Viscount Halifax' authoritative appreciation of the Indian situation was given to the East India Association as the introduction to an address by Professor John Coatman on the new Constitution which comes into force fu British India on April 1. Mr. Coatman, who has been Chief News Editor of the British Broadcasting Corporation since 1934, is a Stockport man with all Lancashire's. versatility. Graduating at Manchester University to which he went as a Walters Modern Language Scholar from Manchester Grammar School, Mr. Coatman entered the Indian Police in 1910 and served in the Frontier Constabulary with great distinction winning the King's Medal for gallantry in 1916 and five years later a bar to the same @ecoration. He saw service in the Waziristan Campaign (1919), the 3rd Afghan War and the Hazara Expedition." During his police service he took eave and, entering "Pembroke College Oxford, graduated with first class honours in Philosophy, Polities and Economies as well as winning the Belt Prize. Having thus won -aca-domic os well as military distinetion he plunged into press work as Director of Public Information at Delhi and Simla, in succession to Professor L. F, Rushbrook Williams, that post he sat in the Legislative Assembly and later became Secretary fo the Liberal Delegation at the Round Table Conferences on the Constitutional problem. For four years (from 1930 to 1934) he was the frst Professor of Imperial Economic Relations at London University. Mr. Coatman is still more than two years short of his fiftieth birthday, so his already well-packed career has every Prospect of expansion. His bull Girect manner of speech and sturdy downrightness preserve him from the disabilities so often attaching to high academic attainments and on the radio, he is always 3 popular speaker.
The Shanghai Yacht Club will hold its opening cruise on Aprit 10, Mr, H. M. Howell has joined the staff of Messrs, Malcolm & Ca, Lid, The annual general meeting of the Country Club, Shanghai, will be held on April 6.
The annual general meeting of the Bute Plantations (1913), Lle., will be held on Apri 2.
The annual general meeting of the Java Consolidated Rubber & Coffee Estates, Lid, will be held on March The property and premises of the International. Recreation Club at 722
Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, are offered for sale, The Area Paymaster, British. Forces "Shanghai, invites tenders for Chinese dollars up to and for the sum of £15,000
The Recreation Ground Committes "Race Course), Shanghat, are inviting applications for playing space during the summer season, Mr, Peter Tod has been authorised to sign for Messrs, Jardine, Math son & Ca, Lid, "por procuration" fas from October" 31, 1096, Mr. Erle Moller has returned to Shanghai and has resumed his active position as governing director of the Moller interests in Shanghai A new bank, the Banque de Credit Commercial, situated at 257 Rue Cardinal. Mercier, Shanghai, will be pen to business as from March 16, They will deal in every branch of banking. business.
It is proposed that a football team present and past pupils of the Public & Thomas Hanbury School for Boys, Shanghai, be organized to compete in the Shanghai Football Association League next season, Messrs. Clarkes Inquiry and Protection Agency, Shanghai, have been authorized by the German Consul General at Hankow to recover all outstanding accounts owing 10 the testate of the late Dr, Herbert Wunsch, The regular quarterly dividend of Tis, 1.50 per share on the Tis, 6 Sliver Preferred Stock of Shanghai Power Company has been declared for payment on April 1, 1937, to stockholders on record on'Mareh 16, 1997, At g meeting of the board of di tors of the Shanghai & Hongkt Wharf Ca, Lid, held on March 15, it was decided" to recommend the payment of a dividend of $6 per share for the year ended December 31, 1996, The annual general meeting of tie company will be held on April. 26, Effective from Murch 12, the tow water surcharge "on the "Hankow= Changsha-Siangian section of the Yangize River is reduced to 25 per cent, The shipping companies concerned are the China Merchants 8. N. Ca, China Navigation Ca, Ltdy Indo: China $. N. Ca, Ningpo-Shiohsing S.N. Ca, Nisshin Kisen Kaisha, and San Poh 'S, N. Ca, Lid, The "North-China Dally New: advertises ils news broadcast dail from station XMHD_Ctrequency 14 ko, wave length 211 m.) from 1230 3240 pin, and invites listeners to advise the Radio Editor, "North-China Herald." Shanghai, whether recep: ion is good and especially if the news received at points a considerable distance from the Shanghai station.
The Royal Society of St. George "Shanghai branch) offers to seholarships, (each of the annual value of $100, one for a boy and one for a irl, the children of Englishmen. Also special scholarship. of the annual value of $100 for the boy or iti, the child of a Lancasttian, who obtains nest children of Lancastriang "entering for the examination (0 be held on April 2. Candidates must' be resident Shanghai and not more than 17 years ff aye on the day of the examination.
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