To the Editor of the "Norru-Cinya Dany News"
Sm—Your correspondent in Kweiyang may console himself that it is not only in the city from where he hi writes that the sideways are being utilized by load-carriers. In Shang hai also this abuse is rampant. Tt is common sight in everyday life in this elty—the greatest in China, and sixth in the world—that Jead-carriers, in singles and pairs, make use of the footpaths of the Settlement in con-{travention of S.MRC.'s regulations, not fonly as thoroughfares but also as resting places, not to speak of the hordes of hawicers who seem to dom-mate the sideways by right, thus blocking the way to pedestrians, and one to say to them nay, or other= wise direct them, In Vu Yuen Road, where buses stop, have very often witnessed rickshaw vehicles on the footpaths soliciting for fares with scarcely ever a P.C. on the [scene to stop them.
A word, by the way, to the Shanghai Health Department, 1 hope may not be out of place here, Between JJessfield and Bubbling Well Roads: across Vu Yuen Road, at the back of] the Paramount, there is a stinking Jereek which is' not only an eye-sore! Dut also detrimental to public health. [Would not the Health. Department, Jwhich is doing so much to. preserve land promote the health of the Settlement, divert its attention to this creek jand have it reclaimed if possible? [The same could be said of the creek bordering the Race Course, facing [Bubbling Well Toad.
Trusting it is not beneath the dignity of the powers that be to take
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