Keeping the high commodity-price pot boiling, Hongkew residents and Store owners met in debate at the Japanese Club, Boone Road on Thursday afternoon to air their views and engage in a forensic exchange of opinions concerning the price scale in Hongkew, according to the "Shanghai Mainichi" yesterday.
"Under the chairmanship of Mr. Masusaburo Amano, President of the Japanese Residents' Corporation, and the auspices of the Self- Reform League, a free, and sometimes tur-bu lent, exchange of ideas for and against the current high prices resulted.
Most vigorous of the pro debaters were Mr. Yoshizuru Igarashi, President of the Shanghai Foodstuffs Purchasing Guild, and Mr. Hachio Kiyohara, of the Showa Kumiai, exporter and importer, who defended the price situation by claiming that some things were higher, others were cheaper than those across Soochow Creek. Such commodities ed goods, tobacco, meat vegetables, were admitted as higher than those in the Settlement, but for justifiable reasons.
The merchants succeeded in impressing upon their antagonists' the view that while things are sometimes higher in Hongkew, commodity prices are not "so high as is generally believed, the "Shanghaj Mainichi" declared.
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