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Sir Andrew Caldecott
Mr. D. Y. Lin's Informative Hinted In Rumour
Rotary Club Address
The great work which the Kwangtang Provincial Government is doing to conserve the food supplies of the province through the Kwangtung Rural Co-operative Commission and the Bureau of Agriculture and Forestry was told in an able address by Mr. D. Y. Lin, Director of the two organisations in an address at the Rotary Club weekly tiffin yesterday at the Hong Kong Hotel
The part, played by Kwangtung the price of foodstuffs in the pro- behind the battle line in China's vince and has helped in a very heroic resistance against Japanese substantial way in solving the food
aggression may prove to be one of problem in those hsien. the decisive factors in the winning lof the war, sald Mr. Lin.
The Food Problem of Kwangtung ls roughly this: Kwangtung -pro- duces annually about 113,000,000
UNUSED LAND DEVELOPED
A rumour has reached Malaya that Sir Andrew Caldecott will be next Governor and High Commis- sloner of Malaya. This rumour is not without foundation and a mild bint was given at a recent dinner, asys the Times of Malaya. Making due allowance for after- next logical transfer in the ordin- dinner speeches Malaya is the
Andrew will be very much wel-
ary course of events and Sir
comed here.
the
Should Sir Andrew leave Ceylon there will be another Sir Andrew Concerning the plan of increas- Caldecott doing service in Ceylon in cultivated area for production, and that is the railway engine plculs of unhulled rice
you may be interested to or ap-
know named after him. On the occa- that the proximately 73,000,000 piculs of
so-called "Emergency sien of the christening of pollahed rice, said Mr. Lin. Since, Land Regulations" for facilitating locomotive Sir Andrew said: however, the total consumption for the acquisition of idle land for re-
"Hon. Minister, General Mana- the 33,000,000 people is $2,000,000 clamation and colonisation pur-ger and gentlemen. I can tell you piculs, there has been an average poses have already been drawn up that I feel very proud that my shortage of about 10,000,000 piculs and put in operation.
name is going to be associated Over 425,000 mow of undevelop-with the fortunes of the Ceylon To cover this shortage. Kwanged land in Pok Lo and Ying Tek Government Railway in this very tung has been importing rice from haien have already been set aside literal and practical manner. abroad and from the neighbouring that within the next 12 months as Sir Andrew Caldecotts will in their for the purpose, and it is expected! "I can only hope that both the provinces.
much as 2,256,100 mow of such land service in "Ceylon always keep en will be made available for colonisa-the rails and never run hot axle- tion" in the various hsien along the borės."
per year.
DECREASE SHORTAGE
It is evident, therefore, if any-Pearl River basin. thing is to be done to solve the food problem of Kwangtung, or,
In other words, if any food con- servation project is to be carried
LIMITING CASH CROPS
Mr. Q. G. Ponnambalam, the Minister of Transport, who is at present in Malaya, was present on
Again. In connection with the the occasion.
out at all. especially during this carrying out of this production emergency time, the object must programme, I might mention that
be to decrease this annual shor- the Government has limited the of this voluntary prohibition habit tage, to economise the use of rice planting area and in certain places is not without its significance. as a staple food and to increase stopped entirely cultivation of There are, however, two import-
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Its production locally within the auch cash crops as tobacco and ant and definite steps taken by Enough To Shock Pagan" sugar-cane in order to devote more the Provincial Government in the Today I am not going to discuss and for the production of food carrying out of this Food Economy takable signs of a moral. collapse, The present age shows unmis- Programme, to which I would like sald Dr. W. R.: Matthews, Dean of to call your attention and they are;-
in detall the many projects which crops.
are
FOOD STORAGE
the Provincial Government has been carrying out for the conser- vation of food supply, These pro- We now come to the Food Stor- jects
necessarily very inage Programme. I believe there is tensive because of war. I shall a saying in America which runs merely enumerate some of these something. Like this"Eat what you projects and discuss them under can and can what you cannot."
the following headings:.
