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NITTA MARU-

Tuesday, 23rd July SEATTLE & VANCOUVER (Starts from Kobe)

(Convenient connection from Hong Kong), HIKAWA MARU

NEW YORK via Panama.

AWATA HARU

BAGAMI MARU ·

LIVERPOOL via Cape Town

HAKOZAKI MARU

HOSIMI MARU

ULSTER IN

Many Productions: More Land Under

The Plough

WAR-TIME

cover less than 50 acres, and far- mers had to be convinced of the

adaptability of the modern tractor and Ita capacity for manoeuvring

in small fielda.

What expert agriculturists, from the Prime Minister downwards, assured me is one of the finest tractors in the world which wil time revolutionize agriculture, is the invention of an Ulster man Mr. Harry Ferguson. It is being produced in mass in America for supply to the Western hemisphere,

the Eastern hemisphere,

On every front Northern Ireland is playing a full and worthy part In the struggle with Hitlerism, The two Corps Commanders of the B.E.F.-General Sir John Dill and General Alan Brooke-are some of Ulster, as

are. thousands of the men they lead.

Though conscription may not

Mr. Burgin, the Minister apply in Northern Ireland, there Supply, during his recent visit to has been an impressive flow of Northern Ireland, saw a demon- volunteers. Into the Forces, so that more than once recruiting offices have had to close their doora to gain a temporary respite, writes a Home correspondent.

of

stration of ploughing. by this trac tor, driven part of the time by a 12-year-old boy, and was most impressed with its performance..

It is claimed that this

tractor

SUCCESSFUL TENDERERS

NOTIFIED

The following names of success- ful tenderers are notified for gen- eral information:-

Messrs. Mohamed Din Bros.--Clo- thing. Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps

Messrs. Tak Hing & Co-Re-car- struction of So Kun Wat Bridge

Bridge No. 15).

Messrs. Tai fack Shing & Co.- Purchase of old 8. "ELD4”

Messrs. Kin Lee & Co.-Public latrine, Lascar Row, Hongkong.

first

Messra. The Asia Company.--- Supply, and delivery of provisions required by the Hongkong Prison at Stanley, the Female Prison at Lalchikok and Victoria Remand Or the home front Northern takes the slavery out of farming Prison, Hongkong, or elsewhere in Ireland's contribution includes and ensures prosperity, and as it the Colony..

Messrs. Woo King-Kai Tak food, ships. aircraft, arms and can turn in a small space and munitions. Army clothing, and plough right up to the hedgerows, Airport-Nullah diversion, camouflage nets: exports which it is specially suitable for the section

Messrs. The Asia Company. bring in valuable foreign currency: small farms of Northern Ireland. comforts for men and women of

The difficulty in the way of bulk Medical Department contract.

Messrs. Tak Hing & Co.-Hong- the Forces, and hard cash for the manufacture in Ulstar, which ad-

Defence Corps United Kingdom's joint war chest. mittedly would provide work for kong. Vulunteer

About £100.000 worth of War many thousands, is the great de-huta Savings Certificates are being mand for steel for other essential taken up weekly. and 75 per cent. purposes at this time. of the money, subscribed goes to the United Kingdom Government increased from 20,000 to 30,000 Continental supplies of flax fibre for "war purposes. As well there is acres. The entire available Cana- should they not be forthcoming. another contribution of inestim-dian flax seed crop was brought, To deal with the increased crop able worth: belief in the rightnessdian flax seed crap was bought, the Ministry of Agriculture will of the cause of the Allies and a and the Ministry of Supply have make available 135 mechanical

determination to

It supplemented this by purchases pulling machines.

from Holland and Belgium,

like

triumphant

see

I

The acreage under flax is being

In every field Ministry and As the Prime Minister, Lord This additional crop will not, farmers are working together in Craigavon, put it to me: "Ulster however. wholly compensate for harmony to prove that the plough

la heart and soul with the rest the loss of Russian and other is mightier than the U-boat. of the Kingdom and Empire, and

is full out to help i every possi-

ble way it can.”

IMPORTANT INDUSTRY

WEATHER REPORT

Hongkong Royal Observatory

10a.m. July 7.

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Height.

11

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Friday, 19th July

The most important industry in this corner ul the Kingdom is Barometer, fat sea level) 29.54 Ins. agriculture. and the thousands of Temperature, 84 F yeoman farmers who carry it on Humidity, 79 per cent. whose farms are their own or in wind Direction, W/N process of being acquired, are Wind Force (Beaufort), 4. doing their utmost to ensure vic-Temperature; maximum yesterday, tory. When war came the Minis- 85 F..

HONG KONG TIDE TABLE From 8 to 14 July 1940.

HIGH WAZE

LOW WATE

Bong

Hong

Kong

ndard

Standard

Time.

Time

h. m.

b.

ip.

Mon. 8

10.40 176

0410

7

Tuesday, 18th July

Friday, 28th July

ter of Agriculture, Sir Basil Brooke, Temperature; minimum last night, obtained from Parliament power 77 F.

17 16 0 2

Tues. 9

0094

140

04 57

Wednesday, 10th July Monday,

28th July.

Saturday, 27th July

and into production this year, Total rainfall since January 1st, Thur. 11 which was 70 per cent, more than 71.85 Ins..

to require 250,000 additional acres Rainfall for 24 hrs. ending 10th Wed. 10 to be brought under the plough

today, 0.00 ins.

11 30

17 3

18 380 8

0100

148

05 69

20

12 24

LG A.

19 16

10

01 68

15 0

13 0

13 26

18 0

20 02

18

the quoia allotted to Northern Against an average of, 41.31 ins. Ireland.

Sunset tonight, 7.11 p.m.

Fri. 1.2

02.48.5 3

a 1

1448

63)

20 48

2 1

Bah 13.

03 42.

10 IS

Z 9

1811

4.8

21 38

2 6

0441

5 9 11 49

94

Wednesday, 10th July Sunday, 27th July

17 45

14 21 22 31

29

Maximum temperature, 89 Minimum temperature, P. Rainfall, n.

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Sunday.

ioth July Saturday, 27th July

23rd July Tuesday, Wednesday, 24th July

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Yet this Impressive total was Sunrise tomorrow, 5.44 a.m. reached sume days, before March

Bar, 14 4 p.m., July 7... ended, and the Minister told me Barometer (at sea level), 29.45 ins. that posebly it will be increased to Temperature, 88 F. 300,000 acres.

Humidity, 88 per cent. Wind Direction, W/S.. Wind Force (Beaufort), J.`

Eighty per cent, of Ulster's agri- cultural income comes from five- stock and livestock produce, and an enormous amount of feeding stuffs is needed. Accordingly an

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sown with barley to take the place of maize formerly brought from overseas

Northern Ireland supplies the United Kingdom with a large and welcome portion of high-quality bacon and eggs, and it is intended to make this contribution to the national larder bigger still in the days ahead. The eggs, command the highest price of any finding their way to the British market, and a scheme has been evolved

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