Ox and Sheep Not to Pass Through Concession As a protest against the taxation of ox and sheep passing through the French Concession, none of the 80 members of the Shanghai Butchers Association, No. 8, Lane 239 Miller Road, sent any livestock to the French Municipal Abattoir yesterday according to a spokesman of the organization.
Beginning this year. the French Municipal Council has been collecting 50 and 5 cents for each ox and sheep respectively passing through the Concession. The members have found this tax too heavy a burden to shoulder, the spokesman announced.
The decision to boycott the French Abattoir was reached at a meeting of the Association, when it was decided that the livestock should be brought into the Settlement through Chung Shan Road and that pending a settlement of the dispute, all livestock be sent to the Settlement Abattoir.
Usually a total of 70 oxen and 106 sheep are sent to the French Abation daily for consumption in the French Concession. As a result of Association's decision, the S.M.C.
Abattoir was reported to have experienced a busier time yesterday.
Letters referring to the Association's action have been sent to merchants in the interior. In addition the Bureau of Public Health, public organizations, Messrs. Tu Yueh-sung, Wang Hsiao-lai and Vu Ya-ching have been requested by the Association to Tender assistance in the dispute.
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