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WEIHAIWEI

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Weihaiwei is now a fairly regular port of call for many China coasting steamers sailing northwards from Shanghai, and there is a regular weekly service subsidised by Government to run all the year, carrying mails and passengers between Shanghai and Weihaiwei. This enables the public to reach Weihaiwei via Shanghai at any time of the year. The harbour is well lighted by two lighthouses. The climate of Weihaiwei is exceptionally good, and the winter, though cold, is dry and bracing. A land and building society, formed in Shanghai, has erected several commodious European bungalows. There is a large hotel on the mainland capable of accom- modating over 100 people, and also a hotel on the Island with accommodation for 50 to 60. Both on the mainland and on the island good roads have been made round the coast by the local Government, and there are recreation and parade grounds in both places. In addition to the leased territory there is a zone of influence over which Great Britain holds certain rights. It comprises that portion of the province of Shantung lying East of long. 121.40 E. extending over an area of 1,500 square miles. The native city of Weihaiwei (which lies on the mainland opposite the island of Liu Kung) is a walled town of about 2,000 inhabitants. By the provisions of the Wei- haiwei Convention of 1898 this town remained under the jurisdiction of the Chinese authorities. The town is a poor one, and the greater portion of the enclosed area is not built on, but cultivated for vegetables. A Chinese sub-district deputy magistrate resides in the city of Weihaiwei.

No Customs duties have been collected at Weihaiwei during the British régime.

PORT EDWARD

GOVERNMENT

DIRECTORY

Commissioner-R. F. Johnston, C.B.E. District Officers and Magistrates-C.

René Lee, L. Calthrop (acting) Senior Med. Officer-Dr. Francis Clark Junior do. -Dr. L. McGolrick Financial Secretary-P. D. Crawley Inspectors of Police-A. Whittaker,

F. Forcey and G. H. Jennings

HI.B.M. NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT

Medical Officer-in-charge, Naval Depot

--Surg. Comdr. N. S. Meiklejohn, R.N. Deputy Naval Store Officer--M. G.

Gill

AQUARIUS CO. OF SHANGHAI, Manufac-

turers of Table Waters

Lavers & Clark, agents

ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co.

Teh Ho, agents

BEER, H. L., General Agent

CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co., LTD., Wholesale and Retail Wine and Spirit Merchants

Lavers & Clark, agents

CHRISTIAN MISSIONS IN MANY LANDS

Weihaiwei-

Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Hill

Mr. & Mrs. A. Whitelaw (on furlough)

Miss A. Gresham Miss A. Rout

Mission Press Island

Mr. & Mrs. E. C. Ockenden Wenteng Hsien

J. E. E. Bridge (on furlough) Miss E. Daniell

Miss E. Goulstone

Tashuipoh

Miss L. Butcher (T'sang) on furlough Kuanhsiachia

Mrs. S. Smith

Shangputon

Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Clarke in place of Misses S. & M. Le Tourneau in U.S.A. (on furlough)

Shihtao

Mr. and Mrs. Robertson

+

Miss A. G. Humphris (on furlough)

do.

Miss Akers, Shih-touh-woa via Shih-toa Miss Wilson,

CLARK & Co., D., General Mercantile, Naval

and Military Contractors--Tel.

Cleirach

D. Clark

I J. Clark

Y. C. Lee, signs per pro.

Ad:

CLARK, FRANCIS, M.D., Private Medical

Practitioner and Senior Government

Medical Officer

記和 Ho-kee

CORNABÉ, ECKFORD & Co., Merchants

Moo Sheng Woo

Sun Hsir Wen