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excellent prices obtainable for local exports of groundnuts and groundnut oil-the bulk and mainstay of the trade of the port. The value of the groundnut and groundnut oil export trade exceeded by $809,000 that of the year 1938, this advance in value being on export shipments less in quantity by 76,706 quintals than in 1938, There was no diversion from the hinterland va Tsingtao during 1939 of groundnuts normally using Weihai wei as entrepôt, as exchange restrictions. on the Shantung Promontory favoured neither port after the first quarter of the year, Unfavourable weather conditions reduced the 1939 groundnut crop to 70 per cent of that of the preceding year.
Comparative value statistics for the trade of the port were as follows: direct foreign imports, $2.7 million as compared with $1.7 million; coastwise importations of Chinese produce, $3.4 million as against $2.7 million; direct exports to foreign countries, $1.6 million as against $1.4 million; and coast wise exportations of Chinese goods. $4.3 million as compared with $3.7 million. Groundnut and groundnut oil exports coastwise and abroad accounted for 87 per cent and 94 per cent of the total value of trade in those groups. Total shipments of groundnuts and groundnut oil abroad and to other Chinese ports-mainly Shanghai-were 223,807 quintals, representing, as already pointed out, a decline of 76,706 quintals as compared with 1938 shipments. Wheat Hour imports from abroad and coast wise of 60,448 quintals as against 45,285 quintals in 1938 were stimulated by the export-impor exchange system, as were sugar. softwood, and sulphate of ammonia, while the high price of rice reduced consumption in favour of maize, imports of the latter from abroad and coastwise being 23,894 quintals as against 29,860 quintals, and of cheap flour (mainly maize) of 272,298 kilogrammes as against 35,530 kilogrammes in 1938. Rice and paddy arrivals from abroad were 12,111 quintals and from Chinese ports 1,489 quintals, showing a total decline of 17,842 quintals. Beancake retained its low-price popularity for fertiliser, 93,859 quintals arriving from abroad as compared with 48,013 quintals, with no arrivals from Chinese ports as against 10,635 quintals in 1938. No kerosene oil was imported from abroad,
Total tonnage entered and cleared under General Regulations showed a decrease of 394,617 tons as compared with 1,726,017 tons for 1938, Tonnage of British vessels fell away from 1,220,478 to 801,976 tons.
DIRECTORY
PORT EDWARD
Aquarius Co. of SHANGHAI,Manufactur- ers of Table Waters-Office: Macgregor House, 44, Foochow Road; Teleph, 17589; Cable Ad: Aquarius, Factory: 400, Thorburn Road; Teleph. 50055
Caldbeck, Macgregor Co.,
general managers
A. D. Openshaw, factory manager
J. Kearns
K. Gulamali
Ltd.,
J. S. Smith K, D. Bogarodsky
M. I. Poshnine J. da Cunha
司公和廣正
Chin kwong ho kung sze
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co., LTD,
(Macgregors, Ltd., General Managers),
Wine and Spirit Merchants-Macgregor House, 44, Foochow Road; Teleph. 17589; P.O. Box 344; Cable Ad: Caldbeck
J, F, Macgregor, director
N. C. Macgregor,
do.
F. R. Davey,
do.
E. F. Bateman,
do.
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W. G. Crokam
Shnghai Branch Office
J, Davidson, manager
U. J. Kelly
J. K. R. Macgregor | R. C. F.Macgregor General Office
W. Lowry
F. P. Bahon
Foreign Sales Dept.
S. A. Ancel Chinese Sales Dept.
C. J.Ling Order Desk
N. Anderson Shipping Dept.
S. C. Loh Stenographers
Miss A Park Acconats Dept.
J. E. Watson J. Stephan E. J. Macain Cashier's Dept. A. F. Fong Godown-keeper S. K. Chang
A, J. Corbin
L. W. Parker
| S. Y. Fong
| K. Shaw
| Y. E. Tuck
| Miss G. Ross
H, C. Shing Y. S. Sung
| A. K, Fong
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