To the Editor of the "NomrH-CHINA Dany NEW:
Sm,—Being neither a municipal employer, nor a banker, nor one who ces to spend more than he earns, I not possess a motor car. My income, however, does free me from the hardship of having to use the behemoths which are now cluttering up our streets,—how I would like to tell you something about those too!
Tt follows, therefore, that I avail myself of a private rickshaw and in my comings and goings have to make use of such thoroughfares as Avenue Edward VII and Vu Ya-ching Road. In both those thoroughfares the surface in the centre, used by the motor traffic including the buses, is maintained in comparatively good condition,.but the sides to which hand trucks, rickshaws and slow moving vehicles are relegated are full of potholes, bad surfaces and every possible irregularity tending to the discomfort of the people using them. I pay my taxes, and my licence fee for my rickshaw and contend that I—and people like me—am just as much entitled to consideration as those more favourably placed. Why is it that the sides of such roads are not maintained as they ought to be? It looks to be very much like a case of Let's help the rich; the poor can look after themselves!
Oxy A Poor MAN.
Shanghai, Mar.
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