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Portuguese Institute's
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Yo Men's Club of HK, funch-.
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Portuguese National Day, recep.
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work in HK
The apathy shown by members of the focal Pörtü- gusse community to Fortugal 'fs. "Balig T6- medied by the establishment in Hong Kong of the Portugueso Instituto, which is how thro years old.
In
a statement to the China Mall on the occasion of Portugal's National Day, which fails today, Dr. Eduardo Brazdo, the retiring Consul, said, thot little of the former laissez falte attitude 'how remalhs,
The Consul said it surprised him to learn on arrival hèrci
three and a half years ago that tion at Club Lusitano, 6.30 Hong Kong's large Portugues chaling Society Inaugurates.community had practically European severed, their ties with Portu-
1930-61 season. YMCA, bubject: That the gal, leaving merely links with
of Hong Kong Audiences. Is cynical to all expressions of Intellectual activity" (open to publie), at 8.45 p.m. St. Andrew's Club, Forces' Night, ..B pati
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Night, 7.30 p.m.
BATURDAY
Vikin Dragons Services Club, tombola (snowball), 7.30 p.m.
Sons
Mincão.
During his term of duty in Hong Kong he often heard the expression: "We are
of Macro," "and he wondered why these people did not call them- selves Sons of Portugal." There appeared to be something cho- tradictory in the two expressions, and he could not understand it
The Consul said he deplored the mental attitude of the local Portuguese, and decided to is- fiere so that his tablish the Portuguese Institute nationals could
derive new pride, from, their as- sociallon with Europe's great maritime country of the past,
The Portuguese of Hong Kong and 'Macao, “He kid, "Wèro “des- cendants 01 heroic oncient
YWCA CAMPAIGN pioneers, and he had no desire to
(Continued from page 2) In an address to the Indy "y", Dr. C. T. Wang, China's veteran diplomat, congratulated them on heir past achievements. "The Chinese YMCA in Hong Kong And done excellent
work, he Fald,
arid the
the campaign which were how launching to raise funds for building a per- hanent home was proof not only
alth but also of determina- on to win through, despite businens conditions a Walt so characteristic the
of
see them swallowed up By China. He had worked hard to enable them to preserve their identity as Portuguese.
Touching on the question of migration of Portuguese from Asia to Africa, and Europe, Dr. Brazao said he was opposed to this. as there, was, deßnitely a place in Asin for the sons of the pioneers whose courage hundreds of years ago originally opened up, China to the West.
Liberty ship owed into Keelung
"The is. "Henry: Abbot, one for two Liberty ships dast off by two Mollby tüps While en route, from Hong Kong to Shanghai lato last month, was lowed into the, port of, Kee. fung "by the Nationalists, Pac- cording to Information focely ed by competent authoritie hara ydsterday.
The other Lipsy ship, the sa. Juan de Fude, wis bolloy- ed to Su atlit drifting, at, sea between North Formosa and the China coast where the two were intercepted
Mollar toda
by Nationalist warships. No "Information on the Where
abouts of tile khip has been received here, up to late yɗa- `terday.
things confained within "If to "the highest degree the friest quality of race, and the essential: features | of 'n lively and activo Christian faith.
Not much interost
"When I arrived in Hong Kong I met this community, and J found among them not, too much interest. In things. Portuguese. statement possibly the How could their interest be re- frankest yet, made by a Portu-vived? How could they be led to guese consul herp-follows:-
Savorod links
who
But in
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"Mr. and Mrs. F. "N, "Váz" Da Luz altor their Wódding at bt, Toleta, Church "yesterday. (Nathan Photo Borvidë).
Compulsory Chinese for School Cert to be suggested
The Hong Kong Chinese Reform Association is preparing a 'potition to 'Government to make "the Chinese languago a compulsory subject in the School Leaving Certificate "Examina- tion.
Public opinion, said a statement by the Associa- tion, is unanimous that unless the subject is reinstated as a compulsory one, the education of Chinese students will be adversely affect- éd.
The statement sayı-
locking oven the slightest impres- "The Hong Kong Chinese Re-slun of Chinese mid are forced to communicate with their friends form Association has received only in English.
·letters from lis members and
parents of pupils urging the A- sciaticns to appeal to the Gove
in order to enable Chinese pupils to have their basic Chinese education.
this year when the Sino-British
"Is it any wonder that early
Wedding
Da Luz--Yvdhovich
Miss Theresa Marla Yvano- vich was married to Mr. F. N.' Vas Da Luz at St. Teresa'e Church, Kowloon Tong, yeater- day. The Rev. Fr. Orlando officiated.
The bride wore a gown of filmy white nylon marquisette krimmed with Wide (nylon, lace, pointed bodice and a full, gather ed, skirt with wire at the hem. The front panel of the skirt was trimmed with tiers of nýlon lach,
She carried a bouquet of white gladioli with malden-hair fern. her and, was 'glyen gway brother, Mr. P. A. Yvanovich.
