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Robbing the Hong Kong Excava-
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MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1930.
FAGGING IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL.
NEW AND MORE HUMANE GENERATION TO-DAY,
INVALUABLE FACTOR.
[By The Motion.}
Have You Heard?-
"Treat 'em well," was the policy of the new hotel managor, so Sandy decided to book a room. Pro- paring to leave next morning he was met by the manager:-
""Good Ded?" "Splendid!" "Bath?" "Great!" "Breakfast?" "Grand!"
To-day Chan Wing was charged before Mr. Whyte-Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy with the theft of a silver dollar, $1.88 in loose money, and some clothing, the pro- A coroner's jury at Nelson ex- perty of a compatriot living at 140 pressed the opinion that the sy3- Portland Street., Sentence of two months' hard labour was given to tem of fagging in public schools defendant.
should be abolished. The inquest concerned the death of C. G. Fairhurst, aged 14, son of the Vicar of St. Thomas's. Barrow- ford, near Nelson, who, on the be a godsend!".
return to Sedbergh School, Yorkshire, was
A man unaccustomed to praising hanging at his father's vicarage.her an angel..
A fine of $2 was imposed on each of five Hakka village women of the Po Kong Village, at the Kowloon Police Court this morning, when they nil pleaded guilty to trespass eve of his ing in a Government plantation at Diamond H. They had eut some grass and shrubbery.
TAKE THE VEIL
found
to
And then, reckoning up: "Well, what about a pound?"
"Och, hey!" said Sandy, "That'll
件
his wife want out of his way to call
The Rev. F. W. Fairhurst Be- "Mary," he said one morning. counted for his son's death by his you are an angel," and she felt Intense reluctance to return
charmed all day. Sedbergh because of the fagging ask him why she had been so In the evening she ventured to
honoured.
Impressive Ceremony at sytem there.
Penang Convent.
The question quite naturally "Well," said the wily one, "you rises whether fag master is are always flitting about; you aro another name for a bully. Per always harping on things; and, by
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At a very impressive service, nt aonally, I am convinced that that your own account, you have nothing the Penang Convent on June S is not the case. The word "fag-to wear." six young girls, most of them of ging" is Hable to misinterpreta- Penang. took the vell whilst three tion. Twenty or thirty years ago others, who had already taken the fagging had veil on a previous occasion, made putation. further vows.
One dark night, a P. and O. liner
an unenviable re- was passing the Lipari Islands in the To have to fag for Mediterranean, and the passengers The ceremony took place in the
anyone was the worst punishment were fortuante enough to see the beautiful Convent chape! which jected to the tyrranies of callous state of eruption.
a boy could have. He was sub-volcano Stromboli in a very active was aglow with candle light, the youths in the upper school, who, altar being particularly attractive- not knowing better, delighted in fire all down a wide track of the There was a stream of flaming ly decorated by the Convent seeing their fellow scholars wait mountain's side, very bright against sisters.
The chupe! was crowded with re- the public schools nowadays, the wondrous sight only to be
upon them hand and foot. At the blackness of the night- truly latives, and friends specially in-system of fagging is still in force, once in a lifetime. vited, says the Pinang Gazette.
seon
The Rev. Father A. Devals con- A new, and a more humane, gen-could be seen no more, a lady turned but on entirely different lines. We gazed, and when the sight ceremony. Those taking the vell life is quite worth living. An en- fellow passenger: ducted the long and knelt in front, each with a light-deavour is made to inclucate in
solemn gration has sprung up and a fag's from the ship's rail, and said to her
ed candle in hand.
"Well I am glad I've seen the small boy habits of prompt saliva pouring down a volcano into e
cleanliness, prompti. the sea like that!" in-tude, and the notion that it is After reminding them of the do odd jobs.
not menial and not derogatory to
"Oompah!-Oompah!-Oompaḥ!"- great sacrifice they were making.
-hummed a little man in the bus the sacrifice of all worldly things,
very audibly. including their parents
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"What's he keep saying 'Oompah' for?" inquired one wit of another.
"Oh, he's a Yorkshireman whe
was the reply.
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god that is considered by the multitude is the god of sport. It is forgotten if it was ever learned-that there is a time for everything; that moderation is as
After a brief service at the altar, obedience, needful on the playing fields (interesting address.
