(Continued from front page.) that the new rules are the embodiment of all wisdom human and divine: they are admittedly capable of revision in the light of practical experience, It does, however, feel that it has a duty to see that the rights of the community as a whole fare jealously protected against the plausible alfacks of sectional inter-fests. Moreover It. realizes that the Police—with the Council's: support—are neither incompetent, negligent nor dishonest and are endeavouring to deal with the parking problem. on commonsense lines, Finally it must repeat that, even if it be proved that Shanghai motorists are oppressively taxed by the Settlement authorities, the remedy does not lie in giving certain number of them free parking space at the public expense, Whether the car-owner pays a licence fee of buys petrol or exposes himself In any other way to the invidious im= posts alleged to be peculiar to tiily Wretched city, it may be asserted without fear of contradiction that the sum thus extracted from hie pocket was never intended inthe slightest degree to cover free parking.
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