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JAPANESE

EXPERIMENTS

IN VEGETABLE GROWING MAY BENEFIT HONG KONG

Successful experiments in growing vegetables with chemical solutions which may be of considerable benefit to Hong Kong are being carried out by the American authorities in Japan.

Reminders

Today

Chinese YMCA Swiraming meet, Club,

Victoria

9.30 pm.

Recreation

Racc Meeting, Race Course.

Happy Valley. Seven-a-side soccer competition,

2.30 pm. -Bowleen Gramophone Concert for members and Services, Diocesan Boys School, 8.15

When the upper "section of the bed Miled to within one- half inch of the top of the aggregate,

At their Hydroponic Farming Depot installations in Japan, the American authorities produced 2,390,382 pounds of fresh vegetables in 1947. The Depot expects to pro-above the level of the beds, from duce 5,225,000 pounds (equi- which it flows by gravity into the valent to 29,095,000 servings) Upper section of the bed. by the end of the year. In addition to hydroponic farm-

'the solution ing the Depot is truck-farm-

immediately emptied into the ing nearly 175 acres of land.

second section, and when this On this land it is expected to

section fired, into the third 1,480,000 pounds of produce

section. from which It draini into the sump. fresh vegetables (equivalent to 10,600,000 servings).

The beds are normally irrigat- Operated under the auspices ofed three times a day. The solu- the Commanding General Unitedtion is analysed and chemicals States Army Air Forces, hydre-added to keep it at a standard ponic farms have been establish-formula.

The 1947 production breakdown Social Evening. RAMC Corps led at Chefu and Otsu in Japan

Association, St. Joseph's Hall, and at isolated American army was Lettuce: 1,015.550 pounds, 509,650 pounds; of outposts in other parts the Tomatoes 8 p.m.

Radishes: 495,880 pounds: Cucum- world.

pounds; Spinach: because of the need of fresh salad 5,150

The Depot was set up in Japan bers: 95,220

pounds. Onions: 38,338 vegetables in the daily diet of the pounds.

At the end of 1948, production Occupational Forces and the im practicability of importing such figures for the year were 4,785,247 vegetables from

the United pounds, or an increase of 49.00 States (because of their highly per cent ever production figures for 1947. The production break- perishable nature).

down

Lettuce: Was:

1,860,942 Hydroponics is

Tomatoes

1.206,475 with chemical pounds; growing crops solutions so that practically all pounds; Radishes: 960,733 pounds; Cucumbers: 304.948 pounds of the mineral nutrients sup- plied to the plant came from Onions 242.452 pounds, Leafy the solution and very little or Salad: 140,200 pounds: Chinese

Cabbage: 11,000 pounds. mone from the sand, cinders, used.

0.15.

Coming Events

TOMORROW

Toc B Club, Classical Concert, 50,

MacDonne! Read 8.45 in.

a science

et

HK Art Club, sketching party: members to sssemble at Queen's Pier, 230 p.m. (fur- ther details from Mr. Nobbins. Tel. 20709).

MONDAY Whist drive, European' YMCA | (for civilians and Services). I & p.n.

TUESDAY Eridre Drive (for civilians and?

The two installations in Japan Services), European YMCA, -10 £ve-acre open plots and oce 8 p.m.

five-acre plot at Chefu, and five IIK Rotary Club luncheon, Roof five-acre plots at Garden, HK Hotel, 12.30 p.m. jeonstructed in 1946.

WEDNESDAY

gravel,

of other aggregate

The breakdown of production forecasts for 1949 for the hydro- panic beds is

Tomato: 1,905,000 pounds; Let- tuce: 1,010,000 pounds; Cucumber. Otsu were 540,000 pounds; Radishes: 820,000 pounds; Onions: 380,000 pounds: Growth of vegetables by hydro-Chinese Cabbage: 470,000 pounds. Toc E meeting. 59. MacDonnel ponies has been used extensively

and In the United States Road, 2.30 p.m.

used by the Armed Forces during the last world war in areas where it was impossible to supply vege- tables by any other method.

European

Mabjoag Lessons,

YMCA, 3 p.m. IIK Amateur Radio Transmitting

Society,

Chine Fleet Club 5,30 p.m

STUDENT FINED ON TRAFFIC COUNT

A Shanghai student, Ha Shuen-lam, aged 20, residing at YMCA Bridges Street, was charged before air. Hin-shing Lo at Central yesterday with breach of traffic regulations. He was fined $150.

