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THE PEAK SCHOOL. ANNUAL DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES.
"PUPILS PROVIDE PLEASANT ENTERTAINMENT,
The annual distribution of prizes to the children of the Fenk School was held
at the Peak Club yesterday, afternoon, when there was a large gathering of parents and trends of the pupils.
The
greatly enjoyed by the pupils. Mr. Fletcher was particularly successful in teaching drill
The singing of French and English- ongs was again madan feature "of the school work-
The school premises were extended by the inclusion of the rooms which had latherto been used as the Headmisterss's There is aoa" ample claEN- quarters. room accommodation, while a study for the Headmistress and a
Common- TOOM
for the teachers supply a long felt want.
DIVIDING THE CAKE. PROFESSOR BOWLEY'S
PAMPHLET.
Even
his own salary for supervision. so, the figures assign nearly three-fourtha of the available net product to Labour, itby that ambiguous term we mea only the men who da-not-pas incomes”
tax.
Mr. Smillie said the other day at the Coal Commission that, out of the total
Processor Bowley examines and dis- wealth produced in Great Britain before the war, only a third went to the work-misses the usual Socialist proposals far He suggested that they were really increasing the workmen's wages by a
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Proceedings commenced with a bright desks were supplied to the addi- entitled to the whole, but that they would redistribution of the product of industry. be content for the time wing with two. The idle rich," as he says, are, if not
a mere guent of the imagination -- little entertainment, which was provided tional class-rooms, and the school is now,
The programine ton. as farans heavy furniture is concerned, 1 thirds. Mr. Smillie put forward this uny rute & negligible quantity. In 181, by the children. sisted of part songs, several of which tremely well supplied.
The annual sports took place through statement, as if it were an incontroverfor instance, they were 14,307,000 ne were in French, and recitations.
on pensions. and only 180,000 able the kindness of the Hon. Mr. Sesers in sible fact, like a proposition of Euclid's, cupied males, 330.000 living in retirement. the grounds adjoining his residence.
and it will no no doubt pass current bodied men under sixty-five who had no Me. Severn entertained parents
pecupation or did not reveal it on the pupils to tea, and the parents and
Cenus paper, Professor Bowley dis- Recitations: Ye Mariners of Engriends of the pupils furnished the prizes
enses in detail the glasses of 'income' innd," Miss Esmes Scott
Hurston; for the various events. An extremely
which are open to attack,” and con- Soldier's Dream," Miss Hilda Butter successtul meeting was beld.
cludes that in 19th, if every income bad subscribe Beld.
there would have. bern, at frist.
various items were thoroughly apprecint ed by all. The full programme was as Hollows:-
Part Songs:
and V.
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and All ture the Night," Classes 1V.
Recitations: Billy and Me," Jack Chapman; Eills to Skye, Ronald Armstrong.
French Songs: "La Dame la Curür," Pupils; Le petit Jargot, Misses Hilda Buttertid nad Alys Crockatton "Je vis un petit Oiseau," Miss Lucy Rister Faucite Qucher David Ellia. Recitations: Baby Sred Song," Misa Pauline Pattenum; The Laughing Brook, Eric Crockatt.
The pupils continued to
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fact on his nuthority, with mans thoughtless people. We may say at onre that it is not a fact but intrely an cate snate,hich Mr Smillie borrowed with
and Mrs. "Sidney Webb.
We mhy
He admits
Drink to me only." (though in a decreasing amount as the Fous acknowledgment; from a pamphlet by been reduced to £160 as a maximum, year went on) to the support of several add that as an estimate it is untrue and Co.co.com available for levelling up Prisoners-of-war. We have now a balance liberately misleading. It depends on of somewhat more than 30, which we
un artificially restricted minning of the, and even then the male wage are proposing to give to the Blue Crossteria worker, and on un esnggerated her would have received no more on an average than 358. 3d, a wrek; and Fund when the fund is finally closed.
idea of the national income. When Sirthe woman wage-carner a pound. so that few of the children helped to sell Hugh Bell and last year that in anythe, average family incore would ap favours and badges on Rose Day" and country, it will be found that seventy proximate to red. year.
ve per cent of the total sale alue of of course, that in certain industries and Heather Day."
the commodities produced will have gone for a limited period exceptional increases PRIZE LIST.
to pay.
the persons engaged in producing in wages might be obtained, as we know Burmie.—Angel Ormiston, Arithmetic.
was very much nearer the they have her obtained during the war Veronica Butterfeld, English them," be Esme Scott Harston, Camark than the political advisers of the by the miners and musition-workers. Labour Party. It may be thought, in Bat in the long run reonomic laws prm- position and History 1917.
tiew of the remarkable divergence bevail. And these exceptions disappear. Form David Elis, French,
tween these estimates, that there is no
Moreover, it would be preposterous to sulid basis for either of them, and that assume that our industry would flourish as it has done in the past if the peru- the whole subject of the national in- come is wrapped in obscurity. This is notary incentive were completely abolish- A very able and lucid pamphlet, ed, and no man could hope to earn more which. Professor Bowley has just publish than B or a week, however gifted ed through the Clarendon Press on Theor However industrious he might be Sheila Cunurie, Arithmetic.
