Directory_and_Chronicle_1933 — Page 1026

Directories & Chronicles 香港指南 All

932

SAMSHUI

A telegraph service is maintained from Sainan. A nice building for the Post Office, situated alongside the road leading from the railway-station to the stone jetty, was completed and opened to the public on September 9th, 1921. There are no Consulates established; the Consuls within whose districts Samshui lies reside either in Canton or Hongkong.

TRADE IN 1931.

Trade conditions in 1931 at Samshui were far from being satisfactory. On top of the continued advance in the prices of various commodities caused by the depreciation in silver, a higher Import Tariff was enforced from 1st January, 1931, the result being that for the first 5 months of the years almost all branches of business were brought to a standstill. A revival of trade was, however, witnessed in the middle of the year, but, unfortunately, at the beginning of October an anti-Japanese boycott made its appearance here and ever since no Japanese goods have been imported. In fact the existence of the boycott was responsible for the withdrawal of no less than 9'steamers from the Hong Kong Wuchow run on account of shortage of freight-receipts and high cost of up-keep which brought about serious financial embarrassment to all the shipping companies. The port was visited by 3 floods during the months of June, July and August. The highest water mark recorded was 21′ 4′′ above zero on the 2nd and 3rd July, causing great damage to dykes, paddy fields and buildings in and around the port. The net value of trade coming under the cognizance of the Customs during 1931 was Hk. Tls. 5,198,957 as compared with Hk. Tls: 5,180,489 in 1930, Hk. Tls. 8,148,331 in 1929, Hk. Tls. 7,586,227 in 1928 and Hk. Tls. 5,462,065 in 1927.

Directory_and_Chronicle_1933 — Page 1026

Comments

Private Research Note