To the general committee for the ensuing year the-following were ap= polnted:—Messrs, James Macbeth, D. McGavin, Dr. Bernard E. Read, A. W. Sherriff, and A. 'Youngson (members of the' retiring committee), with Messrs. A. A. Owing, F. H. B, Harmon and the Rev, W. H. Hudspeth.
The chairman expressed regret that the committee were losing the services for a time of Messrs. J. D. A. Hutchison and W, M, MeLennan, who blind served the church as hon, fnanlal secretary and hon. seoretary during the past year, and with warm appreciation of valued services willing ly rendered came an expression of the hope that they would later be in a position to return to the committee.
Other committees nominated and approved by the meeting were:—
Women's Service Committee—Mrs, Bernard Read, Mrs, Owing, Mrs. F. H. B, Harmon, Mrs. Hudspeth, Mrs. Grant, Mrs, MeGavin, Mrs. Macbeth, Mra, Newcomb, Mrs, Sherriff, Mrs. Archie Sinclair, Mrs. G, Sinclair, Mrs, 'A. ¥, Tait, and Mrs. Train, Women's Guild—Mrs. T. Hutchison (president), Mrs. McGavin (vice-president), Mrs." Sheriff (recording secretary), Mrs, Harvey (corresponding secretary), Mrs, Scott (treasurer), Mrs. J. Sinclair (chairman tea com: mittee), Mrs, Harmon (chairman work committee), Mrs. MacFarlane (chairman programme committee), and Mrs. Allan (chairman visiting Waiting outside the gales of HIM. Consulate-General was Major-General A, P, D. Telfer-Smollelt; who took the salute as the Seaforths swung past down The Bund towards Nanking Road. The crowds were thick all along The Bund, and they consisted in no small part of Scotsmen to whom it was sweet indeed to see one of their own regiments in Shanghol again, and to hear once more the skirl of the pipes.
The Seaforths presented a magnificent spectacle "as they marched down Nanking Road, Behind their pipe band, setting a lively marching} pace, there were four lines of marching men, their kilts gaily. swinging, their sporrans jerking fo and fro in time to the pipe music, lines of fixed bayonets gleaming in the sunlight.
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