SIR, I am at a loss to understand why the rule boards at the Public Garden should have been repainted some time ago. They seem to be quite useless anyhow, and nobody is there to enforce them. Could they not be removed altogether?

No Chinese shall be admitted."This rule seems to exist for all but for the missionaries. They very often bring their native friends along with them, women as a rule, who are no amahs in attendance of foreign children. They occupy the chairs during the time the band is playing and when chairs are scarce. During last year they used to come at least twice a week. No dogs allowed in the Public Garden.Yesterday I counted, during the 5 o'clock concert: 1. A small girl with a terrier pup. 2. A man with a pointer dog. 3. Three sailors with a setter. 4. An old lady with a terrier. 5. A lady with a young terrier. 6. Two ladies with a Japanese dog.

Many things have changed and have been altered during the last year in Shanghai. Perhaps the above rules are also to be done away with quietly. If so I shall be pleased to take three dogs to the concerts also, and then, you >shall see some fun.

I am, etc.,
"DOG OWNER"
Shanghai, May 24.

To the Editor of the
"North-China Daily News."

SIR, "Dog Owner" notes the presence of Chinese ladies in the Public Garden, brought thither by their missionary friends. He calls public attention to the non-enforcement of the by-law which proclaims that no Chinese (ladies or gentlemen) shall be admitted to the Public Garden. So long as certain Chinese, in the shape of amahs, and other less desirable Asiatics and occasional non-descripts are permitted freely to throng our Public Gardens and parks, any invidious allusion to the foregoing by-law in both indiscreet and unnecessary. It is a matter for the quiet attention of those whose duty it it to see the Municipal by-laws enforced.

"Dog Owner" would have done well to confine himself to dogs only. I am, etc., "CONSIDERATE" Shanghai, May 24