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Sim—I have read with a, great Jdeal of interest your to-day's editorial entitled "Checking Waste" land the Chinese Realty Owners As-Jscciation's letter to" Mr. J. R. Jones, Secretary. of the Shanghai Municipal Council, published in your paper yesterday, 'While "heartily endorsing the [Shanghai "Waterworks Company's Jattempt at increasing revenues and eliminating waste by introducing the new metering "system, T-am Jquite in' accord with the Realty Owners Association's statement that as long as the landlords act as agents and [foot the bills out of the, Company's collecting their pockets, there can be no incenti Jon the part of the tenants, who by; {far constitute the great maj lof water consumers in Shanghai, cheek the waste, Consequently, the' mew system adopted by the
jaffeeting the parties concerned, far as I can see, will tremenous increase of water, rates to the la 5 @ corresponding increase revenues to the Shanghai Waterworks Company; atid no apprecia ible change in the wasteful consumption of water by the tenants, which is the Waterworks Company's avowed object to eliminate.
Tam a resident in the French Concession and, as a water consumer, pay my' water rates to the collecting shroffs of the Compan; How and when it came about that ithe Shanghai Waterworks Company, [charged the landlords in the Settle-iment with the collection of the rates, 1 do not know. I am not writing as a property owner in the 'Settlement—I am far remote from that state of happiness—but it' seems justifiable to me that if the metering system must be put in force, the Shanghai Waterworks Company should instal a separate meter, in each house where water is Jconsumed, and, with the large expenses saved from the elimination of waste, employ its own force of jeollectors to relieve the burden the landlords, At the same time, the landlords should refund to the Ihave become quite a rarity; they
pearls, in the upper corners fare easily "eeopneed riy the ded around the frame of Chinese char The next variation was the sub stitution of black ink for the red o the surcharge, which was intention through a shortage of ink. The feonstitute two major varieties which Should be carefully: watched for as they are already obsolete, There 1s a rumour of a three surcharged one red. without the full stop after the abbreviation et, but T still have to verity G. Buows.
Shanghai, Aug. 9. 1932.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.