CHINA
SATURDAY, OCTOBER
ORRESPONDENCE
Educational Reform In Hong Kong
To The Editor, China Mautį Sir Professor L Forster's of his criticism, in the course 'speech at the Hong Kong Teachers' Association's annual meeting, that Mr. Burney's report should have been produced 20 years ago is in- deed pertinent
Hong Kong English schools and colleges care too much for the re- sults in the Matriculation- and School Certificate Examinations, Kong conducted by the Hong University. They prepare their! students only for entrance to the University, as the time-table
and syllabus of any English mid- dle school will prove. Except in the Government schools, the sub- jects of algebra and geometry, are included in class IV, while above) class IV. including Government: schools, physics and chemistry are taught. And if the University Examinations do not limit the mathematics and science-subjects as in the case of previous years, the subjects arithmetic. algebra. geometry. trigonometry, physics, chemistry, mechanics, and' higher] mathematics will be found in the time-table of the higher classes in a lot of schools.
etc..
Ascene from Fox Films picture The Farmer Takes a Wife," featuring Janet Gaynor and Henry Fonda in the leading roles. This picture will be screened at the King's Theatre shortly.
REGISTRY OFFICE ARREST
Couple Married In Handcuffs:
Police Sign Register
New York.
Wanted by the police, Lino Pezzais was arrested when he -applied for a marriage licence. "With him was his fiancee, whom the police know only as Barth.
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
The ss. Sirdhana is due here! from Singapore next Wednesday morning.
BARNEYS
BEQUEST
Howard
YlE O'Briens (said O'Brien, mares, and take a room as close
Tthe Jarvey) have
had an eye to any money, only It's never been aisy, and, in the
endt, there hasn'
money in it
Now, the aisiest
make money is to get
and would
amount av time the
been any
to Shamus as the ould, man, would stand for
Shamus was the ideal rich rela- tive. He had a lot - av money. of all to twas 'well known in Clifden, and left to ye, he never spent a penny widout the thinking about it twice and then, has putting it back in his pocket. He
spent in be-havin' swata to the few was very ould too, and altogether
rich relatives – we
it looked as if Barney had the brightest kind av prospects, if he He could only get on his right side.
Gerald O'Brien was furious wid his san him having peculiar "What I'm going to do," he says, ideas, and holding 'twas not moral is to look round for a nice, rich, tor decent to influence the aged old relative, and, by exercisin' me about where they left their money. charm av manner, persuade him to Bamey, feeling independent " wid lave me all his money.***
But the hardest case
me cousin, Barney O'Brien. (was a nice lad, Barney, for all he
never did a stroke at work.
*And, anyway, what relative will that be his father, Gerald. wants to know.
But Barney says he isn't parti“ cular. Any relative will do, pro- vided he's got enough money and is well advanced in years.
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+
MONDAY'S STORY
Monday's story will be “Dogged" by D. Wilson MacArthur.
***Tis disgusting," said Gerald- “Forchune-hunting.” says he, “is his prospects answered him back, thing I don't believe in.”
jand, in the end, Gerald up and said he'd finished wid Barney for good, Now, the O'Briens is a large the way he'd never been anything family, and though 'tis not in our but a millstone round his neck, nature to overlook rich relatives, and, since Bamey, was so in- The Management of the Hong Barney manages to find wan, living terested in wills, he might like to extended far away in Clifden. What was know he wasn't so much as men- Kong Hotel notify an night to-night in the Grill Room, more, he turns out to be a step- tioned in his own.
mother's "side, so when dancing will be continued uncle on his
This made Barney Langh, for until 2 a.m.
more his relative than anybody's Gerald wouldn't be having the j
else's, exceptin' his mother. And ha'penny-piece to lave in his will, A dinner dance will be held at she being dead, he wasn't much and the b're was knowing it. But the Repulse Bay Hotel to-day and use to her. A terrible old man, Gerald said 'twas not fair to harry 1 tea dance to-morrow. The last he was at the time as Shamus Shamus in his last days, and they bus will leave Repulse Bay at 10'Kane."
