1914—1018."
Here follow the names, the rank, the regiment, the manner the place and the date of the passing out of 2¢ members ug round It is x pleasing, a a sensible thing to have placed here 'a full record of the members, what they were, and where they died.
What a'pity the Shanghai Club couldn't have done the same thing instead of merely enumerating the names of its members, and nought beside? one commemorating the names of 168 members of the Club who left the Colony on Active Service, There is one other statue of a famous man to be mentioned—that of Sir Thomas Jackson, the great manager of the Hongkong Bank, and it faces the head office here.
It is a figure of much power and dignity and must prove a pro!
ional inspiration to young office the bank coming out who have \de themselves acquainted with is banking career and the troublous times through which the great bank-
So in Statue Square do we see an epitome of Hongkong—Royalty and. those who represent them, Com-/moners grown affluent who. present~ ing effigies of Royalty to the city, secure perpetuity on the pedestals thereof; the oil of Commerce represented by a Thomas Jackson, the spirit and splendour of Youth by the names of those 24 dead banking men.
For Panjandrums of Propinauity, seeking perpetuity by pede 'a mew tone was set when the Prince of Wales visited the Colony 'a year or two ago. Being asked if would graciously accord hi local record holder, "Our Young Man" was graciously pleased to reply that the money could be much better spent in providing - faciit
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