will have been noted, perhaps, that the City Government of Shang-hal, in tackling the rickshaw problem in no doubt of the right course to adopt, judging from the recommendatlons'of the Bureau of Social Affairs. Hin addition to the Ucensing of pullers fond the initiation of various schemes for their welfare the Bureau definitely proposes that the City Government should take over the rick~ shaw service as a municipally-owned, and controlled public utility. The Bureau evidently is under no iilusione regarding the competence of the, Flekehaw owners to provide for the welfare of the pullers and it is {firmly determined to take the prob-em out of their hands. The Shang-fai Municipal Council is obviously in different position but it may at east take note of the proposals as a valuable pointer to possibilities should "the recalcitrance of the! owners continue to obstruct reform. The advantages of the Bureau's Jscheme seem to lie in its superior feMcacy in maintaining what should be the chief objective of all three municipal bodies here—the eventual fand of too distant elimination of the rickshaw altogether.
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