The death is announced of Mr. William Duthie, "the Southern King," of Collynie, Aberdeenshire.
1919 Mr. Duthie had the remarkable average of £1,400, 88, 9d. for 24 bull calves, with a top price of £5,565. No cattle sale held anywhere ever approached Collynie for the remarkable series of record prices secured at the annual draft sales in October. These drafts were always of calves, and the prices, therefore, gain immense importance. Mr, Duthie was a leader of men. His bearing had a note of distinctive individuality, and his massive, erect head impressed one with a sense of natural endowments. "I have never seen a man with a physical and mental vigour to compare with his for his years," wrote an American visitor two years ago. ''He could easily deceive a stranger as to his age by at least 20 yours. Yes, the -Aberdeenshire climate breeds strong men as well as cattle."
CHINESE WOMAN WELFARD WORKER, industrialism is spreading so fast in China that the Chinese National Y.W.C.A. has granted a scholarship.to the London School of Kconomics to Miss Shin lak-hing of Hongkong, that she may train in England as the first Chinese woman welfare worker. Miss Shin hag just come to London, and has at once settled down to hard studies at the School of Economics. She tells me (writes "H.W.P." in the Glasgow Herald.") that it was while she wag secretary to the Y.W.C.A. in Hongkong, a post she took up after being a school mistress for some time, that she first came face to face with soma of China's appalling factory conditions. The girls used to come and tell me about the long hours, the endless round without a day of rest, the lack of sanitation, and the unprotected machinery. Then two years ago Miss Agatha Harrison was invited out from London to give the Y.W.C.A. information about industrial matters, and with her I got experience of welfare work at Shanghai. On my return to China we shall set-up a training school there for women welfare workers." Miss Shin is hoping to see a good deal of practical welfare work in this country, such as that at Bourne-ville, and she will also visit model "plants" in Canada and America on her way homo She formed a close
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