The Archive · 1936

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"ON VIEW"

To the Editor of the "Nonri-Cuiwa Dany News —A. correspondent to the "N.-C.

.N." said: "At the intersection of Kiachow and Avenue Roads numerous barrels and ropes and arrows to dicate One Way Tram, placed as an experiment, was apparently success {ful as the barrels and ropes had been translated into. a 10" concrete balustrade 3° 0" high." From his re~ marks It would seem that he didn't Uke the looks of it. His letter appeared in the paper delivered by 6 am. and before 9 am, workmen had arrived to demolish the concrete structure. The cement wasn't quite ary so the work was easy but apart from that, who will say that letters to the Editor donot carry weight.

'Then there is the report that a famous Duke of York; he had 10,000 men,.He marched them up a very high' hill, and he marched them down, again, 'A. "special correspondent to the "N.C.D.N." pointed out that in Japan the price of " motor car is ttle different from that of a rickshaw—speaking of.course of the respective prices for hire, But he didn't point out that the price of a rickshaw in Japan is not ike the price of a tlekshaw in Shanghai. A small motor ear could be hired in Tokyo for 80 sen when I was there last and a rickshaw for a minimum of §0\sen with additions for distance which soon brought the price up. to that a motor car, "That's Just the ttle difference which was not explained, The correspondence in the "N.-C, DRI." on the TramMe question reveals the opinion of the motorists that rlekshaws, wheelbarrows, Buses, tramcars, handcarts, pedestrians, bicycles, goats and buffaloes on strings, postmen, iceman and nice men, ought to. be abolished and that the roads should for motorists. All of which reminds me of the prayer of the Righteous God bless me and my wite, Our Joe, an' "is wife, Us four, 'An' no more, Ames. Shanghai, Aug. 12, tet altered so that the teSecnbe of tothe roundabout reterred_ to. ts Motor "care ahirtng It wil not the rink of weraping againat

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