Arrangements for the distribution of the $205,000 charity funds raised in the China Gold Vase sweep of the Chinese Jockey Club held in Ying-kiang on June 3 were made $}by local eh The arrangements were made at a meeting held jointly by the asso-dation and the North-Eastern Ref. fugees Relief Association, Among those present were Mr. Tu Yuch= Chang Shao-ling, Dr. C. by ing, "Mr, Mir, Chen Hung-nien and ten others.
'Of the $205,000, $100,000 formerly borrowed. by' the association for urgent relief in the three prov Nere returned to the local. banks. The remaining $102,000 were dis: tributed as follows: to Generalis. simo's office for. urgent relief measures, $20,000; to Hunan, Hupeh, Kiangel and Anhwei, for distribu: jon, to poor people, $32,000; to the North-Eastern Refugees," Relic Association, $20,000; to other relief ind to Shensi Prov-lief, $20,000. year.
Born in Nova Scotia in the year of 1862, Mr. Grant is healthy ard strong in spite of his age of 70. Coming down from the second floor of the Central Bank, where he attended the advisory' meeting the mint expert preferred to walk to a ride in a lift, "My only exis walking," he said in reply to a question of this paper's repreventive, -Mr. Grant went to the United States in 1880 and was engaged in mining engineering from 1688, At one time, he worked with ex-President Herbert Hoover, Though he has been traveling lot us & min: ing engineer in Mexico, the States, British Columbia, and other places, this is the first time that he hag been out to the Far East, Mr. Grant became interested in minting thirteen years ago." He was in charge of the Denver Plant for two and half years and fall the mint affairs in Washington for more than ten years.
The mint expert came, on China alone. He has a daughter and a grand-daughter in the States. ie
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