To be Enforced Next Year by Local Authorities An order just issued the Commissioner of Public Works for Greater Shanghai says that, after December 31, 1980, a uniform system of national weights and measurements will be enforced in Shanghai, Delegates of the Chinese Ratepayers' Associaton and Chines Property Owners' Association were invited; us an act of courtesy, to ingpeer the figures upon which' the surcharge was based (not to examine the Company's books) order to satisfy themselves. as to their correctness and this inspection thas just been completed, but. there was no intention of deferring: collection of the surcharge pending the inspection, A series of regulations governing the unification of national weights and measurements were published recently by the Mayor of Greater [Shanghai and, according to Article of these a uniform system will enforced in. Shanghai after December 31, 1990, Article V of the regulations stipulates that, after order for the enforcement. of the uniform system of national weights and measurements has been issued, the metric system must be adopted by all the Shanghai public instead of the English and American systems and, in all documents submitted by the' people to the gov-Jernment organs, only metric system may be referred to.
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