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亞細亞 A-si-a

WENCHOW-SANTUAO

DIRECTORY

ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (NORTH CHINA),

LTD.. THE-Tél. Ad: Doric

司公煙美英

BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO Co., LTD.-

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Tel. Ad: Powhattan

C. Cance, representative

司公船輪業商

CHINA MERCHANTS' STEAM NAVIGATION CO.

局政郵華中大州温

CHINESE POST OFFICE

First Class Postmaster-To Tzu-p'ei

CHINESE TELEGRAPH Co.

Wang Ting-shen, manager

CONSULATES

門衙事領國英大

Da Ying-kwoh-ling-sz-ya-mên

GREAT BRITAIN

Acting Consul-W Stark Toller,

resident at Ningpo

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Consul General in Shanghai

關海甌 Ou Hai Kwan

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Commissioner-C. E. Tanant

Assistant-S. Kaneko

Do. --Wong Haiu Geng

Chief Tidesurveyor and

Master-E. Stevens Examiner D. Verner Tidewaiter-P. R. Kabbert

HOSPITAL JEAN GABRIEL

959

Harbour

Sr. St. Clair Deville, supérieure

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)

PAO HUA STEAM NAVIGATION Co.

Chang Chia-chü, agent

STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK

E. K. Hykes, manager

G. B. Campbell

YUNG CHUAN STEAM NAVIGATION Co.

Wang Ting-tso, agent

YUNG NING STEAM NAVIGATION CO.

Wang Chun-fu, 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 1915, coming under the control of the Maritime Customs, was Hk. Tls. 4,028,031, as compared with Hk. Tls. 2,564,881 for 1914, Hk. 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.