A. Chinese Girls' School is being built on the site of Singapore Road, thus deducting approximately one half the park aloftment of 24.911 mow. However, there still remain eleven swings, four see-saws and one sand-pit the third ''future" park. Small athletic meets are accommodated on the ash-surfaces area usually usurped in the early morning hours by those cheery risers who indulge in morning exercise.
However, despite these provisions for distant days, there still remain small areas scattered throughout the Settlement, most important among which are' the Soochow Road Children's Playground and the Nanyang Children's Playground. The former drew 45,000 patrons last year, and must spare fond parents many an anxious hour with its chain link wire {tence protecting the more adventurous. youngsters from a ducking In Soochow Creek.
Opened in 1981 on the site of the former Municipal Conservatories, the play-ground boasts the usual swings, see-saws, slides and sand-pit.
The Nanyang play-ground raised and re-modelled in 1933, recorded a tremendous increase in popularity last year. Attendance figures jump ed from 42,055 to 69,544, and so it becomes apparent that the devisers of children's parks in Shanghai know how best to please their constantly increasing family of young fun-lovers.
Hungjao's Nursery Minor spots throughout the city present constant planting and planning problems to the superintendent of parks, who, after all, takes mighty pleasure, one suspects in the extensive greenhouses at Jessfield Pai and the long reaches of plants at Hungjao Nursery. "Those two resevoirs of plant life, feed the chain of municipal parks,'and permit the splendid horticultural exhibits to continue both in the city's*parks, and in {he Horticultural Show twice annual-
In fact, though {t cannot properly come under the head of "Municipal Parks," Hungjao Nursery attracts hundreds of visitors weekly. Located a fair distance from the city-proper on Hungjao Road, the nurseries excel.
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