To the Editor of the "Norra-Cuina Dairy News."
Sin,—"Simms' Weekly," if not a huge success, is a most decided improvement on the old Weakly. We can now "'take the corn and leave the chaff behind:" aforetime you had no option but to consign costly chaff to the waste paper basket.
In the Municipal Gazette of even date we get more than a passing glance at the inner workings of our Council; and not the least important bit of information is a little letter to the Waterworks Company intimating that the Council is again considering the taking over of the Waterworks, as originally proposed in 1918, but turned down them only because of inability to-borrow the wherewithal.
The experience of every live Municipality is that essential public utility services should be municipally owned, and it is not before time that the Model Settlement" continued the good work begun with the Electricity Dept; and I am sure there is a solid body of public opinion behind this move to acquire the Waterworks, or start a new Municipal Waterworks, with water from the Yangtze, not the filthy, sluggish Huangpu. Then let us hope our Council will follow up this good work and take over the Tramways, that blot on our fair name and the cause of more caustic remarks from visitors than anything else we muddle through with.
Withal, things would really move in Municipal circles if only someone could be secured to consolidate and
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.