Shanghai Roads and Licence Fees:
Control of Traffic: Chinese Pedestrians The annual meeting of the Automobile Club of China was held at the rooms of the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce, 1 Yucnmingyuen Road, on Monday, Mr. C. R. Burkill (chairman) presiding, supported by Messrs. H. Von Heidenstam, G. Okada (committee), M. O. Springfield and Major A. Hilton Johnson.
The Chairman sai The year under review has been an important one in matters appertaining to motor cars and motor traction. Last autumn the first Automobile Show was held on a scale which was a great surprise to most residents in China who visited the vast matshed building. The best makes of English, American and French automobiles were on view and the excellence of the bodywork designed and executed in local garages was a matter for considerable comment, The cost of motoring has een added to by the serious advance -in licence fees charged by both Councils; garages have now to pay a heavy fee and hire cars and motor lorries are also very heavily taxed. In many countries the increase in licence fees is definitely allocated to roads and it remains to be seen whether the Councils concerned are going to give motorists and garage proprietors. - full value for these increases. In any case, value for money will be expected and wide roads, with better surfaces, are surely due -to the that, under existing traffic condi-whole community; it is obvious
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