To the Editor of the "Norta-Cuina Dairy News."
Sirn—A Supplement to the Gazette published on March 30 last is said to contain the names of 5,604 men and women who have received promotion in or appointment to the O.B.E. (Civil Division) "for services connected with the War? in many different fields of labour. The task of selection must have been a difficult one especially in those cases which it has not, apparently, been found possible to describe services rendered except in such general terms as "Work at canteen" or "Red Cross Work"; t, satisfactory to see this recognition of civilian effort and we need not grudge anybody his or her place the sun.
What I, however, cannot under. stand is why a list, which properly takes note of the services of the honorary head Coast Watcher, Kildalton Estate, Port Ellen, Islay, and of the lady who is or was personal clerk to the Prime Minister, should omit all reference to anyone connected with our Shanghar B.W.W.A., our War Savings Association, our Special Constabulary or to those men and women through whose untiring individual energy such large sums were raised for aeroplanes and fly traps, for the Red Cross and the Blue, for Blind Soldiers and"the Orphans of Seamen, and for many another good cause.
Our workers, as we know, had no thought of reward and make no complaint that reward has not been granted: but, all the same, it does not seem to me to be quite fair, and I should like to know how they have merited such exceptional treatment.
Tam, ete., Shanghai, May 19.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.