The Archive · 1926

THE. PRICE OF RICE

Still Causing Anxiety in Shanghai Shanghai's rice supply continues to stake up considerable space in the Chinece press.

The Sinza "Road Cheap Rice Sales Bureau will wind up its business on Wednesday. After that day, voar residents in the vicinity wir have to go to the ordinary rice hongs to make their purchases. regular meeting of the heap Rice Salex Bureaux will be held on Friday next when 'a report of the work done and the amount of rice supplied will be read.

The Shanghai District Magistrate, Mr. Wai Tao-fung, has received letter from the District Assembly suggesting that, in order to keep prices level, strict measures should be taken to check the exportation the grain and to prevent hoarding. Rewards should be granted to persons discovering the illegal export of ri¢e and merchants found hoarding the grain should be eevere-, ly punished.

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