The reference made on Mar. 20 to the smallness of the percentage of non-Japanese registered electors fed their votes at the last Election has created not the slightest reason why terest in, Shanghat. There every reader of these lines who qualified to vote should not go. to the poll. The polling hours cover the midday interval" for. refreshment, but, where that cannot be used by the would-be voters, em-Dloyers should be persuaded to Permit their employees a few moments "off" to attend one of other: of the two polling stations which are to be respectively at the Council Offices' in Kiangse Road and, for Northern and Eastern districts, Hongkew. There can. be 10 doubt of the general desirability of securing as heavy a poll as posaible. 'There can hardly' be any doubt that the election of the men who fare to serve on the Council for coming year is a matter of intimate concern to every ratepayer, large or small, "Nothing should therefore be allowed to stand in the way of]
1 other public bodies elsewhere and make the polling hours, say from 8 am. to 7 pin? The cost of holding the elections might be slightly increased thereby but it would re~ duce to a minimum the causes for complaint from voters whose busi hess requirements make attendance at the poll exceedingly dificult. if not quite impossible. Fur that ridiculously low figure of 29.4 per gent. cannot be entirely explained by & general charge of apathy on the part of non-Japanese voters.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.