Judging from the speeches delivered at the Ratepayers' Meeting, there are two propensities which Shanghai would clu well to guard against, namely, " proneness to copy conventional ways, and to entertain only parochial views, That there is this danger was well shown by the discussion on the L, P.O, The Chairman of the Qouncil eaid, and in saying it he no doubt but voiced the opinion of the majority of Shanghai residents, ''the reasonableness gf having our Post Office follow the plan adopted in every civilised country is so evident tomy mind that I cannot understand how there can be any good objection toit." That is to say, we cannot do better than copy the conventional plan, because if every civilised country does a particular thing in a certain way, it necessarily ful:
such is the best possible way, this always fullow? In postal matters, at all events, it most certainly does not.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.