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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzie has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)

3 +

12

160

164

145

168

1-Cluesie woodland

HORIZONTAL

delty

5-Herolo talos

S-A promise

12-Collision 14-Auditor 16-Prefix, To 17-imaginary lines

onciroling globe 20-ove forward

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28-Recovered strength 2+Energy (slang) 25-A fresh sot 27-Nut

29-To charge

30-Cut with mytho

3-Dwarf animale

34-Preposition

15--Esteem 37-Thoroughfaro

(abbr.)

38-Ejaculation

39-Bluster 40-Closa relative

(short)

41-Gay

43-Exist

45-Coaches

48-Simple song

48-Vegetable growth

11-Representative

59-Move

64-Crack aviator.

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28

70

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THE INFORMATIONIS SYNDIGAR

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{HORIZONTAL (Gon't)

58-Roadside tavern 80-Seven day period

(abbr.)

¡61-Something given

special attention

83-In this manner

(Bible)

|24-Breathe rapidly. 128-Line of descent

28-Dassert 29-Anticipate with

horrar

84-Pertaining to a esa-30-Pattern

son of fasting [86-Ürivan, as a cozch |58–Delay 169-0id Venetian rulera

70-Facial organ

VERTICAL

1-Decree

2-Electrical unit

3-At higher place 4-Short sleep 5.Wander 6-Old Spanish warehip 7-Farm animals. 8-Existad

O-Conjunction. 10-Deputy for

sovereign 11-Theater-curtain

13-Unit of weight for

gemm

18-Senior

18-Suffix. Like

| 19-Lithium (abbr.)

31-Harata 83-Bags

35-Thigh of an animal 36-Beam

40-One side of a leaf 42-Falling in dropa from clouds

¡44-Wisa mon of the

Ext

148-Tennis Implement

47-Shoot from ambush |49-Zent

60-Faculties 62-General tendency 53-6traps 54-Ghoemakers' teol

(ام)

56-Large body of water

(abbr.) |57-N. Cantra: State of U. 8. (abbr.) 55-Knob 61-865) on ayolld 62-There

68-A continent (abbr;})'. 67-Behold

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YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

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SUGAR

(Continued from Page 6.)

THE CHINA MAIL,

Planters Syndicate, which markets of the island,. the southern part of about 80 per cent of the crop. Pay- this area baiag mainly concentrated ment to cane farmers is made in on one large central, the northern several medium sized terms of sugar delivered to the plant consisting of er per ton of cane recaived or by factories.

The froghopper pest is an intermit- Consumption in the Union of South the purchase of the care. In addi Africa in 1923 was 200,000 tons, and tion to the selling organisation re-tent menace to the industry, and the has for a number of years shown an ferred to, the planters are organised alteration in the crop figures shown annual increase of 6 per cent. to 7 for policy in a Chamber of Agricul- above is in some measure due to this. per cent. Exports, which less than ture and for technical matters in the Trinidad is out of the hurricane area. Barbados has an acreage of 36,000. ten years ago were nil, were 85,000 Societe des Chimistes. These bodics tons in 1928, The South Africa work in touch with the Agricultural producing between 55,000 and 59,000 Sugar Association

Department in regard to experiment tons of sugar. Every inch of the is has officially de-

and is cultivated, and it has a teem- clared its export policy to be to ship and research.

Market Auctuations and particular-ing population of African natives who only raw sugars, i.e., sugars not ex- ceeding 99 per cent. polarisation that ly the continued depression to which provide more than ample labour at a shall provide raw material for refin-augar has been recently subjected re- low price. The shallow soil has made ers in the United Kingdom and feet upon Mauritius where sugar is

the staple crop. Canada.

The industry is producir about, 60,000 tons of molasses annually, half of which is converted locally into liquid fuels, &c., and the balance ex ported.

Being entirely outside the tropical zone, the harder varieties of cane are used. Uba being the type mainly grown. As the industry extends into the more low-lying and fint areas of Zululand, it is probable that other types will be needed. The industry has established and supports (at a cost of about £12,000 per annum raised entirely from the millers and planters) a fully equipped experi mental station at Mount Edgeumbe, co deal with the difficulties and possibi- fities of bulli cultivation and manu- facture.

known

Government

It is highly essential from the point of view of British sugar sup plies, that the sugar industry in Mauritius should be maintained by adequate preferences and fair mar- by Great Britain. keting conditions The Colony is the most important Empire supplier; it deponds virtually again o sugar alone; and it may prove, as it has in the pas, the de- ciding factor in helping Britain to break through foreign attempts to dominate prices.

BRITISH GUIANA

fertilisers of the highest importance in cultivation. A very large part of the product is sold in the form of "fancy molasses" in Canada.

