The retirement of still another old Shanghai resident has to be recorded, Mr. Tom Wallace, after 43 years of continuous service with the Water-decided to retire into private life. At the company's offices last Friday, Mr. Wallace was Presented by the stof with a massive silver cigar-box and afterwards was entertained to tif in by the senior members of the staff, when the Chairman of the company, Mr. A. W. Burkill, handed him a silver cigarette-box' as a token of the directors' appreciation of work from 1883 until to-day.
Mr. Wallace, by reason of his genial nature,' was very popular} with every member of the waterworks' staff, and, indeed, -"with everyone with whom he came contact, but there was a side of more familiar to the older residents. For a long period the names of Tom Wallace were something with which to conjure on sports fields. He was
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