The Archive · 1935

City Improvements

Within Wenchow sttest widening has been going on apace, and han-reds of houses hive been pulled down, and newer and better ones though reduced in ground " space) built," Street obstructions like shrubs, widows memorials, hawkers stalls, and even beggars are being removed from the streets. The beggars If persistent are punished, perhaps by Imprisonment, and many have been put on the public works such as filling. In or dredging of City canals. All widened streets are to be renamed, and T noticed that the new names chosen are nationalistic and tend to memorialize Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Mar-Kot places on streets have been removed to certain fired roofed areas, celther specially erected, or converted temples. Four at least have been already established. "A new "keep to the left" regulation has been enforced fon the rickshaws. As for the gates to the city those in the south and north have been demolished, and instead of the old conventional mul-Liple cornered entrance designed to ame wi The official advice given is that cultivators should give up oranges, and grow more hi-be, pears, apples, plums and peaches, ete.

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