To the Editor, of the "Norrs-Cuina Dairy News."
Sin,—J believe the friend referred to jp the first of your small editorials in last Monday's paper voices an immense body of opinion. in Shanghai, foreign and 1 lieve) Chins when he complains of the loud talking, and especially the heehawing while carrying things, of the coolies throughout the Settlement. Why should the rest of this vast community, Chinese and foreign, be compelled to tolerate this sort of thing?
I occupy an office almost at Bund corner where there is one of the biggest godowns in Shanghai. Tt. (the godown) is surrounded by offices and other buildings, and from morning till night the din from the throats of the coolies carrying loads into it is peculiarly nerve-racking and a nuisance. if ever there was a nuisance. Why should peaceable people, already suffering physical discomfort from the heat, have to suffer this mental ~—and quite unnecessary—torture as well?
I do think the question is one for the police. They need not wait for a complaint. A word to the Chinese employers of the coolie gangs would be sufficient to stop a good deal of the noise, and in other cases the Chinese and Sikh' police could deal with the matter.
Iam, ete, Constant Surrerer.
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