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SHANGHAT'S MOTOR

SHOW.

A Qualified Success.

One thing which must bars struck visitors to the Motor Show, which has just ended (at Shanghai) was the undoubted excellence of the exhibits brought together in such profusion and the manner in which they were arranged, writes the N. C. Daily Now, The way in which the Committes had provided for the comfact of the large number which visited the huge matshed in Verdun Gardens undoubtedly merits a considerable amount of praise and when it is said that the development of the original scheme deserved

very much greater support than the exhibi- tion obtained, the highest com- mendation has been given to those energetic gentlemen who have worked 30 hard. Rut the exhibition so far as immediate i results go has not been an over- whelming success. It failed in the first place to appeal to that large section of the populace of Shanghai from which it was hoped to secure vtilers for care in proportion to their numbers-the Chineso. As far as the foreigners were concerned the exhibition was a positive triumph. There is, so far as can at preson:

be seen, a number of reasons for the manifest failure of the exhibition to appeal to Chinese. The first seems to be the failure to oblain that co-operation with the leading Chinese bedies which would have placed. behind the originators of the show a parti- cularly influential support. Then there is the season of the year in which it was held, which in times of depression such as these is an exceedingly important factor, and lastly the site selected, so far from the usual haunts of the majority oi the Chinese in Shanghai.

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If it had done nothing bif in- dicats the pitfalls attendant upon such ventures in the fature, it would probabis to well worth the money spent on it.

SHANGHAI HARBOUR

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The preambla of the report points out the importance of the commercial Shanghai as gateway of Central China, with a population of over 40 million people in the della of the Yangtze directly dependent upon it.

It states that in ao other part of the worlddoes a population of the volume and density of that of the

watershed of the Yangtze depend

The Question of Finance. The Shanghai Harbonz Com- portance as they have been mission deserse congratulations for its commercial intercourse placed in sequence. V here, as in on the admirable clariss and com- upon one main river and one dis- It records the in- the case of the motor trade, the prebensiveness of their report. Ittributing port greater part of the future busines-tells us what ought to be dane crease in the gross trade of the of the garages must be sought in for the approaches to Shanghai Port of Shangbai which in 1920 reached a value of Hk. Tls. Chinese circles, the a-si-tance ofjand for its harbour, the where such bodies 25 the Chinese fore and the cost The latter, $40,000,000, not including tran- General Chamber of Commerce is estimated at Tix 10,750,000 for shipments declared for other porta and increased during the period absolutely imperative, so also is immediate requirements is cer the aid of the Chinese press, tally not more than would be 1900-1913 at the rate of Hk. Tis. which needs to be sedulously anticipated generally. There is a 20,000,000 per annum. cultivated when schemes such lucid calculation as to how it 3.3 this are On foot. And may be met and an emphatic this could be more reads expression of opinion, which obtained through the assistance everyone must fully share, that of an influential Chinese com- the optlag will abundantly repay mitter than by any other means itsell

In this connection the report states that it is certainly very conservative to estimate that the increase in bulk of cargo and tonnage entered in 10 years will be at least 33 per cent. Thereafter the increase is likely to be still greater. It has been possible hitherto to accommodate the trade offer ng itself, but the growth during recent time in the size and draft of ocean steamer brought about by the need for cheaper transport now makes it incumbent on Shanghai to pro- vide in progressive measure for larger vessels as well as for ex- panding trade. Therefore it is necessary for the facilities of the port to keep pace with the re- quirements of modern transporta- tion.

