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FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1925.
PRIZE DAY.
CENTRAL BRITISH SCHOOL CEREMONY.
SIR CLAUD SEVERN:
PRESIDES
A holiday atmosphere prevailed at the hall of the Central British- School, Kowloon, this forenoon, when the pupils.mustered in full strength, attended by parents and well-wishers, for the annual prize distribution.
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in one of the class-room built in covered nets in the playground 1922, and at the end of the years being in daily use. A consignment a Chemistry Laboratory was add-of sports material for cricket, ed. In March the building of 6 football, tennis, fives-was receiv new class-rooms was completed ed from home. and they are now occupted by Classes 4 and 6 Two rooms were converted into store-rooms for our up-to-date stock of Chemistry at Physics material.-
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Excellent tiffins are provided at the school-a small charge being made-for children coming from Hongkong.
School Prospectus. I shall be pleased to send copies Sir Cinud Severn was present of the School Prospectus for and gave away the prizes.
1924-26 to anyore interested in The attendance included. Lady the Central British School and in Severn, Mrs, and Miss Holyoak, the education of British children Rev. Copley Moyle, Rev. Johnetön, in the East,
Charity. Mr. E. Ralphs, Captain Watts, Professor 1. Forster, Mr. B. Wylie, The pupils of this school have And the staff of the School, been very active in the cause of The Headmaster (Mr. G. Frank-charity. They took part in the lin Nightingale) read the follow-sale of poppies on Armistice Day ing report:
and in the Annual Bazaar of the were great developments in every The girls of Classes 3 and 4 rulaed department of the School and it seems probable that in the near sent a draft to the London Hos- future additional buildings will pital become necessary. Our numbers are increasing-to-day there are 135 on the roll-and the present building will soon be too small if the development of the residential part of Kowloon continues at the
Our thanks are due to the Com- mittees of the Kowloon Cricket Club and the Kowloon Football Club, "who are always ready to encourage, youthful talent, for granting us the use of their grounds for matches and practice games.
PAUSALT. REVENUE..
POSITION AT END OF
LAST YEAR
OBLIGATIONS MET.
(Router's Service.)
FEXING, January 23. The net salt revenue for 1924, Swimming, as usual, was very after meeting administrative popular, permission to use the penses, amounted to $79,544,000, Kowloon Dock Bathing Beach decrease or $9,001,000 as compared being again granted by the Dock with the revenue in 1923. held our annual Empire Day picnic The School at Big Wave Bay. team was in the final of the Schools' Relay Race at the Victoria Recreation Club..
Recreation Club Committee. We
The Physical Instruction and Boxing Classes were held twice a week except during the summer months, At the Schools' Boxing Tournament the Boys' Light weight Championship was won by K. Jenner, his brother, W. Jenner,
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SMALL CRIME WAVE.
ARMED ROBBERS ACTIVE LAST NIGHT.
www. SHOP INMATES TERRORISED.
Bad characters were particu larly busy yesterday causing a small wave of serious crime to wind up' the post-China Now Year
season.
exwas the biggest haul forthcoming.
Four thousand. dollars in cash? from a series of armed robberies. This sum was taken by a gang of six men who visited a gunny bag the salt revenue, amounting to ten o'clock last night.
All obligations secured under shop at Shui Cheung Lane about $20,777,000 were fully met, and the
As the surplus released to the Chinese gang carried four revolvers and Goverment during 1924 amounted sistance would have been useless. two daggers between them, re to $64,200,000, (including $12,666- 000 received from the Maritime Luck was also on the robbers' Customs on account of the refund side as the door was open.
After closing the door the rob-i of the reorganisation loan pay ments for the year. Of this bers followed the usual modus amount about $33,466,000 repre- operandi by driving all the per- seats sums either retained locally sons in the shop into the kitchen or appropriated by the provincial and trussing them up. The safe authorities or military commanders, was broken open and the money
ROBBED ON STAIRS. Shortly after noon yesterday, a coolie contractor to Messrs. Butterfield and Swirę was, robbed as he was going up the back stair-1 way to No. 326, Des Voeux Road, West.
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Attendance.
The School was opened on 195 days. The maximum enrolment was 136. In January there were 118 on the roll, in December 128. The average, attendance during the whole year was D7, the highest average attendance being 116 in December. The attendance on the whole was good in spite of absences due to measles, malaria and dengue fever. The heat of September caused many to be absent, the average daily attend ance falling to 96. There were very few cases of absence due to trivial reasons, and I am pleased to be able to record the willing co-operation of parents, in our efforts to enforce regular and
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weight Championship. -
We thank Mrs. Well for pre-amount of revenue retained by the senting a silver cup for the Table
Kwangtung local authorities.
