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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 13 miles. One of the stations of the Chinese Maritime Customs is located here, and another on an islet called Malowchow. Lappa is under the jurisdiction of the Heungshan Magistrates. 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 Customs stations in 1914 was Hk. Tls. 16,715,834, as compared with Tls. 18,018,508 in 1913. The diversion of the course of trade to and from the Luichow Prefecture 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 Kwang-chow-wan and Macao. There is also a tendency for a portion of the west coast produce to go via Kongmoon, whether destined for Hongkong or Canton, and the old junk trade of this region with the foreign colonies is gradually disappearing.

DIRECTORY

** V Kung-pak-san-kwan OFFICES OF THE CHINESE MARITIME CUS- TOMS, LAPPA-No. 2, Rua dos Prazeres, Macao

Commissioner F. J. Smith

Assistants-C. A. R. Cabral, A. H.

Forbes, A. M. de Souza Chinese Assistant-Cheung Yuk-tong Tidesurveyor-J. H. Barton Acting Boat Officer-S. G. Pedersen Asst. Examiners-C. W. Landers, E. A. Young, A. G. McLoughlin, F. Kittel Tidewaiters-C. S. Goddard, S. B. de Brito, F. Byrnes, O. Hall, E. V. Miller, G. Borres, W. J. Bethell, J. C. Cammiade, W. Battley, S. H. Goodwin, N. J. Hughes, J. D. Spen- ser, J. Heyman, J. J. Jensen, M. O. Grönroos, H. Gaylard, F. R. Mac-

Kendrick. W. O'Reilly, J. Ellis, R C. Sanderson, H. O. Jenson, G. E. Cammiade, H. J. Carey, G. H. Reece Watchers-H. L. Jett, J. P. Thompson

R. R. Bullock, F. W. Murphy, J. K. Ross, A. Emiliano, C. Fraser Revenue Launches

Cheongkeng

Officer-in-charge-O. Hall Launch Officer-W. O'Reilly

Paktou

Officer-in-charge-G. Borras Launch Officer-H. L. Jett

Lungtsing Officer-in-charge J. D. Spenser Launch Officer-H. Gaylard

Luipin

Officer-in-charge M. O. Grönroos

SAMSHUI

* Sam-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