Hongkong, Oct. 4.
Hongkong buyers of wolfram are complaining that prices of this pro-JSuct as offered by the National Pro-Jduets Sales Omce in Canton are too thigh. The government monopolist Is lasking $80 Hongkong currency for Jeach picul, while if purchasers were lable to buy direct from the exploiters the price would be $50 per picul.
Wolfram is obtained from mines in Northern Kuangtung, but all ex-plaiters have to sell the ores to the }government monopolist who makes a Jg00d profit by reselling them to re-Jpresentatives here of armament works In Europe and America. After the mineral is sold, the exploiters will Rot get their money until after two months.
Nanking, Oct. 10.
At the 27th meeting of the Board of Trustees for the British Boxer Refund held in Nanking on October 8, the distribution of scholarships ' for advanced study in England for the year 1935 was among the important items discussed, as were the Wenchi Paper mill project of the Ministry of Industries, and the contract with the Hwai River Conservancy Commission for a loan of $9,000,000 for the completion of its two-year conservancy project.
Tt was decided that for next year 25 scholarships would be offered with the distribution as follows:—
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