Hong Kong telegram No. 1239 TO Commonwealth Office (D.T.D.)
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4. Imports of food from China began to tail off from 9 August. Despite a four-fold increase in local supplies of pigs we are getting at best two thirds of our total daily requirement and even this is now falling off. Prices have risen by about 100 dollars per picul. Cattle prices have also gone up though supplies from Thailand and elsewhere have maintained stocks at reasonable levels. Vegetable prices have risen by 50 per cent but there is no serious shortage as yet. The reason given by importers for the shortfall is disorder in Kwangtung. No supplies at all were received on 13 and 14 August from Canton.
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Roughly six inches of rain have fallen since 11 August giving a net increase of nearly 1,000 million gallons of water. Stocks are now 6,284 million gallons. Daily consumption in
August has averaged just over 60 million gallons. storm is imminent and may well bring more rain.
A tropical
Officer Administering the Government Sent 10352/15 August 1967
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Recd. 1036Z/15 August 1967
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