1. Food Production Programme.
2. Food Storage Programme.
St. Paul's Cathedral, when he delivered the Warburton lecture 1. The promulgation of
the on
"Morals, secular or super- Provincial Order prohibiting natural," at Lincoln's Inn Chapel, the milling and sale of high- grade polished rice.
of tso m' or rough rice for our
"This is shown in three respects
2. The organising of province particularly," Dr. Matthews con- This is sound economic principle. wide campaigns for promot-tinued. "It would be difficult to the principle of storing away sur- ing and popularising the use think of another age in history" plus production for future use.
of Cha Liang or miscellaneous when ruthlessness was so wides- 3. Food Economy Programme. Some of you may recall that dur- food crops as substitutes for Pread, so efficient, and so widely To effect an increase in fooding the year 1937 Kwangtung had rice.
admired. production for the province it is an excellent spring rice crop and
USE OF TSO ML"
"The keeping of promises and most important that we give the a fair autumn crop. The spring
Some of you may have heard virtues to be practised by primitiva treatles is one...of the earliest farmers better seeds, more land for crop was estimated at 61,625,270 cultivation, and more capital and plculs of unhulled rice or Penthusiasm in promoting the use tion of any settled social life...
about Governor Wa Te-chen's
people, and is indeed the founda- credit facilities for the purchase of proximately 40,058,430: pleuls of seeds, implements and fertilizer. polished rice, showing an increase
So no sooner had the war broken of about 10 per cent over what we hibited the milling and sale of when solemn engagements were so daily, meals, and how he has pro- There never has been a time out at Lukuochino than the Gor-generally obtain during normai ernment ordered the entire staff years. And the autumn crop, in high-grade nglished rice through lightly thrown over by statesmen, of the Bureau of Agriculture and spite of the damage due to foods out the province.
and when the cynical doctrine that Forestry to be mobilized for the in certain districts, was also a good
Such a provincial order has per- no one can be expected to stand earrying out of an "Emergency one.
haps caused much trouble to the by a bargain if it is inconvenient Food Production Programme
local rice dealers and a lot of in- to him is so widely accepted. sisting of extending financial and
convenience to those rice-eaters "In many circles of civilised technical assistance to the needy farmers, promoting winter cul-ing these. good harvest months, a
only the whitest kind of polished tions of sex are regarded in a tivation of Cha Liang or minor programme of compulsory storage
rice.
manner 80 light as to shock a food crops such as wheat, sweet of rice was drawn up, and regula-high-grade polished rice is not
But, it must be remembered, respectable pagan. potatoes, taro, etc. and developing tions governing storage in each only interior in food values, being there is a close connection be- unused lands not only for the sake hsten and each village were pro deficient in vitamins, but also very tween belief about the kind of "These facts seem to show that of the farmers in the congested mulgated and enforced by the Pro-wasteful, as it requires five to six universe in which we are living rural districts but also for the vincial Government. benefit of thousands of unem-
The result of the enforcement of per cent. more unhulled rice to and the kind of conduct which we ployed that have been affected by storage regulations was the estab
manufacture it.
think reasonable." the war.
lishment of a series of Chang Ku the 113,000,000 piculs of unhulled According to a rough estimate, if
the China
more.
COM-
of
GRANARIES
To take care of the surplus dur. Who have been accustomed to eat countries I fear the sacred rela-
or granaries in every hslen and rice produced in Kwangtung were
province for anywhere from four to six months.
39
the storing up of enough rice to all manufactured into rough-grade charts giving the food values of the feed the 33 million people in the rice instead of the polished grade, various minor food crops and show- a saving of 4 to 8 million piculs Ing how they compare favourably and that means that half of the richer in food value than rice. for the province would be effected, with rice and how some are even annual shortage would be taken
"TRIPLE FIFTH" care of.
"CHA LIANG " Cor- Equally important in the conser
picula.
to
Cha Liang.
