In congratulating Dr. E. Gauntlett on a most successful, strenuous, year of office as President of the Royal Society of St. George in Shanghai, it is Ating to record the pleasure which all Englishmen must feel at the acceptance by Sir Peter Gr term of office. Sir Peer Grain is believed to be patting in. his last year here. "Tt is. dilfeult to imagine Shanghai without him. He was President in 1928 and now he is taking on the effec ata time when the uctivitieg Gf the Society in the sense of their relation ta" the relief of distress are likely to be specially. in demand. The usual ceremonial and social functions are moreover bound to be curtailed for the same reason. Sir Peter has long shown himself a most com-
Bator' o"the comradeship of the petent and yet unobtrusive conti
community to which he belongs, He is as skilful a healer of social indisposition as the rebring President is of bodily. ill. His ripe experience in many parts of thed British Empire has made of a mentor of great value to Shang-bhat where he has dispensed justice from' the bench and. good-natured Philosophy from less exalted points of vantage for over ten years. The St.'George's Society is to be congratulated on securing for yet an. other term this inheritor of wit and wisdom and this fine. type of the nation to. which it belongs as its President for 198239,
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