Japanese consular authorities yer terday granted authorization: for. tht formation of a ¥.25,000 vegetable wholesale marketing—organizatica comprising 65 Japanese provision stores in. Hongkew, local' Japanest ailles reported, The new group will establish pur chasing centres at Peihsinking, in th western suburbs of the Internation! Settlement, and in Pootung,. Tradlat will take place on Woosung Road, tht site of Shanghai's former leading fruit market, 'By dealing directly with' the farm Jers, the organization hopes to Tt duce the price in Hongkew' of vest: ables, which are now being han through middlemen with headqusl: ters in the International Settlement south of Soochow Creek and in tht French Concession, 'The organization will' maintain Jcheck on its members so as to pit vent profiteering, the papers reported. mission
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