Antigua and St. Kitts, where the season is from February to August, produced as follows:--Antigos, 1926- 27, 23,500 tons; 1927-28, 20,000 tons; 1928-29 (estimated), 11.000. Kitts, 1926-27, 13,008; 1927-28, 19,000; 1928-29 (estimated), 16,000,

The other British West Indian Is- Jands produce together between 5,000 and 6,000 tons annually..

But

Although the production of sugar in the British West Indien Islands may not be capable of enormous ex- pansion, it can be increased consider- The season of the crop is from Oc-ubiy with reasonable security of mar- Lober to December and from May to ket, and the whole of the Caribbean arca has a strong claim upon the Bri- June, and in 1927 50,000 acres of cane tish Government, not only because were cut, making 100,000 tons of

of its historical, past, but of its sugar.

The sugar is all grown on a strip fruit, for instance, has enormous pog- economic futura. The development of of alluvial land bordering the sea, sibilities, and there are other indus which is below the level of high de Consequently elaborate systems of tries of great potential value. drainage are necessary and provide a all of these and their value to Great canal mesh covering the cane area Britain and to Canada rest upon what necessitating water transport for all is still the basic industry of the

as a whole, sugar. questions. The iron "punts" in which cane is collected and which are haul- ed in strings of four to six by rules to the loading docks of the factories are a characteristic of this Colony and only to be seen there. It is eas- tomary in order to revive fields to allow the water to cover them; they begin grow up with indigenous Exports to the United Kingdom plants many of which are legumin- enjoy the benefit of preference grant-ous; these are worked into the ground ed to Empire sugars, amounting to before replanting.

In 1927, the Union gave legal effect to the recommenda- tions of a special enquiry set up by its Board of Trade, and industries, as the Fakey Conference Among these arrangements is a pro- vision that the cane farmers shall be paid for their cane on a sliding scale conforming to the current selling price in the Union of No. 1 standard refined sugar, adjnted by scale on percentage of sucrose contents. At the same time, the import duty was raised to Bs. per 100 lbs., and the consuming public was safeguarded by the enactment of a maximum self- ing price.

The

FIJI

Brea

The seasons from June to Novem- The centrals belong for the bor.

Australian companies most part to and the sugar in shipped to New Zealand and Canada. Fiji hes gone through a severe labour crisis Inden- tured labour from India, with which British she operated for many years; ceased in 1916, and by 1919 all remaining

38. 96. per cwt. on sugar of 96 per Guiara sugar belt is within & deg. of cent. polarisation. Even with this the Equator and is out of the harri- indentures were cancelled. For some preference, export to the U.K. results cane zone, so that with its alluvial time it was endeavoured to maintain in a definito loss on every ton ex- soil and warm moist climate it is the estate system, but the Indian de- sire to act as an independent farm- estates lowing figures show more plainly the course of one large than any description no doubt but that sugar production into big properties with in South Africa could not have attain-factory; Д cartain amount-about events.

hy individual Production in tons 1921-22, 72,000 ed to present dimensions. A very 4,000 acres-is grown

tons; 1922-23, 29,000 tona; 1924-25, large increase in the exportable pro- small farmers duction could be brought about if The labour is mainly East Indian 101,000; 1926-27, 85,000; 1927-28, there were a substantial increase in with some African, the former being 95,000; 1923-29, 108,000. the preference in the UK. tarif. brought in for the descendants of

The South African Sugar Asaaciu- those brought in), under a system of HONG KONG HOTEL VISITORS

Efforts tion membership includes all the re-indenture no longer in use. fineries and mills and practically all have been made to re-open immigra the cane farmers. The Association tinn from India, but so far have not The Africans are is able to negotiate for the whole met with success. industry, and its Crop Disposal Com-descendants of the slaves with whose mittee handles the subjects of dis- labour the industry was begun

industry tribution. and sale, both locally and The British Guiana sugar

Misses M. Dereyer, M. Davis, Mr. for export. These arrangements are way famous for the Golden Crystal much facilitated by the fact that the known as "Demerara Sugar." but the A. Danjou, L. Demeure.

Mr. H. J. Eddo. share capital of the largest refinery, production of this has fallen off con- with capacity of 150,000 tons annual siderably and the industry is mainly Messra, A. Folger, R. E. Francis, ly,

is owned by over a dozen of the concerned with producing reining H. W. Fowler, Mrs. E. Foster, milling companies, in proportion to crystals at about 96 deg. polarisation. their output, and under mutual con-

ported at the present level of world highly suitable for sugar ter eventfully prevailed, and the fol-

prices. Without the preference The tendency is, as elsewhere.

of small granted by Great Britain. there is the concentration

April 23, 1929.

Messrs. A. Brese.

Meessrs. E. J. Carmichael, J. G. Carlson.

Messra. A. W. Grist, S. P. Gray, Messrs. J. L. Harrobin, W. L

and Mrs. S. P. Huang.

