HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
Finance and Commerce
Rebuilding China's
Industries: Putting More Refugees
To Work
How the Chinese Industrial Co-operatives are putting re- fugees to work and achieving the industrial reconstruction of China's interior provinces was told by Mr. Frank F.Y. Lem. chief engineer of the organization, who arrived recently on a flying visit "to longkang.
DEVELOPMENT
H
OF
RURAL WORK IN CHINA CHUNGKING, April 24 (Central: Despite the loss of a total of $1.- 586,844.48 In loans extended to far- mers and in products stored in areas now under Japanese occupa- Mon, the Agricultural Credit Ad. ministration of the Ministry of Economics is continuing its work in ruval development on a wider scale
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FINANCE
MERCANTILE BANK MTG.
Chairman's Reference) To Conditions In H.K.
The forty-sixth annual general meeting of the shareholders of the Mercanille Bank of India, Ltd.. I was held at Winchester House, Old
Broad Street. London, EC., on Mar. 28, 1939, with Sir Charles A. Innes, K.C.S.I., C.1.E., in the chair.
After the usual preliminaries. the Chairman delivered a lengthy speech. In the course of which he dealt in detail with the working of According to an official report,
the bank and its various branches Shortly after the first co-opera- Szechwan. Over 300 workers will the Administration had, by the end
in the year under review. tive depots were established in the make matches. Two thousand re-or 1938, a total Investment of $18.- "After referring to the Inter- vicinity of the Hengyang-Kwellin fugee women are to be used to:
459,343 in leans to farmers, in add. national tension in Europe and the (Hsiang-Kwel) railway, in West box-making.
tion to a chain of storehouse most- Sino-Japanese conflict. In the Far Hunan, that section of the country A woothbrush factory, using locally in the south-western provinces. East, all of which bad disorganized was fonded with countless thou- bristles and employing 40 retugees sands of refugees fleeing from from Cuangsha turns
Eight co-operative banks, which trade to a great extent, the Chair- out this Hankow, on the heels of this great article both for local use and for
extended loans to man, stated that "in the circum- wave came another, composed "of export,
farmers now in cecupled areas, stances. It is satisfactory that our caused the Administration a loss pront of £192.443 shows an im- of $481.3110.63. But, 62 new co-provement on the previous year We are maintaining our operative banks have been set up
citizens of Changsha left homeless An absorbent cotton and gauze by the burning of their city. plant produced 1,000 pounds of It was at this time, when the cotton and 200 pounds of lint daily whole life of the province seemed-half the output being taken up to be disintegrating. that the co-by the Red Cross, the other half operatives began their work in by the army medical service. Kunan
Printing. leather-tanning and Abandoned scrap iron was col-towel-making co-operatives supply lected. Machinery was borrowed the population"and the ariny. from a technical school that was
UNLIMITED FIELD planning to evacuate. Forty skilled
had
under are
dollars in excess of the figure of 1937, and a "record, for the Colony.
"But the position changed dramatically in the last month of the year. Canton fell, trade with that port is now at a standstill and since the be ginning of the current year, business has been extremely "dull.
In Central and South-Western dividend at the usual 12 per cent." China.
TRADE BOOM - Nine storehouses built by the Ad-
of Speaking ministration, valued at $125.081.08,
Hongkong. the Chairman were lost as a result of the war.
said: "For eleven But the AC.A. hat, by the end of enjoyed something in the nature months of the year. Hongkong 1938, bullt 26 new storehouses of a trade boom and the total So excellent is the production of Twenty-three others workers were found. The result was the co-operative workshops that construction and 38 others being 1.130 million dollars, 46 million trade of the Colony was valued at a co-operative machine shop that their common trade-mark, a blun-planned. plans to manufacture equipment ted triangle, has already been The Administration will also have for other co-operative industries imitated by corhpetitors. "
a network of..87 warehouses soon. and to do repair work, on a con." "The field is unlimited," said Mr. Forty-six of these will be located tract basis. for the starig-Kwai Lem. "To develop our work we need in Szechwan. 16 in Kwangsi, 15 in
tway
only* funds to investigate new Kwelchow, n'ne in Hunan and one FOUR NEW FACTORIES | processes, to bring workers and in Hupah The Provincial Government, machinery together, and to trans- which early realized the impor-port them where they are needed. tance of the organization. was Our grant from the government FORT WILLIAM-In their at- new covers only loans to co-operatives|tempt to meet the demands of factories The co-operatives volun- and payment of staff salaries. To feminine fashion and teered to operate two- textile strike out into new fields of work, saty create new vogues, the fur. mill and a shoemaking plant. This we have to depend on what we farmers of Canada
"The war has had other efecta are' forever is only one instance of how the call special
on Hongkong. The population" of these seeking to improve the type and
of authorities and the go-operative | are made up from 'contributions by foxes and other animals
the Colony has, tricreased so much being movement are helping each other. Chinese and foreign friends bred in captivity. A
that housing has become an acute local fur With machinery borrowed from throughout the world who know farmer is contemplating crossing problem, while destitute refugees the government and a loan from that in helping the co-operatives the ring-neck platinum fax
from China contribute another the co-operatives' capital fund sup- they are both providing the most Canada with the Greenland Arc-problem for the Hongkong Govern- plied by the Executive Yuan, a permanent type of refugee relet tic blue fox which should, in his match factory has been set up to and helping China to keep her opinion, produce "one of the most serve the needs of four provinces feet in her struggle for an Ince- beautiful furred creatures in the Hunan, Hupeh, Kwelchow and pendent existence."
entire animal kingdom."
planning to set up four
funds.
песев-
of
BRITAIN BUILDS | Importance Of U.S. Merchant
FEWER CARGO
SHIPS
Need Of State Aid Emphasized
Further fight on the ship- building situation up to the end of last month is contain- ed in the quarterly returns Issued by Lloyd's Register of Shipping.
