he trial sales in the Chinese market of caited and dried fish, which have been, conducted by the Okura firm, having' proved a success, the firm has formulate ed a gigantic scheme for extending the market throughout the length and breadth of the Celestia! Expire, the "Japan Daily Mail" reports, For firm has divided the into four districts, including the region give valley, (2) Hongkong into, (3) in aod ite vicinity, including Poking and Shanhai k d (4) Tairen and the regions lying along the South Manchuria Railway, It is stated that thebasiness results in the first district ba into an ogreement wit fishery corporations in the Hokkaido, od cleowhere for the consignment of their products, the commission being fixed at 3 per cent. Steps are now being taken to establish branch and sub branch offices in various important business centres io each of the di indicated to commence th commodity on a systematic ban export of salted and dried fish to chine is thought a very bopefal business, the failure in the past being due to the harmful competition amongst the exporters. The present scheme of the Okara firm will, it is confidently believed, open " new phase in the export to China of the marine products of Sapan, ted in thia context that the ch of salmon on the coast of the littoral provinces of Rassian Siberia and Hokkaido totals about two million picals, and if the salted salmon meets the taste of Chinese customers it wil call forth s vast demand, so that it will then not be difficult to export to Chins some ten million yen worth of marine products annually.
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