PETITION OVER SCHOOLS FOR WORKERS' CHILDREN
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Half a loaf is bottor than no broad stressed the Right Ravorand R. O. Hall, Bishop of Victoria, and the Reverend George Sho Cathedral Chap- lain, in a petition to the Governor-in-Council yesterday.
The petition asked for the Director of Education's closure order sørved on the Hong Kong and Kowloon Schools for Workers' Children to be revoked; that his notice to withdraw subsidy be cancelled; that the existing subsidy be in- creased and that new Government schools should be open to workers" children.
The Director of Education has i That the Director of Schuention's antice to withthaw subsidy fo ordered that schools he closed m
the Schools may be cancelled and August 31, this year. His pro-
used to accommodate the children | But the existing subsidy be ine In two new schools to be con-
Truewd by Government.
At the end of 1846 there was a large number of children of utility com→ employees of loent
govern- pranies, dockyards and ment departments restimated then at about 36,000) who were
Un-
timmys of the Colony.
RAF Ancelation, huurbem, Juco-able to svetle admission into the
bean Room, HK Hotel 12.45 03.04.
Kowloon Rotay Club
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With tumchen,
Malish burch Misionary Society "Pask-wir
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That the
Government W Schools should be open to new pupils whose parents up workers in the Colony ated that the work- ers' Falucation Advancement So- +icly Crepresenting 32 lending Untons in the Folony) Labour Chall have e sole right of dominating pupils to there schools.
Schools, the Educater AdvaIMPROVEMENTS TO
R. A. C. Beceling Penilaient Surely for Workers in Hong
Kowloon started
Hy Hales, 12.30 pan. m 30 Mont
school for workers' children munes of a Flower Day and exi The
meeting will be closed }
Delay In
Payments System
The Hague. June 21. Neither the new European payments system nor the Ben- elux "pre-uplore" arrangement will be ready to start operatizi as due on 1sty 1, Dr HM, Jie- schfeld, Netherlands' commis. inner for the European Regus
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lev-cs to the "yopathise
BRIDGES IN NT
The Army authorities Burne
yesterday that work will start charly on the improvements 15
, land wres sorted he spiippad ridges in the New Terr
eval schools.
In September 1948 the wärkere Education Advancement Society ased $15.719.79 from a lower my e num was banded to the Management Committee la meet Haneint responsibility educating the children.
On May 20, received
very Propronmae, drelared ty- į Fillable premises.
day.
Dr.
5,1
Jories to enable the bridges to accept heavier traffic.
a certain
Thx will result amount of traffic dislocation pecially on the main road leading
round the Western New Territor les.
hair of the
Every effort will be made fo keep such an inconvenience to a minimoan and as much work carried out posable will be night, added the slatement.
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1949 letter was from the Director of Education cancelling the registra- tion or all the workers' chi'dre: chools (with the exception of
SOLD CIGARETTES Col on Jaffe Road called the
reason WITHOUT LICENCE School). Tramway
The that the schools are in Further as
ahedding The woman invernment interiks to open onerigarettes from her walet all along 2 pre large school each on either side the way," said RJ Millington, when conference that no agreement has: of the harbour the subsidy to the Chinese women, Che Lai, aged yet been reached on the payments, schools will cgure after August 3153, was charged at Central yea- system but expressed hope that on 1949 but pupils from these schools accord might be found at a meel- ing of the ERP big four Sir Stafford Cripps, M. Maurice Pets che, M. Paul Henri Spank and A. E. Harriman, to be held in Bris- sels on Thursday
Hirschfeld told
Even if this happens, he said, It is no longer possible for tech- nical reasons to put it into effect en July 1, when the currency rangement expires.-Associated Press,
BOY HIT BY FALLING POLE
A boy of 13, Li Ching, was walking on the street in Wan- chat Road, when a pule fell on him from the first floor of a building.
Will
be given
priority of entry into the proposed new schcols,
There are 1.947 pupils in the schools whose registration are belha cancelled. It la believed that the two new Government Schools
will be able to hold 1,920 puplis and this means after abrorbing the children In the Workers Children Schools. would be unable other pupils
that
to gain admittance into the new schoolc.
No Increase in Vacant Places
This means that although there
is an increase In two schools in..
