row Oun Own Comsronsene Kuling, Dec, 31.
As very little has been published about the improvement of Kuling since it was turned back to, the Chinese on January 1, 1930, a" few remarks along this Me will not go amiss, The road up the mountain has been widened two feet and greatly Improved, while the bus service from Kiukiang to the foothills was taken Out of the hands of a private company and put under the management of the Kiangsi Provincial Road Administration," Formerly..t cost $1.80 per person for a ten-mile ride and the private companies made a hand, some profit in the summer, but now there is a regular bus service which carries the malls and a tcker costs $.00, The upkeep of tie tord across the plain, however, leaves much to be desired, On the mountain top there have been many" improvements. Roads have been graded and surfaced and new bridges have been built, but the treatest advance has been In piping ood clean water, first to the commereiat section in the Gap and this. year to the Main Valley east of the stream, The water comes from thi top of Russian Valley, is clean and although as yet one is not allowed to connect private houses, there are humorous public hydrants, "making. the supply very convenient," At your correspondent's bungalow on one of the distant ridges, all water had to be brought up a high hill from a spring, now there is a-faucet at our entrance, T suppose that this extensive gravity system will soon be enlarged #0 as fo include other parts of the Main Valley and West Valley, now 80 poorly supplied with water,
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