Canton, Sept. 3.
Mr. G. A. Walker, Traffic Manager of the British Section, Canton-Kow-Yoon Railway, was in the office of Mr, Lee Lulk-chin, Superintendent of the Chinese Section at Taishatau, Canton, on August 31, as was Mr. Lee Sin-kan, Superintendent of the Yuethan Railway, all. appending their names {oa triepart agreement.
"Tickets will be sold by the Canton-Kowloon Line for points between Canton and Samshui. Buses carry passengers from the Canton terminal of the first named to the ferry landing atthe foot of the Taiping Malov whence the ferry Is taken across the river to. Shekuaitong, where the Samshui train is boarded. The ferry schedule will be adjusted. so that oats will leave as soon as motorcars unload the passengers at the wharf, and trains will be waiting at Shekuaitong for the ferry. The improved service went into effect on September 1.
Receipts from this through service are to be divided among the three companies represented, and receipts wilt be divided proportionately. The expense of operating the connecting buses running east will be met equally by the Chinese and British Sections' of the Canton-Kow-'As to buses from Tal-foot of Taiping Maloo, iiways will split the cost, three ways.
Through tickets, Kowloon to Sam-shul, or vice versa, will be sold for $7 Ganton currency, or the equiva Tent; to Canton in Hongkong currency.
Leaving Kowloon, one can make this connection and go clear through. to Samshui if he takes the trains departing at 815 am, 1250 pin. or As before, anyone may hold more than one office, but the spirit as well as the letter of the old prohibition against drawing salaries "from two or more posts will be enforced, the Administrative Council of the Southwest. Government yesterday notified every Government office. Evading the law, many have been in most comfortable circumstances by drawing "chair money" from departments from whose salary lists their ames have been omitted. Travelling allowances may be as high as $100 or $150 per month, which would be about what would be received If the correct name were used and the items put down as salary.
About 8,000 bags of Kuangtuns sugar were held up on September 1 by the Shanghai Maritime Customs for non-payment of duty. The notification issued by the Customs on the same day 1s s0 comprehensive that it would appear that even Kuangtung cement and wolfram going into Shanghai Will be taken off the free list.
Supply has exceeded demand in the South, the principal reason being that the smugglers have the upper hand, and an outside market must be found, Mr. H. O. Tong had warned the Canton officials that the bars would not be lowered for the out-Put of Government mills, but he was not taken seriously, Dr. H. H. Kung had given assurance that Kuangtung sugar sent along the coast would be exempt from payment of any sort to the Customs, and form ly cement and wolfram went freely into Shanghai without any charge being imposed.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.