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HAKODATE

The Hakodate Harbour Improvement works were completed in 1900, and a patent slip capable of taking vessels up to 1,500 tons was also finished.

There is also under construction a dry dock to accommodate ships up to 10,000 tons at ordinary spring tides, and at highest spring tides the dock will be capable of receiving the largest battleships in the Japanese Navy. Harbour improvements are also being carried on at Otaru, where a massive breakwater, about 3,500 feet long, is under construction.

In August, 1907, half the city of Hakodate was destroyed by a fire. The number of houses destroyed in the conflagration was ascertained to be 8,977, rendering about 60,000 persons homeless. All the foreign residents with the exception of the American Consular Agent were burns out, saving nothing, and the total loss was estimated at not less than 50,000,000 yen.

DIRECTORY

BANKS

Nippon Ginko

Hakodate Bank, Ltd. Da San Ginko Twentieth Bank Takushoko Ginko

113th Bank, Ltd.

Yesashi Ginko

CHIHO SAIBANSHO (DISTRICT COURT) President-Techkia Yoshiyasu Chief Procurator-Hasama Yeijiro

COLBORNE, DR. W. W., Ensleigh Hospital,

8, Omori-machi

CONSULATES

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY

Acting Consul-Harold G. Parlett

GREAT BRITAIN, 68 Kaisho-machi

Vice-Consul -Harold G. Parlett Shipping Clerk--J. Will

NORWAY

Acting Vice Consul-Harold G. Parlett

UNITED STATES OFÂMERICA

Consular Agent E. J. King

CURNOW & Co., J. LD., Storekeepers

M. Russell, managing director H. Russell, director

G. Russell, do.

CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL

Director- K. Miyoshi

Chief of Secretariat-S. Tateyama

Chief Appraiser-Nishimura Chief Collector- K. Kirino Chief Accountant-T. Kishibe Chief Inspector-C. Anzai Auditor-M. Takigawa

Chief of Secretariat-Y. Nagaoka Agencies

Chartered Bank of I., A. and China Commercial Union Assurance Co., Ld. British Dominions Marine Ince.Co.,Ld.

DENBIGH & Co., Merchants and Commission Agents, 31 Kaji Machi; Telephone No.111

G G Denbigh

J. A. V. Cooper

Agencies

Chartered Bank of I. A. and C. Russo-Chinese Bank (Correspondents) Commerical Union Assurance Co., Ld. British Dominions Marine Insurance

Co., Ld.

Russian East Asiatic S. S. Co., Ld. Russian Volunteer Fleet (Okhotsk-

Kamchatka Lines)

HAKODATE DOCK COMPANY, 88, Benten-

machi

Baron Ryokichi Kawada, president Directors-Baron Ryokichi Kawada, Chuzo Okamoto, Toyokichi Kawada, Aisuke Kabayama, Shigeo Sakaki Mangrs.-Toyokichi Kawada, Hisataro

Shinagawa

Auditors Kumatsuchi Matsushito,

Kichi Yendo

Adviser-Renpei Kondo