Secretary of the China Association By 0, M, Grex London, Dee. 3.
All members of the China Associa~ tion will hear with genuine regret that Mr, H.C, Wilcox, the Associa tion's Secretary for over 30 years, is reliving at the end of this year. Only those who have worked closely with him in the more intimate duties of ithe Association can speak adequately of hig sterling services. But every-Jone who has attended either " ban~ quot of the "CA." or one of its summer conversaziones, and has noticed the flawless perfection of their arrangement hag had personal experience of Mr, Wileox's masterly management and eye for detail.
Mr. Wilcox was born in Hongkong, where his father was in business, feame home to school in the normal way, returned to a post in the colony with Messrs Jardine Matheson, stay~ fed with them six years, then look up his father's business, but in 1905 came Home and on November 10 fof that year joined the China Asso-elation, with which he has remain-fed ever since.
Tu these years Mr. Wilcox has served under ten different presidents and 14 chairmen, "The first president he knew was Mr. R. S. Gundry, whose name is sli well. remembered as a. former editor, of the" "North-China Daily News." At that time Mr. W. Keswick, MP, was chairman, Looking "down. the two lists, one finds many names both as chairman and. president (some went on from tone office to fil the other) well Known in China—Mr. J.-H, Scott, Sir Charles Dudgeon, Mr. ' George Jamieson, Mr. P. Anderson, Mr.
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