HAIL, ALMA MATER
Queen's College Old Boys
Hold Annual Dinner
"Hall, Alma Mater, Long Live To Queen's College...", those familiar lines so dear to the hearts of all associated with "Queen's," echoed and re-echoed throughout the school building on Saturday night when the Twelfth Annual Dinner of the Queen's College Old Boys' Association was held in the Great Hall of the College.
The familiar red and white (the school's colours) was to be seen in every nook and corner of the Hall while electric lights. of the same colour, were extended from the Main Entrance down to the Lower Playground, presenting a brilliant scene,
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Mr. H. K. Woo, president of the Association, was in the chair and the guests, in addition to Mr. F. J. de Rome, the head- master, and the staff of the Collere, included Mr. G. R. Sayer, Professors Middleton Smith and Foster, and Messrs. E. B. Reed, A. O. Brawn. "Peter H. Sin and many others. Promptly at 8 o'clock, Mr.. Lo Chung-yip. the senior "old boy" ring the bell which was the signal for the gathering to take their places. During the course of the evening, Mr. D., M. Richards sang the School Song while a jazz band was also in attendance...
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MR. H. K. WOO
Mr., H. K. Woo's speech was as follows:--
Mr. de Rome and Gentlemen.-- My first duty is to acknowledge the honour done me by those respon-
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sible for my election as President of this Association for the year 1935, and to thank them for this expression of their goodwill. My next is to deplore their Someone with greater social, pro- cllvilles could have done more for the Association throughout the year; someone with greater powers of oratory could have made a bet- ter speech to-night.
Mr. Alfred J. May whom I also met'in England and Mr. Look King Fo who was my former master far a year or so, are, I understand still going strong. If I remember cor-. rectly these three are all octo- genarians or well on their way to that distinction. This augurs well for all of us here. Longevity is a distinction that all men long for. and the older they become the more they long for it, until it becomes the only honour that they are really keen on.
THE "FUNG SHUI"
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1935.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE
Sunday, April 7th
His Excellency the Goveîner and Lady Peel, accompanied by Miss Readhead and attended by Cap- tain Walter, were the guests at lunch of Mr. G. E. Potts at Fan ling.
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Monday, April 8th Lady Peel was the guests of Lady Southern, OBE. at an At Home of the Halcyon Club.
Tuesday, April 9th His Excellency received Mr. G.M. Byvanck, Acting Consul General for the Netherlands, upon his ap pointment.
Lady Peel, attended by Captain Walter, was present at the annual Spring Festival of the Quarry Bay School
In the evening His Excellency and Lady Peel, attended by Captain Walter, were the guests at dinner of His Excellency the General Off- cer Commanding and Mrs. C. c.
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Wednesday, April 10th His Excellency and Lady Peel, attended by Mr. Pilcher, paid a visit of inspection to the Yeung Wo Hospital.
Thursday, April 11th His Excellency, presided at meet- ings of the Executive Coune in the morning and the Legislative Cornell in the afternoon.
His Excellency received Mr. C. S.
FROM THE GAZETTE
Appointments. Etc.
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is inviting .The Government tenders for the supply of a steam single screw steel cruising vessel for police services, and also for the supply of spectacles for school
children.
The Gazette contains a new régulation making Arsenal Street Steps & whart at which passengers may be received or landed, by a person in charge of a boat plying for hire between 8 p.m. and 5 am. But for the regulation this could not lawfully be done there during such boum.
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Transfers in the local Police
from April 20, include the appoint- Force. which will take effect as
ment of Acting Chief Inspector F. W. Shaftain as Principal of the Police Training School, vice" Chlef Inspector A. R. Clarke, who Is proceeding on leave prior to retirement; Inspector L. P. Lane, Divisional Inspector, Shamshulpo as Acting Chief Inspector. Kow- loon, and Inspector E. J. Ells, of Central Police Station, as Divi- slona) Inspector, Shamshulpo.
It is notified that the name of
been struck off the Register.
