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Finance and Commerce

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Liverpool, March 28. London-Our market has kept very steady all week with gradual tendency to advance dur- ing the last day or so. Political

INGENUITY OF MALAYAN

PADI PLANTERS

The Malayan Agricultural Journal publishes an account of the customary methods of planting padi in different parts of Malays.

"Fürthermore, the Malay cultiva- tor's eye for levels and success in devising methods of Irrigation should not pass unnoticed.

MANY DIFFICULTIES The padi cultivator has many difficulties to overcome, and wide experience in the cultivation of other crops la of very limited value when it comes to padi plant *ing.

"One cannot but be laipressed", advocate any of these methods for says the Journal, by the ingenuity | general or localised application. of the planters in evolving im- The system to be established in plements and methods of cultiva- any new centre of production must conditions are not sufficiently tion sulted to the conditions be devised to suit local conditions. stable to warrant manufacturers, peculiar to each locality. and those speculatively inclined, buying on any big scale, whilst on the other hand, producers display some difdence in offering ahead. Yesterday we were informed that the estimate of Malayan shipments for March had been revised up- ward to 40.000 tons against last week's forecast of 38,000 tons which, in any case, indicated ex- cesa shipments for the current quarter from that territory.

The Malayan Information Agen-

country figures:

CUSTOMARY METHODS

"The time-honoured customary "Generations at Malays have methods used are doubtless planted their ancestral holdings

FINANCE

INVESTIGATING

RADIO

RECEPTION OVERSEAS

Research must play an ha- portant part in the design of a radio receiver, but Izbora- tory research in itself is not enough. Even in a small ares Uke the British Isles manufac- turers have found it necessary to carry out practical inves- tigations as to reception con- ditions in various parts of the country. Obviously, therefore, it is far more necessary. If effetent Over- seas models are to be designed, for the manufacturer to find out for himself, by means of terri- terial research, exactly what are the conditions for good reception in those areas where he intends to market his models.

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capable of improvement, but it has from year to year, and they have The British radio industry has been the experience of officers of thus Kiven their heritage of been quick to appreciate this fact. the Department of Agriculture knowledge and industry to

the and it is

worth while recording that Malay methods of cultivation present-day Malaya. a heritage the steps taken by the General cy has published the following up-Cannot be lightly brushed aside in not only of a countryside beautifled Electric Co., Ltd., of England, as

favour of modern methods: rather by their labours, but the Insurance an example, Two years ago the Investigator must introduce of this country against serious chief executive of their labora. innovations with the utmost cau- food shortage by the annual tories staff carried out tour tion and only after exhaustive supply of about 40 per cent. of of some 30,000 miles, and now trials at local "experiment stations. the requirements of the staple further trip has just been

"While this account detalls the food of about 98 per cent cluded, the mileage covered being variations in systems to suit local of the total population of this no less than 56,000. " conditions. It is not intended to country."

Production.-Malaya

7,651 FIRST EXAMPLES IMPOUNDING

Estates of 100 acres and 'over:---- Feb. Jan. tons tons Straits Settlements 1,317 1,564 Federated

Millay States 9,421 Unfederated

Malay States' 6.952

10,679

17,690

19,894

Stocks Held by Dealers!--

Federated

Malay States 5.374 Unfederated

Malay States 3.132

Feb .tons

8,506.

Production.-Malaya Estates under 100 acres:-

Feb.

745"

tons

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Straits Settlements Federated

Malay States 2.042 Unfederated

Malay States 3,597

7,284

Stocks Estates of 100 acres and

Feb. "tons

Straits Settlements 3,705 Federated.

Malay States 27,512 Unfederated

Malay States 17.120

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Mr. Roy Moxham was away for nearly a year travelling at an average of more than 170 miles a day. He was a passenger in 21 different aeroplanes and 12 ships,

OF THEIR KIND CZECH BALANCES and the visited 21 countries. The

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A frequency changer, which when A Bill is being drafted and will route lay through the West Coast assembled will weigh about 300 shortly be laid before Parliament of Africa. Nigeria, French Came- Jan. tons and which is the first of its to indemnify the London Banks roons, the Sudan, South Africa.. tons kind made in Britain and believed which, at the instance of the the Rhodesias, Kenya, Tanganyika, 8.770 to be the first in the world, has Government,

have

Burma, Slam. impounded. India,

Malaya, been shipped from the Tyne to the Czech balances in London.

