To the Editor of the "Mӧbrh-Chrmn Dany News"
Sik—May 1 suggest that the present "rotten" system of selling rice to the poorer class of Chinese be abolished and some more satisfactory means of disposing of it be introduced.
To see hundreds of old men, women and children herded up on the footpaths, killing the business of other shops in the vicinity of rice shops, and wasting the time of policemen in keeping them in order, is simply a farce, and bally nuisance to pedestrians who have to use the roadway instead of footpath.
Why not have the rice made up in packages of 1, 2, or 3 1b., and'weighed düt beforehand in the presence of. a police or other official, and then hand-to the purchasers against presentation of his or her purchase ticket. "Here's hoping something will be done for the poor unfortunates who "are compelled to stand in the rain for hours at a stretch for their rice.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.