A NEW BOARD WANTED,

Mention is made of the work of

the Whangpoo Conservancy Board in effecting great improve- ments within the limitation of their powers but it is also pointed out that no time'sbould now be lost in creating a new Board con- stituted to perform larger duties

which readily commends itself. special stress may be laid upon Then as to the season of the the recommendation that 20 year: November is too near the time should now be lost in creat time of the annual business set-ing a new Board constitated to tlements, time when Chinese perform larger duties or in giving are naturally keeping their to the existing Board (of the money in A more liquid form Whangyoo Conservancy) such than motor cars to meet powers. Even it there were no the demands likely to be pressing need of enlarging the made upon them. The spring. present barbour dingensions and afer the annual reckoning has improving access to them, the been effected, and Chinese existing mathed of control over know just about what money Huangpu and beyond is anoms- they are likely to have to spare lous, crying for reform. We have for luxuries, seams & more appro- the Customs exercising one kind of priate time. And as for the site, guardianship and the Whangpoo any spot nearer the centre of the Conservancy another: there is a city would seem to have been Board of some kind in Paoshan, The fourth article of the pre- more suitable.

another in Nantung and another.amble voices the need of collec- These are not criticisms so we think, in Pootang. There are tive effort in the development of ruuch as a record of mistakes, all sorts of riparian rights more the port. Up to now the accom- perfectly understandable, whicb or less on their own." And modation has been provided by can only be discovered and there is the Soochow creek as individual enterprise on the part mended as the result of initial another bat vary important part of the merchants. experiment. For this is not the of Shanghai barbourage schemes. Tast trade exhibition which where, again, nobody seems to Shanghai will ser. With a tetter-have power to do anything, at rent of businese, competition will least nothing is done, to redeem be all the keeper and trade exhibi- its scandalous state. What we tions seem the best way of obtain- | want is one comprehensive Port ing that degree of publicity which of Shanghai Authority like that means so much to trade. We existing on the Thames. have only to look back on such This brings us to the question, or in giving to the existing Board sonual affairs as the Foire de bow are the Commission's re-sach powers. Among the im- Lyon, the trade expositions in commendations to be carried prorements which are essential various centres on the Con-into effect. To some extent it are those of making the navigable tinent, the annual motor shows, I might be argued that the various channels to conform to the re- in Paris and London, to realize Governments represented on the quirements of modern vessels, of that the good which has accrued Commission are implicitly pledg providing for additional sad from them in previous years led to its findings by their biving deeper wharf frontage, more justifies their continuance as a consented to appoint members. godowns for the storing of goods. means of forstering trade, and But this assumption will not more effective means for the that, if Shanghai is to maintain carry us very far. The Commis-handling and transhipment of that supremacy in commerce sion was appointed because the cargo, and the extension of the permit of which she bus established for Whangpoo Conservancy Board, harbour limits to

control, herself, the trade exhibition must looking ahead to the certain adequate

Various be one of the devices adopted. needs of the future, desired the alternative schemes, all of which Bet the problem presented in the greatest independent advice and were considered by the Harbour case of this part is somewhat support in what it might be Commission, are also mentioned. different from that encountered fo and best to propose. With the so that it is believed that no on the Continent. The means of issue of the Commission's re- serious proposal has been over- communication between Shang-port. one stage is very satisfac-looked. bai and the bugs country within torily reached in the journey It is stated that the investiga- whose boundaries it is, is by, no towards the desired and, but now Itions made show that it is pos mescs the least difficulty. But it is the duty of the local chambers sible to overcome all the deficien- if firms here find benefit to be of commerce of the differesins-ciosunder which Shanghai now derived from small showrooms tionalities to take up the ques-labours at a cost not incommen- attached to their offices, visited tion actively with their Homesurate with the benefits 10, be only by people who have in their Government. The future must obtained. binds the desire to buy a parti-not be allowed to lament the calar object, and doing nothing inertia, of to-day as we so often in the way of creating a demand, bave reason to bewail, the short- how much more effective would sightedness of our predecessors. be an annual trade exhibition OUTLINE OF THE PROPOSALS.. which, by reason of its very. It is understood that Shanghai existence, would draw crowds Harbour will repizia as it is, that amongst whom demand might be the approaches will be deepened, created. It is for this reason and that there will be no attempt. that we regard the Motor Show to cut channel to Hangshow assinost important experiment, Bay

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