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WENCHOW-SANTUAO

堂嬰育道海甌

FOUNDING HOSPITAL

Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de

Paul

堂主天州處

MISSION CATHOLIQUE DU CHUCHOW

Préfet Apostolique-Mgr. W. McGrath

E. Venini

Morrison

Serra

Stringer

MacGillivray

MacNab

Boudreau

Venadam

Gignac

King

Amyot

ald

Beal

MacDonald

會日息安臨復督基

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST MISSION

:

B. F. Gregory and family

Alfred Fossey and wife

院醫望若董州温

SOEURS DE LA CHARITÉ ST. VINCENT DE

PAUL Hopital Jean Gabriel

會道聖

UNITED METHODIST MISSION

E. T. A. Stedeford, M.D., CH.B., D.T.M.,

and Mrs. Stedeford

局郵等州温

POST OFFICE

WEN-CH'U CHIEF SALT REVENUE

COLLECTORATE

Chief Collector-Yang Chi-pu

司公限有份股草煙和泰永

WING TAI VO TOBACCO CORPORATION, Cable

Ad:, Wingtaivo

Y. K. Yiao, manager

C. Y. Shiao, assist. manager

SANTUAO

Santuao was voluntarily opened to foreign trade by the Chinese Government on the 8th May, 1899. The port includes the whole of the magnificent Santu Inlet, which is situated some 70 miles north of Foochow. The foreign settlement is on the island of Santu in the centre of the inlet. The harbour is certainly one of the finest on the China coast: the approaches to it are well-defined, and vessels of the largest size may enter at any time, regardless of the state of tide. H.M.S. Waterwitch surveyed the whole of the inlet in 1899, and an Admiralty chart has been published. A telegraph cable was successfully laid from the mainland to the Settlement in July, 1905, and communication established with all China ports. A new cable connecting the telegraph office at Santuao with the mainland was laid in May, 1921, and the incon- venience caused by receiving and dispatching all messages from the other side of the harbour, which had been experienced for four years previously, was thus removed.

The port of Santuao serves important tea districts. Much of the tea exported from Foochow to Europe is first shipped from Santuao; and there is a growing demand in North China for certain varieties grown in the neighbourhood. No build- ing operations worth mentioning have been undertaken at the port, and no modern methods have as yet been introduced in the manufacture of the principal local pro- ducts-paper and pottery, though excellent raw material is close at hand, especially extensive deposits of kaolin capable of yielding far superior pottery than is now brought on the market from this district. The iron mines in the districts of Kutien, Fuan, and Siapu, where the deposits were reported in 1918 to be of a promising nature, have not yet been properly exploited, and so far no smelting works at Santuao, as then anticipated, have been erected, so that a regular trade in this valuable mineral does not yet exist here. The chief towns of the district are Funing, Fu-an, Ningte, and Shouning. There is a prosperous and increasing junk-trade, and regular steamship communication with the provincial capital.