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KIUKIANG

Roads and innumerable houses are being rapidly constructed, and thus a new residen- tial and business district, close to but outside the city, is rapidly coming into being. During 1921 a system of drainage of approved foreign style was initiated. Pinhingchow now comprises either in or adjacent to it the following prominent buildings: the railway station and godowns, the electric-light power-house, the Yü Sung Match Factory, the Kiuhsing Spinning and Weaving Company's factory, a large four-storied hotel, and the Kiukiang Customs Lights Repair Yard.

The idea which led to the opening of Kiukiang was, no doubt, its situation as regards communication by water with the districts where tea is produced.

But the hopes entertained respecting the port have never been wholly realised, Hankow having become the market for black teas. The general trade of the port, however, has in- creased considerably in recent years, a large development of inland steam navigation in the Poyang Lake contributing to this result. Its now completed connection by rail with the provincial capital, Nanchang, may further improve matters. The net value of the trade of the port for the year 1925 was Hk. Tls. 56,693,279, as compared with Hk. Tls. 64,616,143 in 1924, and Hk. Tls. 61,114,130 in 1923. Kiukiang is the port whence the ware made at the far-famed porcelain factories at Kin-tê-chên is shipped. The specimens sent to the Paris Exhibition in 1900 secured a silver medal in competition with European porcelain. Rice, beans and peas, hemp, indigo, paper, melon and sesamum seeds, and tobacco leaf are also important exports.

亞細亞

DIRECTORY

Ying Shang A Si A Huo Yu Kung Sz

ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (NORTH CHINA),

LTD.-Tel. Ad: Doric

D. F. A. Wallace, manager (absent)

P. H. Munro Faure

R. P. van den Berg

I. E. McGilchrist

J. J. Lester

Miss Berkin

E. J. Westbrook, installation mgr.

BAKER, HENRY E., Civil Engineer-Ku-

ling, Kiangsi

Taikoo Sugar Refining Co., Ld. London and Lancs. Fire Insce. Co., Ld. Royal Exchange Assurance Corpn. Orient Insurance Co., Ld. Guardian Assurance Co., Ld.

Union Insce. Society of Canton, Ld.

British & Marine Foreign Insce.Co.,Ld.

Standard Marine Insurance Co., Ld.

Sea Insurance Co., Ld.

會地內 Nee-ti-hui

CHINA INLAND MISSION

F. Tull and wife

局潯商招 Chou Shan Shin Chuk

BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO Co. (CHINA); CHINA MERCHANTS' STEAM NAVIGATION CO.

LTD.

古太 Ta-koo

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE (John Swire & Sons,

Ltd.), Merchants-Tel. Ad: Swire

W. S. P. Deas, signs per pro.

C. M. Vise

Hulk-"Pasha"

Agencies

China Navigation Co., Ld.

Ocean Steamship Co., Ld.

China Mutual Steam Nav. Co., Ld.

Canadian Govt. Merchant Marine, Ld.

Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co.

of Hongkong, Ld.

Cheng Yuet Ngam, manager

Lee Chung-ling, chief clerk

Cheng Hangpo, second clerk

Agency

China Merchants' Marine Insce. Co.

* Ta Ying-ling-shih-Kuan

官事頜英大

CONSULATE, BRITISH-Tel. Ad: Britain

Consul A. G. N. Ogden

Clerk-K. B. Lee

館事領本日大

CONSULATE, JAPANESE