To the Editor' of the:
"Nonrn-CutNa, Daly, News."
Sm—I am sure: that every, motorist reading your article. to-day's issue heartily endorsed your remarks regarding the dis" peaceful state of the roads both in the International Settlement well as the French Concession. Of the two, the latter roads are by far the worse and motorists who pay for a licence, in addition to ordinary rates and taxes, are entitled to #¢0 seme return. for their money. I Lelieve there are, some 2,800 motor vehicles under French registration sind taking the very modest aver-ego tax of Tls. 85 per car per annum, we get the useful sum of Tls. 80,500 but of which I venture te say_not one tenth is spent on maintaining the existing roads in proper repair. 'The French Council are spending far too much of the ratepayers' money in constructing new and entirely unnecessary roads, with the result that main thorough: faves like Avenue Foch, Avenue Edward VIL, and Avenue Joffre ere in a condition which ts a dis grace to those responsible for the proper allocation of the public fonds entrusted to them, T hope you will not let this mate ter drop but keep pegging away at it although it is a pretty hope job to expect. n municipal body to @o things efficiently and properly they" would to done if. they Formed: the task of a public come pany, working with money, for the of which a strict account has to te given, and what is more import fant, yensonabie results: shown, Tam, ete,
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