Plans Drawn Up: Scheme: to Go Before Works Committee Tentative plang hive been drawn for a two-storey public building on 'The Bund foreshore, immediately north of the Customs Examination shed, to accommodate. arriving and departing passengers and their friends, was learned on June 18, the scheme, if approved by the 'Works' Committee and th Council, would entail the erection the P.W.D. of a $200,000 structure ground which ig now under water, The reception hall would face pontoons 9, 10 and 11 and would connect Gireetly with the baggage examination shed. Besides walting-rooms. Would contain an information depart ment and a tea-room where light refreshments would be served, Thus, walls for the arrival of friends would be made, more pleasant, "and new-gomers to Shanghai would not have to seek information about where to 0 and how to get there, in haphazard, manner: General tourist Snformation would "be provided by competent: secretaries, "A long-felt need would 'The structure, it possed, would be' about 220 feet long and 50 feet wid At 4g understood. Tt would be built directly across from the Bank of Communications, Construction would have to await the sinking of piling, presumably Oregon pine, which would have to be imported from America. Therefore it "Is thought ihat the building, if approved, would not be. completed until Into next year, Tt fs understood the estimates. are Row in the hands of the SMC. Treasurer and Controller, whence: they will probably go to the Works Committee.
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