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plained how the Centre was fine sewing there and those who frat developed and began gra- could only undertake machine We undertook such dually to prosper in the Colony, work.
lingerie, smocking, กล
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When fair-haired, kind-eyed, Miss J D. Carter began an experiment of her own in,ro-
When the Hong Kong Relief work habilitation In June last year, she had plenty of ideas and Department began work in the childrens' enthuxinam but no money to autumn of 1945, it requisition-ments, soft furnishings etc. back them.
ed the old City Hall for Home Training was difficult at first an Now, 13 months later, with of its activities. On the first none of these workers had ever a job successfully carried out, floor of the building a work been inside a European hauke seen a loose cover for a ******** ¦ and a small erstwhile poverty room was opened where about or
stricken community at present 50 destitute women and girls chair, nor did any speak Eng- thriving under her charge and who had a little knowledge of sh."
Yet at the moment the Cen- cooperative no-sewing or machine work, were GAAN-AI St. Theresa's HospiWorking on a
relief tre has two expert cutters who ciety basis, she may be respon-¡ given employment as tal yesterday afternoon,
sible for her scheme being in- measure. Most of the girls, all visit houses, clubs or ships, to Francis Lonord Gnan, Aged
war make the required measure- troduced into the British oc- Chinese, three years. Funeral
supied zone of Germany. and widows, some of them having ments. So far the work done pass the Monungut to-day n 5.30 1.3.
various other parts of Europe three or four children or elder- cludes providing curtains for
all the principal clubs in the Co-l From the Colonial Office in ly parents to support. London the other day came a At that time, wald Miss Car-lony, many private houses, and letter naking Miss Carter for ter, the most pressing need for the entire interior draping de- detalla anıl methods of her all was clothing, and the Custo- coration for a pre-war haury scheme. The report which was
dian was, approached for the passenger liner. rent back will be handed to an
use of a number of newing ma- Not the least important conse-Allied Control official who will chines and for bolts of fane quence of six years of concentrated shortly leave England to take ette. Many hundreds of war effort is that the universities over the supervision of all Ger- ments-mass productions-be- are caping today with the largest man co-operative societies and gan to be made for various in- sundergraduate population in their would-be similar organisations stitutions, orphanages, hos
the Colony. Three history. The worst effects of the that country. This official pitals in congestion, due to an unprecedentis likely to adapt Miss Carter's thousand hospital alts
were re made for the lainan refugees e demand for adtnission on the part of students whose higher abilitation prograsime in Ger- alone. education has been interrupted or į defense because of the war, in circumstances that render aay appropriate enlargements of e- commodation and stall out of the question, will abate, no doubt, in course of time; but it is manifest from the trend and purpose official educational policy that the universities will be open, in
of young
people leaving school, among whom the study of the physical and mechanical scieners will be increasingly encouraged. Here is nothing less than a social
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From fulfilling orders which were given by friends and as- - Boclates, the Centre has now developed to a first-class sewing agency recognised by firms and the general public in the Co- lony
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BARCLAY ON BRIDGE By Shepard Barclay
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OUT-THINKING YOURSELF
future, to an increasing proportion the pleasunt hum of sewing a weekly wage agreed by the general was not an easy busi-thinking in a crucial spot? Did ous threat. Counting South for
100 Years
Ago Today
Government.
An
Said Miss Carter yesterday: The main object of our work is to provide training, a livell bood and a future for the girl workers. Its secondary object is to help to bring down prices that bad risen to fantastie duce our goods at a low price. heights. To enable us to pro- Government privously supplied cloth at special, cost, in parti. cular cotton cloth suitable for
contract three tricka, But East studied the dummy. He decid- mens summer suits. Not Easy "Fixing prices for work in DID YOU ever do too much the spade sult was a danger- only two spaden-because with nesa ut first.
additional you ever see at once just what three he should support the re- In June last year the work- difficulty was the fact that the was the correct thing to do bid major-ho placed four with room had completed the job re- Chinese worker's output is then, after a bit of reflection, West. So West might be able quired of it by the Relief De- never more than about one decide on some other move (FARE)
partment, but the workers were third of that of her opposite which turns out to be costly? to stop the spade run if the diamond re-entry was removed must anxious to continue work number in Europe. Yet in apite Who hasn't? Sometimes the first from the dummy.
their livelihood depended of difficulties and the fact that more or less obvious action will HK$180.- development that must have sharp
So Enat led his diamond 2 to effects upon science and industry,
we paid Government rates upon it.
to pay you dividends, whereas the the second trick. West used 250.- and ultimately upon the country
Mias. Carter then decided to the girls, we have always run carefully figured out maneuver his A, then knocked
out the 350.- as a whole. It becomes of great
carry on her own lines and this work at a profit and the in just about the worst course dummy's other diamond with 180.- importance, therefore, to consider
From the ler of The "China) Govt. allowed her the use of undertaking has proved to be you could take. how the potential benefits of
the premises rent free on the financially sound." 300.-
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BON BONS OR WORM TAB. understanding
Miss Carter pointed out that university 35.-realised to the fullest possible ex- LETS. Keatings, a purely vege- scheme were to be carried out every business expects to have! A certain amount of capital tent, and how far clear foresight table sweetmeat both in appear. It must pay its own way.