On the complaint of the boy's volving a sum of $700,000 there is no increase in vacant places for Chin father, a
Chinese woman,
sald children,
the unschooled Sheung. of 223, Wanchai Road.
st floor, was charged at Central petition. There would then be an in the quality of Improvement yesterday with negligently allow ing a pole to fall from the first school-premises but not in quan.
floor to the danger of persons Jawfully using the street.
She was fined $10 and ordered to pay $40 compensation to the boy.
USED TOY GUN IN TAXI HOLD-UPS An unemployed axi-driver, who is alleged to have held up four taxi-drivers during the past two weeks and robbed them of about $200 in cash and two watches, was yesterday arrested by the police at a pawnshop in Wanchal, when he attempted to pawn one of the watches,
His arrest led to the discovery of a toy revolver, said to be the phony weapon he used, which was hidden in the roof of a house in Lockhart Road,
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But with 35,000 children sull dented education (with no pros- peets of the majority of them get- ling education probably in their pre-adult lives at the present rate
of of the building of progress schools and the birth of New child.en), it seems that half a leaf is better than no bread, added the petition.
as high Although
not of standard as the Committee desires to attain, yet the schools are not below the standard of the average subsidised primary schools in the Colony, said the petition.
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with selling cigaretios erdny without a licence and possessing Hutiable commolt ics,
The prosecuting officer said that 10 clgarettes were tied to de- fendant's waist when she was ar rested at the Star Ferry wharf, A fine of $50 or 14 days' in de- fault was imposed,
"THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22; "1949.
Trip North Cancelled
Two hours after 1,200 Shanghai-bound Chinese passengers had embarked in the Dutch steamer Tiksadane. (above) the trip was cancelled when it was decided that it would be dan. gercus to sail up the Whangpoo because of the Anchises bomb. Ing. Below is a group of those who were among the first to board the ship relaxing on deck after choosing the most com. fortable spot--("China Mall" Photos).
Scathing Attack On Immigration Dept.
A scathing attack on the Immigration Department was made by Mr. M. A. da Silva before Mr. F. X. d'Almada at Central yesterday in the case of Mrs. Galina Ivanovna Kamachkina, agod 31.
Mr. Silva's attack followed the statement in court that the Governor-in-Council had rejected on appeal by her lawyer to allow her to stay in the Colony.
who Mudd, Sub-Inspector prosecuted, said that the Gov- ernor-in-Council had rejected her petition Colony
After Mr. Silva had pleaded
Ordinance On Fishing Trawlers
An
Ordinance
10 bring
fishing trawlers, which ore in- creasing in local waters, within the complete scope of the Mor- chant
Shipping Ordinance, 1800, will have its First Reading at today's Legislative Council meeting.
No part of the Merchant Ship- ping Ordinance, 1899, is completo- ly applicable to mechanically pro pelled vessels of large dimensions used for fhing. In view of the Introduction into the Colony of fishing with such vessels is con- sidered that certain provisions of the Ordinance be made.applleable to them and that further, provision
may be made by Kingdon
exton-
In the United alve provision is made for fishing boats under the Merchant Ship ping Act. 1094. In view of the different circumstances in which Aisling is carried on from this Colony it is considered more feasible to extend to trawlers such of the provisions of the principal Ordinance as are consider op- plicable and to provide a power to make regulations for cller mailers covered by the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, rather thun enact provisions analogous to that Act at a stage where sufflelent practical experience of the opera- Ashing tion of large mectionleal vessels in the Colony has not been gained..
DUAL ROLE FOR TRAM CONDUCTOR
Chan Shing. a Hong Kong Tramway Company conductor,! was defendant as well as com- Together with Law Shiu-kau, a plainant al Central yesterday. goleman of the Tramway Com pany, he was charged with com- mon assault on Wong Chat in the
third class compartment of a tram, He was fined $75 and ordered in pay $2 compensation plainant.
do com-
were bound Both defendants over in the sun of $200 for one year.
Immediately after sentence was passed. Chan was called as com by finding against an unemployed plainant in a charge of larceny Chinese, Chung Kim, in the Lo stay
Complainant said that during scuffle in the assault incident, that he would
Defendant press for an expulsion order others and have
and
the
for an adjournment, Mr. d'Almada adjourned the case to Friday.
Mr. Silva sald: "When I return- from Kunming in September back like many 1945, I came
with high hopes In my he dropped a watch. her sent back to heart that the bureaucratie op-picked it up and hoarded another Canton whence she had come.pression that offtime existed betrom going in the opposite direc-
fore the war here would be alto-ion,
Hc chased defendant, got gether abolished after the harrow- ing example of the heavy mall-back the watch and took him to Asted Japanese oppression during the Police Statlon.
of three months A sentence was passed on Chung.
