'A little man stood dismally in. a garret reached by some rickety stairs from a shoe shop situated in one of the main streets of Shanghai, "The {tattooing business is no good", he told "North-China Herald" reporter, pointing dismally to a small table and, 4 battered tin trunk which were the only pieees of furniture to be seen. "I started business as a tattooing ex: pert here about three weeks ago, Not tone customer has come to me to have tone of my nice designs tattooed hhis armor his chest. - The soldiers and sailors are not nearly so keen on being tattooed as they were, a few years ago."
The litle man explained that proposing the health of Dr, Chatley and wishing him bon voyage and happy stay with his sgad mother at his homeland, Mr. 'T. 1, Soong, Chairman of the Conservancy Board, said. that Dr, Chatley has been in China for nearly 20 years and served the Conservancy Board for 21 years.
is chiefly due to his continuous and indefatigable efforts" Me. Soon; continued, Shanghai. hi ehnerged from a muddy flat into one of the leading world ports and centre of commerce of China. At the time When Dr, Chatley joined the Board in'1916, the Astraey Channel in the than 40 million eu, yds. of mud have been dredged and an extensive area has been reclaimed, At present the depth of the channel has reached 30 feet at lowest low water. Through Dr. Chatley's painstaking study and skilMul_ design, the dredging of the Fairy Plats is'no longer an. experiment but has been realized with satis factory results, The deteriorating ondlifon of the Soochow Creek before 1981 rendered great, hindrance {othe transportation of rice and Seneficial results to the question of Tow price of rice to the poor of Shanghai, and above all the solution the major land problems along the Whangpoo, according to Mr. Kwok, are. all accomplishments Dr. Chatley can be proud of, in a ition to the usual routine work of keeping the Whangpoo navigable, and Keeping apace with the development of the modern port of Shanghai, the Fevenue from which has played a great and important part in the reconstruction programme of present day China, "One always has a feel sentiment when a friend and a colleague of many years parts," continued Mr. Kwok, "but we are fortunate in being able to fave the comforting thought that Dr, Chatley is atill available to us in his capacity og Consulting Engineer, and judging from the past he will never be nig-wardly In giving his sound advice Dased on his experience and learning. Furthermore, throughout his long association with the Board he has always been mindful of giving the Junior staff en opportunity to learn, and he himeelf taking the role of a modest and patient teacher, an at-
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