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堂主天

PAKHOI-HOIHOW

Miss Laura M. Hylton

FRENCH CATHOLIC MISSION (Foreign

Missions of Paris)-

Rev. Fathers:

Rt. Rev. L. Penicaud, bishop

Rev. P. S. Celland, assist. steward Rev. C. Toulhazan, super. of

Seminary

Rev. V. Tsiu, prof. of Seminary

Rev. N. Lay,

Rev. F. Lam, vicar

do.

會潔聖節旬五

PENTECOSTAL

HOLINESS

CHURCH

MISSION-

Rev. C. H. Herndon, supt.

Mrs. C. H. Herndon

:

A467

Rev. G. C. Legge (On furlough) Mrs. G. C. Legge (

do.

OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA—

局郵海北

POST OFFICE-

Postmaster-Luk Lun Chui

Secretary-Chen Chu Tsai

Accountant-Kwok Fook Hon

STANDARD-VACUUM OIL Co.-

Ching Tai & Co., agents

YEE TSOONG TOBACCO DISTRIBUTORS, LTD.-

Shok Kwan Shang

HOIHOW

州瓊

(IN HAINAN ISLAND)

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 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 600 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.

The port of Hoihow was opened by the establishment of a branch of the Chinese Maritime Customs in April, 1876. The harbour of Hoihow is an open roadstead, un- protected against the North-east monsoon, which blows with undisturbed vigour from September to April. The working of cargo is, therefore, normally difficult during those months, and at times impossible. In addition to the above disadvantages those months are also the dry month's when no rain falls up-country, and consequently no water comes down by the Po Chung River to the sea. Again, the tides are more erratic in the winter than they are in the summer: sometimes there are two tides during the 24 hours, sometimes one, and sometimes none. Cargo then, having been loaded with difficulty into a cargo-boat alongside the importing steamer, has to face a stormy passage of two to three miles to the spit, which runs parallel to the town of Hoihow and a mile distant from it. Once at the spit the cargo-boat may be able to pole up the two miles of shallow muddy water which separates it from Hoihow.