HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 1932.
RETRENCHMENT COMMISSION'S
ROYAL OBSERVATORY.
REPORT
(Continued from Fasi't).
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The proportion of Europeans to either receive longer terms of im- Asiatics in the Hong Kong Police, prisonment, thus saving the expense in high. But the Commissioners are and trouble of repeated readmission unable to recommend any altera into gaol, or be banished. Banish. tion in this ruspect. Owing to the mant procedure should in any case Hong Kong son of the low Co. geographical situation of the Co be accelerated. Junies which has an Observatoryony and a land frontier also easy. department of my size functioning to cross, the chances of escape for as a self-contained unit. But Hang oriminal are very much grante Kong in peculiarly situated geogras 'than they are in a city at home, phically, and as a result has toor in other colonies. A fairer com perform weather reporting services parisen would be with Shangha: for the large amount of shipping though the difficulties there are Bhint usia the South China Seas,far groator-which has an Europea Depending as it does for its very contifigent double the size of that existence on shipping it is but right of Hong Kong, that the Coleny should undertake this work.
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COLONIAL SECRE- TARY'S OFFICE.
Victoria British School, and Quarry
Bay School.
POSTAL CLERK
CHARGED.
“SCAPE-GOAT” PLEA BY DEFENCE.
MAGISTRATE'S DECISION
These are mixel primary schools which prepare British children for secondary education as the Central British School, Kowloon.
The schools are as comparatively close quactors, and in proportion to the number of pupils are very exper sive to the Government to main bai. A considerable proportion of the pupils of Victoria British School are children of Government servants. "In the view of the Commission419 the expenditure upon those two schools does not Yuk Hung, alias Tang Yu Chan, When the cago in which Tang warrant the maintenance of both in the same
they a olerk employed in the General, Aren, and recommend the closing down of the Post Office. (Dqad Letter Depart Victoria British School and the
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open
It
TO-DAY.
wax called It
amalgamation of the pupils with ment) is charged with the theft of thdeo of Quarry Bay School, where postal matters, forgery of bunk here is sufficient accommodation, drafts and obtaining money by and where the school itself is of more modern construction.
false pratences, might be necessary to transfer one Central Magistracy yesterday, the member of the Stuff from Victoria defendant, who British to Quarry Bay, Sebool,
had previously Transport is now so excellent that pleaded guilty, reversed his plea to it will entail po hardship for the not guilty through Mr. Geo. K. children, who formerly attended Hall Brutton, Victoria British School, to go to Quarry Bay "School.
Mr. E. E. Lindsell appeared for possible
It might be Government to
the future for the the Crown, while Mr. P. M. Hodg school to serve the western districts
B primary son was for the firm concerned. of Hong Kong.
Mr. Hall Brutton, pleading ex-
of forgery only. The man who had he would plead guilty to the charge tenuating circumstances, said that
actually perpetrated the crime had left the Government service, and do. fendant was merely a scape-goat. Defendant's mother was prepared to repay the defrauded firm, and in
ed his Worship not to sand the The contract between the Crow ine, or aven for the defendant to youth to prison but to impose a and an officer of the Education De-enter a bond for his future good partment is for & probationary behaviour. period of three years. At any time during her service, whether during that the case was not one for a fine Mr. Lindsell, however, submitted The number of Sanier posts in or after the probationary period, Ha went on to say that the evidence that it is peculiarly easy for the
the Cadet Service was recently in-ady teacher is required by her co-would show that the defendant was smuggler of opium. liquor and
creased front five to seven. The ftract to resign on marriage, thereby tobus to bring his wares into the In Hong Kong there is roughly Commissioners recommnad, as they terminating her appointment. Proot the scape-goas but was also in Colony
The staff of iihteen one warder to every four prisoners, did regarding the pests of Senior vision is made in the terms of con European and ninety-six Chiness and one European warder to every Masters and Senior Mistresses in tract that if this resignation falls The Magistrate stated that he Revenue, Officers is not too large fifteet prisoners. In Shanghai the the Education Department, that within the thros year's probation would like to consider the matter for the work to be peforreal, The and one respectively, and in Singalled un a vacancy occurring, but quired to refund the whole of her ense till this morning when he will! figures are eleven and one-hundred these posts be not automatically ary period, the "lady teacher is re-very seriously and adjourned the
Hong Kong. From the evidence be Passage money from England to give his decision. fore them, the Commissioners gather.
