Tu accordance with China's Factory Law, the Commissioner of So-lal, Affains for Greater Shanghai has drafted and published 'a series of regulations governing the inspection of local factories, both foreign and Chinese, says the "Sinwanpao". he Chinese Factory Law prov that the Commissioners of Soci Affairs in the various cities shall detail subordinates to study factory conditions in their respective dis tricts at regular intervals, hence the] publication of the following regulations:
(1) To facilitate the improvement of labour conditions and to increase labour efficiency, there shall regular inspections of Tooal factories, both foreign and Chinese, from now 0 (2) The time and place of the inspection shall be decided upon by the Commissioner of Social Affairs for Greater Shanghai; (8). The functions of inspectors shall Ee to investigate the safety! and health arrangements in factories and the working conditions of labourers, to give necessary divec-_ tions, to study difficult problems regarding the management of factories, to persuade or urge factory owners to carry out government} and to carry]
Inspectors shall at once submit reports to the Commissioner when they discover the following facts in factories:—poor ventilation; dirty water supply; lack of: health arrangements; child or—female workers engaged for indecent or dangerous work; labourers disobedient to the orders of factory manage-themselves Yestenvay Col. L. M. Cosgrave Canadian Government Trade Com missioner, returned to Shanghai from Daiven by the Choshun Maru.
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Mr. and Mrs. A. de C. Sowerby returned to Shanghai yesterday. They have been spending a holiday in Java, in which country they stay ed a considerable time.
Mr, J. G. Lyon is leaving' Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Ca., and China, for good, and sails for: home on the str, Mantua to-day, accompanied by his wife and child.
Mr. K, Tsuchiya, manager of the Shanghai office of the Mitsui Bank, has received orders for his trans-for to Tokyo and Mr. Y. Hirano, manager of the Bombay branch, een appointed to succeed him.
Amoxc the passengers who sailed for America on the President Adams on September 3 were Mrs. 'T. T. Craven, wife of Rear-Admiral Craven, and their daughter Olga. Miss Craven will enter an exclusive school in Washington, D.C, this autumn, Mr. W. Bagge, who has been Acting Consul General for Sweden here during the last few months, left on September 2 for Peking. Mr. Erik Wisen is now in charge of the local Swedish Consulate gener: and Mrs. Wisen returned to Shat Fai on Sunday, August 31, after an absence of ten months on furlough.
Antone the passengers who ar-vived in Shanghai on September 6 ments, azd proving and business progress of [on the Dollar liner, President factories; (G). Inspectors must adopt ahead of the America-Oriental Pierce, are Mr. F." J. Raven, upaelfc attitude" in the execution of Bankiig Corporation, and Mrs. their duties} Raven, and Miss Raven, Mfr.
(6) Tnapeetors may express per-|Raven, as chairman of the sonal opinions regarding the improvement of factory conditions; and (7) Inspectors must submit their reports to the Commissioner of Soctal Affaics after each inspection. board of the American School in Shanghai _will give a report on the raising of the endowment fund for the support of the school which is taking pice in Ametica, in the near future, ist
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