Directory_and_Chronicle_1923 — Page 1003

KONGMOON-WUCHOW

DIRECTORY

ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (SOUTH CHINA),

LTD.-Tel. Ad: Fetrosilex

G. Ringnalda, manager

A. Melbye

BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO Co. (CHINA),

LTD.-Tel. Ad: Powhattan

J. H. Southwell, manager

BRITISH CONSULATE

Consul-General-(residing at Canton)

CANADIAN PRESBYTERIAN MISSION

Rev. B. D. Armstrong, B.A,

Mrs. B. D. Armstrong, R.N. Harvey Becking

Mrs. Harvey Becking Miss B. F. Baty, R.N. Miss L. I. Crockett

Miss E. M. Duncan

Miss M. H. Hugill

Dr. Jessie A. MacBean

Dr. John A. McDonald, secretary Mrs. John A. McDonald

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

915

Assistants (Foreign)-A. C. H. Lay, W.

A. Mackenzie

Medical Officer-J. A. McDonald Assistants-Fong Kun-chiu, Cheung

Iu-shang, Leung Im

Tidesurveyor and Harbour Master-

T. H. Smith

Examiners-C. S. Goddard, W. Battley Tidewaiters-F. A. Strandvig, T. Williams, S. Boys, W. W. Brazier, H. G. Fuller and E. T. W. Slay

LIGGETT & MYERS TOBACCO (CHINA)

W. M. Lewis, manager

POST OFFICE, CHINESE

Postal Commissioner- (residing at

Canton)

Postmaster-Tong Kum Chuc n

STANDARD OIL Co. OF NEW YORK—Tel. Ad:-

Socony

C. J. Lafferty, manager

W. C. McDonald

TEXAS COMPANY

L. H. Nuland, manager

Acting Commissioner-H, D. Hilliard

WUCHOW

州梧

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Wi-chau

Wuchow, opened to foreign trade on June 4th, 1897, by the Special Article of the Burmah Convention, is situated on the Sikiang or West River at its junction with the Fu or Kuei (Cassia) River. By the steamer routes at present authorised it is distant about 220 miles from Hongkong and Canton. Wuchow is the limit of navigation for ocean-going steamers; but, during eight months in the year, vessels drawing not more than 3 feet can reach Kueihsien (150 miles beyond Wuchow), and Nanning (360 miles from here) can be reached almost all the year round by boats drawing 24 ft. The population of the city and suburbs is estimated at 50,000; it is slowly increas- ing, more especially in the riverine suburbs, which comprise the business quarter. The annual inundations caused by the rise in the river-there is an average difference of 60 feet between the winter and summer levels-are a source of great inconvenience to the inhabitants and at times bring about a total cessation of business. To obviate this, the principal steamship offices, the Custom House and likin stations together with numerous hotels, are located on large house-boats (locally known as Pais) moored alongside the river bank. The floods in 1914 were the highest on record, the water in the river rising to 73 3", but they were eclipsed by the 1915 floods, which rose to 79' 6", causing widespread ruin. The lowest winter reading was 2.5 deg. below zero in December, 1902. In winter the only local industry worthy of mention is boat building; when the river falls the foreshore is lined with matsheds, where native craft of all descriptions are constructed. situation of Wuchow makes it the natural distributing centre for the trade between Kweichow, Eastern Yunnan, Kwangsi, and Hongkong and Canton. The future is full of promise, and Wuchow in the course of a few years is sure to make a bold bid for second place as the largest trade mart in the south of China. Local merchants are making strenuous efforts to divert to Wuchow, via the Liuchow and

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