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Dr. RE Chambers writes as follows in the Cunton Times
The writer was asked twenty years ago what he would do first if he had control in" China. His "reply was that he would eOTET
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to study the entire area to be traversed. Where the. road diverges from the railway it should be connected with the stations by short lines so that the railway and the road would be mutually helpful. But it is es-
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
RICE SCARCITY IN HONGKONG.
ACUTE PRESENT SITUATION.
HOW IT HAS BEEN AGGRAVATED.
]["Hongkong-Telegraph" Special
The rice situation locally shows every sign of growing worse before it becomes better. There is fear of a great scarcity of rice, in the Colony, and in spite of the fact that the rate has gone up fifteen per cent.' during the last) ten days it is believed that it will go up much higher. The marketin rice should, it is argued by those in the trade, increase consider- ably, yet, notwithstanding the fact
scarcity of
that the
the cereal is being folk in the producing countries; as well as the Straits Settlements, Rangoon 13 not allowed to export ricê. Bangkok last year exported to Singapore
234,500 tons.
TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1919,
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pecially important for the road $2,000 tons and to Hongkong GERIN, DREVARD & CO.
to be well constructed so as to serve as a model for roads in other sections. A poor road would be a poor promuter of god roads.
tons.
As far as exports from Saigon go, last year she exported to Hongkong 630,000 tons, to Singapore 134,000 tons and to Japan 335,000 tons. This The Provincial Governmen her monthly exportations to year Saigon started by restricting the hills of China with trees. should control the construction of 20,000 tons and subsequently in-
the road, determine its course and creased them to 40.000 He is still of the same opinion.make it uniform. He has long beer of the opinion soldiers could be employed in the demands from Europe, could not Discharged Bangkok, owing to the unceasing that his second step would be to work of construction. Inciden- supply to Hongkong and Singa- promote in every way road con- tally, robbery would be decreased pore anything near the figure of struction throughout the country. by giving much work to the uc-fast year.
employed. Each district travers- Easy means of communication Led should pay
Under the circumstances the would help every other good of the cost. The Chamber of steady and likely to advance. due quotarice market is certain to be Commerce of Canton could well Exchange has aggravated the afford to give liberally towards situation further, and this will paying for the road. Individuals counteract somewhat the de the con- and companies" both in Canton mand from the United States striction and improvement of and Hongkong would doubtless as the American markets are not their roads. Rome was the first subscribe. The road should be a in a position to pay these bigh
Its free highway. A toll road is to prices. greatroad-building nation. roads were at once an expression be condemned for many reasons.
thing-
Progressive nations have good roads, and so long as they pro-
gress they continue
and an element of its great- ness. America. Great Britain and France have many thousands of miles of good roads. During recent years the automobile has given a great im petus to road construction. More and better roads are the result. The central government of the United States has recently voted many millions of dollars for the construction of roads throughout the country, and the separate states have appropriated. many It is good to see more millions. some evidence that China is be- ginning to wake up to the im portance of good roads,
fare.
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Those local suppliers who have been hit largely during the last quarter do not agree to selt even at an advance of even $1 per picul, and the exporting houses are, therefore, unable either to give quotations or make firm offers anywhere. The situation) is very acute and unprecedented, but with a fall in Exchange things would again become
Furthermore, the quality of the grain this year has been very poor and it will be as well to let importers on the other side know the fact that they should not expect that good quality that they received in 1918. A good percentage of broken rice has come from Bangkok and Saigon,
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Mrs. Pollock writes follows —
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NO MORE CASTOR OIL.
BABY'S OWN TABLETS BRING
JOY TO THE NURSER. “
Children often conceal their sufferings from pure dread of the horrible, nauseating. griping medicines administered to make them well. Cestor Oil is a terror
from ten hours to ten years over,
Bad
Other things of more practical importance being settled. the roadway should be made us at tractive as possible. It would be well if much of the route could be along waterways, and so link the road at as many points as possible with the water traffic. Then too in some sections the .road bed could also normal. serve a protecting dyke. Trees should be planted on both sides on the full length of the road and thus afforestation be promoted. A shaded thorough fare in South China especially would be a thing of beauty and a joy forever. A large public park Can there be a better place to might well be established within make a beginning in this matter reasonable distance of Canton. and the new arrangement arrived I have much pleasure in stating in South China than in construct-Land companies might develop at between the Chamber of Com, that a draft for £500 has been ing a highway between Canton certain areas as model settle-merce of San Francisco and the sent Home, to be "invested in to most little ones. and Hongkong? Already the ments.
In Baby's Own Tablets. the of Hongkong National Funds, the exporters
interest Canadian children's remedy, will Hongkong Government has con-
Of course there are many diff-guaranteeing certain per-from such investment to endow a be found a gentle, non-griping structed a most attractive system culties in the way of the realisa- centage of broken rice, is not bed in Dr. Barnardo's Homes medicine, absolutely safe and of roads in. the
Lerritory tion of such a project as is here calculated to be feasible in the over which a tablet will bear the suitable for children of all ages, under its control. It remains outlined. The same is true of present state of affairs. It is not inscription. only for the Chinese to link anything much worth while. Let possible now to guarantee up with that system and then every one use every opportunity
the percentage of "brokens" "The Hongkong Bed. In Ack-la medicine guaranteed to contain Canton and Hongkong will be to talk in favour of this plan. Let as the quality is very muchnowledgement of Services Render-no opiates, and which is easily connected by a great thorough-the need be realised and inferior as compared with lasted to the Empire and in Memory administered and pleasant to take.
of those who died in the War." let the value and importance year.
