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SHANGHAI

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Shang-hai

Although situated nearly midway between Hongkong and Tientsin, Shanghai was the most northerly of the "Five Ports" opened to foreign trade under the provisions of the British. Treaty of Nanking, and for many years constituted the northern limit of the external trade of China. It lies in the alluvial peninsula formed between the

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AUSTRALIAN FOODSTUFFS.

WE ARE REGULAR EXPORTERS OF:-

BUTTER & CHEESE

We can also supply the following goods at competitive prices:- Bacon, Hams, Frozen Meat, Dry Fruits, (Currants, Sultanas & Lexias), Fresh Fruit, Wheat, Flour, Leather and other Australian produce.

We can quote firm prices by Cable C.I.F. British Sterling.

ENQUIRIES INVITED

F. B. BOLTON & CO.

Albert House, 289, Albert Street,

BANKERS:

BRISBANE.

CABLE and RADIO:

Commercial Bank of Australia, Ltd.

BRISBANE.

"BOLTONCO” Brisbane, Codes:

Bentleys & Bentleys Second.

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is fairly fertile, and, the land being easily

easily irrigated owing waterways which traverse it in every direction, heavy crops of the various staples are grown. Owing to the latitude and the fact that the rainfall is pretty well distributed through the year, two crops per annum are regularly produced, and these are of. markedly different types; the spring crop, gathered in May or June, being similar to that of the northern temperate regions elsewhere, while the autumn crop, gathered. in September and October, is distinctly tropical or sub-tropical. The spring crops. consist of wheat, two or three distinct varieties of barley, rape, and leguminous plants of various descriptions, beans and lucerne predominating. The latter are frequently ploughed into the land without gathering to make manure for the more valuable summer products. The summer crops consist mainly of cotton and rice; the cultiva- tion of the former having of late years, owing to the growing demand for use at home, and for export to western and northern provinces, as well as to Japan,-where the cotton spinning and weaving industries have for some years past taken a firm hold→→→ considerably increased, accompanied by a similar decrease in the acreage under rice! cultivation. This decrease is, however, to a certain extent counterbalanced by an increase in the production of winter wheat, partly owing to an enlarged acreage, but

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