Every effort is being put forth to the sugar refiners at Sunteh, Suntso, Shitao and Swatow in shape so they can open December 15, This, a re-opening for all excepting the Sunteh refinery, which is new.
'At Sunteh 160" tons of cane. can' be crushed dally, giving it a larger eapecity by 20 tons than the Swatow! refinery.
With their primitive methods cane raisers were getting around 80] piculs of sugar cane an acre, but the Department of Agriculture and Foresiry has been educating them and their new crop has yielded 140 piculs per acre. The farmer gets a larger profit and he can sell cheaper to the. Government, which Is prepared to tive 80 cents a picul as compared with 90 cents given last year.
All cane planters have drawn loans jin advance from the Government, {for which purpose $900,000 had been set aside. Mr, Lin Yun-kal, running} around to the Shanghai banks, was after another $5,000,000, as a fund from which such loans can be made, but he has found the banks disposed 10 Toan only $1,400,000, The Postal Savings 'Bank and the Shanghai Commercial & Savings Bank each have Darticipated in the loan to the extent of one-half. 'The money is be-Ing put up without any' security.
Consigning of shipments of rice to places outside the province will lead to confiscation and' the ning of the, shipper. The Kuangtung Provincial [Government has taken this step part of the general plan for the whole country to conserve food supplies. About 8,000 bags of rice had been shipped to Hongkong last week.
estimated that there is stored tp fin the province only a four mouthy' supply of foodstuffs.
Compromising to meet the wishes of the Kuangtung and -Kwangsi Governments, the Minister of Communications, Mz, Chu Chia-wa, wil Jmodify the plan of letting the China National Aviation Corporation carry passengers, freight and malls between Canton "and Hanoi, French Indo-China. The emissaries chargo1 with the duty of getting for the Southwest Commercial Aviation Corporation the franchise have tele. Juraphed to say that the rival will Joperate only between Kuangchauwan fand Hanoi, the other company between Canton and Kuangehauwan.
'The Government ig not satiated with the outcome of the negotiations, land telegraphically has instructed Messrs. Lin Yun-kal and. Huang, [Chsu-cho "at Nanking to continue' {thelr efforts to get the franchise for ithe full distance from Canton to Hanoi, The argument advanced is, that the China National Aviation BLDG Sean, Tata three Months' Lislt rionths from the frst of December Kuanglune ig going to, give three
{or the public voluntarily to convert {ts coin fute banknotes: Kwangs! wil five' but one month for the stine Surpose and" $8,000,000 of $1 and ind $10 denominations are coming fromthe American Banknote Ca, for the "use. of the Kwangst- Provincial Bank, and should be here £000.
Swatow is suffering. mare." than Canton from the lack of paper money. ese" many from. this section ave fang the South Seas, from whence they"have sent. home dra(ts and Mowtey orders that cannot be cashed, Receiving banks dare not give out Specie, and have nothing else "on Htand~s2:000000 in barile nats, there-Tore, are to go to Swalow to-day to Felleve the. preature 'Such a small amount will Leave the swatow' banks ati short by. $1,000. Qo, speaking only of the overseas Femittances that they have mot yet taken are of, These banks" are be allowed temporarily to use sliver Coins again if and when they. run ur of other currency. "About $000, 00 tu teeshiyeprinted notes is being held back to enable the Canton gov finment banks 0. make exchange, thd that i not enough for the pur-Dose either 'Before the Joint session of the Central" Executive Committee and the Board of 'Supervisors (Censors) Mr, Chow Luis. ta place. three measures which the 'Southwest Gove minent' would have put. through, The first culls for the incoming Cen: tral Government to put down the infurvestion In Hupei. The " Central Government" will be directed, i the Scrond. measure passes, to let Kuangtung have. $22,000,000, this being. the aggregate of three "kung chai" loans, rawed here to enable Gen. Chiang Kal-shek to carry on his expedition Corporations aeroplanes will take Dusiness away from the other line, since it will touch at_ places where the southern company has stations at present.
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