It is difficult to sympathize with the Amalgamated Association of Street Unions in their protest tothe Commissioner for Foreign Affairs against the licensing of rice shops, more particularly having regard to the grievances the step: is designed to remedy. It must be pointed out that the Council has no desire to obtain revenue from the measure: indeed it is to be doubted whether the $1 per licence, collected half yearly, will repay the Council for the work of safeguarding the Chinese from hoarding and profiteering which the new regulations are drafted to do. Certainly there is absolutely no-ground for the contention that such licensing is not covered by By-law 34 which empowers the: Council to license, amongst other things, places for the sale of foodstuffs under which heading ever the Amalgamated Association of Street Unions will agree, rice is correctly classified. If the above: mentioned Association can see nor farther beyond the end of its collective nose than such a step, as reported, appears to indicate, it can. hardly be surprised if it is not. always taken seriously. The for: eigner has no particular interest in the regulation, which is designed. solely for the Chinese, who should, in those circumstances, be: the last to "kick."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.