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limitations. Streets were widened, sewers laid, and ponds and marshy places re- claimed and filled and made suitable for building sites. The near-by hills and valleys, long used merely as burial grounds, are now becoming the scene of road-making, tree-planting, and house-building. Ambitious plans for the near future include the demolition of parts of the old city wall, the extension of wharf facilities, the prepara- tion of new business districts, and the construction of a reservoir and filtering plant for a modern water supply.

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An important innovation, since the early part of 1926, has been the institution of telephones throughout the city. These are run by a private company. After the termination of the boycott, the first vessel arrived from Hongkong on the 16th October, 1926, was the British motor vessel Fook On (). Several British vessels which had been laid up either in Canton or in Hongkong since the outbreak of the boycott on the 10th July, 1925, have now resumed their regular trips. The local office of Asiatic Petroleum Co., which was closed in December, 1925, was re-opened on the 21st October, 1926, and members of the foreign staff returned to port. The Stout Memorial Hospital which was closed at the end of March, 1926, due to some internal disputes which were followed by a strike of its employees, re-opened in the middle part of September, 1926, under charge of a Missionary Doctor of the Baptist Mission.

DIRECTORY

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ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co.(SOUTH CHINA),LTD.

J. W. Platt J. H. Cook

BAILEY, DR. J. MANSFIELD, M.D., Medical Officer for Port of Wuchow, of the China Maritime Customs and also Medical Examiner for the Asia Life Insurance Co.

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BANKER & Co., Merchants and Commission

Agents - Shipping Office: Banker's Pontoon

BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO Co. (CHINA),

LTD.

W. H. E. Coates, manager

CONSULATES

THEŁ★ Tai-peh-kwok Ling-sz-kun

BELGIUM

Consul-General (residing in Hong-

kong)

GREAT BRITAIN

H.B.M.'s Consul-General at Canton

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Acting Commissioner-Y. Kurematsu Assistants-H. J. de Garcia, Ho Hing

Too and J. H. P. Perry Medical Officer-Dr. J. M. Bailey Tidesurveyor and Harbour-master-

E. A. C. Koosache

Acting Assist. Boat Officer—J, H.

Saunders

Examiners-St. C. C. da Silva, J. Ang- leitner, H. Owen, K. Takemasa and H. Ishikawa

Tidewaiter-W. H. Edmunds

MISSIONS

ALLIANCE MISSION

Rev. R. A. Jaffray and wife Rev. P. Hinkey and wife Miss P. Seely Miss E. K. Marsh

Miss L. F. Marsh

Rev. G. Woerner and wife

BAPTIST MISSION

Rev. Rex Ray and wife Miss Mollie J. McMinn

Dr. G. W. Leavell and wife

Dr. J. Mansfield Bailey and wife

Miss Pearl Johnson

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STOUT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL (Baptist

Mission)

Dr. G. W. Leavell, M.D. (absent)

Dr. J. M. Bailey, M.D., supt.

Mrs. J. M. Bailey, R.N., supt. of nurses

POST OFFICE

Postal Commissioner-Cheung Man-

ling (Nanning, Kwangsi District)

1st Class Postmaster-Tsu Ka Kau

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STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK-Tel. Ad:

Socony

V. W. Davis