After inspecting the sea-wall and being entertained to tiffin, a@ most interesting meeting and ceremony took place' at the Confucian Temple. Mr.' Shen Chu-hsu, manager of the Bank of Communications, Shanghai, was voted to the chair and expressed his gratitude to all who had made this work possible and. especially to the Shanghai Chinese-Foreign Famine Relief Committee for their large interest in andi contribution to the sea-wall. It would take too long to, recount the proceedings in detail although it was a meeting that, if held in Shanghai, would have been reported. The Chinhai Sea-Wall Association presented! their reports, financial and otherwise, showing in full the present state of affairs. On behalf of the Shanghai Chinese-Foreign Famine Relief Committee, Messrs. Wong I-ting and W. E. Souter congratulated the Ningpo Committees and the Chinhai Association on the splendid bit. of work they had put through. Mr. Souter further traced) the development of the Shanghai Chinese-Foreign Famine Relief Committee's operations along famine Prevention lines, nointing out that work of this kind is the natural outcome of an efficient fa-mino relief committee and that the $86.000 grant of this sea-wall prevention work gave the necessary impetus to this effort.
Mr. F. W. Carey, of the Ningpo Chinese-Foreign Famine Relief Committee, was greatly praise ed as was Taoyin Wong of Ningpo, for their well organized Committee at Ningpo and for the help they have given to the Chekiang people not only in the sea-wall project, but in many needy areas of Eastern Chekiang. 5 Mr. Carey made a fitting reply and said that he was only too pleased to help forward work of such vital importance, particularly when the people showed such rearliness to ce-operate.
The other speakers included Messrs. Yuan -Li-tung. Chen Liang-yn, Wu Yi-ling, Ho Yenping; and congratulary addresses were read from the Military and Civil Governors of Chekiang, Taoyin Wong, and Garrison Commander General Wong of Ningpo, and the District Magistrate of Altogether one was left with a vivid impression of how well the Chinhai and Ningpo people entertain; but it was a historic occasion and the work on this wonderful sea-wall. fully warranted the notable ceremony held on Sunday. In spite of his desire to keep in the background in. the Sunday ceremonies, Mr. Fu Siao-en was really'much in evidence indeed it could not be otherwise for his record of good works extends far and wide, and not least im Chinhai—his native place—and in the surrounding districts.
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