Our secretary is leaving the Club and Shanghai within a few days after serving the Club two and a half years. Tam sure the General Committee, the various committees and members appreciate the satis. factory manner in which he landed us In our new home and put the machinery going. Our best wishes go with him.
The Club has been fortunate in securing the services of Mr. Wilson as secretary.
Building Committee:—The build ing committee completed their Iabours and turned over the building to the general committee in August. The equipment for the bowling alley has been ordered and will be installed immediately upon The settlement of the ing contracts was left in the hands of the general committee and the architect.
The work of this committee has been arduous. From July, 1923, to August 1925, a total of 98 meetings practically one a week were held, and due to the untiring efforts of the chairman and his associates your club has been completed Substantially and economically. Additions to the equipment and fur-rushing will be made from time to time as funds are available. To the members of the building and furnishing committee, Mr. F. W. Sutterle, Chairman, Messrs. A. O. Fisher, E. H. Staber, A. Q. Adamson, E. L. McCloskey, T. B. Brown, and W. A. Dunn, we extend our appreciation, and thank them for the very satisfactory manner which they have completed the work entrusted to them.
In conelusion:—I wish to express to the general committee my appreciation for their hearty cooperation during the period I have been acting as President of the club.
The report was adopted and various alterations to by-laws made, A dinner was given in honour of Mr. Manuk of Hongkong at the Kung Tuck Ling Buddhist Vegetarian Restaurant on Thursday, October 8. The four Lodges of the Theosophical Society in Shanghai,—namely, Shanghai Lodge, Dawn Lodge, Blavatsky Lodge and China Lodge, were well-represented, about 30 members being present. The annual Convention of the Theosophi-Society will be held at Adyar, Madras, T. S. Headquarters, December. It will be 50 years since the founding of the Theosophical Society by Mme. H. P. Blavatsky and Col. H. S. Alcott in 1875, and 410 this will be a Jubilee Convention when delegates from the different Section of the T: S. in all parts of the world will meet. It was proposed. seconded and passed unanimously that Mr. Manuk officially represent
at the Convention. the Theosophical Society in China season, for it will be the scene of reaching interest. Among those who have just left to spend the winter Seta als Sea of Gosford, who is accompanying her son, the present Earl, to China, vi coe oe mare a daughter of that famous hostess, beauty and wit, who was both Duchess of Devonshire and Duchess of Manchester and in whose day Devonshire House was a centre of all that was most distinguished in London. Lady Gosford and her sisters, the Countess of Derby, have played a leading part in the social, political and diplomatic world, and her eldest son, the present Earl, after serving Sane tits tice his political mettle by a capital speech in the House of Lords on jeituation in China. Lady Gosford jis keenly interested in literature, jert, and the humanities, and she is looking forward to meeting Gosford's enthusiasm is all the more remarkable.
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