After practically twelve months work the new central municipal offices building has now reached what may be called the completion of the first stage, as the construction work on the ground floor has now been completed and work has begun on the first storey. The work so far' completed is up to scheduled time, and even taking into account possible delays due to the war in getting certain material, there is every reason to think that the build~ ing will be finished and ready for occupation by December 9, 1918, the date originally set. Standing now practically one-third done, there is yet about three years more work before Shanghai's municipal household can move into its new home, and then Shanghai, in keeping with her position as the most progressive of Far Eastern cities, will have the finest municipal building on this side of the world.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.