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MOTOR TAXATION
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Urban Council has been asked to ] Queen's colleges, there is also a consider the problem of market specifically Chinese Bchool for boys, gardens in residential areas and the Vernacular Middle School, just the question of the future of the
as for girls there is the Vernacular Homuntin Cemetery.
Women's Normal School.
BATHING BEACHES Provision for additional playing felds in New Kowloon will be found under sub-head 60 P.W.E. I find some difficulty in interpret Ing the meaning of the Honour- able Member's remarks regarding bathing beaches There are no matsheds at Sheko and Repulse Bay has its Lido where facilities for dressing can be obtained for a small sum. I do not propose now tembark on this very controver siai subject, but I shall be very glad to receive any suggestions
which Mr. Braga may care to put forward regarding the policy to be adopted with regard to any beaches which the new road may open up.
BROADCAST PROGRAMMES The question of improved broad- cast programmes for Chinese lis- teners is under consideration by the Broadcasting Committee. !
Figures from which the cost per capita of the education of children in Government schools can be cal- culated will be found on page 311 of the Blue Book for 1935. The question of fees has been consider- ed by the Board of Education.. which has expressed the unanim- ous opinion that the present is not a sultable moment to raise them.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY,
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Interesting Radio Talk By Fl.-Lt. P. H. Smith
Local radio listeners last night were entertained with an interesting talk on "Learning to Fly " given by Flight-Lieutenant P. Holroyd Smith, Chief Flying Instructor, Far East Flying Train- ing School, Ltd.. Kal Tak.
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The speaker explained the work of a flying instructor and gave a comprehensive survey of the ground covered by a student flyer from the time he enters the School to his first test flight.
In giving this talk to-night I, teaching the theory of night in hope to explain to you the method glove with the practical demon- by which flying in taught. Many stations. Di you. I m sure have pro-
have
CENTRAL BRITISH SCHOOL With regard to the Central Bri- tish School and its playground, I have two comments to make; one. is that the school has been design-bably never thought about it at
all, or, if provide accom-
you liave, you modution for 500 pupils. At pre-merely, thought that you just sat sent the maximum attendance is in an aeroplane and watched the 270 (230 is the average).
Instructor make movements with The other is that the playing field for- the controls and then repeated merly used by the School has now the process after him rather like been allotted to Chinese Schools.
The two learning to drive a car. things are very different, in the first place anyone can teach you to drive a car, but only a licensed
can teach you
PATTER IMPROVED Since that date the patter has been modifed. added to, and Im- proved, until to-day. nearly twenty years later it is very near- ly perfect, thus on the score of
safety you need have no fear in taking up nying instruction, you are flying with a man who has
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controls. When you have grasped this thoroughly he will show you how to fly the machine straight and level by a combination of all three controls, After this the
instructor will hand the control Clicquot
over to you and tell you to attempt to fly straight and level.
The instructor in the front cockpit will put his hands up on the cowling near his cockpit in order that you fully realize that you are fiying the machine and not receiving any help from him. This is really necessary as you will be amazed how very easy it is to fly straight and level and feel that you cannot possibly be- lleve that you are doing It all yourself. From this you will pro- gress to climbing, and gliding with the enginë shut off, and that fa usually the end of your Arst lesson
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ed him. than I did out of my own first selo eleven
years ago. There is one invariable rule that I personally and many other in- structors make, and that is that when a pupil has made his first solo, he is not allowed to fly solo again the same day. This is to avold errors which may arise due to the pupil becoming cited.
LANDNİG DIFFICULTIES In succeeding lessons you will go on to turns, both with the engine on and without the engine while gliding, and from there to landing and taking off.
All this EXCESS WATER CHARGES
Jarge amount of dying ex-
Is very easy except the landings
to land perience, and is fully trained for Learning
is the "I must apologise if I appear to
only deal rather sketchlly with the im-fying instructor
the specialist job he undertakes, difficult thing in learning to fly, und one who unknown to snu. but while an instructor will ex- When appeals are heard from portant subject c excess water to y an aeroplane.
that use slight inaccuracies in general all sides for a share in the inade- rates. I have had before me A flying instructor is not only studies your psychology. so
at the end of a few hours instruc-flying at first, he will insist on quate resources of the Treasury it figures supplied by the Directorar. crdinary commercial pilot, he
pretty fah your landing being consistently is inevitable that some will have of Public Works from which it ap-nas to have an additional licence on he can give
estimate of your reactions to any accurate before he allows you to to be passed over. The needs of
pears that when Interest and sink-in order to teach the art of flying. the people of the New Territoriesing fund on $700.000 the cost of To obtain this liceret, an instruc-given circunstances in the air. fly solo by yourself.
