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CANTON—KOWLOON FRONTIER

ƒ‡ƒÂ¤Ã Wat-sun-sz-tai-yeuk-fong WATSON & Co., LTD., A. S., "The Can- ton Dispensary," Chemists and Drug- gists, Aerated Water Manufacturers, Wine, Spirit and Cigar Merchants

G. C. Kitching V. P. Waters V. G. Murrell

Agencies

J. Jones

R. Clitherow

Hongkong Daily Press

Directory and Chronicle for

China, Japan, etc.

Wah-Tack

WAH TACK HANDELS COMPAGNIE, Import and Export Merchants-Tel. Ad: Wahtack; Codes: A.B.C. 6th edn. and Bentley's

Paul Hell, partner (Hamburg)

G. Hartig, do.

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION-

The Bund

KOWLOON FRONTIER DISTRICT OF THE CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS

This is the inclusive name given to the Chinese Maritime Customs stations adjacent to Hongkong and established in 1887 in accordance with the Chefoo Agreement of 1876 and its Additional Article of 1885 for the purpose of recording the movement of opium and of collecting duty on the trade carried on by Chinese junks between Hongkong and Chinese ports. In 1899, when the New Territory was taken over by Hongkong, the Customs stations had to be removed from their former locations, which had been brought within the British boundary, and the present stations are situated at Taishan, Lintin, Shumchün, Shatowkok, Shaüchung, and Samun (Tooniang), besides which there are a number of frontier patrol posts on the north shores of Deep and Mirs Bays and between the two bays. The net value of the trade in 1926 was Hk. Tls. 19,964,895, as compared with Hk. Tls. 52,992,104 in 1925, Hk. Tls. 77,962,412 in 1924, Hk. Tls. 53,732,972 in 1923 and Hk. Tls. 75,907,530 in 1922.

Kow-loon-kwan

DIRECTORY

CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS-York Build- ings, Chater Road, Hongkong; Teleph. Central 206

Commissioner-Lieut. Col. F. Hayley

Bell, D.S.O.

Assistant (Foreign)—A. J. Hope Assistants (Chinese)- Chiu Ho-ping

and Cheung Iü-shang Tidesurveyor-J. R. Heard

Launch Inspector-G. J. Harman

Chief Examiner-C. S. Goddard Examiners-S. F. McGrath and P. A.

Davidson

Tidewaiters-P. J. Austin, G. Watson, B. Ashurst, M. W. Hallums, G. W. Davis, J. Schofield, F. C. Stevens, A. Lane, C. W. Hall, J. Muir, T. G. Paget, H. G. K. Wheeler, J. S. Thomas, C. N. Brooke, W. F. Poole and P. H. Shaw

Revenue Launches - "Yeungshing,'

"Cheongkeng" and "Kwanlui"