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LAPPA

Lappa, also called by the Chinese "Kung Pak," is an island directly opposite the inner harbour of Macao, the distance across being from 1 to 1 miles. Four of the stations of the Chinese Maritime Customs are located here, and another on an islet called Malowchow. Beyond the Barrier Gate of Macao there are several more Customs stations. Under the Lappa Customs' control there are also Tungho and Naiwanmoon stations. Lappa is under the jurisdiction of the Heungshan Magistrates. It possesses no features of interest beyond the fact that it is the principal Customs station in the neighbourhood of Macao. The net value of the trade passing through the Lappa Customs stations in 1923 was Hk. Tls. 22,218,573 as compared with Hk. Tĺs. 26,316,415, in 1922 and Hk. Tls. 30,854,147 in 1921.

The diversion of the course

of trade to and from the Luichow Prefecture operates against Lappa. Much of the cargo which formerly came thence in junks to Macao and reported at Malowchow now avails itself of the more convenient and doubtless safer direct steamer carriage between the French port of Kwangchowwan and Macao. There is also

also a tendency for a portion of the west coast produce to go aiv Kongmoon, whether destined for Hongkong or Canton, and the old junk trade of this region with the foreign colonies is gradually disappearing.

DIRECTORY

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CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS (Lappa

District)-2, rua dos Prazeres, Macao

Commissioner-E. G. Lebas Foreign Assistants-C. A. R. Cabral, H. J. de Garcia, W. A. B. Gardener "Chinese Assistants-Cheung Yuk

Tong and Leung Cum Chiu Chief Tidesurveyor-Y. M. Mudès Examiners-A. Fenus and E. A. C.

Friedrichsen

Tidewaiters C. Mose, G. Flynn, J J. Lovelock, V. M. Collaço, W. H. Edmunds, J. H. Saunders, L. A. Hurlow, W. H. P. Weston, F. de S. Machado and A. Luiz

Cruising Launches:

Paktou

Officer-in-charge-J. J. Lovelock Launch Officer-G. Flynn

Lungtsing

Officer-in-charge-J. H. Saunders Launch Officer-W. H. P. Weston

SAMSHUI

水三

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The Treaty port of Samshui, opened in 1897 under the Burmah Convention-nearly 40 years after Consul Harry Parkes' East River Expedition-is situated near the junction of the West and North Rivers, in lat. 23 deg. 6 min. 30 sec. N., and long. 112 deg. 53 min. and 48 sec. E. The anchorage known as Hokow, at which foreigners reside, was formerly an ordinary Chinese fishing village, with boat-building as its leading industry, and a flooded state in summer as its characteristic peculiarity, but it is fast becoming a busy mart. According to the Convention, the town of Samshui and Kongkên (a dirty little village situated among the hills opposite Hokow) together constitute the port area. The formal opening took place on 4th June, 1897, since which date the trade of the port has increased steadily. The net value of the trade coming under the cognisance of the Customs during 1923 was Hk. Tls. 10,832,202, as compared with Hk. Tls. 7,469,444 in 1922. The junk traffic is large, and the likin station is said to be one of the most important in the province. The district city of Samshui itself is surrounded by an imposing wall built in the 6th year of Chia Ching of the Mings (about A.D. 1560), the year after the place attained to the dignity of a magistrate's cure, but whatever prosperity it may once have attained has departed, and within the walls, where dwell the magistrate and the commander of the few local troops, the

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