Directory_and_Chronicle_1939 — Page 776

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WENCHOW

5.12 per cent; rape seed, 4.65 per cent; animal products, 4.21 per cent; cross stitch work, 3.74 per cent; wood oil, 2.96 per cent; fresh oranges, 2.72 per cent; leaf tobacco, 2.53 per cent; rush and straw mats, 2.45 per cent; with various sundries making up the difference. The adverse effect of the Sino-Japanese hostilities on Chinese ship- ping was felt particularly keenly at Wenchow, where coastwise shipping, with the exception of the oil companies' vessels, was under the Chinese flag exclusively. The active demand for tonnage coupled with increased freight charges caused a number of British steamers to be directed to the Wenchow-Shanghai and Wenchow-Amoy- Swatow runs from October onwards, This was responsible for an increase in British tonnage of 24,897 tons as compared with the preceding year, and for an advance from 2,121 to 12,001 tons in the direct foreign traffic, exclusive of junks. Nevertheless, owing to the large decline under the Chinese flag, the total tonnage for the year decreased by 6,32 tons as compared with 1936.

Street-widening and the improvement of public health have engaged the attention of the local authorities throughout the period, and considerable progress has been achieved under each of these heads. Three motor roads, viz., from Wenchow to Pingyang via Juian, from P'ingyang to Ch'iaotunmen, and from P'ingyang to Kuaot'ou, were completed in August, and motor-cars are now occasionally seen in the streets of the city. Considerable uneasiness was caused by the prevalence of banditry in the Taishun and P'ingyang districts, where a number of alum miners, unemployed owing to trade depression, gained a livelihood by plundering the country-side, Piracy was a constant menace to junk traffic, more than a dozen junks being reported to have been pirated at sea. A pirate junk and one of the freebooters were caught at P'ingyang Point in May by the C.P.L. Yungning and brought in to Wenchow. Yentangshan, the scenic resort 78 kilometres north-east of the port in the Yoch'ing district, attracts thousands of Chinese and foreign visitors annually, and with the recent improvements in communications is likely to become one of Chekiang's most popular tourist centres in the very near future.

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司公船輪局商招

DIRECTORY

CHINA MERCHANTS' STEAM NAVIGATION

Co., LTD.-Cable Ad: 2485

Yang Chih Ching, agent

CHINESE ITALIAN NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

--Cable Ad: 2485

Yang Shao Dao, agent

關海

Ou Hai Kuan

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Commissioner-H. C. Morgan

Indoor :

Assistants-Wu Chwan Tse, Yu Chen

Jee and Chen Yau Kuang

Clerks-Wong Pui Ning, Ho Wing Ku, Chang Shou, Kyang Kyih Ching, Chen Wen Tsao, Robert Fan, Sieh Chien Hao, Chiang Chung En, Loh Yang Chien and Hu Wen Yuan Out-door:

Tidesurveyor-A. E. T. Hansen Boat Officer-O. E. Segerholm Asst. Boat Officer-Chow Ying tsing Chief Examiner D. A. Carlos Examiner -Chung Wai Chuen

Asst. Examiners Li Ping Kwei, Hsieh Teh Tsu, Chen An Shing and Fa Kuang Yu Tidewaiters-Loo Ping Kyuin, Yang Shih Shing, Chen Hsiao Shih, Yu I Huo, Yeh Tzu Chiao, Wu Chung Ting, Boh Ping Hwa, Chang Wen Jung, Lo Shih Chi, Chen Shen Tseng, Yu Dah Pao, Tsai Tao Feng, Chang Shang Hwa, Lowe Chuan

Kwei, Kao Ba Hai, Yu Tsun Liang,

Chen Shih Chien, Soo Tao Liang and Wong Vung Zing

社工女紋綺

HWANG CO., CHIWEN W., Embroidery and Cross Stitch Work-19-17, Mo Chih

Fang St.; Teleph. 267; Cable Ad: Chiwen. Shanghai Office: Chiwen W. Hwang Co., 119, Jinkee Road C. W. Hwang, proprietor

Y. F. Hwang

INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION

LTD.-Cable Ad: 2485

Yang Chung Ho, agents

Co.,