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THE EDUCATION OF
THE HONGKONG DAILY FEROB
BRITISH
CHILDREN IN HONGKONG.
GOVERNMENT'S REPLY TO THE PUBLIC
MEETING.
MR. MACKINTOSH'S ALLEGATIONS ANSWERED.
REASON FOR THE COMPARATIVE FAILURE OF THE BRITISH CHILD."
NEW SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR KOWLOON,
With the permission of the Government,| the Hon. Mr. H. F. Pollock, K., has forwarded to for publication the| following copy of a letter which he hat, pervived from tho Colonial Secretary with reference to the resolutions passed at the Public Meeting last March on the subject of the Education of British children in Hougkong:
[APY.]
Colonia! Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 9th June, 1929,
SR-1 am directed to acknowledge the reeipt of your letter of the 26th March. enclosing a copy of solutions regarding the education British children, which were passed at amblie meeting held no the 8th March,
2--The first resolution reals: ---
"That kindergarten" schools for child. ren between the ages of five and nine! years be established, on the most modern methods, with specially trained kinder- garten teachers in charge at the Peak, Kowloon, Quarry Bay, and Causeway Bay, and in soune part of the central district of the eit.“
The Government consider that primary schools should has maintained at cunven- jent entreg for the education of children. between the ages of five and nine years inclusive, under the supervision of tea- chers trained in modern methods. Such Schools exist at The Peak, at Causeway Bay, and in Kowloon. Jis propised to Move Cas Chaseway Bay school to the heighbourhood of Leighton Hill, and to ojeno a new primary school at Quarry Bay. It is not proposed at print to ben ne primary school in the central dis- friet, of Victoria, as the Military School, Peak School, and Victoria School amply meet the existing demand.
3-Tire scond resolution:--
That it is essential that British boys and girls above the age of nine should recive a better education in the Colony than at present;" Boes not, perhaps, cal for separate comment, as the subsequent resolations suggest means by which the end many be
achieved.
The third resolution is
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or perhaps it would be more correct, to say that they had only recently begun to be taught. He failed to see how they were going to get the boys up to the Matriculation standard if they did not "begin to touch them mathematics-by which he meant simply algebra and geometry.
He suggested that it should be in the resolution that the type of education should
definite matriculation lines."
An
In view of the wide publicity which has iseen given in Mr. Mackintosh's remarka the Government copsiders in arcessary to auke the following statemen
(.): Every school in the Colony is quired to have a syllabus and no new
school
THE TRAVELLER'S RETURN. CHINESE HOME FROM AMERICA ARRESTED ON LANDING.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20TH, 1935.
CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
RETORE HIS BONOCE THE CHARF JUSTICE
(4 WILLIAN RHES-DAVIER), ["
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A Chinese wn, charged sa remand at A CHINESE NEW YEAR ROBBERY the Magistracy, yesterday morning, before i
CASE.
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Mr. J. H. Wood, with bring in legal COMPRADORE OF possession of forty-one empty cartridge | PINES, He was defended by Mr. A Metallung Happeared that he was arrested on the ss." President Letrema, day and the cartridge cases were fouted hidden
EUROPEAN FIRM THE VICTIM,
Wu Lan Fan was indicted yester for having heon” concerned armed robbery the premises
in
in a box" containrog packets of chewing Wharf and Colden Company at West เห่ thus Hongkong and Kowloon
gum.
given the box by
Defendant stated that he was: Point, on the morning of the '15th. him to take it to the entry for him to
friend who wanted February last, when the compradare of the, Firm, Mr. Hung Hing-fnt, was rolibod ja friend. He did not know what was in
(el a watch and apendages and $1,070 in the box until the police opened it.
mah. The senior clerk, Abdul Rahim Mr. McCallum pointed out that the man Abbas, was also robbed of a metal watch
l mado no attempt to conceal the hex, for it was found in the tray of his travelling
The Jury empanelled for the case was trunk. He had been a grere in America as follows:-Mowers. R. T. Matheon, 1. for "righter yeites and was returning to his own country to settle down. A line of $100 was imposed.
and chain
Yates. C. 3. Sequeira, W. J. Eldridge, W. Patton, A. M.-Tavares and H. Penny.