LESSON SERMON
First Church Of Christ, Scientist
Are sin, disease, and death real?" was the subject of the Lesson. Ber- mon in all Churches of Christ. Scientist on Sunday April 14th, 1935.
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The Golden Text was, "Heat me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be, saved; for thou art my praise." (Jeremiah 17: 14)
Among the citations which com- prised the Lesson Sermon was the following from the Bible: 'O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my "beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmove- able, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord." (1. Cor. 15: 55- 58).
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The Lesson Sermon also included the following passages from the Science textbook.
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Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Eddy: "When it is learned that disease cannot destroy life; and that mortals are not saved from
derstanding will quicken into newness of life. It will master either a desire to die or a dread of the grave, and thus destroy the
I cannot help thinking "that the campbell on his appointment as Hop Fat Company, Elmited, has sin or sickness by death, this un-
Fung Shut of this building is responsible for the longevity en- loved by. Its masters, and I hope the present and future staff and all the past and present puplis of this College will share the same blessing
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In the evening His Excellency and Lady Peel, accompanied by Miss Readhead and attended by Mr. P-
cher, were the guests of His Hon- our Mr. Justice AD.A. and Mrs. MacGregor at dinner."
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His Excellency the Governor his appointed Mr. Alan Reid to be a Lieutenant in the Hong Kong
Naval Volunteer Force.
The offices of the Supreme Court will be open daily from 10 Friday, April 12th The following lunched at Gov-a.m. to 1 pm. during the Easter ernment House: Captain G. C.
Vacation, except on public and Cooke, R.N., Mr. and Mrs. W. Heneral Holidays, when the omices Bell, Mrs. Wyburd, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. G, Grantham, Captain and Mrs. GSON Power, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. wiliams, Mr. and Mrs, L. R. An- drews, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Hopkins, and Lt. D. B. Wyburd, R.N.
The "Fung Shut" of the building may confer longevity; but it is only the energy and skill of the masters which can confer high culture. It is a matter of great satisfaction I have, however, one asset, which
for old boys of Queen's College to gives me a little courage. I was
know that the School is as well, one of the very first, and I beileve
staffed to-day as in the past. Its one of the youngest boys to come
vernacular" teachers, its Chinese to school in this building when it was first opened over 40 years ago. graduates" from the University of i was one of those who watched Hong Kong. and Its British teach- ers from nearly every University
His Excellency presided at this building in the course of its
in the Empire, form a magnificient meeting or the University Courch. constructionL. I remember vividly.
team of which any Headmaster how with shining morning face I
Saturday, April 13th In Mr, de
His Excellency and Lady Peel, at- saw the prisoners from Victoria may well be. proud.
Rome this team has an ideal cap- Gaol engaged in carrying stones
tended by Captain Walter, were tain. A man of the highest in-present at the postponed Spring fa voice: unwillingly) from one part of the site to another. We tellectual capacity, and education
al experience, he combines interest In the healthy body with interest in the healthy mind; and adds
to strict geniality Above all he is one of those rare scientists who know that educated interest in Science, can only be built on a broad firm foundation of language study.
boys of the Central Government School watched those operations in the delightful anticipation of be
in the largest ing Installed most advanced school of the Co- lony.
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OLD AND YOUNG Western Education for Ohinese Was a comparatively new thing in those days. It was a glorious opportunity which attracted old as well as young: and nobody was ashamed to begin at the beginning. In those day men of over twenty years of age were willing to enter the lowest classes in the School. They were real lovers" of learning. "In that first year class at Queen's it was a common sight to see a young man of 25 sitting in the rubbing same class-room and shoulders with a boy like me who was not yet 10 years old.
My claim to speak about Queen's College is further supported by the fact that for a year or so I was one of its teaching staff. May 1 claim to have given something to an "alma mater" from which I re- ceived so much? Some 35 years ago I was mathematical master of the upper school consisting of, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd-classes. Many of my pupils were older, and, as events have transpired, have turn- ed out to be more distinguished than myself,
what This is teachers have to expect. If they teach well, they teach their pupils to be cleverer than themselves.
