Minutes of Committee Meeting held in the offices of the Chamber, 1 Yuenmingyuen Road, on Wednesday, St October, 1908 at 4.39 p.m.
Present: Messrs. W. D. Litile (in the Oh Brodersen, Kinnear, Kortl, ney of China. from the Tientsin Chamber of Commerce advising the dispatch to Pel joint memorial from the Shanghai, Honykong and Tientsin Chambers: addressed to the Doyen of the Diplomatic C i the importance of the making provision without. 3 introduction ofa uniform nationsl ey as stipulated in Clause IT of of Shanghai.
Native Bank Orders.—Letters sev ral mercantile firms are read, bring' to the notice of the Chane undesirable innovation has ree introduced in native back Orders, where by affixing a stamp known as the Wai W chop the orders become payable only after 4p.n on the due date.
It is unanimously agreed that it is in interest of trade generally that the bract complained of be discontinued, awl decided as a preliminary ste and that the following letter Native Bankers' Guild 'The Chairman, Native Bankers' Guild, Shanghai.
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