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those who care to avail themselves of walking exercise. Four large godowns have been built by Messrs. Butterfield & Swire on their ground in the New Settlement for storing rice, and Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., have also acquired property in the vicinity. On the plots of ground acquired by the Asiatic Petroleum and the Stand- ard Oil Companies below I-Chi-Shan, a hill which forms the lower boundary of the For- eign Settlement, the former company has erected oil godowns and the latter, also, has established premises. New Customs buildings on the foreshore near the Foreign Settle- ment were completed and occupied in 1919. Nevertheless, the Foreign Settlement is still waste land for the most part. The Trade Report for 1912 alluded to the need there was of broadening its road connections with the business centre of the town and of construct- ing a wide bund along the port's river front. There is no immediate prospect (wrote the Commissioner of Customs in 1920) of expanding to serviceable dimensions the connecting roads that now exist, bounded on both sides as they are by shops and dwelling-houses for a great part of their length. A bund road along the foreshore would appear to be not only a more feasible proposition, but one, also, that offers far greater advantages to both trade and shipping. A scheme for the levy of wharfage dues to pay the cost of constructing such a bund was elaborated in 1915 and has since been approved by the mercantile classes, whose business must be taxed to finance it. It is strenuously opposed, however, by influential proprietors of timber-yards occupying a large section of foreshore on the proposed bund line, and it cannot be carried into effect until these yards are removed to another locality. Similar opposition delayed for many years the cession of the Foreign Settlement area. The local officials, under instructions from the Government, are looking for the best way to meet the difficulty. The solution of the same problem, in so far as it concerned the Foreign Settlement, gives good grounds for expecting a favourable issue in the present instance also. The Electric Light Co. appears to be doing well, for electric lighting has superseded that of oil to a great extent. The population of Wuhu is estimated at 100,000.
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DIRECTORY
ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (NORTH CHINA),
LTD.-Tel. Ad: Doric
J. E. Lyhne, local manager
D. R. Alston
W. H. L. Freeman
A. W. Sawyer, installation mgr.
BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO Co., LTD.
H. L. Mecklenburgh, local manager
BRITISH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Hon. Secretary-R. A. Lawson
古太 Tai.koo
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE (John Swire &
Sons, Ld.), Merchants-Tel. Ad: Swire
C. W. Bone, signs per pro.
E. G. Price,
Agencies
China Navigation Co., Ld.
Ocean Steamship Co., Ld.
China Mutual Steam Nav. Co., Ld.
Canadian Govt. Merchant Marine, Ld. Taikoo Sugar Refining Co., Ld.
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co.
of Hongkong, Ld.
London & Lancs. Fire Insce. Co., Ld. Royal Exchange Assurance Corpn.
Orient Insurance Co., Ld.
Guardian Assurance Co. (Fire), Ld. British Traders' Insce. Co., Ld.
Union Insce. Society of Canton, Ld.
British and Foreign Marine Ins. Co., Ld.
Standard Marine Insce. Co., Ld.
Sea Insurance Co., Ld.
Guardian Assurance Co., Ld.
門衙事領國英大
Ta Ying Kuo Ling-sz Ya-mên
CONSULATE GREAT BRITAIN- Tel. Ad:
Britain
(See under Nanking)
關湖蕪
Wu-hu-kwan
CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME
Actg.Commissioner-L.P.G. de Cartier Assistants (Foreign)-M. Itoh and C.
S. Archer
Assistants (Chinese)-Shih Ching, Hu Yu Ching, Pan Shio Yü and Yeh Chen Tse
Tidesurveyor and Harbour Master-
R. C. Starling
Chief Examiners-C. E. G. Rhoderick
and H. A. Andersen
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