The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that it is within the power of the Canadian Parliament to aboli ish, appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council—Reuter, The Settlement police are expected r to be busier today than their comrades in the Concession, for, it is pointed out, more than halb of the 100 rice shops distributing the cheap rice are located in their territory.
Fifty of these shops have been asked to sell rice tickets only. These tickets must be obtained first, and while each person is allowed to buy only $1 worth of the inferior grain, he may go to several shops if he can procure as many tickets for such trips. In the Louza district alone, two out of more than 50 rice shops have been asked to sell the rice.
The Feng Sheng Rice Shop located at the back of the Peking Road Market has been asked to sell tickets, which were shown to a reporter yesterday.
These tickets are printed by the Shanghai Rice Distribution Committee, a subsidiary of the Shanghai Foodstuff Readjustment which is now launching a $1,000,000 contribution campaign for buying the "broken" grain for the poor Inquiries reveal that the committee has already been promised $500,000 and that more than half of it has been actually received from public-spirited people. Big sums of money are being contributed by various Chinese trade associations here.
The "broken" Saigon rice to be distributed today numbers only 2,000 bags and still more than 20,000 bags of the grain are being kept as ready stock to be distributed continuously. The committee is trying to make it a permanent job so as 1o relieve the poor as long as' possible One
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