'A few days ago the owners' representatives requested to be allowed to resent within a week a new model of their own for the Board's cou fideration. This was agreed to, but the Board emphasized that no inodet would be acceptable unless it conformed in its essentials to the specifications laid down. The Board. hus been willing to give consideration 10 suggestions in the course of building the new model, and now that a model has been produced it is still prepared to consider further proposals before the model is compulsorily adopted, although it is not intended that the operation of the model shall be delayed by any suggestions. In the meantime, therefore, some owners who are anxious to build once have been informed that rickshaw of the type designed by the Board will be accepted, Tt is currently reported that pullers well as owners are opposed to the Board's model rieMihaw. The facts are that a number of pullers have Deen engaged to try, out the new vehicle and they have invariably ex-Pressed satisfaction as to its stable ity, balance and*the ease with which it can be pulled. "As to comfort the passenger, without exception those who have ridden in it have made favourable comments. From the owners' point of view the cost of the new vehicle compares favourably with that of old type, as. it costs only $108 to build. "While the owners insist it would cost them about one million dollars to replace the 9,990 rickshaws in the International Settlement, the Board has repeatedly declared that replacement will be gradual, as in the past, and there will no occasion for sudden large dis-Dursements of capital, "The outlay of capital would be nearly the same if "NE, Herald" Photo,
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