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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 14 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, and in 1907 Tis. 17,108,785. The diversion of the course of trade in a variety of goods to and from the Luichow Pre- fecture operates against Lappa. 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 Kongnoon, whether destined for Hongkong or Canton, and the old junk trade of this region with the foreign colonies is gradually disappearing.

DIRECTORY

關北拱 Kung Pak Kwan

IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS

Assistant-in-charge-R. F. C. Hedge-

land

Assistant-A. E. Kinblad

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--F. Woxen

Do. -A. A. d'Eça

Do.

-S. V. dos Remedios

Medical Officers-E. d'E. P. d'Almeida,

E. M. Alvares

Tidesurveyor-J. F. H. Schlüter Boat Officer-G. H. King Assistant Examiners-E. Trusch, A.

P. C. Hicks

Tidewaiters-M. F. d'Assis, A. Murray, A. Johnson, A. Chanings, C. C. N. Hansen, S. Larsen, J. Boyd, F. Fontaine, J. Baillie, C. Armstrong, H.O.Jones, A. Knobloch, G. Walford, R. Bland, H. E. Smith, G. H. Dell,

H. L. Johnson, W. Atkins, N. Mc Mahon, T. A. Noud, T. E. Pateman W. A. Palmer, G. Street

Prob. Tidewaiters- B. B. Gronquist, H. Steinerth, S. B. de Brito, A. Borjes, G. Gorvat, R. Simmonds Watchers-G. A. Robietson, O. Poeroff Cruising Launch "Lungtsing

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Officer in charge-A. Murray Launch Officer-W. Atkins Revenue Launch "Cumsing

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Officer in charge-J. Boyd Launch Officer-H. Steinherth Revenue Launch "Lui Pin"

Officer in charge-G. Walford Revenue Launch “Lui Kuk"

Officer in charge-C. C. N. Hansen Stations under Lappa Customs - Malowchow, Chienshan, Shekkok, Kwanchiap, Nine Islands, Tung Ho, Mongchao, Nai Wan Moon

SAMSHUI

水三

Sàn-shui

The Treaty port of Samshui, opened in 1897 under the Burmah Convention-nearly forty years after Consul Harry Parkes' East River Expedition-is situated near the junction of the West and North Rivers, in lat. 23 deg. 6 min. 30 sec. N., and long. 112 deg. 53 min. and 48 sec. E. The anchorage known as Hokow, at which foreigners reside, was formerly an ordinary Chinese fishing village, with boat building as its leading industry, and a flooded state in summer as its characteristic peculiarity, but it is fast becoming a busy town. According to the Convention, the