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HOW NOT TO RUN RAILWAYS.
TRAVELLING ON CANTON. SHAMSHUI LINE.
TRICKS OF THE BOOKING CLERKS.
MODERN TELEGRAPH
POLES
FOR CANTON KOWLOON RAILWAY.
(YRON DÙM CHINEEK CORALSPONDENT.
CANTON, Jan. 14th The Chinese section of the Can-
[FROM OUR CANTON CORRESPONDENT.]ton-Kowloon Railway has decided
CANTON, Jan. 14th
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to replace all wooden telephone poles along the permanent way with reinforced concrete..onea. The work will be spread over five years and the most decrepit poles will be replaced first. The total number of concrete poles will be 2,800 and the total rest of the job will be 379,000 Canton currency. This will be jointly shared by the Canton
Owing to the keem rivalry of the Canton-Fatshan Launch Company, the Canton-Shamshui Railway bas drastically reduced its fares between Canton and Fatshan. Hitherto the ahird class fare between these two cities has been eo cents, but it is now only $5 cents. The present Arst and second class fares between Kowloon Railway and the Canton these two points are about 35 Telegraph Office. About 500 wooden or 40 ocnia, whereas they were well over a dollar formerly. Only the poles will be replaced each year fares between Fatahan and Canton and the annual sum 'appropriated have thus been drastically reduced; for the purpose will be $18,000. those between qther stations on the line are high as they ever were.
This means that the Railway and
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 15th, 1929.
THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
FOUR NEW MEMBERS.
MR. J. P. BRAGA AND DR. S. W.
TSO TO REPRESENT
KOWLOON
Four additional members have been appointed to the Legislative Council, two Official Members and two Unofficial. They are:
Dr. Arthur Robartes Wellington M.R.C.S. (England), LR.C.P. (London), TM, and H. and D. P. H. (Cambridge), Director of Medical and Sanitary Service.
Comdr. G. F. Hole, R.N. (re- tired), Harbour Master and Marine Magistrate; Official Mem-
bez's.
Mr. J. P. Braga. J.P., and Dr. S. W. Tao (To Seen Wan), OB.E., LL.D., J.P., Unofficial Members.
Oncial Members.
Dr. Wellington entered the Goy
DEGREE DAY.
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1.)
Degrees Conferred.
Medicine, Engineering, and Arta The Deans of the Faculties of then presented graduates for the conferment of degrees us under- Doctor Of Laws. Honoris Causa C.B.E., M.A. (Oxon.).
Reginald Fleming Johnsten,
of our undergraduates come from China; and it should be our
special care do to educate and equip them during their sojourn among us that, when they return to their father. and most zanful citizens. land, they may rank among its best
The time-honoured system of Chinese classical education was des trosed in the destruction of the Manchu Empire. Nothing has yet been created to take its place; and it is doubtful whether the genius Dr. Li Tado Yill, M., RS,lation, will be capable of im of the Chinese people, working in D.T.M. and H. Bachelor of Medicine And Bacheloranch as the necessities of the Twen provising an educational system Of Surgery.
Doctor Of Medicine,
Chee Chin Hai, Navel Pestonji Karanjin, Kwan Pak Chien, Carlos Francisco Xavier da Roza, Edward Wickham Jueyow Sun," Chumlang Vephula, Wong Yan Kwong, Chan Joo Cheng, Chua Boon Teck, All- ston Gourdin, Kama Kriang Krai, Lam Hor Yin, Brahm Nath Sudan, Chitoor Aroobasiramony Sunderaj, Lin.
tieth Century require: because the urgent demand in Chins to-day is certainly not for a mere resuscita- tion of obseleté methods, but rather
for an entirely novel system which, by passing the ancient classical teaching through the alembic of
hall, from the amalgamation of western salture and modern science, these elementa, forge a new educa-
Until compelled by competition to the Telegraph Office will each have ernment medical service in 1905. Tia Swi Lam, Wa Ta Piao, 1858 tional implement for the benefit of
make this reduction, the Canton Shamshui Railway has long been noted as the most expensive rail- way to travel on perhaps in the entire world.
The Canton-Fatban Launch Co.
to pay $8,000 a year for five years. his cost includes all the china insulators and the longitudinal
As Principal Medical Officer of the FMLS, he sat on the Federal Coun cil of the Federated Malay States
Bachelor of Science In Engineering. Hatam Tyebjee Motabjoy Barma,
iron bars. Six wires are expected as an Official member: He was re- Hugh Braga, Chong Tuck Wing, In
It is a task of stupendous dif-
was organised not so much because to be taken. by the new poles, hair costly transferred to Hong Kong: Tak Lam, Kwa Soen Hwie, Mok ficulty."" but it is a problem which i
of the excessively high fares charged by the Railway authorities as be cause of the trouble and incon- venience indicted by the ticket wellers in the different stations They never start to sell tickets until few minutes before the arrival of the train, they go about their duties in a most fisurely way and
of which will belong to the Canton Telegraph. Office.
as the first permanent Director of Medical and Sanitary Services.
tired), joined, the Royal Navy in Comdr. "G. F. Fele, R.N. (re-
1002 and was invalided and pension-
the Provincial Council for con- The matter has been submitted to sideration and work will start as soon as the project has been ap- proved by the Provincial Governed in 1916. ment-and the money is available.
