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WENCHOW-SANTUAO

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CONSULATES

門衙事領國英大

Da Ying-kwoh-ling-sz-ya-mên

GREAT BRITAIN

Acting Consul-R S. Pratt, residing

at Ningpo

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Consul General in Shanghai

關海甌 Ou Hai Kwan

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Commissioner-C. E. Tanant

Assistant-U. Matsubara

Do. -Wong Haiu Geng

Acting Tidesurveyor and

Master-C. Ahlberg Tidewaiter-A. Jönsson

HOSPITAL JEAN GABRIEL

MISSIONS

Harbour

(For Protestant Missionaries see

separate Directoy)

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

Rev. C. Aroud

Rev. Prost

Rev. L. Marques

Rev. J. Salon

Rev. Boisard

院醫望若董州温

SOEURS DE LA CHARITE DE ST VINCENT DE

PAUL

S. Ste Claire-Deville, sup.

S. Chauvel

S. Costarton

S. Rey

S. Gonçalves

MUSTARD & Co.-Tel. Ad: Mustard

C. Cance, representative

PAO HUA STEAM NAVIGATION CO.

Wang Lan-chi, agent

STANDARD OIL Co. OF NEW YORK

T. A. Beall, manager

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 1917, coming under the control of the Maritime Customs, was Hk. Tls. 2,502,980, as compared with Hk. Tls. 2,927,460, for 1916, Hk. Tls. 4,028,030 for 1915, Hk. Tls. 2,564,880 for 1914 and Hk. Tls. 2,736,191 for 1913.