London, June 28.
On July 1 ate, LIG. Simms. wil say good bye to the Union Insurance Society of 'Canton, of which he Nes s0 long been manager, and. will Fetire fo cultivate murphies in his Irish garden and window-boxes in London flat according' to. the season.
will be sincerely. missed Inthe business world of the City of London particularly. among ts' China. folk, while the honorary work that he has done for organizations connected with China will not easily "be covered His once in the Cornhill has always been a happy rallying-point for China people' who must often have been a' confounded nuisance, though Mr. Simms always seemed to have {he happy faculty of gelting hie worke done. without making his visitors feat' ae' trap.
Mr. Simms joined the North China Insurance "Society (in. Inter_years mated with the—Union of Canton) whose head office was in Shanghai, in 1800." After three years he was sent out to take charge of the Company's branch in Hongkong, where his success marked him "for carly promotion; so that in 1908 he was Secretary at the head office In Shanghai There he very soon started on that career of publi service which made him one of the best-known men In China of his time. Tis Mest work in this way wases" hon, treasurer of St. Patrick's Society, aiter which he was Ils President for several years. He" was one of the original mem bers of the Committee of the British Chamber of Commeree™ and atone time was Chairman of the China Association,
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