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TAMSUI & KEELUNG
The trade returns for 1923 show that the value of the trade of the island was as follows:--
With Foreign Countries
Exports ... Imports...
Yen 29,152,437
...
", 39,207,867
With Japan
Exports Imports
Yen 169,442,365
...
...
...
,,
70,921,625
Yen 68,360,304
Yen 240,363,990
Of the total, Yen 156,429,692 passed through Keelung and Tamsui.
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At Keelung harbour improvements are still in progress and, when completed, will largely increase the accommodation available. The steamer anchorage in this harbour has a uniform depth of at least 30 feet, and the harbour has been widened to 480 feet in its narrowest part. There is a slipway at Keelung for vessels of 500 tons; also a dock with an extreme length of 372 feet and a breadth at entrance of 48 feet. A dry dock can take vessels up to 3,000 tons gross. During 1900 a lighthouse was completed on Pak-sa Point, a low headland on the west coast, some 20 miles south-west of Tamsui, and one has been erected on Agincourt Island. At Keelung there is a stone quay in connection with the railway, alongside of which the regular mail steamers of the 6,000 tons class are berthed, the depth of water alongside being 28-30 fcct. When the improvements in progress are completed it will be possible to accommodate at the quay about 10 steamers each of 10,000 tons capacity, and admit six steamers below this tonnage at the buoys.
The railway line between Tamsui and Taipeh was opened in August, 1901, and has been of great benefit to the people of the district. Keelung is the northern terminus of the trans-Formosan Government Railway. The capital city is known by the Chinese name of Taipeh, and also under the Japanese nomenclature of Taihoku, which is now applicable, also, to the whole district, the former names of Manka, Datotei, etc., having recently been abolished. At the mouth of the Tamsui river lies the town of Hobé, usually known as Tamsui to avoid confusion with Kobe in Japan proper.
DIRECTORY
(For Government Departments and Consulates see Formosa section, page 542-3)
BANK OF TAIWAN, LTD. (Tamsui Office)
T. Sasao, manager
CUSTOMS, TAIPEH
Director E. Kimura
Chief Inspector-J. Otakc
Do. Appraiser-G. Sumi
Agency
Tokyo Fire, Marine Insurance Co.
RISING SUN PETROLEUM CO., LTD.-(Piatow
Tin Factory and Installation)
G. Nissen
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA (Japan Mail S.S. STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK
Co.)
隆基社會式船商阪大
Agency-Wee Tong Bo
WEE TONG Bo
OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA
R. Suwa, manager
H. Morita, sub-manager
T. Yano, chief accountant
YAMASHITA KISEN KOGYO KAISHA (Yama-
shita Steamship and Mining Co., Ltd.)
-Head Office. Kobe; Tel. Ad: Yamashita
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