The reserve in the group banks Tournament which was held dur-
was maintained during the year at ing the wet season.
$7,000,000
It is interesting to note that old
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Library and Museum.. Our thanks are due to Mr. W. G. Joseph, Mr. O. 1. Ellis, and Mr. A. Allison for supplying the School C.B.S. boya at home more than Library with books, magazines hold their own in cricket, football, and lustrated papers. Captain R. F. Mitchell presented a collec-swimming and boxing. One boy, tion of shells and coral to the/ W. Matchin, who left us during EXPENSES REDUCED BELOW and going through his pockets, School Museum. A new section, the year, won the Boys' Swimming containing 150 volumes, was very Championship of Sussex, being. generously "given by Mr. W. G. awarded the "Harry Preston
Challenge Cup. A parent inform- Joseph, and 1 appeal to all parents ed me the other day that her son and friends for further gifts of had been elected Captain of his books and magazines.
We also thank the Director of the Royal Observatory for sending us the daily weather map.
Studies. "
The Midsummer and Annual
Examinations showed very good results in both the upper and the lower classes of the school."
school.
I desire to express to the staff my appreciation of their enthusias tic and loyal support in all the varied activities of the school life, and to thank those who have very generously given prizes, and you, Sir, and Lady Severn, for honour. ing us with your presence hera to-day.
The Chairman's Speech. Sir Claud Severn, thanking them for the honour paid him in asking him to preside at the second prizegiving of the Central British School, said that all, would
For the Matriculation and Senior Local Examinations we entered the whole of Class 1, 10 candidates, of whom B. passed, & gaining the Matriculation, and the Senior Local certificates. This punctual attendance at school,
Medical Inspection.
is an excellent result, comparing The School
medically very favourably with that obtain- examined in April and an excellented by any other school in the regret to learn of Mr. Orme's ill- report was again made by the Colony. V. Wheiler passed ines and hoped that he would soon M.O.H. Dr. Woodman. It is very English, gratifying to note the healthy condition of the pupils, of this School
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Staff.
Mathematics,
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ESTIMATES.
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EXCESS OF IMPORTS.
(Reuter's Service.)
TOKIO, January 23. Mr. Hamaguchi, in his Budget speech in the Diet, announced the crtailment of all 48,000,000 yen in the 1924 Estimates, whilst the 1925. figures show a reduction of 91,000,000 yen on the revised Expresses of 1924
The new Budget will total 1,324,000,000 yen.
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He stated that the excess of Im 646,000,000 yen and since 1919 'ports la 1924 amounted.. 2,783,000,000 yen.
INDIAN STUDENTS.
TRAINING CORPS.
(Reuters Service.)
be restored to health. Continuing, Latin, he said that he was pleased to see French, Geography, and History, such a large attendance, which NO BAR TO THE OFFICERS being awarded the Montargis was a sign that the efforts of the French Prize.. K. Jenner, who school were being recognised by passed in 7 subjects, is the young-all those concerned in its est boy in the East to obtain the
welfare. He expressed his plea- Matriculation certificate. He is
sure at seeing the rapid growth of. the School since he was away in
There were several changes in the staff during, the year. Mrs.enly 13. "Cooper, housewifery and cookery
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The English and Mathematics
The two thieves, who shared the work of pinning him down]
enriched themselves to the amount of $65.
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BOGUS CONSTABLES From Mongkok, comes the re port of an armed robbery' at a trading junk, anchored near the ferry wharf, at about 9.30 last night.
Three men went on board the junk from a sampan, flourishing revolvers and declaring that they were constables. After a pre- tence at searching the junk, the robbers stole $141 and cleared off.
WOMAN FAINTS,
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At No 50, Lower Lascar Row Paddy's Market" a young Chin- (better known" as a part of
by three men who entered her flat ese woman was roughly handled
by, pretending to want to rent a cubicle. The woman was bundled into the kitchen, where she fell over a pot of boiling water and lost consciousness, When she and her amah awoke, they found that her jewellery" and money to the total value of $358 were gone. VICE-ADMIRAL'S LÓSS. Thieves are no respecters of per- Even the Commander-in- Admiral Sir Allan F. Everett, has Chief of the China Station, Vice- been victimised.
