To the Editor of the '"Nonti-Cuiva Daly News."
Sin,—In view of the possible danger that a wrong impression may be created in the minds of the geuferal public by the article that appeared in your esteemed paper on. the 22nd instant under the he of "China Merchants Wharves," it] is only fair for me, in self-defence and in justice to the China Merchants' S. N. Ca, to correct your! misstatements and ¢o give the true facts of the cate.
Tt will be remembered that from the 4th to 7th instant, I published in your paper a notice regarding the abolition of the Wharf and Godown Department and the General Office of the Lower Wharf and consequent shaft changes.
Now, according to the new arrangement contained in that notice, the only change, ax far as the foreign employees are concern-fed, is the removal of the Foreign assistant manager, Mr. R. C. Hox. lett, and the appointment of Mr. P. C. Grant as Foreign assistant man-Jager instead, the position of all other foreign employees remaining. unchanged. Thus, it will be seen that the statement you made, "that ithe services of the foreign assistant manager had been dispensed with," is not correct in view of the fact that Mr. P. C. Grant, who had been the chief "accountant of our wharves for miny years, Fas been appointed to the position of Foreign assistant manager.
The sole object of ovr arrangefnent, as. set out in the notice in your paper, above referred to, is to Promote a better efficiency in the service for the welfare of our customers. But to our great surprise, the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation took the initiative] to raise a strong objection to our and Shanghai Banking Corporation fought to have done is to give us Jo fair chance and sufficient time to) experiment our new arrangement! Jand to see what the result will be: before passing any criticism oF! raising any objection. If after one lor two months, our new arrangement. proves to be unsatisfactory, jwe should be only too glad to receive friendly advice from our jereditors and customers and take further steps to improve the service. But before our new arrangement has been fairly tried, it is unfair, to oppose and to criticize it, as it has been done, to the damage of jour credit, T.C. Euan, aging Director China Merchants S. N. Ca.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.