In the Northern district, the major business is being carried' on in the Hongkew Market where the Chinese are daily showing their confidence in conditions by their rapid return to business there, The North Fokien, Purdon and Elgin Road markets are also showing some improvement in trading conditions. The only two markets operating in the Eastern dis trict are the Pingliang Road and /Sungpan Rond markets. Of these two, Pingliang Road market handling the larger volume of trade, and conditions in this market are becoming daily more normal, The main market business is still, how-lever, controlled by those markets located in the Central and Western districts.
Food supplies remain adequate and of excellent quality, though prices remain abnormally high due to the particular conditions which exist, these days. Supplies of frozen fish have considerably augmented those of fresh fish. Flour and rice supplies remain satisfactory.
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