Your directors have further arranged to enter into a new agreement With the secretaries which will entitle them in future to receive their fee i Straits Dollars instead of in Chinese Dollars. "The amount of the fee has been fixed at Straits §1,500—per annum, the equivalent of which' at the present rate of Exchange is slightly in excess of the present fee. The basis for caleutating the Commission payable to the Secretaries has also been altered from 143 per centum on the Dividends to 2 per centum on the net profits for any one year.
conclusion, Gentlemen, 1 would like to express our best thanks to the Manager, the ig Agent and the Penang Agents for the very efficient Report of the Child Protection [Section for March There were 46 cases of children and. adolescents handled by the Child "Protection Section during March, Of these 44 arose during the month and two in February. There were ten boys, 31 girls and three young married women.
Two cases were referred by the Tuberculosis Hospital (St. Luke's Hospital), one each from the Refugee Children's and Refugee Hospital, They were handled as follows:
To the Association for the Relief of Women and Children 6
National Child Welfare
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