Among the New Year resolutions which might be adopted by the Municipal authorities should include one referring to the disposition of barbed wire barricades scattered throughout the Central district and especially along the Bund. Placed end to end, they clutter up the pavement and make walking extremely difficult to say nothing of tearing one's clothes, It is understood that they are still be retained Owing to possible emergencies whereby once again they will be brought into use, but" it seems a simple matter to dispose of them in more efficient manner. In some parts of the French Concession, these barricades have been stacked on gnd instead of lengthwise and they preserve a/decent margin of passage for the pedestrian, gnd also they can easily be placed in position if the conditions of a threat to internal security warrant their use, Another resolution applies to the firewood seller stream over from Pootung with their and dispose of them by converting street Corners into temporary markets. Nobody wants to interfere with this method of supplying firewood to Chinese who are no longer in possession of their usual methods of distribution, but surely something could be done in the way of allocating a space on the Bund where a market could be established. A good example has been set by the French authorities who permit a vacant space near Poste Mallet to be used for charcoal and other supplies, thereby concentrating the business in a central spot without allowing itinerant vendors to obstruct normal pedestrian traffic, These are points worthy of consideration.
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