Miss, Hilda Silva was the bridesmaid. She wore a dress of mauve,organdle and carried a spray of deep, purple. gladioli. Mits Stephanie Goedno was the flower girl.
Mr. A. L. Nery was best man to the bridegroom and Mr. P. M. N. Ja Silva to the bride. The page- boy was Mnsitr Jojo Gosano, the bride's nephew,
The reception was held at Club ouple left for their honeymoon do Recreio, following which the
Peak Hotel.
YMCA works for the Spurt of women in Hong Kong long social, physical and moral nestrat in its object, and that Best it should persevere to importance which had either been suffered from."a, feeling of bash. rnment:to reconsider its decisioni Club Literary Group conducted at Castle fo do. Sexs the same time, sald Dr. yang, they must not forget the krilly, because the family is -a mit of the nation. Wonten are the part-tore of the family, and they thould not allow their other works Wovershidow their "duty to the
Woman's part
#boen said "that almost things have been done With this, oran many gree. But at the same.
damental and vital to civilisation have women, because it car and nurture our Fations," concluded
anks was then pro- Ll_Shu-pul, Pre- Chinese YWCA. She had given thein, 4.
and they would ate the efforts until their Feierl dream of having
gmanent bome da realised.
|
"When I arrived in this Colony in 1847, I found myself fate to race with problems of the greatest interrupted or dropped during the war. It became necessary for me! to know the causes which led i the problems before me, not to condemn or to critialse, but to endeavour to understand and to remedy.
feel their moral obligations to their mother-land? How maket them see that it would be to their own advantage to form part o Portugal's structure in this part of the world? Only by reducing the number of persons fulness at modest birtht the contemplation of that im posing succession of great Portu guese, Who wrote their name farge in the gentls of the world the prezent Portuguese genera
can codder themselves prend, and
If the present state of of them happens to be modest de cun yet Justly feel really noble and dignified.
"I found, here, in Hong
Hong Kong a large Portugutre community any descendants of the Portuguese pioneers to the number of almost | 5,000. Their ties with Portugal had been practically severed leaving links with Macao, from which place they for their fore- fathers had emigrated to Hong Kong, at various periods, during the Inst 100 years. During my residence in Hong Kong I have beard: 'We are sons of Macao. I often wondered why these people did not call themselves ons of Portugal! There appeared to be something contradictory in the two sxpressions, and "I could not understand it...
“Such a thing would have been possible in the case of a com- munity cut off during several
from the Amőther,
Is it that we Portuguese have scen. fit to acknowledge tons or mixed blood? But this is one of the greatest glories of the Portu- guesthe creation of face which is a living link between the West and the East. What splendid eximple it was that my Country gave the World yester day and to-day in this Tofty Christian and universal concep tion of human worth!...
“I have dever been, of the opinion that this or any of the other Portuguese rummunitles ir the Far East should be trans- planted to Portuguese- 'Africa Timor, or Portugal.
and Urht refreshment were] genere spartituly in clieam- to be painful if not impossible
a served. Below are the names of the stances where they might tent to niels captains of the teams who be absorbed such as would be Sceived Association emblems the case in a place like China. Nor did I ignore the fact that the #ist Division:
various Chief Mrs. Wang
Portuguese communities To chuca. Captains Mrs. Kwok Puled by our Government during a
| in several places in Asia, neglect chenny; Mrb. Lao Slu-kot Mrs.
period of decadence, now happily e Fook-wo: Mra. Phoon remedies, might have developed al: kiss Wong Suen Hunt-ping: come feeling of resentment and rofesional: Girls Team.
laissez faire
Mrs. Sung Shots
Chau Jo-boôn; Mès, Ho Ka
Dr. Shin Kwal-sang Mr. EUSKADA NIS “Lõung Shui-,
Critt-MiLi Shu-bul Captains - Mrs Tal Hon-fan:
Juke; Bilss Chay. Yoil-chung: Mrs. 3. T. Mogral Hostel Girls' Team.
yourth Division:
Chio Calton W. S. Anderson,
ni. Fal-yfi; „Mit Ko eung Kinching: Tudtain;
Prizes, which remained cond
an Essay Competition among the Midrile School students, the Judges all lending authorities on "Acting on these lottors, ic Chinese in the Colony, resolved
the rifled for.
Bolle of the competitore Association's Education Sub- quall
thic Brst or Committag held several confer- ences and resolved unanimously ed? 3 tals reure table, taideney that the subject should again be is not checked at once. Who made compulsory, because i pro- known what a future Cultural foundly influences the entire.edu Association will say of education cational polley of Hong Kong in Hong Kong, Chinese.
