17th Sept. Tax Racquet Club having decided to sell its property in the Maloo, the community is placed in rather peculiar position. The Council has erected behind the Racquet Court a really palatial range of buildings, which are so carefully hidden away that few people know how ornamental they are. As long as a more or less public building was in front of them, it did not so much matter, but they will look still more incongruous than they do now, if they are to rise in future from the middle of a mass of sordid China houses. Nor will the health of the police who are to occupy this Municipal palace, be improved by the change. Under these circumstances a suggestion has been made to us by a correspondent who has a deep interest in the welfare and progress of the Settement, which is so
we hope it will be taken seriously and at the same time so feasible into consideration by the Council. Between the Racquet Court and the new palace the Council have erected a row ings of no great height which, they do not need the added authority have only a north aspect, and are con-, that our correspondent's name would sequently an undesirable place whatever ' give, if we were permitted to disclose they are intended for. The suggestion it; the scheme may safely stand on its now made is that the Council should! own merits. We are quite aware that acquire the Racquet Court at such a the demand for a new Town Hall has moderate advance on Tls. 20,000 a3 the died out for the moment, but we are buyer from the Racquet Club may, equally certain that it will come up exact, and pull down the Court and the again, and that before very long the new range of buildings just mentioned, desire for it will conquer the objections thus throwing the new palace open to! to the expense. It is well then to be the Maloo; and when it is possible to} prepared for this when it is possible to see them, it will be agreed that these acquire the ground at a reasonable cost. new buildings redound to the credit of The late Council could not have put up the Settlement, whereas they are a' such an ornate building for the new useless waste of money, shut in as they Louza station if they had' thought that are at present. it was always to be hidden away as it, But it is not merely in order that a! now is; and as we have built it, it is od view may be obtained of the new worth while to go to a trifling expense numa Station that this step is recom-! to make it visible and give it air and mended. The new building with the! light. Thirty years ago, no doubt, it northern aspect that we propose to would have seemed preposterous to put demolish with the Racquet Court could the police drill ground at the western be re-erected if necessary on one or both end of the Maloo, but Shanghai has sides of the compound, and thus there moved very much westward since that would be left where the Racquet time, and no inconvenience would prac-Court now stands an excellent drill and! tically be felt now at the change we parade ground for the police and volun- propose, a change which includes so teers. One of the difficulties in the way many advantages at a comparatively of building the proposed new Town Hall slight expense. was the pee of en on me Laced and Kikngle Roads. It was shown that Municipal property between the Honan
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