British Manufacturers Learn Lesson of New Methods British manufacturers might slow in realising the need for -new methods to cope with changed con-Gitions but, having learned their lesson, they were likely to go through the' present depression as successful the Old Contemptibles came France. That was Admiral Sir Robe: t Dixon's reading of the situation to his hosts, the Commit tee of the Royal Sociely of St. George, on Thursday at tiffin, where was a fellow guest with Colonel Mr. LIV Wilkinson the President proposing Sir Robert Dixon's health, referred to a. distinguished career which started in the Navy fifty-two years ago and included service in rearly every part of world, of forgetting China, where the Admirat was with the Fleet 1807-99. "dr, "Wilkinson paused. to marvel at the changes which had taken place in the propulsion of ships the'iast sixty years, and he noted that, in spite of hhis long experience, j Sir Robert was there to-day in the capacity of a retired admiral taking hhis place in the new experiment of commerce.
Work is being pushed on a new double-decked Ferry Pontoon off the Bund.
show labourers pu ing inthe rel pontoon which Is expected reatly to. sim ty Pootung and eliminate much congestion, Of Colonel Cosgrave, an old friend of Shanghai and one who by hhis personal efforts had remarkably simulated " Sino-Canadian - relation: ships, Mr. Wilkinson felt It was hard ly necessary to say much. He re called a time in the strenuous dave of 1925 when Colonel Cosgrave and he first met. As usual Colonel Cosgrave was giving valuable assistance time of emergency. As a keen Volunteer, and the one of the found: [es of the Canadian Association of Shanghai, Colonel Cosgrave would be missed. To him and Mrs. Cosgrave the Committee wished every success Australia, where Colonel "Cos grave was to take up the important ost of Trade Commissioner in Mel-
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