'To the Editor of the Nowra-CHINA Dairy News'
Sin—Your leading article in today's issue, entitled "A Children's Library" has interested several members of The King's Daughters ago, The King's Daughters realized that the public living north of the Soochow Road needed a Public Library more accessible than the one in the Town Hall, an 1918 the following statement appeared in the report of the Charity Organization Committee. "The establishment of a branch of the Public Library and Free Reading room un the north side of the Garden, Bridge would be of—inestimable value."
The King's Daughters have tried in a very small way to meet this need as the following extracts from annual reports will show:—
1919. The Society opened Urary and. free for women, and Since the Company is a purely commercial enterprise with all shares possessed by Chinese citizens, what is the logie then that the Company should he the property of the Government, It goes without aaying that such acts of permanent sequestration would etrtainly hearten the Chinese financing and investing: public, and such precedents; would put all leading commercial houses in China in a terrible funk, sand the possibility of China's commerce and industry in the future would be, therefore, reduced to a very low ebb, In European and American count sen, sipping enter rises ave usually subsidized by the government, of course, in China none in the trade aspires to that end. Things would be much better off if the vessels are not so inconfiderately commandeered by _the anilitary Teaders, but certainly they do not expect that the Government Should attempt to confiscate what, is their legitimate private property tothe proposal of government} management can only be caryled into practice when the Government, pays to. the shareholders forty' million dollars for the Company's property at current evaluation. The heated debate at the third session $f the Communications Conference Indicates unmistakably the general disapproval of the Chao proposal, We can see nothing otherwise than the payment of twenty million dollars made by the Nationalist!
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