The annual meeting of the Public School Football Club was held on Wednesday in the Cathedral School for Boys, the President of the Club, Mr. M. Billings, presiding at the meeting.
In_reviewing the activities of the Club during the previous season, the President congratulated the School on winning the Skottowe Cup as well as on their record of 15 games won out of 18 played.
In view of the fact that considerably more playing members of the Club will be available this year than last, it was decided that the School should enter in both the Senior and Junior Divisions of the Shanghai Football League.
The officers elected to serve for the coming season were Senior:—Messrs. P. Madar (Captain), J. Johansson (Vice-Captain), M. Moosa (Secretary). Junjors:—Messrs. J. Pringle (Captain), ©. N. Brown (Vice-captain), and S. Moosa (Secretary).
In addition, Messrs. D. Drake and T. Madar were appointed to assist on the Selection Committees, It was decided at the meeting that no distinction should be drawn between '"Playing Members" and "Non-playing Members" but that all Old Boys should be eligible for membership of the Club, the annual dues being fixed at $3 for the coming season.
More than 30 playing members have already expressed their desire to play for the School, and arrangements are being made for a suitable ground to be placed at the disposal of the Club.
By the retirement of Captain Taylor, the senior pilot of the Port of Tientsin, the shipping interests lose the services of one of the most successful pilots who has navigated the narrow {waters of the Taku Bar and the Peiho River. Captain Taylor commenced his local career in the service of the Taku Tug & Lighter Ca. and joined _the Pilot Association in 902. His many friends all over the China Coast will wish him and his family the best of health to enjoy a well earned rest in their native land.
"Mercnan'' in a home paper complains that before the war the following were the ordinary cable Mesopotamia 3s. 5d., and to China yates per word: to India 2s., to 8s. 6d.; to-day they are 5s. 7s. 6d. and 93. respectively if "argent" messages are used. Three and a half years have elapsed since the war ended., There is, unfortunately, great slackness of trade. The Government cannot now be maine the cables as they were during war, and yet these "urgent" sates ave demanded for messages where time is the essence of the business.
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