Hankow, Apr. 13.
At a meeting of the Municipal] Council of the Ex-British concession the Labour member appointed by. the Unions proposed that 10 per cent. of the year's budget be applied to welfare work for Hankow's Iabouring population, The total budget for the amounts to Tls. 280,000. The eign members of the Council pointed out that the budget had been voted by the rate-payers as proposed penditure for the necessary opera-Zon of the Municipality and that each item therein had been carefully estimated, and that, therefore, it would be impossible to upset tha year's budget by laying hands on. 'Tls. 28,000 of funds appropriated Hfor' other purposes.
They added that the Council had no power to divert funds to other causes than to which they hnd been voted by the rate-payers.
The Chinese Labour member]
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