Nanking, Feb. 13.
Hunan exported $18,000,000 worth of tung all during 1996, according to Gen. Ho Chien, Chairman of Hunan Provincial government who arrived here from Hankow by plane yesterday afternoon.
Gen. Ho, who is attending the Third Plenary Session of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang next Monday, also revealed that Hunan' rice crop reached a record yield last year. To relieve the rice shortage in Kwangtung, large quanti-tes of the grain have been shipped to the southern province, Gen. Ho said. The bumper harvest last autumn, according to the Hunan chairman, has accelerated the Feconstruction enterprises launched by the provincial administration Central News. to restrict the out-of-hand raising of prices by dealers; and thirdly, that the 20,000 piculs of rice due in Tchang shortly must be sent up to this port soon as possible.
"Serlp" for Teachers So short of funds were the primary schools of the Chikiang District, Third Section, at the end of the present term that they were forced to issue promissory notes to the teachers {in lieu of cash payments for salaries covering the last half of the year. Most of the teachers, therefore, found themselves in difficulties, for not only did they not have any money to get home again, but were unable to make any provision for their families for the Chinese New Year.
The wood oil market in Wanshien quiet, the sole purchase being about 10,000 pievis ten days ago. The Price of the commodity is slowly Going up, because of a falling-off the amount of wood all in stock due to difficulties in transportation caused by a drop in the water-level of the various routes. The price of wood oil in Hochan has dropped to about $39 a picul, with buyers very scarce, and the markets at Chuhsien and Suining have also come to a standstill, Tt is thought that this is only Of a temporary nature.
Welyuan Coal Stocks Most of the coal supplied to Tsollutsing's salt-making industry comes from Weiyuan, which produces Jarge quantities of the fuel. Business depressions at Tseliutsing, combined with the: proposed manufacture of the salt by electricity, plus a hold-up caused by the low water levels prevailing along the transportation routes, has resulted in the piling.up of an enormous quantity of coal in Weiyuan,
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