finished up wid a grand quarrel am to-morrow, and a half hourly "He's mine!" declares Barney that put a head out av every win- realist, his manager wel LONDON'S GREETING bus service will operate during to trimphant "Twas meself found lost for and out, and, when
Now, why should a boy who is needed by his family to earn money at the earliest possible time learn algebra and geometry for 4 years and physics and chemistry. for 3 years? When he leaves school to earn his living, he finds in these subjects totally useless. his occupation. His knowledge of physics and chemistry, will not be sufficient, to make himself a chemi- cal clerk and his knowledge of algebra, geometry, and trigonome. try will not make himself a sur veyor either. With regard to his
happens to work in a commercial firm. repeatedly have to correct mistakes.
The pair appealed to the police to be allowed to go on with their marriage. They were married in handcuffs, the policemen signing the register as witnesses.
They were then taken to prison" -Beuter.
FOR ROYAL COUPLE
Drive To St. Pancras With Guards Escort
London, To-day.
Generally, out of a class of 40 students, only 3 or 4 students en-. ter the University. The rest of the class only accompany these few] .students to sit for the Excam. On November 6 after their wed- Besides, the University can provide ding in the Private Chapel at accommodations for about 400 Buckingham Palace H. R. H. the students. Annually a thousand or Duke of Gloucester and Lady
morrow.
uncle,
ihim, and I stakes out me claim, they'd used up everything they'd and an evil day will be for any-got to say to wan another, they Mr. Bonny Powell of the wan that tries to step in atween parted not on spakin terms, and Barney went off to seek his for- MGM and Fox Films, in connec meself and me dear old tion with the Magic Carpet, is to rest him!**
chune in Clifden. supervise the shooting of a film So what does Barney do but
Well, Shamus was more than a of the dancing in the Grill Room move himself to Clifden, for to be bit suspicions av Barney at fitst of the Hong Kong Hotel to-night-near his precious uncle.
"What d'ye want to come and Dancing will be continued until 2 Barney's idea
that he live in Clifden for?" he says, am. and a large attendance is should live with Shamus, but
grunting expected.
Shamus wasn't so far gone as to have any av that. So Barney had
Of these students, the University cras Station in an open carriage Graduates Association
held an
Was
Tis a grand place to live in."
me
advantage of being close to
man," he says. "I like to have me
Then why aren't ye living wid yer father" ould Shamus wants to know.
AL CAPONE TURNS relations about me
PHILANTHROPIST
over candidates sit for the Exam Alice Scott will drive to St. Pan- The Hong Kong University to get a job av work, a thing he'd plains Barney. "And it has the can admit at the most a hundred-scorted by a company of Royal informal Chinese dinner and card never done before except in night"ould uncle. I'm a family kind avi each year. Consequently, some Horse Guards. The public will party last night at the University students who can afford University thus enjoy an opportunity of ac- Club. A large number of ga education and who are qualified to claiming the Royal bride and dates attended. The guest of enter the University are not ad- bridegroom, of which the cancel honour was the Vice-Chancellor mitted to the University for lack lation of the ceremony at West- iSir William Hornell. of accommodation. Many teachers minster Abbey had deprived it.. realise the situations facing their Lady Alice will also drive from The Sheklung Leper Committee students, but why they do not the Duke of Buccleuch's reat will hold their fortnightly Whist bring about reforms is a mystery dence in Grosvenor Place to the Drive at the Seamen's Institute
[Palace in a glass coach sent from at 9 pm sharp on Monday, Oc-] Students during their period of the Royal Mews.
Itober 28. The launch Dayspring study are blind with regard to The original plan by which will call at Shamshuipo Pier at 8 their careers and are easily led school children were to be grant p.m. and Kowloon Police Pier at wherever their teachers directed a whole holiday on the day of 3.30 pm for patrons, returning them The responsibilities which the Royal wedding will be adat 11.10 p.
Wireless Ser-[""] teachers shoulder in the guidance hered to.-British
to me
of their pupils are undoubtedly vice.
heavy. If teachers merely
care
Provides Instruments For Prison Band PRAISE FROM MURDERER ABOUT TO DIE
Huntsville, Texas.
