Of wide experience in the consular service, Mr. C. F, Garstin, who receives the C, B. E., has shown with which he which proved to be one of the episodes leading up to the of 1913, and the question at was the guilt of a man accused of having murdered a candidate for the Premiership. More than a dozen lawyers were employed in the case, and the atmosphere was so electrical that interpreters wrangled over every word. Mr, Garstin's attitude on the bench won admiration from all. During the war he went to France in charge of a company of the Chinese Labour Corps, and on his return "was stationed for some, time in Shanghai. After being Home on leave he succeeded Mr. G. J. Jamieson as Consul, Col, Logan and Mr. N. L. Sparke Tt goes without saying that the i 0. B. E. conferred on Lt.-Col. Mf. H.
Logan and Bfr, N. L. Sparke is in recognition of their - maymnificent work in connection with the billeting, of British troops in Shanghai at the beginning of last year. A very orions problem confronted the British authorities at the time of the arrival of the first detachments, and in order to prevent possible complications it was decided that alt billeting should be done on Briti owned property. The circumstances of the case later necessitated a change in this policy, but through the anxious months of the beginning of 1927 it was a problem which faced the authorities not only to find the ground but the ways and means of erecting the necessary Col, Mf. H. Logan, head of Messrs.
Palmer & Turner, and Mr. N, Sparke, of the Shanghai Land Investment Ca., were men admirably suited for the work of getting this! accommodation, and getting it quiekly. The necessary ground for the erection of camps appeared as if by magic: spaces which wore undreamt of by these unacquainted with the land business came rapidly into the purview of the public, and hutments grew at an enormous rate. Tt was a very fine achievement, and while others lent a willing hand, the great bulk of the work devolved unpen these two men, Col, Logan has had a vast amount of experience in various parts of the world. He served in the South African War, and then came to China as an engineer on the Kovtloon-Canton Railway, After the completion of that railway, he Joined Messrs, Palmer & Turner, and under his auspices some of the most important and largest build-'Shanghai have been erected. the Great War, winning the Military Cross, and Lieut.-Colonel.
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Mr. N. L. Sparke has been in Shanghai since 1905 and has all Sailites Femmes tee diss did pasch sence fu Or Value teers, and was through the war, A. few years ago he succeeded Mr. P. Peebles as manager of the Shanghai Land Investment Ca., and in. this Position he was naturally of the utmost assistance to the British authorities. He is at present on Home leave.
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