Mr. A. Dyer Hall, u outlining the case, said that on the morning of the 15th Febrithry last at 3.3 o'clerk an aried. A FREAK OF HEIGHT.
robbery took place at the promises of the Standing about four, and a half feet in, Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and wight, and with a face of childlik, Godawn Company at West Point. There simplicity, a hawking without a Bernee, was sentenced the comparadore, the senior, clerk. (an "Chinese,'» charged with were in the office at the time four turn-
to six strokes with a R. E. Lindse, at the Magistracy yester. who would be called as witness: the light cage by Mr. Indian) and two Chinese clorks; three of
may be opened until it sylabne; stay, A the delinquent turned to go. other man was ill and unable to attend.
is approved. As regards the Kowloon however, the Interpreter informed his School, which is the only British School, Worship that the defendant was where there are senior pupils, copies of
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"How old are you?" asked the Magis
the syllabus are displayed in the case. sixteen years of age, and the punishment rooms, and in April, 1921, the syllabus was not therefore, legal was definitely shown to Mr. Mackintosh. and other members of a visiting Sub-mte of the defendant. Committee of the Board of Education. Mr. Mackintosh, at a meeting of th Boned, asked for a copy of the syllabus
and it
To the amazement of the Court the reply canie "I am twenty yine, of age,
Two mere entered the premises and maked for a man called Cheung Ho. They were old that he was not there. The two men then prodnerd revolvers and hold up the for occupants, tied their hands with tape gagged them with towels and wing cups and drove them into the back part of the office where they were tied to hairs. Two more robbers, in addition to the first, two, appeared whilst this was in a Two of these four inn Wres armed with rusty dnagers, and two with revolvers Two of the rubbers mounted guard over the inmates and the mainder ransacked the office, opened the safe, and removed munty amounting to $1,676 The compradore and the senior clerk each had
walid Infore the Board at its sir." His Worship, used to surpris 8, did going on, anif yet another two, making six!
next meeting.
(.) Mathematics have been taught at
not turn a hair. Fine, five dollars "he
the Kowloon School since the first open jaculated tersely, To the onlooker the ing of the Schoot. Fifteen unnths agn, young man looked no more than Adly Mr. Mackintosh, in his capacity of
Registrar of the University, forwarded years of age.
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to the Director of Education the Uni- versity examination results in algebra and grometry for the School. At his The British child is subject to the inspection in December last Mr. Mac further disadvantage of an unfavourable kintosh took a class in grometry. environment, Eastern surroundings, and
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particularly Eastern servants, tend to opening of the Hongkong University, the University's
Pelaxation of home discipline, and as a Matriculation examination was definite Child grows out of babyhood the climate ly adopted as a compulsory standard
Legium to map his energy. for all secondary schools in the Colony, 12-The fourth and 8fth resolutinas
advise. including the Kowloon School.
After thi
the
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That, in order to avoid duplication of the teaching staff, a school for the coeducation of boys and girls be catath
ished,"
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watch and chain taken from them. Afterwards the robbers made good their) cape without being caught. The four
men were released by an office boy who came inte the oflice shortly afterwards. The
prisonur was now being charged with being one of the robbers.
He left the place on February 15th and was not rested until the May in a house in Elgin Street. He was at once put on an identißention parads with 6fteen other me. He was picked out without
14.The venth resolution reads:-
"That it is eserlial, in order to make
Evidence was also given by one of the such a school as is suggested" success, that the parents should earnestly cawn Chinese clerks in the office at the operate with the staff of the school in
time and by Detective-Inspector Earner as (1) Maintaining strict discipline over
to the arrest. the boys and girls; and (2) In securing the regular attendance
of the boys and girls at schöni.”