4 man about to die in the elec-
Barney sighs, and admits that his father was awful upset at his leaving him
"But, sure," he says, smiling at Shamus, "I can see ye're going to be a second father to me."
"Ye're after me money!” says Shamus.
"Indade, I'm nothing av the
tric chair talked to reporters sort!" denies Barney, all indig-
The wedding took place at the here, not about himself, but nant "Truth to say, I didn't Wesleyan Methodist Church yes-about the philanthropy of Al know ye had any. In fact," says for the merit of the results in the "BEGGAR” TALKS OF terday afternoon of the Rev. Ed Capone, the notorious Chicago he, "part av me object in coming
ward Henry Moody, of the Me- gangster. University Exam, and do not mind
their pupils' future careers, they cannot be proud of their profes- sion.
To help a student to obtain certificate only does not
mean
SUICIDE
He Only Possessed G$7,000
to live here was to help ye through
thodist Mission at Yunnan, and W. D. May, condemned to yer ould age wid such little loans Miss Beatrice Stella Eagle of death for murder, was for 10 as ye might require." the English Baptist Mission at months fellow prisoner of That softened Shamus a good Sianfu, Shensi. Following the Capone in America's Devil's deal, and he says that maybe Bar- ceremony, a reception was held Island, the escape-proof Alcatraz ney's a good lad, after all.. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bad-Island prison, where the Chicago At first, Barney was hard put] educating him. There are many
New York
Beer Baron and racketeer is serto it for an excuse to see as much students holding Matriculation
P. C. Walter Mitchell observed den. 5, Naval Terrace,
ving his 11-year sentence for ay his uncle as he'd like. He was Certificates who cannot write three a tattered beggar sob bitterly when
Under instructions from the evasion of income taxes. a vain b'y, Barney, and he had sentences correctly. If we insert passers-by ignored his outstretch Secretary of State for the Colon- May told reporters how Al
a queer idea that the more Sha- an advertisement in the newspapered hand
ies, His Excellency the Officer Capone spent $1,250 on jazz
mus saw ay him the greater would for a junior clerk, we can at once.
Sympathetically, the policeman Administering the Government instruments which he had pre he his love for him. He couldn't discover the standard of English approached him and offered words has been pleased to recognise Dr.sented to the prison orchestra,
or higher of encouragement - The beggar George Duncan Ralph Black, and had offered $4,000 more to always be running in just to pass |
which Matriculation class students reach.
spoke of suicide, so the policeman. B. E., provisionally, and pend-pay for a tennis court for the Something must be done to retook him into custody for his owning the issue of His Majesty's
prisoners. form the educational system of protection: SE
Exequatur, as Hon. ConsularAl is not high-hat and seems Hong Kong Mr. Burney's recota-
At the police station they found Agent for Cuba, at Hong Kong. Hike a pretty good guy," the mendations as a basis are quite $375 on him and a bank book
doomed murderer recounted. sane. More subjects of practical showing deposits in his name of It is notified that Dr. Arthur "Most of the men in Alcatraz value should be taught, instead of $6,720. Reuter.
Robartes Wellington, CMG, has like him. He is working in the physics and chemistry, which, im-
resinned duty as Director of e- library and gets about among perfectly taught, give only hazy as required by the present Exam dical and Sanitary Services and the boys pretty much" Reuter. ideas of science Schools, such as The School Certificate system un- that Dr. William Brownlow Ashe the Junior Technical School, where questionably calls for changes or Moore has resumed duty as Deward from Tsimshatsui to Yan- boys after training can do practical amendments. It is sad to see puty Director of Medical and mati: work at the Dock Yard should be student who is strong in the Eng- Sanitary Services, as from Octo- Festablished. In consideration of lish subjects and who would be aber 25, 1935.
the fact that most students enter successful man in business fail in the commercial field after leaving the School Certificate Exam," on school, the Education Department account of his weakness" in. "should conduct an examination for mathematics or science. Such was students who regard commerce as the case with many a candidate in their calling. All students look the last Exam
forward to passing an examination
to carry some pride in their school
Since there is not.
I sincerely hope the
of the Hong Kong
sociation, Education and University will into the
HK. POLICE
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a fine plan soon.
the time av day, but he hit upon
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