Being a topic of paramount interest to quite a large number of people, we need make little excuse for referring once more to the topic of housing. This time it is +o quote from an article appearing in a Home journal as showing the steps which some of the enterprise ug are taking to meet the scarcity there. This is by the provision of wooden bungalows—no new thing, of course, but in this instance of special interest to us here because they come from Vancouver, Which we regard as a kind of next door neighbour. The bungalows are standardized in construction, all the parts being made in Vancouver, and so requiring only to be assembled on reaching their destination. Furthermore they are made in different degrees of size and luxury; pears to he quite a If they can be imported into England at quite a moderate figure. the question may well be asked, why not into Shanghai? Land 's will moderately cheap in the outlying parts, and with a cheap house there would presumably be enough money left over to solve the transport problem by the purchase of a motor car. We believe that the objection has been urged that such wooden bungalows will not stand wu against the ravages of the climate here. but on the other hand we are informed that two or three have been in existence for many ears and are still giving satisfaeion.
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