Another point in which flying In landing a machine. contrary have not been forgotten. but I be- Tytam Tule Catchwaters-and a tor must have more than double
differs from motoring is that all to most peoples bellet, a pilot lieve that I am right in saying sum of approximately $200.000 in the flying experience demanded that they are as a whole not un-respect of Extraordinary works. for
training aircraft are fitted with does not put the 'aeroplane on the the issue of a
commercial
qual controls, one set for the in-ground, he does exactly the op- prosperous at the present time. passages, housing, transport, office pilot's licence. and pass 10
structor and one for the pupll, so posite, he keeps it off the ground rent, light incidental expenses. examination on the fore" of
that at any time the Instructor
as long as the possibly can, at the typhoon damage and a share of "patter" or speech that he uses
M take over" control instan-
same time keeping it as near the the cost of Treasury "and Audit in the air and also understand
taneously should the pupil nave been added to the figures of pupil psychology. This form
as possible, this ensures get ground of expenditure, and Military Contri-patter or speech used by in-
into difficulties. this however very
the landing being made at the seldom occurs
lowest possible speed and in a tall bution has been deducted from structors is very nearly standar- income, the estimated surplus isdized the world over.
down attitude. In learning to land and the and has turned into a deficit,
tance accurately, and of necessity quickly, so that about 90 per cent of your dying instruction will be on landings going round and round the aerodrome.
MILITARY CONTRIBUTION
The Honourable Mr. Lo Man Kam has entered the lists for one
more tilt against that old dragon, the Military Contribution. The burden is admittedly, heavy.. and the method of assessment is open LO obvious objections. But the ong negotiations, which led up to the passing In November 1935 of the Defence Contribution Amend- ment Ordinance "resulted in the removal of some of the Colony's most serious gelevances, The
over-2x-
After the Arst solo your pro- gress goes ahead by leaps and bounds as when you once made your first solo flight, your con- ndence, in both your own ability
its origin in the School of Special i decided to take up flying either you have to judge speed and dis- enormously.
The difficulties which face own-flying, started and commanded by ers of tenement property are ap-1. Col Smith-Barry at Cusport in preciated, but I should like to be 1917. This was the Erst attempt pssured first, that charges for ex- at teaching lying by speech; and cess water do not still provide a very necessary restriction on the amount of water consumed and
position represented by the Or-secondly that the owners of pro- phecy myself, All I shall say now
perty who do not at present pay excess water rates would view with equanimity a very large pro- portionate increase in general rates. All I can say at the moment is that the Government is not dis- posed to favour the suggestiars but that they will receive further con- sideration.
dinance has been accepted, and the Government does not feel that any useful purpose will be served by reopening the controversy at a time such as this. Moreover I doubt whether the beneft which the Colony derives in increased trade due to expenditure by the Garrison is fully realised. The mohey comes back to the com- munity in another form and on
ISLAND BAY BEACH only one occasion. I believe has The safety of Island Bay Beach covered the whole cost of the Gar- has been discussed on many oc- rison. Normally the War Depurt- casions, One difficulty is that ment spends in Hong Kong tar when bathing is dangerous a boat- more than it takes from our tax-man who was being tossed about payers,
MOTOR TAXATION
With regard to the taxation on motor cars and motor spirit it is true that this is often justified by reference to expenditure on roads and their upkeep. I have used the same argument myself. but I realise that it is not one that can be carried to its logical conclusion. It is form of "taxation like any other, although it has, at times. and in places other than Hong Kong, been used to raise money which has been earmarked as, and sometimes raided from, a "Road Fund"
on a choppy sea would not be able to see bathers in trouble. Other suggestions have been made and will be reconsidered. But I not sure that responsibility should not rest, as in many places on the Cornish" coast. with those who insist on swimming in bad weather from a beach known to be danger-
ous.
is that I have not insured my pension and that I have no in- terition of doing so.
I trust he will forgive me if I do not enter into an argument about the Medical Department either, but refer Honourable Mem- bers to the debate which. took place in this Council on the 19th March of this year.
SPECIAL ROAD FUND
I have already spoken regarding the suggestion made by the Hob- ourable Mr. Hughes that revenue taxation from petrol and motor should be regarded as a special road fund. Our expenditure on road is already so great that a percentage of the tax would be altogether inadequate.
