Aug. 10.
In the days when motor-cars were not, the Shanghai business man was' carried to his office by horse and buggy. On arrival at the office, the turnout was duly sent back to the owner's house with orders to come down again at the time for the luncheon interval.
That roughly was the procedure. The motor-car replaced the buggy: the price of petrol was a consideration which could not be ignored so the motor-car owner, in profiting by the free-and-easiness of Old Shanghai, started to leave his car in the street. He probably did not pretend to describe the performance as "parking." The rapid growth of Sharghal, the ever-increasing strain on its narrow streets, the development of bus services, to say nothing of rickshaws and' trams, made it impossible for the Council as custodian of the Settlement's
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