Short weight in rice through the use of hollow weights has resulted in Hong Fu-kong, "manager of the Yung Kong Rice Shop at 241 Boule-yard de Montigny being arrested by the French police and brought before the Second Special District Court. Judgment will be given today. The accused was granted $500 ball.
Hong tried to shift the responsibillity, for the crime, explaining to the judge that the weight hollowed out a Uttle at its bottom was wrongly used by one of his assistants. said that it had been discarded for 2 long time but Judge Chin strongly criticized him "against neglecting commercial morality at a time when rice is highly priced.
Hong was arrested early in the week after Ling Tze-yung had bought five "sheng" of a half picul of rice from his shop. After reaching home, Ling weighed it again and found out that the rice he bought weighed less bby five catties. He went to the rice shop again and disputed with the manager. Being an alert mon and perfectly sure that there was nothing wrong with his own scale at home, discovered that the weight used bby the shop was hollow at the bottom. He immediately informed the police and had Hong arrested, Some time ago, a rice shop assistant the French Concession was fined '$800 by the same court because he placed paper at the bottom of a Att exports of goods to the Japan és0 shall be treated as smuggled goods Jand be lable to confiscation, says the Ministry of Finance of the Chinese National Government in a statement fo the Chekiang Maritime Customs Administration, according to a report to the "Sin Wan Pao." This ig irre spective of whether such goods are banned or not by the recent regula-Hons issued by the Ministry of Fine tance, the report adds. Chinese prow nets which are banned can only be shipped to non-occupied areas, Tu. the event that such goods are being shipped to occupied areas or supplied to Japanese exporters will be severe 'A comnensnsive programme for, the reconstruction of Honan has been mapped out by the provincial government, with stress being lola upon the development of rural ¢o-operatives, says, a Loyang Chinese message to the "Sin Wan Pao" A sum of $9,000,000 has been earmarked by the provincial authorities for the establishment of ce-operative societies, the report states. Plans have also been mapped out for the promotion of the weaving industries, the report adds. A sum of $800,000 has also been allotted for carrying out river conservancy and Irrigation projects in the province. Another sum of $80,000 has been voted for the development of sericulture. A Jsum $200,000 will be spent en the training of agricultural personnel, Other plans concerning reafforestation and highway construction are being studied, the report concludes,
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