Contracts Placed Last Year Valued at £300,000: Total of £1,060,000 Since Commission Started Frost Oun Own London, Apr. 18. sulting engineers, auditors and other The Chinese Government Purents has been entirely satisfactory. chasing Commission held their annual meeting at the Chinese Legation this Purchases afternoon, to pass their report operations during 1933, The general, polley of the Commlsregard to purchas ins Mr, Quo Tai-chi, the Minister, took the chair as head of the Commission, ses. remai and thoge_ present were Dr. the Commission during the year was The number of contracts placed
Arthur Balfour, Sir Basil Blackett, ang, iph "Wedgwood," Sir involving approximately "30000. and Mr. G. A.' McEwen, The amount paid on materials includ:
'A great deal of important work ing freight, Insurance and Inspection was done during the past year and Eees during' the year war about the present year will be even more £210,000 making " dotal expenditure active. Up to December 31, 1933, the Since the Commission sommmenced 19 Commission's purchases in England operate of approximately 100/00, total 21,060,000. 1 'The most important contracts made 'Mr. Quo Tai-chi announced that during' the "year were, In round the Chinese Government had refigures: appointed all the members of the sett oe Railways. palmy Ralls and Fasten or Commission for another term of three years, and in doing so wished to Communications ie menier of oon: 2400 for Btn hank them warmly for their purely voluntary and most useful services.
"Train Ferry" Dredger: £8000 for Ministry of Rauways, The Report Locomotive. Cran £10500 for Tiene tsin Pukow Railway.
The full report follows:—Punt for Twishuyen Power Station:
The present report covers the period sidato for Notional Construcuon Com: from January 1, 1938, to Decem-"Armoured Telephone Ca ber 31, 1933." No change has taken place in the membership of the com-{or Ministry of Communications. peed Telegraph sarus: mission during the year under review. In accordance with the wording of the Notes exchanged between Dr. C. i, Wang and Sir Miles Lamp: Tal and. Fasténings: £91000. for son on September 19, 1980, the term sachet Nana aly of office of all the members of the Kiangshan Railway. sph Commission, with the exception of the Passenger Car Underframes: £12500 Chairman and Mr. G. A. McEwen, for Hanstehow Helangshan Railway. expires in May, 1934, A statement of Purchase Orders re-'The second annual meeting of the ceived and executed during 1933 Commission was held on March 24, the Commission 1s appended to this 1033. The following is a verbatim Report. Very considerable orders extract from the records of the have come forward since the begin= ning of the year.
The total funds held by the Com-taken the Chairman expressed [pleasure he felt that his duties at Geneva, mission at the end of 1933 amounted to £3,206,503,3.6, noted with great "satitaction the "cordial ce-operation between the British and Chinese members of the [Commission and particularly. the better understanding "which had: been reached Jduring the past year with the Board of Trustees.
desired to put on record th thanks of the Chinese Government for the time and: work the British members had given and ite hope of the continu: ance of their" valuable services. and even clover" ce-operation in the future atween the, Commission and the Board
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