Unique Presentation Made to Retiring P.W.D. Head the' Public Ullites of Shanghai gave honour of ats, Charles Harpur,
a'funeheon at the" Stetropole Hots on Thursday. Mee. D: Pentson, ofthe Shanghat. Waterworks, presided, and Purl health Me." Bearyon "declared proposing the: tons of lif,"
thatthe Publle™ Uullties were better position than almost any one else "in Shanghai to judge the worth of a fellow public servant and that they all knew that Mr, Harpur had put the interests of Shanghai and its citizens before everything else. afternoon when in the presence of "Little Cantonese Mr. Pearsgn pointed out that two Utilities had come into being. since Mr. Harpur arrived" and all "had Grown at a rate not surpassed by any' eily, Such "expansion. meant Interference with Mr, -Harpur's brides and his beloved roads, which had been torn up and sdeseerated, but Mr. Harpur' had always ro: mained, if fust a trifle autocratic at times, ever helpful and courteous, As 3000 years ago, said Mr. Pear-fon, it was customary to present a retiring Counsellor with a lacquered bow and scarlet arrows, so" they now gave Mr. Harpur a presenta tion bow and an arrow—each with Victor Ca, of China, the RELA. Communications, Me, and the National Broadcasting Corporation. He also described the scene in the American Club before calling upon Mayor Wu Te-chen to speak.
Introduced by Mr. C. S. Franklin, resident of the American Chamber of Commerce, Mayor Wu said that the saying "The East and the West will never meet" had long been ex-vided, and if any preterition of truth were still standing in it, t-was shattered by this historic occasion, For the East and the West had not only met but had also spoken to each other on most intimate terms, fand their conversations now spanned the Pacife, rapidly shrinking into 2 pond.
Hons The cordial relations existing between China and America, however, were "nat built on high-sounding phraseology or mero exchange of flattering compliments. On more than one occasion America had demonstrated her friendship for China. and modern China owed much to America for the many technical men educated and trained in that country.
In trade, equally satisfactory cond! tons had prevailed. and the fact that such an organization as the Chinese-'American Trade Council was in ex-{stence showed how happy was the tle that bound the Chinese and Amer-Jean merchants. China had much to Buy, and in return, much to sell Aiter being introduced by Mr. Franklin, "Mr, Tsuyee Pel, acting president of the Chinese-American Trade Council, said. that since the World War, Sino-American trade had grown by leaps and bounds, s0 much so that during the past two years America had achieved the premier position In both China's Import and export trade The presiding hosts at the banquet were Messrs. Cornell S. Franklin and Teuyee Pel, and the official quests ineluded:—
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