More Substantial Fences and Flower Plots In connection vith the ""Notes and) Comments" on "The Shab-Diness of the Bund" which deplored the condition of the grass. plots facing the water-front, it a3. learned yesterday that the Public Works Department of the S.MLC. has taken the matter under consideration and steps will be taken very shortly with a view to im provement, The plan, while not announced in its entirety as yet, will doubtless all for. what is\ practically "a continuation of the Public Gardens" to quote an oficial of the P.W.D._ Tt is expected that the chain fences. will be removed to be replaced by more substantial barriers ind the centres will be laid out with flower beds and grass plots.
The plan will first have to be submitted to the Council, but it is expected that it will be quickly approved and the work will start immediately after.
"At the same time the P.W.D. announces that the Szechuen Road Dridge will shortly have new railings of a more substantial type than those erected at present and that a sample of what the new type will be is at present on the east side railing.
The present railings were erected when the bridge was originally built several years ago but due to vibrations, but more especially because of the native boatmen's habit of tieing their craft ¢o the railings, it has been loosened in several places and for safety sake will be replaced.
Thia condition of course has no connection with the bridge itself Dut refers only to the railings, especially that on the east side.
The work is expected ¢o start as soon og the cold weather has passed and should be finished in two months at the outside. The new railings will be heavier, contain more steel reinforcement, in the core, and will be more in keeping, architecturally, with the base of the structure than' the present railings.
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