According to the officials of the
Service in Ceylon and in 1924 bo He joined the Colonial
was transferred to Hong Kong as
York
Chan,
Reginald Henry Lathian, Sung, Chan Kuri Chuan, Lee Shan Chieh..
Bachelor of Arts,
Min, Ho Ka Ming, Lam U Pak, Chan Yi Tsung, Chang Iu Man, Cheung Leung Wing, Cheung. Wing
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graphical situation, peculiarly well and forgotten. In the solution of versity is, by reason of its geo- thier problem, the Hong Kong Uni-
Hin, Loh Meng Choon, Lang Tin take the lead.. Tong, Pai Ping Lun, Tse Chan "This University, as you know, Yau, Florence Wong, Woo Hing Tak, Obeng Lan Pec, Tseng Chao
are most exneting when taking Railway this is the cheapest method Harbour Master, and Marine Magis-Leung Cheung Ling, Leung Pingitted to participate and even to
silver coins. Each coin is carefully in the long run, considering that looked over and then dropped on the marble counter to see if it
reinforced concrete polea. will "never rings true. Nine times out of
wear out." Unlike the ten the coins are rejected and the wooden poles they are impervious prospective passengers are compelled to white ants which are such a
China
and THE KWONG WA MEDICAL
COLLEGE.
EVERYONE HELPS CANTON
INSTITUTION.
trate. Comdr. Hole has recently returned from Home leave."
Hus.
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These two members have been ap-
not members by virtue of their office.
In addition to the Dr. Phillip B. C. Ayres, a former
usual out medical officer (Colonial Surgeon),bursts of applause, there were fre- was a member of the Legislative side the Hall following the confer quent explosions of fireworks out- Council and two former Harbour Masters, Comdr. R. Marray Rum
ment of degrees upon the more sey, R.N., and Comdr. H. R. H.
popular graduates. In particular, Dr. Too Yiu war: accorded a Taylour, N., were bonoured.
deafening reception. His Excel-
similarly
to hand out another handful of coins ruisance in every part of Southpointed by His Excellency and are for the ticket sellers to examine. But very often the prospective passengers, being farmers Labourers of the vicinity, have no extra coins. They are told there- fore go home to and get. what the booking clerks term good money and to take the next traid, thus upsetting all their plans for the day. Each prospective traveller goes through the same ordeal; Canton, Jau. 12th-The Kwong Meanwhile the train arrives, but no Wa Medical College has made very passenger is allowed to board it good progress with its campaign until he has bought his ticket. The for funds for the improvements result is that the train proceeds and expansion of that institution. and a crowd is left behind at Marshal Li Tsai Hsin has contri the station. The result is that faith Futed $800 though he was approach in trains as
reliable means ofed while he was actually on his way making a journey has been com to catch the train for Hong Kong, pletely shattered.
when he left for Nanking, As 80000 ay the Marshal arrived in Shang hai, he instructed one of his staff officers to send an order for 8800 for the College...
THE EFFICIENT OPPOSI- TION.
are
In a place where the harbourlency the Governor shook hands plays so prominent a part, the with each of the successful gradua presence of the Harbour Mastertors as he was presented. should be of great assistance to the governing body,
Mr. J. P. Braga.
Mr. Braga belongs to a Portu- guese family which has been resident in Hong Kong since the Colony was founded. His grandfather was among the very few who came to
Hong Kong from Macao in the first
H.E. THE GOVERNOR'S
SPEECH.
After the scholarship winners had dressed Congregation as follows:- been presented His Excellency ad-
"Standing before you to-day, as your Chancellor, I cannot but ask myself-what is the special contri- Island, and the family bave remain.bution which this University should make to Hong Kong, to China, to the world?-and I beg you to bear fewest possible words to answer with me while I endeavour in the
those obstinate questionings."
