A presentation of a pair of prismatic binoculars was made to Supt. T. McKenna, retiring Officer in Charge of the SMP. Traffic Office, by comrades in the Police yesterday. Mr. E. C. Baker, Assistant Commissioner, made the presentation at the Police Club before a_ large gathering. He spoke briefly on "Tom" McKenna's services to the Council and to amateur athletics Shanghai over a period of thirty years. The toast of the popular officer was then drunk by all present.
Mr, McKenna, in replying, referred to the growth of Shanghai in the last generation. The Settlement police force numbered only 200 when he arrived here in 1907. Now, with a population approaching 1% millions, the police problems are large and one of them concerns traffic.
"The Settlement has an area of only nine square miles, with a population of nearly 1% millions," Supt. McKenna said. "The number of motor vehicles in this small area is now in the vicinity of 10,600. Shanghai. is therefore unique in having so many cars as against so many potential Pedestrians confined within such a small area
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