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234 bigger floating dock with a lifting power of 12,000 tons will be completed, with many workshops, up-to-date machine tools, &amp;c. The Mitsu Bishi Paper Mill at Takasago has a daily output of 70,000 lbs. The Company also do a large general and bonded warehouse business, and have extensive landing and delivery agencies.

The Hongkong branch is situated at No. 2. Pedder Street, and is concerned chiefly with the import of coal for distribution amongst shipping clients. The manager is Mr. T. Matsuki, who has been many years with the Company.



 Company is one of the latest additions to the Japanese business houses of Hongkong. The firm, which is an old-established one, owns and operates the Hoshu Coal Mine in Japan, which turns out upwards of three hundred tons of good steam coal a day, and it was in order to find an additional outlet for this that the Hongkong branch of the business was opened during 1907. The firm already does a considerable business in the Colony, and is prepared to execute orders for bunkering and the supply of coal generally. Messrs. Miyasaki &amp; Co. were formerly contractors to the French Mail Line at the Japanese ports, and at the present time they hold contracts from some of the largest steamship lines in Japan. Mr. Y. Kubo, the manager of the Hongkong branch, is a nephew of Mr. Miyasaki, the head of the Company.





of Ice House Lane, Hongkong, who executed a contract for Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Company in a manner that gave every satisfaction, are one of the oldest photographic firms in the Colony. They undertake all classes of work, and make a special feature of enlargement and bromide work. They stock a large number of views of the neighbourhood and of South China, besides cameras, films, and printing papers of all kinds. There is a special department for developing and printing for amateurs. The manager, Mr. W. Chong Kai, is a capable photographic artist. The assistant manager, Mr. Y. Johnson, who has been with the firm since it was first started, has had experience in the United States. About thirty hands are employed at the head office, and a new depot was opened recently at No. 8, Beaconsfield Arcade, chiefly for the sale of photographic stores for amateurs. In 1904 the firm obtained a bronze medal from the St. Louis Universal Exposition, and in 1906 they were awarded a silver medal at the Hongkong Exhibition held at the City Hall. On the occasion of the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Connaught to the Colony, the royal party were photographed by Messrs. Mee Cheung, and copies of the photographs, forwarded to Their Royal Highnesses, were cordially acknowledged in a letter to the firm.