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亞細亞 A-si-a

WENCHOW—SANTUAO

DIRECTORY

ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (NORth China),

LTD., THE-Tel. Ad: Doric

Yung Shing Fu, agent

司公煙美英

BRITISH - AMERICAN TOBACCO Co., LTD.—

Tel. Ad: Powhattan

C. Cance, representative

司公船輪業商

CHINA MERCHANTS' STEAM NAVIGATION Co.

Hsieh Chung-son, manager

T. C. Hsü, secretary

Chue Tsing Fu, chief clerk

局政郵華中大州温

CHINESE POST OFFICE

First Class Postmaster-Yea Hong-yue

Woo Kee-kaw, clerk

CHINESE TELEGRAPH Co.

Chen Ping-kuo, manager

關海甌 Ou Hai Kwan

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Commissioner J. Acheson

Examiner-D. Verner

Tidewaiter-C. W. Stocks

CONSULATES

門衙事領國英大

Da Ying-kwoh-ling-se-ya-men

GREAT BRITAIN

Actg. Consul-Archibald Rose, C.I.E

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Consul in Shanghai

FUKIEN STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD,

Tin Ven La, agent

Kai Kin Her, manager

HOSPITAL JEAN GABRIEL

Sr. St. Clair Deville, supériuere

4 Sisters of Charity

MISSIONS

(For Protestant Missionaries see separate "Directory")

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

Rev. C. Aroud

Rev. Prost

Rev. J. Salon (Chuchow)

Rev. Boisard (Pingyang)

Assistant-S. Kaneko

Chief Tidesurveyor and

Master-E. Stevens

Harbour

STANDARD OIL Co. OF NEW YORK

D. L. Smith, 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 Samsa 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 1914, coming under the control of the Maritime Customs, was Hk. Tls. 2,564,881, as compared with Tls. 2,736,191 for 1913, Hk. Tls. 2,283,755 for 1912, Hk. Tls. 2,876,378 for 1911 and Hk. Tls 2,916,984 for 1910.