Office
Social Welfare
Report For May
the war years.
Wartime Measure
others like mie "I and
have viewed with alarm the continu- ance of what was really a wor- time and emergency metisure-the
of Immigration Department
the
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Mr. Thomas R. G. Fletcher. Foreign Service Officer of the Broom-making and clothing co-operatives to help Folce Authorities. We ylowed this Causadian rovernment, has ar
and children have been with alarm because that office or rived here to act as Canadian
could only operate to department
destituto women
planned by the Government Social Welfare bar and British subjects Commissioner. Previously, Mr. |
Office, according to the Office's report May.
for foreigners
In the same month, the Social Welfare Office dealt with 36 would-be suicides, 25 of whom have been in the Colony for more than two years.
The highlight of May's activi- ties, according to the report, was the Exhibition of Social Services which was sponsored by the Hong Kong Council of Social Services and in which 62 government and private agencies took part. The Exhibition was formally opened by the Governor.
in
Government has undertaken to help this enterprising co-operative get on to its feet again.
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a comparative handful of Government Assistant Trade and would not exercise Its powern Fletcher served to bar hundreds of thousands at Chinese.
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Commercial Secretary for Ca- nada at Melbourne, Australia. Mr. Fletcher is a graduate of my respectful opinion, and in the the University of Toronto, 1941,
graduated Cominerce (cum opinion of every right-thinking where he was citizen of Hong Kong, no justin- Bachelor of
the whatsoveer for con-laude). He served in the Canadian ention tinued existence of the Immigra the rank of Captain following ser- igra-Army 1942-1945 and retired with tion Department, and it is
my carnesi hope that as and when vice in England and North West
when Europe. car we obtain a revitalised and re-
the Department Joining constituted Legislative Counell, the first act of that democratic Trade and Commerce in 1945 as holy will be the abolition of that Foreign Service Offeer, he was
Designed to Melbourne in 1946. Police Immigration Department Mr. Fletcher is arccenpanied by
blot on so that a on Hong Kong's wife and infant doughter. Ther escutcheon will be remo
removed.
are residing at the Repulse Bay Hotel,
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A new informal evening class for 40 destituto children was planned in Shamshulpo and all the expenses are being born by one of the Kaifong. The now
Wal gardens at Happy Valley Wel- fare Centre have been sucCOES- "Not one of the reasons which The petition added that in thes
clamour for It was a very successful one and
fully developed by the chil-
Your Worship enumerated at a days of desperate
dren's horticultural co-operative
previous hearing as the true respon- for the whole of its three days in- schools, it is a serious
mambore of
bals for an explusion to close a single school was crowded with visitors. sibility
public have oven boon having
namely undesirability or politi. chain of schools.cluding 315 children from Social
etc. exist in and still more
cal involvement, themselves photographed with
The food and fuel costs com- The work of educating some Welfare Camps and Welfare Cen-
their back- the gardon
this case, and I challenge this 2,000 children has cost Govern- tres; and members of the Social
ground.
Government and the Police to piled by the Labour Department ment $36 a child a year as against Welfare Office were required to
The Squatter Screening Squad
make the allegation If it does for the week ended June 18. about $900
a child a year phid by nuke at least one visit. The Eng-
reactions concentrated on the Metaukok
exist, for I know that it does Rice & Flour Government Lo Grant-in-aldsh and Chinese press
Exhibition were -com-
1,170 In Kowloon, and Brea
Vegetables Secondary schools. Multiply this to the
Arbiter Of Morals
Salt Cabbage by 2,000 and the saving to Gay-plimentary, although the lack of families consisting or 3.413 per- sons were interviewed there, or space and consequent overcrowd- ernment is obvious,
"As I see it, the only reason foll ink of stills was commeated upon the 1,170 families screened Better Than Homos
sympathetically.
