The annual meeting of the St. David's Society, Shanghai, was held in the Union Church Lecture Hall on Tuesday, Dr. Hopkyn Rees presiding. The President's speech followed the lines of the report of the committee, and he said that the Society had its first informal meeting in January, 1913. Some twenty Welsh speaking ladies and gentlemen were present, when the desirability of forming a Society. the holding of a ions service (in Welsh) on Sunday March 1 (St. David's Day), and a social gathering to which all Welsh folk were to be invited on March 9, were considered and adopted.
These plans matured, and snccessful meetings were held, and it was hoped that with an increased number of members, and the co-opera tion of all, that the Society would become an active part of the [fe of the community, and greatly increase its sphere of usefulness.
An appeal was made for sub-1508457050 scriptions to the Prince of Wales's Fund for the relief of the distress caused at home through the war. and an extremely satisfactory response was made in this dircetion.
No subscriptions were collecter during 1914, the small expenses having been met by donations feom a few friends of the Society. This year it was honed that all _members and intending members woul? subscribe not less than 83. Tt wns hoped by this to form the nudens of a relief fund for Welsh people in distress in Shanghai. On case of distress had recently come to the notice of the committee, and had been assisted.
The report was adopted, and the election of officers resulted as follows:—President, Dr. W. Hovkyu Rees; Vice-President, Mr. W.
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