Coming to China as delegate on the disposal of the Boxer Indemnity, money, Lord Willingdon arrived in Shanghai this week and f: om so] many corners of the earth is our community drawn that certain sections here have more than an ordinary interest in meeting hi Probably the section which above] all would wish to have the opportunity of welcoming his arrival in China is that from Bombay, for there are those here who were in that city during Lord Willingdon's term of office as Governor and who ish to take this occasion to] tening medium may be either liqui (distilled water)" or solid (i ream). What should it be in Scott id: a bottle of whisky or a haggis?' Imagine a launching. under the new conditions, on the Clyde. As the vessel commences slowly to move down the ways, the great crowd, present to pay tribute to the skill and genius of its ial engineers, is blanched with Korror ax a beautiful Indy commits The Crime of smashing a bottle of matured whisky on the ship's bows! Or again, what would be the feeling, and what the effect, of a mature haggis being smashed, dismembered and destroyed against the stem of a virgin battle We do not know, we of tell. And yet again, what of dear, decorous England? Assuming! champagne to be de trap, a very small bottle of cider should logically! be used, but if we are to. take fied of a statement of a very! recent correspondent, nothing but beer, a whole hogshead of it, would be appropriate. We do not know, we cannot tell. Speaking for ourselves, champagne has served so long and so well at these functions that we see no reason why it should not continue. indicate their appreciation of his work there. By these we are told that seldom has there been a more Our Milk Supply popular Governor in Bombay, and we are merdly _p: wish to the authori mention what we have He held the office of Governor Bombay from 1913 to 1919, whereafter he became Governor Madras, and it is a great tribute to his' work that those of the dian Empire, born and educated Bombay and now in Shanghai, should desire an opportunity to offer their felicitations to him upon his coming to China on this important work of the Boxer Indemnity. For those others of us who have come from the West this very fact has its own special significance, for it shows that while we sometimes go far astray in essaying the work of running these immense dominions, we do have the instinct to bring to the front men of great and natural aptitude for getting touch with the aspirations of those who with us constitute the driving power towards an ever better state of things in these realms. Noting this of Lord Willingdon, we may express the hope that his mission to China will be no less fruitful of good feeling than his term of office in Indic In another column we publish a report of Mixed Court proceedings against the Chinese licensee of a dairy in Tongshan Road, who was charged with maintaining his establishment in a filthy condition, and failing to take those precatitions necessary for ensuring the clea ness of the product he was selling. Tt would be difficult to conceive of appalling every source of contamination appears to have been placed in close proximity to the milk which was! itself obtained in dirty circumstances. When it is realized what extreme precautions are taken by properly conducted dairies to ensure the cleanliness and purity of the milk they sell, and the time given consideration of the whole ques-_ tion some years back by the Pure 'Milk Commission, the seriousness of such conduct is' difficult to overestimate. The production of pure milk ina place like Shanghai must always be a matter of difficulty and those concerns, which pay every) attention to this matter, deserve mot only the support of the buying public, but also of the authorities. And it. is hardly reasonable to suppose that this is being done when, for such an offence as the one described, a dairyman is fined the paltry sum of, $85. The sooner People of this calibre are severely. Punished the quicker will. all risk from the milk supply of Shanghai be reduced to a minimum. Cleanli ness is a matter of expense, it is true, but if some dairymen find it cheaper to pay fines they will pro ably continue to do so, to the detriment of our milk supply.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.