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SUKKUR BARRAGE
PROGRESS.
IN INDIA.
Floor of Masonry.
The barrago consists of masonry floor across the river, at a level somewhat below the aver age level of the bed, above which
BRITISH IRRIGATION WORK rears an imposing over-bridge of
GG spans, cach, 60 feet wide.
From the pondou steel shutters, a rare sus 00 feet long and 18% feet wide, which can be lowered to the floor of the barrage, when the river falls, thus damm ing up the water to a level re- quired to feed the canals, which take off from the banka.
pounding water to canala in a scheme which can water.
of
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1931.
FARM LIVE STOCK.
PROPOSED SUPPRESSION OF
SCRUB BULLS.
Earl De La Warr (Parliamen- tary Secretary, Ministry of Agri- culture) moved in the House of Lords the second reading of the of Live Stock Improvement (Licensing of Bulls) Bill, which provides for the improvement of live ateck by regulating the keeping and importation of bulle. The de- measure, he explained, was signed to control the use of bulls so as to prevent the breeding of inferior stock.
SUGAR MARKET.
THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.
The following cabled quotations received by at the close of the sugar markets yesterday have been Messrs. Pentreath and Co.:
London Terminals. March 6/1% down '11⁄2d. May 6/4 down d. August 6/7 down d December 6/11 down d.
New York Terminals. March 1.32 down 3 pts. May 1.39 down 3 pts. July 1.47 down 2 pts. September 1.64 down 3 pts December 1.61 down 4 pta. Samarang
(9/1/81).-- Market
|MOTOR CAR IN RHINE.
| THREE ESCAPE FROM SALOON
Berlin, Dec. 14,
A closed ear in 18ft. of water at of the Rhine would stem a certain death trap, yet three the bottom people escaped from one thus placed this afternoon.
The party conslated of two men and two women. Caught in a dense. fog, one of the men stood on the running board to direct the driver, but this precaution did not prevent the саг from leaving the road and into the river. The man plunging
on the running board just had time to leap off as the car hurtled down the, slope and fell with a loud splash into the river.
TO COST £15,000,000. Bukkur, India-So that Indian ryota, or small landholders, in an area of 7,500,000 acres may have water enough to guarantee the When the river is running high harvests of their tiny fields, the those shutters may be raised leav
cost Government of India, at
the ing the entire gateway bordering of £10,000,000, is com-bridge free for the passage of the
"Ultimately," he added, "we pleting a barrage across the River flood. Nearly nine-tenths of the
with indus for the purpose of im-masonry in connexion the hope to bring about the complets in
The car settled on the river bot- serve seven barrage and the bridges lie under suppression of the scrub bull
this country. In some part of our
tom, and immediately filled with Canals that rank among the nature. 1 think, thero is a desiru
water. The driver, however, smash- titutes one of the world's greatest forrest in the world are but into 'suppress something, and if wo
cidental features in this scheme of are feeling in that mood, there is opened unchanged. Sellers reserved the window in front of him with
and 1,000 18.00
tons barrier between his seat and the providing water each year to a nothing to which we might turned. Trust Milla sold 7,000 tons his head. Luckily there was no
usa | Whites barren tract of country that is our attention with so
much
Browns 17700. Bios estimated at back seat of the car, so that one equal in extent to the cultivable as to the scrub bull." (Laughter.)
One of Egypt,
there This country had always had about 80,000 tons submitted to woman passenger was able to cling to the man's neck, while the second aren of canals will have a discharge of worldwide reputation for its Hive Holland.
(9/1/31). -- Market clutched at her friend's akirt and Hongkong cubic feet per second: and stock, but we had to admit that grent Dew for
consequence of fall in exchange. lost consciousness. bad live slock.
Sales reported Whites $9.23, Browns $8.53.
irrigation projects..
In the course of centuries the Indus has turned the Province of Sind into a vast alluvial desert: now the same river, under the guiding genius of British
en
desert blossom with cultivated arens,
gineers, in about to make this comparison it may be stated we had some specimens of very closed strong; prices advanced in/did not relax her grip, though she
that the River Thames has a maxi- To this end a vant barrage, vir.mum discharge of just under 15- tually a mile long, has bect000 cubic feet per second. At its thrown across the river at Sukkur bed this canal will be four times at a cost of £5,000,000 with a view wider than the Suez Canal. to raising the surface level of the water by 11 feet during the dry Boason, so that the canal heads may obtain a flow that will carry water to the peasant allotments of Sind and Khairpur, a native state that is sharing in the project.
the
The regulator heads for these canala lie on the upstream side of the barrage, four on the left and three on the right banks of the river. On the left bank two small canals take off to irrigate in the Khairpur state: the third cans] converts Ento perennial irrigation At a time when the British the inundation system previously right to rule in India is being sub-operating between harrave Jected to scrutiny in this country site and Hyderabad; the fourth and elsewhere, it is a significant canal is a great perennial supply thing that during the past seven channel, feeding the Eastern Nara
engineere years 40 British
a number of and River, from which thousands of Indians have been existing canals are fed. quietly engaged in the develop- ment of the Sukkur project- scheme calculated to do more for the rent Indian, the cultivator. than has ever before been attempt ed in Indian history.
