Annual General Meeting: Tran-i sit Dues Question The: annual general "meeting of the: Foreign Silk Association of Shanghai took place at the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce on, July 16 and was very well attended.
Mr. F. L, Ball, the president of the Association, made the following speech to those present:—
Gentlemen,—The report and accounts for 1928-29 have been in your hands for some time past and I 'Propose with your permission to take read. However, before yessing to their adoption, I should! }ike: to touch upon several matters! which have exercised the attention' season. sine of your Committee during the past
The. published correspondence will enable you to realize the closeness ud: cordiality of the relations this Adsociation "has maintained with Vindsed bodies both in China and abroad, and Iam sure you will ape Ppeciate. the benefits which accrue fiom auch cooperation. The letters from the Union des Afarchands de Sole de Lyon ave of particular interest, and I'would ask members to give: their earnest support to. the several suggestions which that {institution has kindly made for the (bettering of working conditions Yetween' the two markets.
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