The foregoing report has emphasized the variety of duties which have eon carried out by the Corps, and how the complete success of the increasingly complicated work has proved the keenness and adaptability of all ranks.
There 1s no doubt that these activi-tes have contributed in great mea sure towards the maintenance of law and order In the Settlement, Although every effort has been made to avoid calling upon Volunteers during business hours, the fact remains that con~ siderable interference is inevitable. Tu particular this applies to the Omecers, Warrant Ofcers and N.C.0s, who normally are men holding responsible positions in civilian life; Because the greater the efforts to carry out duties without mobilizing the Corps, the more the detailed work which is thrust upon them.
Consideration for the dimiculties of the Volunteer commanders brings up the question of recruiting. When a unit is well up to strength, the commander can find volunteers to report for duty with comparative ease, but the morea Unit is below strength, the more dimeult it becomes to. find duties and reliefs, This ts one of the most important aspects of the whole recruiting question.
Last year I emphasized the serious. ness of the problem and urged that parently from natural causes. He had been dead for several hours when the body was discovered, clad in pyjamas "and a dressing-gown. A post-mortem examination" was performed yesterday afternoon at the International Funeral Directors, Kiaochow Road.
Mr. Harris, who was employed in the construction section of the Distribution Department and who had served with the SAC, Electrical De-Portment and the Power Company for twenty years and seven months, was native of Scotland and had been in the Royal Navy before he came to Shanghai, He was 61 years old and eaves a widow and a son in Scotland. He was formerly an ardent golfer, and member of local golf clubs, Feb. 17, In the presence of a host of friends and business associates funeral. ser-Viees for the late Mr. James Fraser Gordon Harris, aged $1 years, of the Shanghai Power Company were held yesterday afternoon at the Hungjao Road Cemetery with the Rev. C. W. Allan of Union Church officiating. 'Amonis those present were Mr. L. Pharis, Vice-President and General Manager, Mr. A. Haman, Comptroller, 'A. Kendal-Ward, Secretary—and reassurer, W. H. Putnam, Consumers' Engineer, J. 'A. MeKinney, Assistant consumers' Engineer, C. Mf. Perrin, Distribution Engineer, "W. Hunter, Operating Engineer, E. Jacobs, Meter Engineer, and heads of all other departments. The casket upon which rested a beautiful spray of flowers from his wife and twelve year old son, who are resident in Scotttand, was carried to the grave by Messrs, 3. J, Brooks, G. B. Elliot, W. Hunter, RG. Kirby, IL. Wallace and Sergeant Rilley of the Seaforth Highlanders.
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