In
He pointed to the great advance made by Irish agriculturists
scrub bull. and suppressing the added that last year no fewer than 1,400 of these bulls which had been rejected in Ireland were acquired and used by farmers in this coun-
try.
the
ONE IN 100 A BURDEN TO THE REST.
Was
The driver managed to raise him. self and the women to the surface. from which it was impossible to see the banks in the fog. The shouts of the men on land, however, led the driver to swim safely with his passengers to land.
8.1.
REDUCED DIVIDEND.
emerge passing to atablised and better able, under guardianship, to face the economic NO and moral difficulties of life. And
London, Jan. 9. we could attempt to persuade as many as possible of these to allow The National Provincial Bank. themselves to be sterilised before the last member of the "Big Five" coming out into the world.
group to declare its dividend, an- We could then with a good con-nounces that it will maintain Inst
This measure was the greatest
SCHOOL EMPIRE TOUR. for the live Block
(Continued from Page 6.) step forward industry which had been proposed
quote the
London, Jan. 9. for a great number of years, and "stagnant pools" (to
The sixth Public School Empire for years Ministers of Agriculture term used by the recent Govern- had given it enme form of modified ment Committee on the subject), tour began yesterday, when a on the in which the patients are shut up party of boys left for the Weat approval. "It has been stocks far too long," he added. all their lives, we could turn them Indies and British Gulona, sailing
"flowing
through from Avonmouth on the Jakes" "Let us put a stop to this system into of laissez faire and Free Trade-which a constant stream of defec-Camito-British Wircicas. I might say of free love-in the tives bovine world that is creating such Extension of Inundation.
havoc to the herds of our country." The right bank system CDM-
Lord Bonbury's View, prises twu perennial canals, the
Lord Banbury (C) moved
which North Western and the Dadn, and rejection of the mensure
principles a great new channel called the he said, violated two Central Klee Canal. These will which he had maintained ever since Serve as Peacemakers.
absorb the existing inundation he entered Parliament.
It interfered with the liberty ofRcience encourage them to marry year's figures.--Router. And it is more significant still Irrigation schemes below Sukkur that when repercussions of the and permit of considerable exten- the subject and it empowered the political activities in the countrywions, including the Introduction Minister to go to a man and say touched Sakkur, Hindus and of irrigation into the Nasirabad"You do not know how to conduct Muhammadans including
men, Tehsil of Baluchistan.
your business; I am going to can- On the downstreams side of the duct it, or part of it, for you, and is policy which would seem hands raised in supplicatory atti-barrage runs a road bridge strad- if by so doing I cause you to make calculated to encourage sexual tudes to ask these 40 white meadling the same piers as carry then loss you have got to bear it irregularities and the spread of
the water-gates. In addition, the Bill would create for protection; and for four days overbridge for the British forsook their work of The road bridge connects the main new officials at a time when every- dam building to net as penes roads from Rohri and Khairpur thing should be done to reduce the makors between the cominunal with those of Sukkur and Shikur-number.
women and children went
rioters.
with
The Sukkur Larrage and the Sukkur riots reveal nt a glance the primary causes for the modern British connexion with India. The development of great benevolent projects and the keeping of the peace have been the chief, charne teristics of the British regime in recent generations.
In the checkered experience of India many invaders have held great scelions of the country In
thrall: none has made a mark
more profound than the British, Tombs, forts and shrines are all that many of the invading hordes stamped on the face of the land; even the spectacular occupation by Alexander fades in the per-
raid.
Not so the British connexion, From an island kingdom thou-
Aands of miles away have gone out men whose activities and in-
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entire
en-
The two. bridges are of similar design, and their style is echner in the arches of the regular heads of the canals. The
emble makes a graceful and ple- torial study in creamy white lime tone and concrete, harmonizing with the dramatié desert colour. ings of the landscape and the tawny tones of the river,
Lord Banbury mussed the House by telling a story of his misfortune in the purchase of a pedigree buil. "it had a long pedigree," he said. "I gave £45 for it, and I had great deal of trouble getting it home." He kept the ball for year and it produced one calf.
"I thought that was sufficient," for he proceeded, "and I sold it £22.
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He afterwards bought "quite a good-looking bull from a neigh bouring farmer for £18 with much more satisfactory results. I de
(in itself a further stabilisation for them) instead of attempting
to debar them from present aug-
venereal disсаве.
