H.K. LACKS OWN BACK GARDEN
(Continued from Page:11.)
own volition; get a demonstration laboratory in the New Territories.
BLOCKADE WORRIES
THE
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
n dozen tor decent slzo egus or $2.50 foodstuffs. Furthermore in such a/ney has been completely wasted ties and
for a chicken?
and
In the ovent of a blockade of your port you are faced with the fact that you must import 90 per cent, of your needs case you will have to feed not only Anybody who is in China
your clyillan population but your plenty of green vegetables, but for
army and navy, because Hongkong good vegetables grown in a sanitary is the North Pacifc naval base. You manner you are paying terrifle prices
Want efficiency in your navy and for the other vegetables produced
army and you cannot get it on canned by the deadly night soll you are
fow steps goods; you have got to have green fucing dangers. Just a from the highway you can see the stuff.
It would be a fine thing if a new night soil pits, and you know what
regime could act they mean-lyphold, dysentery aki Government cholera. There are countless thou-promptly in this matter, and shortly who report to the Home Colonial Office sands of the common people cannot protect themselves from these that it could now provide for itself 1115. If you saw these conditions you in the matter of decent food, and also might think what you could do to help its military services because it inducing and Increased its productive capacity, alter them; for instance, your Government officials to extend What are you going to do about it? their jurisdiction in the New Terri- (Applouse). torica. (Cries of lear, hear," and "Impossible!").
POINTS REPLIED TO
WEDNESDAY,
of the Cecil
tivaly. One of the nails which has largely through the agency been hit so hard that it has dis movement started
by Sir nppeared into the wood, is in regard Clement! and the Rev. 11. R. Wells to fruit farming in the New Terri-I am not very good on Bgures, but tories. I can endorse every word productio
Increased about Major Reed has said on that. Much, 700 per cent. There are difficul- they are being over- These vegetables are winter "I will take up fruit farming in my products because we cannot produce old age in the New Territories," and item in the summer. I know, because he has not succeeded. The former I have tried myself would not have done what the busl-possible to grow European vegetables, ness man has done with his money, here in the summer. and it is the business man responsible for the failure and not
because
the business man has said come.
Bie farmer.
who is
and it la not
VERSATILE MOSQUITO, Chinese vegetables are possible, It is the business man also who but they are not so profitable to grow, is responsible for the dairy farm whereas rice is easy and profiable to system. The feeding of our civilians,
Krow. It is better for him to grow of un laferior rice and if you tell him navy and army is the concern
to grow vegetables for the sake of business people and not the furmer. for the farmer cannot do this under the milliary of ilongkong he will say I cannot afford present conditions. These conditions "I am in debt now: can be improved, as the speaker has to." These are the sort of problems hinted, but it is not quite so easy as the farmers face. he seems to imply.
BUSINESS MEN'S CONCERN
13
DECEMBER 15, 1937.
ΚΟΝΟΥΕ -
SPEAKS
Appeals To China To Rectify Blunder
Tokyo, Dec. 14.
The Premier, Prince Konoye, in a long statement to Japanese pressmen, called on China to rectify her blunder and
abandon uselesa resistance against Japan. He emphasised that foreign Powers would certainly up-
Preciate Japan's position as the only stabilising Power in East Asia,
The Premier expressed his deepest sympathy for third Power nationals,
affected by the hostilities,, adding that the birth of a new China would serve the security of foreign interests in the Far East.
The Premier declared that Japan would not relax her chastisement of As for malaria we have a kind of the anti-Japanese administration and masquito here which does not breed that her troops would be constrained in pots and pans but in padi felds, to take joint measures for the mutual 1 In thanking the speaker, Dr. G. A. I had the honour of serving on and the only way to get rid of them existence of prosperity with the new administration, which DEMONSTRATION FARM C. Herklots sald: I have to thank small committee which dealt with pirts is to rid the country of padi felds. und proper In these places you can see broken the speaker for his rather unusual and poultry in the New Territories. Another type in Hongkong flourishes might come into existence, following
und, the fact that we are not growing in running streams and clear water, the collapse of the Nanking Govern to but very interesting address. He is pols and pana alanding around
consuming. We The big problem is that of water, and
nment, breed mosqulloes, with malarla and certainly endowed with the gift of here what we are dysentery to follow. There is an tongues, but whether he is endowed could grow enough if we worked it when that can be solved a great many
on a capitalist pinn, but that is not New Territories problems
will be easy cure for this: get action from with the gift of probeey is another on t the local Government (Hear, heart) matter. He has said that the Chin the idea if we wish to help small solved too. Last month there was whose lives and property had been
These pigs which colo one inch of rala. You cannot grow By increasing food production in ese farmer is the best in the world, farmers.
