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WENCHOW-SANTUAO

DIRECTORY

司公油火亞細亞商英

Ying-shang-a-si-a-huo-yu-kung-sz

ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (NORTH CHINA),

LTD.--Tel. Ad: Doric

司公煙美英華駐

BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO Co. (CHINA),

LED.-Tel. Ad: Powhattan

C. Cance, territory manager

司公船輪業商

CHINA MERCHANTS' STEAM NAVIGATION CO.

T. C. Sze, manager

Chue Tsing-fu, clerk in charge

Hsu-tan

S. Y. Chue

局政郵華中大州温

CHINESE POST OFFICE

First Class Postmaster-Li Pao-chan

Postal Clerk-Ch'a Yung Sung

CONSULATE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Consul-General in Shanghai - Edwin

S. Cunningham

關海甌 Ou Hai Kwan

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Commissioner-E. Alabaster

Assistant-K. Hirano

Do. -Wong Haiu Geng

Harbour

Acting Tidesurveyor and

Master-H. J. Christophersen Tidewaiters-H. Gaylard, R. West Medical Officer-E. T. A Stedeford

MISSIONS

EDUCATIONAL MISSIONARY

919

T. W. Chapman, M.SC., EDUC. DIP., M.E.

MEDICAL MISSIONARY

E. T. A. Stedeford, M.D., CH.B., T. Ɑ.M

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

Rev. C. Aroud Rev. Prost Rev. L. Marques

Rev. J. Salon

Rev. Boisard

Rev. P. von Ke

7TH DAY ADVENTIST MISSION

-. Wilkinson and others

院醫望若董州温

SOEURS DE LA CHARITÉ ST. VINCENT DE

PAUL-Hopital Jean Gabriel

S. Ste Claire-Deville, sup.

11 Sisters of Charity

UNITED METHODIST MISSION Rev. J. W. Heywood

Rev. W. R. Stobie

Rev. A. H. Sharman (furlough)

MUSTARD & Co.-Tel. Ad: Mustard

C. Cance, representative

STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK

S. K. Chu, 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 Santu 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, 11905, 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