The staff of this office has grown enormously within the last ten years. This may to some extent be In the Indian contingent it is accounted for by the increased an- recommended that when the pre- sivities of the local Governmans re- There is a tendency however on sent two Assistant Superintendente sultant on the political awakening the part of the Observatory star retiro, the two posts should be of China, and the stream of mis- to devote a part of their time to abolished without any increase be stone and enquiries sent out by the taking magnetis and other observing made in the number of jasper. League of Nations. But even after tions which, though no doubt. of tors and sub-inspectors. Other re making full allowance for this, the great interest to international meductions advocated are the sub Commissioners consider that much teorological institutions, are of no stitution of a sergeant major for can and should be effected in the benefit either to Hong Kong or o & Aub-inspector at the Polies Train. way of retrenchment by re-organiza local shipping. Such work shoulding School, the "abolition of two tion. Despite its large staff more
posts of sergeant, sleven lance ser overtime is worked in this office British School could either be sold, The building and site of Victorin not be undertaken.
geants, twenty-one constables and than probably in any other Gov the replacement of forty-one con-
or form the site of a new and much stable by thirty-six guards.
ernment department. Without re-needed District School to serve the organization therefore no reduction Chinese population of the eastern Reductions of fifty one constables, will be possible. It must be re-or-districts of Hong Kong. on lanca sergeant, and the sub-ganization not only of the internali stitution of one sargnant for one working of the Office but of the Conditions of Appointment of Lady view of that. Mr. Hall Brutton ask- sorgens major in the Police Train- division of the work of Government With the exception of the Trea-ing School in the Cantonese con-between the Secretariat and the sury the Imports and Experts. De- "tingent are recommended.
department.. partment is the largest revente ca The Northern Chinese contingenti lecting of all the Goverment 'de 'should be reduced by eighteen con partinents. The staff is however stables.
IMPORTS & EXPORTS DEPARTMENT.
chiefly occupied in the prevention of smuggling and evasion of excise
dusies. Hong Kong is so situated!)
PRISON DEPT.
+
:
CADET SERVICE.
Teachers.
*
the fraud.
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more that smuggling can be pre vented the greater will be the rivasiy, Hong Kong therefore has qualified and efficient to be desery. pore eleven and thirty-two respec only when an officer suficiently * venne I was for this reason that
the Commissioners informed the proportionately by far the greatesting of such promotion is available. Government Bust September that staff, both European and Asia. These promutions should be made that this proviso has of late years therein, and near the purlicus of they agreed to the building of k of the three cities. The Superin strictly on merit and not seniority.undy been partially or not at all Old Kowloon City. new lunch for the departinink
tendent stated that had he a pro- perly laid out gaol he could look after treble the number of prison ers with practically the same staff. But against this it has to be borne in mind that in Shanghai "down to 1995, under infinitely worse con- ditions than cbtained in Honk Kong, the prison staff was far less than it is in Hong Kong, and now with the new gaol in Shanghai, 1 less stiti
POLICE DEPT.
30 RUSSIANS.
The labours of the Commissiors As regards the Police Deptment were considerably lightened by the helpful natitude of the Inspector General of Police, who can before them with a comprehensive sheme
of retrenchment which showed
saving of about two lakh. It is largely this scheme, with the im portant addition dealt with the next paragraph, which the connus sioners repommend.
..
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
utilization of the original site at, which appears
one Clovernment department
The existing plans of the new prison also need to be thoroughly rovisad in the light of modern pri- son construction. The Commission- ers were not impressed with the lay out,
section.
with the
at
EDUCATION DEPT.
THE DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION,
enforced. They would recommend however that in consideration" not
The Commissioners even at this junly of the loss of the refund of ints date would suggest that it passage tanney, but of all the other night yet be possible to take over expenses borne by the Government the Diocesan Boys School as the in passages for freshly appointed new Central British School, sell candidates, additional payment of that portion of the ground not re- candidates in England, and Crown million dollars which it is at pre- medical fees, travelling expanses of quired and, with part of the one Agents departmental charges, this tent proposed to spend on the provision should in future be rigid. erection of the new Central British ly enforced and that the whole of School, to provide instead a school funded by any officer resigning bewith the roscarces of that institu the passage money should be refur the Diocesan Boys in a building fore the completion of the three tion, and, on a less ambitious scale years' probationary period,
than the existing building.
Preferential Treatment for Local Children.