36 days during the year. The rice shortage of 10 million piculs in this
province when figured in the num-
Now, if 38 days are taken care of, we will not have much difficulty in looking after the other 9 days, It is our hope, therefore, that
ASSISTANCE RENDERED We have heard enough of the **under-capitalised" condition
rural districts-how rural
To supplement this province has been exploited by usurers, landowners and pawnshop | wide storage programme, the Pro- keepers with their exorbitant in-out a transportation plan with the vincial Government also carried terest rates, and how capital or
In this connection you may be credit facilities must be given to
help of the "railroad authorities
interested to know that in order these hard-working farmers if we and the South China Rice are to expect, them to produce poration for facilitating trans-vation of food supply for the pro- popularise the use of Cha Liang, promote and systematically portation and storing of rice in vince is the promotion of Cha the Provincial Government has different sections of the Province Liang (minor food cropa) and The question of financial aid to to the extent of about 3,000,000 | popularising the use of these minor
Just ordered three days during each farmers at this time, therefore, is
food crops as aubstitutes for rice.
month, known as "Triple Fifth perhaps more important than that
Boon after the autumn harvest set aside as special days for eating Memorial Days," to be observed and Arrangement was also made with of technical aid. So, during the
the Provincial summer and autumn of 1937, when the Provincial Bank for a series of 1937, when
granaries to be Bureau of Agriculture was sending War was just getting started of permanent
of the rice out technical men to the 97 halen
Three days of each month means special arrangements for loans established in some
both for to direct the cultivation of minor were made with local banks and marketing centres,
crops during the winter more than 720 rural co-operative stabilising the price of rice in the food
province as a whole as well as for months, the Provincial Govern ber of days, is roughly 45 days. societies, representing £ total membership of 50.041 farmers, were
taking care of the surplus rice`im- ment started the so-called "Eat
Cha
Liang" campaigns organized for receiving such loans. ported from Hunan and Kwangsi. More
throughout the province. You might be interested to know that within only 5 or 6 months a
Lecturers were sent out; posters sum of over $3,000,000, Canton cur-
and slogans were distributed;" all Under this heading a lot could schools, clubs, restaurants, hos-these "Eat More Cha Llang" com- be said, for much has been done pitals and churches were asked to palgns will help to hasten the day both by the Government in a co-operate; thousands of coples of when Kwangtung is put on a self- we charged only eight ́per cent. public way and by the people the "Cha Llang Cook Book" were supporting basis.
FOOD PRODUCTION LOANS
themselves in a popular and un-distributed-all with the purpose official way.
of popularising the use of Cha During the winter months the I have known of merchants who, Liang as substitutes for rice. bankers again helped by advancing since the Lukuochiao faéident,
WAR-TIME COOK BOOK another loan of $1,500,000 to be have stopped drinking rice-made) used only for increasing the wine because they said they want- I have here a copy of the sosupply. I have often heard that cultivation of food crops during ed to help in a small way, to zave called "Cha Liang Cook Book," the last World War was won not the winter and spring months. more of this staple food for the This booklet represents the result so much on the battlefield as by As a result of intensive promo-war. This may sound like starting of two months' brave work, or shall careful conservation of food supply, tion and such financial help given a prohibition movement which, we I call it war, work, of a few public- The part played by Kwangtung there was. according to the know, is not necessary here in spirited ladies who, in spite of in China's herole resistance against estimates for the 50 haien whica Chins.
daily Japanese air raids in Canton. Japanese aggression is known to {reported, an increase in production But when we come to think that volunteered their services in ex-you all; its efforts behind the of 11,686,280 picula of sweet as much as 8 per cent of the rice perimenting it in our laboratories battle-line, though carried on in potatoes, taro, and other minor produced in the province is used and preparing it for use for the a far less spectacular way, are food crops.
for the manufacture of various different homes.
equally important and may prove Needless to add, such an increase home industries of which wine is At the end of the booklet there to be one of the decisive factors in in production has greatly stabilised the most important, the cultivation are carefully prepared tables-and the winning of this war.
rency, was lent out to these 700 odd societies; and for these loans
FOOD ECONOMY
WORLD WAR RECALLED
I have roughly given you a bird's-eye-view of what Kwang- tung is doing to conserve its food