SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1920)
A
MARKET PRODUCE IN
HONGKONG.
APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES.
FERRUDAY 28v7, 1920,
Butcher Meat.
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Capona, Fall,- -Sin Kal...
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Cornod,-Ha Ngan Yak.
2.
11.
Roast,Shin
20
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45
11.
35
1.3.
100
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Sony, Tong Yak ...
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16
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Bak-Ngan Tak Pa 11 11
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Steak Bi-Ngao Lan
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Basag-Ngan Cheung
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Eggs, Hen,-Kal Tan (osching), per dor. 24 Eggs, Hon-Sai Tan (fresh).....par des.. Fowla, Canton,K. Ib. Do Foris, Hainan,-Hol Nam KM.; 36 Geese,-Nga
** 24 Pigeons, Canton,Pak Kap...each 50
Holbow,-Hoi Has Fak Kap
och 30 Turkays, Cook-Fo Eat Kong 15. 70 Turkeye, Han-Fo Kai Ha.
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each. 24
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60
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Bullock's Bratos,-Ngad No paraat 10
Tongue, tresh,Nga Lisach 50 Tongas, corned-Ham Ngan L each 80 can.
6. Head,-Nexo Tan... mach: Hert–Ngao Sam... là 1% Hump, Salt--Nga K13 Feet-Nga Konk...ench 18 Kidneys-Ngan Yio,
Nguo Mal... Livar,-Ngan Koo... b. 1. Trips (androssed) Ngan To ib. 5
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Fruits.
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Brains, Chu No
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set $1.10 Almonde.-Kang Tua ..-
...... 45. Apples (California), -Kam Chan Matton Chop.-Young Pel wat b. St
Plag 5o 30 Leg.-Yeang Pal....
Bananas, (bride's), Macro-San Evony Ohio Chrambois,-Yeung Te Coconuts,-Ye Troach 18 Lemess, China,—Ling bƐwag...lb. 8 Lamons, (America)-Kam Shaz
Eing Mang... coch. Llakees, Dried, famall stone)—
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Persimmons, Large.-Hang Tao ..
Sheep's Head and Fee-Yeung
Plantic-Tai Chiu
3
120
Heart-Yeung Si... each 籍 Kidneys-Young Yi each 12 Liver-Feung Kos... lb.
Pemelo, Stam,-Trim Lo Tau...osch 12 Walnuts,-Hop To
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Grapes-Po Tai Tsz
3.
Sucking Pigs, to order,-Cha Taxi.. Hot Booi. Sang Ngan Tao . Đ Motton-Shang Yeang Yan.
21
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30
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Fry,-Cha Chap
Bord-Chu Tan
Heart-Cha Sam ...
Kidneys-Cha Fla....
Liver, Cha Kon
Pork Chop,-Cho Pal Kwat
Lois,-One Elsa Tun
Fat cr Lard,-Chu Ya
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23
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Barbel,-Ka Yo....
Fish:
Bream,-Pin Fu.......
Csuton Fresh Water Fish.
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Carp,-If Yo Catfish-Chit Tu Jodfish,-Mun Yo Orab,-Bal
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THE
QUEENSLAND'S TIMBER RESOURCES.
NECESSITE PRECIENTIFIC
HANDLING.
CHINA MAIL.
GREAT COALING DEPOT. basis of about 60,000 tons, this being
A £300,000 BOHEME.
the reservoir; so to speak, of coal from which visiting ships and coastal colliers may replenish their supplies. The trials made of the equipment so Noticing the gradual evolution far are understood to have been from the chaos of extensive 'excava-satisfactory both in regard to lifting tion by which the promontory had cargoes for storage and to actual One of the results of the wartime its head sliced off, and seeing, where bunkering. At the beginning of the shertage of shipping was to give a once was bush, tall, gaunt machinery month the steamer Leitrim took 700- decided fillip to the timber industry in motion against the skyline trans-tons into her bunkers in good time. in Queensland. Since the war ceased ferring cargo from an occasional Another fairly large vessel is to be the importation of timber to Aus- collier berthed below, travellers by bunkered next week. The loading tralia bas been relatively trifling in ferry boat running past Ball's Head for some time must be through the comparison with earlier years, the have supposed that the big coal-hand contrivance adjudged suitable for consequence being that the demanding scheme is now in full working vessels of moderate size, the coaf for timber from Queensland by other order, says the Sydney Morning being reclaimed from storage to a States continues to grow. This, in a Herold. This supposition is a long conveyor into delivery spouts from measure, is a very satisfactory de-way in advance of the engineering the transport bridge. Later there velopment of internal trade; but it timetable. The work of installing will be delivery with trucks by raises certain questions relative to Sydney Harbour the modern gravitation through tunnels which forestry that are in danger of being bunkering plant upon which the pro- bisect the hill down to the jetty. overlooked." whit, possibly. some moters have embarked requires mach The jetty, which may to-day be seen rather unhappy possibilities.
time yet before completion is realised. jutting out from the side of the Mr. Frank Dixon, secretary of the Perhaps. it may be finished head, will be carried out double the Brisbane Timber Merchants Associa in two years To-day the point distance it has now reached. At that tion, and the Builders and Joiners reached is described by the super point there will be a depth of over Association, gays.