Division of the Product of Tatry Professor Bowley therefore comes back Oxid Ritter, Arithmetic.
gives the main facts on the unimpench to the old conclusion that the only way Class (u)-Brian Adams, Form prize.
Dennis Hurley, General Pro-able evidence of Censits and Income tax of increasing real wages permanently is returns, the Census of Production of by increasing production... If we all want more enke, we must make a large cake. 1907, and other official inquiries which were absolutely impartial. The generalIt is useless to argue about the division conclusion at which Professor Bowley of the cake, for that. is settled in the arrives is that in the whole group of in main en immutable principles.
The dustries for which we have adequate in- Bolsheviks in Russia have tried to divide
"Toy Balloon": Infant Class. Recitations: Play up," Miss Pamela Scott Harston; Past and Present," Miss Lucy Ritter.
Part Songs Pupils Recitations:
My Shadow," Misa Rita Malking The Sun's Travels.' Miss Irvin Ritter.
The annual report of the school was read by Mr E. Ralphs, on behalf of Mrs. Main, Headmistress. The prizes were prezented by Mrs. E. Ralphs. After dis. charging this pleasant duty Mrs. Ralphs congratulated the successful students and expressed the pleasure the excellent entertainmert had given her.
Misa Madge Crapnell then presented Mrs. Ralphs with a bouquet of Powers..
Mr. CE. H. Beavis, addressing the gathering said they all whed to express their hearty thanks to Mr Main and her very efficient stafi for the delightful entertainment. they had enjoyed that evening. The singing had been sweet And charming and the recitations excel· lent, the enunciation and expression showing what great pains had been taken in preparing the pupils. He congratu inted Mrs. Maio on the success of the Function.
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The singing of the Marseillaise," the Stur-Spangled Banner" and National Anthem terminated the pro- ceedings.
THE REPORT.
The report for 1918 states-During the period in review only .new pupils were admitted to the School, and 19 luft it. The gear opened, with 47 pupils on the roll and closed with ka. The largest number present on one day was 63, and the average attendance for the year was 36. There were 188 schooldays in the year.
The School has been visited every quar ter by Dr. McKenny or Dr. Macaulay, add parents concerned were communicat ed with regarding suggestions made by the doctor in any case requiring special treatment. There has not been a single case of infectious disease, and the doctor's reports, have invariably been very good."
During the cold season the attendance was good but the usual exodus"started towards the end of March, and in July the numbers dwindled down to. 25. It was well on into December, before the children were all back at school again, many having been kept in Canada and Australia through "lack of shipping accommodation.
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The Staff consisted, at the beginning of the year, of one Headmistress, one certi- Passed Student-teachers. Miss Dorothy Rodger left the school at the end of May, and Mrs. Fletcher joined the staf shortly afterwards, having been trans- ferred from Kowloon School. On Novem ber 15th Miss Skinner was transferred to Queen's College and Mrs. Fletcher combined two classes and taught them until the end of the year. Mrs. Fletcher and Miss M. Rodger left at Christmas, the former going to England to join her Busband, the latter to be married.
Georgia Mooser, Scripture. Hilda Butterfield, Drawing Form -Pamela Harston, Arithmetic
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Henry Butterheld, Drawing.
ey Ritter, French.
bicioney,
Rahald Armstrong. Arithme Gorda Chatham. Writing
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and French.
"and French.
80.
William Hancock History formation the persons employed in 190 It on a new plan, by giving it all to the
took sixty-eight per cent of the netiiterates and the criminals, and leaving. Ale Pearce. General Pre-product, or rather more than the two-only the erasabs to the educated people thirds which Mr. Smillie desires. In the whom they have not yet slaughtered. But mining industry Labour's share was and the Bolsheviks now and that their enke
ficivity.
