Mr. J. E, Wheeler, for more than years a public servant of Shanghai, closing' his career as Assistant Commissioner of Police, retired yesterday from active' service. With Mrs. Wheeler and thei daughter, he will leave Shanghai April 24 in the Heian' Mara travelling via Seattle on his way Home. gazetting Mr, Wheeler in orders, Capt. R.MJ, Martin, Acting Commissioner of Police, [wrote in part: record appreciation of Mr.
"The Commissioner wishes to
Wheeler's services tothe Police Force, the Council and the community." Further the order indicated that in losing the services of Mr. Wheeler, the community would be without one of its most loyal ser-
'Mr. Wheeler joined the police on November 11, 1902 and was—pro-mated to the rank "of assistant commissioner on February' 1, 1926, spent the wreater part of his feereer in the police at the "Mixed Court, Tater the Provisional Court, fand Tore that institution "when the rendition was" completed. For Several years he acted as personal Assistant to the Commissioner Police, being replaced to-day by Mr.'S. C. Young.
When Mr. Wheeler left the Court his merits were not forgotten and was the recipient of a number jot "tokens which expressed. the esteem in which he was held. by bodies, associated with Chinese Government decorated him with: the 6th Class Chia. Medal. The judges of the Count, the. Chinese Bar" Association, "and other Chinese bodies presented thin with suitable mementoes of, the services he had rendered and the Consular Body expressed. their offi feal appreciation of what he had done. During. the past few weeks, the departing officer has been the 'Roest of honour at numerous func-ions. and. was presented with am elaborate sliver salver' by the Police Lawn Bowls Club and with another "handsome silver piece by ihe Hongkew Golf' Club.
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