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Municipal Council. There are three foreign members in the Council. (b.) The Area Municipal Administration. This body is also under the Civil Administra- tor and controls all the other quarters which make up the Special Area- except Pristan and New Town. (c.) The third body of the kind is the Ping- chiang Provincial Municipality, also under the Civil Administrator, which controls Fuchiatien and its suburbs.

These three municipal bodies control different areas, have separate offices, levy different taxes, and have no connection with each other.

Pristan and New Town may be described respectively as the foreign business and the foreign residential quarters. They are the most properous and fully developed sections of the town. The houses for the most part consist of three and four story brick and tile (or concrete and tile) buildings. No figures are readily available as to the number of houses in either area, but the number of families in August 1930 was 10,563 in Pristan and 6597 in New Town: of which 3552 in Pristan were Chinese and 2525 in New Town were Chinese. So large a proportion of the population both foreign and Chinese live in apartment buildings and flats that these figures give little indication of the number of houses.

The Harbin Municipality has much improved the town of late years providing excellent cemented pavements and improved macadamised roads. Drainage has re- ceived considerable attention. The telephone system is automatic, and excellent, and managed by a special department of the Chinese Eastern Railway. The palatial building of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank is evidence of the importance attached by the Bank to its Harbin branch, and the establishment in 1928 of a branch of the Chartered Bank was further proof of the increasing importance of Harbin as a commercial centre.

The net value of the trade of the district, as shown by the Maritime Customs returns, was Hk. Tls. 68,803,303 in 1930 as compared with Hk. Tls. 55,197,506 in 1929 and Hk. Tls. 104,757,349 in 1928.

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DIRECTORY

ADLER, NICOLAI, Importer and Engineer-

ing Office 84 and 85, Kitaiskaya Street;

Telephs. 46-81; Cable Ad: Nikadler

N. Adler, proprietor

H. Lange; manager

AGAFUROFF BROS., LTD., Dealers in J. & P.

Coats & Clarke's Goods-41, Sveznaya

Street

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AMERICAN ASIATIC UNDERWRITERS, FED. INC.. U.S.A.- -90, Kitaiskaya Street; Telephs. 31-71; Cable Ad: Underiters. General Insurance:- Fire, Marine, Motor-car, Life, Ac- cident and Health, Burglary, Plate- glass, Baggage and Special Risks.

C. V. Starr, president (Shanghai) E. O. Golenpolsky, manager Agents for:—

Globe and Rutgers Fire Ins. Co. and 22 other American, British and Continental Insurance Com- panies

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AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Chairman-J. L. Curtis

Secretary and Treasurer-G. B. Ott

AMERICAN DRUG Co.-20, Koreiskaya St.

W. Leineweber

AMERICAN MANCHURIAN

CORPORATION,

Export-Import: Hides, Skins, Furs, Bristles, Horse Hair and Wool 14, Russkaya Street

N. M. Fitzer, manager

AMERICAN RUSSIAN

Bulvarney Prospect

TRADING Co.-16

ANDERSEN, MEYER & Co., Ltd., Engineers, Contractors, Export-Import-2, Sam- annaya Street; P.O. Box 135

S. J. Kolpachnikoff, manager

ANGLO- ASIATIC TELEGRAPH

(Angasta)—8, Strahovaya Street

B. Hayton Fleet, proprietor

AGENCY