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CHINESE KOWLOON-LAPPA

關新龍九

Kow-loon Sin-kuvan

IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS

DIRECTORY

Act. Commissioner-W. R. M'D. Parr Deputy Commissioner-T. E. Cocker Chief Assistant-F. Clayson Second do. -W. S. Dupree

-C. A. R. Cabral

Third do.

Fourth do.

Medical Officers-F. O. Stedman, G. M. į

Harston

Acting Tidesurveyor-W. J. Hewett Assistant Examiners--H. A. Adamsen

A. L. Knight

Tidewaiters-E. M. Lundberg,

J.

S. T. Brandão, J. W. Adnams, W. H. Barley, A. D. Nelson, C. L. Hack, O. C. Miller, A. K. Tellefsen, C. de Bedoire, F. G. McIntosh, W. Moore, J. T. S. L. St. G. Treffry, W. Anderson, W. Burnes, L. L. Lopes, T. Buckley, C. P. Winckel, F. Huber, C. H. J. Ross, G. E. Cross, T. Rees, G. St. M.) Stocker, J. Gires, E. M. E. Gallo, G. Gosling, P. Ermiloff, W. G. States, J. E. Greenhalgh, J. P. B. Negaard, J.J.Egan, E.C. Davis, J. R.Tomlinson, H. Larsen, A. N. Biermann, G. G. Haddon, H. Leissner, N. W. Noakes, F. Williams, T. S. Egerton, G. Tudhepe; W. J. Martin

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Watchers-H. G. H. Luessen, J. T Standen, P. C. Hutchence, J. A Murphy

Revenue Cruiser Kaipan

Third

Commander-C. I. Williams First Officer-J. W. MacGregor Second do. -F. S. Monteith Third do. -J. P. Gibson Act. First Engr.--G. J. Harman Second do. —F. B. Land

do. —P. O. Pickburn Revenue Cruiser Likin

Commander-G. T. Giertsen First Officer-H. S. Sweeting Second do. -W. D. Fraser Third do. —C, W. A. C. Salmonson First Engineer--T. (), B. Harman Second do. -D. D. Thomson Third do. -T. F. Gilkison Gunner-M. Long Revenue Launches Kwantin

Officer-in-charge--W. Anderson Launch Officer-N. W. Noakes Kwanini

Officer-in-charge--G. E. Cross Launch Officer-T. Rees Kwanjung

Officer-in-charge--A. K. Tellefsen Launch Officer-A. N. Biermann Kowloontsei

Officer-in-charge--G. St. M. Stocker

Kapsuitsai

Officer-in-charge-H. Larsen

LAPPA

Lappa, also called by the Chinese “ Kung Pak," is an island directly opposite the Inner Harbour of Macao, the distance across being from 1 to 13 miles. One of the stations of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs is located here, and another on an islet called Malowchow. Lappa is under the jurisdiction of the Heungshan Magistrate. It possesses no features of interest beyond the fact that it is the principal Customs station in the neighbourhood of Macao. The net value of the trade passing through the Lappa Custom Houses in 1906 was Tls. 15,383,943. In 1905 it was 'Ils. 1,858,584 against Tls. 17,735,132 in 1904. To some extent the drop is to be ascribed to a lower valuation in various descriptions of goods. Another cause operating against Lappa is the diversion of the course of trade in a variety of goods to and from the Luichow Pre fecture. Much of the cargo which formerly came thence in junks to Macao and reported at Malowchow now avails itself of the more convenient and doubtless safer direct steamer carriage between the French Port of Kwangchow-wan and Macao. There is also a tendency for a portion of the west coast produce to go via Kongmoon, whether destined for Hongkong or Canton, and the old junk trade of this region with the foreign colonies is gradually disappearing.

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