Mr. Arnhold stuck to his ground and won sympathetic applause—nes ly as warm as that which had rewarded Mr. Barr—by asserting that the Council considered its primary duty to safeguard the peace and order of the Settlement It would not put in force the first three recommendations of the Massey Report, as Mr. Barr had recommended as alternative to the present policy, be cause it held that those recommendations were incompatible with the declared intention to reduce the number of rickshaws in the streets, Mr. Barr didn't press his questions and the sense of the house seemed to be with "Mr. Arnhold, though, undoubtedly, Mr. Barr haa evoked much sympathy by his direct and emphatic championship of the pullers,
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