To the Editor of the "Norra-Cnina Dairy News."
Sm,—One feels that the Council are doing what they can under the circumstances to relieve some of our more pressing needs but that we are still being overtaken by the consequences of our past shortsighteelness and that conditions are in some ways getting worse. One of the main things we are suffering from is overcrowding. Overcrowded streets because they are not sufficient to carry our traffic. Overcrowded trams because we haw not enough of this class of transport to handle the number that want to travel_by it. True we can only satisfactorily remedy this by increasing both to meet our present and future needs, but it the mean time cannot something be done to make better use of what we have? Passing over the block ing of pavements by parking pri-vote ricshas, etc., there are the building operations which _contribute considerably to the impediments, and it would seem reasonable to ask:—if the contractors for the new Yokohama Specie Bank, the "North China," and the Chartered Band are able to avoid this by erecting protecting sheds over the foot paths,, why others should not do so too? Again, we cannot help noticing that no sooner does the P.W.D. finish remaking a road, than someone else comes along and tears it up again. Surely the hands of the P.W.D. could very well be strengthened in this matter with advantage to the public in convenience if not in expense. If we would only submit ourselves to more drastic regulations' for the public welfare it would be a benefit all round. We get very valuable advice from the Public {Health Department about getting
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