uce and then went on to prove to us in from Hainan are produced in very vegetables with one inch of rain. the New Territories you can reducery detailed fashion that they are much the same conditions as they are your cost of
Some of you | very
The point I want to emphasize is will say, "able; you can seems to
among the worst in the world. That here. They feed on the waste.
is not but
that the faults Major Reed has pointed contradictory. bc
Pig production
o paying very Some change a Chinese farmer."
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He declared that the fall of Non- agricultural not New Ter-out are businses even in the proposition worked with Carrib and if we look into the speech we realise years ago
next to ones but he has done a great service king was only the prelude of the en that a few matters have not been ritories.
food costs where other Indians and that was much
proposition than work touched upon or have been hidden in nothing, and it is only paying where in making the business people think war and marked the start of real more dificult
against protracted hostilities it is run as a side line, for instance agricultural problems, and it is and
rare that such a gathering of busi- China, for which purpose he called Ing with Chinese. A few years later the welter of figures and facts.
#alman, deal of what we have heard ins I looked over a vast expanse of dry
Kreat
ness men as we represent to-day do upon the Japanese to redouble their desert in Blexico with the thermome-in of very great value to us, but a China where the farmer keeps one think about agricultural problems, efforts to cope with the situation. ter at 120 degrees in the shade and certain amount of what has not been pig for himself.
of On the same point of view poultry The New Territories are a problem, Reuter, no shade! The Job way to make a said would perhaps have been
and the question of blockades, war- productive country of that vast de- cven greater value. The dificulties has been tackled. The speaker says fare and alike are inducements to us seri, and to-day instead of 000, there of agriculture in the New Territories the eggs are the size of pigeon's are 6,400 acres of feeding land on have not been mentioned. The reacts but he does not say anything on which 30,000 cows are milked twice son for the use of the top layer of the question of feeding them, and the
afford
(Continued from Page 7.) to feed his day.
soil has not been given to us, and former cannot My advice to you is first,
win over If the Chinese farmers are the best poultry. They have to live, like the
Elopement-Phillips). Speak To Me. that they have pigs, on anything they can find. The foodstuff in- in the world why la your farmers to
grow
London. of Love (Lenoir)....Ai Bollington: stead of rice crops; distribute
fruit t
been content to use it? There is a things Major Reed mentioned
and not agricultural mat- So successful have been rubber Vocal-To-day Is The Day (Selauitze- trees, and chickens; institute Insect reason, and it is a simple one, but jters, and the business, men should boots for sheep to cure foot-rot that Buch); Wine Waitz (Gross-Steidl).
Hold demonstration has not been mentioned
to-day.ters, days for each village, securing the There are a great many aspects which think about them. Business people a British rubber company have now Corp cration of the grubuni Arhive not been mentioned and could are quite alive to the situation where madeh now Orchestrim-The Sheep, Were In The days
money can be put in and taken out in cuvs. Like the sheep boot, it is an Meadow-Fox-Trot (from sociation to act as contacts with the be solved.
|effective preventive as well as facit- Greek' ); Fry Roy and Hls Or-) farmers and village elders; induce Having said that much in criticism different ways.
The vegetable production of the lating the swift cure of diseases them to go to your demonstration I want to add a word of great ap-
speaker has hit New Territories has gone ahead by which have cost farmers thousands farm to "look see", and get huses to preciation. The bring them lastead of relying on their several nails on the head very effec-laps and bounds in the last few years of pounds.
control.
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THE HONGKONG Telegraphi, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1937.