With regard to trafic congestion tone would like to feel that our difficulties of lest year, and, in fact, the present are only tempora ary;"but~I fear that will not the case: indeed, everything points to a gradual increase in congestion from now on, until such time as! radical changes are made, One can only note with growing alarm the' lengthening of the traffic stream up Bubbling Well Road during the busy hours, It is only a short time ago since the Traffic Commission completed its sittings and rendered a very full and excellent report, but there is every ind: cation that the situation calls for another Commission to deal with the problem of traffic congestion as it exists now, and I trust the Councils of the Internat'onal and French Set-Hlements will see their way to appoint one without delay.
It is not my intention to make any suggestions at this meeting because in the first place your: comm: ttee feel that the time ha passed when any but the most radical changes can ameliorate conditions, and unless these changes fare made conditions will become Intolerable not only for the motoring public, but for all those who use the streets in any way whatsoever, The police are doing nobly in their work of traffic regulation under the circumstances, but reulation of traffic under existing] conditions is almost a farce. Whatever changes are made, some seetions of the public are bound to but the situation hus to faced and after placing the promin the hands of a commis ion capable and willing to xive the fest consideration and sabe Tut' their unbiased recommenda: Tiong itis unto all coctions of the public to support those recom-Imundation® "Your committe wil at the right time, submit their views on the subject, but in the first] place it is necessary for a commission to be appointed.
Chinese ince Regulations The regulations for registration and licoricing of motor vehicles using roads on Chinese territory came in the nature of a surprise to most of us: not so much the regulations themselves or the fa: t that regulations had been framed, as the fact that their introduction was so sudden and unannounced that most owners licences found they of infringements almost before the regulations were promulgated. Your committee had the utmost difficulty in obtaining an} explanation of the regul necessary procedure and, as many of you are aware, owners found it necessary to spend the better part of a week travelling from Chapei to the Native City and vice' versa in order to fulfil the whole series of requirements, There is no doubt the Bureau was utterly unprepared to undertake the work it set out to accomplish and an intensely anti-foreign element amongst employees of the Bureau made cooperation by your committee with the work of the Bureau-very diffi cult. Six applications were made for copies of the regulations before any were received and then it was a blur print of a chart giving instructions of a very general nature.
The Chinese Commissioner of Foreigs Affairs was approached on the matter eventually, but the only regulations your committee were
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