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WENCHOW-SANTUAO

DIRECTORY

CHINA MERCHANTS' STEAM NAVIGATION CO.

Hsieh Chung-son, agent

Loo Hsin Yuen

CHINESE TElegraph Co.

Cheng Sung-hwa, manager

Yaw Veu Kan, clerk in charge

Suh Si-liang, Kia Hong-ziang, Chen Tsèh-ling, clerks

Chên Kee Tsoo, accountant

Yang Yuoh-nien, assist. accountant

CONSULATES

門衙事領國英大

Da Ying-kuai-ling-sz-ngo-miêng

GREAT BRITAIN

also

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, Consulate

Acting Consul-L. H. R. Barr (re-

siding at Ningpo)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Consul in Shanghai

W Ou-Hoi-Kwan 關海甌

CUSTOMS IMPERIAL MARITIME

Assistant in Charge (temporarily)

H. J. Sharples

Assistant-T. Woxen

do. F. G. E. Rudolphy

Out-door Staff

Harbour Master and Tidesurveyor-

A. Walker

Examiner-W. Johnsord

Asst. Examiner-H. J. Christophersen

MISSIONS

For Protestant Missions see end of China

Directory

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

Rev. C. Aroud

Rev. Léon Marques

Rev. Ernest Toth

局政郵清大州温

POST OFFICE IMPERIAL CHINESE

Postmaster-H. J. Sharples

Postal Clerk-Yea Hong Yue

SANTUAO

Santuao was voluntarily opened to foreign trade by the Chinese Government on the 8th May, 1899. The port includes the whole of the magnificent Samsah Inlet, which is situated some 70 miles North of Foochow. The foreign settlement is on the island of Santu in the centre of the Inlet. The harbour is certainly one of the finest on the China cost: the approaches to it are well-defined, and vessels of the largest size may enter at any time, regardless of the state of tide. H.M.S. Waterwitch surveyed the whole of the Inlet in 1899, and an Admiralty chart has been published." A telegraph cable was successfully laid from the mainland to the Settlement in July, 1905, and communication established with all China ports.

The port of Santuao serves important Tea districts. Much of the Tea exported from Foochow to Europe is first shipped from Santuao; and there is a growing demand in North China for certain varieties grown in the neighbourhood. The chief towns of the district are Funing, Fu-an, Ningte, and Shouning. There is a prosperous and increasing junk-trade, and regular steamship communication with the provincial capital. The net value of the trade of the port for 1907 was Tls. 2,275,874, as compared with Tls. 2,290,183 for 1906.