May only 185 had been in Hong underlining request for delen-Tea
Balt Fish During May the residents of Keng for 10 or more years; four-dant's expulsion is that some un-
Fish of all the families came known men at some official dosk The Workers Children School-Shamsluips became increasingly fifth
and Chiu has thought to make himself in Pork the 'East River from
of arbiter of morals and such arbiter Firewood districts premites although in some cases actively interested in promoting
fare work [chow - speaking helter further constructive welfare work are not ideal are much
already longe Kwanglung. Three-quarters of the has decreed that it Gorman (who Bean Curd, 14 piecs
Ained $1,000 stcently casual was than the homes from which the through their
Institution. wage-earners Kalfong
sont into tablisheri
defendant into pupils come,
enthusiastic Several
bringing meetings workers.
wife
in England at-Colony) has confe- most distressing
Never quence of the closure ofder is that have been held in which a great
whom he will not give support Hearly 500 children will have to deal of constructive preparatory tempts at suicide
THAILAND'S walk a long way (or pay, trom work was completed. Some of the to the Welfare Office during May: for ertain reasons, this wonian,
NATIONAL DAY fare) in order to get to the two leading members including Messrs. 20 of the unfortunates had been whom he considers to be his com
Wong
Paak-kan, Ma Tox-sau in Hong Kong for more than two non law wife should also be ant Diew Government Schooi9.
Mr. Winal Pachimsavat, Secre the tection by
continued residence in The workers are passionately Wong Yun-saam, Cheung Chung-years. There were 17 successful entitled to his support and pro-
Chau phan, Lal Yam-such,
suicide cases reported by the
were this
tary in charge of the Thailand Colony. Jeager to secure education for their Chaam-kwong, Chan Taat-saam. I Folice. The principal causes were
The
spectacle is so shameful Consulate General at Hong Kong, children and are prepared to co and Sham Trol-wah.
ecorfomic in 22 cases, domestle
tal I ask your worship: not to make sald yesterday that on instruction Butte raising part of the cost. The
eu trouble in 14. physical or mental Inundry The amateur
from his Government, no recep- the expulsion order asked for." closure order
and miscel- therefore leaves them with a feeling of frustration, operative run by a small group of sickness in eight,
remaining
Continuing, Mr. Silva-said: "yption in connection with Tholland's National Day, will be held on Juns the Your Worship makes When the Management Compenr-destitute women at the Bal-aneous reasons in the
Weltere
Expul Government
24. yingpoon
nine cases.
and sion order you will still have to mittee 'was kilowed to open r
The number of women school in the afternoon called Centre expanded a Hilo after the Mongkok School, the Edues. making somewhat slow headway children emigrants interviewed in consider whether she can land in The Consulate will be closed on
and
for further ex-{ tion Department stated that, at first.
A house belonging to the China in April; many of the field or
Power On plans for broom-rent returning to Singapoto or pulsion proceedings against her Light and
Company, could be so used for three years. Youmal Welfare Centres started May, wos nearly three times as Canton or will he left on the air that day." This period has not yet a working
making and clothing co-operative Mainyn after visiting their horses by the Chinese Nationalist Goy Limited, a Taipe was requla
formitition he will not be given The two Pelitioners said they ventures to be run mainly by the In China for the Cling Ming ernment, Inasmuch as on my in-nederlerde, for the Army
children who attend Festival. are satisflod that the Education deatifute
prosecuted by the permit to land in Canton, Wolfare Office, was sentenced to
Widow Ordinance and other legislative there.
Mr. Sliva: then made's suggT COS -
that the case be adjourned animation but apparently the imprisonment and tien, the mesures contain :adegunto safe-
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A flourishing horticultural co-hiring out in girlins a' prostitute. Are erdened by
By: the end of May: a total of Refugees Organisation or from Agency, an, A body to which no
respect méïould be accordiäitida WORLD ALWAYS Departocht. The curriculuția operative vim by the hays of the Gbitvised skha” thờ gchoots urb | Government Matsuchung Relief 1,129 wards bef, boen-registered By Chincio ·Ministry of Fore! "I with certainly: piesă; to “thế - subject 15 indilar" " fupsetions,
Camp received a t-back when nince February 1946, and 955, of Affairs, co- *Tire PatifionOEN ALKUA: swan Hound that the Mittals das giftalateraled of the most count on the anda 1500 to suppe forward to help whil
That the Director of Education's Authorities were moving in in Jung gistero duhay/dl, 1940, there | "This-woman is under the mecial Worku, 7
Aleo 825 voluntarily reported prototip of the Inn and has a tien is purposeices and there is loture order of MAY 2% JU mix, and the Canda would boye 1920s sul on the register certingale given to her by that oz. no justification for its axlitetice."
yleeveles,
sired.
be revoked;
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