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PEI-TAI-HO AND CHINGWANGTAO-NEWCHWANG

The Administration owns large areas of land in the vicinity of the port. A good harbour, good water, electric light, and cheap coal offer exceptional inducements for industrial enterprises, and it is expected that a great development in this direction will occur in the near future.

As a seaside health resort Chinwangtao is almost without rival in China. It is easily accessible, has a dry and bracing climate, offers safe bathing from a sandy beach, has good golf links, and is situated amidst magnificent scenery, while a hotel under experienced management and numerous summer bungalows afford the visitor every comfort. The great increase of trade year by year has induced the Chinese Maritime Customs to erect a fine Customs house at Chinwangtao, with a deputy commissioner in charge, and to open a Hai Kwan Bank for the convenience of local consignees. The total value of the trade for 1919 was Hk. Tls. 15,700,440, as compared with Hk. Tls. 12,234,400 in 1918, Hk. Tls. 10,355,729 in 1917, and Hk. Tls. 9,429,763 in 1916. The total number of vessels entered and cleared during 1919 was 2,171 (with a total tonnage of 2,086,924), as compared 1,542 in 1918, 1,215 in 1917, and 1,024 in 1916. Chingwangtao was selected on account of its natural geographical advantages as one of the ports of embarkation for coolies emigrating to South Africa, and during 1904 an extensive depôt was established for the accommodation of five or six thousand men.

BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO CO.

J. P. MacDermott

DIRECTORY

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE (John Swire &

Sons, Ld.)-Tel. Ad: Swire

(Agent in residence during the Winter

season only); Address: Tientsin

Agencies

China Navigation Co., Ld.

Ocean Steamship Co., Ld.

China Mutual S. N. Co., Ld.

關海島王秦 Hai-kwan

CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS

Commissioner R. H. R. Wade

(stationed at Tientsin)

Acting Dep. Commr.-C. A. R. Cabral

Chinese Assistant-Lo Ch'i-ming

Asst. Tidesurveyor-T. J. Broderick

Examiner-H. J. Harper

Tidewaiters-T. Sugiyama, G. Watson,

J. Sergieff

FORBES & CO., WILLIAM-Tel. Ad: Rinchee-

Chinwangtao

KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION

Ad: Maishan

Tel.

R. A. McConaghy, agent and engineer A. O. F. Cobley, asst. engineer F. C. Frischling, shipping supt. E. J. Bolton, acct.

C. H. Juckes, shipping clerk W. Roberts, harbour master J. Rickerby, traffic inspector Dr. D. D. Muir, medical officer A. J. Lemoing, assistant

master

SHOSHO-YOKO

R. Yamasaki

harbour

STANDARD OIL Co.--Tel. Ad: Socɔny

L. E. Fleming

NEWCHWANG

莊牛 4 Niu-chwang 口營 Ying-cow

Newchwang, in latitude 40 deg. 40 min. 38 sec. N., longitude 122 deg. 15 min. 30 sec. E. was opened to foreign trade in May, 1864, and was for more than forty years the only Treaty port in Manchuria. Manchuria comprises the three Provinces of Fêngtien, Kirin and Heilungchiang, and is commonly called by the Chinese the "Tung San Sheng "or the Three Eastern Provinces. Newchwang is situated in the most southern of these three pro- vinces-Fêngtien, also known as Shêng Ching--and lies about thirteen miles from the