China, Australia, New Zealand, 3,194 White Bay Power Station, Sydney, The man responsible for the Fiji, Hawaii, Canada and the Unit-"

for the New South Wales Govern-speed and dexterity with

which ed States. 8.964 ment (Commissioner for Railways).this matter was arranged

The tour was primartly one of was The frequency changer, which was Sir Frederick Lelth-Roas, Chief investigation as to reception condi- transported In four sections. Financial Adviser to the Garem-tions, but the opportunity Was will transfer power in either direc-ment.

taken to collect first hand infor- Jan. tion, between an 11,000-volt, 50 He will probably have a handmation and to hold discussions tons periods system and a 6,600-volt 25 in framing his own indemnity with local broadcasting authori

667 periods system. Independently of The sum involved is much larger tes and amateurs,

variations in the frequency of both than was first thought.

At the same time valuable con-

·6,339 systerns.

the neighbourhood of £30,000,000. tact was made with the radio en- The ultimate fate of the Czech gineers throughout the company's 5,854 A new rolling mill is being built balances still remains to be deter-36 Overseas branches to discuss

at the steel works of Messrs. Barnuel mined. The

with three and

them particular problems half 12,680 Fox & Co., at Stocksbridge, near million pounds advanced by

the and to convey to them the latest

550 TONS ROLLING MILL

It is in

Sheffield, by a Birmingham firm. Government to Czechoslovakia is developments.

When the mill is completed it likely to constitute the Arst over:will be largest of its kind in Europe.

charge. Jan. weighing 550 tons. tons 3,708

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A pointer to the increased pur- "chasing power in north-east Eng- factory and comes from the Agures of 80- Co-operative Building operations taking place agents have disposed of eight fac- the Newcastle 26.608 in Manchester are transforming the tories during the last two months clety, which reported an increase

been vacant | in sales of £179,180 in 1938. a publishing centre of a big group of (two of them 16,726 newspapers into the largest and for Ave years),

per cent. Increase over 1937, most modern newspaper printing 47,042 and publishing establishment: in

the "world, From the point of view of con- A new block, consisting of four sumption, accounts read quite en-floors above the ground, wil linkį couragingly. In Great Britain,"ac-up the two main buildings that cording to the Society of Motor comprise the firm's headquarters, Manufacturers and Truters 2,329,- Part of the new block will be de- 777 vehicles are now Licensed voted to housing the longest ne compared with 2.175,319 units of printing presses in the world. year ago. In the U.S.A. the Chair-The total area of the machinery man of the Goodrich Company jhall will be about 48,000. square belleves that the rubber Industry feet.

has come Into 1939 with high

hopes of a good business year.

for with a forecast of automobile

production of 3,400,000 cars and

U.S. TRADE HAMPERED BY

trucks, an increase of 4 millon DICTATOR NATIONS

original equipment tyres this year NEW YORK, April 14 (Reuter

is indicated compared with 1938. Latest returns of tyres in the US.A. are as follows:-

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Jan. Production -3,739,000 4.163,000 Deliveries 4,344,000 4,581,000 Stocks 9,573,000 8,932,000 We have faith in the future of rubber providing European diff- culties can be surmounted and trade transacted under more pact- fic conditions.

COST OF PUBLIC CLEANSING

Declaring that the dictator na- tlons had blocked the success of the administration's trade pact

Secretary programme, the

of Agriculture Mr. "Henry Wallace, issued a statement in Washing- toa.

He declared that he had urged Congress to back the Government subsidies for wheat and cotton exports and said that the Senate Appropriations Sub Committee was considering the demands for an increase of $400,000,000. 40 bolster up" the Farm Programme. Mr. Wallace declared that extra

From Our Own Correspondent funds were needed to maintain LONDON -- In recent issue of American participation in the The Commercial Motor" devoted world markets and to keep cotton to municipal motors, it was stated out of the Federal Loan.

» that in Great Britain public clean-

sing alone coste about £1,000,000

a year, and house refuse is collect.

ed, at the rate of approximately

one ton per year per house.

HALL-MARKED HOUSES

Siccess has been achieved by the

The same authority emphasised scheme adopted fifteen months ago the need for a greater measure by the Birmingham and District of standardisation in respect of House Builders' Association to municipal requirements, which award a "hall mark" to houses would have the effect of speeding which reach a certain standard of up production and reducing cost. construction. The purpose of the In this connection it is in-scheme is to protect the house- teresting to observe that no less purchaser from the "Jerry-builder," than 48 different authorities em-and consists of the identification ploy the Dennis moving-floor col-of a house of the required standard lector, which shifts refuse up to by a specially, designed air brick. 22 cu. yds., as many as 177 chines being involved.

EGYPT BANS

GOLD EXPORTS

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During the first twelve months of the existence of the scheme, ap proximately twelve hundred ap plications were received for houses to be hallmarked by the Assogla- tion's registered air-brick. More CAIRO, April 14 (Router) In than four hundred certicates had view of the international situation, been issued. A number of houses the Egyptian Government has had falled to attain the required banned the export of gold until standard, and the hall-mark sign

in those cases had been refused. further notice.

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