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Koor-On May 21, 1933, at St. Paul's Vicarage, Prince's Gate, (nee Vivien Liverpool, Hewerdine), wife of the Rev. H. Y. Koop, the gift of a daughter. (Hong Kong papers, .please copy.)
DEATH
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THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1933.
BOTANICAL AND FORESTRY DEPT.
PINE SOWINGS AND HILL FIRES
The rainfall for the year, as re- corded by the gauge in the New Garden, was 02.68 inches in 120 days as against 87.10 inches in 177 days in the preceding year.
Forestry.
NEW HEADMASTER OF ETON
1211
·MR, CLAUDE ELLIOTT APPOINTED.
(Special Air-Mail Service)
Williams's house for two halves be fore entering college, where he re mained from 1909 to 1908. From Eton, where he was a "wel-bob"", and rowed in the Britannia, bej went to Trinity College, Cam bridge; was placed in the first class in both parts of the History Tripos; was elected Fellow of Jesus in 1910, and became tutor four years later.
He
SUMMARY OF NEWS
General.
Mr. Neville Chamberlain, yester
the day, made a statement regarding the British proposals to
Pago D. Economic Conference. The report on the Botanical and
Members of the Chinese deloga- At the outbreak of the War Mr. Forestry Department for the year
Elliott found himself debarred tion to the world economic confer- 1939 states, that the weather during
LONDON, May 30.
from active military service, by a once, were actively Lobbying yes- the "early part of the year was
The Provost and Fellows of Eton favourable to both gardening and
and served in Flanders with a Red tion. Notably, they had conversa- forestry operations; the continued have appointed Mr. Claude Aurel. mountaineering accident; but he terday, largely on the silver ques can delegations, but so far, it is heavy rains in June had a very ius Elliott, C.B.E., Fellow beneficial effect on all newly plant-Senior Tutor of Jesus College, Cross unit he was finally invalided tions with the British and Ameri-
Page ed roadside trees and plantations. Cambridge, to be headmaster in home after an attack of fever believed that no tangible proposals
in 1918. He was then brought have emerged. succession to Dr. Alington.
into the Admiralty, where he
The tax of one cent per bale on Mr. Elliott is 44 years of age, spent the next four years on cotton which involved the salos "of Secret contracts, has been eliminated from Old Etonian and a layman, the financial side of the
Page 8.. never hitherto been a who has
In the House of Commons the Foreign schoolmaster, but has won an outary's Office-with such success that the Farin Credit Bill,
log standing position in the teaching great efforts were made by the and administrative world of Camb- Board in 1019 to retain him in the Under-Secretary
Affairs, Captain Anthony Eden, public service permanently. ridge. He was born at Simla on returned, however, to Cambridge, stated that he hoped the formal, July 27, 1888, when his father, tho
between Britain, France, Pine Tree Plantations.-Extensive late Sir Charles Elliott, was Liou and since that time he has steadily signing of the Four Power Agree-
In played a more and more important ment
Page arene were dealt with during the tenant-Governor of Bengal.
part in the life of the University, Germany and Italy would take year, the number of sowings, incidentally the latter will be remem-
Local. xity of seeds of Pinus Massoniansbered not only for the length and By the present practice at Camplace shortly.
Sub-Inspector A. H. Fraser, of amounted to 250,085 as against distination of his service in India bridge there are two ordinary mem Areas he won the Mutiny Medal as abers of the Council of the Senate 94,753 in the previous year.
to become who are both on the General Board the S.CA., summoned before Mr. dealt with were hills adjoining Shek young officer, lived Li Pui. reservoir, Kowloon Tani, famous for his report on Indian and on the Financial Board, so as Schofield, at the Central Magis- Kowloon Tong, Mt. Collinson, Tai famines in 1878, and for the settle to secure that the Vice-Chancellor tracy this morning, two women for member of is not the only link between these having kept unregistered mui tais, Page 7. Elliott is one of
For impersonating a police off- Shu Wan, "Bennets Hill, Mount both Lord Dufferin's and Lord bodies, and Mr.
cer in Yaumati on Tuesday after- Cameron, Stanley East Catchwater, Sai Kung Rond, Ping Shan Land Lansdowne's Executive Councils, them.
