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WENCHOW-SANTUAO

堂主天水江浙

PERFECTURE APOSTOLIC OF

LISHUI-

Lishui, Chekiang (Canadian Mission,

Scarboro Bluffs, Ontario, Canada)

Rev. H. Steele

Rev. A. McIntosh

Rev. C. Murphy

Rev. E. Moriarty Rev. G. McKernan

Rev. D. McNeil

Rev. H. Murphy

會區南淅會日息安臨復督基

SOUTH CHEKIANG MISSION

OF

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS--Cable

Ad: Adventists

A. Fossey and Family

R. H. Dinsbier and Family

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院醫望若董州温

SOEURS DE LA CHARITÉ ST. VINCENT DE

PAUL-Hopital Jean Gabriel

局郵等一 州温

POST OFFICE --

Postmaster-Hsiang Ting

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

D. P. Row, manager

C. Y. Shiao, asst. manager

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SANTUAO

澳都三 San-tuao

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 island of Santuao 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 island 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 inconvenience 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. A long distance telephone system was installed in 1936 connecting Foochow as well as the principal towns bordering the Santu Inlet.

The port of Santuao serves important tea districts as much of the tea exported from Foochow to Europe is first shipped from Santuao. No building 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 products -paper and pottery, except softwood pianks, which are manufactured by a modern saw mill 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 work s at Santuao, as then anticipated, have been erected, so that a regular trade in this, valuable mineral does not yet exist here. Since 1937 manufacture of black tea by machinery has been introduced by the Fuan Agricultural Experimental Station under the auspices of the progressing Fukien Provincial Government. Most of the trade is transhipped at Foochow though occasionally direct imports were effected by tramps arriving from Shanghai with cotton piece goods, flour, etc. or from Hongkong with sulphate of ammonia. The chief towns of the district are Funing, Fu-an. Ningte and Shouning.