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WENCHOW—SANTUAO

DIRECTORY

亞細亞 A-si-a

ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO., LTD., The

Yah Foong, agent

BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCo Co., Ltd.

C. Cance, representative

司公船輪業商

CHINA MERCHANTS' STEAM NAVIGATION CO.

Hsieh Chung-son, manager

Chue Tsing Fu, chief clerk and

secretary

局 政郵 華中 大州温

CHINESE Post Office

Act. Sub. Dist. Postmaster-Yea Hong

Yue

Hsieh Heung-ming, clerk

Wou Hee Kew,

CHINESE TELEGRAPH Co.

Zee Kwei, manager

do.

Ou-Hai-Kwan

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Actg. Comsner.-C. Talbot Bowring Assistant-T. Aida

Act. Tidesurveyor and Harbour Master

-C. Tonkin

Examiner D. Verner

Tidewaiter-H. W. Butte

CONSULATES

門衙事頜國英大

Da Ying-kwoh-ling-sz-ya-mén

GREAT BRITAIN

Acting Consul G.W.W. Pearson

—

(residing at Ningpo), also in

charge of Austro-Hungarian

interests

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Consul in Shanghai

FUKIEN STEAM NAVIGATION Co., THE

Tin Ven La, agent

Kai Kiu Her, manager

HOSPITAL JEAN GABRIEL

Sr. St. Clair Deville, supériuere

4 Sisters of Charity

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

Rev. C. Aroud

Rev. Prost

Rev. J. Salon (Chuchow) Rev. Boisard

STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK

Yung Chin-jin, agent

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 coast: 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 1912 was Hk. Tls. 2,283,755, as com- pared with Tls. 2,876,378 for 1911, Tls. 2,916,984 for 1910, Tls. 2,615,032 for 1909, and Tls. 2,659,287 for 1908.