The Archive · 1937

BASKET FAIR

the. Good "people, who. dwell Yuen Road as well og those who be-who dwell in Vu lieve in the virtue of tradition. Bas-Ket Fatr will not be held in any place other than that allotted to it bythe, Municipal Counelt"in past years. The mystic lines which have Aroused apprehension have nothing fovdo with the Fatt but have been Produced bythe Public Works Department for of quite a Eifterent kind: to improve rather than diminish the amenities on the roads where they have been detected. "This information has reached this journal from well-informed sources and should therefore allay the uneasiness er correspondents who have shud ered at the thought of enduring th disturbance of their ordinary routine on Edinburgh and. Vu. Yuen Rosds. The Council's officers. in giving the lunual permission for the Basket Fair tobe held in the customary area around Bubbling Well bear in mind the interests of the. herdaworking ud humble vendors who look upon the privileges of the Fair as an one nual boon, At the same time arrangeents are made as far as possible to mitigate the inconventenee which thay accrue from the imposition an ancient If honoured ceremony on the modern activities of what is now a busy urban shopping zone.

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