Said Miss Carter: "This available to enable it to carry to that end can be translated intoarce and taste, furnishing a most
"We have nose, how- purposeful direction by those an agreeable method of administer was an opportunity that could it on.
"Fortunately} whom rests the immediate respon- ing the only certain remedy for not be allowed to be lost. For ever," she said.
a long time I had wanted to we were able to show a profit; sibility for a truly successful out-
"Sir. My two create something that would be each month and this enabled usi the come. Among the latter,
little girls aged respectively three a permanent benefit to the to purchase all the sewing ma- student himself is the person most and two years, showed symptoms working class women of China, chines and office furniture that intimately concerned, and the most of having worms, so I obtained My Intention was to advelop
we had on loan from the Custo- influential factor, in his own uni- some of your Worm Bon Bons it in such a way that it should dian of Property. The present Varied and valu- from Mr. Bushy and they effected eventually become a Chinese co- position in that all accounts versity career.
have been met, there is a ba able opportunities are open to him such a cure-in fact I think saved operative society.
unce to our credit, and a spe- like "a dume of many-coloured their lives. The elder little girl glass," but to take full advantage
week's of them calls for an effort of will as well as of mind and body; and calls, also, for appreciation based on knowledge of what those op- The very tact portunities are. that the undergraduate of the future will be recruited more and mure frum families of moderate
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Paris, July 8,
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In an attempt to head off a drastic cut in the European bread ration and Far Eastern rice allocation the Food and Agricultural Ministers of 33 nations will meet in Paris for four days," starting tomorrow.
ho
RIOTOUS BEHAVIOUR- Joseph Kitchin, a private of H.M. 80th Regiment was brought up for Leing drunk and disorderly, and, when apprehended, violently as
the up spuiting and beating police. Inspector Grimes was income, with whom there, may be bitten in several parts of his body on tradition of public school and by the Felsoner. university as a matter of course. P. C. 24, Moggridge, met the
Paris, July 8. the worst Russian diplomatic of lesser-known entrants who implies a neutral and unprecon- same fate; the prisoner having
Two years of dismal peace blunder since the end of the were straining for resulta оп the right car ceived background that is not bitten
have induced Britain and Franco war. It made only too clear the which accounts for South's un- without advantages so long as it severely.
to try now to patch up Europe's Russian position in the UNO, usual final bid.
West led the heart 6. East If you wanted to make a des- tattered economy without the where many important decisions
Weperate "shot" for a big score, Soviet Union..
have been so effectively blocked played the K, which won. The choice was not their own, by the Soviets that Britain al- can easily see that a heart re- what would you bid in who is unworthy of consideration, distinction. Superficially, this but that of the Russians, why ready has questioned the effec- turn would result in setting the South over East's 1-Heart? the candidate for admission to a conception of university education refused continental economic co- tiveness of the world organisa- university is faced, briefly, with seems more appropriate to the operation because, the said, it tlon. the alternatives of education for tri spacious days of a century ago threatened the sovereignty of the Opposing Views good life or training for a specific then to the present age of inten- amall European nations.
Authoritative sources, French job. Simple and fundamental assive specialisation, and
There has been 'no effort to,
and British, took opposing these alternatives, may appear tu readily accepted by students of the minimise the results of the
Foreign lewe, in the light of the Paris be, the choice is not an easy one, arts than by those of the sciences. Anglo-Soviet-French
breakdown, on the chances of It ended especially for the financially For these very reasons, the techni- Ministers Conference.
an agreement when the conter The Russians poorer class of student who has cal student with a career in view bitterness.
ence of four. Foreign Ministers i sald, without contradiction, that
London meets again in been led to believe that his success runs the graver risk of failing to
November to write the German in life stands or falls on his gain-realise that the object of a uni- Europe would be divided.
