation, and then in the words of the Commissioner "the row of quaint, rambling, old hongs on the Amoy side and many picturesque residences on Kulangsu will be offering for the occupation of the wealthy returned emigrant or the missionary school." The total export of tea in 1905 was only 6,767 piculs. The net value of the trade of the port coming under the cognisance of the Foreign Customs in 1905 was Tls. 18,567,794, which compared with Tls. 17,204,571 in 1904, and Tls. 16,985,898, so that on the whole the returns do not encourage, if they do not actually discountenance, the despondent view generally held of the trade of the port.

蔹恒 i Heng-hoat

DIRECTORY

Aн Kow, General Storekeeper and Com-

mission Agent, No. 59 Longtow Street, Kulangsu

P. Ah Kow

ARTE

(See Advt.)

Ke-keh-yau-han-kung-se

AMOY ENGINEERING CO., LD., Engineers, Launch Builders, Commission Agents

and Repair work to Steamers; call flag E

J. D. Edwards, manager

G. W. Barton, secretary

Ng Lim Quee, accountant N. Joryuk, foreman engineer K. Kohsan, and others

JABߤ Hock-heng-leong-kung-si AMOY STORE, General Storekeepers, Navy Contractors, Auctioneers, Commission Agents, Compradores, Butcher, and Bakers, &c.

P. M. See Jung, manager

C. C. Huang, accountant

Tau Chu Un and others

(See Advt.)

司公話電門廈

Ha-mun-tin-wa-kung-sze

AMOY TELEPHONE Company, Kulangsu

T. Ogino, proprietor

S. P. Yin, manager

AMOY CLUB

Committee-W. H. Wallace (chairman). L. I. Thomas, S. J. Hanisch, Dr. Moorehead, D. MacHaffic, F. H. Edwards (secretary )

AMOY GAZETTE AND SHIPPING REPORT:

Daily Newspaper

J. F. Marçal, manager

行銀灣蠆 Tai-wan-gin-ko

BANK OF TAIWAN, LD.

S. Okuyama, manager

T. Yamanari

S. Hirose

J. Sogawa

iù fu

Ho-kee

BATHURST, CAPT. H., Harbour Pilot and Surveyor; Agent Imperial Merchant.

Service Guild

Boyd & Co., Merchants and Com. Agents-

W. Sneli Orr (absent)

E. Thomas

A. F. Gardiner

F. G. Kell

J. S. Fenwick

Agencies

Mercantile Bank of India, Limited Eastern and Australian Steamship Co. Northern Pacific Steamship Co. Digitized by

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