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WUCHOW

Municipal Water-works has made good progress during the past twelve months, and if no further delay is experienced the Wuchow Municipality should be able to supply the local inhabitants with an abundant supply of good water in the near future. Rickshas appeared for the first time in Wuchow in the middle of December 1931, prior to which date this method of locomotion was prohibited in this port.

The Kwangsi University which was formally opened by General Huang Shao- hsiung on the 10th October 1928 and which was closed during the following year when Wuchow was occupied by Cantonese troops, was re-opened on the 15th September 1931.

The principal articles of export are manganese ore, antimony, timber oils (aniseed) cassia, groundnut, and wood), tea, indigo, hides, live stock and firewood. The coal which should form one of Wuchow's largest exports, still lies buried in the surrounding hills. There is daily steam communication with Canton and Hongkong, maintained by Portuguese, British and Chinese steamers, some of which are manned by foreign officers, and have first-class passenger accommodation. During the last few years a large native passenger trade has sprung up between Wuchow and upriver towns, and a fleet of motor boats make regular trips to Konghau, Kuaiping, Kueihsien and Nanning. Wuchow itself offers few attractions to the tourist, but the river scenery on the way up, especially between the Shiuhing and Takhing Gorges, where the stream winds in and out among the green hills to form a succession of apparent lakes, is picturesque and has been compared to the Rhine. Wuchow is connected by telegraph with Hongkong, Shanghai, etc.; and the Chinese Post has established postal communi- cation with the principal towns in Kwangsi. In 1922 the Maritime Customs completed the erection of six new buildings to accommodate the whole of their staff. These houses, some of which are three storeys high, are constructed of ferro-concrete in the most up-to-date style. They are brilliant examples of modern tropical buildings, and are the chief architectural feature of Wuchow.

DIRECTORY

亞細亞

Ah Sai Ah

(SOUTH

ASIATIC

PETROLEUM Co.

CHINA), LTD.

E. D. Lawrence

R. G. Edwardes-Jones

C. G. Agnew (at Nanning)

Fu 天 Teen Woo

BANKERS & Co., Merchants and Com-

mission Agents-Shipping Office:

Bankers' Pontoon; Teleph. 264; Cable Ad: Banker

C. M. Sin, manager

BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY

(CHINA), LTD.-Teleph. 262

S. C. Koo, manager

公司公限有險保昌旗

Kee chong po him yau han kung sze

China Underwriters, Ltd., Life

Fire, Marine and General Insurance-

111, Kau Fong Road; Cable Ad: Botelho. Head Office: Hongkong

Botelho Bros., general agents

CONSULATE

宮事領國比大

Tai peh kwok Ling sz kun

BELGIUM

Consul General (residing in H'kong)

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Commissioner—A. Casati

Assistants-Au Shih She, Harry Mo

and Ho Chun-min

Tidesurveyor and Harbour Master-

J. M. Nisbet

Acting Boat Officer--Wong Cheong

Siek

Examiners B. D. Izatt, A. A. Irschen- ko, A. V. Adlington, W. A. Artlett, Ng Chi Cheung, Leung Chak Lam and Wan Hung

會蓄儲國萬

Man Kwok Tse Chu Way

INTERNATIONAL SAVINGS SOCIETY-Kau

Fong Street; Cable Ad: Intersa- vin. Head Office: 7, Avenue Ed- ward VII, Shanghai, (Agency con- trolled by Canton Branch)

Lam Kok-cho, agent