Mr, F. W. W. Valpy Sailing For England To-day Mr. F. W. W. Valpy leaves Shanghai in the s, Soochow to-day for England, where he proposes to settle down near Potter's Bar.
He has been resident in China for 32 years, first in Hongkong and latterly in Shanghai, and before coming here he was for ten years in the Federated Malay States. His first railway appointment, however, was in Paraguay, in 1889, when he worked on the extension of the Paraguay Central Railway, the contractors for which were Messrs. Perry Cutbill de Lungo & Ca. Receiving an appointment on the Federated Malay States Government Railways, Mr. Valpy left Paraguay shortly after his arrival there, and in 1899, after the opening of the Prai-Bukit Mutajane section, was stationed at Goping as acting district engineer. In 1900 he joined the mining firm of Osborne & Chappell and constructed the hydraulic supply for their Goping mines, In 1905 he was sent out by the Crown Agents for the survey of the Kowloon Canton Railway and was transferred To thence of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway to act for Mr. Clear when that officer went home on leave in 1909.
In 1911 Mr, Valpy was transferred to the Canton-Hankow Railway and went through the revolution that year in Hankow and carried out subsequently extensive survey work in Hopeh and Hunan. Transferred to the Pachi section, he completed 40 miles of construction, including the Pachi river bridge, which is 1,440 feet long and the largest bridge on the line. In 1919 he was appointed district engineer at Changsha, and eight years later was transferred to Hankow as engineer-in-chief, an|2 appointment he retained until he left the railway service in 1930.
For the last three years Mr. Valpy has been engaged in the dificult task of liquidating the City Realty Trust—that task is now completed. He has not been in the best of health during his last few months in Shanghai and his many friends hope that the sea voyage and the return to his own country will facilitate his complete recovery.
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