The Archive · 1924

Chinese Officials Consulting

Her on Principal Needs Dame Adelaide Anderson, formerly Chief Lady Inspector of Factories in Great Britain, who has been making Shanghai her headquarters during her visit to China, left Monday for Wuchang where she will investigate industrial "conditions. After this Dame Adelaide will go Kuling where she will spend. the summer, returning to Shanghai in the autumn and leaving for Japan in. November.

Although her. stay in China has been comparatively brief, "Dame Adelaide having arrived in Shanghai from Hongkong last. December, she has been able to sce much of: tion of the National Christian Council and being invited to sit with the Child Labour Commission of the Municipal Council, Dame Adelaide's: role has been dual, to place her experience in Great Britain at the service of these bodies and, as an interested individual, to study for herself the existing conditions of factory Inbour.

That other organizations have taken the initiative in securing the benefits of Dame Adelaide's life long. specialization on these lines is shown, by the fact that during her recent visit to Peking, Dr. W. W. Yen, the Minister of Agriculture and Gommerce interviewed her at his private residence, with the Vice-Minister, Dr. Hawling Yen, and the Chief of the Labour Department of the istry, Mr. Sun Chi-yi was also present.

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