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MANCHURIA AS A MARKET.
OPENINGS FOR IMPORT AND EXPORT TRADE.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17r¤, 1012
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Recent developments in Manchuria have constituted that fertile country a market well worthy the consideration of British commercial interests. Capital invested in an import and export business would be! assured of a handsome return if only average shrewdness were shown. At pre- sent only Japanese houses-and one great trading house of the Far East in particu lar-appear to have realized the immense. possibilities of the Three Provinces and adapted their plan of campaign to the They peculiar conditions which exist. have been quick to see that-in what may be called the transition state of Man churia, with its still somewhat primitive facilities for commerce and transport this is essentially an instance in which import and export business must be com bined in order to reap the fullest profits. As a matter of actual experience the cost of working them in conjunction is very little more than is entailed when one side of business only is done. For the time being, it will be well to take a leaf cut of the book of both the Japanese and Russian trading firms-now paramount, respectively, in the southern and north- ern marketa-and resort to actual barter. By these simple methods which are appreciated by the Manchurian people,. who are as yet only at the earliest stages civilization the most of commercial powerful Japanese business concern in the Far East has possessed itself of practically three-quarters of both the import and export trade in the country To all intents and of Chang-chun." purposes, this ably managed firm has cornered the market so far as cereals (such as beans, maize, kao-liang, wheat, &c.) are concerned; and at present no foreign frm can compete against them in piece goods. This is their reward for promptly resorting to actual barter, once they found that the Manchurians were neither ready for nor agreeable to busi
In ness on more advanced principles. the north the Russian merchants abeo- lutely confine themselves to the primitive barter system, trading piece goods, ironware, and fancy goods against cattle, Akins, furs, wool, &c.
OPENINGS FOR BRITISH CAPITAL.
It is on the export side that British capital and enterprise could be applied with splendid possibilities of development and satisfactory proûts. For the moment, the best trading prospects appear to lie in the direction of the frozen meat trade. Pheasants and wild geese are found in immense numbers in Eastern Manchuria The whole and bustards in the plains. country is exceedingly fertile, but this is especially true of the plains, and agricul. ture is the chief occupation of the people. In Feng-tien the surface has been practi- claimed to cally cleared and no unclaimed land to speak of now exists.
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merely sending representatives into Man- churia with restricted powers, subject to consultation with the management or directors at the home headquarters. The On the 16th at 11.30 a.m.-The northern resultant delay is a fatal flaw in this depression has depened. It now lies to the policy, making for expensive and un-N. of Hokkaido. profitable methods. As gold-mining com panies have found, both in South Africa and Australia, se in Manchuria; manage-Chips ment on the spot is imperative, both for are largely cultivated, but of late years export and import business. The country increasing attention has been devoted to is so large. (it is four times the size of cereals, which are fast taking the place Great Britain), distances are su great, communications so imperfect, that when of pulse. Wheaten flour is largely con Bained and is exceptionally cheap purchasing opportunities arise they must indeed, are nearly all home-grown articles be seized at once. The delay of waiting In connection with the for a decision, say, from London may of consumption.
mean the lose of days. Take a significant suggested development of experts an
instance from Manchurian experience of important consideration is the great salmon fishery which takes place on the
the past year as proving the absolute a local of local knowledge and necessity lower Sungari and the Hurka in the autumn, when immense quantities of this prerogative of closing in respect of bar- gains. Foreign firms buying soya beans fish are caught and dried for winter use.
