The remarkable conduct of a young assistant in a Tongshan Road pawn= shop in routing three robbers. from the place on April 3, was rewarded ast Wednesday morning when he w presented with a silver shield of a ceremony held at Wayside Police Station.
The shield was presented by Mr W. Yorke, Assistant Commissioner of Police, who expressed the gratitude of the Council for the courage exhibited by the youth, Wel Ong-kyung, putting the robbers to flight singlehanded. right: Messrs. J. H. Liddell, J. W. Carney, S. Fessenden, Mr. phone franchise. Dr. Mui, admirably Diending the schoolmaster with the showman, produced a chart of per centages and other figures and pro-ceded to draw what he called deductions therefrom. His point was that the 14 become rather involved. time was a 40 per cent. demand went through various stages of shrinkage until it arrived at 6 per cent. Dr. Mui was not sure if should not be 3 per cent. Then confronted the house with an-Jother chart which purported to show how the Telephone Company's ves could, by the process of compound interest, rise from $700,000 $27 million" in eleven years Playing evidently on the frame mind revealed" by Mr. Arnhold when he had shown that logie did not necessarily remove telephone double, Dr. Mui worked up the meeting 10 ly state of interest, by the gentle humour of his condolence with the Council andthe Company in the horrors of mathematics, The nearer the higher he contended, so let the meeting get away from the immediate neighbourhood of the Telephone Company and seek advice further afield—not necessarily so far South Africa whence the Feetham Report came, but far enough to solve the mystery' of the—ever-changing reentages. Dr. Mui expressly—most tearfully—disclaimed any intention to cast aspersions. Yet @emanded that the Council should make sure that the Shanghai' Tele~ phone Company served Shanghai's interests first and last. If it served Shanghai well it would receive fair and generous treatment, but. Shanghai had to be assured that it had fult claim on the Company's undoubted efficiency and enterprise, Mr. Ranald macdonald took the platform to: sup~ port this view. "It nally prevailed,
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