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EDUCATION IN HONG KONG.*
NON-GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AND THEIR GRANTS.
SOME CRITICISMS AND SUGGESTIONS.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
VICTIMS OF BOGUS BILL OF LADING.
DEBTORS AGAIN IN COURT..
Further mention' was made nt [TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONG KONG salary is but half that of the the Bankruptcy Court yesterday'
DAILY PREKA"]
Home staff and is not pensionable. In this way a great casing could the failure of S. La Kwok & Co., Sa-In May and Ostuler cerbo effected. There are at least four whose managing partner was pub- time ago. tain articles on Education appears in Hong Kong now; three of liely examined some
these Indies are the wives of ten- chers in the Education Department, The deter partners were Kwok and they are now drawing "Home" Sza Lei, Kwan Yi Suen and Tsui salaries.
Peng Poh.
ed in the Press, there was also a certain amount of correspondence, In this letter 1 propose to sum marise most of the points that were
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1-The attention of Trade Com- mirsions to the Far East night he drawn to the very important in fluence which education has in Trade. Suck Commissions could exercise a great influence in this matter at home and abroad.
13-The University cau get similar lady teachers, locally, at about 83,000 a year.
A locally engaged English lady teacher in the Education Depart mest begins at 84,000 a year and rices in $8,000 a year.
the debtors. Mr. M. K. Le said Applying for die klischarge of
the fact that they contracted to that the bankruptcy was due to buy a large consignment of paper. from Switzerland through a man. who drow bills of exchange on the debtor's through the French Bank. the bank they found that the bill of When they took the papers from
A Home engaged English lady leather-1. begining at £360 and rising, to £700 per annum; 2, four The British influence in non-senior posts 250 per un lading was forged, that there was Government Schools is very small on senior poit at sea rising too consignment of paper and that
Indeed and it will not cost much 30 per annum. Lo strengthen it. In the Census -Expensive teachers, Home or Return for 1821 the figures show local, need not be used to teach that thers were re non-British Very elementary subjects in schools, (European) teachers than British which pay very low fren Indeed, tenchers in the Colony, including, and which are taken advantage of
casu by the song of all schools, Government and non-in many
wealthy people, Government.
16.The. Eduation Department should have on its staff English inspectors and masters who know Chinese and who could supervise the work of Chiare inspectore and relools, this is most important for
-The non-British induence is very strong and is, no doubt, used to encourage non-British trade, For example-grants of Govern- nent money have been used to buy science equipment
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they had been swindled. They he ame liable for 350,000, the amount nccepted by them and paid by the bank for no cargo at all.
Compromise With Creditors. Mr. Lo went on to say that the French Bank had acepted a pay- ment of 50 per cent. of the amount due on the bil's, in full payment. Nothing affected their right of re- course against the vendor. (drawer or the bills), and it was likely they would get more yet. There was no very many reasons.
fraud or miscondus; on the part of 10.It is it necessary to pity the debtors.
Chinese inspectors and masters high As regards the four creditors who sterling salaries at the rate of ex-End proved, they had all been com- change.
promised, Grat periner's brother 17.The grants to Grant-in-Aid making payments to them. There Schools should be based on the were thus no debts left to deal certified cast of maintaining auch with. schools, and not on "Heads" or
in
contract.
the debtors,
4.A school staffed by a sister- with pominal salaries gets the sine grant as a school staffed with British teachers, whose salaries, although not large, are not nominal. 5-A girls school gets the same grant as a boys' school.
The Oloial Recoiver (Mr. E. P. 8.--A school with a Chinere staff, by means of Capitation Grant, gets the same grant as a school with 18.-The Government would and H. Lang) snid that he had no rea som for apposing the application, a claff from England and which it much cheaper and more satis The proofs of claim had been has expenses for passages, fur-factory in many ways to support withdrawn, and there was really Grant-in-Aid Schools in the same loughs, etc.
7-No help is given by the Gov-way as they are supported in the no bankruptcy to deal with, al. ernment when a school leses money Straits Settlements and in other though his Lordship as seen ovid. ence of the debts. In the public by reason of political circumstances, parts of the British Empire.. etc., or by loss on exchange. 10.Advice and help should be examination the point had been There are schools in the Colony night from the Advisory Com-strongly suggested that the debtors
. On Education with British staffs whose members mitter
the were reckless in entering into the are paid sterling salaries at 810 Colonies, which Committee, func
tions in London and call to its the tegal position, granted the ap- His Lordship, after considering to the £.
S.-The Government has encour-,
"mid" experienced administrators and aged such schools to build.
educationists from all parts of the Flication for discharge, directing The Government apparently Empire. Local educationists, from that net aasta be handed back to has no policy in school extention Government and non-Government certainly with regard to secondary schools, should be encouraged to school. Eg. It encouraged one get into touch with this Committee school to buik in Kowloon and, when on home leave. gave it a site of 29 acres for educa 20.-With two exceptions, the tional purposes.
jaystem of 'grants, as given by the A very short time after this it Government to Grant-in-Aid Schools encouraged another school to build, in the Straits Settlement, should be in Koirloon. allowed it to buy put into force in Hong Kong. site only halt a mile from the other school, and gave it a building, grant of $50,000 to begin with. If the Government had a policy, this advantage. second Becondary School would 29.-The second exception is that have been cucouraged to go further schoold which are staffed with mem; afield.
hers of a sisterhood" or "brotherhood 10.-Unnecessarily sums which pays nominal sainries, should have been spent in King's College, not be allowed to draw grants which is in a very bad, noisy and based upon the ordinary rates of dusty position and is not a credit calories allowed by the Govern to Government foresight. At the ment. That is grants should only opening ceremony apologies were paid to meet the nominal made for the noise outside and for salaries. the fact that this large expensive tion in Hong Kong is necessary. 23-No creat extension of edu school had no playing fields or grounds. It would have been much wiser to have built this school at. say, Pokfulam; this rite is easy of access, cheaply for scholars, and for students at the University.
large
£1.-The first exceptions that schools with a British staff, should receive come kind of preference and
Schools which receive Government support should be limited and the old schools properly maintained.