NEVER FORGIVEN Many a time have I had to tackle the "pok akinyom" with my pupils and. In the endeavous to lead the animal over the bridge it was in- evitable for me, like other mortals placed in the same position, to lose my temper at times. Woe to the teacher who loses his temper
It is never forgotten)
Only the
will be entirely closed. The Easter Vacation begins on April 19, and terminates on April 25, (both days inclusive).
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it is noted for general in- formation that His Honour the Chief Justice has ordered that the next Criminal Sessions shall be held on Monday, April 29."
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great fear that besets mortar ex- Istence. The relinquishment of all faith in death and also of the fear of its sting would raise the staz 1- ard of health and morals far be- and yond its present elevation. would enable us to hold the banner- of Christianity aloft with un- ninching faith in God, in Life eternal. The human concepts named matter, death, disease, sickness; and sin are all that can be destroyed." (p. 428).
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Meeting of the Fanling Hunt and received, the election. by Justices MACDONNELL ROAD Race Club.
discipline. largely instrumentai in starting the Association-Messrs: Woo, An- Churn, derson, Arcut, Chow, Grose, Hung. Lo, Tse, etc. had been officials all these years and were still carrying on. He knew they would be glad to be relieved but not at the expense of the Association. He felt that more University graduates and, under- graduates should take an active part in running the Associatiori-- there were other attractions up there nowadays but still there was a time and place for everything.
The institution
of an Annual Dinner gives one the opportunity to meet ones former school mates and draws the old. boys from their several vocations to a gathering where they can once a year cement their friendly relations" with one another.
QUEEN'S COLLEGE As I entered this Hall certain lines from a well-known Chinesc poem by To Foo" kept beating on my mental ear. One might trans- late the lines as follows: -----
Friends who have parted once-
and gone off far
Are like the Morning and the
Evening Star:
When all together share one
candle-light?
We well do know 'tis often hard
to meet.
But new let's drain ten cups, our
friends to greet.
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THE SCHOOL'S REPUTATION, Many of them had been helped through" Queen's and to the Uni- versity by scholarships presented by Old Boys." They did not want them to forget their old school, a school which had always inspired pride in its pupils, a school which had existed for 70 odd years arvi
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of the Pence to fill the vacancy. on the Licensing Board, caused by the resignation of Mr. J. L McPherson, will not now takej· · place. π-
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LICENSING OF HAWKERS The Gazette contains the draft of an Ordinance to enable the Urban Council to make by-laws with respect to the regulation and control by registration, licensing or otherwise of certain hawkers.
Opposite Houses 9-11 Authorized and approval literature on Christian Science may be road, borrowed, or paralimei. First Church of Chrlát. Scientist.
Hồng Kong.
STREET SLEEPERS LAST NIGHT
The object of this Ordinance is street sleepers will be sleeping
to transfer to the Urban Council
the licensing and general regula- for the last night under the care tion of all hawkers hitherto of the Street Sleepers Shelter at licensed, under the Miscellaneous St. Peter's Church and in Fo Yan Licences Ordinance, No. 25 of Street to-night when the inmates. 1933, by the Inspector General of will be presented with free "not" meals and two gunny bags each. Police. .....
Hawkers of cigars, cigarettes Up to the end of February last, and tobacco will continue to be 21,098 homeless men and boys were licensed by the Superintendent of accommodated in the two shelters, Imports and Exports under that The St. Peter's Church Shelter re- Ordinance.
Paragraph (12) of section 4 of the principal Ordinance exempts from jury service all officers and non-conìmissioned officers of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence other efficient Corps, and sich members of the Hong Kong Voun teer Deletice Corps as may be allowed by the Governor in Coun- Cil
JURY ORDINANCE What night, we ask ourselves; is which would outlast them.
An Ordinarice to amend the this rare night?
did not know whether Queen's had Jury Ordinance, 1887, is shortly made her Old Boys or the Old to be introduced in the Legislative boys had made Queen's, but there Council. was no doubt that they, both in dividually and through their Asso- elation had and still have a great influence on the school. They had Tea cups will surely leave us given the school an enviable re
quite unmoved
putation throughout, the Far East For drinking worka no ill 'mongst and this was bound to be a source
well-beloved.
of great stimulation to the present generation: and it was largely from the Old Boys that the
present generation was recruited.
