Lee, The appeal that we publish to day from "'Citizen'' for another park, a children's park, in the western district—and we would specially emphasize the word "'children,""—was probably ant cipated by a good many mie payers last March when they voted for the purchase of the Unkaza property. It seems to have been expected by Dr. Macleod, the proposer of thit purchase, when he said, aprop? of playgrounds for children in the western district: We do not claim that a park at Jessfiell will, either completely or in-mediately supply this much el need, but such a park would contribute to the solution of the pp blem,"" In point of fact, Jessfield_ property was acquire! principally because of the uni gi" opportunity it offered of instita'- ing ao botanical garden, 38 nucleus of which, already highly developed, it was without equi! in Shanghai. On those grounds we argued for its acquisition theo. and for those reasons we would urge as strongly to-day the 4e-sir ability of securing also 4 children's park while there is fro
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