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TAKU-PEI TAT HO AND CHINWANGTAO

RAILWAY, CHINESE GOVERNMENT (PR. R. Deschamps de la Porte, dis-

ping Moukden Line)

C.E.

B.A.

H. Farrant M. INST.

(Cantab), senior district engr. N J. Willis, resident engineer

SALT REVENUE, ASSIST DIST. INSPEC

TORATE

Y. T. Chung, acting

trict inspector

do.

SOCIETE FRANCAISE DE NAVIGATION DE TANG-KU-Ferry Boat Service: Tien- sin-Tangku

L. Mendelssohn

J. Y...C. Hsui

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PEI-TAI-HO AND CHINWANGTAO

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Peitaiho continues to expand. There are now five associations, namely, Rocky, Point Association, East Cliff Association, Temple Bay Association, Lighthouse Point Assocaintion, and the Kung I Hui, An endeavour is being made to arrive at some kind of co-operation between these various sections, whose interests are common. The first desideratumn is a Sanitary Department serving the whole district comprised in the term "Peitaiho Beach.". The next necessity is to form some general advisory committee, obviating the necessity of so marfy diverse forms of control. Voluntary service will have to be replaced by expert advisers, and how, to meet this expenditure is a matter for consultation between the four associations and the Kung I Hui The Kung I Hui is a body of Chinese gentlemen' mostly with large local interests: it is registered in the Ministry of Communications as a definite working organisation and has a legal and, to a certain extent, judicial status. It las expended large sums of noney in making excellent roads, lined with trees, and intends to throw the whole of the Lotus Hills open as a public park.

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Chinwangtao owes its existence as a seaport to the Chinese Engineeering and Mining Company, Ltd. (now amalagamated with the Lanchow Mining Company under the little of The Kailan Mining Administration). It serves primarily as a port of ship- ment for Kaiping coal.

The figures of the principal staple exports of this port for the last two years are .as follows:

Kailan Coal Anthracite

Groundnuts

1930 Tons 2,936,052 246,178 Pels. 139,478

.1931 2,403,051

270,952. 116,257

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Chinwangtao is situated on the western coast of the Gulf of Liao and is distant about 10 miles W.S.W. of Shanhaikwan. The breakwater pier forming the harbour are so constructed that vessels may lie alongside at any state of the tide and in all weathers, discharging from or loading directly into railway cars, so that there is the minimum of handling and loss by breakage. The Administration owns large areas of land in the vicinity of the port. A good harbour, good water, electric light, and cheap coal offer exceptional inducements for industrial enterprises, and it is expected that there will be a great development in this direction.

Accommodation for steamers is shown in the following table:—

At Breakwater

Berth No. T

3

At Pier-

2

I

Depth at L.W.OST.

in Feet

Length in Feet

320

22

320

26

380

380

420

29

380

AZ

F

*350*

idoint

2222 88

29

29

20

20