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PAKHOI-HOIHOW (IN HAINAN)

關海北

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

DISTRICT INSPECTORATE OF SALT RE-

VENUE (Pingnankuei Assistant Dis-

trict Inspectorate); Cable Ad: Adiate

祥升今

"KAM SING CHEUNG (Pakhoi Branch)

Wong Sai Kwong, director

Agency

Osaka Shosen Kaisha

和 昌 廣

堂主天

FRENCH CATHOLIC MISSION (Foreign

Missions of Paris)

Rev. Fathers-

L. Penicaud, bishop

A. Genty, assist. and steward

V. Tsiu, prof. of seminary

H. Cotto, do.

R. Lebas, director of seminary

J. Rossillon

會聖節

五

PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH MISSION

Rev. G. C. Legge, supt.

Mrs. G.C. Legge

OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA

Kam Sing & Co., agents

KWONG CHEONG WO

Agency

China Navigation Co., Ld.(S.S."Tean")

MISSIONS

院醫仁普

CHURCH MISSION SOCIETY HOSPITAL

-Cable Ad: C.M.S. Pakhoi

Dr. S. Y. Sing

Dr. P. Z. Sun, M.D.

Major Wright, secretary

局郵海北

POST OFFICE

Postmaster-Au Nai Lung

SOCONY-VACUUM CORPORATION

Ching Tai & Co.

Wo SANG & Co.

YAMASHITA KISEN KAISHA

Kam Shosen Kaisha

HOIHOW (IN HAINAN ISLAND)

州瓊

Kiung-chau 口海 Hoi-hau

Hoihow is the seaport of the prefectural city of Kiungchow, the capital of the Island of Hainan. The two towns are separated by a distance of some three miles of low hills dotted with graves; and across these lies a semi-macadamised road. This highway was originally constructed by the Kiungchow Horse Carriage Co. in 1915, it was considerably improved by General Lung Chi-kwang during his rule over Hainan in the middle of 1918, and was kept in good repair by several motor Car Cos. which maintained a continuous motor car service between the two towns. Over 500 miles of motor road open to traffic connecting Hoihow with Wenchang, Chingmai, Tingan, Kachek, and Chuenyai, and at one time nearly 900 cars, buses and trucks were running on the Island. More new roads are expected to be opened for traffic in the near future. A new bund running along the Hoihow river on the northern part of the town, 60 feet wide, was built in 1924 and the principal streets were widened so as to permit motor traffic. Hoihow is lighted by electricity and possesses a telephone system of its own but since February, 1925, the Island has been occupied by Cantonese troops and many projected improvements have not been carried out owing to general unsettled conditions.

The port of Hoihow was opened by the establishment of a branch of the Chinese Maritime Customs in April, 1876. During the latter nine months of that year foreign tonnage to the extent of 36,672 tons entered and cleared at the Custom House, this