'The cost of administrating the gov-Jernment of the city and district Jamounts to about $618,000 a year, Unfortunately, due £0 the depression and bad harvests of a few years' back only about 20 per cent, of the taxes lue city's natural progress, Mr. Mi commended the mayor as Jone who had studied agricultural and business methods and would be able to give much aid in the promotion these fundamentals, After Mr. MU's address, Mr. Wang, former mayor of Huchow, now the jaupervisor of seven adjacent districts Including Huchow, made a short sspeceh In which he said that he well knew the dificuities with which Huchow had to cope,
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