Director Outlines Measures on Arrival Here Mr, 'Tang-Hsuan, Director of the Liang-Kuang Salt' Administration, has arrived in Shanghai for a con ference on administrative and reform measures in connection with the New Salt Law. A. large construction programme is planned for Kwangtung, including salt storage godowns at the mew port, Whampoa, where coastal steamers from the salt works will be able to go alongside, and, if necessary, unload direct Into' railway cars for yansport to northern! Kwangtung and Hunan, walgamation of the Salt Office with the Inspectorate on October last, definite progress has been made in Kwangtung. For the last six months period, October-March in" clusive, 3,283,000 piculs of taxed salt have Been released for public consumption as compared with 2,437,000 piculs for the same six months period a year ago.
For. the seven months period, COctober-April this year, the Kwangtung salt revenue collections totalled in National currency, $8,276,30023—in spite of one month's ' merchants' sleike—compared with $0,091,733.17 for the same seven months period year ago.
$4,822,195.47 (national currency) has been turned over to the Finance Ministry's special deputy at Canton in the six. months ended April 30, 1637, us compared with §2,568,297.73 handed over during the same period a year ago.
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