The Association's 'statement said
INDIA-INDONESIA TRADE PACT
value of India
Jakarta, October 3, Indoresía and India. today concluded a trade agreement, ex- tending from October 1 of this your to June .30 of next for the, exchange of goods Indonesia, Will sond to HEROIN CASE
copra, tapiben, on ins spices,
s, wood, hides, tin and other The reputation of Chirieso ust
to the Sentence of nine months hard commodities Largate of Extremity is dus labour was given Cheung Yu-
37,000,000 guilders. fargely to the anachrohistle mean,, unemployed, by Mr. F. X. send to Indonesia textlics, phar- thod of teaching, unpalatable to Almada at Kowloon, yesterday maceuticals, iron and steel・ pro- children. To call it an impossi-for the possession of 16 ounces
ducts and machinery..
reathed ble language just because one is of heroin powder at the Kowloon following a visit to this country
agreement was anable to find the key to the door Canton Railway Station yester-of an Indian trade mission head- of learning is not a fair.com
_day. ment. The reason' Chinese is no
ed by Mr. P. A. Narlelwala, longer regarded as compulsory is
director of Trade and Industries.
United Fress. attributed to the low hondart attained by the candidates in past examinations Should this be the case, then it calls for improve- ment in the method of teaching rather than making the subject a non-compulsory one.
辜
Any re-adaptation would prov the majority of instances. This in the aspect of personal interests. On 'n national piane, our prestige and Increased use of the 'col- "Simplification of the syllabus, should be limited to the place foquial for easy reception of the where these communities es pupils, will stimulito greater in- necessary is to endow them with ject matter in implied Icssons tablish themselves. Whất terest to learn. Choles for sub-
prestige and to build 'up' · ទូ pirit more in tone with the mode of unity among them; to her life they live in and limiting the of them in times of crisis: to renew range of questions at the ex- their consciousies of Portuguese amination from extending Inte traditions, and culture and to help
distant holds would, double the the elevate themselves to the
lovel where their own dedication
results with half the labour.
"What is Important to remem
Position of Hong Kong
4 realle, on the other hand, to the land of their origin will hate master Chipcso that the onelal representative ennoble them in the eyes of others for my country in Hong Kong. This it is to bin, is the prin lugdughly Is "dimcult, but just British colony, must not do cipal function of Portugal in the amination should alm for nuency. to be hiuent is not. The Ex- anything to distract the Porfu- For Bist.
obommunity from its "Among the principal factors rather than to keck the unattain- mentally local. Interests. He tousing, to the stenptionalizing of anunky on-the-contrary, do any community is the loss of the sferything possible to stimulate mother-tongue.
Was for this
them in the maintenance of a reason that the teaching of
able.
wood and Toykl. 1 65-operation, | Portuguese such as hang always subalted stimulate has been so activelse
1.
For a proper widerstanding of the 'value and greatness of Portugese nationality it is neces- sary to appreciate the extent af its culture. Hence the creation of the Portuguese Institute.
bitwalk Portugal: and her Bld 400 funtbols to the “KUS, GIERE" "Britain, “vafy schools in Hong Kong,
where. "At" cha time, when mah's "mental approach was different, Portugan Britain, and Holland werdi blitar, rivals in trade, when Portugal considered herself, by ni-thun; virtio of Papil decrees, the ople "To unite, elevate, kita per- Vong Benofclary of cultural and com-sonality and strongthen the
syn; | merelakkenpansion in this hamla-
BRIGADE MOPPING UP
'Efficiency affected-
As more than 40 per cent of and we have about abolition from the list of COTS-
are Chineze, Various
pulsory subjects is admissibio even for the sake of these few "Whose standards tro sub-normal,” *We have yet to hear of a coun try in which the child's mother ongue Is Treated A non-compul sory, secondary, to another langu- What would an Englishman say is made, compulsory. #za, which if his child sat for an examina- Portuguese communities,
tion where: succoss in passing in but in 'succeeding periods that they may the Batter-colla
Is not obligatory the Portuguese "have co-operated borate with, and be better spari" Walk should be borne in mind Toally with other peoples
ciated by the British and Chinese (that the fan do for matricule- except the Portugal "hall bech the inferious has been the fermanent founder of a row low, and utter of the Portuguese Consulate in Hen, will all
sook their val
livelihood defending heroically, the “possés- Hong Kong during these Last Town commerin or the Civil der vleo, sion of the trimit to spread its years of hard work,
"If they lack a sound, knowledgd at cpinero, the efficiency of fu« Jure Cleil Servants with their superficial knowledge of Englishí odlight knowledge of Chinese MURGERY of the Hong. Jenefibra' "Association: put we are Bin bure tunching. Aprovadechy (the large poorly finished.-pro.
Influence, had perforce anding offrent. The
To nebent the dialogue that tight
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