To the Editor of the "Norra-Crina Dalny News."
Str,—Now that your columns are less occupied with the pros and cons of the Public Gardens might I suggest that the present would appear an opportune time for a Commission -to sit and inquire into the working of the Public Works Department. The Municipal Offices are, at long last. partly occupied and the cost to the ratepayers for the structure, plus rents of temporary offices, etc., etc. is something alarming.
This work was undertaken departmentally and if it had been entrusted to a firm of architects, years ago I am afraid, some pertinent questions would have been asked.
Economy is the keynote of all Municipal Departments but the largest spender, the P. W. D., goes gaily on. Is there any necessity to lay @ road and then have it up with new scheme within a year, I refer to the Bund, then the timber be ing used for "shoring up" looks too good a quality.
There is also in road maintenance no apparent ce-operation between Council Departments and the public utility companies; a road is made or repaired and, when finished, up it comes for something or another.
Has Bubbling Well Road, during the past 10 years been free from road coolies?
I am, etc., Pro Bone Pustico.
Shanghai, July 2.
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