7.--The answer of the Government to the third resclation is that the education
ny besitation both by the compradore and in its schools is of such a character as
the senior clerk as having taken part in to enable scholars on leaving school to pass the Hongkong University examina and
the robby. The senior clerk would tell tion; and that, in view of the positioni
the Court that he had taken the trouble That mich school should be a day to take particular notice of this man's which that Tiniversity holds in the Colony, school and not a boarding school." the Government is not prepared to sul That Government acerpts the recom-recognising him in a row of 10 men, The fntures and therefore had no difficulty in stitute for its examination the Matricula mendation as to a day school, but it can prisoner had made a statement totally lipn examination of the University of siders that, under local conditions, the denying the charge London.
best results cannot be obtained while the -It is, however, the case that, while stem of coeducating boys and girls Hing-fat, the compradors, who said bat The first witnes, called was Mr. Hung boys from Queen's College and similar contiunes.. Schools can and do attain this Matri Hongkong requires stricter discipline and another man entered the office and asked The average British boy in on the date in question the prisoner and culation standard, the scholars from the supervision than does the average British to see a certain clerk: They were told the Kowloon School fall, as a rule, to do girl, in order to ensure the proper permian was not there. The prisoner and That such lucation should ise of basis of the demand for reform in thelat in his education is different.
and this crucial fact appears to be the formance of task, and the purpose aimed his companion then drew revolvers and sel charnety as to enable scholars education of British children. It remains
told him to stand aside. Other men, | on leaving school at the age of about to be seen whether, and to what extent, resolution,
13-The Government accepts the sixth farmed, with revolvers and daggers, ap- seventeeni " years to pass the standard such reform is practicable.
peared, and the witness was ordered to of the London Matriculation Examina- The fault is not to be found in the qualifications, approximate so far as pinned his hands and a cup was forced That the staff, as regards teaching put his hands behind his back. "Someone tion."
standard or type of education, which is The proposal is not the Loudoun no way inferior to that obtaining in
possible to the present staff of Queen's into his mouth by the prisoner. The wit- Matriculation examuration as a standard Queen's College; nor does it the in the College, and that continuity of staff, ness went on to describe how he was especially of the seniors, "should be robbed of his watch and chain and the quality of the teaching staff, the average was made by Mr. Mackintosh, who pre-qualifications of the teachers at
secured
cash. His private papers werd Bat fered it
to the Hongkong University Kowloon School being much higher than paragraph of this letter that the average
It has been pointed out in the ninth touched." Matriculation because, although the two it is at Queen's College, where a number qualification of the Kowloon School staff Court, that he took particularly notice of The senior clerk. Mr. Abbas, ield the things
of locally trained teachers are employed, is considerably higher than at Queen's the shape of the robber's features and of Te practically identical. the Nor is there any tronomy of expenditure College. Lomlon Matriculation examination makes at the Kowloon School, where the cost to
the shape of the prisoner's nose, ears and A second language compulsory and it is public funds of each scholar is approxi-
eyes, so that he had no difficulty in recog mately three times as prent as the cost at
nixing him on parade. just this second language which makes all Queen's College, Ou the other hand, the the differner to the market value of the British scholar starts with decided advan boy." The Loulon examination requires that English is his native language.