For the rest, Mr. Elliott is a con- noon, a youth named Li Kau was Office and Taipo Kau Forestry Re-and did not retire till 1895-but
also for his subsequent work on the vinced Churchmun. an inspiring fined $200 or two inonths' hard loon Magistracy yesterday. Kow- London School Board as Chirman, teacher, and a good man of busi- labour by Mr. Butters at the Kow- of the Finance Committee. He was mess. His principal, recreations Top Supplement.
have been rowing and mountaineer- Warden of Toynbee Hall and member of the House of Laymen.ing (he is a member of the Leander The new headmaster, Sir Charles's and Alpine Clubs). He is married youngest son, had the unusual (and to the daughter of the late Mr. F. not unuseful) experience of being in. T. Bloxam, Chief Chancery Regis turn both an Oppidan and a Col-trar, and has one son, who is now leger at Eton, for he was at Mr. a boy at Eton.
Bervc..
480 one
Cheung Chat,
A small tree nursery has been established on Cheung Chau Island; year old Pine seedlings were planted on the slopes below the church, 920 mixed broad-leaved trees were planted on roadsides.
Forest and Hill Fires.
A total of 71 fires occurred during the year as against 65 in 1931, in Government plantations such fires were responsible for the destruction of 6,000 young Pines; the worst- case.of damage to a licensed planta- tion was at Kam Tsin, which 4,500 Pines were destroyed, by a single fire, the cause of which could not be traced.
זי
Some weeks before the Ching Ming and Chung Yeung Festivals, notices requesting persons to take all possible precautions against set-
portable notices were displayed at the entrances to all principal ceme teries and 7,000 handbills were dis- tributed. No serious fire occurred on either day.
M
ment of Bihar, was
Local and General
It is announced that entries for
Ona case of small-pox was ported on Tuesday. There were no other cases of notifiable disease.
ад
At Kowloon Magistracy to-day, & Coroner's Inquest will be held into the circumstances surrounding the death of the late Mr. W. S. Cuff who was found at King's Park with a bullet wound in his head on Thursday, June 1.
Banished for ten years at the be- ginning of this year for offences under the Women and Girls'. Or dinance, a Chinese woman, attired in a bright red gown, appeared be. A serious accident was reported fore Mr. Schofield yesterday when on Tuesday, when Cheong Wa, a she was sentenced, to six months schoolboy, while sitting with bis hard labour for disobeying the de-legs dangling over the side of the portation order..
As a variation from the daily were informed on Tuesday that a reporte of dog bites the Police European resident was bitten by
cat and that he went to ament tor for precautionary treatment against. possible complications.
Page 10.
With a record of 18 years' ser vice in the Kowloon Canton Rail- way, Mak Yeung, a fireman, was charged before Mr. Butters at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning with being in possession of 70 teels of non-Government opium. Kow. loon Supplement.
*F
Page 10.
BROADCASTING IN HONG KONG
In the slender action brought by An ex-foki of the Mee Shut Ad- Mr. Adamson, formerly leader of
It is true that of these thousand
the Trinity College of Music local vertising Company, China Build the Gloucester Restaurant, orches clock from the company, was sent manager, of Gloucester Building, re- to prison for one month by Mr. the Judge awarded plaintiff $1.00 schools 30 are unaided primary
practical examinations close to-day. ing, who admitted the theft of otra, against Mr. P. L Newmall, damages, and made no order as Page-7. to costs. schools, 614 of which teach little beyond the rudiments of Chinese,
Wynne-Jones yesterday.
Riding a push bicycle in Wong, A friendly football match be- but none the less the report shows
tween a team composed of players.. Alleged to have been drunk, a Chenk Street, Shamshuipp the magnitude and the variety of the educational movement of Hong Kong. When the poverty of the teeming districts of West Point ting fire to plantations, under. Shanghai Chinese on Tuesday night Tuesday, Yeung Shi Ho knocked from South China and the Tung Caroline Hill yesterday, and ended Wanchai, Yanmati and Old Kow-growth and grass were posted in struck a compatriot and a fight down & 12-year-old girl, Shun Te, Hus Football Club of Shanghai
parties were brought before Mr. a fractured skull.
in a win for the Chinese by goals Page 10. to nil. COOPER-On May 26, 1933, at 5 St.foon is called to mind, the astonish all parts of the Colony; immediate. ensued. Police intervened and the who was taken to Hospital with and the Royal Navy was played at
as
Lawn bowls games played yes Edmund's Lodge, Haslemere, ing thing is that, according to ly before the festival days, large Schofield in Court yesterday. De-
terday resulted very much FRANCIS ALFRED COOPER, the official reckoning, half of these
fendants were bound over and the people can read and write. It is
aggressor ordered to pay $4
expected. In the Epey Royal Cup, dearly beloved husband
Craigengower accounted for the Frances Louisa Cooper, and a proportion far greater than in
compensation.
