The general public may know yer te" oont the, Shanghai Property Owners Association, de ite the fact that its existence i 40 obvious that the wonder is It wad not brought into. being many years ago, and also, what achieves primarily for its members, reacts distinctly to the benefit of almost everyone, either in the Settlement, the' Concession, or Chinese areas. Ample proof of this 4 afforded by a summarized report of its transactions between January B1, and October HI. During this oticd there were fifteen meetings of the sub-committee and general committee, but, on at least. twice that number of occasions, there have been informal meetings of committee members, in connection with various matters of importance.
The more important matters which have engaged the attention of the Association are:—The rent eduction agitation and the attempted collection of rents by the Nationalist authorities, the attempts to dispute foreign: interests cases of foreign firms acting a agents for Chinese beneficial own es of real estate, and the new tariff of water charges in the International Settlement,
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