Minutes of a meeting of the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce held at the offices of the Chamber, No. 4, Feking Road,
Chair), A. Wright, Bevis, W.
Present tt (in the Drosemeier, C. J. Dudgeon, J. 8. Fearon, R. Inglis, W.D. Little, and the Secretary.
'The minutes of last' meeting were read and confirmed.
The Chairman remarked that of late there had been very little strictly Committee work to be done, although there has been, as usual, a good deal going on in arbitrations. At the same time there was, of course, important work being now transacted in which the commercial community of Shanghai was weeply interested, but in which, however, the Chamber could take no active part. The improvement of the Whangpoo River, at which ther had been working for so many years, has now been taken out of their hands. "The new Tariff on Imports under Article 6, and the amendments to the Treaties of Commerce and Navigation, and other subjects touching commercial relations under Article 11 of the Peace Protocol of September last, had also been taken up by special commis sions appointed by their various Governments; and although the Committee of i the Chamber was not unrepresented on these commissions, and whilst many members of the Chamber had already done a great deal of most useful work in settling the temporary Tariff on Imports under j Which we are now-working, the Chamber jas.an International Chamber could not directly participate "or assist in these matters: Hor the ensuing twelve months, which had Bank Holidays:—A list of Bank Holidays been prepared by the Foreign Bankers, was
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