Since the war International
and Austrian peace treaties. ing a good degree in three years" versity remains what it always conferences have ended mostly
Well-informed advisers in time. This type of man, poten-was, and that the professions, ne in failure to agree, The Paris tially able and commonly endow less than society as a whole, must fecting ended in outspoken con- London expressed a belief that a successful launching of the ed with more than average capaci- suffer by any relaxation in the filet, with Soviet Foreign Com Marshall project for rebuilding The special conference, called, than could be supplied," ty for hard work, needs to be quality of university standards. missar V. M. Molotov growling Europe's war shattered economy by the International Emergency said. "This coming crop year. convinced that a university is more Actually, a judicious admixture
could increase rather than re Food Council and the United that is, from June 30 last until than a collection of lecture of general culture and specialised Running A Risk duce the prospects of a London Nations Food and Agricultural next July, the situation will be evon more desperate. This and laboratories, just astraining is as needful in the arts Unquestionably, Russia ran a settlement. The French were Organization, will draw up a much as his heartier colleague as in the sciences, and is quite as risk when Molotov turned down not go optimistic. French quar- balance sheet of world grain conference will force nations, that its boundaries are wider than liable to be missed by students the proposal of the United States ters sald prospects for the needs and probable grain ex- who are members of the IEFC and FAO to look ahead and to those of its playing fields. The who are not fully seized of its Secretary of State George Mar- November meeting depend on ports."
recon-what happens at the UNO one essential function of a univer-value; but the cultural aspects shall for the economie
Since there is a substantial plan their grain collection pro- grammes and their bread ra- sity is the pursuit of learning, and of the so-called humanities are struction of Europe. If it works General Assembly meeting in
elsewhere Russian influence and September-the next major gap between the amount of
plies will be available: if a practical end must be assigned tnore evident, and merge at the prestige will suffer in those meeting between Russia and the tercal grains needed to main./tions on the basis of what sup- to.the education it offers to points into the general body of
tain present bread rations and
"We are not trying to force students, it is difficult to improve learning, than is the crise with the
What will happen in Now the amount the United States, standardization of the bread Canadu, Argentina and Austra-ration in various importing on Newman's belief that this purfactual and, applied sciences, Molotov's warning to British York?
Ha can export, the conference countries or anything like that. pose, consista in trining good which require, in consequence, a Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin French officials do not know will "see how the gap can be We hope to lay facts and figures members of society, having clear, somewhat deliberate supplement and French Miniator Georges and decline to speculate. closed with the fenat auffering on the table and to suggcat conscious views of their own of general education. If the Bidault that the project means the An authoritative British In
and pain," Dr. Dennis A. Fitz overall government food poll- opinions and judgment, able to widening field of recruitment to November meeting depend on formant saw two possible con- gerald, Secretary General of the cics consistent with predicted distinguish the sophistical from the universities is not to lead to division of Europe and woul sequences of the Faris .confer- the irrelevant, and prepared to undesirable levelling down, it is lead to "no good results" was enco. That the initiation of the FC, told a press conference supplies. United Press.
today. fill any post with credit. If the important that prospective under Interpreted in European capitals Marshall project undor Anglo-
Citing the especially sovare undergraduate student is to gain graduates should have a lively and in Washington to mean that French leadership could result
in what they called "the econo- winter freeze of December and as much as possible from his asso-appreciation of the opportunities he Soviets would fight it.
of February, which destroyed half In the view of Western obser- mic and political isolation ciation with the mature and culti-and duties ahead of them... Upon
** The Hague, July '8. The first batch of 50 Germans -- vated intellectual life of the senior the universities lies the obligation vers, the Paris Conference was Russia and the Russian-orbit the winter wheat crop in nearly not a falluro. It produced an states." The stronger possibl-every country of Europe, Dr. members of his university, he to maintain the right balance be unmistakeable ultimatum to the lity is that the success of the Fitzgerald said the resultant to be repatriated by the Dutch must deliberately seek culture as tween cultural and specialised Russians: that Russla cannot Marshall project would "shock spectre of severe bread short- under their deportation scheme the frontier today, well as knowledge, and contribute studies and to foster such an in- continue to delay world progress Russia and the countries along ages was the principal reason crossed positively to the purpose of the tellectual atmosphere as will en by an uncomprising stand and a Europe's Red fringe into the for calling the special confer- escorted by the State police.
They were taken over by the university by developing in him, courage students to become. In auspicious approach to avery realisation their cooperation was enco
"Last year, grain-Importing Allled authorities and removed self, first, the aptitude for ac tegral parts of the society. In Western auggestion.
not absolutely essential for the
nations of the world asked for to Lustringen camp, quiring education and continuing which they are privileged to Molotova veto of the Marshall' continental economic recovery".
10 million tons of grain more Osnabrueck-Router. plan, they said, was perhaps Associated Preon.
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