Father Devals delivered an cluding players and spectators) as elsewhere; that excesses can only destroy that which sport
Pampered Boys. ought in reality to build up. brothers and sisters, Father Devals and who
and Boys who have been pampered Over-concentration on sport is addressing the six girls, said that fulfill all their requirements when has been to college, trying to pro
have had servants to the begetter of gross selfishness. that day they were changing their at home, need lessons in the nounce 'Umpire," communal and individual. Some-in order to forget the world and to duties both
name and dress and taking the veil execution of trivial everyday thing must suffer when sport make the world forget them. The for others.
for themselves and
A family resident abroad, which amol; and the enthusiast veil would hide them from the that fagging is a very good part one day returned to their home and No, I am convinced employed a male Chinese servant, degenerates into a hateful zealot. world; and the world would not of a public school education,
know them. Let the Empire--let each link great sacrifice, but he asked them little amusement in making teast, tinkering with the taps. They had made a Though
found him in at first he may find immersed in water.
the kitchen, almost He was vainly All communicatieas should be in the Empire-hold its own by to be of brave heart and to make washing plates, cleaning boots or addressed to the Newspaper En- terprise, Ltd, to whom all remit-
means in sporting rivalry the sacrifice complete. Those who running errands, a fag will inter damage by flooding, rushed forward, His employer, aghast At the tances should be made payable. with other nations; but nothing latives and friends, had come to him.
were present there, parents, re-realise the good that it has done shouting: "What's wrong
Public school boys are fs this sink choked?" can be lost by quiet reflection on share in the merits of that sacri- mostly going to be the dangers of going to extremes. fice.
masters, if "Yes, enly of a small domestic staff. servant, "and what's more, this boss," replied the sodden Scores in a Test match cannot black garments and white
Father Devals then blessed the The fagging system teaches them Chink's soaked, too!" send us all, 10,000 miles away they were to wear, after which vant in both its aspects.
caps the relation of master and ser from the scene of conflict, into a they were removed from near the boy who himself has experience individuals who is tied to a nagging The Benson is one of those unfortunata Hong Kong, Monday. June 16, 1930.
state of ecstasy.. The result of the to don the habitat in which they ly to make a considerate em-did not fly to the pub in order to
altar. The six girls then retired of menial work is the more likewife. Derby leaves many of us cold. We would appear in future, for ever, ployer.
Being a temperate man, he may dismiss the race for the and while they were away the Con- Selfishness of Sport.
The privilege
of America Cup from our minda vent choir sang hymns.
should never be bestowed Napoleon contemptuously de-five minutes after reading the
those who are
Strangely enough, at his firs scribed Britain as a nation of eable. We would, indeed, be an went down on their knees again fag beyond recovery.
When the six girls returned they ing it.
capable of abus- examination. That would injure the question to him:
the doctor put this shopkeepers; to-day he would appalling nation if we all, indi and took their vows, Father Devala Icac
He would that
"Now, Benson, you are a married considerateness have described it as a nation of vidually, were red-hot enthusiasts putting the questions and they ethers
for man. which should blossom wife hanging, what would you do?” Supposing you found your sportsmen. Rudyard Kipling was
over each and every form of sport.
answering together.
forth after his experience under Bitterly assailed when he wrote Fortunate it is that we each on their knees before Father De-not see the public school spirit somewhat ambiguous, reply.
Each of them then went down a good master. But, then, I can-gir," was
"I'd do all I could to help her, Benson's prompt, but of "flannelled fools and muddied have Preference in sports; Free vals who placed the veil over their fall at the sight of bullying. In oafa"--but that, of course, was Trade in our opinions of the other bowed and knelt before the Con-master protect his charge when at a burly policeman across the road,
heads, and as they went by, they ninny cases I have known a fag long before the Great War Tafellow whose phenomenal zeal in- vent Mother Superior, who adjust- he had come
Mr. Knowall (pointing his finger End War of 1914-18! The play-clines us to doubt his sanity; ed the veil.
upon such a rare said ing fields were neglected until the and Protection from those who the aix new nuns went up and were years
occurrence. The fagging system that policeman over there?
to young Simpson): "See After the final prayers and vows, has proved itsef over a period of the champion swimmer of the force." He's War was won, but the post-war are apt to become unmitigated kissed by the Mother Superior and training older boys
ап invaluable factor in
Young Simpson: "Oh, is he?"> generation has rapidly gone back nuisances!
to wield
Mr. Knowall: "Yes, they say he's
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News in Brief
of
Over the week-end three cases typhoid fever were notified, one being non-Chinese,
و وسايلي
The Vowa.
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be away from home, but joined the fag-master ambulance brigade.
upon
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all the other Convent Mothers and power and younger boys to obey. very hot at the truncheon stroke.” Sisters who were assembled in the Though often tedious and menial, chapel, thus receiving their con-fagging is very seldom terrifying gratulations first.