The inevitable result was that a According to Dr. Holt A. Cheng, group of persons got together and M.D., president of the college, organized the Canton Fatehan over eleven thousand dollars have Launch Co. The launch charges Leen received in the two wes only 15 cents per passenger from campaign. Among the kinny year of British Settlement on the gets to Fatahan almost as fast asciala, leading bankers, and mered here ever since. Canton to Fatahan or vice versa and donors are high government offi- the train. Ever since it started it chants especially oversea Chinese. has done prosperous business. The Municipality Does Its Bit. Mr. Braga was born in 1871, and people, particularly the poorer
Government takes educated in the Italian Convent The Canton classes, take great deal of pleasure 'n great interest in this institution School, Caine Rond. travelling by this route and save 45 and all graduates
He won the cents a bend per trip. The Railway licenses to practice in Canton and given
Belilios Scholarship in 1988, one of business has proportionately de other cities. The municipality also the only two Scholarships then in clined and on this account the rail- helps in a useful if rather grim Hong Kong In 1887 he was sent day reduced its fares as stated.detail. It supplies corpses of those
With a view to meeting the who die in its jails and lunatic St. Xavier's the Jesuits Col- Launch Company's rivalry, the asylums for dissecting purposes. railway has also launch" Kwong Shame the
Kwong Wa is in need of funds tween Canton and Fatahan.
to ply be for improvements. The chemical The laboratorics were recently recondi fare between Camton and Fatshan tioned at the cost of $10,000, and on this Government launch is only other facilities will be added as & cents and according to the officials soon as more donations are receiv of the Launch Company, the rail-ed. Dr. Cheng expects to raise way intend to crush out competition 850,000 before the end of this and when the Company has gone month. into bankruptcy, the railway will again raise ita fares. Many people are expressing indignation at the Railway's behaviour and a very rich. merchant is said to be willing to sink $10,000 to help the Canton- Fatahan Launch Co."
THE SUNNING RAILWAY FIASCO.
BIG EARTHQUAKE IN
КАМСНАТКА.
lege in Calcutta and continued his studies in the Roberts' Memorial College of, which he was the Dur in 1889, being awarded the Gold Medal that year and the special priza for Latin. University Entrance Examination in that year. Mr. Braga won the only Scholarship for the European
division.
In the Calcutta
organize within itself a Faculty of proposes when funda permit, to Chinese such that Chinese students may take a degree in subjects which will assist them in their oficial or professional careers in their own. country. It should be no longer knowledge, must travel at a youth- the custom that a Chinese, whom his parents wish to train in, western ful age to Europe or America to spend ten or more of the most im pressionable years of his life away from China returning with a veneer, no doubt, of Western culture. but a most lamentable ignorance of things Chinese.
"This University would be a far better training place for such men' and while pursuing here their academic studies, they would also be able to see for themselves how Great Britain governs and develops a Colony of which the population is mainly Chinese. Thus they would come to realize that the political education of a people cannot be crammed. that freedom is not to be
snatched by sidden revolution but was slowly broadening down from precedent to precedent, and they would then be better fitted to show their fellow countrymen how to re- atore and to maintain law and order. In a word they would learn the lesson of patriotism.
...
Patriotism Not Enough. "But a noble saying, spoken in the face of imminent death, "At the outset let me remind enough. From the centre of home warns us that patriotism is not
is the principal meeting-ground of bounds of their native land,, the you that the Colony of Hong Kong and hearth, and far beyond the the British and Chinese civilizations, to clasp the earth. Within the love of men and women must widen Here, therefore, better than any-four seas all are brethren," said where else on the face of the earth, Confucius; and we do well to lay the Chinese may learn those lessons these words to heart; for patriotism which Great Britain can teach them in many countries-dud in this, and Britishers may study things China is no exception-bas often Chinese.
meant nothing but hatred of the foreigner....
"Now, if two foreign peoples arc to understand one another, they
Here again the Hong Kong must begin by learning each other's University must set before itself the literature and history, and familiar cere understanding, not only be languages, reading each other's high ideal of bringing about a sin-
izing themselves with each other's tween the British and Chinese races, Mr. Braga has been Reuter's Cor-manners and customs. So I venture but between all the races inhabiting respondent in Hong Kong since to suggest that the most import and frequenting this most commo- 1000; was nominated to the Sanitary SHOCKS LAST THREE HOURS. Board in 1998 during the absence of Kong University can make to this in the years that lie behind us East ant contribution which the Hong politan of all colonies Doubtless Leave of Dr. W. V. M. Koch and Colony is to afford Britishers the and West bave often been grievous- elected a member in 1928.
opportunity NO CONFIRMATION.
of associating withly, at fault when dealing with each Dr. S. W. Tso, who was awarded Chinese students and learning their other; but a conscientious examina the O.B.E. in the King's Birthday language, their modes of thought tion and a true comprehension of Honours last year, is now serving and habits of life, while at the same all the facts will inevitably bring his fourth term as a member of the time offering Chinese students every with it a spirit of conciliation and Sanitary Board and of the Board facility for acquainting themselves of mutual forgiveness Tout som: of Education.
thoroughly with all things British. prendre d'est tout pardonner.
