'The new Diesel buses have appear ed on the Paoki-Hanchung run, some of them have individual seats but all are closed in and give much greater comfort and protection when com: pared with the old open trucks piled high with' miscellaneous freight. and passengers luggage, While officials will not guarantee' a daily service Just yet the appearance of these buses is a good omen and already the schedule has improved.
Tt looks as though the old pack mule mall service ts to go for food, The Postal authorities have almost completed their new godown inthe east suburb but as yet their fect of mail trucks do not fun regularly and appear to be unable to cope fully with the demands. "At precent, in some Instances, the Diesel buses fake small consignments: of mail on the return run for T nolleed the driver was making a delivery while at the Post Ofice a day or two age.
'A number of influential men in the cliy Cand also at Hanchung) are busy promoting a company to supply el Wie Right. In Paoki they" plan to erect their plant in the rounds an old temple in the east suburb, spring in the hillside will provide' the necessary -wator, Some of the principal men connected with the scheme fre at present in the Capital attend ug to the purchase of suitable machinery. There scorns to be no doubt that it this machinery can be procur= ced that the venture will be successful, Wolungseu is a small signal station in the culting; large piles of brick cement, tiles and other building mat ter were piled high on either side of the siding thus giving some clue to the presence of a railway station. Tt is built close to the base of the plateau, which is very low at this point, a motor read could easily be constructed from the station across the plateau to Fengsiang.
Before the arrival of the railway this was only one of the many vile Inges situated in a sheltered position beneath the plateau, slightly off the main road; even afier the event of the railway it might have continued its peaceful existence as such but for one fact.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.