Officials of the Shanghai Municipal Council held a special meeting in the S.M.C, Administration Building yesterday morning to discuss the situation created by the sharp rise in the retail price of rice here in the last few days, the "North-China Daily News" learned last night, 1t is understood that the meeting was a lengthy one ud that, among others, Mr. G. Godfrey Phillips, Secretary and Commissioner-General, and Sir Robert Calder-Marshall, Chairman of the S.M.C. Food and Fuel Supply Committee, attended.
The Food and Fuel Supply Committee will meet specially to discuss the rice situation tomorrow, with Sir Robert Calder-Marshall in the chair.
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