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MOTOR VEHICLES 2 TO 6 TONE.
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BOYOKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 90rn, 1928.
PROGRESS IN PHILIPPINE
ISLANDS.
largest "Empress " boats at one time, and it is going to be equipped with all modern appliances for the handling of
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL ON THE freight, and Manila, will then be well up
POSITION.
In the course of`p speech delivered at the Manila Rotary Club last week Governor-General Wood said:
on the list of ports so far as modern facilities are concerned.
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railroad system and make it much more GANDE, PRICE @ CO., LTD.
accessible for business generally. We can get the money for that, I think, out of the proceeds of our bonds which are being sold for public works bridge across the Pasig is certainly a Cublic work, and if there is anything in these islands that is really needed, it is that bridge across the Pasig,
There is another thing that we have got to do in connection with the problem Public order is fina overywhore-it of developing the port aron and provid couldn't be butter. I don't believe any ing.propiereal-road and shipping·fgeili- body in the islands has been over thom ties, and that is to get some adequate more than I have been during the last means of transportation across the Pasig year or so, and I have yet to find a place River. Some people think that we will where there has been any public disorder never be able to make a business centre other than one single instance in Jolo, out of the Port Area, but that is all' we which was dao to religious fanaticism. got now, and it has got to be the busi It wouldn't be possible to find any better
aess centre here for, some years to come. conditions of public oriter that we have These people think that the only solu bad recently, and the people are all much tion is the development of a new port more interested now in their crope, in area at the northem end of the water the development of their fands and busi- | front, but the north port area project nesses and of public improvements and will be very costly and we can't touch facilities, especially schooli, than they it for some time to come; but if we can are in politics.. Now that the elections | get a bridge'across the Pasig which will are over, you don't hear very much of be suitable for the railroad, for electric political discussion in the provinces, but cars, for foot passengers, and for wheel. you do hear a lot about schools and ed vehicles of all kinds, we will then about building up business, and about have our port area hooked up with our taxes-and it is the extension and build- ing up of the school system that I want to discuss particularly. More sebools mean that we will need more revenues and we can't increase our revenues with out building up business. We want to bring capital in here from the outside, and the Filipinos can look upon the ad vent of such capital with entire con fidence. Capital is not going to come
PCOLIC HEALTH IMPROVEMENT, here for their exploitation, but the deve
We are doing what we can for the im- lopinent of our Intent resources and to
provetannt of public health facilities. better their condition by increasing the We are turning out a very large class of wealth of the country and it should be highly-trained" public health nurses- clicouraged rather than discouraged by young women who have graduated in the restrictive laws. In fact, it is a question regular nursing courses-and they are whether we have not restricted new en- going into the provinces and will travel terprises too mach in view of certain aheat from place to place na 'n sort of features of the land laws, the laws relat-body of medical missionuries. The Red ing to mineral claims, etc-whether we Cross is doing good work here--we ure haven't restricted them too much, and to now sending men from that organization such an extent as to paralyze that deve to Sundar and Tayte to see what has hap lopment. We are trying now to improve pened there in the recent typhoons and the conditions of the land laws, especi what relief is necessary. ally in such a way as will open the way to the development of crops like rubber-- crops which are so splendidly adapted to
The problems of the Insular Govern- Philippine conditions and to the abiliment here are multiple, but on the whole tics of the Filipino farmer. It is hard to I think that we are getting along fairly imagine an enterprise to which the. Fili-well. We are not extending our school pino farmer will take more kindly, once he understand it, than the handling a good-sized rubber plantation. We are also trying to get our mining laws changed. At present the law. limits an individual or a corporation to the loca tion af but one claim on the same veis, or lode, and if you can only take ni dhe chain, no matter how good the vein or lode is, it is hardly possible to put in big mill to handle only the ore from that one claim; so we now have legislation proposed which will make it possible for au individual or a corporation to how ten claims on the same vein or lode, and, we hope to get it through at the next seanion of the legislature. In our own country, we have no limit on the number of claims which an individual or a com- pany may take up on the same vein. oral and industrial training. The wealth lode, and there has been a wonderful development of the mining industry
there.
