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WENCHOW-SANTUAO

DIRECTORY

879

亞細亞 A-si-a

ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (NORTII CIINA),

LTD., THE-Tel. Ad: Doric

Yung Hsing-fu, agent

司公煙美英

BRITISH - AMERICAN TOBACCO Co., LTD.

Tel. Ad: Powhattan

C. Cance, representative

司公船輪業商

關海甌 Ou Hai Kwan

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Commissioner-C. E. Tanant.

Assistant-U. Matsubara

Do. -Wong Haiu Geng

and

Acting Tidesurvey or

Master W. A, Lloyd Examiner-T. A. Ehtman Tidewaiter-

HOSPITAL JEAN GABRIEL

CHINA MERCHANTS' STEAM NAVIGATION CO.

T. C. Sze, manager

MISSIONS

局政郵華中大州温

CHINESE POST OFFICE

First Class Postmaster-Deng Yong Yü

CONSULATES

門衙事領國英大

Da Ying-kwoh-ling-sz-ya-mén

GREAT BRITAIN

Acting Consul-W Stark Toller,

residing at Ningpo

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Consul General in Shanghai

Harbour

(For Protestant Missionaries sec

end of volume)

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

Rev. C. Aroud

Rev. L. Marques

Rev. Prost

Rev. J. Salon (Chuchow)

Rev. Boisard (Pingyang)

PAO HUA STEAM NAVIGATION CO.

Wang Lan-chi, agent

STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK

T. A. Beall, manager

G. B. Campbell

YUNG CHUAN STEAM NAVIGATION Co.

Chen Tzu-ts'ai, 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 1916, coming under the control of the Maritime Customs, was lk. Tls. 2,927,460, as compared with Hk. Tls. 4,028,030, for 1915, Hk. Tls. 2,564,880 for 1914, Hk. Tls. 2,733,191 for 1913, Hk. Tls. 2,283,755 for 1912, and Hk. Tls. 2,876,378 for 1911.