"Not everything was included in this amount, however" Mr. Gale continued, "for hot water was only available in hot water shops and thus it was necessary to have a coolie bring two buckets per day at the price of ten cents which made a monthly total of $3."
While salaries were considerably lower then than they are now, the purchasing value of the dollar was in proportion and, with exchange at 2s. 8d, a bottle of whiskey in those days cost $1 and a bottle of gin was available at 60 cents per bottle.
Mr. Gale was transferred to Hankow in 1908 and while there was a member of the Hankow Volunteer Corps when it was mobilized during the revolution in 1911. He returned to Shanghai in 1917.
Mr. Gale, who is a native of Beckenham, Kent, England intends first of all to visit South Africa and Kenya thereafter to visit Eng-lend, Canada and then possibly return to Shanghai although he seems to have made up his mind to give South Africa a good "look-over" with a view to settling there, should he find conditions the way he saw them while on a visit in 1937. Victoria runs a close second in Mr, Gale's choice for a place of residence but he still thinks it quite possible that maybe a year after his departure from Shanghai, friends will be in a position to greet both him and Mrs. Gale here but "merely as tourists."
Long Conditions were Better
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