ANNUAL PRIZE DISTRIBU-
TION..
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27th, 1927.
CAR STEALING IN ENGLAND.
BELILIOS PUBLIC SCHOOL. Į allocate a room to this new and important branch The girls are respassible for the entire clean. hineas and freshness of the place. YOUNG ROBBER'S IMPUDENT the washing of paint, curtains, cleaning of windows, polishing of floors and care of plants in the cookery compound. Laundry work is also included in the house-wifery
AN INTERESTING REPORT.
The distribution af prizes yester day morning was held by Belilios Public School. Ai the school has no hall suitable for the occasion, the hall of Queen's College, wai kindly lent by the Headmaster. The prizes wera distributed by Mr. A. Wood, the Director of Educa tion," and there were also present Mr. Yu, and Mr. Law, Inspectors of Vernacular Schools.
The Headmistress, Miss Skinner, read her report on the year's work, and this was repeated in Chiness by Miss Hung. The Director of Educa tion then presented, the prizes. which included the awards on the results of the University Senior and Junior Local Examinations, the Government Free Scholarships, the English and Chinese class prizes, and Certificates for First Aid and Home Nursing. Mr. Wood then spoke to the school in Cantonese, and the proceedings ended with voto of thanks to him proposed by Mias, Lewis. J
course.
Another innovation during 1998 was drill. Mrs. Atwell being ap pointed for physical culture.
STATEMENT.
WE DECIDED TO JOIN THE A.A.
WORLD'S "OUTPUT-OF-
GOLD.
CONTROL - SCHEME SUGGESTED.
SOUTH AFRICÀN-EXPERT'S :
PROPOSALS.
The way of the transgressor is
Out of the monstary chaos pro hard, but the plank beds in gaoi
duced by the war two leading im are harder."
Thus caded a voluntary state-pressions have appeared, writes Dr. The girls showed their enjoymentment to the local police said to have R A. Lehfeld, Professor of Econ- from the first, and its beneficial results soon became apparent.
LIBRARY.
A small room has been arranged as a library, and a study for the senter pupils.
F
GENERAL SCHOOL ACTIVITIES.
been made by Peter K. Riley, aged 19, and Henry Francis Lupton, aged 21, both of Bootle, who with William Stanley Watson, aged 16, at Liverpool of Seaforth, were recently committed to the Quarter Sessions charged with stealing motor-cars and accessories.
It was stated that there were about 70 charges in all, involving 4,200,
The statement gave the following details of " cars borrowed," during
10:26.
February 18th Purloined a buff
two-seater.
The Victoria Nursing Division of the St. John Ambulance" Brigade continues to be a very live interest in the school. Dr. Minett lectured during the year on First Aid and Home Nursing; in October, fourteen candidates were examined by Dr. Hickling and all passed. Members attended two parades in 1926-HE. the Governor's inspection and the investiture of His Excellency by HRH Prince George Papis have expressed a wish that the school should become identified with the Girl Guide movement, and three members of the Staff together with two former pupils are training as officers. It is hoped that patrols will be formed in March and, the A short while after this episode school is grateful to Mra Remingwe took Mr. Bramby-Smith's saloon
-hats off to the best of the sixteen ton for the help she is giving.
An Old Girls Association has and went to Hoole and conked out. recently been formed, and Miss By false pretences and plausible Lewis's work in connection with the mendacity we obtained one gallon
of petrol: association is much appreciated.
A further innovation is the school magazine, which will be produced twice yearly,
Thanks were given on behalf of the School to the following gentle ron, who had kindly subscribed to the prize funda:--Messrs J. T. Bagram, A H. Barlow, Messrs. Bradley & Co., Messrs. Butterfield Swire, Mr. Chau Siu Lum, Mr. T. N. Chau, Messrs. Douglas, Lap raik & Co., Messra Gibb, Living stone & Co. Messrs. Hughes & Hough, Ltd., Mr. Ho Kom Tong, Mr. Ho Loung, Sir Robert Ho Tung. Is: conclusion I desire to place on K. Mr. In Ku. Un, Messrs. Jar record my appreciation of the dine, Matheson & Co., Messrs. John-harmonious atmosphere which has son, Stokes & Master, Messrs. existed during the period under Linscend Davis, Messrs. Lane,
review. I caanet speak too warmly Crawford & Co., Mr. Lo Chung Kus, of the loyalty of all branches of the Mr. Mok Kon Sang, Mesara David Staff, and of the support" extended Sassoon & Co. Messrs. Shewan,
to me throughout the year. Tomes & Co., Messrs. Tak Cheong & Co., and M. Young Tae Wan,
Esport For 1928.
