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CHINA'S
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Tze-huí, "minister of industry" Chang. Ping-hui "vice-minister the Interior," and several other officials who arrived at Tokyo at noon yesterday by plane from Shanghai, They will attend a tripar- tite conference between Japan, Manchukuo and the pro-Japanese elements of China.
Shanghai, To-day.
Considerable interest is attached
. Conferences will be attended by various bankers and businessmen here to the journey of Liang Hung- and it is expected that a number of chi, "President" of the executive decisions will be reached regarding council of the pro-Japanese "reform- the exploitation of the occupied ed Government" of Nanking, Wang areas.--Trans-Ocean.
AGRICULTURAL POLICY
London, To-day.
The Commons debate on the Labour amendment to the Address, on which a division was taken last night, was continued by Mr. Tom Williams (Labour).
After complaining that yesterday's speeches of the Ministers of Health and Labour had given no indication that the Government realised the seriousness of the problems of poverty, Mr. Williams turned to the question of agriculture, on which he advocated an increase of produc- tivity while maintaining and improving condi- tions of farm labour and asking the consumer to only pay such prices as an efficient market. ing system would necessitate.
He doubted if it could be done cultural production in wartime. with the present land ownership or until they had decided to change the system which restricted the best use of the land:
Difficulty to-day was that what the consumer paid bore no relation to what the producer obtained, and he urged national organisation to secure a reasonable return for pro- ducers and to smooth out price variations.
Defending the Government's re- cord on agriculture, the Minister of Agriculture said that the policy of recent legislation for improve- ment of land fertility and war on plant diseases was an important contribution towards increasing the efficiency of production.
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The great marketing organisa- tion created since 1982 was notable endeavour to improve the marketing of agricultural · pro-
TORY ARGUMENT Sir Edward Rugglesbrise, speak-ducts. ing for the group of Conservatives In the forthcoming legislation on who tabled the amendment to the milk and poultry, efficiency on the address on agriculture, which will distribution side would again be not be called, agreed with the pre-emphasised as it had to live up to vious speaker on the need for the Pork and Bacon Acts. ・・
LAND NATIONALISATION smoothing out variations in prices, but complained that the cheap food.
He-opposed-land-nationalisation. policy pursued in Britain for a A comprehensive policy hundred years meant, that con- agriculture, of which they heard sumer were subsidised at the ex- glib talk, would have been a pense of producers..
many-sided policy because the pro- Between the high costs of problems of the many sections differ- duction and the low levels of prices ed so widely. there was a ruinous gap which could only be closed by artificial means of which he preferred levy subsidy,
for
Referring to the question of wartime demands on farmers, Mr. Morrison said that if it was BC- →cepted in peace time that farmers FARMERS IN DOUBT ·
should do their best to see the land- Mr. Wilfred Roberts (Liberal) was well found, and build up land deplored the doubt in which far- fertility, there would be no difficul- mers were left as to the Govern- ty when an emergency came to ment's intentions regarding agri- give a more precise direction,
Great sporting fish, weighing in many instances the best part of half-a-ton, have made the Bay of Is lands, in north New Zealand. the mecca of big-game fishermen from all over the, world. The shores of New Zea and, harbouring as they do the majority of fish which make the big-game fisherman's life worth- while, are a veritable Eldorado for the angler. A sport not restricted to the weal sportsmen are elatedly pulling a swordfieh aboard their small launch.
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Sir John Simon
wound up last.
night's debate for the Government.. -British Wireless.
REICH TRANSPORT MINISTER IN LONDON
London, To-day.
Dr. Dorpmueller, the German Minister of Transport, has arrived in London to attend the jubilee celebrations of London Midland and Scottish Railway.
During his atay, he will call on Mr. Leslie Burgin, the British Min- later of Transport, and take the opportunity to make himself acquainted with London'a transport conditions.
He will return to Germany on Thursday. Trans-Ocean.
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A Chinese male, Ho Ying, aiding, at No. 958 Canton - Road, was admitted to the Kowloon Hos pital, suffering from scalds, after He had decidentally upset a pot of | boiling soup on his leg,