There can bs little question but that those who are planning this Model Settlement have studied municipal planning and have com. pared various efforts in Europe and America and that they by every possible means lish at least in this gateway Chinn a city which will be a pride to the i at all eventually succeed, for if once the protection to life und property affords those who live in it is removed, there would be many advantages in I id) river where the atmosphere is unpolluted by 80 years of habitation and activity. The fina tions involved in this development can be solved by the movement of buildings into the area when the time comes that there is no adlvantage in living out of it, Tt is understood that a ban has been placed upon the sale or trans-for of property in this region for the present in the hope of preventing profiteering during the interim period between the planning of the Model Settlement and its actual development. The advertisement with "regard to the civie centre would seem to indicate that the Greater Shanghai Municipality. regards the present as a suitable time to commence operations and that, guy rate, the municipality's buildings will be erected there shortly as a begin of greater thi to come,
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