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THE WHEAT PROBLEM OF CANADA
The problem presented by the situation which has arisen with regard to wheat, constitutes one of the major domestie questions' confronting Canada today. On its successful solution Sur- rest the future and prosperity of our Western provinces. gestions have been made involving very drastic restriction in In 1940, a record the acreage to be sown to wheat this spring.
area of 28,728.000 acres was sown, au increase of nearly 2 million acres over the 1983 total due to the anticipation of greatly en- hanced demand as a result of the war. did not materiálise
This, unfortunately,
FINANCE & GENERAL
Finance and Commerce
LIQUID GOLD
INDUSTRIAL
DOWN SINK TOUR OF CHINA'S Bankruptcy Court statement, HINTERLAND.
that more than £2,000 worth or quld, gold was lost down a sink was mentioned at Coventry when Willam Neal, 49, of Hearsail-jabe.
In any such scheme, une pourer twice the estimated requirements Coventry, was committed for trial land is naturally withdrawn, first for
and result in
1941/42. Intelligent
the cultivated area,
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SCRAP METAL
H.K. STOCK EXCHANGE
The market remains quiet and featureless.
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CHUNGKING, Feb. 2u (Central) -Mr. Aw Boon-haw, overseas Chinese industrial magnate from Singapore, Mr. L Sing-kul, well- known Chinese leader in Hong- farm accused of five offences under the kong and several other overseas so that, other things being equal operation requires that a certain Bankruptcy Acts,
Chinese leaders are coming. to One charge alleged that after Chungking shortly to investigate the decline in production is much portion of
condition in the in- less than the reduction in acreage. generally from one-third to one-the presentation of a bankruptcy industrial
Such petition he attempted to account terior. Some place the optimum reduction hall, should be left fallow.
The Commission on Overseas at, about one-third, to approxi-practice should be encouraged for for part or his property by ficti mately 20 million acres Even if the coming season and farmers tious loss: another that he filled Affairs, the Ministry of Sociál the Chungking Muri-. the spring season should be most wheat deliveries might be limited to file a satisfactory account of Welfare. unfavourable
to the yield of one-half of their the manner in which the loss of cipal Government and other gov- between £2,000 and £2,500 worthernment organisations concerned general crop fallure, the large total cultivated are.
or gold had been incurred.
are making preparations to wel- stocks carried over would be more Complete data as to 1940 acreage
Neal pleaded not gulity and ra- come them. than sufficient to meet any possi-is available to the Wheat. Board
served his defence. He was allow- ble demand during the forthcom through the permits required fored ball in £25.
the 1940/41. wheat season, Ing crop year,
Mr. G. J Ball. prosecuting, said The larger numbers of animals
coupled with information as to
that Neal was a watch casemaker CHUNGKING, Feb. 20 (Central) or Canadian farms naturally re- total wheat requirements, a basis until 1931, He then became
an The Executive Tuan meeting quire increased quantities of feed could be arranged for 1941/42 de omnibus proprietor, and was also yesterday approved of the draft and this situation warrants the liveries: Such a progaamme, while
a laundry business regulations governing the disposal partier in considerably "larger casing the immediate pressure of Later he became a gold refiner, of scrap metal. areas to coarse grains. Some of
storage and related problems. bullion dealer and Jewelle. In the acreage withdrawn from wheat might entail far-reaching tinan-July, 1939, when he was adjudi- the loss of gold in schution to the
well be diverted to
cial repercussione sa that musl
of cated bankrupt, his gross liabilities value
between £2,000 and careful study and consideration of were £18214 and is assets, £136 22.500 by stating that the glass COMPULSORY PLANS
the whole Western farm economy | 153
container was broken as he moved Chins Providents. Plans for compulsory acreage is required
"STAFF OF ONE BOY it from a shelf, and the contents HK. Electrics (0) reduction in other countries with
WAR PROBLEM
Els bullion account showed purwent into the workshop sink and compensation to farmers for with-
been chases cf gold worth £140,748 and down a drain. holding their land from prom
The wheat problem has
A chemist gave evidence that H.K. Tramways" tion have had bus indifferent suc-intensified "by war conditions and his sales of refined gold to the
part of the value of £136,009," added Mr. Bal the, quantity of gold in solution H.K. Lands CESS. The
Canada 'has become. in fact, policy for
of This business was started without to represent, such a value would should be the subject of careful war problem. Large reserves.
"staff can weigh about 1001b, and &# 01- study so that the reduction may food supplies are vital to the suc- capital, and with a
unable dinary person would be be secured. not through expensive cessful prosecution of a war and sisting of one bov.
During his examination at the to carry it in any ordinary con- and wasteful bonuses to keep the what more convenient form can be
such reserves than out of found for
Bankruptcy Court Neal explained tainer. best, low-cost wheat land production but through the return wheat? While present supplies of of extensive areas of marginal wheat may be embarrassing.