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Gardon Burnett. Composition (buar e (3).........Jack Chapman Form prize.
is still higher. The gross outpat in 1911 Charles Butterfield, English."
no longer renews itself, and that, they' was valued at £111,000,000; from this will soon have nothing to divide. We Tillon Williams. General Pro-,300,000 had to be deducted for mate- have no fear lest the Bolshevik madness
..fciency.
rials, rates, depreciation, and so forth. should afflict the British working wan, Edward Wolle, Bistory and leaving 60,500.000 for wages, salaries, who is An and rational being.
Geography,
profits, and royalties (valued ut Class-war of the Russian pattern, Bobby Kent. Composition.000.000). Of the total residue, the with its horrible atrocities, is alien
General Knowledge,"
Jobs Lindsel English.
Pry
Class vi. -- Reggie Muss, Forni prize,
Pat Hurley, General
Sciency. Laughton Leask, General im-
provement. Kenneth Chapman, improve
ment.
Russel McIntyre, Regular
attendance, Pafunt. Jekie Harston (1917), and
work. Jupie Jonkheer, General im-
provement
ter.
tion.
wage-earners took seventy-five per cent., the salaried officials three per cent, and the coal-owners for interest and profits twenty-two per cent. The miner, for whom Mr. Smillie desires our compassion for the alleged reason that he receives but a third of the output of the mine really had three-fourths of the output of 19t1, and Labour in the widest sense, for a salaried man is usually a very hard worker, bad almost four-ifths. Such are the real facts of the crac.
to
the. British temperament. What " we do fear is that the false teaching of the Socialists may persuade the workmen that their duty to their class requires them not to exert themselves, but to render the minimum of service in return for the maximum wages. If that false and ruinous doctrine, spreads, our in- dustrial supremacy is surely doomed. We shall not only be unable to compete with America, Germany, or Japan in the world's market. but the moral fibre of The fundamental and neglected truth our workmen will be mapped. Honest which Professor Bowley emphasizes most work invigorates a man. hut a man who opportunely is that the national income practises the rule of '' Ca' conny" - Inser 'Dick Bowler. General im-before the war was no more than enough after a time, his power of working and
privement.
to provide every one with a modest suf- becomes useless. There are some features Arthur Bowley.. Kindergar fciency. The amazing figures of war of American industry which we do not finance bave confused the public mind. admire, but its main principle, that a Colin Black Singing,
People read almost with complacemey man should be encouraged to develop his. Irving Ritter, Handwork, the statement that the National Debt is full powers and should be paid liberally Pip Manning, General know now £6,000,000,000 or £8,000,000,000, and for what he does, is absolutely sound.
ledge.
assume unconsciously that there is plenty The employer benefits, of course, but the John Lowe. Orst Composition of money about, and that few millions workman and the community benefit. Dorothy, Jacoba, fieneral immore or less for this object or that can also. A witness before the Coal Commis-
privement.
make" no difference. They will probably sion said that a steel manufacturer in Bruer Hollingsworth. Recita be surprised to learn from Professor Americn paid his men twice the British Bowley that in 1811 the total income of rate of wages, but nevertheless produced the nation from home industry and his steel at half the British cost per ton. foreign investment was probably not High wages in that case meant increased " more than £2,000,000,000," and that production and larger profit, and there- in 1913-14 it was little more than fore eculd be paid willingly. But high £3,250,000,000. To put it in another wages cannot be paid if they imply re- form, the average income of a family of duced production and vanishing profits. five was £170 in 1911 and £180 in 1013-14 |as some of our Socialist advocates seem There was no vast, fund to be diverted to think. We must hope for the advent from the pockets of the rich in order to} of a bring the poor inan's wages up to £3 or through the co-operation of employers Dew spirit in British industry,
£10 a week. If in 1911 the whole national and workmen. Their interests are really income had been equally divided, each identical, and their future welfare de family, containing nearly two workers pends on the extent to which they can on the average, would have received just increase and cheapen, the national output. as much as each individual miner wax-Spectator. earning, on an average, last autumn. We know that Mr. Smillic regards the miner's average war income of £100 A year as starvation wages, but it is almost DEAL IN 124 STATE SHIPS. twice the dividend to which he would have been entitled in 1011 Professor
CONTRACTS TAKEN OVER FROM Bowley tells us that in that year the
THE GOVERNMENT, national income from home industry, apart from foreign investraents, was Lord Inchcape states in a letter to the nearly £1,000,000,000. Out of this Chamber of Shipping of the United £800,000,000 went in WRAER
and Kingdom that he has taken over from the £200,000,000 went in salaries below. £160 Government the contracts for ninety-six or to independent workers, small farmers, steamere now under construction of a and small employers not nasessed for smaller class suitable for the coasting Income-tax. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Webb, trade, and that these contracts will be in order to arrive at their fallacious made available to British shipowners in
class, and, by exaggerating the total himself or to the companies which he re- national income from home sources to presents.
