Ambulance Plunges Into a Kwangsi River Amoy, March 2.
The annual general meeting of the ratepayers of Kulangsu was held in the Board Room of the Municipal Council on January 28.
'Mr. Takeshi Tsukamoto, Consul for Japan, in virtue of his' position as senior consul was in the chair.
The annual report was submitted by the chairman of the Council, the Rev. William Short, who commented on the excellent spirit of co-opera tion manifested "both within. who Council and among the community at large throughout the year, resulting' in many improvements being effected. The following were the chiot improvements which had been carried out during 1084:—
'The erection and completion of a new conerete jelly at Ling Tow running out fo deep water, and the extension of the existing jetty to ensure several feet of water' for boats at the lowest tide; the purchase of a fire engine and of fire Aghting equipment and the install tion of fire hydrant pointe through out the Settlement; the provision. of public market" with the con= sequent removal of "all sellers of meat, fish, and. vegetables from th streets, and the abolition of the street market; the erection of a new electric. power station by' the com. pany folding the franchise, with Installation of new machinery and equipment; the change over' from direct to alternating current and the Fenovation and re-organization of the transmission and. distributing systems: the installation of @ drain Gushing and street washing pipe aystem throughout the most crowd-areas, with provision for extension when funds permit; "the establishment of an eMicient garbage collection service and the immediate removal of garbage from Settlement mits; the commencement of a ger eral tree planting programme: the speedy erection of concrete buildings {nthe place of the buildings, large-constructed of wood, which were destroyed by fre in 1933.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.