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12. PEDDER ST.
JAPAN'S BUYING OF RICE HARBOUR OFFICE
LIKELY TO AFFECT P.J.
A 15 per cent slump in the rice production of Japan and the drive for food sufficiency being conducted by the Japanese gov- ernment are able to have an adverse effect on the activities of the Philippine government toward avoidance of a food shortage, students of Oriental economic trends told the Manila Bulletin recently
NOTICE
A Harbour Office notice Issued yesterday states that an obstruc- tion extending from No. 13 Navat Buoy along the ne of Navni Buoys 12, 11. and 10 to Commer- cial Buoy No. C 5, and thence to Japan is doing all in its power It was pointed out that whne a position approximately 1.0 cable. to insure an adequate supply of construction of more irrigation west of Kellett Island will be laid rice in view of an impending systems is necessary for the today. (Feb. 10) major crisis.
diverse security of the people, it is not a
Due to
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causes, its production of the cereal solution to the present problem. but improper distribution of the this year decreased by 15 per cent. Good irrigation cannot be built water. Importation in large quantits let a matter of months and the They reported that some of the resorted to.
questions of food supply needs landowners in the upper part of JAPANESE CONTROL Immediate solution. It is, there- the system. when they
saw that During the past several months. fore, imperative that the present there was danger of lack of water. practically" all excess rice in the system be enlarged and their ser- would build temporary dams to Ap hinterland of China under thejvice Improved.
[pool" the water on their places. control or influence of Japan has COMPLAIN OF ADMINISTRATIONE this way. the lands farther been imported by order of the Rice farmers from Luzon and the down received an inadequate sup- authorities of the Land of the Visayas have been complaining ply of water. This practice 18 Rising Sun. The immediate effect against the administration of illegal but it is not found out on! of this was felt by Shanghal many of the irrigation systems. time due to lack of supervision which has been depending on the Many of the defects pointed out by the men in charge of the surrounding provinces for much can be remedied by having the systems.
its supply
men in charge of the systems take In other cases, it was pointed Unable to get rice from Its re- more interest in their work or by but the canals become shallow in gular sources. Shanghai has had increasing the personnel. Some spots due to heavy sedimentation to increase considerably its Im-farmers, for instance, reported that and water in sufficient quantity portation of the grain from Indo- the trouble with many of the falls to reach the lands in the
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China, the same source from systems was not lack of water, lower regions. which the Philippines gets much
of its supply every year
Dis-
turbed conditions in southeastern
Asia due to the Indo-China-That | WEATHER REPORT trouble (although a truce has just
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Hongkong Royal Observatory
10a.m., Feb. 10.
Invasion of South China make the Barometer. (at seg level), 30.10 ins. situation worse for the Philippines Temperature. 69 F.
as far as rice importation is en-Humidity, 75 per cent. cerned
Wind Direction. E/S
SHANGHAI ALREADY PINCHED Wind Force (Beaufort), 4
During the past year, Shanghal Temperature: Maximum vesterday imported more than 4,300,000 quin-
tals of rice (one quintal equals Temperature: Minimum last night
67 F.
220 pounds). more than 90 per cent
64 F
of which came from Saigon and Rainfall for 24 hrs, ending 10 the rest from Thailand and Hong-
today, mil.
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kong. Due to Japanese restric-Total rainfall since January 1FL
rice into tions on importation of
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Against an average of, 1.80 ins.
from forelæn countries per month was more than ten times that dur- Sunrise tomorrow. 6.58 a.m.
4 p.m., Feb. 10. Barometer (at sea level), 30.04 ins. Frincipally due to this the price of rice in Shanghai hiked to an. Temperature, 67 F.
rice Humidity. 83 per cent. precedented levels. In 1938 was quoted in Shanghai at $13,83 Wind Direction, E. Der zah of 78 kilos. In December Wind Force (Beaufort), 5. 1940, the price was P108 per zah. Of course. it must be stated that due to war conditions the Shang- hai dollar has been greatly da preciated in value.
Such a situation in China, Japan and Indo-China makes it neces- sary, according to economists, that the Philippines make efforts to insure sufficient production of its staple food and not to depend on importation to solve its food pro- blem. The best way to achieve this, it was pointed out, is for the government to construct, more irrigation systems and to improve the administration of those already In existence
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in almost all rice-producing pro- vinces. the greater portion of the landa are not reached by irrika- tion systems. This means that many of the farmers have to de- pend upon the elements for the production. They may get no water cr too much water. Under those conditions, credit is hard to get from the banks, and money- tenders have to exact exhorbitant rates to make up for the lack of securities
LOW WATER
Hong
HONG KONG TIDE TABLE From 11 to 17 Feb. 1941.
BIGN WATER.
Bong
Kong Standard Time.
Days of
Week
Haight.
Kong
Standart Time,
Hoight
៥. t
ift 18
h. m.in.
Tues 11
0937
4 6
03 16
20 46
76
14.92
Wed. 12
1008
4 9
€135
2134
7 6
15.07
Thur. 13
10 42
5 1
0127
5
22 12
7 6'
IR 51
Fri.
14
11 16
5 4
05 93
23.07
7 3
1637
2 1
iSat 15
11'85
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605 37
10
23 57
167-
17 57
2 L
Yan 16
03 14
B
12 37
187
18 22
Wor-17
00:4
15 0
OF 47
13 24
159
19 27
12 4
Maximum temperature, 72 F. Minimum temperature. 63 F. Rainfall, nil.
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