We had made it known that we wanted Tock carried from the moun-fain six English miles away. At first we got a few hundred carriers, then og the news got out, thousands came. 'They started out in' the evening and carried all night so that they could et a few coppers to buy some food for their breakfast and take some-the crowded points of the city, The schools and public bodies have held 9 mass meeting on the parade ground, Competitive teams are giving popular performances on the stage of the! Targe theatre stressing J@lace of home goods in the life of the nation, AS one inspects the goods in the large shops here one realizes wha an amount of silver yearly needed to purchase goods Imported, which could be easily produced in' the country.
A trip to the country districts lately indicated that the prospects. for the frst rice crop are good. There is an abundant supply of water and canals are full. The. wheat crop will soon be reaped. Beans and peas. have been extra good this season. Despite the low prices for silk oF cocoons farmers "are still loathe to give up raising them. The rice, so far, is only about a fourth of what it used to be in normal times. Cocoon are of high quality which is attributed to the dry and warm. weather. Further back the farmers report a good tea crop, but in this case prices have also been cut to nearly a quarter of former years.
Two Streets Paved Now that we are nearing the end of our effort to feed the hungry, we can begin to estimate the result. Two streets of the city have been paved with rock, part of them cobbled and part macadamized. Formerly one of the streets was little more than a stinking cesspool, with the drainage from all the houses poured into the middle of the street, there to remain until it evaporated." People had to paddle through this filthy mess or else avoid the street altogether. Now this particular street is the best drained, Fock-surfaced street in the town.
Other roads have been pulli out {nto the country to assist farmers in getting their produce into market. All of them have been designed with the Idea of providing an example of cheap Dut effective rock roads, constructed with no expense apart from labour, which certainly is plentiful in these parts now.
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