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JOSS PAPER.
A LITTLE KNOWN FOOCHOW INDUSTRY,
Arc
THURSDAY,
DUTIABLE LIQUOR.
BOATMEN ARRESTED FOR IMPORTING..
The arrested men were yester day charged before Mr. W. Scho- field with possession of dutiablė. liquor and Importing it.
A large seizure of dutiable The art of making Joss paper was introduced into Foochow, Fu-liquor was made by Sub-Inspector kien provincial capital, from Dick and a Chinese detective on Chaochow, Kivangtung province. board a fishing boat at Choung Paper and tinfoli are the only Sha Wan on Nov. 14, three mon matarlais required. The coarse being arrosted and 100 jars seized, paper produced by districts on the upper Min River and the tinfoil turned out by factories in Foochow for manufacture. In used Foochow there are over fifty tin-
"Mr. G. R. Sayer, Superintendent foll makers, altogether employing of Importa and Exports prosecut- about one thousand hands. Tin ised with Mr. M. K. Lo defending." imported from Hongkong, and the tinfoil factories of Foochow con- Hume some three thousand piculs a year. In making tinföll the raw material is first melted into bars of 10 or b catties each and then into flat pieces, each weighing 4 ounces,
Witness, with the detective, 1.5 tsun by 0.8 taun in size.
went to Cheung Sha Wan and These pieces are pounded with an iron hammer on a stone anvil.hiring a small bout were rowed Through several pounding pro-to the defendants sampan. The cesses by different hands the tin Police called upon the occupiers pieces are reduced to thin foils, to stop but the order was apparent- 18-6 tsun by 15 tsun. in size. Eachy ignored as the men, who had calty of tin yields approximately just started to sail away, did not four hundred sheets of tinfoil.seem to alter their course. The price of tinfoil is $200 per 100 The detective blew his police
eatties
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According to the evidence of Sub-Inspector Dick, a Chinese de tective made a 'report to him to the effect that information had been received of the presence of liquor on the defendants' boat.
"On lifting a deck, cover board witness found the liquor. The three men were then placed uncer arrest.
whistle with the same result, and Joss paper is made by pasting then witness fired on shot Into the tinfoil on paper, with thin pastewater." The boat immediately (cf. Coining Money for Ghosts." veered round, when witness was Bulletin, No. 286, pp. 92-98). able to go alongside and board Large sheets are known as "chess- the fishing boat. board" jess paper and small ones as "baby" jošs paper. Joss paper making is generally done by female labour at home, at 400 cash per 1,000 sheets. An average werk- woman can paste 1,200 sheets a day. To obtain a golden colour the joss paper is dyed with a solu- tion of the flower of sophora japonica. The solution is applied with a brush, also done by female hands, at over 300 cash per 1,000 dyc sheets. Each worker can 2,000 sheets a day,
The cutting of "chuss-board" jess paper into various sizes for market is done by male hands hired by the joss piper makers and exporters. Joss paper generally
Two of the men were discharged." while the first defendant, who bad charge of the boat was re- mantud.
MOTOR ACCIDENT.
FOUR CHINESE INJURED. IN KOWLOON,
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is Four Chinese were knocked classified into four down; two being seriously injur grades according to size anded whed public motor rar No. 15, quality. The first grade, marked owned by the Hongkong Hotel with the Chinese character yi, is Garage, swerved to the left in of the largest size and best quality, Nathan Road, shortly after For this grade, each "ches-board" o'clock yesterday afternoon. sheet is cut into 20 sheets. Those
It appears that the car was be- btained from 500 "chess-board" ing driven by a learner who was or 10,000, small sheets make one accompanied by a licensed driver. tang local term for "bundle" and When the car had reached a point 120 tang are packed in each case, just near Public Square Street a One tang of the second grade,small boy ran into the road to marked with the Chinese character catch a ball. The driver applied pao is obtained from 1,000 "chess his brakes and swerved to the left board" sheets, each cut into 28
iar
Two of the men received slight:
small pieces. 150 Lang are packed to avoid him and In doing so the che case. One case of the car ran into four other people, one of whom was a riesha coolie third grade, marked with tsai also
car then contains 150 tong, each tang being with his ricsha. The made up of 1,000 "chess-beard struck and uprooted a small tree sheets, each cut into 30 pieces. which was protected by an iron The fourth grade, marked with railing and came to rest with the is of still smaller size, one "chess-front wheels over a ditch at the board" sheet being cut into 32 side of road. **"* pieces. One tang of this grade is alse made up of 1,000 "chess-injuries but the other two were board" sheets and 150 tang make more seriously hurt. An
bulance arrived on the scene and une case.
took them to the Kwong Wah Hoa-- "pital from where they were later transferred to the Kowloon Hos pital. The two men more serious- detained. The ly injured. wore car is practically undamaged and was taken back to the Peninsula Hotel Garage under its own pow er. Neither of the man in the car was hurt, "
FOREIGN DUMPING.
