The Archive · 1924

Ingenious Means of Raising Revenue for Police Salaries Canton, Dee. 11

The Canton Waterworks Ca. was. fined $2,500 this week for having failed to affix revenue stamps to some of the receipt they had issued.

To funds for the payment of arrears to the Canton policemen, the Kuomintang Bureau of Publ Safety has decided to repaint the house numbers on Canton buildings and to charge a fee, a large part will go to the city watehing the work.

Taking advantage of the destruetion of many buildings by fire at Wachew on December 1, the Municipal Bureau is reported to have decided to refuse further applic: tions for the erection of wooden sheds along the water front. As a measure of food conservation after the fire, the Garrison Commissioner has issued orders prohibiting the export of Service.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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