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KONGMOON
The principal articles of export consist of prepared tobacco, joss-sticks, strawmats, paper, palm-leaf fans, fresh oranges and fresh vegetables; imports are largely represented by rice, foreign piece-goods, kerosene oil, sugar, wheat flour, and forign sundries, including a variety of Japanese commodities of a cheap nature. Large quantities of softwood poles are floated down in the form of rafts, which are dismantled here. These mostly come from beyond Wuchow and also from the North River. The yearly value of this branch of the trade is estimated at about $750,000. Owing to the frequent piracies in the delta, the cocoon market hitherto established at Yungki has been transferred to Kongmoon, and during the season the numerous steam launches and boats employed in this line of business give the port in front of the settlement a lively and animated appearance. There is a silk filature in the town which affords employment to about 300 women; the total cut-turn of silk amounts to about 100 catties per day. An interesting local industry is the dredging of large shells, from which a good quality of lime is made. The annual pro- duction of these shells is estimated at 200,000 pieuls, worth about $40,000. Quite an important industry has sprung up in Kongmoon, namely, the pre- serving and canning of Chinese fruit for export abroad, where it is consumed by the numerous Chinese in America, Australia and the Straits Settlements. Paper, which finds a ready market in Hongkong, is manufactured by the Kongmoon Paper Mill. The unique opportunities presented for transport by the unrivalled waterways of the delta have been well developed by native enterprise, and there is a large and lucrative passenger trade with Canton, Fatshan, Sancheong, Hongkong, Macao, etc. Large, roomy native passenger boats towed by powerful launches are engaged in this trade. The surrounding country is picturesque, fertile and highly cultivated, and the inhabitants are prosperous and industrious. Rice is, of course, the principal crop, and it is miled locally, but mulberry shoots are very extensively cultivated for sale in the silk-producing centres, and large quantities of fresh vegetables are exported to supply the Hongkong market.
DIRECTORY
ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (SOUTH CHINA),
LTD.-Cable Ad: Petrosilex
W. Wooding
T. M. Long
BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO Co. (CHINA),
LTD.-Cable Ad: Powhattan
BRITISH CONSULATE
Consul-General-(residing at Canton)
CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME
Commissioner-A. S. Campbell Assistants-Chan Leung Sing, Lo
Man-chung and Leung Im Medical Officers-W. B. McClure and
V. Cheung
Tidesurveyor and Harbour Master-
H. Connaughton
Examiners-Ă. J. Cox and K. Miura
POST OFFICE, CHINESE
Postal Commr.-(residing at Canton Postmaster-Su Hsüeh Jen
STANDARD OIL CO. OF New York-Cable
Ad: Socony
Seung Kai Hong, manager
TEXAS CO. (CHINA), Ltd., THE, Petroleum
Products-Cable Ad: Texaco
K. H. Tam
UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA MISSION
Rev. T. A. Broadfoot, B.A., B.D., secy.
and treasurer
Mrs. T. A. Broadfoot, R.N. (on leave) Harvey Becking, B.A.
Mrs. Harvey Becking
Dr. W. B. McClure, M.D., D.P.H. Mrs. McClure
Dr. John A. McDonald, M.D., C.M. (on
leave)
Mrs. John A. McDonald (on leave) Miss B. M. Cairns
Rev. W: R. McKay, M.A., B.D., and wife Dr. V. Cheung Registered Nuise Miss M. Carroll
Miss R. N. Isaacs
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Rev. D. McRae, B.A., B.D. (Shek Kei) Mrs. McRae (Shek Kei)
Dr. J. O. Thomson M. D. and wife
(Canton)
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