Visitors to the Retreat included hhaustion of the provincial treasury Yea brought about by the tremendous No matter how strong the dykes Dr. Maxwell who gave a very spread of Communism in Kiangsi fare built, repairs would be neces-luminative account of Missionary All plans for river dredging and sary every. winter and regular in-Medical work, which, we were told, dyke building were discarded, and spection and/or urgent works during celebrates its centenary in this. the summer and autumn lessons Present year. In reviewing the those years such important' work was left" to the initiative of the that all the dykes throughout the Ristory of the work, the doctor said farmers, As a result, people sulferprovince can be Kept in good order it had largely passed out of the ed untold distress and tremendous before the floods come. Tt was ruled hands of foreigners. There had. Josses in the great inundation that winter repairs have to be done been successes and failures and to 1031 and the unparalleled spell of by. the Provincial Conservancy and large extent these institutions had. drought in 1034.
Dyke Bureau at an estimated costs falled to reach the rural population.
'At present, although the Com-of $120,000 and the protection and Hospitals had still to win their way miunistebandit' scourge has been, to a {nspection services during summer fu the country and the present great large "extent, suppressed, yet' the and autumn are to be carried out objective ought to be rural work. flood menace has not been Femoved. by. the said bureau in ce-operation Dr. S. D. Sturton, of the Church Considering its urgent importance, }with the hsien offices at a cost of Missionary Society 'Hospital, Hang-the Government in ce-operation $30,000, making in $150,000. chow, also gave a racy talk of the Sillage clinics recently" organized. with the NEC. has drawn up Practcable and' onerle plan for Fiver conservancy in six years, from 1035 to 1940, as. follows Flood prevention pr
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