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ROTARY SPEECH.

TELEGRAPH.- WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1932.

miles

half to four

daye.

almost ten feet, and the quality was development had come about in the said to be very good.

way of communications.

Dr. Also cocoanuts were found in Barcovits recalled his first trip into large quantities. Unfortunately the interior on a blazing hot day in the industry had not been developed June, the trip being made under ONE OF THE RICHEST PARTS and it seemed to him that there trying circumstances on a pony,

was room for axpansion in the covering a distance of 30 mattor of growing coconuts and within three and a also producing vegetable mineral Such trips were now mndo, he said, ails.

by motor car in about four and a Better Sugar Cano Needed.

half hours over largo radius. There was a He continued that other product rands, and the Chinese were enter regular network of there wore grent oppor- wero sugar, in connexion with tunities for agricultural expanalon which there was need for the in-prising and progressive in opening in Hainan Island, that it was con- troduction of better cane; raltan them up. There were now between sidered to be one of the richest products, which were found in the 000 and

cars on the parts of China and, if properly mountainous jungles in Inrge and Island, while there were also ze

services between the developed, could support ten mill- untouched quantities, an also hurd gular bus lion people instead of its present woods. It had also seemed to him coast towns and the interior and Hollow. The roads, he said, were of between that. It would be very easy to two and three

That

700 motor

estimated passwore points develop the tropical fruit industry, kept very well Indeed.

made by Doctor M. Bercovitz, when addressing ́ Rotarians at yesterday's luncheon at Mesars. Lane Crawford's restaurant,

wero

In addition, minorals could

there, such be obtained

limestone, marble and the like.

Field for Expansion.

to

Quicker Travel.

Rubber, he went on to say, was another product, in respect of which

After remarking that such de- plantations had been set up and velopment was the greatest since, had done very well as the quality at least, 1916, the speaker went on The Chairman (Sir William was very good.

to talk of medical work. In the Hornell) welcomed Rotarian 11. Referring to agricultural Pro old days, he said, people who were Hutchen of Singapore, and anked ducta, Dr. Borcovitz stated that sick, had to travel perhaps a dia- him to take back with him the they were scarcely grown

tance of between 40 and 60 miles good wishes and respectful but a great many pigs and cows greetings of the Hongkong Club. were shipped to Hongkong. Al-in chairs to get to hospital. Now, however, they covered the distance He also welcomed Mr. D. D.though many thousands

in a matter of two or three hours McKay, Mr. H. B. Bailey and Mr.shipped each year he believed that by motor car. The result was that C. Y. Chan.

that business could be developed

a great many people arrived in After expressing the pleasure and, also, that the class of animals hospital at a stage when their com- It gave him to be asked to address could be improved and made big-plaint was not so for advanced, and the meeting and saying he felt ger.

more could be done for them. It a great honour to be invited

Touching On politica, Dr. to speak, Dr. Bercovitz aald that

Bercoviiz remarked that the his experience of Hainan Island

Kwangtung Government and Ad- dated from 1916 when he want

miral Chan Chak was the power in there from America. He spoke briefly of his journey from Hong- From his own personal observa-Hainan, and he was glad to see Wu was going there kong to the Island and told of tions as a layman, he said he be that Dr. C. the difficulty encountered in get-lieved that the chief development to take up the position of Governor

ing into the harbour and coming of the Island would lie in agricul. to try and develop the island.

Tropical Diseases. out through the Straits, stating tural products and it seemed

The chief tropical diseases en- that his first journey there was him that there was a large field for

wero large countered, he continued; were not a very inspiring one, but he expansion. There Pubsequently found the island to tracts of unoccupied Innd which malaria and dysentery, but there be a most interesting and fan- could be used and he was hoping were also, at times, epidemics of cinating place.

that some day large plantations plague and cholern and a He continued that

deal of tuberculosis. Tuberculoals Ilainan would be set up there. Island was about 260 miles south- Continuing, the speaker said that was becoming more and more thoir! west of Hongkong. It was about between two and a half and three concern in the tropics na ho found 180 miles long and 115 miles wide years ago a certain geologist visit- very hard to cure because a damp at its greatest width, and was od the place and came to the con- hot climate was very unsuitable. only 15 miles from the mainland. clusion that if it were properly It was one of the most serious: developed it would easily support medical problems they had to deal Volcanic Origin.

ten million people, and that Hainan with.

of the richest parts of

The speaker continued he could China.

safely say that with proper pre- Speaking of development since cautions and treatment it was poa- 1916. Dr. Bercovitz said that there sible to live in the tropics and be! had been no development of the healthy. At one time there was a harbour and it was still as hard to great deal of malaria among the got in and out. They were hoping members of the Mission, together. that some day the Government with dysentery and other diseases, would see its way clear to develop but since they had come to under- the harbour properly.

stand hygiene and sanitation better. There had been some develop-malaria was practically unknown ment in agriculture, as a nuraber among them now. of estates had been set up. The Continuing. Dr. Bercovitz said Chinese had planted pine-apple there was a great deal of surgical plantations, coffee, rubber and such-work to be done. During 1931. a large he said, he had performed 600 like, but there was stil field for development of large cas operations, and he had been unable to specialise owing to the great do for agricultural purposes.

mand upon his time for general work. There was, he said, a great They would, perhape, be sur-deal of cancer prevalent in the

The Island, he went on to say, was largely of volcanic origin and there were a number of extinct

"olcanoes there. One could easily trace the lava flows. Thy soil formation was chiefly red earth, the same as was found in tho Hawaiian Islands, On the north, east and south-east coasts, the land was flat, but in the centre, mountaina reached height of nonrly 7,000 feet.

Dealing with the inhabitants the Island, the speaker said that they were okicfly Chinese, and were said to have come, originally, from Fuktion province. In the Interior, however, there were aboriginals, who had not accepted

civilisation or the rule of the Chinese Government. He had been in the mountains several

was one

Communication Development.

times and had noticed the big dif- prised to know that a great deal of ferences among the natives in the matter of customs and dress, or lack of dress.

Nomadic People.

The people were nomadic and were in the habit of building vil- lages in one location and plant- ing rice along the hillsides, and then deciding to go to another location where they thought that cultivation would be better.

it had been impassible to estimate the population accurate- ly but he had been told it was between two and a half and three million.

Tropical Island.

To his mind the main impor- tance of Halnan, as regards its economic position to China, was the fact that it iny wholly within the tropics, and the land could, thero- fore, be used for cultivating pro- ducts of the tropics. Among the things which had been rained there was coffee. Plantations had been set up and the coffee was very good. Also pine-apples had been grown and it seemed that the soil was very suitable for raising them. Since the introduction of varieties from Singapore they had been raised in large quantities and the business could be developed to a very large Extent.

The speaker continued that jute was another product, for which, again, the soil was very favourable, as plants had reached a height of

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