The maintenance of the Mfunicipal Orchestra the abolition which was mooted as early as in 1929 has cost the Council approximately $2,000,000 from that year to 1936, and the continued grant of special bene-Ais to its foreign staff in the form of exchange compensation when the raison d'étre has become non-existent has aggregated to a total of $12,- Stne00 in "the corresponding period of time.
"4—Tho employment of senior Chinese officials as a means of econo-
William Goekson,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.