After a year of record making in social service and other activities amongst women in Shanghai, the British Women's Association, at their first annual meeting on Wednesday, at the Lyceum Theatre, established what must have been very nearly a record in Shanghai for a club meeting, there being at least 400 members present and probably more. Mrs. E. M. Gull presided, supported by Lady Fraser, the officers and members of the general committee.
The meeting opened with the brief formality necessary for an alteration to the articles of association to allow of the general committee being increased from 12 to 18 members, this being considered advisable owing to the large number of sub-committees within the Association, each of which has to include some members of the executive. The proposal was agreed to without question,
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