Why Other products of great marketable value did practically nothing in 1911 are very fine sable, tiger, and lynx again. The capably good to bad, through the
Then referred ginseng and deer horns. thousands of sheep and oxen are driven in activity of its intelligence department on from Eastern Mongolia to all the import the spot, cornered the market. This was ant towns along the railway, between not a very difficult matter, since their Chang-chun and Man-chuli, and there is
agents are everywhere, who always know an enormous barter business in all kinds precisely the amount of the probable crop. of aking, hides, fura, &c., between these So. the Japanese firm kept on buying and two points during the winter months.
buying in all directions. As these beans A few facts and figures will illustrate find ready sale in Japan and Southern the great possibilities of this practically Chins, as well as in Europe, there was unexploited business provided it is worked practically no risk in these wholesale properly and with judicious regard for purchases, and the other foreign frms For export by were від left." Another instance of short- existing conditiona steamers fitted with the necessary re sightedness was supplied by the Northern The wheat crop, owing to frigerator plant the following commodi- four mills. ties are always available: Pork, mutton, foods and heavy rains, was 40 per cent. pheasants, deer, partridges, chickens, below the normal; besides which there was
a famine in Western Siberia. ducks (both tame and wild), bustards, eggs, river fish (including salmon, pike, astate agents of the Japanese company tench, &c.), as well as skins, hides, furs, contrived to acquire quite a lot of Man- brietles, wool, lard, intestines, gut, hair, churian wheat for shipment to Japaness &c. The prevailing prices in the season and other mills in the South. Conse quently the Russian managers of the Northern mills had to buy Australian wheat to the extent of 20,000 tons at a price exactly double the usual rates pre- vailing in Manchuria in nonsal years!
Brei-
Eggs, a per hundred. Chickens, from 4d, each. Ducks, from 4d. each. 'Wild ducks, Ed. per pair. Pheasants, 18. per brace. Partridges, 6d. per brace. Deer, 3s. each.
Pigs, live weight, 200-300lb., from 128. each
Sheep, alive, from Ss. each.
Yet the
*N.E. winds, fesch to moderate, fine.
HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER. Hongkong Observatory April 16th
Previous On Date On Date
Day
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at 2 p.m. 6 B.m. 2 p.m.
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Bat.
HONGKONG TIDE TABLE From 15th to 23rd April, 1912.
HIGH WATER.
Days
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Commercial enterprise need not hold its hand because the vexed problem of the future government of Manchuria still remains unsettled. It is really immaterial who acquires this country-the Chinese, the Russians, or the Japanese. Its trade The best point of shipment would prob- will inevitably increase, and the only ably be Dalny (Talienwan), and here a question is whether it shall develop more or less rapidly, on which point the refrigerating plant would have to be erected, and a central depot built about Administration of the country will, of it. All stock, &c., would have to be coures, have something to say, expediting Wed. 178 55
or retarding, as the case may be, accord convoyed to Dalny, there to await ship- ment, and agents would have to be ing to Constitutional or acquired disposi-Thurs 18
19m 9 47 quartered at various points, regard being tion. The rapid extension of the new town
11 12 had to the Manchurian towns of greatest of Kharbin, on the Sungari, is an indica- -Fri. trading importance. Last year one firm tion of what will happen as time goes on,
20m 20 19 made a trial shipment of 20,000 pheasants the railways are completed, and the It ja which cost them one shilling a brace up country generally is opened up..
214m Vladivostock interesting at this juncture to remember Sun. charges fo.b, country; would not be more than 3d a brace. that each of the Three Provinees contain
22 Millions of eggs are sent every year from considerable deposits of coal, that the Moa Manchuria into Western Siberia, and Fuebun mines are being steadily worked,
Tues, thousands of pigs are also sent (frozen) and that iron (usefully found in conjunc to Biberia. The fish, which, abound in the tion with coal) is also being worked. The Sungari and ita tributaries are obtainable ice-free port of Dalay (in the Liso-tung HONGKONG DAILY PREBE at remarkably cheap-rates, as retailers in peninsula), at the terminus of the Trans- Kharbin can sell excellent smoked salmon Siberian Railway, is well equipped with docks and quaya and generally well pre- backs at 2d. per lb.
such development of pared for any Manchurian trade as has here been considered. All that is wanted is a fair share of the British capital awaiting There must be liberal ex- investment. penditure at the beginning, but it may be made in the sure and certain hope that the eventual profits will also be on the higher seals.
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