The Ja P'sri Ce Ration

JAPANESE rice is preferred, by rice eaters, to any other rice, and is dearer to buy. When it is to be cooked, it is worked into a thick paste, rolled out into sheets about three-quar ters of an inch thick, then desiccated, which reduces it in size to about three sixteenths of an inch in thickness. Then it is cut into leaves, about six by four inches.

Forty or more sheets are made up like a book. One or more of those sheets, crumpled up in a ball, with hot water poured on, makes the rice swell up into an eatable paste.

This paste, in making, is seasoned with bean sauce, which is very tasty and strengthening, and can be eaten dry, if necessary, like biscuits.

That is the ration that Japanese sol diers carry with them in war. During the Boxer Rebellion -in China, the Jap anese soldiers out-marched the sailors and soldiers of every nation represented there. It was claimed that this was due to their changing their heavy boots to light shoes, made of straw, and to their lightweight rations.—Robert Bruce.

The copra production in the New Heb rides in the current year is estimated at 18,000 tons, compared with the normal production of 12,000 tons.

Rev. c - w - M cLeod > who married Miss Jean Eddy at Coburg) Victoria, in May, was to have left late in the month for the New Hebrides to assist Dr. and Mrs. w. Armstrong at the Presbyterian Mis sion station on Tanna Island; but in view of present Pacific conditions the Foreign Mission Board has delayed their departure. Meanwhile, they are serving at Prospect, in South Australia,