June 19, One of the outgoing passengers on the Hie Maru yesterday, bound for Vancouver, was Mz, W. Bruce Lockhart, Mr, Lockhart is retiring {o settle down In Canada, where he has a brother and sister, A well-known resident of Shang-hal for the past 35 years, Mr. Lockhart has) filled many' roles, "He arrived in the Settlement to join the staff of the International Bank (now the National City Bank) in his early twenties, having been a member of its staff' in London and previously to that was with the Bank of Persia, His next venture was on the accounting staff of the Standard Oil €o,, and soon after that he joined the' BAT, sales department, probably his' most prosperous days in Shanghai, "NC.DN Photo, and Mrs, Ellis Hayim in Annual Meeting of ihe Society June. 20 silting In Darkness" was the there incresting address delivered by RJ. MeMullen at. the annual treating yesterday afternoon of the Braille Literature Association fed in The brary of the China Bible House, 53° Hongkong Rood with Bishop Car teton Lacy in the chair, his address Dr. MeMullon said that 300 years ago a Spaniard found way 10 ests. Bling people. {0 read By meane of movable {ype and locks was, not of a permanent When' the second "sentence was Ten the first had 10 be. destroyer, That was the only method known for 130 years when the second. method twas adopted by the use of paper 8 Trenne of imparting information, 'Many systems were developed England and. America, but Tt was only in comparatively' recent years that the 'English and American' sys {ems "were merged. "Before that Cooks printed in Amerien could not be read by those who studied in Ena and vice versa. Both the. Ent lich. and. American systems adopted the Braille method "The speaker went on to say the: there were none so blind a8 ose who would not see and he declared that the also ea satin "darkness being Tenorant of the work done amon the lind, "Part of the programme of the re sociation was to get people interest= Sin persons silting in-darkness, Dr, MteMullen then went on to point out me Jot of the blind—Uiey wore ising 9, lot and had a limited pose oily: o¢ sharing the. beaulict one ould see with one's eyes," How 10 shake up to them for what they were missing, for what they lacked? That was a fundamental problem:
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