Exoeavour te avoid abuses of trusts held "or charitable. purposes compass ea, pion:
wae A: Sade Pads Before Judge P. Grant Jones "(tearing Adjourned)
"Previous derisions have been wrong, in my opinion," commented Judge' P. Grant Jones in Supreme Court on March 5, when he adjourned to chambers the hearing of a petition by the Missions to Seamen committee and trustees, During the course of the hearing, Judge Grant Jones suggested that "the present trustees wore Mlegally appointed to office in 1929, they were not appointed by noint but merely as "the British Consul-General for the time being," and on. This matter, too, was left to "argument in. chambers.
The petitioners were represented by Mr, C. E, Lowe, The-petition, said Mr, Lowe, was under the Act providing for'a remedy in eases of "abuses of trusts held for charitable purposes, and was signed the Committee, comprising Dean Trivett, Mr, L. H. Lamb, Pay-Commander C, A, Bowen, Messrs. Hillman, A. Williamson, P. C, Gilmore, A, Kemp, E, 8, Wilkinson, A. J: Enright, F. 'W. Poate, B. McLaren, 3, Keswick, and B.. Blaker, and by "the trustees, Dean Trivett, Sir John Brenan, Messrs. R. Calder Marshall, W.'S. King, and P, W. Massey, who held a Declaration of Trust by which certain land and pro perty was held in trust for the Missions to Seamen, Some time before May 3, 1937, went on Mr, Lowe, the clergy of the Holy Trinity Cathedral gave special atten tion 9 the religious needs of seamen Shanghai, and. on that date the specially-built ship Bethel was anchored in the Whangpoo rd used for the holding of religious services for seamen, Religious servie.s were held from May 3, 18957, up to about 1809 both In the Bethel' and the bark Euphrates, which was purchased In 1860, before which date a committee apparently had been formed under the clergy to look after the coame needs, although no record beyond one annual report could be found of such a committee,
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