tage. compared with the Chinese scholar, jone language only in aldition to English, 10.The reason for the comparative and, us French is compulsory at the Row Failure of the British child is, in the opinion of the Government, to be found Joon School, the objection raised by Arininly in tantes which are not within its The Government concurs that the co-compradore and the renior clerk. Mackintosh falls to the ground,
control. The British child is not a per operation of parents on the lines -Mr. Mackintosh, in the course of his Manent resident in the sense, that the essential, in order that their children may
child argument. stale that he knew nothing Chinese
He comes to
the get the fullest benefit from the educa dangerous, he was inclined to say no Colony at varying nges and leaves itional facilities which ure provided. thing so criminal, as a good all-round periodically when his parents go oh 15.-The Government agreek in prin- general education, and he added that, if furlough. At Queen's College the average ciple with the eighth and last resolu- ther was any parent in the Colony who boy goes right through the school for tion:-
wanted to make his son an engineer or five or six years at least and in many cases an agriculturalist, he was entitled to for seven or eight years. At the Kowloon demand the creation of a school whose School, since the year 1814, only twenty- curriculum would normally and ordinarily five children, apart from thage now in. prepare the boy to pass the appropriate attendance, are recorded as having re. There is, however, the difficulty that, with examination. The chief morit of the mained until the age of fifteen or over, present means of communication, there is Jondon Matriculation examination, as and of these only eight were at the school no àite available which is both sufficiently this Government understands it, is that for as long as three years. In the years central for purposes of a day school and it is designed to ensure that the candi. 1920-1928 inclusive there have been no boys at the same time sufficiently large to allow date has the grounding of a good all-aged seventeen; there have been ten boys of adequate playing grounds In the round general education, and to this end aged sixteen, eight of whom entered school proposed laying out of Kings Park for be is required to take five subjects and to for the first time at the age of fourteen; recreation purposes a suitable arra will paas in all five at the same time. Failure there have been sixteen boys aged fifteen, he Dade available fur the Kowloon The case in which" a Chinese Constable, in one subject necessitates the taking of ten of whom entered school at the age School, all five subjects again at a subsequent of fourteen. There no hoy or girl now 16.-A considerable majority of the on the previous day of manslaughter-in examination The Hongkong University at the school aged fifteen, and apwards British children in the Colony reside in that he unlawfully caused his wife's examination is designed to fulfil a similar who has attended regularly and without Kowloon, and the Government proposes, death by kicking her was concluded yea purpose.
intermission since the age of tea. Irre accordingly, that the secondary schools terday morning. gularity of attendance, especially when for British boys and girls should be in 4-In the course of the discussion of classes are small, does not merely set back Kowloon. It is the intention to erect a said the Jury had found him Guilty" His Lordship, in delivering judgment, this third resolution, Mr. Mackintosh is the child who is absent. On his return temporary building on land adjoining the of causing his wife's death by kicking her. reported as follows:-
b must be coached up to the standard present Kowloon School and to allocate According to the evidence, there were two "He must congratuinte the last which his class has reached in his alcace, the one building to boys and the other to kicks and the prisoner must have kicked. speaker if he had succeeded in obtaining and this involve the delaying of the girls. An area large enough for two the woman, hard, which WILY
That adequate playing grounds should be attitched to the school and that the playing of gaines should compulsory for boys and giris,”
The Chief Justice, in summing up, said the whole case depended upon the evi- dence as to identification given by the
The Jury returned a unanimous verdict of Guilty."
His Lordship. in sentencing the pris aner, described the ease and I shall take care that it will be a cowardly one. "It..is a very bad case long time before you will be let loose on Hongkong society again.".
A most
years' imprisonment and to receive fifteen The prisoner was then sentenced to ten strokes with the "cat."
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[BEFORK HIS HONGER THE PUISNE JUDGE (MR. JUSTICE GOMPERTZ).]
THE MANSLAUGHTER CASE.
CONSTABLE SENT TO GAOL FOR FIVE YEARS.
named Man Chuen, was found "Guilty'
very
a syllabus of the Peak School, the other children until he can catch them up schools with playing grounds will be ear serious matter. There were, however, two Victoria School, or even the Kowloon No improvement in educational facilities marked within the residential district things to take into consideration, one was Tritizh School, He had asked on can repair the damage caused by inter which has been laid out by the Town that he had ende no attempt to escape, Beveral occasions at meetings of the nittent school attendance, and, as long Planning Committer, but it is consider but went up to the hospital to a his Education Board that the syllabus bene this state of affairs continues. it is noted inndvisable to make definite plans for wife and was very much grieved at the placed upon the table, but had always posible to equip the average British building until the tramway service is in whole añair. received the same answer that they child with an education equal to that operation and the development of the the Jury had made a strong recommendn
The other point was that were in the course of preparation. It which he would acquire at home or equal neighbourhood has substantially progress tion for mercy on his behalf, and, having had been his painful duty to point out to that which the Chinese bog nequires at ed.--I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, over and over again that mathematics Queen's College.
regard to his previous goud character with (Signed) M. FLETCHER wern not taught at all in these schools, !
the police force, he sentenced the prisoner (Colonial Secretary), to five year imprisonment.
(Continued at foot of next column.)
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