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DELHI, January 22. General Lord: Rawlinson (Com mistress, joined us in December were good, Arithmetic excepted, 1923. He hoped the students who mander-in-Chief)
accepted an 1923, Miss Kitson in January 1924, in which subject lower marks than left the School for the Univer- Indiah motion urging the British
In a report to the Police, the Miss Macfarlane in June, Miss expected were obtained. The studies at the School, would return against the admission of Indian staff captain notifies that between
sities, after completing their Government to remove the bar, Hall, transferred from Ellis French results were much better to Hongkong and become leading students to the University Officers' p.m. on Wednesday and 8 a.m. Kadoorie School, in September. than those of past years, only one and useful citizens. The School Training Corps according to the yesterday, a leather wallet, con- and Miss Brown, transferred from candidate failing in this subject. Queen's College, in November. For the Junior Local Examina- was cramped for space; but recom- recommendations of the Lytton taining $500 in bank notes, was Mrs. Hall resigned in December tion we entered the whole of mendations would be considered Commiites, which were recently stolen from the Admiral's cabin 1923, Mrs. Meacock in April 1924, Class 2, 9 candidates, & of whom favourably.
accepted by the Imperial Govern- on the flagship, the "Hawkins." A cut-glass decanter was also and in November, Miss Thompson, were successful.
Commenting on School cricket, ment. One boy, J.
taken.. who in December was married to Maycock, passed in 8 subjects Sir Claud made an amusing refer- Mr. Orme. We all join in wishing gaining distinction in Arithmetic, ence to a cricket match at home Mr. and Mrs. Orme every happi- Mathematics and Drawing,
in v hich he played for those over In the School Annual Examina-40 against a junior team. That match, Sir Claud said, was won by his side by 2 runs, not through skill but by strategy against experienced cricketers.
ness.
Mr. Tolley was transferred to tion a high standard of marking Queen's College in September. It was adopted and the results were is our earnest wish that there may good.
be 'no changes in the staff this In most classes there is a "tail" year, for, in this age of specializa-consisting of pupils, admitted dur- tion, when a subject is taken ing the second and third terms of throughout the school by a mem- ber of the staff who has made a special study of the subject, the work of a school is seriously affected by such changes.
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Prize List. Matriculation.-D. Ellis, the year, to whom French. Jenner; V. Wheller. Physics, Chemistry, Algebra and Senior Local A. Bach, E. Geometry are new subjects. This Moses, J. Stewart, M. Whitley, S. state of affairs is inevitable in this Whitley. school.
Junior Local-C. Allison, J. Hirst, J. Maycock, T. Whitley, S. Williams, R. Witchell.
MOTOR FATALITY. CHINESE KNOCKED DOWN.
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Near Jardine's Bazaar, Praya East, yesterday, a middle-aged Chinese was run into by a „motor- car and died on his way to hospital. It appears that he alighted from a train and went behind to cross the road, but falled to see the approach of the motorcar from the opposite direction.
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A brown mongrel, which bit a boy at No. 1, Armand Building, Kowloon, yesterday, has been sent to Kennedy Town for observation.
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SPEECH I SPEECH!”
LOCAL AD.C.'S FINAL TRIUMPH.
LAST NIGHT'S OVATION.
"I thank you very, very much indeed for the wonderful recep tion you have given us throughout the run of Saint Joan. Of course we are immensely pleased and proud that we have made such a success of it. This has been a labour of love to me and a labour of love to my comrades.”.
These modest words, uttered by
At the Central Briish School we In spite of all the difficulties are offering children of British experienced in the education of parentage educational facilities of British children in the East, sound Government Scholarships.
high standard, equal in every work is being done here, as proved Class IA (Matricul on) V. respect to those offered by home by the success of old boys and Wheller, Class 1R. (Se >r Local) schools! We are striving to girls in the Home schools. Inyuri- S. Whitley, Class 2 (Ju or Local) develop a school spirit imbued ably they are placed in a form R. Witchell, Class 3 K. nammond, with the best traditions of the whose average age is higher than Class 44 V. Dorf, Class 4B G. home Public Schools, and to make theirs: they soon reach the top of Tacchi, Class 5A É. Mead, Clasa. this a school of truthfulness, the form and gain promotion to a 58 L. Glendinning, Class 6 U. honesty, manliness, and clean higher. Ivan Joseph, who is leav-Mitchell. playing on and off the field. Very ing us this month has passed the Class Prizes.-Class 1A (Matri- | Wheller. few schools possess a staff who Entrance Examination into Bed-culation) I, V. Wheller; 2, D. Ellia War Memorial Prize. V. Epilogue the entire audience have qualifications higher than ford School, being placed in the (presented by Messrs. Kelly & Wheller. those possessed by the members Fifth Form. of the staff of this school, or who display keener enthusiasm in the. cause of education, education in the best and deepest sense.
Visitors.
Montargis French Prize.-V.
