CO129-578-5 Development of Whampoa Port 13-12-1938 - 11-5-1939 — Page 23

ENCLOURE NO. 8 IN CANTON DELPATCH TO B.E. SHANGHAI, NO.811 OF 81st

NOVEMBER, 1938.

*PLAN OP HANPOA PORT*

15 hours a

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Dr. A.2. Goodrich addressed the Canton Rotary Club.

Dr. E.2. Poodrich, adviser of the Thampoa Port

Development Administration addressed the Rotary Club

of Canton on "The Plan of thepoa Port" at the

Regular Club Beeting on September 8, 1937. The

Speech is as following:

hen í last appeared before you, i was not in

a position to give you a prophecy of what the improvement of shampoa Port would be like or how large it would be

or how it would affect either Canton City

or Greater

I could go no further than to tell you how

Canton.

such a problem should be approached.

After two months of intensive work, with an

exceptionally good staff and with more than one hundred

percent of cooperation from a very large mumber of

Chinese and foreign officials, so such proɛreas has been made in reaching conclusions and in developing a design

for the shampoa Port development and for the Sort City, that it seemed wise to embrace this opportunity to make

public the several fundamental conclusions which have

been reached, and the progress which has been made with

the plans.

Smploying, among others, the methods outlined

in my first talk, we studied the past population of

China for 500 years and its rate of growth. did the

same for Kwangtung Province for 950 years; also for the

city of Canton over its history.

MATZ » ONG TH

The rate of growth of Xwan tung Province has

paralleled that of China, but the population of Canton

has mot followed that of the Province. It was relatively

larger/

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