Marine
DEFENCE AND
COMMERCE ·
Declaring that for the first time in American history the problem of the Merchant Marine is being treated in a sane, analytical and business- like
manner, Mr. Joseph R. Sheehan. Presiden' of th American President Lines, gavt the principal-address on Trea- sure Island before the United States Conference of Mayors, meeting at the World's Fair.
ment,
OTHER EFFECTS
+--
FJ
"As I noted last year, however, the increase of the population has made for internal prosperity, and retail shops, public utility com- panies and local shipping com- panles have had another good year."
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TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1939. —PAGE 17
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Canada's 1938 as the Navy. The Navy." he said, wheat crop is averaging about a "is a frightfully expensive esta grade higher than in 1937, with blishment, but one which we must No. 2 Northern being the miore maintain 3.4 Insurance against { common grade this season trouble, And we can, of course, re- compared with No. 3 Northern in ceive no return on this investment į 1937. Approximately 87 per cent. other than the insurance which it of the wheat inspected by Cana- provides. We can, however, receive dlan Government officials in the a return on the auxiliary part of five-month period from August to mur Navy, the merchant marine, by December 31 graded No. 3 Nor- supporting and patronizing it in thern or higher while in the time of peace."
corresponding period of 1937' only He stated that American ships 84 per cent. came within that now carry only about 26 per cent, grade. jof our commerce, and that if this could be boosted to only 35 per cent. the annual revenue would be in- creased by $45,000,009. The industry
Merchant vessels under con- struction at that date in this country amounted to 596,903 tcns gross, showing a decrease of 182,- 859 tons on the preceding quar- ter, and of 492,174 tons on the ton- "When our present aging tonnage is now receiving $9,000,000 a year nage being built at the end of has been replaced." Mr. Sheehan in subsidies from the Government.
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Unsen Kanko Hotel
Yumei Hotel
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COMFORT IN HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS
:
TRAVEL
March, 1938. Yet abroad the cor- faald, "the accomplishment will have responding figure, excluding Russia been effected in such manner as (which makes по returns). is to give us a merchant marine-ade- 2,106,764 tons, which is 217,662 (quate for naval defence and for tons more than the work in hand (our commerce. We shall not have at the end of last year.
merely a great multitude of ships, Leading foreign countries inbuilt during the hysterical and The subject selected this year shipbuilding are the United States, unnatural atmosphere of war, but for the annual joint meeting or with 420,931 tons in hand; Ger-one put together during peacetime, engineering and technical socie- a well considered ties, organised by the Institution "many. 381.304 tons; Japan, 306.745 according tens; the Netherlands, 242,688 plan "
Automobile Engineers, was tons; Italy. 218,970 tons; Den-- Speaking on the importance of "Comfort in Travel" The meet- mark, 132.760 tons; and Sweden,
the US. Merchant Marine in Na-ing was held at the Institution of
abroad includes 165,303 tons Norway and 133,348 tons for tain.
for
Bri-
to
of
127.700 tons, Tonnage building tional Defence, Mr. Sheehan de Civil Engineers, and three short clared that America is now engaged papers, were read, comfort in road In the greatest naval building pro-travel being dealt with by Mr. gramme in the history of the world. Sidney Garcke, in rail travel by and that the Navy has advised the the Rt. Hon Lord Stamp, and, in Maritime Commission that not air travel by Captain E. W. Per- less than 500 merchant vessels are cival needed to supplement the Naval All three authors were agreed Programme..
that ventilation, heating. lighting.
71,156 TONS LAST QUARTER New tonnage begun in this coun. try during the last three months amounted to no more than 71,158 tons, a striking proof of the need
Hence the Maritime Commission | noise, and mental strain were de- for Government ald "s0
has formulated a policy under termining factors, with suspension recently afforded. Abroad
which it will lay down afty ships as an additional factor in the case fresh orders totalled 656,845 tons.
a year for ten years, although it or road and rall vehicles, and will take us some time to rehabili-pitching and rolling in the case of Tankers still form an important tate our merchant marine to the aircraft. proportion of the torinage under point where it will serve adequately construction in the world, num- as a Naval auxiliary and as a by Mr. Garcke are familiar topies, Most of the points referred to bering 87 vessels of 753.449 tons, means of protecting and developing but attention may be directed to of which 16, of 139,391 tons, are jour commerce, nevertheless much his remarks on mental strain. being built in the United King-progress has been made in the past dom.
Speaking of public - service year and a half." Mr. Sheehan sad. vehicles, he pointed out that un- certainty in changes, the ameni- PIFTY TWO "SHIPS
ties of the vehicle itself, the facili-
Steady growth in the number adding: of motorships under construction, as compared with steamers, is "In 1938 the United States Mari-ties available for food and rest en shown by the fact that, of the time Commission let contracts for route. and the absence of road 598,903 tons building in Britlah some fifty-two ships and already congestion, "with his attendant fre- yards, 332,971 tons consist of mo- this year they have contracted for quent application of the brakes, torships; while in foreign countries the construction of fourteen more, and irksome delays, were all im- the motor-ship tonnage is 1.285,154 Among these are twelve tanters, portant factors, in mental comfort. tons out of a total of 2,106,764 three of which I believe have Dealing with the same subject toris.
already been launched. These ) of mental ease, as it concerned the More than 90 per cent, of the tarikers will have speeds of 163 railways, Lord Stamp said that it tonnage building in Great Britain knots which will make them the could be sub-divided into two as and Ireland is being constructed fastest tankers in the world." pects, measures which prevented under the inspection bf Lloyd's Mr. Bheehan declared that - anxiety and care, and those which
"happy circumstance" of the pro- promoted positive enjoyment
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