The report stated:-
* STAFF.
La 1925 the Staff had been re- duced by four, owing to the traps- ference of Miss Newshohne and the
resignations of Miss Jenkins, Miss Li Fo Yak and Miss May Hung. In 1928 the Stof was further re- duced by five. Miss Munro has gone home on sick leave. Ma Ng and Mrs. Wei resigned for reasons of health and Miss Fok and Miss To were transferred to King's College.
ATTENDANCL
The attendance during 1926 was satisfactory, the average daily at- tendance being four hundred and ninety-two, and the dwindling in numbers during the course of the year, so noticeable in the past was much less pronounced. One class, 7e, had exactly the same numbers, and names on the roll at the begin
ning of December as at the begin- ning of Fanuary.
I would bere turge parents not to withdraw their daughters from the school during the year. The time for a girl to leave is at the close of the school year, in Decembor. It has been found that premature with, drawals are very unsettling to the 'school. "The accommodation of the school is strained to the atmost and
this year 146 applications had to be refused.
J!
BIZALTEL.
The health of the school remains good... In October Dr. Minett, the Medical Officer of Schools, medic. ally examined one hundred and sixty-nine entrants. The report on eyes and teeth was not satisfac
*
CONCLUSION.
A CHINESE PLAY.
February 20th or thereabouts: Took a blue four-seater and went to Manchester and back. This car was in the most dilapidated condition of all the cars which we have ever misappropriated.
The statement continued:
We then took a four-seater and went to Blackpool.
The fifth was walked away from Tithebarne-street, Liverpool to: Namber six. WAL Mold, Wales. taken from East Crosby,
Number seven in this car "we went to Newton-le-Willows
Adoption.
By this time it was customary to exercise care and discretion to get o safely. We speculated on a length of rope and incarcerated Mr. Timpson, owner of the eighth car, in his own castia This car was almost as ramshackle as the four-seater from Hotham-street "Nuff said..
On Laster Bank Holiday we bor rowera. Nelson's saloon, an old
model, and went to Wigan-not for coal
PRESENTED AT QUEEN'S COLLEGE HALL. Following the prize distribution in the morning, a very interesting presentation of a Chinese play was given by pupils of the Belilies
Number ten came from a church Fublit School at Queen's College Hall yesterday afternoon. The in Lecce-sztest; Liverpool, while the play, which had been extraordinary wher was attending divine service. well got up, was performed under. This was a saloon. We rang up the the able. direction of Miss Skinner Seaforth police before abandoning and her staff, whose work in con it and notified them as to its where nection with the production de- abouta. serves much credit,
There was a good attendance, and both European and Chinese visitors thoroughly enjoyed the perfonn- ance. The actiog was remarkably good and reflected much credit, an "the abilities of the young perform-
era,
The play A Country Maid" is about Birs. Ho, a wealthy Chinese lady, who is visited by her niece, While these two are talking on the fascinating subject of fashions, there appears hirs, Ho's spendthrift, and lazy son and his worthless friend. All efforts of the mother to per suada her son to do something use ful in life fail, and he and his friend leave."
An amusing incident was caused here by the two servants trying to read the son's geography book, while there is no ade in the house. Their illiteracy leads them to make some very amusing mistakes.
In the last week of August we took a blus two-seater, the property of an Israelite, from cutside his shop. The car was typical of the owner.
emies in the South African School of Mines and Technology, Johannes. burg. One is that the commercial world is aarious to get back to the safety of the gold standard with which it is familiar; it is suspicious of experiments in currency. The other is that attention must be paid by the monetary authorities to keep- ing the general level of prices às nearly constant na may be. The latter aim is certainly influencing
Board and the Bank of England, the actions of the Federal Reserve and for the time being..it does not conflict with the maintenance of the gold standard.
Bat if the unit of money is to remain defined by a fixed weight of gold, the unit (the pound, dollar, etc.) must eventually depend on the cost of mining gold: there is there- fore no security that the ideal of stable money will remain within reach for long unless the 'production of gold itself is controlled by an authority that represents the com- mon interest of the commercial nations. Gold should no longer be exposed to the chances of private enterprise.
