It was duly noted at the Committee meeting that the original purpose of the Council in charging for entry to the parks was not the raising of revenue but to prevent such misuses of the park. It was evident, however, that that the present charge at Jessfield Park was too small for the purpose intended and it was submitted that the proposed new charge was only equal to the cost of 15 daily admission tickets and that it was well within the means of middle-class Chinese, who were the main users of the park. This was shown by the following figures of the sale of daily tickets during the the face of the present greatly overcrowded conditions.
During the Committee's discussion there was some difference of opinion as to the value of an increased charge as it might tend to diminish the number of visitors, but the view was expressed that persons for whom a charge of $3 was too much could still, for $1 a season, use the Kiaochow Park, which had recently been purchased and laid out by the Council at the cost of $1,000,000, and the Bund Gardens,
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