Funds from the Netherlands Boxer Commission Nanking, May 23, The Nanking Municipal Government has completed plans forthe: capital's sewage system. At a recent meeting of the Sino-Netherlands Boxer Fund Commission,—concrete measures were discussed for the appropriation of funds for the comple tion of the proposed project. The Mayor of Nanking, Mr." Ma Chao-chun, accompanied by the director of Public Works, Mr. Sung Hsi-shan, personally inspected the various areas for the proposed sewage plans early this week, Meanwhile, road construction also is being vigorously encouraged by. the new Mayor and Mr. Sung. Mo 'Tseu Road has just been completed, and construction on new roads the fourth residential district, as well as Shanghai, Canton, and' the Pearl River Roads, will be commenced shortly Reuter. less than eighteen public school buildings in Canton city are 50 dilapidated that it will not pay to make extensive repairs. On the. recommendation of the Department} of Public Works they are to" be vacated at once, and classes will be Jet out until quarters are secured where the lives of the pupils will not be in constant danger. Fifty-four public school buildings must bbe renovated to make them perfectly safe, but the students can go on with their work nevertheless, Mor over there are seven buildings rented by the Department of Education which are to be abandoned as dangerous structures. takes a fatal disaster to arouse dormant officials from their lethargy. The mezzanine floor of the Capitol Theatre toppled to the ground, the hospitals were filled with the dead and dying, and out of it came a ity-wide inspection by the Board of Public Works of every theatre, cinema, and other places of amuse: ment. Number 36 Branch School was partly demolished Friday morning when a party wall rumbled, and two small boys reading in the. school. library were crushed to death. This has given
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