Three Lakhs Raised for Removal to East of City Members of the Chinkiang Chamber of Commerce have subscribed $300,000, which will be handed to the Shanghai-Nanking—Railway Administration, for the removal of the present railway station, to the west of the tunnel at Chinkiang, to the enst of Silver Island, Tt has been found that the prestation is too far from the river front and the merchants experience considerable inconvenience in loading and unloading -theit goods, In addition, they have to may extra freight charges. Daring a recent: visit of Mr. W. T. Liu, th managing director of the Shanghai Nanking Railway, to Chinkiang, an {inspection was made and the merchants suggested that. the station hould be transferred from its present site to the east of the city and that a branch line should be built from the South Gate to the Consular Bluff. They informed Mr.
that, at the present time, there was no room for expansion, In view of the waterfront develop ment which is to be undertaken at Chinkiang, Mr. Liv expressed himself in favour of the scheme but the question of funds arose and the merchants promised to subscribe $300,000 and advance it to the railway to entry out the scheme on condition that the money was repaid. from the railway revenes, This was agreed to and it is expected that the work will commence soon. episodeawhen he was forcibly widening the streets of Chungking. His methods raited a great outery from merchants deprived of part of their property, but once the new road had been opened the traders very soon found that to be on a wide, macadam road was an advan?- age, and the outery came from an~ other direction—from those situated on streets which had not been widened and had thanked their good fortune for being out of tke way of tke "improvements."
In returning t9 Shanghai Miss Smith visited Hu and saw good roads being made Changsha to the south. Motor of freight and bus services were in operation. Concluding, she said "There -is proceeding in) this country road building to an extent in which those concerned with economic and social interests must Ibe concerned,
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