The Archive · 1937

Petition for Extra Playing Fields

'A petition for the increase in playing Held facilities and for the construction of a gymnasium at the Public School for Junior Boys, 10 Tifeng Road, has been made to the Shanghai Municipal Council by a large number of foreign residents in the Western District.

Signed by Mr. H. Wyalt and 161 other residents, representing 150 families, the petition sets forth the ineresse in the number of pupils at the school and the lack of proper facilities for sports. The suggestion is made that it might be possible to move huts and quarters adjacent to the school, now used by the British forces, and that this space be ullized for extra playing fields.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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