ug of the above Society was held on Tuesday afternoon at the residence of Mr. W. D, Little, 11, Hankow Road. There wore prosont:—Messre. W. D, Little (in the chair), Cooil Holliday, W. V. Drummond, W. Scharff, J. W. Gande, F. A. do Sto. Croix, and 0. H. Godfrey.
The Chairman said that the Society was started in 1899 and had, with the energetic assistance of Mr. Rocher, Commissioner of Customs in Shanghai at that time, boon the toons of inducing the authorities to prohibit the export of pheasant skins, The Society had also dono good work in impressing upon the Municipal Council the import-"ance, from 1s food supply point of view, of regulating the sale of game in the Municipal Markets, and establishing close season as was concorned. At present there soamed no question of protection for the Society to work on, but there was a balance in hand which he suggested should be handed to the Shanghai Gun Club. The Obairman of the Shanghai Gun Club had offered to take charge of the money and to deposit same in a local Bank where it might earn interest and thus form a fund available at any time to reconstruct the Society, or to work on the lines of the Society should occasion require.
Mr. C, Holliday said this would take the funds out of the hands of a private individual and put them in the hands of a concern which might continue from ion to generation, and which could either at some future time, if necessary, revive the Society, or take icans itself
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