Yacht Club by 43 points to 8. third son of the late Rev. any other part of China, in spite the recent foundations of Walde Cooper, of West Rasen of Lincolnshire. (Hong Kong and schools and universities in all load-
Taipo Kau Forestry Reserve. Ceylon papers, please copy.)
ing cities. The popular education
The China Fir (Cunninghamia movement is, moreover, of astonish ingly rapid growth. In 1913 there sinensis) plantation was extended were 13,000 pupils in vernaculur by the planting of 12,000 young schools. In 1928 there were 27,000, trees; other existing plantations were enlarged and new ones form- and since then the numbers have doubled, rising to 53,000 last year.ed, the whole of the stock of young The schools of Hong Kong range trees used in this work was raised from the spacious buildings of in the nursery, formed an old culti- St. Stephen's, Stanley, and Lavated ground when the area Salle Confege, Kowloon, which first taken over as a reserve. would grace any city in the world,
Mr. D. L. Strellett before Mr. to humble academics in back street
Wynne-Jones yesterday pleaded tenements Here is reflected; how- ever, the Chinese reverence
Tan Hing (20) and Yeung Shui guilty on behalf of Mrs. Wong letters and the national hunger for
✡ black the old trees which made such aKui, a married woman, again ap- Chi Shum, 7, Shouson Hill, on a learning. The record of nearly all the leading schools of the Colony fine show during the early months peared before Mr. Schofieid, at the summons for keeping
Mr. Strelett said a licence
including Commercial News and Church is one of modest beginnings, of of the year were almost entirely Central Magistracy yesterday charg mongrel without a licence on May Morning Transmissions
was taken out on the same after- woman, in Shaukiwan on May 31
relays some piece of three years. On account of the con- then, thanks to EDUCATION IN HONG KONG Bendy progress, slow at first, and wiped out by galea during the paated with the murder of a Chinese 30.
dog abroad without & muzzle, Mrs. fortune, often enough a munificent tinuous damage caused by motor last. On the application of Sub-abon. A fine of 83 was impeed. MANY people must have been as-gift from an old boy, the struggling cars carelessly parked, each of the Inspector Chester Woods a further On a summons for allowing her Evening Transmissions.. 102TM
was fined $5, whilst the institution, leaves its two or three young trees has been protected by
P. M. Harrop, of Peak Mansions, penalty was imposed on Mr. D. roams for premises of its own, and a very strong all metal tree guard;
Leonard and Mr. Wong Biu San, in the course of years, duly shifts this has so far protected them from
for similar offences. into a larger and more convenient serious damage. building of a kind that commands general admiration and is a credit to the Colony.
Night Editor (Wanchai Office)
Tel. 24511. London Office:. 33, Fleet Street.
E.C
The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, JUNE 13, 1933.
Statue Square.
was
for Statue Square was replanted with young trees of Bauhinia variegats ;.
Before Mr. Wynne-Jones yester day, Chan Ying, a spinster, was charged with assaulting an elderly amah on the second floor of 16, Queen Victoria Street. Hearing was fixed for this afternoon, the woman being allowed out on bail in the surn of $25.
2
week's formal remand was granted.
steamlaunch Fung Foo, alongside the Douglas Lapraik Wharf, WAS Caught against the pier through the vessel being edged in by a Socony launch which at that moment was drawing alongside. Both Cheung's legs were crushed and he was taken to Hospital in a critical condi- tion.
same
Sinagatulla Minnigualimoff, tonished to learn that there are
young Russian trader, was charged in the Colony over a thousand
before Mr. Wynne-Jones in the This is a schools-1063 to be exact.
Central Police Court yesterday with
"Appearing before Mr. Schofield, battalion of
arriving in Hong Kong, without a large number. A
secure livelihood In Hong Kong valid passport. Defendant stated at the Central Magistracy yester men, a thousand strong, marching fine show. in fours, makes
A complaint is often made that such a training is within the reach he had a passport issued in Shang-day, on a summons of having an Imagine a thousand schools, in Hong Kong education, and, indeed of the few only, but a great numbei last year by the Chinese Bureau unlicenced radio, Mr. E. Rouillon their grounds, arranged, one next all modern' education, is far too ber, a big proportion in fact of of Foreign Affairs but it had been was fined $20. Mr. J. M. D'Almada
to the other, in a single line. All
bookish. "It turns what should be
of
257 HOURS' TOTAL TRANS- MISSION DURING MAY
The monthly report for May of the Hong Kong Broadcasting Com- mittee states:---
Actual hours of transmission totalled 287.25 of which 168.50 were devoted to European programmes,.
as follows:-
Euro-Chi- and 12.75 to Chinese programmes,
peon nese
641 301
65
168) 1201 Monthly Percentages.-European 37.96: Chinese 42.04.
