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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 recordingt 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 presentin 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 their trade in 1927 was Hk. Tls. 65,016,831, as compared with Hk. Tls. 19,964,895 in 1926, 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.

關龍九

DIRECTORY

Kow-loon-kwan

CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS-York Build-

ings, Chater Road, Hongkong; Teleph.

Central 206

Commissioner-C. F. Johnston

Deputy do.

-C. A. S. Williams

Chinese Deputy Commissioner-Chiu

Ho-ping

Chinese Assist.-Cheung Iu-shang Medical Officers-G. M. Harston, G,

D. R. Black and H. Balean Chief Tidesurveyor-J. R. Heard

Launch Inspector-G. J. M. Harman Chief Examiner A. J. Cox Examiners-S. F. McGrath and P. A

Davidson

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Tidewaiters-G. Watson, M. W. Halls

lums, G. W. Davis, J. Schofield, A. Lane, C. W. Hall, T. G. Paget, R. H. Richmond, J. Muir, H. G. KH Wheeler, E. R. Collier, J. S. Thomas, C. N: Brooke, W. F. Poole and P. HE Shaw

Revenue Launches - "Yeungshing,'

"Cheongkeng" and "Kwanlui"

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LAPPA

Lappa is the large, hilly island which shelters the inner harbour of Macao on its western side. It is also called by the Chinese Kung Pak or Tui Lien Shan, and by ther Portuguese Patera Island. The island itself, which is within the jurisdiction of thed Shekki (Chungshan) Magistrate, possesses no features of interest; but it has given its name to the chain of stations under the control of the Chinese Maritime Customsn which were established around Macao, by agreement with the Portuguese Government in the year 1887. Of these stations, the two principal-from a revenue collecting point of view-are at Malowchow, an islet close to Lappa, and Chienshan, north of Greene Island. There are also two stations beyond the Barrier Gate (Portas do Cerco) ob Macao, and another is maintained at Tungho, one of the Ladrone group of islands. The trade passing through the Lappa Customs stations is chiefly junk-borne, and itti net value in 1927 was Hk. Tls. 21,585,043, as compared with Hk. Tls. 10,391,394 in 1926 and Hk. Tls. 22,470,368 in 1925. It may be noted that much of the cargo whiche formerly came from Luichow and the southern coast towns of Kwangtung to Macaq

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