Output And. Distribution. The right policy is to produce just so much new gold as is needed to meet the growth, of the world's trade. If more is supplied, as ́ was the case in the early years of this contary, the price index rises, with factuations, no doubt, but rises continuously on the whole. If the gold output is inadequate, as in the period, 1873-96, the index falls. Ar the present time the output, after providing for the needs of manufac ture and for that hoarding of gold
coins and ornaments of which India is so long, leaves some 22,200 mil- lions-
This is not far from the correct proportion, but there is danger of "disturbance in another way the existing stocks are distributed in e manner that does not correspond rightly with the requirements of dit- ferent countries. Thus, the German "A Thrilling Spin.”
Reichsbank, since its reconstruction Number twelve deserves more under the Dawes Plan, has acquired hers, D.J. 2831 was stolen from which is fairly suitable to the extent space and prominence than is given a reserve of about 250 millions, outside the Picton Reading Rooms, of its business; but Czechoslovakia: Liverpool, on August 26th in the year of grace 1928. After a thrill ing spin to Ashhurst's Beacon we
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decided to adopt it and call it our own, altering the number to M. B.
30.
For four months we retained it and so ambitious were we that we decided to join the Automobile Association, prompitude. Our initiation was somewhat unorthodox and pre: cipitate. We removed Mr. Mur- phy's A.A. badge and affixed it to our car and, lo! we were members
and did so with
manages its foreign commerce by means of deposits and bills on the
loading centres and hardly uses any gold, while Spain has a reserve larger than that of Germany buried in the vaults at Madrid and not used at all.
foryout of the number examined the scene and wins the sympathy oil, accumulators, and multifarious countries might throw on the marį
In the second scene an ignorant countryman listens to his sons re citation from Mencius. Then the hero, a starving youth, appears on there were fifty delecta, mainly eye invites him into the house. Later of the countryman's daughter, who sight.
the countryman, returning from market, reproves his daughter for Since the last report was sub what she has done, but is sorry for mitted several changes have been the youth, when he learns that be introduced, the chief being the had been shipwrecked while retara extension of the study of English ing to his own country, and that the to the lower classes of the schoolrich son of Mrs. Ho had refused to
STUDIES.
In January 1998, the Remove Class help him. He gives him some which had previously had studies in money and sends him away the ratio of three hours' Chinese
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This is an unstable state of affairs. It is possible that a competition to secure additional reserves might spring up which would raise the To maintain our car it was neces value of gold and cause a serious sary to plunder our fellow motorists depression in prices: but it is at and relieve them of their petrol, least equally likely that various
time to accessories which would take a long
enumerate.
ket stocks of gold, for which there Number thirteen one of the cars would be no purchasers. If there we stripped to furnish our own with necessities, was a four-seater were any widespread movement to from the Punch Bowl, Sefton, do so, a dangerous inflation would Number fourteen, acquired also for result the same
reason, came from the Punch Bowl Number fifteen azme from the Town Hall, Crosby, and The remedy proposed is that the War served the
International Commission.
"In scene three the spendthrift son | goings: van same as the fore- Powers should declare themselves in
* Isvou of monetary stability, and constitute an International
to two of English, was included of Mrs. He wants to marry the Number sixteen-at this stage we shoull the hours were changed to one and country. maid, much to the dissues I decided to adopt another car for Commission to take charge of, gold-| amongst the English classes, and
our own we procured at South-mining The Commission would be port and garaged it with its big a trading corporation, needing brother,
capital to the "extent of · about £200,000,000, whose business would be
of Mrs. Ho.. four respectively. In this way In ino Saol scena the starving pupils are afforded an opportunity youth reappears rich. The spend of reaching the standard of English, thrift's mother has died, he has required for the Junior Local in the spent all the money, and pursued remaining four years
e by creditors he is only saved at the
This change has proved a success and has been appreciated by the
girl
last minute by the youth he had once refused to help. The son then
In 1925 the subject of Hygiene Promises to lead a useful life. The
was introduced by means of in- formal health. talks. In the lower
classes these are given in Chinese,
in the English junior classes: they
starving youth marries the coun-
try maid, and all ends happily.
The Characters
EX-KAISER'S TRUCULENT
SONS.
