During the month under review the department completed the recon= struction with water bound macadam Keswick Road between Great Western Road and Amherst Avenue. 20.592 square. feet being: metalled and tar-Surfaced; Amherst Avenue East of Keswick Road, 20240 square fect metalled and tar-surfaced: Frases Road south of Jernigan Road, 26400 square feet metalled and tar-surfaced, The site on Tieng Road. it was reported. has been prepared for the use of the Public and Thomas Hanbury School for Girls. The parti-Nous to the existing buildings have been erected and the foundations for the covered ways have been laid, The electrical installation has been 50 per cent, completed and piping for the sanliary installation has been installed. The" manual. training hut forthe Western District Public 'School has been removed to itt new site and the playground extension has been filled and turfing is being laid. "The framework for' the new Dieyele shed has been erected and the roof covering, Is now being applied.
Municipal Parks At Jessfield Park work on the consiruetion of a rubble wall a the rearrangement of "the barb wire fence on. the Brenan Road frontage to the children's garden began and the laying of red brick around flower. beds was Started. "At Hongkew. Wayside and Kiaochow Parks renovation of lawn areas was completed prior to the commencement of summer sports, on May 15.
Sale of season tickets of the 1941- 1042 series began on May 24
During the month 60 permits covering the free entry of 6.230 children to parks were issued. Visitors to. Municipal parks during the month totalled 275974 with the advent of warmer weather, Strikers Arrested June 13.
Three- strikers of the Shanghat Waterworks and Putings Ca. were arrested by "a. police patly from SSinea station, headed by Inspector Mason, at about 7.15 a.m yesterday when some eighty" striking fiters congregated outside the S.W.W. premises in Sinza Road and attempt: fed to intimidate the non-striking em-Dloyees into Joining' the movement.
call was. put through to the siation and the police parts. dispersed the crowd and arrested the instigators. new strike was added to the fairy tong list of disputes. yesterday morning when 27 teachers of the Shanghai "Middle 'Schosl of the Shanghai Girls' College at 481. Taku Road refused to do their work. "The teachers, it is said, have made demands for additional high cost of living allowance until the end of the term. The strike was declared at 845 am. and a police party from!
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