These Tablets are a remedy for The whole of South China of the enterprise be made plain Again. in Hongkong there is In addition to the sum of £500 constipation, indigestion, colic, would be benefitted "by the and a way can and will be not a testing machine which casa small surplus from the Sale of diarrhoea. simple. fever
between found for building the road. road
test as micely as the American Work will be sent towards the worms. They make teething opening of
machine Canton and Hongkong. I am Three years ago the writer took testing
Therefore, general expenses of the Homes. easy, break up colds, promote jealous for the reputation of this fifteen Chinese students to the claims would naturally arise on My sincere thanks are due to restful sleep, good appetite and section. Scarcely any one thing United States. The one single shipments made in Hongkong all subscribers and to the Mag-regular development.
Of chemists, alao, post free, 60 would help this reputation im- thing with which those students under the present conditions in pies" for their entertainment in mediately more than a
aid of the Fund, Mrs. Barlow and cents the vial from the Dr. good were most impressed was the the market. system of roads. A good road great Congressional Library in India found herself in a position Civil Hospital and to all who sent chuen Road, Shanghel.
Towards the end of last year the Sisters of the Government Williams Medicine Co. 96 Sze- through to Hongkong Would Washington. Next to that they be a stimulus to road con-talked most about the good roads. which made it necessary to con-needlework for the Sale of Work, struction throughout South I travelled during my furlough servo
to the Press for kindly a major portion of her and China. Mach through traffic al more than
20,000 miles output of rice for her own use. publishing the subscription lists ready exists. This would rapidly automobiles," most
The present position in the Straits and the various notices in con-i frequently increase. Wheeled vehicles accompanied by one or more of Settlements is entirely due to nection with the Fund. motors, inrickshas and horse- the students. Again and again shortage in India, one of the drawn would multiply. The they wished that China might principal sources of supply to intermediate traffic in both have good roads. They were Malaya, Netherland East Indies and Japan. The crops had failed directions would also increase greatly impressed with the ease with leaps and bounds. All and rapidity with which we could and it was found that the yield of Sir Ellis Kadoorie property lying between the cities go from place to place and the areas under cultivation would Kathleen Dillon and Ed would be brought closer to the especially over automobile roads, be considerably less than was Anonymous large centres. Property values Could the returned Chinese estimated. For this reason India Mrs. F. W. J would rise far beyond the students render a better ser ceased to supply rice to both the John a cost of the roadway, becausevice to their country than by Netherlands East Indies and a Dick
Jars. Strahan nearness to great centres in organising a Good Road AssociaJapan, and informed the
due
raits Mrs. Li Ngok Tau of tion? Agitate, and the thing can
Settlements that m time. communication, adds to property be done. Let all who are in- supply the she could not Anonymous
Straits with their Mr. T. L. Pekins values in the same proportion as terested get busy and interest norme nearness in location. Canton and others. Then let every one
consumption demand. Owing to the shortage of: Hongkong both would be greatly busy until this thing lep benefitted. The Canton-Kowloon we have automobile Road
Burma rice 6,000 tons of Siam -uone, and
rice must now be imported
Already acknowledged. 2,407 Railway would not lose but would from Canton to Hongkong.
into Penang. The price Received on account of the of rice in Bangok
238 Øyar Sale of Work since January 1st has been vary- ing between 16 and 17 tels. per
$2,964 picul Siam rice has been 'con- sumed in the F.M.S. for the last five years at a price less than' what the consumer has paid in
to
easc
gain greatly by the construc- tion of the roadway. It wouldį : share in the increased pros- perity of the country through which it passes. It would also get its share of the resulting increased traffic. AH this is not dreaming. It is
between Canton and Hongkong.
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The following is the approxi- to allowing a certain amount of the trade from Hong Bangkok. This is entirely due it is put into operation it would applying to, this section reasoning mate statement of the Hongkong to allow of him rice to the drive to Japan. It is very on SATURDAYS for the that has been demonstrated in a Tramway thousand places. This is only a receipts for the week ending profit made on this re-export has Government did not sanction the Company's traffic Netherlands East Indies. The fortunate that the Hongkong brief statement of why there 10th May, 1919 should be an automobile road
been so good that an actual-loss proposed embargo. One of the Receipt Aggregate in the sale for consumption in the results would have been to divert Feceipts FM.S. has been easily met. the rice trade to other channels $269,715 country, it would not be advisable Bangkok and Saigon in future
Hongong not being a producing and consequently the rice from SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY, 245,131 to restrict exportation of rice. It would not come to Hongkong in Note the day
which 15,584 was contemplated before by the the same quantity as it is coming
Chinese, Chamber of Commerce, present
for wook for 19 works
The road should not follow the straightest.course. It should run This Year!... $14,786 through the sections that give Last Year: 12,082 promise of the most development. Increase.... It would of course be necessary Decrease :
2,704
It would not work for the moment
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