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Foochow Exports $1,000,000. The annual value of the jose paper export trade of Foochow exceeds $1,000,000, consisting of 60,000 cases of the yi and pao grades and 4,000 cases of the tsai and i grades. The price of the yi grade is about $20 per case, the pao grade, about $15, the tsai grade about $14, and the grade, be- tween $4 and $8. The bulk of the yi and tsai grades is for export to Hankow and Tientsin and the other two grades go to Shanghai, Newehwang, Kinochow, Cheloo and YORKSHIRE COTTON SPIN- Chinkiang. Joss paper of superiorNERS MAKE SERIOUS CHARGE. quality is made of finer paper and pure tinfoil, like the yi and pan grades." Yi, puo, tsai and 1,.are' the general marks of joss paper. In order to distinguish their own goods from those of others the joss paper merchants always prefix Another Chinese character to the general mark, like cheng yi, hung yl, kang pao, feng par, jen paio, etc.
London, Nov. 23.
Yorkshire Cotton Spinners and The general committee of the
Doublers Association has decided to ask the Board of Trade to grant an inquiry into the state of the indust try under the Safeguarding Regula- tions. The Yorkshire spinners de- Among the joys paper dealers of clare that foreigners are dumping Foochow more than ten hangs are surplus yarns into Britain below
the price of British yarns. engaged in the export trade. The scheme is not likely to be sup large establishments are capitalis- ed at $20,000-30,000 each, and the Ported in Lancashire where the small ones at several thousand Yorkshire decision has been receiv- dollars each. Yuan Ho Hao and ed in amazement.-Reuter. Chien Kee Hao of Shanghangchieh,
Nantal produce over 10,000 cases
The
each yearly, their goods bearing been beaten by those of Chaochow.
the marks cheng yi and jen pao. During recent years, the "export The trade marks of Cheng Kee Hao figures of Chaochow ss paper
NOVEMBER
24.
1927.
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are sin yi and feng pao. "The an-, have grown to 110,000-120,000 and a portion of the crew were taken nual business of this hong amounts cases. As to quality, however, the off by another steamer, which, how
over, was unable to return to the Chu Chaochow material is far inferior to continue her rescue,
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work. Ho Han whose trade mark is hung to the Foochow product.. From storm burst the vessel in two, and yi, Chuan Sheng Hao whose trade, the ashes of Foochow joss paper the stern, which drifted some miles, mark is yuyi, Hsiang Kee Hao, tin may be extracted to be again was approached by the lifebont which trade mark ping yi, Cheng Shun made into tinfoil. Such ashes are found no one on board. The crew in Hug trade mark Kang yi and Chien known as yuan pas hwel and are the meanwhile remained on the fore Feng Hao trade mark chia pao, worth $6 per picul. But the Chao- part of the ship and to provent being have a total annual business of chow product is useless after burn-washed overboard by the great seas over 30,000 cases.
ing and has an offensive smell they lashed themselves to the rigging. It is supposed that the remaining Although Foochow learned the when burning, prasumably due to art of jose paper making from the inferior quality of the paper crew had taken to the boats and the
lifebent searched the seas for sur Chaochow, the manufacturers of or to the method of manufacturing: vivors. When the news that they (For other particulars, about were still on the wreck arrived, the the latter place formerly depended on Foochow for the supply of tin- the tinfoil and foss paper industry, lifeboat returned with oil to subdno foil. The trade has prospered see "Joss Money Makers in Nan- the waves. They got alongside and more at Foochow than at Chaochow chang" Bulletin, No. 272; Mo-took the crew, aboard. in past years. But recently the dern Tinfoil Factory in Foochow," The men were in an exhausted con- Chaochow manufacturers have Bulletin, No. 199; "Tin and Tin-dition after forty hours of exposure learned to utilize machinery, turn foil," Bulletin, No. 185, pp. 1-2; without food. They returned to Yar ing out goods with greater speed and "Coining Money for Ghosts," mouth shortly before a motorcer, and at a much lower cost. Thus Bulletin, No. 286, pp. 92-98) carrying the latest devices for throw-
ing a lifeline arrived from London the exporters of Foochow have Chinese Economic Bulletin.
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