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NINGPO

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Ningpo is built on a plain which stretches away to a considerable distance on either side. The walls of the city enclose a space of some five miles in circumference. They are built of brick, and are about 25 feet high, 15 feet wide at the summit, and 22 at the base. Access is obtained to the town by six gates. A large moat commences at the north gate and runs along the foot of the wall for about three miles on the landward side, until it stops at what is called the Bridge Gate. The main street runs from east to west. Several of the streets are spanned by arches erected in memory of distinguished natives. Ningpo has been celebrated as possessing the fourth library of Chinese works, in point of numbers, which existed in the empire. It was owned by a family who resided near the south gate. The site occupied by the foreign residences is on the north bank of the river. The population of Ningpo is estimated at 255,000. The city will eventually be connected with Shanghai and Hangchow by rail, but at present the line is completed only as far as Pakuan, east of Shaohsing.

There are a cotton mill, a matclı factory, an electric light company, and a local telephone company. The tea trade has fallen off owing to a deviation of the Foochow teas, which formerly passed through Ningpo but are now forwarded to Shanghai viá Hangchow. The net value of the trade of the port in 1928 was Hk. Tls. 52,298,252, as compared with Hk. Tls. 52,298,466 in 1927, Hk. TIs. 50,566,405 in 1926, Hk. Tls. 46,946,041 in 1925, and Hk. Tls. 44,876,694 in 1924.

DIRECTORY

AMERICAN ASIATIC UNDERWRITERS (Fed.

Inc. U.S.A.)

P. T. Dzih, branch manager

司公煙美英

BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO Co., LTD.---

Tel. Ad: Powhattan

I. L. Berthet

古

太

Ta koo

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE (John Swire &

Sons, Ltd.)

J. R. Macdonald, 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 & Engineering Co.

of Hongkong, Ld.

London and Lancs. Fire Insce. Co. Royal Exchange Assurance Corpn. Guardian Assurance Co., Ld. British Traders' Insurance Co., Ld. Union Insce. Society of Canton, Ld. British and Foreign Marine Ins. Co.,Ld. Standard Marine Insurance Co., Ld. Sea Insurance Co., Ld.

CHEN SIAU PAO & SONS, Shipping and

Insurance

Railway Station Road,

w

Campo; P.O. Box Special 1

David K. Cheyne

Chau Shang Yung chuk

CHINA MERCHANTS STEAM NAVIGATION CO.

-The Bund

Chang Sing-fu, manager

門衙事領國英大

Da Ing kok Ling ze ya men

CONSULATE GREAT BRITAIN

(Administered by Consul in Shanghai)

關海浙 Chê Hai bạn

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Commissioner A. Sadoine

Assists. Tong Ziao-han, Ying Hsin Tsi, R. M. A. Poinsot & Yam Kam Cheung Medical Officers-T. S. Goodwin, M.D., Luke Young, M.D., and Ying Wen- chun

Tidesurveyor and Harbour Master--

E. A. C. Koosache

Boat Officer-P. L. Moreland

Examiners-P. W. Salit, R. Zuccarini,

T. Narahayashi, K. Takemasa and G. D. Nelson

Tidewaiter--S. Takamasu

院醫美華波甯

HOSPITAL, HWA-MEI

Dr. Harold Thomas, M.D.

Miss Willie P. Harris, R.N.