"Queensland Intending engineer as being about 40ft. of water, with beatbage for sawmillers are being inundated with halfway through the job. Hitherto the largest vessel the imagination orders. frem. other States, and have the methods of coaling ships in Port can contemplate being, likely to visit. heavy demands to meet within the Jackson have been a long way behind these waters.. These tunnels, run- State, particularly in connection with those in other advanced countries. ning below the storage àrea,, are the supply of timber for use under The object of installing the plant for trapped by big steel hoppers design- the war homes building scheme. In- bunkering at Ball's Head is to ed automatically to discharge into dead the demand is considerably modernise the system. To achieve the trucks below, these in tura ran- greater than the supply. To a very this a capital expenditure of about ning on endless cables to the ship's Jarge extent buyers are seeking boop £300,000 has been undertaken.. The aide. The installation of cil reser pine, a most adaptable wood that is plans decided upon represent an voirs for vessels burning liquid fuel coming into wider use every year.adaptation to local conditions of is an important part of the scheme. The fall in the Importation of Baltic systems employed elsewhere, the and Oregon timbers is imposing a main problem being the abnormal great drain upon our hoop pine elevation above water level where areas. Though these are very ex storage and delivery had to be carried tensive, the rate at which they are out.. being eaten inte certainly calls for some larger measure of recognition that replacement of a great asset should proceed at a rate reasonably adequate to meet the needs of the future.
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THEY MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD.
The undertaking as a whole; since. so much of it turns upon automatie working and the employment of electrically-driven machinery, is ex traordinarily complex. That part of The work done so far with the "the working equipment, which is not cranes mounted on the towering high up in the air is hidden from transport bridges has been in the view in the subterranean department. nature of a test-a trying-out of the Further, for much of the work done equipment so far installed. A con- there is nothing to be seen except siderable amount of coal has been changes in the topographical out- "In Queensland the great bulk of lifted into the storage bins by means line, the excavations above and the star ding applies of soft woods of the cranes.. The operation is below having been prodigious. Yet is in the hands of the Government. performed by gigantic grabs" complicated though the scheme The principle followed is to sell the worked after the fashion often is in its present half-finished state stumpage of standing pine at upset followed in dredging, each lift being and on sectional plans, there is the prices, fixed in relation to the timber of about a too and a half. By this simplicity about it of a single me- merchant's price for sawn timber. means the two transporter bridges chanism designed to do simple work The logs are delivered by the timber-have a working capacity of approxi- in an effective way-that is, with a getters at sidings, and there purchasmately 250 tons per hour. There is minimum of friction and conserva- ed by the milers. But the scheme room on the area for a coal supply tion of effort. keeps revolving in a vicious circle. 200 yards long by 50 yards in width When finished, the most up-to-date The merchants' selling rates, fixed in and 40ft. in depth-a pile measuring bunkering equipment south of the relation to the stumpage rates, have over three and a half million cubic line will be at Ball's Head, Sydney, to be reviewed whenever wages feet.
But à vast amount of riveting and boards increase wages. Then the There will eventually be five of digging, and pulling and hauling bas selling rate having altered, these transporter bridges, capable to be done yet before the scheme Government raises the of handling over a million tons of; takes the really definite shape which ..... 2 cachstumpage rate accordingly. ccal every 100 working days.. will bring completion within sight.
The consequence is that there is a The demand for bunkering coal, continual fluctuation, each rise being is, of course, a fluctuating one--- followed by another, with the car there may be a rush one week and tainty of a further change being few vessels requiring coal in the inevitable in consequence of the first next. Hence the necessity for a *Still, timber is cheaper in Queens plant having considerable elasticity, land than in the other States. The The general scheme at Ball's Head sawmillers approached the Govern-contemplates working on a storage Storekeepers. ment a couple of years ago to de finitely fix the price of logs, so that the price of timber might be fixed upon a basis that was permanent, instead of one which fluctuated: The Government declined to act in this direction. The timber merchants were anxious, and still are, to stabi Hise prices in order not to prevent the cost of building becoming prohibitive. "One result of the Government control of the bulk of the softwood that the consolidated forests is revenue has derived about £600,000 during the last twelve years from this source. Yet the amount expended on forestry is trifling. The business of forest management-of develop- Iment and afforestation it surely not a party matter. A great national asset should, one imagines, not be managed by politicians, but by a commission vested with wide authori ty to protect the public interest, and
Ib. 10 Cucumbers,-Ching Kwa......each --- Garlic,--Sun Tat
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Ginger, young,—Son The Keung. Gjager, old,-Lo Keong... Hoiversdish, Shanghai,--Lik Kan.,,. 12. Indian Corn.-Shok Mai......esch ·6 Lettice-Yeuog Shang Tsol..... Ib. B ... lb. 5 Water Cheatonta,- Ma Tai
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Brinjala, Green,-Ching Yon Kw
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Frage-To Ka!..
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Garonpa-Shak Pan...
5
Godgson-Pak Kap Ya
12
Herrings.-To Pak...
