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CANTON KOWLOON FRONTIER DISTRICT

店酒·利

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Wo HING HONG SILK CORPORATION

Raw and Waste Silk Dealers—32, B.C.,

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Victoria Hotel British Con, Shameen;

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Teleph. 13501; Cable Ad: Victoria

W. R. Farmer, proprietor

R. G. Jones, "manager"

Yeung Yee Sang, compradore

房藥大氏

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Wat sun sa tai yeuk fong

Watson & Co., Ltd., A. S., "The Can- ton Dispensary," Chemists and Drug-

gists, Aerated Water Manufacturers, Wine and Spirit Merchants":

V. P. Waters, managör-

J. Jones

A. R. Inkster Miss A. Prata

Miss A. Lee 37

Agencies

Dewars (White Label) Coca Cola

WESTERN HOTEL-The Bund; Teleph.

12430

BC, Shameen; Teleph. 13624; Cable Ad: Wohingsilk

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WORLD TRADING CO-18, Sup Pat Po,

North; Teleph. 12044

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YEE TSOONG TOBACCO DISTRIBUTORS, LTD. Telephs. 10213 & 15819; Cable Ad: Powhattan

J. P. Macdermott, division mgr.

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YIEN VIEH COMMERCIAL BANK-(See

Banks)

YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK-(See Banks)

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YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION

The Bund; Cable Ad: Flamingo

PresidentT. T., Pun MODA Vice do. -Y. M. Linn ¶ Treasurer-N. C. Chuei Recording Secretary-K, M. Wong Secretaries E. H. Lockwood, L. K.

Chu and Y. L. Lee

KOWLOON

FRONTIER DISTRICT OF

THE CHINESE MARITIME

CUSTOMS

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This is the inclusive name given to the Chinese, Martume Customs stations adjacent to Hongkong and established in 1887 in accordance with the Chefoo Agreement of 1876 and its Additional Article of 1885 for the purpose of recording the movement of opium and of collecting duty on the trade carried on by Chinese junks between Hongkong and Chinese ports. In 1899, when the New Territory was taken over by Hongkong, the Customs stations were removed from their former locations, which had been brought within the British boundary, and the present stations are situated at Taishan, Lintin, Shumchun, Shatowkok, Shauchung, and. Samun (Tooniang), besides which there are a number of frontier patrol posts on the north shores of Deep and Mirs Bays, and between the two bays.

TRADE IN 1935)

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The year 1935 probably stands out as the most difficult period trade con- ditions in the Kowloon listrict have experienced. The existing economic depression throughout China was intensified in this neighbourhood by abnormally high and uncertain rates of exchange, particularly with Hongkong. These exchange difficulties called for a policy of extreme caution, and are

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