New Methods,
SHARE PRICES.
-TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS. The following is the list of local quotations issued to-day:
Banks.
Hongkong Bank, $1975 b. Chartered Bank, £17, n. Mercantile A. & B., £201⁄2 n. East Asia $115 b.
Insurances.
A word more is needed on steri-share lisation itself, since there are so many misconceptions about the has nothing subject. First,
castration; whatever to do with the usual method is merely to tie or cut the little duct or tube which carries the reproductive cells to the exterior-an operation which is entirely trifling for men, more serious but quite safe for women: New methods are being look into which may make the operation for simple as for It leaves the reproductive women almost as
to send their in- men. ternal accretions into the blood; glands intact,
The canals will
vill enable nearly 6,000,000 adres to be cultivated adding approximately 3,750,000 aeres to the cultivable land of the district. When in full yield the annual value of the crops grown not want to buy any more pedigree it does not interfere with sexual will exceed $20,000,000. There bulls," (Laughter.)
are 1,600 miles of main canals, Lord Kylsant (C), as a practical emotion or any other 4,600 miles of distributaries and farmer in Wales, said he had been mental life. thousands of miles of minor water greatly impressed by what had
phase of
Some people would wish to make
pective of history to a brilliant channels, which trickle into, been done in Ireland in this maisterilisation of mental defectives
ditches on the rots' plots through ter, "I feel convinced," he added, compulsory, but this, though out Sind and Khairpur,
"that within three years of this later generation may perhaps como Bill becoming an Act of Parliate it, does not seem the right way Legal Changes Necessary.
ment everyone in this country will at present. look back with surprise at the fact Rattical amendments to the
it
earlier." terests have reached to the very existing irrigation laws of the that we have not passed
Big Task for Inspectors. ultimate units of the population-
Lord Hastings (C,) who also the peasant in his one-acre patch 'residency of Bombay will be re- in a barren waste, in places like quired to meet the situation this
has caused in agri-supported the Bill, thought that great barrage the heart aľ the Sind desert.
projects in the district. Lord Tianbury's experience with a must have bren Roads, railways, canals, colonicitural
extensions of pedigree zation schemes and other develop. A programrac
Earl Stanhope (C) pointed out ments have left their mark on the railways, roads and communica. unique, India of to-tay, and the British tions is being planned."
Methods of disposing of land that the Opposition supported the leave its influence in Hindustan, i the immediate future, areas forsire to amend the measure in deed to take the risk of a lawsuit, control of the country will forever will have to be considered and in principle of the Bill, but would de As the one-time Roman occupation of Britain colours living in the leases and terms for their grant tail. United Kingdom this day.
of
Lord Strachte (L) thought that will have to be settled. The re organization of the Development the Bill was doing the right thing and Agricultural Department will in the wrong way, and that some need
to be considered. Other of Its provisions would prove questions calling for considera- rather hard to the small farmer.
Lord Banbury withdrew his mo- tion are the establishment of a new district on the left bank of tion for rejection. the Indus.
The significance of the project is emphasized in a Government re- port which says: "The great
Earl De La Warr pointed out that the livestock officers of the Ministry of Agriculture, who were now very busy, were being asked
Dependent on Agriculture. Sind Is almost solely dependent on agriculture for its existence and heretofore the region has trusted to unregulated inundation canals for its irrigation.
The supply of these canals hua fluctuated daily with the rise and fall of the Indus; when the river transformation of Sind does not to inspect 60,000-bulls in England was in flood the canals were well end with the completion of the and 8,000 in Scotland as soon as
the BB was passed. served: but when the river fell in barrage and its canals; the
The Bill was read a second time. the dry sensons only the most for creased production of crops would tunately situated received any be nearly useless without now supply at all, and a minimum of railways and new roads, and there
EXCHANGE RATES. 20,000 cubic feet of water per is so branch of the administra second found its way in wastage Lion which will not require great to the sea.
in-
Paris
expa anticipated. that thousands Geneva.
Berlin.
129.7239
.25.05 ..20.401.
