Blaker were the guests at the monthly {fin of the Committee of the Royal Society of St George on Thursday. Mr. Strickland was, welcomed as an Englishman visiting China under the Universities' China tu London Committee.
Mr. H. V. Wilkinson, in giving Mr. Strickland cordial "welcome, €xpressed on behalf of "the business men of Shanghai a great interest in the work which had taken Mr. Strickland over so many parts of the world and had eventually. brought him to Chine, Urban Shanghai could not pretend. Mr. Wilkinson thought, to provide Mr. Strickland with much terial for his favourite hobby, but at the same time the prosperity of Shanghai mainly depended upon the ability of China to solve her rural problems. And in wishing "Mr. Strickland's mission every success, Mr. Wilkinson desired to express admiration for his gifts of diagnosing the ills of so many different countries.
To Mr. Blaker, Mr. Wilkinson conveyed the deep thanks of the Society for auditing tts accounts and the hope that those valuable services would be at the Society's disposal for many years to come. to xo into the rural areas and show the farmers how to dispense with the moneylenders, they would be doing a great work in helping to solve some of the farmer's most dimeult prob-Jems. Mr. Strickland felt that agri culture in China could be developed without some of the handicaps which joxisted, for Instance, In India, where Ihe had' epent Go much of his' time.
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