Bath the University authorities and the Students', Corporation at. Bonn University find it difficult to discard the attitude of deference,
to acquire gold-bearing land and operate gold mines throughout the world. It is true that the British Empire and the United States, act tion, but the Commission should be ing together could control produc constituted not in the interest of gold producers, but of the users of
Each young Performer acted his almost amounting to servility, to money that is, of everybody,
wards the two Hohenzollerns. Accordingly all the lending com-
form the subject of colloquial Jes Frole perfectly. The characters werences Wilhelm and Louis Ferdi-mercial States should be represent
years"in
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taken as underg
wong and in the Senior Classes the
Ho Tao Si, the mother, Liu Oi | nand-sons of the ex-Crown Prince, ed-on it; its policy should be de Wubject is treated formally Domestic Science In 1828 Domes Chok Tee Chan Chan, har nice, who have spent the last term at signed not to make profits, but to satisfy the world's intereat,in aoud Lie Science replaced Needlework as Tas Tong Tai Ho Chi Wah, her this university, a subject for the Senior and Junior
Prince Wilhelm has already estab-money. It would expand or com Ho Siu Hing Cheung fuk Needlework is taught Ave Vau, son's Itlend Cheng, Yak lished a great reputation as a re-tract production it considered
Chan Fak and Tak, servante, Har doubtable duellist in'" Mensura,”* rs in the Júnior and four
necessary to maintain constancy of years
Fung Taing; s
message.
At the In the Senior School. The old Wong Yin, countryman & son, ang saya a Router mesing his frat term value of, sold, Auribe same time, adequate, and it was found possible Kit Ming: Wong Ying, country and won them all. He not only aim to restrict production, and last year to St out as kitchen a man's daughter, Ewok Siu Ying; hacked his opponents about to auch parties injuriously affected should more suitable room. The subject of Wong Chung countryman, Wong an extent that doctors certified receive proper compensation. With house-wifery bas recently been in Lai Wan; Li Sheung Yi, young man, them, unable to continue, but he banking methods directed to main- troduced, and it is hoped that strac-sa Fong, Bang Tak, creditor, himasif has been absolutely untenance of stable prices over short Baral, alterations will allow us to Bang Ngan Lal
periods, and a declaration by the
touched.
leading countries that gold produc-¡ tion should be regulated with a view to stability in the long run, the situation would become socure, and any necessary adjustment of "goli reserve · between different countries, could be carried ons without exces- aire distarbance, “
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A. J. COOK'S PLOTTING AGAINST ENGLAND.
RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY
METHODS.
the 1905 failure. The knowledge I have gained concerning the struc ture of Bolshevik-trade unions and their functions, the relations bet tween the various Soviets and thei control of production will, danist
Mr. AJ. Cook, secretary of my work in our organisations faced the Miners Federation of Great with the task of fighting British The initiation of mich a plan Britain and hireling of the Soviet Capitalism. raises a question of considerable enemies of England, sent 'during t I know now that it is necFISAFY importance for England--that of the | his visit to his paymasters letters to employ Russian, methods to win. level to be aimed at The actual of thanks to numerous Soviet Russia's experience emphasises the level at the last few years both of bodies, in which, it is stated, he necessity for reorganising our trade American prices and of English generously promises greater re-unions by establishing definita or prices reduced to a gold basis has volutionary activity in Great ganisations on the principle of class lain between 140 and 170 (1913 baing Britain. He says he intends to war for oach branch of industry..., taken as 100). It would not be visit Russia, next May, and will in These organisations must be cen- difficult to push the level a little clude the outlying districts, and tralised as in Soviet Russia. It is One way or the other. The virtue particularly, the Caucasus. In clear that we must not only change of the gold standard lies in the fact letter went to the Leningrad Pravdo our trade unions, but also discard that it cannot be much affected by he is represented as saying
our present leaders of the Mac- the action of a single nation. Still,
Donald-Thomas typo, who believe. the question arises whether it is to
in the possibility of compromise England's advantage to see the
with Capitalists. In Leningrad, I level high or low. No official ex
hope, with the naistance of Com pression of opinion has been made,
rade Ugaroff, to complete my ob but the actions of the Treasury
servations... point to a belief in a moderate do-
I have often been naked what dur- ing my sojourn in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republica Ilavoj gained for my further practical ose, and I reply that I have now sequainted myself with the methods for the overthrow of Capitalism
The letter concludes with cheera
preciation of gold in order to light employed by Russian workers after far the Soviet."--Reuter
en the national debt. It is true the American debt is payable in gold, and the less gold is worth in real purchasing power the easier it is to pay it. But England holds fer- eiga securities to the extent. of st least three times the American debt. Is it vise to depreciate three thousand millions of foreign invest ments in order to reduce the burden of interest on one thousand millions of foreign debt! The interest of the nation should override that of the Treasury. The effect of price level on the internal debt cannot be stated so simply, but it is much to be desired that the whole question should be discussed and an authorit ative probauncement made.-Finan- cial Times.
Councillor Miss Hudson, has been elected Mayor of Eastbourne and is the town's first woman mayor.
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