Proposal to Control and Supers vise Own Undertaking Interesting statements regarding the proposal of the Greater Shanghat Moniclpal authorities to.devel
Monicipality's Gontral District -and northern the question >of: government control for the various electricity conceras organized by merchants were made bby Gen. Chang Chun, Mayor sot Greater Shanghai, in an interview with the Chinese press, Apropos.o! the development of thd proposed Central District of Greatee Shanghai, the Mayor said that, sab present, most people thought of the Gonteal District as the. Central District of the International Settiement but this should not be "he eases In view of the large area of the Municipality of Greater Shanghai, the Mayor and his subordinates hid considered the matter thoroughly land. they were of the unnnimons opinion that the Municipality shoul have its own Central District, Ace cordingly, they had selected the district to the north of Kiangwan and. to the cast of the Woosung military road as Greater Shanghai's future' Central District. Reeone struction work in this connection would be commenced in the newt fatare and, as it was 'a matter which involved every citizen Greater Shanghai he hoped that the people would assist the Municipality developing the new Central District by giving the scheme their fall support.
AAs to the matter of the govern= ment control of electricity compan es, Gen. Chang said that, at the last Plenary Session of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang, it was decided that the Government should assume the sponsibility of controlling and supervising the affairs of the differ ent electricity companies and that the Government should adopt protective" policy towards private~ corned electricity enterprises.
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