THE CUBA REVIEW 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 



A meeting of leading planters and land 

 owners at the Quinta de los Molinos was held 

 recently .to discuss the formation of a Na- 

 tional Agricultural Society, the chief aim 

 being the promotion of diversified farming and 

 especially the production at home of the com- 

 mon necessaries of life, at present so largely 

 imported from the United States. Secretary 

 of Agriculture Sanchez Agramonte presided 

 at the conference and pledged the cordial 

 support and co-operation of the Government 

 in the work proposed and a committee com- 

 posed of Senors Crespo, Galvino, Martinez 

 Ortiz and Garcia Canizares was appointed to 

 draw up plans for the proposed organization, 

 to be presented at the next meeting. 



PUBLIC WORKS 



Colonel Villaon, public works secretary, is 

 planning a general reconstruction of the build- 

 ing now occupied by that department, adapt- 

 ing the edifice to the purposes of the work con- 

 ducted in it and, in general, bringing the build- 

 ing up to a level with those occupied by the 

 other governmental departments. 



STUDENTS" PRIZE 



A bill has been introduced into the Havana 

 City Council calling for the appropriation of 

 $1,000, to be devoted to a prize for the en- 

 couragement of studies among Havana's young 

 citizenship. 



CHINESE 



The Cuban Government will restrict the 

 immigration of Chinese, permitting only 

 those who are really merchants and agricul- 

 turists to enter. As to the Chinese who come 

 here as agricultmists, only those who are 

 contracted for by sugar planters will be ad- 

 mitted and then only in accord with the new 

 immigration law. 



AMMUNITION FACTORY 



The President of the RepubUc, at the sug- 

 gestion of the Secretary of Pubhc Works, has 

 issued a decree prohibiting any concessions 

 granting permission to carry out works of 

 any kind whatever by private parties at the 

 mouth of the Almendares River, as the land is 

 needed for the purposes of the State. 



This will put a stop to the proposition to 

 build a bridge across the mouth of the river, 

 which had as its object the shortening of the 

 distance between Havana and Marianao, and 

 also the Playa. 



It is said that the reason of this decision of 

 the Government is the proposed construction 

 of an ammunition factory for the supply of 

 the Cuban armed forces. 



SANTIAGO 



The City Council of Santiago de Cuba has 

 voted to appropriate $16,000 to be used in 

 making street repairs in the Oriente capital. 



CUBAN COMMISSION 



The Food Administration authorizes the 

 following : 



Col. Jose Miguel Tarafa, Senor Jose Ignazio 

 Lazama and Senor .Morales, the envoys of the 

 Cuban Government sent to Washington by 

 President Menocal, accompanied by Dr. 

 Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, Cuban minister 

 to the United States, called upon Herbert 

 Hoover, United States Food Administrator, 

 Sept. 21, to discuss the question of sugar prices 

 for next year's Cuban crop. 



The commission presented much informa- 

 tion in regard to the situation in Cuba and the 

 difficulties at present attending the produc- 

 tion of sugar in Cuba. 



The United States Food Administrator 

 explained fully the position of the United 

 States Government and the alUed countries 

 of Europe and the views of the Food Adminis- 

 tration in detail. 



The Cuban commission expressed satisfac- 

 tion with the plans of the Food Administra- 

 tion and assured Mr. Hoover of the desire of 

 the Cuban Goverrunent and the Cuban 

 planters to co-operate in every way possible, 

 and were glad to be in a position to do their 

 share in assisting their allies in providing the 

 largest amount of sugar possible at reasonable 

 prices. 



There is every reason to believe that an en- 

 tirely satisfactory price to the Cuban planters 

 and the buyers of Cuban sugar will be arrived 

 at. 



On leaving the meeting the Cuban repre- 

 sentatives expressed themselves as gratified 