We will suppose that you have
as a hobby or as a profession, and you therefore join a flying school within or dying club situated easy reach of you hame. I would Lke to say a word here on clubs and schools,
more
"
are
club and
MUST NOT BE BORED You must try not to become
BUSINESS VENTURES The flying schools on the other nand are run as ordinary ventures, and are more fully equipped and can give complete training for any type of Icence, amateur or professional. In nearly all cases
that schools you will find government approved,-- whereas the majority of clubs are hot.
You will therefore go along to to a local school or Interview them If it is a club The side chanelling opposite the you will be charged an entrance Hume Pipe Factory is to be im-
fee and subscription, but no such proved during the coming year. charge will be made at a school It is the policy of the Public Works You will be required to sign a Department to replace the old form of indemnity whereby you half round channels by a flat agree not to claim for any accl-cognise channel when practicable when-dent which ever repair or replacement be- It is thought that the provision of a wall or ralling along the water front
of
machine is increased You are next laught to sideslip so that you land your machine on a given mark, and after three hours solo flying you
are put through the firing tests for."
which requires very much more flying experience and many more flying teste.
the Issue of your "A" cence. These tests are quite simple and Clubs are usually government
the average pupil experiences no subsidized, and run as non-profit bored by this, but you will and difficulty in passing them after organizations, and are very good that your instructor will watch have done the three hours sole for training for pilots "A" licence. very carefully for any signs of flying.
After this you have to but due to their limited resources your going "stale." 'and' should pass an oral examination on the they cannot, as a rule, undertake this stateness occur, you will find rules of the air
and the Inter- the
· advanced"
forms of that he has one
or two other national Air Convention, for which trening necessary for commercial
things up his sleeve with which you are coached on the ground or military pilots.
to relieve the monotony, so that during your flying training.. You in with the landing practice. I have also to have a medical-ex-
amination be taught steep turns,
by your own doctor you will
which is about equivalent to an spins and elementary forced land-
for
insurance lift ings to enable you to get yourself examination and machine down safely in the purposes, You are then the pos-
event very unlikely
sessor of a pilot's "A" licence. engine failure. You may think that the This licence entitles you to fly teaching of spins is unnecessary anywhere you like to carry pas- as some people regard this as sengers, but not for hire and stunt, because at some dying dis- reward, in other words it is a play you may have seen a pilot purely amateur licence, and must execute a spin. but in learning to not of course be confused with fly, spinning is taught not as the "B" licence. The is the 'com- stuht, but as a safety precaution. mercial licence Spinning results from the misuse of the controls of a machine, and pupils are taught to spin and re- cover in order that they may re- a spin developing and may occur to you, correct it in its early stages.
FIRST SOLO FLIGHT and in return you will not be held responsible for any damage you
After this, the day of your first ay do to the aircraft, which are
solo flight "la not very far away. of course covered by insurance...
and you will »And that one day would cause too much
You will next be fitted for and when
conditions are the possibility of nave to purchase a helmet, goggles favourable and you have executed constructing a narrow footpath and earphones, The at of the a series of good slow tall down for pedestrians and to serve as belmet and earphones is very im-landings, your Instructor says. a guide to tram: will be inves-portant because, as I have said "Well you'd better take it round tigated.
all instruction are by 'speech and by yourself? and gets out of unless the helmet and phones are his cockpit very quickly. With a perfect at over the ears, you his last words of "away you go will not be able to hear the in-ringing in your ears, you open structor clearly and distinctly. the throttle and u few seconds! will not go very far, but it re-
the air. If you are not personally | you are
first up alone for the presents a big increase on 1936 itted for these by a flying in- time of your life. Your first with the three hours necessary to and is as much as we can afford structor it is as well to get hin sensation is probably one of slight
to check them over, before going toneliness, this is at present.
because you have been flying for several' hours I should not even so describe into the air with him.
I believe the fight as unequal. that for example work done in the
under, duni instruction and have
comes necessary, sets who
Centralisation in the hands of Cavernment of Fress Messages refers of course not to the case of owners of wireless listen in to news broadcasts but to those who receive for publication messages sent out by
can
be
news
ex-
Incidentally the royalties paid agendies. At present 1 Special Venience, but by Bus Companies and the special icence
is required before such taxes on public cars represent 1
publication
undertaken. think a tax on the general travel-Ordinary steners licences ling public and not on motorists as
pressly prohibit publication. » such; and considerable expend!- ture on traffic regulations should be entered on the debit side of the account.
EDUCATION STUDY The Government is giving closa attention to Mr. Burney's report with the advice and cooperation of the Director and the Board of. Education, Certain fecommenda- tlons have already been carried out; others await the appointment of the new Senior Inspector of English Schools.
