Tt is learned that negotiations' have been completed fort chase of a block of property at the corner of Foochow and Kiangse Roads, and the purchasers, the Shanghai Municipal Council, are understood to have paid a sum of about three-quarters @f a million taels for it.
The land im question, at present covered by buildings more or less out-of-date as compared with! modern Shanghai, is opposite to the the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, being on the west side of Kiangse Road. This latter! thoroughfare at that point is badly in need of widening, and it is understood that a portion of the Counecil's new acquisition will be used for that. purpose.
The remainder, running west towards the premises of the American Club, is destined as the new site of the Fire Brigade's Central Station. With the Administrative] building, Police headquarters, S.V.G, Fire Brigade, ete, all in the one block, the premises are today overcrowded, and an extension ig needed. When the Central Station has been removed from its Present site to the other side of Foochow Road there will be room to achieve this, and accordingly' farther developments in building in that area may be expected at an early date.
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