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use of kerosene (paraffin) burning lamps in fishing boats.
(a) As from the 1st September, 1943, a revised time table was enforced on the Kowloon to Shunchun Railway:·
From Kowloon.
9 am.
1 p.m.
5 p.m.
From Shunchun.
6.35 a. m.
12.35 p.m.
4.35 p.m.
Arrival at Shunchun.
10.50 a.m.
3.50 p.m.
6.50 p.m.
Arrival at Kowloon.
10.25 a.m.
2.25 p.m. 6.25 p.m.
(b) Before the war there were 14 trains each. way daily and the journey took at the most 61 minutes if stops were made at all stations. Expresses took 36 minutes.
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The Japanese have formed a department to encourage an intensive cultivation of crops in Hongkong and Kowloon. Special seeds have been imported for which farmers may apply. Advice will be given on the growing of crops.
(b) There is hardly room in Hongkong Island and Kowloon for more than market gardens, but in the new Territories north of Kowloon (included in the administration of the Colony) there were in 1936, 36,000 acres under paddy, 13,000 under sugar and 1,000 under fruit, sweet potatoes and ground nuts. These could only be slightly extended as the area is on the whole mountainous and barren.
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