Mr. W. Sinclair in the Theatre Royal last night after the final performance of "Saint Joan" were cheered to the echo.
When the curtain was rung] down on the last words of the.
broke into enthusiastic applause Head Master's Prize. K. and called for the principals who "Ezra Abraham" Scholarship. Class 1B.-(Senior Local) 1, K. Jenner.
then came forward to receive Mr. Ezra Abraham has given a Jenner; 2, S Whitley (presented. Rev. H. Copley Moyle's Prize beautiful bouquets across the scholarship, value $100, which will by Mr. E. Abraham).
for Scripture S. Whitley. footlights.
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be awarded annually to the pupil, Class 2-(Junior Local) 1, J. Rev. H. Johnston's Prize for passing the Junior Local Examina-Maycock 2 R. Witchell (present-Scripture.J. Maycock, tibn, who obtains the most marksed by Mr. E. Abraham),
Class 4B.-1, G. Tacchi; 2, W. Hirst (presented by Mr. L M. Whyte).
The school was visited by the Director of Education, the Inspec- in Mathematics. This is a very Class 3-1, K. Hammond; 2. D. tor of English Schools, Mr. B. generous gift and I hope that the Salter (presented by Mr. E. Wylie,-a-member-of-the-Board-of-example set-by-Mr. Abraham, who Abraham). Education, Mr. W. W. Hornell, has always taken a great interest Class 4A-1, V. Dorf; 2, R. Vice-Chancellor of the University in this school, will be followed by Woolley presented by Mr. L. M. of Hongkong, Hon. Mr. P. H. other friends interested in the Whyte). Holyoak, Education Commissions education of British children. from both Japan and the Philip- Old Pupils' Association. pine Islands, and many parents The members of this Associa and friends. I wish to remind all tion were very active during the. parents that I am always ready year 1924. In the Water Polo to meet them at the school to show League they played throughout them the class-rooms and labora-the season without losing a match, | G. Carr. tories and the work done here, and winning the shield which is now to discuss questions relating to displayed in the School Hall. their own children and to educa- tion in general.
Curriculum.
Guides and Boy Scouts.
The Prince of Wales' Banner was won by the Central British School troop of Girl Guides under their energetic and enthusiastic,
Latin Chemistry and Physics have now been added to the school curriculum. Latin is taken in captain, Miss. Owen Hughes, Classes 1 and 2 by those boys and assisted by Miss Holyoak.
Clasa 5A-1, E. Mead; 2, K. Nightingale.
Class 5B.-1, L. Glendinning; 2.
Class 8.1, U. Mitchell; 2, M. Taylor.
Garrison School Scholarships.- E. Anslow, N. Budden, M. George, P. Hunt, J, Maycock, C. Maynard J..R. M. Smith Scholarship.J. Stewart, C. Allison,
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girls who propose to matriculate Mr G. Tarrant-took-over-the Hongkong & Whampoa Dock In the University of London after duties of Scoutmaster of the Scholarships.-K. "passing the local Matriculation
Examination.
Building and Equipment, At the beginning of the year Physics Laboratory was fitted up
School Boy Scouts.
Groundwater." Sports and Games,
Wylie Composition The School Athletic Sports were Wheller, held January, Cricket has - Wylie become a very popular game, the "(Sp
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Mr. N. Wheller's Prize for Mathematics.-K. Jenner.
Mr. H. B. L. Dowbiggin's Prize for History.-S. Whitley.
Miss Bascombe's Prize for History-C. Allison,
After this pleasing little cere mony had been, performed there! were insistent cries of "Speech! speech!" and Mr. Sinclair per force came to the front of the stage and made the remarks reli ported, adding a special tribute to the work of Mrs. D. W. Salter (stage direction), Mrs. D. Beale (Saint Joan) and Mr. A. Clios (scenery).
Mr. G. G. Wood's Frize for Mathematics (Class 3).-J. Laing. Mr. T. R. Rowell's Prize for Geography (Class 3).-M. Weaton.
Needless to mention last night's Captain R. F. Mitchell's Prize performance fully maintained the for Mathematics (Class 4).-V. high standard set on the open- Dorf......
ing night and thoroughly delight Arithmetic Prizes.Class 5A ed a crowded house. Presented by Mr. G. Tacchi: E. Mead, A. Fowler. Class- 5B: L.. Glendinning. Clasa 6: U. Mitchell. Miss Hall's Prize for Drawing —— J. Maycock.
Messrs. Der A Wing's Prize for Drawing.-R. Woolley,
Mrs. Nightingale's Prizes for Writing.-U. Mitchell, E. Lama-| mart
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