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Settlements and Manila. There has always been a comparatively good trade done at Amoy, and notwithstanding that the tea trade, for which it was long famous, has now practically disappeared, it is significant that the shipping tonnage employed by the port has quintupled since the decade 1864-73, and almost trebled since the decade 1874 83. Until the shortage of shipping caused by the European war the tonnage figures for many years topped the million mark. In former times, ere the glory of Amoy had departed, the staple export was Tea-the local product as well as the superior blends brought over from Formosa-but, largely owing to the deterioration of the local pro- duct, and the indifference of the grower to the changing conditions of the foreign market, locally-grown tea has long since ceased to be exported, and the Customs Commissioner made a fairly safe prophecy that it only required the development of Keelung harbour to cause the total disappearance of the foreign tea merchant from Amoy. Before the Japanese obtained possession of Formosa the Formosan teas were "settled" and ware- housed in Amoy, whence they were shipped to the foreign markets. Now no Formosan tea is "settled" in Amoy, and with Keelung still unimproved to any considerable extent quite 50 per-cent. of the Formosan product is being shipped direct to America from Kee- lung. The foreign tea merchant at Amoy has practically lost his occupation, and we are witnessing the fulfilment of the prediction that "the row of quaint, rambling, old hongs on the Amoy side, and many picturesque residences on Kulangsu will be offering for the occupation of the wealthy returned emigrant or the missionary school." There is a scheme for establishing a University at Amoy, funds for the purpose having been provided by a native of the district who made his fortune in British Malaya. The net value of the trade of the port coming under the cognisance of the Foreign Customs in 1918 was Hk. Tls. 13,926,283 as compared with Hk. Tls. 14,602,519 in 1917, Hk. Tls. 17,397,562 in 1916, Hk. Tls. 20,217,220 in 1915 and Hk. Tls. 18,571,523 in 1914.

局總報電國法大

Ta Fa-ko-tien-pao-tsong-kok

DIRECTORY

ADMINISTRATION FRANÇAISE DES POSTES

ET DES TELEGRAPHES

Receveur Principal-P. J. Verdeille

AMOY CLUB

Committee-B. G. Tours, C.M.G. (chair-

Finance-Tours and Leyte

Games-Barnard and Lund

Property Tours and Leyte

Bar-Sibley and Barnard

Library-Tours and Lund

House-Leyte and Sibley

所船造門廈

man)

AMOY SHIPBUILDING YARD, THE, Dry Dock,

Shipbuilding, and Engineering Works--

Teleph. 52; Tel. Ad: Dock; General Code

used: A. B. C. 5th edition

H. T. Ching, manager C. C. Carvalho

̇司公船駁門廈

AMOY LIGHTER Co., THE, Cargo Lighters, Stevedores, Commission Agents, Im- porters and Exporters, etc.- Teleph. 241; Tel. Ad: Lighters

K. Koh San, manager

司公房藥大方東門廈 AMOY PHARMACY, THE (Successors to A. S. Watson & Co., Ld.), Chemists & Drug- gists, Perfumers, Stationers, Wine and Spirit Merchants, Ice and Aerated Water

Manufacturers and Commission Agents, &c. -Tel. Ad: Pharmacy; Codes: Ã.B.C. 5th ed.

Dr. Cheong Eng Soon, general mgr. Lim Chin Beng, assist. manager V. K. Bah

Kho Sim Chan

Chuang Un Tian

Peck Kun Seng | Joseph Lee

司公話電門廈

Ha-mun-tin-wa-kung-sze

AMOY TELEPHONE COMPANY-Kulangsu

院 書 華英

ANGLO-CHINESE College

H. J. P. Anderson, M.A., principat

E. Murray, vice-principal

A. Wales

P. L. Tay (House Master)

ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO. (South China), LTD.

J. C. Sibley, manager

O. Tobiessen