To come to details. The ground for the village actually is in the possession of Mr. Nielsen or friends associated with him and it is situated beyond the bridge at the extreme end! of the Hungjao Road, at the, commencement of what fs hopefully called "the Road to the Hills." The larger part is across the road, opposite the links of the Hungjao Golf Club, just before coming to Mrs. Liddell's Bungalow. The other part is on the Golf Club side and Just beyond the links.
Mr. Nielsen said that, when he first thought of the scheme, he knew, from his long experience of Shanghai, that he would have to contend with various loca) prejudices, the greatest of: which would be the distance of his estate from The Bund, this being certain to prove a great argument with people who say that even the lower end of Vu-yuen Road is "too far." The finest reply to this is the production of a map of Shanghai, on which it can be shown that, from The Bund, down Avenue Edward VII, Great Western Road, the extension' of the latter beyond Edinburgh Road (which will be completed ina month or two) and on down Hungjao Road to the new estate is practically a straight line. The extension is not yet open to motor car traffic, but to satisfy himself, Mr. Wielsen has timed the journey again and again in many types of cars and he emphasizes that even now, when one is compelled to make a long detour which will be eliminated by the new road, the distance from The Bund to the estate can be covered in 25 minutes without exceeding the speed limit, and quite five minutes will be knocked off when the new road is opened. Thus the question of transportation is solved for those who have cars of their own: for those who have not, the company will provide a fleet of private motor omnibuses.
A SELF-CONTAINED ESTATE, _The next most important question—or it may even be more important—is that. of food. Mr. Nielsen solves this in generous style. On his estate there will be shops under the company's management, giving, as his pamphlet says, supplies "second to none," not only meat, bread, vegetables and fruit, but even tailors, dressmakers and a model laundry. An ice-making plant is -to be installed, and water and electric light supplies have been arranged for.
The houses are of varied types, mostly of the order usually associated with garden villages—high-peaked as to roofs and many-paned as to windows—but possibly, if Mr. Nielsen and his eventual directors learn that there ace many other people hers who agree with the writer that these j ate an atrocity and might well be varied with a few flat-roofed and big windowed bungalows, they will be willing to meet the demand. However, the houses are all designed with good, big, Square rooms, with provision for everything required and they are all to have gardens entirely private, the two entrances to each house being on walls away from the gardens. It is intended also to have flats, or apartment houses—according to whether one says "Well played, sir." or "'Atta-boy"—for those who do not want the responsibility of* a whole house. For all these amenities one will have to pay only from Tls. 60 to Tls. 80 per month. There will be no Municipal taxes, but the owners will levy an estate tax of 8 per cent per month, or a little more than half the Municipal rate.
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