To-pay's Municipal Gazette contains a very long and important report by the electrical Lngineer on the new machinery and other extensions which the unexpected growth of demand for power in Shanghai necessitates. In the short space of time'at disposal 35 is impossible to do more than note a few salient features. In Decem. ber, 1918, Mr. Aldridge drew up a report on the requirements of the Department so far as they could be anticipated carrying down to the year 1924, in which last it was estimated that the demand would be for 58,000 kilowatt. But by the requirements that have come to light in the past year, it is now estimated that this figure will be reached and exceeded as early as in 1921, white the estimated demand for the year 1922 will be as high as £0,000 kilowatt. Simultaneously 10 is found advisable to remove the German machines which have continually broken down and are an quanti while the growth of industrialism in the western district calls for more land and the doubling of the Tonquin Road sub-station even before it is completed. An additional power house at Riverside will also be necessary: it ought to be in commission, Mr. Aldridge says, before the end of 1923. The total bill is Ts, 4,304,000 at 6/-" 7 Which amount the ratepayers will presumably be asked to grant at the next meeting. And where, one wonders, will they get it from?*
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.