Paper Read Before Engineering Society At the meeting of the Engineering Society of China, held in the Hau of the Royal Asiatic Society on Tuesday, a paper was yead on the subject of "Cotton Spinning in China," by Mr. Samuel Ward.
Mr. Ward emphasized the comparative backwardness of China in this important industry, pointing to the fact that although this country has 25 per cent. of the popuiation of the world it has only one per cent. of its spinning spindles. He also drew attention to several interesting features which characterized the development of cotton spinning in England and America and pointed out how the efficiency of spinning mills in China might be raised and the production increased, but that it was obligatory for mill owners to introduce into their mills every possible contrivance known to relieve operators of certain essential duties now left to their discretion with unsatisfactory results. Ju other words, that the work of Re operator should, as far as possible, be confined to those duties for which no mechanical device has yet been invented.
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