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Halibut-Cheung Kwan Kap
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Labrun,--Wang Fa In
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Loach.-Wu Yu...
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Monk Fish.-Mong Ya Mallet, Teal T... Cysters, Shang Ho
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Parrot Fish, Eni Kang Tae m
18
Forob,-Tan Lo.
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Pits, Fa Pau Fong...
14
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Chung Tạo
Pomfret, Black,-Eak Chong...
Parsley-Kur Tod
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Pomfret, White,
Pak Chong...
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Rock Fish,-Shek Kaa Kung
Pumpkin,-Tang Kwa
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Reach,-Chan Ya
19
Radish, Hoax Lo Pak Teal
Balmon.-Ma Xa.........
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Ahubarb (Fresh),-Tai Wong
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Spinash,-Yin Tani
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VICEROY OF INDIA AND TRADE WITH GERMANY.
6
Mandarin-Kwal
Lam Ma Tal.... Mashrooms, Fresh,—Shang Tao Ka lb. Okres
...... lb. 10 Orions, Bombay,-Yeong Chung Tac 1b.14 Onions, Greer, Shing Chong tb. Unions, Shanghai-Sheung-hi
9
some measure representative of the particular interests identified with the working and distribution of
10 thaber. The result of political rule of thumb methods is a more or less incoherent policy,
an Japanese,Yat Pan Shu Taxi lb.
enormous
a deplor- waste of timber, and able absence of scientific knowledge. Millions of feet of timber, of which
the proper uses or methods of treat.
ment happen to be unknown, are
burned every year. Take the chew's foot elm, for instance. This is a wood with what appears to be a slight defect. Investigation might show that with a knowledge of how to treat the timber after cutting it would be found to have a commercial value. As a matter of fact, a Queens- engaging in trade of any kind Inland wood for which there was no this country except under licence. market before the war, as it was I think that it will clear the air if regarded as useless, is now being.
I say at once that it is not my part used for motor body building, and is The Conference of Indian and now to discuss the question of regarded as the very best procurable Ceylon Chambers of Commerce met existing Treaties with foreign count for this purpose. The case for a on January 6, in the rooms of theries, but even if it were practical scientific bureau for the investigation Bengal Chamber, Calcutta. His politics, which I do not admit, to of Queensland timber is an urgent Excellency the Viceroy, who opened insist on all foreigners. being licensed necessity. Today there is 6,000,000 the proceedings, made a lengthy to trade, it would mean, if it meant feet of cabinet. timber in the log on speech. Mr. Crum in a short speech anything at all, that licences would the sidings between Cairns and gave a history of the, Conference, be granted in one case and refused Atherton. It cannot be moved, be The Viceroy's speech was somewhat in another. A policy of this kind cause shipping is not available. If to inevitable it remains there until the rainy season, lengthy for His Excellency attempted would give rise
a wide survey of the trade problems diplomatic difficulties, to endless the borer will quickly settle its of India. Trade with Germany dissensions and complications, and value, and relieve the frieght market. "The protection given during the naturally engaged His Excellency's to the serious danger of retaliation first attention, concerning which
I am convinced, further, that any war by high freights, and short H. E. made one important announce attempt to strangle foreign trade in supplies from abroad greatly develop. ment as regards foreign trade.. this way would in the long run beed the manufacture of "3-ply" in He said: We propose, as you will against our best interests, It was Queensland. The factories are now all have seen from a Press communi apt on a foundation, of restrictions booked up with orders that will keep que which was recently issued, that the trade of India was built up, them working for the next six altogether to exclude Germane, from and it is not through restrictions months, and if the measure of reliet India for a period of a year. We that it will continue to develop. The against outside competition looked want the Germans as our customers, welfare of our trade will in the for in the new tariff is afforded the. for I do not suppose that anyone will future, as in the past, rest on the trade, there is every reason for ex- seriously suggest that we are not to initiative and energy of our mer pecting it become one of the most trade with Germany, a policy of chants and our manufacturers, their important, Industries In, Australis. cutting off our nose to spite our face, adaptability to new conditions, their The demand is enormous Exper- but we are not prepared at the pre-readiness to seize new obdortunities, ments made with hitherto unused sent time to allow Germans to handle and to develop fresh markets. It timbers show they are particularly Indian trade in this country. Many will not rest on the elimination of suited to production of 3-ply," yield- of you, I know, would go further, competition by means of Government ing in some cases, unexpectedly fine
effects when the logs are peeled." and would prevent all aliens from action.
THE pleasant purgative effect exper Tablets and the health condition of body and mind to which they contribute, makes one feel that living is worth while. For sale by all Chamista and
ienced after taking Chamberlain's
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No. 3.-Extension of
Machinery
It is often made imperative, owing to an increase in the number of machines which' receive their drive from the line shaft, that the H.P. transmitted by the main driving pulley be increased also... This may be accomplished by com- pounding the driving belt, that is, by installing over the existing belt another of equal width, so that the two belts -run in conjunction with each other. It is essential however that the top Belt should be free travel at its own speed. If it were attached to the lower one the fastenings would be torn away and the belts mutilated.
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