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BIRD'S NEST TRADE.

HOW INDUSTRY HAS DEVELOPED.

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When the "Barbarians" lying in what is known to-day as the Straits Settlements brought "birds' nests" as tribute to the Court in Peking in the Tang Dynasty period of 1,100 years ago little did they realise that this delleney would become in the distant futuro a commercial commodity bringing wealth to their posterity., says the Chinese Economic Bulletin. The value of "birds' nests" imported into China in 1926 was Bk. Tls, 967,365 while the figures for each of the three previous years exceeded one million Halkwan taels.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1927.

RUBBER SHARES,

LATEST QUOTATIONS FROM SINGAPORE.

Meats. Carroll Brothers have received the following quotations of rubber shares: Allenbys...

Alor Gajah!...... Amalgamated Malays Ayer Moleks, Ayer Panas Balgownics Bassetta .. Brogas. Bukit Jelotangs. Bukit Katils

.$ 3.10

2002.00

4.20

2.65

11,70

3.00

1.40

1.65

1.25

1.25

Changkat Serdangs

8,90

Connemara - Glenealics

2.40

3.10

11.75

1.75

2.80

Kedahs Kempas... Kuala Sidims Lunas

4.25

8.20

4.20

3.25

Malaka Pindas .

2.95

0.75

0.05

4.35

2.80

1.30

2.80

3.10

4.40

3.10

1.60

3.15

2,60

.3.95

This dellency is now the premier Indragiris dish at Chinese dinner parties. A Jerams dinner with one course of birds' Jimnhs nests costs a minimum of $16 to $20 as compared with the sharks Ans dinner costing $10 to $14. It is also taken as a tonic by the rich in the mornings, much as milk is taken in the West. It is an ex-Mandai Tekongs

ensive luxury and the preparation Mentakabs

New Serendahs requires infinite trouble.

Pajants Punggors Sandycrofts Seudais

Birds' nests are of two qualities. The better kind is known as Kusa Yen or official nest. It is the nest. built in the warm months and is

Sungei Bagans quite clean. The price of the best Tapahs

is 24 per liang (37:301 | Tambalaks

grade

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Dad can finance it, Jack intends te, go to college next year. He's a six teen-year-old, keen

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the inferior $1.50. The other kind is called Mao Yen or hairy nest and is builtn the cold months. As its name implies, it is covered with hair and not as clean as the Kuan Yen. Its price is $16.00 per catty for thei best grade, $10 for the medium and $5 for the inferior grade. Each nest weighs from 2 to 2.5 Fek'in 1 ch'ien equals 3.7301 gram-

United Malaccas, Utan Simpans

The price of raw rubber is 1/7- 7/88. per lb.

1.

COTTON CRISIS..

mes), and two nests after coating AN INFORMATION BUREAU.

are sufficient to fill one rice bowl.

The preparation of Kunin Yen is

London, Dec. 21.

to soak it in hot water until sponzy.

Mr. Hammersley, interviewed in whereafter it is cleaned of any foreign substance. It is then boil-regards to his cotton proposals, ed for some 24 hours and sweeten-stressed the necessity of establish- ed with sugar. The nest itself at ing a Central Information Bureau the final stage has been dissolved for the Lancashire trade, which ai into gelatinous particles which are present had no intelligence organi- eaten with the soup. The prepara-sation. It was, from an export tion of the Man Yen is the same, view point, like an army without but the soup is altered through a general staff as contrasted with there a plece of cloth to keep out the conditions in Japan where gelatinous particles holding hairs. was far greater centralisation of information and where all bran- ches of trade were controlled from a centre.

Swallow's Nest.

The name of bird's nest seem to be misnomer. The Chinese name is literally "swallow's nest." According to the dealers in Shang- hai, the nest is built by a swallow as large as a crow. It inhabits the cliffs in the Straits Settle- ments and lives on whitebait. The nest is made of the bird's salivary secretions. Natives col- lect the nests with knives attached to long bamboo poles, as they can- not be reached otherwise.

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The birds nest is an important item on the Chinese menu. Every good restaurant in a large city is able to serve this delicacy at shart notice, China's import of this article over a period of 10 years Shows a steady increase, with a large percentage consumed Shanghai, as may be seen in the following table:

Whole China

Shanghai

· Hk, Tis.

Year..

Hk. Tis.

1917 1

708,091

319,318

1918

812,662

207,500

1919

854,926

430,029

1920

829,937,

403,926

Tel. C. 1500.

1991

971,875

587,791

441,737

1923

1,050,609

584,438

1921

1,008,578

582,088

1925

1,244,255

711,524

1926

007,365

,574,835

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Most of the supplies come from Singapore, Java, Hongkong and some from India, French" Indo-China and nther places like Egypt, Turkey and Persia. The following table shows the leading sources of supply and the values from each source in units of Hk. Tis, 1,000.

Year

1917

1st Place Singapore 372

2nd Place Hongkong #15

TRIK 1919

102

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405 150 Hongkong 430 Singapore 381 Singapore 671 Hongkong 384

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402

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1925

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402

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1926

613

(Note: Singapore

610

289

includes the Straits, etc. Indo-China de- notes French Indo-China. The figure after each name denotes the value of import from the country in units of Hk. Tis. 1,000),

OLD AGE PENSIONS.

LARGE INCREASE UNDER ACT NEXT YEAR.

London, Dec. 21.

increase the January 2 will total number of persons benefiting under the Government's Widows and Orphans and Old Age Con- tributory Pensions Act to 1,258,- 600. New pensions have been awarded to 450,000 insured persons between the ages of 65 and 70 who become entitled next month to draw for the first time an old age pen- sion of 10/- a week, without refer- ence to their Income from other' sources. British Wircichs.

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