4.Trade schools are most ex- pensive to maintain and are not
It would be a good site for the ssary; such education should Government Civil Hospital.
e obtained by apprentices in shops, 11.Unnecessarily large sums are businues, docks, etc., which cost the spent on salaries in Government Government thing, schools, especially to incal staff. 25-All Vernacular education 12. When a lady teacher, engag-should be very carefully controlled ed from England for the Educh-by English inspectors. Such edu- tion Department, marries in Hong cation should be left, as much as Kong, she should not be kept in ressible, to private schools and the Home staff which has high does not require expensive Govern salaries and is pensionable, but ment buildings and staffs.-Yours, should be put in the locally engagedclc., English staff, whose maximum
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ALLEGED EXTORTION FROM HAWKERS.
CHINESE CHARGED WITH
Defendant's Story."
X.
Balary Overdrawn. Loung Hau Man, employed at a compradore's shop in Pottinger Street, was publicly examined after his Lordship had granted an up- plication for adjudication by the Oficial Receiver.
Debtor stated that he had over. drown his salary while employed in the Tai Tak pawn shop to the extent, of 91,000 and was in con- sequence dismissed by his employ era, He explained that ho used the money to assist bis father with funds which he had no hope of paying back to his employers.
The examination was adjourned.
THE GIRL GUIDES MOVEMENT.
ANNUAL MEETING AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE..
Through the kind permission of His Excellency the Governor, the annual general meeting of the Hong Kong Girl Guides Associa- tion was held at Government House yesterday. There was a very large attendance over which Lady Peel presided.
The Acting Colony Commissioner, Miss Dorothy M. Jacques, said that on behalf of Mrs. W. T. Southorn, Colony Commissiner who is at pre- sent at Home, and all those con Rooted with the movement, she wished to extend a very hearty wel come to Lady Peel, their new Pro- sident. Aliss Jacques went on to The defendant, in giving evidence say that the greatest problem the Association had to free last year, Irom the witnese-box, stated that on and, for thint matter, always, W November 23 at. about 1.30 p.m. he te find and keep, officers for the was hawking at the junction of Soy Chinese Brownie packe and com panies, and their inability to give Street and Shanghai Street. The them sufficient training.
She The card in which a Chinese Chinese constable came up to him and thanked all those who had ussisted was charged with having obtained asked him to collect money for him in this direction, despite the dim- (the constable) from several hawk-culties, together with their Transur- money by false pretences from era. Witress refused and the con-er and three Secretaries who worked various fruit hawkers in Shanghai stable then hit and kicked him. continuously behind the scues. Street was concluded at the Kow. The constable told him to hand over
The Report and Accomis, the money at Hamilton Street at
FALSE PRETENCES.
loon Magistracy yesterday when about 3.30 in. He collected the The report and becounte wore the defendant was discharged. It money and returned to his stall at unanimously adopted, after which was alleged that the defendant ab.about 2.30 pin. While he was there, Mrs. Phillipa presented a report wife of one of the lawkera from concerning badge tests, stating that tained 53 cents from the hawkers whom he had collected the money during the November term, which by representing himself as having came and told him that her husband spread over the past three weeks, been sent by a Chinese constable and been arrested by the constable. total of 174 entries had been Witness was surprised at this and made for various proficiency who was on duty at that place, and went to look for the constable. He badges, made up as follows: ot the same time guaranteeing them met him in Shanghai Street and Domestic Services (38), Child Nurse immunity from arrest for obstruc- told him that he, had arrested one (20), Needlewoman (18), Toy Maker tion.
of the hawkers who had contributo Cook (13), nitlets and Artists
Health (17), Athletic (15), At the previous hearing, the to the fund on the understanding Chinese constable, P.C, 307, denied that he was not to bo nerosted. each), Laundress (0), Sick Nurse having naked the defendant to He put the 53 cents he bad collected (3), Ambulance (2) Embroidress collect money from hawkers in into the constable's hand, but he and Writer (one each). Shanghai Street on his behalf. throw it away. Half an hour later, Evidence was given by five a Chinese detective came, and ar. hawkers, from whom the defendant rested. hin.. was alleged to have collected, money, At the conclusion of the ease, the and all stated that the defendant Magistrate (Mr. Butters) said that the money aid that ithe alleged false pretences had not 1st was on behalf of a Chinese con-been proved and he discharged the
stable.
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Amongst officers supporting Lady Feel at the meeting were Miss Dorothy M. Jaques (Acting Colony Commissioner); Miss H. D. Bayer District: Commissioner, Kowloon). MTH.
H. King (Secretary), Mrs. 2- Uye Tyranitary, and dra. 2. 1. H. Phillips (Badge Secretary).
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