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MISSIONS

PAKHOI-HOIHOW (IN HAINAN)

會敎聖節五

AMERICAN PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS MIS-

SION

Rev. W. H. Turner, A.B., B.D., supt.

Mrs. W. H. Turner

Miss J. Payne

Miss L. Hylton

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY

Rev. N. Mackenzie

Dr. A. J. Watson

Dr. Mary Watson

Miss G. E. Dunk

Miss S. Beattie (on furlough)

Miss L. E. Tracey

堂主天

Rev. P. Penicaud, provicaire

Rev. P. Grégoira, directr. seminaire Rev. P. Marqué, procureur

Rev. P. L. Thadieux, professeu

seminaire

S. H. L. MISSION

Rev. V. G. Roessing and wife Rev. F. Oppermann and wife

(Lunchow

Rev. F. Paulsen and wife do.

Miss N. Wendt (Namhong)

局郵等一海北

POST OFFICE

Postmaster-Chun Sui-ming

FRENCH CATHOLIC MISSION (Mission STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK

Etrangères de Paris)

Monsgr. Gauthier, èvéque

YAMASHITA KISEN KAISHA

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HOIHOW (IN HAINAN)

Kiung-chau

口海 Hoi-hau

Hoihow is the seaport of the prefectural city of Kiungchow, the capital of the Island of Hainan. The two towns are separated by a distance of some three miles of low hills dotted with graves; and across these lies a semi-macadamised road. This highway was originally constructed by the Kiungchow Horse Carriage Co. in 1915, it was considerably improved by General Lung Chi-kwang during his rule over Hainan in the middle of 1918, and is now kept in good repair by several motor Car Cos., which maintain a continuous motor car service between the two towns. Over 150 miles of motor road have been open to traffic connecting Hoihow with Wenchang, Ching- mai, Tingan, Kachek, and Chuenyai, and nearly 100 cars, buses and trucks are now running on the Island, More new roads are in the course of construction and are expected to be open for traffic in 1926. A new road making machiné has just been imported from America for the purpose of accelerating the work of road construc- tion. A new bund running along the Hoihow river on the northern part of the town, 60 feet wide, was built in 1924 and the principal streets have been widened so as to permit motor traffic. Along these roads large Chinese shops of the Hongkong type have sprung up and are all well stocked with foreign and Chinese goods. Rickshaws with rubber tyred wheels are circulating in the streets. Hoihow is now lighted by electricity and possesses a telephone system of its own and its lines already extend to various inland places. All these improvements were due to the initiative of General Teng Pen-yin who has proved himself an able administrator and to his energetic attitude during the 1925 anti-foreign agitation in China is also due the fact that no foreigners were molested and no serious disturbances occurred locally.

The port of Hoihow was opened by the establishment of a branch of the Chinese Maritime Customs in April, 1876. During the latter nine months of that year foreign tonnage to the extent of 36,672 tons entered and cleared at the Custom House, this representing 54 British, 10 German, 2 French and 4 Danish steamers that entered from, and cleared for, Singapore, Bangkok, Saigon, Annam, Hongkong, etc. The situation of the port of Hoihow before and at its opening in 1876 was considered favourable more from the political than the geographical or topographical point of view as the Foreign Consuls at Hoihow would then be in close touch with the Taotai at Kiungchow.