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locally-grown tea has long since ceased to be exported, and the Customs Commissioner made a fairly safe prophecy that it only required the development of Keelung harbour to cause the total disappearance of the foreign tea merchant from Amoy. Before the Japanese obtained possession of Formosa the Formosan teas were "settled" and ware- housed in Amoy, whence they were shipped to the foreign markets. Now no Formosan tea is "settled" in Amoy, and with Keelung still unimproved to any considerable extent quite 50 per cent, of the Formosan product is being shipped direct to America from Kee- lung. The foreign tea merchant at Amoy has practically lost his occupation, and we are witnessing the fulfilment of the prediction that "the row of quaint, rambling, old hongs on the Amoy side, and many picturesque residences on Kulangsu will be offering for the occupation of the wealthy returned emigrant or the missionary school." A University has been established at Amoy in a fine range of buildings with ample playing grounds, funds for the purpose having been provided by a native of the district who made his fortune in British Malaya; and thanks to the civic patriotism of an- other native of the district who amassed great wealth in Java, a contract was signed in 1922 with the Kellogg Switchboard and Supply Co. for the installation of a complete new telephone system. Bunding, drainage, jetties, roads, recreation grounds and similar public works, still await the advent of the energetic and public-spirited citizen, though reclamation work (filling in without bunding) was started in 1922 to the north of the city and the Amoy Dock. The net value of the trade of the port coming under the cognisance of the Foreign Customs in 1927 was Hk. Tls. 41,509,023, as compared with Hk. Tls. 37,648,311 in 1926, Hk. Tls. 31,088,712 in 1925, Hk. Tls. 30,946,688 in 1924, and Hk. Tls. 29,663,925 in 1923.

DIRECTORY

行銀豐美建福

AMERICAN-ORIENTAL BANK OF FUKIEN

T. R. Johnson, manager

AMOY CLUB

Committee-S. R. Waller (chairman),

Roy Allgood, E. C. Hagen, C. J. Hansen and C. J. Lafferty

司公船駁門廈

AMOY LIGHTER Co., Cargo Lighters, Steve-

dores, Commission Agents, Importers

and Exporters, etc.-Teleph. 241; Tel. Ad: Lighters

司公限有房藥大方東門廈

AMOY PHARMACY, LTD. (Successors to A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd.), Chemists and Druggists, Perfumers, Stationers, Wine and Spirit Merchants, Ice and Aerated Water Manufacturers and Commission

Agents, &c.-Tel. Ad: Pharmacy; Codes: A.B.C. 5th edn. and Bentley's

C. B. Lim, general manager K. S. Peck, manager (Drug dept.)

H, C. Ong, treasurer

U. T. Cheung

AMOY STEVEDORING Co., THE, Stevedores,

Lighterage

Chandlers

Contractors and

Tait & Co., general managers

Ship

院書華英

ANGLO-CHINESE COLLEGE

P. L. Teh, principal & house-master

H. J. P. Anderson, M.A.

R. Tully, B.Sc.

E. A. Preston, M.A., B.D. Herbert C. Chiu

S. C. Wang, assist. house-master S. Y. Shen

Y. H. Wang, B.A.

H. S. Su, B.SC.

Y. L. Chen

C. C. Ch'iao

Y. H. Wu, B.SC.

ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (SOUTH CHINA),

LTD.-The Bund; Teleph. 237; Tel Ad: Petrosilex

S. R. Waller, manager

R. Foster, assistant

C. H. Arnott, installation manager

Miss Arthur, stenographer

行銀灣臺 Tai wan gin ko

BANK OF TAIWAN, LTD.-Tel. Ad: Tai-

wangink

K. Suzuki,

manager

S. Maeda, per pro. do.

K. Kozono

S. Yamasaki

Y. Makita

BRITISH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Chairman ex officio-H. H. Bristow Hon. Secretary-C. T. Evans

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