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WUHU
Wuhu is the distributing centre for most of the rice harvested in Anhwei province, and merchants from Canton, Swatow, Ningpo and Chefoo are established here to obtain supplies for their home markets. There is a large trade in timber, but that, like all other trades, is in the hands of the Chinese. There is a steam flour mill, a soap factory and a brick and tile manufactory. The preservation of egg yolk and albumen is an industry which was started in 1897, and has been carried on with several changes of proprietorship. The Yu Chung Ti 1 Spinning and Weaving Joint Stock Co., Ltd., a factory owned and managed by local Chinese, with 10,000 spindles started operations in December, 1919. The Ta Ch'ang Match Factory, a Chinese concern with an equipment capable of manufacturing 2,000 gross of matches a day, began operations in March, 1921.
The town is fairly well built, with rather broader streets than most Chinese cities possess, and is tolerably paved. The tract of land selected 30 years ago for the Foreign Settlement was definitely ceded in 1906, and sites were allotted to the Anhwei Railway Company and to various shipping companies, each lot having a river frontage of 600 to 1,100 feet. In 1914 the Ministry of Communications took over the Anhwei Railway Company with its entire assets and liabilities. Bunding operations have progressed satisfactorily, and the place has taken on a decided air of prosperity. The roads in the Foreign Settlement are well laid out, forming a good promenade for those who care to avail themselves of walking exercise. Four large godowns have been built by Messrs. Butterfield & Swire on their ground in the New Settlement for storing rice, and Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., have also acquired property in the vicinity. On the plots of ground acquired by the Asiatic Petroleum and the Stand- ard Oil Companies below I-Chi-Shan, a hill which forms the lower boundary of the For- eign Settlement, the former company has erected oil godowns and the latter, also, has established premises. Customs buildings on the foreshore near the Foreign Settlement were completed and occupied in 1919. Nevertheless, the Foreign Settlement is still waste land for the most part. The Electric Light Co. appears to be doing well, for electric lighting has superseded that of oil to a great extent. The population of Wuhu is estimated at 100,000.
DIRECTORY
會公聖 Sung kung wei
AMERICAN CHURCH MISSION
Right Rev. D. T. Huntington, D.D.,
and wife
B. H. Lamphear
Miss Alice Gregg | Miss M. S. Capron
亞細亞 A si a
ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (North China),
LTD.-Tel. Ad: Doric
E. C. Robinson, manager
G. S. Pratt
R. P. Sangster | G. A. Churchill A. W. Sawyer, install'n. manager
BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO Co. (CHINA),
LTD.
J. Pickering, manager
BRITISH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE-Tel. Ad:
Deas, c/o Swire
Hon. Secretary & Treas.-Stuart Deas
古太 Tai koo
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE (John Swire &
Sons, Ltd.), Merchants-Tel. Ad: Swire
W. S. P. Deas, signs per pro.
Agencies
China Navigation Co., Ld.
Ocean Steamship Co., Ld.
China Mutual Steam Nav. Co., Ld.
Canadian Govt. Merchant Marine, Ld.
Taikoo Sugar Refining Co., Ld.
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co.
of Hongkong, Ld.
London & Lancs. Fire Insce. Co., Ld. Royal Exchange Assurance Corpn. Orient Insurance Co., Ld.
Guardian Assurance Co. (Fire), Ld.
British Traders' Insce. Co., Ld.
Union Insce. Society of Canton, Ld.
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British and Foreign Marine Ins. Co., Ld.
Standard Marine Insce. Co., Ld.
Sea Insurance Co., Ld.
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CONSULATE, GREAT BRITAIN-Tel. Ad:
Britain
(See under Nanking)
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