$7,000, 0 Set Aside for New Fiscal Year Nanking, July 4.
'A. sum of $7,000,000 will be expended for water conservancy during the new seal year, July 1, 1937-June 30, 1938, "according: to & decision Teached at the Sth general meeting the National Water Conservancy. Commission under the Nationsl Economic Council held here yester-ay.
general report on water conservancy in 1956 submitted by. the secretary and a report on flood prevention work for the Yellow River submitted by Mr. Kung Hsiang-yung, Chairman of the Yellow River Conservancy Commission, were adopted.
The implements of irrigation employed by farmers at present are to be collected and improved, with a view to improving the system of rural irrigation, sum of $586,170 is to be included in the new budget for water conser-fancy for the improvement of the upper and lower reaches of the Yellow River during the first stage.
At the request of the Yellow River Conservancy Commission, a sum of {$650,000 is also to be included in the budget for readjustment of the river bed at Tungwachal.
It was also decided to make pr parations for the establishment of a Central Soft Experimental Station and to engage the services of foreign experisKuo Min.
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