"A SORT OF A KIND OF A PUSH."
DOCK APPRENTICE FINED:
George Nevis, aged 10, employed as an apprentice at the Kowloon Docks,, was charged before Mr. R. E.. Lindsel, at the Magistracy, yesterday, with 远传 saulting a Chinese in Kowloon, on Tues day afternoon, with a pair of callipers. The complainant, who had received an injury on the left cheek, stated that he accidentally collided with the defendant, who resented it and struck him with a
pointed piece of iron."
The defendant admitted the assault, hat said he used his fist.
As 66 per cent of the children in the school were under 10 years of age, the
Mr. Lindsell: A injury such as the classification was somewhat simpler than complainant has received cannot be in when a larger number of older pupiinflicted with a blow of the fat. attended the school.
Defendant: "I used my clenched fat."
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The Headmistress took the olde children and taught them in all subjects
Continuing, defendant said that as he but drawing and brush-work. With the was returning home from the Docks for exception of our girls of 12 years who tiffin the complainant, walking in the did work in preparation for the Oxford opposite direction, pushed him. Preliminary Examination, the pupils in asked him what he meant by it, but inestimate, carefully ruled out this second the coasting trades without any profit to the top class of the school did work oftead of replying, he fetched some others an elementary "nature. The next class who shouted: Hit him." Complain was taught by Miss Skinner, the child at then struck the defendant, a blow ren's ages averaging 8 years Mis M. and ran into the road. Rodger and Miss Dorothy Rodger t
Complainant denied striking the first the next lower classes; where the work blow, was still more elementary. Miss Jæet
Mr. Lindsell desired to know where taught the kindergarten class where most the pair of callipers had been found. of the children were only from 4 to 5 Sergeant Cooper replied that it was years of age.
found in the complainant's hand,
£2.400,000,000, "made it appear that the The steamers run from 400 tons to waze-earners received a bare third of the 5,050 tons deadweight, with varying product. It is clear, on the figures, that speeds, and shipowners who may be dis wage earners and others earning less than posed to squire the contracts are re- £180 a year had at least more than halfquested to communicate with Lord Inch of the product. But Professor Bowler cape before April 4th. There will also goes on to remind us that from the ba some twenty-eight vessels of the “A,' balance must be deducted £180,000,000B," "F" (non-fabricated) and N
The work of the school was according Mr. Lindsell: Any blood on it for the Government. £40,000,000 for (fabricated) type taken over from the to a syllabus approved by the Inspector-Witness: Yes. There are blood stains of Schools This syllabus was based on yet..
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rates, and an estimated amount of Government since the last lot were dis £230,000,000 for investment. in. bome in posed of, and Lord Inchcape wishes those one in useat Nulham Ford School. Mr. Lindsell (to defendant): Youdnstries, leaving £300,000,000 in all for interested in these vessels also to send Oxford, drawn up by Miss Catherine admit that pair of callipers is yours salaries over £160 a year, rent, interest, their applications by April 4th Dodd, a well-known educatiónist, whose Defendant said it did not belong to him.end_profits. The vast sums, it will be books in teaching have for some years Mr. Lindsell: But how did all this scen, quickly contract when they are been followed in the various glasses, come about-Defendant explained that analysed. The Goverment must be ear-- French was, as in previous years, made it resulted from the complainant push ried on; the municipalities must have a special subject, the children' in the toping him.
their rates; a large amount of money
Mr. R. E., Lindsell, a Chinese was charged At the Magistracy, yesterday, before nur industries, in installing new machi with larceny and with returning, from nery, and so on, if the wage-earner is to banishment before the expiry of his term.s be kept at work; moreover, the manag. Defendant arrived on the Fat Shang
eleria, and other officials must, he and, on the way, stole a quantity of cloth collided accidentally with you. Fifteen paid; rent and interest cannot be abolishing ཟ་ follárt, of which $5 are to be paid to theed; and finally the employer must have"} Mr. Lindsell sentenced defendant complainant as compensation.
incentive of profit, in which is included twelve-months' hard labour.
class receiving a 40-minute lesson every Mr. Lindsell: A deliberate push must be spent every year in maintaining day of the week. The teaching of this Defendant: A sort of kind of a push, subject was almost entirely by the direct like that (jerking one shoulder), yon method conversations, songs, etc.
When the weather permitted, a short Mr. Lindsell: He admits that her lesson was given every day followed by either a game or a dance. These lessons were given in the open air and were