The sun., 1919-07-02
FAR EASTERN NOTES.

The New Zealand Government is car
rytng out an extensive scheme for re-
forestation. Most of the new settings
are Douglas FIR from the American
| Northwest. New Zealand found 1t neces-
sary to import new species because the
native big trees take upwards of a
thousand years to mature. One OF the
favorites is the Kauri pine, a magnifi-
| cent giant tree furnishing hard, beau
tilully grained timber
The International Trading Company
J has erected a half million dollar fac
tory at Yokohama for the manufacture
OF rope from manila hemp
An American tanner has been engaged
by Hongkong exporter of hides to
| erect and operate a thoroughly modern
sole leather tannery at kowloon.
Two American shoe factories are OPP
Grating successfully in Manila. One Of
them is now increasing its capacity
from 400 TO 1000 pairs day.
| l.. r. Robinson OF the Exchange Shoe
| company. Manila, is visiting America for
the purchase OF leather and supplies.
Insular officials are much pleased at
1
which Is accepting enlistments Of young
| Filipinos to serve as mess boys.
| Engineers have been sent into Man
churia by large American interests to
survey the country for opportunities to
invest American capital in North China S
development
| American capitalists are planning the
! erection OF large cotton mill in Shang-
hal
Japan Is to offer stronger competition
to the Swedish match industry. as
match factories are to be established
at kagi and TaihoSu, Taiwan.
Certain kinds OF motion pictures sent
out from America to the Far East give
the natives queer ideas concerning this
country. In Java the authorities have
been bothered considerably by natives
| seizing white women In melodramati(
movie fashion as they walked along the
streets Their performance is quite in
nocent. There is no case on record OF
lany attempt at vicousness. When Ques-
toned the natives invariably explain
that they were just trying to act like
Americans
What Is said to have been the largest
known living animal Is the Oraki whale
so called because 1t washed ashore nj
Oraki. New Zealand. in 1908. The skele
ton has been mounted in the Canterbury
Museum at Christ Church. II Is eighty
seven feet from tip to tip.
| Since 1914 Americas trade with thu
Dutch East Indies has grown to abou;
sixteen times Its original volume. Or
account OF new lines of shipping anC
the reciprocal character of this trade 4
is generally believed this business will
tend to increase rather than go bacl
TO pre-war volume.
An important feature OF the expected
Standardization OF Japanese railways
win be the projected tunnel under th'
Moji- Shimonoseki Straits, connecting ia
pan with Kiushu Island, which 1t il
/. estimated can he IN operation in 1921
at a construction cost of about $751;
900, 900.
Gable messages can now be sent Il
!. the Dutch East Indies in codes author
, lied for Great Britain.
Large gold shipments are being mad
to the Orient from the United States
mainly for use in Industries, $4,000.
, 900 having recently been sent, and I
i total of $40, O0O. 900 will be reached, 1
, is expected.
A company IN Toxic has replace
, many of the jinrickshaws with For'
taxicabs The jlnrickshaw men throw
out Of employment threatened the IN
OF the owner OF the company but ar
now contented as taxi drivers.
According TO Albert W. Pontius, u. 5
= Consul at Canton, that city now has tel
moving picture theatres all in daily Op
Grafton. A new one recently opened ha
seating capacity OF more than 1000.