It was not, he said, a good time to appeal for anything for the school but the paintings of the Royal family, Governors, alatta guished Old Boys, and Masters which adorned their walls, mid which had all been presented by Old Boys in the past were badly in need of renovation: with so many bankers, brokers, and other financial magnates there that night he hoped something could be done, as it would brighten up the hall conFOR DIN HEADS
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I trust, Gentlemen, that since we are all friends together you will
sentiment to
heart take this perhaps not too literally!
And now I ask you to rise and drink with me the toast of the evening coupled with the name of Mr. de Rome, to Queen's College, her prosperity, her fame, and her glory.
HEADMASTER'S REPLY
other day one of my pupfis, who, is nów Compradore of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, com- In his reply the Headmaster plained to me that I had once thanked the Q.C.O.B.A. on behalf threatened to report him to the of the Staff and Prefects for their Headmaster. Anyhow I must have kind hospitality that evening he succeeded in teaching him some also thanked Mr. Woo for his en- mathematics; or how could he couraging, and; speaking person-
corded a number of. 11,359, while the Fo Tan Street Shelter ad- mitted a total of 9,739 during the same period.
217, terminating near Big Wave Bay to the west of Rural Building Lot 290-Big Wave Bay Road
Road branching of Shek O Road at Windy Gap and terminating at Cape D'Aguilar Wireless Stallon Cape. Daguilar Road
Road branching off and under the Island Road bridge, east of Repulse Bay Hotel and running to the new bathing beaches, south o Repulse BaySouth Bay Road.
The paragraph substituted by this amending Ordinance exempts all officers and non-commissioned Street from Chater Road run- officers of the Hong Kong Volun- ning north between Marine Lots test Defence Corps, all commis-274, and 276, and terminating at sloned and warrant officers of the Connaught Road-Club Street. Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force, Fath off Plantation Road com- and also such other members of mencing at the south-east corner the said Corps or of the said of Rural Building Lot 138 cross- Farce as shall have been exempteding bevern Road, running between from Jury service by the Governor Garden, Lots 56 and 68 and ter
minating at its action with in Council
Barker Road near Victoria Hospi- tal-Hospital Path.
NEW BUADS- Names have been given to various roads as follows:
Road commencing at Tytam Gap:
Shek O Road::
path of Severn Road running
deak the abstruse and urgerit ally, far too flattering remarks reference to Dr. Bateson Wright and running to Bhek. O village 190. and terminating at Bark
with which he had proposed the toast of the school. He had been greatly interested in Mr. Woo's speech of reminiscences, and it came dg a great surprise, to him to learn that Mr. Woo had once been on the Staff of Queen's
calculations of his present pro fesslop?
worse Of the masters who taught me In this School I am glad to say that Dr. Bateson Wright formerly the Headmaster of this College is still hale and hearty, I saw hun frequently when I was in England Mr de Rome made an appeal many years ago, and I understand for new blood in the affairs of the is now spending time in Association no institution could the solution of crossword puzzles average of over 700 per
Both my former Becond Master
Mr. de Rome concluded with a
Mr. A. J May, Mr. B. Tanner, Mr. RE O. Bird and Mr. A. H. Crook they still had the interests of the school at heart and kept fr touch through the Yellow
a north-easterly direction pass to the north of Rural Building
Road Lloyd
Road of Island Road commenc
corner of ing at the No Rural Building beneath the T their President, and in fruit of
Road branching of Sheko Road east of Eural Hallding Lot
was sure they all wished them with the continued good health ciation. Mr. with Queen's, M stated, was evidently to longevity. He agai nourish, it was bound to langnian the Association for that unless the old was constantly Ity and then asked Master ing leavened with the new Thefects and guests to drink same old wing horses who were toast of the COBA coupled
terminating at the new
Road
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