Behold then, one of these heavily laden ferry ' launches, with its Plimsoll-line (if it had one) weighed down below the water's surface, and Property Owners Objecting:
The Growth of Motor Roads Canton, Jan, 19.
The decision of the district authorities of Fatshan, a city some 15 miles west of Canton, to raise the Bund along the river' front eight feet to avoid the inundation which usually occurs in the summer is being opposed by property-owners concerned. The grounds for opposi tion are more economic technical, it appears, and the district authorities have acted on the advice of modern engineers qualified to pass on xuch a matter. Tt is felt, however, that the movement for good roads in China, where more than 7,000 miles of motor roads have been built in rocemt yours, will not stop in this and other districts, In Kuangtung province in the last few yours, 19 towns and cities ported the completion of 887 li or nearly 300 miles of modern roads. Canton alone has now more than 27 miles and a motor bus service.
Some 12 other places in Kuangtung have motor bus services for the public, in addition to. motor ears fand other vehicles. If the district of Fatshan is able to modernize ite Bund, it will have about a mile of up-to-date public highway and this will eventually benefit an area of nearly: 3,000,000 square feet of property immediately concerned.—Reuter's Pacific Service.
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