At_a meeting yesterday, held for the purpose of discussing the question of a library, Mr. Kan Chiumanaging director of the anyang Brothers Tobacco Ca., announced that, in addition to a gift of $5,000 in cash, he would give 1,500 shares of the Nanyang Tobacco Ca., at present worth about $57,000, to the library. Mr. Chow King-tsung followed Mr. Kan with the announcement that he would also give a present of $5,000. A third announcement was that the Commercial Press, Ld., had consented to donate a large quantity of books to the library as soon as it was opened.
With this excellent beginning, and with everything else in its ki favour. it seems quite likely that' the total amount will-be raised in full within a comparatively short time.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.