KOWLOON FRONTIER-LAPPA
Launch Inspector-G. J. M. Harman Assist. Boat Officers-M. W. Hallums
and S. Kemp
Chief Examiners-H. Ellis, S. F.
McGrath and F. Benoist Tidewaiters-T. G. Paget, R. H. Rich- mond, J. Muir, E. M. Popov, H. G.
975.
K. Wheeler, E. R. Collier, J. R. Foster, F. C. Parr, C. N. Brooke, A. C. F. Jacobsen, P. H. Shaw, F. W. Wright and W. M. Seraphina
Revenue Launches "Yeungshing,"
"Cheongkeng" and "Kwanlui"
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 the Portuguese Patera Island. The island itself, which is within the jurisdiction of the 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 Customs 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 Green Island. There are also two stations beyond the Barrier Gate (Portas do Cerco) of 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 its net value in 1928 was Hk. Tls. 27,897,494, as compared with Hk. Tls. 21,585,043 in 1927, and Hk. Tls. 10,391.394 in 1926. It may be noted that much of the cargo which formerly came from Luichow and the southern coast towns of Kwangtung to Macao, and reported at Malowchow, now avails itself of the more convenient and doubtless safer steamer carriage from the French trade base of Kwangchowwan to Macao or Hongkong, whilst an increasing amount of interior produce, whether destined for Hongkong or Canton goes via Kongmoon, with the result that the erstwhile important junk trade of this region is gradually diminishing.
DIRECTORY
⇓⇓ Kung pak kwan
CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS (Lappa District)-2, Rua dos Prazeres, Macao
Commissioner-J. M. Nolasco da Silva Assistants-Leung Cum Chiu, Hü
Kam-shui and Č. J. C. D.-L. Basto Chief Tidesurveyor-T. H. Smith Examiners, etc.-H. J. Eriksen, A. C. Ellis, Leung Ping Hon, M. B. Hoffman, S. J. Kimmel and A. Luiz
Cruising Launches
Paktou
Officer-in-charge-J. Stynes Launch Officer - Chinese Tide-
waiter
Lungtsing
Officer-in-charge-W.H.P.Weston Launch Officer-Chinese Tide-
waiter
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