TO REMOVE THE WHARFAGE TAX. We are also trying to get through legislation which will remove the wharf age tax of two pesos per ton on exports, which is not only a very heavy burden on exported commodities, but is also killing the possibility of development of sonic of our mineral resources. In some of the islands, we have some of the highest grade iron ore deposits in the world. In the island of Mindanao, I think, it is estimated that there are 70.000.000 tons of iron ore,, and it is estimated that this pre contains 58 per cent of high-grade iron, and people are now beginning to realize that this export or wharfage tax of two pesos per ton is paralyzing the development of these great mineral re sources and that it must be removed. We had that matter up in the legislature last year. and although it didn't go through, I think the legislature is keenly interested in the development of the country and that they realize that all these things must be done, and we expect to get it thrungh this year.
Mr. Massey is about to begin the manufacture of high-grade cement in large quantities and at a low price, which will help very much in the development of construction activities in the Philip pines.
EDUCATIONAL EFFURT,
work as much as we would like to, for the reason that we haven't got the money, and we are frying now to get through legislation which will enable e provinces and municipalities, after a referendum to the prople and getting their approval, to impuse certain special taxes for public health and for public works and education If we can get that through, we can supplement with these funds the insular appropriations that we now have available and inercase them good deal. The desire for education is very keen, Soric of 118 don't believe that there ought to He so much of the routine higher education as other people would have, but more of aubatantial primary and intermediate training, plus good agricultural, commercial, mechanic.
of the islands comes, of course, from agriculture, and we want to develop these agricultural schools, and we are doing what we can to encourage the people in that direction. We are doing what we can to get the young women to go into nursing and Red Cross and pub lic health work, and a great many of them have already taken the course and have graduated as nurses; and we are trying to get the boys to go in for engi- neering and agricultural and industrial training, and all in all we are getting good results.
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"WE BAVE GOT TO INCREASE BUSINESS.”
There is a very good feeling between tue Americans and the Filipince through out the islands, and I think I can say, speaking from the knowledge that I have gained from travelling around and secing various places, that there is waking-up. Of course, there is a tremen- dous lot of work still to be done, and the people are beginning to turn to their representatives and to look upon then as they should: as those who are to repre- sent their ideas and their needs and desire is the legislature, and as soon ne we can get that movement well sturted,
think we shall find that more legisla tion will be passed in behalf of the deve lopricat of agriculture and industry and comporce and theac other big things, which will mean increased wealth.
We have got to have an increase of "busi- After referring to what is being doneness and an increase of income in order to solve the problem of land titles, and to do what we want to do here. The to facilitate the transfer of money in the main thing is for all to pull together. provinces, the Governor-General said —— Don't let any little, petty issues, ficti- These are some of the practical things tious or otherwise, mark that spirit of that we are trying to do, and I might run | co-operation which is necessary for the on for some time along the same lines; welfare of the islands and for carrying hut our effort has been to build up busi-out the policy of our own country here. ness and business opportunity through Good lack to you all. (Great applause) legitimate and proper means which will safeguard adequately the heritage of the Reuerations yet unborn, to develop public education, to conserve and protect our forests, to improve our commerce, to im prove our interisland shipping; and, in-
2/ Looking through, my Toric lenses is cidentally, one great work is always like looking through a fine plate glass under consideration, and that is the in- provement of the port facilities of window," said an American lady, in the Mauila
course of her remarks while in a tramçar the other day. She said just the right the Harbour Board there was a general thing. It cost a bit more to build feeling that this was one of the worst plate glass window and it cost a bit more ports in the Far East, and especially is to make a pair of Torio lenses than the the minds of ships' owners and their ordinary fat kind. Torica are more than agents. The other day Robert Dollar's
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and Shanghai Whd this great pier tion are manufactured by The Hongkong which is now inader construction is finish Optical Co., successors to Clark & Co., rd, it will post some P8,000,000, and
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