Having completed the construction of all market buildings the Japanese are reported-to be trying to effect control over vegetables, salt foodstuffs and fruit to be "imported "into foreign areas'in Shanghai. Although it is rumoured that the new market called the "Central Market" will start functioning tomorrow, "Chinese merchants: are stated to have organized themselves against the new business control system in -which they will be required to pay. cash "guaranjge" fund.
The "Central Market" has been completed, and is located near the Tibet Road bridge. It occupies the former Joint Savings Bank Godown. Branch markets, have been. established in Brenan Road, Nantao. Bund. end Wucheng Road in Chapei. The "Sin Wan Pao"*reports that most of the Chinese merchants concerned with the business are reluctant to register with the market because their business: regulations and..custom eontradict those enforced by authorities of the new market.
Apart from this reason, the cash guarantee fee of $1,000 in each is said to be too big a sum to be paid by any merchant who is not sure of the prospect of his business after registering with the new market. Only a few. merchants have registered, it is admitted. ' All fruit _hongs along the Nantao Bund, near French Bund, have agreed among themselves not to participate in the organization ofthe new Japanese market, Any one of them secretly registering with the market will be fined $10,000, Already, itis pointed out, purchase certificates will have to be obtained by vegetable hawkers in the outskirts of the city. For each truck used for transporting vegetables a monthly rate of $50 is collected. There are between 70 and 80 such tax bureaux all run by the Japanese, it is stated,
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