Department Store to be Opened ina Year Another huge Department. Store, 'The Sum Ca. (Shanghai) Ld, will bbe opened in Nanking Road a' year Thence, should the plans of its pro-motets be realised, The land on which the new building is to be erected has been purchased at the corner_of Nanking, Thibet, and Lloyd Roads, the negotiations in this connection having been concluded on ug. 2 by Mr. Choy Chang, Gencrat Manager representing. The Sun Go, (Shanghai) La, and the agents of Mr. Ching Ling-sung, the former owner. The purchase price, a little yer, two and a halt milieu tals (including brokerage ete.) covers an rea of some 8) mow of land.
The opening of the new firm will be another mark of the initiative of Chinese who have formerly lived in 'Australia, for like their friends 'The Sineére Ca,, The Wing On Cou and The Sun Sun Ca., the moving Spirits behind the new' organisation emigrated. to, Sydney "and. other places in the Commonwealth in their Youth and interested themselves in Zommereial "pursuits "upon their ight Results in Death of a
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