At present writing the construction train is putting and screaming clove under the walls of Kaomi city. The new station at that, place is rapidly being pushed to completion, ant the telegraph is open to Changling sine thirty kilometres beyond Kaomi. he earthworks are in evidence some eight or ten kilometres west of Chang-ling, which brings this stage of the work within forty kilometres (about twenty-five miles) of Weihsien. The rond bed is ballasted some five kilometres west of Kaomi and the intervening Inilyes and culverts are being rapidly and solidly built. It is hoped that trains will be running regularly to Kaomi within ten days. would be prohibitive, The Board were puzzled what to sty, and eventually postponed a decision by deciding to-ask the Government whether the plan submitted referred only to crown land -to be sold or also to land on which houses are to be re-erected. The price of the change fiely staggered them, Another subject before them was report by the Medical Oficer on infant mortality and some suggestions for i's reduction. Parents were not. boxnd to register a birth before six weeks, and the mortality among children before this age is m-st abnormal. It was decided to adopt the report and forward it te the Government.
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