י
It has come to the notice of the Commissioners that the parents of
and situation more commensurato
TREASURY.
Section of the Kowloon-Canton The present staff of the British Railway could with but light aug tentation probably ran the whole of the Kowloon-Canton Railway, reported to Government their views Ou the other hand, the compar
The Commissioners have ready both British und Chinese sections, on the necessity of building a new tively small British section could gol, but they wish once again se not in the opinion of the Com stress the important point that the missioners be run with a smaller sito of the prison should not be staff, Whatever the length of the on valuable land, nor on land diffi-line, it is necessary to have at least cult, and therefore expensive, to one of various kinds of railway develop. In view of this Govern officials and engineers. The main feature of th: Inspecment should approach the Air tor General's retranchiment scheme Ministry as to the possibility of the the
The Kowloon-Canton Railway is is the replacement of thiery Bri tish police by an equal name of Ngau Shi Wan, where some three counts
to keep ite
a considerable number of Chinese Considered purely as a depart- Russians. This accounts for a sav lakhe has already been spent in The Commissioners would however Hong Kong are not domiciled in opinion of the Commissioners over-
in. ♫1 Proper manner.
students who attend schools inment the Treasury is not in the ing of nearly a lakh in personal piling. Failing this, the piece of urge that the land used by the the Colony. The Colony's schools staffed: emoluments, to which must be au land lying in the next bay to the Railway should be revalued and s ed & not inconsiderable arving in east should be considered, it is record kept, in
are maintained by the taxpayers passages, pensions, oto. The palica capable of easy development, has future time the British section is is only reasonable that, since they attached in the past to the post of The Commissioners consider that casa any either directly or indirectly, and it enough importance has not been to be replaced are those performing a water supply, and would allow malgamated the duties of section sergeants; the of all transport being handled from.
Chinesa ben the financial burden, their Treasurer, and that it is probably least responsible work of the Euro-the se. It is essential that the
children should in all cases have due to this that he has not taken pean contingent, and performed by Police Training School should be
the preference in admission into his proper place in the administra the most junior officers. To employ nearby.
schools and the granting of free tion of the Colony. The functions on it highly paid Europeans le ex-
places and scholarships. travagant, but neither Indians nor
The number of the classes in ant.
of the Treasurer are most import Chiness would, according to the In-
Government schools, with the excep- advisor to Government, but he is Not only is he the finadicial spector General of Police, be satis
tion of the two senior classen in the the custodian of the Government's factory. On the other hand, Rus
gecondary schools, should be in money. He should therefore warn sians, being domiciled in China,
creased where spaec allows, up to Government if he considers that are cheap, and experience with them The proportion of Europeana tr
The Commissioners held strongly a maximum of 36 instead of 30. any proposed expenditure is finan- as anti-piracy guards has shown Indians is far too high. The ren Education should be chosen preed for teaching purposes.
the view that the Director of Such classes should not be subdivid-cially undesirable, and in the event that they would be eminently suit son for this, according to the Super-eminently for his administrativa able. Only men with a knowledg intendent, is the fact that the latter ability and for his knowledge of an active part in the teaching of the ment to forward his representations The Heads of Schools should take ruled he should request the Govern of his expressed opinion being over of English would be employed. The are not sufficiently reliable to be Chinese, and not because his length Senior classes higher posts of inspector, sub-ins put in charge of parties. In Shang of service in the Department as pector, and Crown sergeant in the hai the Indian gaol staff de this Hoad or Assistant Master in the least 20 per cent of the Chinese sergant of the Government should There should be a reduction of at Colonies. The fact that he is a to the Secretary of State for the European contingent would be rework, Shanghai recruits its gaol schools gives him the served for British offoers, The Hus, staff in India; Hong Kong ngages through seniority.
position: aian police would be recruited on them locally, which perhaps means.
The Director
There should be a reduction of at his opinion en financial matters not mean, that, he is only to give temporary basis. If therelers that all those Indians who have ought to be one having considerable least 20 per cent. of the Portuguess when it is asked. Ha should give were desired at a later date to 1. been dismissed from other employ standing in the eyes of the public, and Chinese teacher of English it whenever, in his capacity an vert to an all British European ment And their way into the Pri-He should be above all schools, not
the Councils, and the Government. subjects contingent there would be no disons service." The Hong Kong
The ponts of Pianist Teacher of
Treasurer, he deems it necessary. culty in doing so.