British Gulana has no houe market Miss E. Foster. to speak of, and must depend like Mauritius on export entirely. Canada and Great Britain are the only mar-Hogen, Dr. F. Hildbrand, Mr. ket open to her and the future of the industry virtually depends on the extent and stability of the prefer- ences accorded to her in the tariffs of the United Kingdom. There is 15 ample land available for an enormous expansion of the industry, and the capital would be forthcoming if rea- sonable security of market could be

tract to pass all their sugar through that refinery. The cane farmers are also entitled to hold shares in the re- Anery and to be represented on its Board.

The Refinery Company is limited to an Annual dividend of 8 per tent, all surplus profits to be applied to reducing the cost of re- fining for its constituent members. This important concern, and its busi arrangements, owed its inception to the Fahey Conference above mention- ed, and is therefore officially recognis-assured, but this in present world ed by the Government.

MAURITIUS

conditions is only possible as the re- sult of action by the Imperial Gov- ernment.

Mr. C. Rycroft

Miss H. Lille, Mrs, Lenz, Mr. S. Luressove, Mr. Loong Kwai-lum.

Mr. T. E. Mitchell.

Messrs. C. Nopper, A. Nicholson, J. E. Nixon, S. K. Ng, and family.

Mr. and Mrs. R. E Park. Messrs. S. Schofield, T. W. Sut- terle, T. Story.

Messrs. J. Wilkinson, W. Wat BRITISH WEST INDIAN ISLANDS meugh, A. G. Waller, Wong Chuen-

The Mauritiua geason iz from August to January. The crop is

Jamaica has an acreage of 45,000, ready in about 18 to 22 mouths from producing annually about 65,000 tons the time of planting. One-third of

of of sugar. The season is from Janu- the total area of the Island is under ary to June, and the labour, which is cane, making a total of 162,000 acres, almost enitrely African, is plentiful of which about 100,000 are cultivat and cheap. A feature of the indus- ed by estates, the balance being farm-try is the large number of small fac ed by Indiana Labour almost en- tories still existing; though the ten- tirely Indian, the descendants of in- deney to centralisation has made dentured labourers brought in in the

rapid strides in very recent years. past: There is an average produc- large amount of rum was formerly tion of 225,000 tons of sugar from made, but the high duties in Britain rather over 2,000,000 metric tons of

and prohibition in the United States have discouraged its production to a great extent.

cane.

Mauritius in the largest individual exporter of sugar in the British Em-

A

The heavy decrease in the world

pire, and it is to be remembered that consumption of rum has directly in- by being able to purchase the whole creased the cost of sugar production

very

is

of the Mauritius crop in 1922, Bri- in Jamaica (as in British Giana) but tain was then alle ta escape the even so they could compete in open other producing price domination of the

United markets with all

countries except possibly Java. Statea.

Trinidad has an acreage of 35,000. The Island is admirably suited for The season is from January to June, caue cultivation, but is subject to and recent sugar production, in tons

severe hurricanes.

Came has been: 1926-27, 52,000; 1927-28, transported by a network of tram 81,000; 1928-29 (estimated), 75,009. ways, and the level of efficiency in Labour is mainly Indian, and a very cultivation is very high indeed. The number of factories in gradually de- large proportion of cane comes to the factories from small farmers; the creasing as the Colony progresses to

roads at crop time are filled with a wards the "Central" system, and re-

their small carts. The cent stops have been taken to active stream of uniformity in the colour and texture

sugar area is on the central west side of the excellent plantation white sugars which constitute nearly the whole of the sugar produced. A fen- ture of the cultivation is the extra- ordinarily steny nature of the land which handicaps the employment of mechanical cultivation to a certain extent, and which has also contribut ed to the practice of long ratooning; that is, allowing the canes, to shoot from the stool again after catting, instead of replanting. Mauritius has always been noted for the use of a large aumbar of varieties of cane; this has been due to the enterprising cultivation which distinguishe# the Colony and has proved a safeguard against the devastationa of disease attacking any one variety. The Is- land bas, however, escaped the major cane diseases such as Mosaic and Fijl disease, and severe quarantine regulations exist for imported cane varieties,

Considerable irrigation schemes are adding to the efficiency and quantity of production.

A Tip To Tennis Players

Mauritius sugar is almost entirely To keep in good form for your exported. Formerly she had valuable favourite game the avoidance of markets in South Africa, Austrália

and India. The two former have constipation is hoportaat, and to now, however, developed their own dispel constipation, aid the liver production, and India, which gives no and ensure daily regularity. Fin-. preference to Empire-grown sugar, kettes are perfection. now takes most of its imports from

Java. The United Kingdom remains These dainty little laxatives almost the only market open to the and liver regulators set as gently Colony, with the possible exception of as nature. They banish bilious Canada where the preferential tarif attacks and sick headaches, clear has led to tentative endeavours to find,

an opening for Mauritius sugar; the skin, sweeten the breath, keep though it is too early to gatimate the you lit and well. At 60 cents value of this as yet.

the vial: from chemists every- Marketing arrangements are made where.

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