During the month the following items were broadcast:
Dance programmes...... European Studio Concerts... 20 Chinese Studio Concerts. European relays........................................... Chinese relays
European lectures... Chinese Children's
prograiamės 3
Renewals of Licences during May, New Licences issued during May,
1933: 207.
A remand of Remedios, for defendant, pleaded stolen by Chinese..
said that Mr. Rouillon was not good mechanics, house-servants and local children, can cross the 'bor- seven days was ordered for further guilty to a technical offence, and aware that a licence had to be land workers into indifferent clerks derland that separates the literate investigation into the matter, of these schools, for the many com
A Chinese named Lai Hok Lam taken in respect of e radio, as bo 199 classes, whose main asset is physical munitics, except the two Garrison and office, soolies." For the poorer from the illiterate, and is n pies,
was the same as having a wireless Schools, and que other, are regis strengths and the inherited skill of port into the modern world of new was charged before Mr. Wynne was under the impression that it
Jones yesterday with loitering in Jervois Street in the early hours of set. The moment Mr. Rouillon LIEUT. COMMANDER LANG tered with the Government, both the Chinese craftsmen, undoubtedly opportunity and prosperity.
The schools of the Colony do Tuesday. He was given & term of came to know that a licence was
LEAVING FOR HOME ON premises and pupils being subject an apprenticeship that leads to a
profession is the ideal edtica
SATURDAY to official inspection and regulation, particularly when the appren much for the pupils. Where possix weeks' imprisonment. A dis-accessary, he took one out. A mars tion. According to the report of tice who so wishes can get time to sible there are games and social trict watchman told the Court that of Mr. Rouillon's standing was
Lieut. Commander: C. J. M. into a shop at. No. 7, Jervois kind; unless he was in ignorance of
Lang, S.O. (I) H.K. and for In- the Director of Education for 1038 pick up at least a primary educa organisations -he well as classroom when he saw the defendant peering hardly to commit an offence of this the number of pupils was 10,769 an tion. Except when acquired through instruction. There are also doctors Street, he flashed his torch and in the law.
apprenticeship, vocational training up further Agencies will lat n know the Liner in which they are increase of about 2,000 on the pre-in the crafts and commerce is an and nurses to inspect the pupils, quired what he was doing. Defend
arrested near the Hotel Ceoil was dore, Hongkong, leaves for Home interested the informistion will bevious year. In the Colony there expensive business. The equip and while these devoted workers ant replied" You don't know met A Shanghai mendicant who was telligence duties with the Commo
I am Ma She Tanng the actor."
charged before Mr. Wynne-Jones on Saturday on the Kaiser-I-Hind have to cover forwarded to London and passed
an immense feld, at
mander Lang passed through the on to interseted parties an ope are 119,000 children between the rent for learning to read and to write and elements of arithmetic
"You might as well have had a in Court yesterday when he was to retite from service, Lieut. Com portunity offers.
ages of, five and fourteen, but the are simple enough. A few desks, least every child in dire need of
metal front to your lamp to light fined $5 or seven days. The con- course at the RN Staff College proportion of Chinese children who and a small collection of books, a their services is attended and help the war What's the use of a stable said defendant had a monkey and prior to his appointment to Bervice.js offered to our Beaders Without charge and, of some are getting education is uncertain, blackboard, and, incidentally, a
teacher,, are all that is required; ed. It would be easy to criticibe light like this. I cannot even see and Sub-Inspector Smith said 11 the China Sagship, H.ME. Kent la no obligation in incurred on either as many pupila hre for above that but to turn out mechanics and our schools, the curricula the teach through it, can you asked Mr. would probably be sent to Kennedy February 1936, he served on the age, and over 90 per cent, of non carpenters, or even cooks and org and all pertaining to the de Bchofield, when he imposed a fine Town, Anolber mendicant who Navy: Office, Wellington, as Staff
Ho days The Required Information should teChinese children are also at the tailor is a much more complicated partment, but when the situation is of $5 on a Chinese who was charg molested a Chinets Indy in Caine Officer (Operations and Intelli- schools of the Chinese popula and costly process. The ideal broadly viewed, and the difficulties ed with riding a bicycle without Road was also fined 15 or sevehí tion, according to the last census, education is one that places the called to mind, the thousand schools a light. The defendant, Ch an endas alleged that the Indian con
ght open, her who arrested him, put out 14 per cent, claim to be able to admit into a profession, which has of this Colony repres
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