Police recruit their Indians in In-
of one.
Singing, Boxing Instructor, two
The Commissioners urge most The Commissioners, with the ex dia, and obtain a satisfactory type opinion of the Commissioners essen work and one Portuguese teacher remitted regularly and immediately Kowledge of Chinese is also in the Carpentry Instructors, two Needle strongly that surplus balances be ception of the Chairman, advocate of mas, the adoption of the proposal aut
should be abolished. These are all to England sa is required by the forth in paragraph three above, tá
They recommend that the Director teachers of extra subjects in Secretary of State. Not to do so. Hon. Mr. Paterson desiring to add i Reduction in the prison popula. of Education should have only one struction in which should be paid as has happened in the past, is to that he has had axperience of Rustion is desirable from many points Inspector of English Schools; and, for by the pupils themselves. It is gamble in exchange, which is the sians in Shanghai and found them of view, including that of effecting in place of the second Inspector, better that teachers in these aub reason always given for Govern to be most satisfactory.
an economy in the running of the an officer, either a junior Cadet jects should arrange with the paz-ment not axing exchange in respect. The Chairman dissents from the Frison Department. The Commis officer or a specially selected mements a "proposal, and in lieu thereot reipners consider that a not incon- ber of the Senior Clerical and will draw their salaries commends that the reduction of the siderable reduction could be effect- Accounting staff, as secretary. thirty posts could and should lood, if the Police were to devoto Jess Fees at Government Secondary.. effected by a reorganization of the time than they do at present to the
Schools. duties 81 section
sergents who arrest, detention, and charging of! It is the considered opinion of should be mounted on motu: cycles, tendons of such petty crimes" the Commissioners that too much thus enabling each offeur to ever as crying out wares in erowded is done for secondary education and a greater number of sections than streets (where pandemonium alre too little, for primary. The former he can at present when he proceeds ady roigns), and touting for motor, could be curtailed without any on foot.
cars; provided that a real public detriment to the Colony... The Further reductions in the Euro. nuisance is not being committed. method in which this should be residential portion pean contingent of one Inspector, The sentences imposed on such per done is by raising the foos at Cor should have been allotted for the many dollars it will require in two Sub-Inspectors, one Sergunt, soha are trivial, a few days at most, eriment secondary schools. At pre- purpose of building this school, respect of all its commitments, both eight Lance Sergeants and tire but whether it be one day or one sent the fees bear no relation to while the Government has not only tilver and sterling. If starling be placement of one Russian Sergeant year, the prisoner has to be enter the cost of providing the education. built King's College at a cost of available in London for the Govern (paid at the same rate as a Briod on the prison records, washed, These should be raised until the one million dollars-in what one ment's gold commitments this point Fish Sergeant) by a compornay us given a suit of prison clothes, etc., gap between the two is appreciably may term a back street of Hong is of course met, but if it be not sinn constable, are recommended all of which takes up the time of reduced. In order to do this it Kong and without adequate or available and contracts for supplies To enable these réductiara in the more than one officer. Then again will first be necessary to price-cost suitable surroundings, but also pro bo ontered inta, to be paid later cut European contingent to be carried an extorsion of the system of bind-the department and the taboola posed to build a out it will be netomary to inbromaning over by Magistrates in the case Encouragement should be given to British School, likawise at the cost Treasury, then exchange should be new Central of dollar revenues Dot yet in the the hours of duty from six to eight of first offenders might also relieve intelligent boys and girls, whose of one million dollars; in a place settled when the transaction is perdiam and Yo-longther-the-ba-prison-without-leading to any further education will benefit the remote from the inhabitants whose authorised. Care should be taken qualifying period. for leave from increnes in crime. Habitual offen community, by the provision of children, it is proposed to educate to obtain competitive rates when four to five years.
ders should be treated as such and number of free scholarships.
(Continued on next column.) nettling.
Prison Population.
J
tial.
Vernacular teachers.
The Diocasan Boys' School,
even
their fees, otherwise they of its commitments.
The Commissioners do not agree though there may be no one taking with the opinion that to fix ex- their particular subject.
change is to gamble. Consistently to settle, or consistently to refraur from settling, would over a period of years allow the law of averages It would seem also to the Comto come into operation, and would missioners a matter for regret that show the same result. On the other site so fine and extensivo, and hand to fix exchange enables the indeed possibly the best in the Government, whose revenue is in of Kowloon dollars, to know in advance how
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