Defendant who has a Shanghai licence. was charged

with driving without a valid license and driving car without the owber's consent.

was

The hydroponic method 13 practically the same as that used

Fraud Suspect Remanded

Leung Wan, unemployed, aged

soil farming with the advan-39, was charged at Kowloon yes- tage that one is better able to terday with obtaining money by

water false pretences. control the mutrition and

It was alleged that a Chinese supply of the plants and grow

sanitary woman asked Leung to take a them under the most

jetter to complainant, a fellow conditions.

lodger of defendant's.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 224, -1949.

King Phumiphen of Siam and his fiance, Princess Sirikit are seen in this picture, made recently in Lausanne, Switzer- land. They announced their engagement recently but no daie has been fixed for the wedding, The 21-year-old King is studying law in Switzerland. (AP Photo).

The

Annual Report Of

Police Commissioner

Prison Warder Sentenced

A prison warder, Chung Sum, aged 26, was yesterday sen- tenced to a year's hard labour on a charge of demanding $100 with menaces from Wong Shui- kan, a prisoner in Stanley Prison on September 21.

Defendant was discharged on charge on attempting to carry

2 letter out of prison.

Inspector. H. B. Degar told Mr.

Scholes at

Central that Shui-kan is a prisoner serving a term of imprisonment

Prison

Wong St

at Stanley

W

Yong was sentenced on Sep- tember

10 at Kowloon Court and arrived at Stanley Prison on September 12. He was put in

Hall, Cell No. 80. Defendant

was in charge of prisoners in that hall

The same day, defendant sp- proached Wong and asked bim 10 pay some money otherwise be would be given hard labour. De- fendant continued by saying that if the money was forthcoming be would get easy work.

Wong replied that he had no money and that none of his re- latives had visited him,

Three days later defendant made the same approach

*d received the same answer. On September 14 defendant again asked Wong about the money and at the same time said that if the money was not forthcoming he would have to da hard work. Defendant again,made the same

September 20

and request on Wong then made a report to the Prison Authorities.

On September 21 defendant was arrested and while on the

way to the office he made an attempt to throw the letter away.

ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY

An extraordinary generál meet- ing of the Hong Kong St. An- drew's Society will be held on

ing

the annual general meeting of the Society which will convene at 5.45 pm

wireless telegraphy Control Room at the September 30 at.6.15 pm. follow- Marine Police Station opcrates a 24-hour ser- vice and is in constant touch with anti-piracy cruising launches, according to the 1948-49 annual report of the Commissioner of Police. The Commissioner said that

The purpose of the extraordi- nary general meeting is to pro- pose the following resolution for Regarding trafic, the Commis- the last sentence of the the growing public confidencesioner's report said that nothing Society's rule No. 5 be amended in the Police Force resulted in more can be done for the city of to read: Any member may be

Victoria until the complete bottle-come a Life Member on payment reports being made more free-

neck caused by naval and mili--of the sum of HK$50," ly and, if though they were

tary installations in the centre Defendant opened the letter on not always made as early as cr the city has been removed.

the time of the way and added a few Chinese one would like, magnesium At times, small characters saying that complainant delay was less than in pre- quantities of minor elements are should pay him $15 for medicine vious years.

including Iron. JEAN- he had purchased for complai- added,

cousin, the sender of the ganese, copper, zinc, and boron.

Each five acre plot consists of letter.

The five basic elements used in

hydroponic farming are nitrogen, potassium, calcium, phosphorus,

and

can

87 beds. The beds are 330 feet When complainant received the long and are broken into sections lettter the $15 was given to de- of 120 feet, 100 feet, and 80 fret.fendant.

The beds are water-tight and Later complainant discovered are Alled with a small gravel that her cousin had not asked for aggregate which is used as athe money

Yesterday defendant told the growing medium.

For the greater part of the

Occupation Land Case

STAMP EXHIBITION

The China Philatelic Associa tion will hold its Second Annual Stamp Exhibition at Hotel Cecil between October 14 and 16.

More than 200 frames contain.

year under review, the land The Puise Judge, Mr. Justice frontier areas was cordoned by Gould, at the Supreme Courting a wide range of stamps of 21 police posts most of them in yesterday ruled that the conphilatelic interest will be on view. tenis. The frontier areas by Fruction of a section of

land and sca were thoroughly Japanese Land Transaction combed by raids and ambushes

It was stated by the prosecution that on September 22, at about

The Commissioner said that 9 4. defendant was driving A large sump tank with a court that he was formerly em- the load on the Police Force con- increase during the private car BK 1221 along tain capacity of 90,000 gallons, is at ployed by the Sun Ya Hotel and tinued to Street. When stopped by a police the lower ends of the beds. The had lost his job. He said that al-year and acted as a brake on constable, defendant could not proper amount of chemicals for though his wife is working, he normal

Time progress.

and produce a valid licence.

plant growth is added to the has a family of four children. again its was necessary, to take

He was remanded three days in intensive precautions Further inquiries revealed that water in the sump. This makes

and to defendant drove the car without the consent of the owner.

the growing solution, which is police custody for investigation carry out extensive operations. then pumped to a header tank into his story.

