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SHASI

re-opened on the 1st July of the saine year. In August, 1898, an area 3,800 Chinese feet in length, by 800 to 1,200 in breadth, lying along the riverside below the town, was assigned to Japan as a Japanese Concession. The British Consulate was withdrawn in January, 1899, British interests being placed under the care of the Consul at Ichang. Calling steamers anchor in the river, which is very swift during the summer, and discharge and load at pontoons, but some bunding work, commenced in December, 1904, and finished in April, 1905, provided berths for three hulks, with jetties. Un- fortunately, in 1908 this bund for over two-thirds of its length went bodily into the river owing to the action of the water coming from inland carrying away sand from beneath the stone work. The net value of the trade of the port coming under the cognizance of the Foreign Customs was Hk. Tls. 21,486,783 in 1930, as compared with Hk. Tls. 34,355,862 in 1929, Hk. Tls. 38,910,321 in 1928, Hk. Tls. 21,305,761 in 1927, Hk. Tls. 32,792,292 in 1926, Hk. Tls. 31,087,376 in 1925, and Hk. Tls. 23,626,554 in 1924. The bulk of the carrying trade was, until the 30th of May 1931, carried on by junks, under the control of the Native Customs under the Foreign Customs supervision. These Native Customs, however, were abolished on the 1st June 1931. In December, 1913, a contract was entered into between the Chinese Government and the British firm of Pauling & Co. for the construction of a railway from a point opposite Shasi to Singyifu in the province of Kweichow vid Changteh and Kweiyang, with a branch from Changteh to Changsha. Good progress was made in the survey of this projected railway until the outbreak of the European war and consequent necessity for a temporary cessation of operations led to the recall of the engineers. It is reported: that so many lakes and morasses lie in the direct survey of the Shasi-Changteh section that a détour to the west, through more productive country, may be necessary. A telephone service was introduced in March, 1921. A motor service between Shasi- Hsiangyang was started in 1924. The Mao Yeh & Co. installed in May 1930 a machine to supply Shasi public with ice and electricity. The Hankow Press-packing Co. (Shasi Branch) started operations in September 1929, while the Shasi Cotton Testing Department of Hankow Bureau of Inspection and Testing for Commercial Com- modities, a governmental organ, commenced work in October 1929. The Sahsi Cotton- Weaving and Spinning Factory was informally opened in May 1931 with a capital of $1,000,000. The Air-mail and passenger service between Shanghai and Ichang via Shasi was commenced in April 1931. Flights are made three times a week.

DIRECTORY

BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO Co. (CHINA), HANKOW PRESS PACKING CO. (Shasi Branch)

LTD.

W. Lieu, representative

CONSULATE, GREAT BRITAIN

Consul (resident at Ichang)

G. S. Moss

門衙事頜本日大

Ta jih pen ling shi ya men

CONSULATE, Japanese

Acting Vice-Consul-T. Horiuchi

關市沙 Shasi Kwan

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Acting Commissioner-S. Nishigori

Assistant-Ling Chan Ngau

Acting Tidesurveyor and Harbour

Master-G. Quinn

德 路

EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN MISSION-Cable

Ad: Synod

E. C. Zimmermann and wife

Miss Gertrude Simon, R.N.

Arnhold & Co., Ltd., secretaries and

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general managers

W. A. Price, manager

N. L. T. Yuen, assist. manager

Liu Shao Chen, compradore

HO LI CHEN STEAM LAUNCH Co. Chen Ho Seng, manager

ITALIAN TRADING CO.

Wong Heng Cheng, agent

Fu

怡

E Wo

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Ltd.

S. S. Hsieh, agent

Agents

Indo-China Steam Nav. Co., Ld.

POST OFFICE

Postmaster-Sun Kuo-sui

SHANGHAI COMMERCIAL & SAVINGS BANK

Y. C. Hwang, manager

STANDARD OIL Co. OF NEW YORK

Austin Yang