There are many other matters to which public attention should be directed affecting the welfare of all residents foreign and Chinese in this Settlement such as labour problems, provision for an_international park to which the Chinese can be admitted, the Registration of Companies, provision for indigent foreigners, etc.
The Municipal Council's policy of discouraging criticism and pub-lie discussion of civic affairs must be abandoned. Well intentioned criticism and discussion and. a keener interest in such affairs will be of benefit to the administration and the community. The absence of it tends to an oligarchic form of government, not sufficiently responsive to rapidly changing conditions and the needs of the people, a tendency to perpetuate old and effete ideas, extravagance and resentment of criticism to which in Shanghai the administration has for so long a time been generally unaccustomed.
The secretary having read the notices convening the meeting, -and the report for 1920 being adopted, the chairman, Mr. C. Holliday, proposed the re-election of the committee en bloc.
Mr. Bruce Lockhart suggested that those members of the committee who had not taken sufficient interest in the annual meeting to
ist.
present, should be struck off the Some discussion' followed this motion, and it was eventually mittee.
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