Sowing
might
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of
Such
land to pasture and range under abundance, even a superabundance HONGKONG
the possible aeg's, for example. of of wheat must be a great reassur-
holders when they are | STOCK EXCHANGE, the Dominion Government's Prairie ance to
world actively participating in a Farm Rehabilitation programme.
the Prodable exports in
crop war of such grim ruthlessness as Canada has had two year 1941/42 have been placed at the present.
bushels large wheat, crops in successive trom 140 to 175 million
and domestic requirements at 125 years: a third miay follow in view million, a total of 300 million of the present favourable moisture bushels. Canada's wheat acreage situation but there is no assurance
succes-
is quite capable under extremely that we may not have à favourable conditions of producing ston of poor ones, or even a crop
or fallure as in 1937, a crop of 500 million bushels
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Volume of Business Transicted on Thursday, Feb. 20, 1941.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY
SAY
21, 1941: -PAGE 111-
Gordon's
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NO COLOURING MATTER
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U.S., British Exodus From Shanghai
Landon, Feb. 19 (Reuter)}, CHUNGKING, Feb. 20 (Central) Cash, Middle-A President Uner which is sche-
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EXCHANGE
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50
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H.K. Electrics (N)
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36.75 i Tin. Standard,
100
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100
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The total value is $24,081,25.
duled to arrive in Shanghai and
33.75 Tin, Standard. 3 months, Middle carry, American
Industrial Projects Under Study
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Price £268-3/8.
Market strong.
LONDON GOLD
London, Feb. 19 (Reuter). Bar Gold, Fine per oz. 168/-
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evacuees back to the United States is fully booked, according to a Shanghat dispatch." Freparations for the evacuation of British from Shanghai are also under way. Between 500 and 600 British evacuees are understood to be arriving to Shanghai from Pei- ping and Tientsin en route back to England.
CHUNGKING, Feb. 20 (Central)
VICHY TRIAL -The National Government Mas appropriated $100,000 {Chinese LONDON, Feb. 20 (Reuter} WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (Reuter) - currency to the Industrial Pro- The big trial of the officers. who-The new United States 35,000- jects Research Committee under have joined the De Gaulle's move-ton battleship, Washington, will be the Chinese Engineers Society ment is to begin on Feb. 25 at commissioned on May 15, aix which is studying ways and means Gannat, 10 miles west Vichy, months ahead of schedule, the
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GOOD THIS
YEAR ·
Canadian Mineral Production
Mineral production in Canada record during 1939 reached the
Prospects for the 1941 harvest value of $474.602.059 as against
Increases
of winter crops as well as spring $441,623,237 in 1938, an increase of sowing are good, declared General 7.4 per cent. Marked Chen Chi-tang, minister of agri-were recorded by all major divi culture and forestry. The ministry sions of the industry, reflecting has developed a programme to la- general expansion in production crease this year's food production and the greatest advances in new in the interior
development experienced in recent Rainfall in the north-western years. The value of metals and provinces after last August was metallic ores amounted to $343.- sufficient for the growth of wheat 506,123 as compared with $323.- which is there the most important,075,154 in 1938. staple food. A good harvest is virtually
The
in
were
Coal, crude petroleum and other assured: judging from fuels totalled $70.671,328 against reports received by the ministry 364.803.294: asbestos, gypsum and
to other sufficient rainfall
minerals industrial southwestern and Yangtze River valued at $25,061,849, an increase provinces and the reserve of war of $4,995.726, while clay products. cernent, stone and other structural on Szechwan farms promise good spring sowing. If no drought, materials totalled $35,362,759 com- occurs inis summer, 1941 will prepared with $33.878.666 in 1938. duce a bumper crap.
Gold production reached the all-
25
The ministry has submitted time peak of 5,094,378 fine ounces plan for increasing food produce valued at $184,115,951. The value tion. It calls for an expenditure of of Canada's entire mineral produc- $9,000,000. The Executive Yuan's
tion in 1922 totalled $184,297,242. plan towards this attitude favourable. Its detalled applica- tion will be discussed at the a- tional agriculture and forsetry conference to be held this spring In Chungking.
RICE AFFECTED
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New output records in base metals were established in 1939 for copper, nickel and zinc, the combined values of which aggre- gated $111,855,184. Lead production totalled 388,589,550 pounds, valued at $12,313,768, The insuficient rainfall in 1940 The fuel industries were featur affected to some extent the rice ed in 1938 by a notable increase production in Szechwan although over the previous year in the pro- it did not result in famine. The auction of crude petroleum.. authorities are determined to give amounting to 7,826,301 barrels com- more attention to irrigation in pared with 6,006,084 barrels, Coal Szechwan. Besides repairing the production totalled 15,537,443 tons.. existing vast network of irrigation an increase to 8.7 per cent. The canals in the province, 14 new output of natural gas reached a canals. 130 reservoirs, and 1112 record total of 35,185,146,000 cubic water ponds were dug before last feet.
November. They
are served
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and can water 445,000 mow.
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the year. Moreover, the
of well watered land. Plans for 14 Szechwan agricultural authori- more canals, to water 450,000 mow ties are raising the production of or land, are under consideration corn. The province has more than by the engineers,
4,000,000 mow of kaollang farms: Winter crop prospects in Szech-when changed to corn, they will wan for this season are encourag-produce some 5,000,000 piculs. As ing. Compared with last year's com ripes 40-50 days earlier than cultivated acreage, an increase of kaoliang, the fields will sooner be 1,000,000 mow has been registar- free for other crops.cio)
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