Mr. H. Berents has accepted the invitation of the Shanghai Municipal Council to serve for a further period its appointee on the Land Commission, during the municipal year 1938-34.
'The Land Commission consists of ree foreign members, one of whom ig appointed by the Council, another clooted.at the ratepayers' meeting, Jand the third at the annual elec: tion, at' the same time as the councillors in the event of there being 'a poll, the electors in this case being the registered owners of land in the Settlement.
'At the last ratepayers' meeting, a resolution Was passed to the effect that the addition of two Chinese members to the Land Commission was desirable, and the Council was structed tomake representations the powers concerned, with a jew to securing this change.
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