Exhibition Of Paintings By Miss Tseng Yu-ho

Among the young artists of Peiping, none is more

well-known and outstanding then the gifted painter, Miss Tseng Yu-ho, whose exhibition of paintings will be held at the Fung 'Ping Shan Library, Hong Kong University, from tomorrow to October 1.

Miss Tseng comes from a distinguished family in the old capitol, and was brought up in the classical atmosphere.

At the age of 15, she became a student of Prince Pu-chin, the famous painter of the ex- Imperial House, and received instruction in the Palace tradition,

To this rigid training under portunity of viewing a series of masters of a very refined her work at Fung Ping Shan school, the artist owes her per-Library.

No one can understand Chinese fect in handling the vari- ous aspects of classical brush-painting without knowing

the

artist's chief medium-the Chi-

work colour-scheme and com-nese brush. Free manipulating of position

Her gifted talent and inspiratis sensitive and delicate tool of correct hand-

tion soon raised her work to the level of an art full of delicate Charan, youthful vigour and tradi- Hozal refinement.

yeaction can only be

requires ling, and achieved when the artist has de- veloped a feeling towards the various types of hair fastened the end of the stick. A most

In the past low, gens, -Miss! te artistic sense is necessary

Tseng's work has received wide attention in Peiping and her ex-to feel with the brush without hibitions in America were en- which no one can express one- thusiastically wel

welcomed. The Briself with this medium. ish Universities China Commit The exhibthon will prezala fee is

is organising an exhibition of rich variety of the artist's brish- her painting at the China Insti

London, Becently the war has bright

tute in

manship. Dots and lines, splashes

strokes are of such a refined quality that an amateur will

the artist to Hong Kong, and in cognise that the artist has under- the coming week, lovers of art taken a rigid training

in this colony will have an 09-1

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Another interesting.

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to be classified as a painter from

the Irocy Tower. Her et has not been touched by the contempor.. ary movement of Chinese art.

AUCTION OF CROWN LAND

Faur lots of Crown land were sold to three applicants yesterday during a public auction at the New Territories,

District Ostracy Building.

Kowloon Bag

(Enemy Occupation) Ordinance,

Ec

де

decided before à Full Court Mr. Gould made the ruling at petition before him for speci- fit performance of a Japanese as- signment br

by Wong Yuk-lam and Wong Yuk-ho in respect of K. 1. L. 942, 198 Shanghai Street. The petitioner claimed bought the house during the Japanese occupation for the stim of MY240,000 from one Lo Yau- bo.

well Hearing of the case-as as of seven others was ad- $,800, the actual journed sine die by Mr. Gould, "strength on March 31, fast, was who ruled that he would let the

3,265.

Full Court decide the construc- Thirteen members of the Forcation of section 5 (1) of the Japa- nese Land Transaction Ordinance were commended for outstanding in relation to a certain phrase jwork by the Governor during contained therein.

The authorized strength of .3.051 was exceeded during the 12 months under review. 10 anticipation of a further in-

crease

tc

All located in the New Territo- ries, the lots were numbered 211, the year, and 393 were commend-

and 835.

ed by the Commissioner of Po.

Members cf the Force

ocated at Mui Wo, lot 211 is lice.

.06 of an acre of farmland sold to earned a total of HK$8,783 in re- Chow Fuk-hi at $14.

wards. Rewards to the public totalled HK$9,434.

Chow also bought .02 of an acre

of farm land, numbered 242, at Mui Wo, for $5.

In addition to radio-telephony, Lot 273, at Lai Muk Shu, also the Police Force also uses both farmland, was sold to Chunging and Aldis lamp signalling for Chong for $207. The size of the operational purposes.

lot was 95 acre.

ILLEGAL ENTRY

For entering the Colony illegally;

L. V. Radchenko of ss. HavsprÈS was fined $250 by Mr. Hin-shing Lo at Central yesterday.

Deferidant was charged with entering the Colony without per mission from the Immigration

Wan Yiu-kwong bought 450 During the year, there was al Office. square feet of land fit for building reduction in serious crime. There It I was stated that on August 31, farm-type houses at Tai Lam Wu, Sai Kung, for 518.

There were no other bidders.

was also a decrease in the mum- ber of juveniles included in the 4,106 prosecutions,

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