18.10
.192.92
375
But why not start right away with voluntary sterilisation., some my readers may ask? Because the state of the law is so chaotic that no one knows whether sterili satlon for eugenic reasons may not be illegal, even if voluntary (though for reasons of personal health it is perfectly legal!); and accordingly doctors and, still more, responsible public bodies can hardly be expect
Four Generations, And what effect might auch a measure have? Alas, progress, though it can be very real, is bound to be slow, There are so many normal defect-carriers In the popu lation that even if all actual defec- tives were debarred from having children, it would take three or four generations to halve numbers. And yet, in the presunt state of knowledge,
her way.
their
there is no
The Gazette notifies that all per- sons desiring to be authorized Jay Previous Day. Yesterday, the Governor-in-Council to per 123.724 form the duties of auditors in 26.06% respect of Companies, other than China Companies, registered under 20.41%
18.16 the principal Ordinance which -100% koop their accounts
in English 876 must forward their 'full Harnes, 34.15/10 with their addresses and qualifica
1/9%tions to the Clerk of Councils na 4.85.15/32 4.85.15/32 soon ne possible. The fact that a person hok been previously 19.14 authorized by the Registrar of 34.50% Companies under Section 118 of 818 the principal Ordinance to act ab 34 an auditor does not exempt him 11% from the necessity of obtaining 34.80% the authorization of the Governor 92.727% in Council, that Section having 18.10% heen ropealed and superseded by 108.26 the amending Ordinance men- 163% loned above.
The majority of these channels, it is morcover, furnished a supply of of new settlers will take to this
Oilo... water for only four months of the region when the first waters be- Helsingfors.
Athens, year. The object of the Sukkur gin to low over the land in 1932, barrage is to give an assured sup-Actual work on the project is ex-Buenos Aires...36.1/16-
.1/33% pected to be completed by the ond Shanghai,... ply throughout the entire year.
The barraga, which is five times of 1931, according to A... A. Musto, New York.
.12.00 the length of London Bridge, la superintendent of the work and Amsterdam.. situated three miles below the the man who devised the entire Stockholm.. city of Sukkur, at which place the project. The chief engineer of Vienna.. Madrid.. river passes through a gorge in a the Public Works Department rea- channel which it has followed for ponsible for the work is C. S: C. Montevideo. centuries,
Indeed, about the only consist ent thing that is known about the
Indus
Harrison.
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Bucharest.
Hongkong. Brussola. Milon,
at this point is the fact
The dance arranged by the Copenhagen that it has always found its way Machine Gun Company of the Lisbon.
i Praguo.. through this gorge, although above Defence Corps will not he held on and below it the river has swung an-over-changing channel through 31st January as originally adver-Yokohama.
tined, owing to Court mourning. Bombay,
12.08%
45.30
..18.03 ..34.60% .45.45
..818
.35.
.117
.34.70%
.02.72% .18.10
.108.24 163.80 4% .2/0.16/02
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Motorista will be glad to know that 13.8/10 the trees in Morrison Hill road, which 13.1/10 have hampered traffic for many years,
Fare being removed. British Wirelesá,
the desort. It in because of this The date has been postponed to Silver (spot), certainty of the river's- passing the 28th February at 9 p.m. at the (forward) 13.5/16 through the Sukkur gorge that the City Hall. barrage alto was selected.
Canton Ins., $1,300 sa. Union Ins., $695 b. North China Ins., Tls. 160 b. China Underwriters, $3.20 . Yangtze Ins., $60_n. China Fires, $450 b. H. K. Fire Ins.. $1300 b.
Shipping.
Douglases, $28.
H. K. Steamboats, $31 8. Indo-Chinas, (Dof.) $27 n. Union Waterboats, $30 a.
Mining.
Benguets, $11.10 n. Kailans, 28/9 n. S'hal Explorations, Tls. 1 b. Raubs, 834 b.
Docks, etc.
Kowloon Wharves, $173 8, Whampoa Docks, $20 b. China Providents, 35.45 s. (old). Hongkews, Tla. 24 n.
New Engineerings, Tls. 7.10 Shanghai Decks, Tls. 117 b.
Cottons.
Ewa Coltons, Tls. 14 b. S'hai Cattons, Tis. 90 (old) b. Lands, Hotels, etc.
H. and S. Hotels, $12.15 b. H. K. Land, $84% b. (old).
de. $83 b.. S'hal Land Tis. 322 b. Humphreys, $17.46 b. Realtios, $9.10 b.
Pubile Utilities, Tramways, $18.10 8. Peak Trams, (old) $144. Star Ferries 394 m. China Lights, (old) $26.60 b. II. K. Electrics. $81 8. Telephones $36% n. China Buses, Tis. 19.60. n. Singapors Tractions, $7/10 n. Industrials.
China Sugara, 80 cta. n. Malabons, $27.
Cald: Macg, Ord: Tls. 10,75 n. Canton Icon, $3.60 8. Cements (Comb) $17.70 Hopes, $12.50 b. United Asbestos $0 n.
Stores, etc. Dairy Farms, $25.70 b. Watsons, $12.50 b. Der A. Wings. $1 . Lane Crawford. $4 b. Mackintosh, $19 n. Sinceres, $13 b.
Miscellaneous. Amusements, $23 n.
Constructions, $4.80 b.
B' que Ind. G. Bonds, $70 % b H.K.G. Loan 0% Prom.
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