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The Royal Observatory, Hong Kong, informs us that. severe earthquake whose origin was either 2,600 kms or 3,700 kms. N.E. by N of Hong Kong, occurred be tween Ch. and sh: GM.T. on Janu ary 13th.
Stephen's College, for Boys and He assisted in founding St.
for Girls, and was secretary to the Chinese committee for raising aa Endowment Fund for the Hong Kong University,
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After controlling the Bumming: Railway for more than a year, dar ing which a number of reforms have been effected, the Provincial Govern ment has decided to return control of the railway on the 20th of this
A Bond Of Talon. -
"You may think that I pitch upy month to the group of merchants
"This University should be par ject that bricks are not made with expectations too high, You may ob who own it. The Sunning Railway The preliminary tremor occurred
tween the two races by whose co- excellence the bond of union be out straw. You may urge that A was built more than twenty years at Hong Kong at oh. 1cm. 674.
operation Hong Kong has been con-human material which it receives, University can only work upon the ago largely by overseas Chinese. Mr. Chen Yi Hi, an American red at on. 15m. 208. (or alternatively G.MT. the transverse waves start.
verted within less than a century whether as undergraduates or as turned Chinese, was the leader of
Dr. Tao was also the originator from barren island into one of staff. the project. Although the railway surface waves, at ob. 16m. 688. (er paiga at Hong Kong in 1916-17, and world.
at Oh. 18m. 85.); and the long, or of the Public Vaccination Cam- the greatest shipping ports of the Mr. Baldwin's fine saying that four. But I will remind you of runs through the richest and most alternatively at Ob. 20m, 308.) The has rendered valuable assistance in thickly populated parts of Sun
monosyllables are words which con- maximum movement in Woi and Bunning districts, no profit direction was 21 mms, at th. 34m. the Colony was faced with a serious but of the best social life of the Love, and Work.
"Here should be the centre not tain salvation for the whole world, N.S all subsequent campaigns. When only of the highest intellectual life, and they are Faith," Hope, of any sort has ever been realized. No share holder has received a 'cent
30s. In an E.W, direction it was housing problem before the War, Colony. Thus will whatever is most "If this University is to win of dividend.
13 mins, at Oh, 31m. 208.
Dr. Teo was associated with Sir Knivaluable in the two civilizations through to better daya and fulfi The railway was in a very bad
Ho Kni in promoting the Kowloon British and Chinese-be fused, the high destiny which-I believe condition" several years ago. He
Bay Reclamation Scheme.
fashioned and adopted by your awaits it, then we must have faith peated demands were made by the A big earthquake, whose epicen- Kowloon residents will be parti- efforts for the special needs of in that co-operation between the well organized employees of the rail- tre is at a distance of over 5,000 cularly gratified at these Appoint Hong Kong. way for increased wages, engine miles, vas recorded at the Helouan ments. The big and growing city after engine broke down and there and Uccle Observatory in Belgium on the Mainland has not hitherto was no money to repair them early this morning.
The whole railroad was a most
been represented by one of its own The opinion is expressed that it residents on the Legislative Council, dilapidated condition when the is possibly in North Japan. Government took over its manage
and though unofficial members, nut- The Central Meteorological Obaly Sir Henry Pollock, and the ment. Under the Government the servatory at Tokyo states that an. two Chinese membera, Dr. Kotewal, labour element was made to be more earthquake was registered yester C.M.G. and the Hon. Sir Shou reasonable. No more strikes occurday morning shortly after am, Son Chow, have always been ready red and things were more or less the tremors lasting about three put into order. The Government is hours. The seismic centre was ap now handing it over to the old parently in Kamchatka, but no con- Board of Directors.
Armation bas so far been received
A Reuter cable, referring to this earthquake, atates:
·British and Chineas races of which' University to China should, I think, splendid an object-leason: we must The chief contribution of this our wonderful Hong Kong is so be the interpretation of British have hope in the future both of this ideals, civic, ethical and educa Colony and of China: we must tional, to the Chinese people and rush out all anti-foreign hatreds the promotion of Anglo-Chinese and spread-the gospel of love both friendship. It is indeed expressly East and West: and we must work laid down in the Hong Kong Ordinand work and work in season and ance, by which this University was out of season until faith and hops to plead the cause of Kowloon. It incorporated, that one of its objects are achieved in sight, until love was felt that a person who knew was to be the maintenance of the is justifled of its sacrifices, and the problems of the place from per-good understanding with the neigh until the ideal is at last the real." sonal experience was needed. bouring country of China Most (Loud applause,)
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