On January 28 in our Notes and Comments we broached the topic of the housing problem and how it was being solved to a certain extent at Home by the importation of wooden bungalows irom Vancouver. The suggestion was made that if such houses could be imported into England at a moderate rate, they might still more readily be introduced into Shanghai, and this suggestion naturally leads to the further study of the pros and cons of the case.
At the present time there are, with the exception of Chinese buildings, only two or three houses of wooden construction in Shanghai, and this would lead one to suppose that timber, cither for climatic or some other reasons, was unsuitable as a bifilding material here-
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