Ballying is quite another matter.emptying after the match, when the The football ground was rapidly Subsequently, after the service, and really bears no the parents and relatives stayed the question.
relation to policeman on duty eapled a small behind, to take their last farewell
and moving ceremony and long of the girls. It was a touching
A Good Point.
boy, disappearing over the boards.
"Hi, young feller," he shouted, People may say "But what do the same way as you came in?"
pompously, "why don't you go out
will the memory of it remain in you know about fagging, you are
"That's what I am doing," answer-
the minds of those privileged to behind the scenes and do not see led the urchin, as he vanished.
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Mrs. Mayfair: Who's that wo-
.Mra Suburb: Ohl she's my next-
your bow.
Mrs. M.: But she didn't return:
Mra. S. No-she never returns. anything.
kindred other things that assist to make a nation mighty are per- mitted to suffer through the great The body of an elderly Chinese be present. Of the six girls who the everyday life in school?" quest for sport. A couple of woman, believed to have been months ago all that mattered in customer at one of the two wrecked was Miss Clare Mary de Cruz. tut
a had decided to take the veil, one That is a very good point to raiso, national life was the destiny of the roof, Bas been removed from the Ben de Cruz, of Love Lane, tiver at quite half a dozen of the door neighbour.
stalls just before the collapse of youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. suggestion that having had rela-
as my defence I offer the man you just bowed to?. the English Football Cup; a fort debris at the Salyingpun Market. Penang, and sister of Messre. best schools, I am in a position night ago the Derby eclipsed all
Arthur and Ancel de Cruz. An- to judge. else in interest; this week the the Chung Wah building contractors Mary Wooden, the eldest daughter of a fag consist mainly of mak For stealing mine fron bars from other of them was Miss Adelaide thinking very hard that the duties
I can say without. Test cricket match between Eng-asa house under construction in of Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Wooden, ating toast in large quantities, run- land and Australia has pride of Shamshaipo, an unemployed Chinese prezent of Karmen estate, Mengka- ning errands into the town, clean place; three months hence the was at the Kowloon Magistracy this rak, Pahang. Both parents of Missing O.T.C. equipment on Corps. nation's business pulse will morning sentenced to three weeks Wooden come from San Thome, days, producing shaving water in virtually cease to throb whilst
hard labour.
Madras Mr. and Mrs. Wooden the morning and cleaning out the Peer and commoner discuss the
have a family of five children. Ti study. What is there very ardu- The fact that 15 catties of salt recond girl ta married and three ous in these tasks? Perhaps the race for the America Cup, to en-cost only 20 cents, appeared to sur ethers are studying two girls in cleaning of equipment is a stir deavour to win which
prise Mr. Whyte-Smith it the Kow-the Seremban Convent and one boy job, but most fag-masters are con Thomas Lipton has had another he imposed a fine of 15 or seven
loon Magistracy, this morning, when at St. Paul's, Institute, Seremban.siderate enough, if the fag has Shamrock built.
daya Jail on a Chincue who ad- mitted stealing that quantity from
Sir
a salt shop in Shamshulpe..
The Water Authority, in a notification appearing elsewhere,
ROBBERY IN A FLAT,
some pressing engagement to keep or some exira work to đó.
Fagging is essential to harden boy, who has become accustom- ed to the luxuries of a home life, to the stoical training of
4
Ten Years Ago
(From the "China Mall," June 16, 1920.1
To-day's dollar is worth 3-
84.
It may well be naked whither
The Catholic Men's Club of Hong this increasing passion for sport
Kong was formally opened last is taking us 7. The sportsman ap.
night by his Lordship Bishop pears to be in danger of losing his
Pozzoni In the presence of a large A robbery occurred at public school life, which has pro gathering of Club members and Informs the public that commencing Carnarvon Buildings, the residence duced so many great men in the their friends. perspective and of neglecting the greater things that make
on Wednesday there will be a con- of Mr. M. Weller, special ro post My Sympathies are with the Lieut. Comds Hodgson, RN, atory tant Supply of water to the rider presentative of the Sun Life As-new boy, but at the same time was inade the first president of the in the fullest sense of the term mains from North of Queen's Road, ourance Co- of Canada on Saturday feel that the benefit which he will organization, who, in addressing From morning to night, from between Murray Load and Eastern Between 6.60 a.m. and 2 p., some gain from his experiences will the gathering, sald that he hoped. Sunday to Saturday, right districts will be from a.m. to
Streetho kupplysmal other person stole from the drawing room fully justify any hardships that that this was only the begin throughout the year, the only p.m.
window two brses window adjusting he may suffering in his apprenning of a friendship that would last roda, valued at $5.
ticeship.
among all Catholics."