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seawall, to be completed in 1933, has been placed with the Netherlands Harbour' Works Company, while the Amoy Waterworks successfully carried out the extension of its supply system to Kulangsu during the year. The construction of roads and bridges is also progressing apace, and crowded buses now ply at regular intervals over a perfect network of roads throughout the district. The net value of the whole trade of the port in 1931 amounted to almost 53 million Haikwan taels. The increase of approximately 8 million taels was mainly in imports from Chinese ports, the unfavour- able exchange rates for purchasing foreign goods resulting in a demand for home products. Decreases were registered in the value figures for direct exports abroad and' for exports of Chinese produce to Chinese ports. Amoy's export trade largely supplies overseas Fukienese with produce from their native province. There was a decline of about one-third in the exports of tinned vegetables in 1931, attributed partly to com- petition from Swatow and Hongkong and partly to the Amoy Canning Corporation having established a branch office at Hongkong. The trade depression in Malaya, Netherlands India, and the Philippines started a homeward movement of Fukienese colonists, as evidenced by the passenger traffic returns, which show an inward total of 124,823, as against an outward total of only 57,912 passengers. Existing industries at Amoy had a fairly satisfactory year, but conditions were not favourable for expansion in the number of factories, as the high gold exchange made the cost of new machinery almost prohibitive. A decrease was recorded in the shipping visiting the port, due largely to boycott, activities discouraging the arrival of Japanese colliers. In the last quarter of the year, however, there was a rush of sugar-carriers from Java for the purpose of endeavouring to forestall payment of duty on their cargoes at the revised and increased tariff rates.

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The net value of the trade of the port coming under the cognisance of the Foreign Customs in 1931 was Hk. Tls, 52,842,992 as compared with: Hk. Tls..43,491,652 in 1930 Hk. Tls. 35,865,853 in 1929 and Hk. Tls. 37,227,163 in 1928.....

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AMOY CANNING CO., LTD.T+Cable Ad

Canning

Ng Teng Guan, manager

AMOY ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER Co.

Cable Ad: Eleclight

Ng Se Kim, manager

S. T. Suen, engineer

司公限有房藥大方東門厦

AMOY PHARMACY, LTD. (Successors to A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd.), Chemists and Druggists, Perfumers, Stationers, Wine and Spirit Merchants, Ice and Aerated Water Manufacturers and Commission Agents, &c.-Cable Ad: Pharmacy;a Codes: A.B.C.' 5th edn. and Bentley's

U. T. Chuang, manager (Drug dept.)

H. C. Ong, treasurer

AMOY WATERWORKS Co.-Cable Ad: Water-¡

works; Codes: Bentley's, and Acme Ng Se Kim, managing director Oei Tjoe,

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Homer C. Ling, engineer-in-chief Chew Yew Mui, business manager Wu Shih-chi, secretary

Chung Foh, chung and Yui Tsing

ling, engr. assistants

院書華英

ANGLO-CHINESE COLLEGE

Un Lok Tan, dean of Chinese studies

Seng Gu Sim, acting principal

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R. Tully, B.Sc dean of English

studies

E. A. Preston, M.A., B.D.-dean of

science studies

S. C. Wang, assist. lrouse master H. S. Su, B.Sc. Y. L. Chen

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PETROLEUM

ASIATIC

Co (SOUTH CHINA), LTD.The Bund; Teleph. 498; Cablė Ad: Petrosilex.

W. J. Roberts, manager.

J. A. Cooper | H. Bullock C. H. Arnott, installation manager D. Ritchie,

do.

Miss G. Arthur, stenographer Miss E. D. Anderson, do..

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BANKS

AMOY COMMERCIAL BANK Cable Adť

Amobanco

Au Yong Tek, manager