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TAKU-PEI-TAI-HO AND CHINWANGTAO

HAIHO CONSERVANCY

KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION, THE- Tel. Ad: Maishan (Tongku) near Taku

J. H. Worth, shipping agent

STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW

OF NEW YORK-

Hsinho Insta lation

司公船駁沽大

Ta-ku Po-ch'uan Kung-sze

TAKU TUG AND LIGHTER CO., LTD.-Head

Office: Tientsin; Tel. Ad: Calendar

TAKU CLUB

R. G. Lapper, hon. secretary

TANGKU CLUB

Chairman-H. Farrant

Hon. Secretary-F. Johnson Committee-H. H. Brown, A. W. Bramwell, J. Calder and R. G, Gibson

TIENTSIN LIGHTER Co., LTD.

Butterfield & Swire, managers

H. H. Brown, supt.

J. S. Calder, engineer

J. S. G. Brown, overseer

PEI-TAI-HO AND CHINWANGTAO

Peitaiho continues to expand. As many as 135 houses were built or in process of building since the 1921 season (wrote the Commissioner of Customs in his 1922 report). There are now five associations, namely, Rocky Point Association, East Cliff Association, Temple Bay Association, Lighthouse Point Association, and the Kung I Hui. An endeavour is being made to arrive at some kind of co-operation between these various sections, whose interests are common. The first desideratum is a Sanitary Department serving the whole district comprised in the term "Peitaiho Beach." The next necessity is to form some general advisory committee, obviating the necessity of so many diverse forms of control. Voluntary service will have to be replaced by expert advisers, and how to meet this expenditure is a matter for consultation between the four associations and the Kung I Hui. The Kung I Hui is a body of Chinese gentlemen mostly with large local interests: it is registered in the Ministry of Communications as a definite working organisation and has a legal and, to a certain extent, judicial status. It has expended large sums of money in making excellent roads, lined with trees, and intends to throw the whole of the Lotus Hills open as a public park.

Chinwangtao owes its existence as a seaport to the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company, Ltd. (now amalgamated with the Lanchow Mining Company under the title of The Kailan Mining Administration). It serves primarily as port of ship- ment for Kaiping coal. It is situated on the western coast of the Gulf of Liau Tung and is distant about 10 miles W.S.W. of Shanhaikwan. The breakwater and pier form- ing the harbour are so constructed that vessels may lie alongside at any state of the tide and in all weathers, discharging from or loading directly into railway cars, so that there is the minimum of handling and loss by breakage.

Accommodation for steamers is shown in the following table:-

At Breakwater-

Berth No.

3

4

Depth at L.W.O.S.T

in Feet

23 26.30

28

Length in Feet

320

320

567.

380

•

380

28

420

At Pier-

1

380

2

350

28

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