Need for a Broader Policy—The Duty of Ratepayers The need of fostering a civic consciousness in vital problems affecting the well-being of the Model Settlement, was the subject of an address by Mir. A. J. Hughes, at the annual general meeting of the Civic League on Tuesday.
"There is w feeling," said Mr. Hughes, ''among a large number of residents that had there been more opportunity in the past for public discussion of affairs, many of our present day problems would not be 60 difficult of solution as they are!
The lecturer then reviewed some of the most pressing problems of Shanghai Municipal administration.
There was no city in the world where traffic problems were so complex and acute. Thoroughout the) Settlement there was scarcely a road wide enough to meet traffic requirements. These requirements: would rapidly become greater. Less than a year ago the engineer-in-chief of the Huangpu Conser-vane Board stated that "the importance of China's trade and Shanghai's position entitle this town to become. a first-class world vert. With the development of Shanghai as such, the transport problem would grow even more difficult to solve.
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