Your committee has been approached by the organizer of the newly established Shanghai Automobile Club to see whether it is possible fpr us to ce-operate or affiliate with them, Their proposals are being examined at present, but the new organization, as now constituted, is in practically no sense a club and the matter requires the most careful consideration.
As Soon as your committee became aware of the proposal of the Shanghai Paper Hunt Club to erect, 'a club house in Monument Road inquiries were instituted as to who ther this club could participate in the scheme, but the stewards of the Paper Hunt Club stated that the rest house proposed was to be of a very simple nature with no provision for social activities nor} even for refreshments of any kind and it was not their intention to is, to a very considerable extent, based upon the statements and views of the oil companies concern-Shanghai would appear to be unique in that there is no pro-sion for the testing of weights jand measures, The Present System of Fines Efforts were made during the year to have introduced a system of standard fines for breaches of trafic regulations, to apply to all nationals alike, but owing to the varied national interests involved it was considered by the Council to be impolitic at that time to recommend such a course. A suggestion was made to -the Council fon the subject of the records of traffic offenders, The pamphlet circulated by the! club inthe English and Chinese languages embodying traffic hints and signals to be given by drivers has been widely distributed, thanks to the assistance of the Traffic Department and the Settlement and French police and several of the motor insurance companies, and I trust they have proved of value. Your committee, in the first place, requested the Councils to undertake the printing and distribution of the regulations, but for various reasons the traffic authorities sug-rested that the matter should be
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