BOILER INSTALLATIONS The boiler installations at the
Lacon-
· ANTI-MALARIAL "WORK Admittedly the $80,000 to be Gaol and Queen Mary Hospital expended on anti-malarial work
provide, in addition to heating and hot water, steam for sterilizing and cooking and power for the laundry and the air-conditioning
plant in the Hospital theatre.
The mechanic in charge will need to possess a good knowledge of English as well as 1 Bound theoretical and practical experi-
ence in this particular" branch of mechanical engineering. I re- gret that I was in error in pre- dicating University qualifications for this post.
Hospital has had a beneficial ef- fect over a very large area,"
neighbourhood of the Queen Mary
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Flying instruction is paid for at an hourly rate, the charges of course vary according to the type of the machine used, but as general rule they vary from £2 to 24 per Bying hout for instruc- tion on modern training types. The duration
the average crash." "This of course is abso- lesson is thirty minutes,, as ex-lutely ridiculous. because the en- perience has shown that if lessons wine is shat right off every time are extended much beyond this to land.
Should the the engine period a pupil becomes mentally fall the machine is still under per- exhausted and does not receive feet control, but is forced of course full be eft from his instruction. to descend, but a landing can al- The average pupil is ready for ways be effected in a field, race first solo after between eight and course, beach and even on a road, twelve hours Instruction, thus in fact pupils are taught to do this before solo, and, made to con- stantly practice it afterwards.
qualify for a licence makes the cost of complete training for an
Another person says “oh I could "A" licence somewhere between never stand the speed, I shouldn't £30 and £50. A peculiar point know what to do at 100 mph."
goes solo
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got used to seeing the instructor's arises here, that the pupil who These people do not realize that You will then be taken over to head in the front cockpit, now.
very quickly does not the only time you ever get any machine and have the controls and instruments explained to you However, you
when you are solo, this is missing.necessarily make the best pilot impression of speed is on taking realize in the end, and I have known off and landing. At all other times un the ground,
when you are that you have only to do what many instances where a pupil who you are well away from any ob- What has been done includes the
quite familiar with these, you are you have already done many times
has taken a long time to go solo ject by which to judge speed, and institution of a School Certificate
put into the machine with the
the has in the end turned out a far 100 m.ph in an aeroplane seems examination for Class II and the
The Honourable Mr. Johnson has instructor and the engine is start- before. You therefore turn establishment of an extended sys-
The Director of Public Works has confined his criticism to the cost ed up. If you have not previously machine to bring it round to the better pilot than a pupil who wet much slower than 40 m.ph, in a tem of Physical Training in Gov-
recommended the installation of of the Marine Surveyor's Depart down you will be given a short down wind side of the aerodrome, solo after a four or five hours car.
shut off the engine, glide down dual Instruction.
Th last type says "oh yes, 1 ernment and Grant Schools. A
rapid gravity fillers at Bowen Road ment. In this connection the far-trip as a passsenger to accustom into wind, hold the machine just Before completing this talk I should be all right with the in- small extension to the Peak School
in place of the existing sand bour Master informs me that the your to the sensation of flight, but
off the ground, case back the stick should like to dispel a few falla structor, but I'd never dare to take has been completed, and the Gov-fiters but this project has had to tonnage Agures on which his com- as nearly everyone to-day "has
and the next moment you have cles about flying. There are still a machine up alone." I suppose ernment School at Yuen Long has
be postponed for the present ow-
parison with 'British ports was flown at some time or other, this
8 ground with been converted from an Englishing to lack of funds. I am ad-
a few facts about flying on which most pupils think this when they based were not the tonnage is not necessary in the majority good, if not quite perfect. landing. the average person is not clear. first commence flying, but in near to a Higher. Frimary Vernacular
vised that the aqueduct at Shing figures of vessels visiting the Port of cases. Your instruction com
Your Instructor who has waited School.
The first is the prospectively all cases the pupil is begging Mun has
mences with being shown how to out on the aerodrome comes up to a capacity of twenty but those of vessels surveyed. million gallons per day and has
Two additional surveyors were
pupil who says "oh yes I'd like to be allowed to go solo long be- handle the engine and taxi the
you, shakes hands, says "good to ny, but I've no head for fore the instructor allows him to been designed to deliver the ulti- engaged in 1834. on the advice of machine on the ground. A pecu show, now taxi in.” mate maximum
You can rest assured that the heights." "I always feel : giddy | go. draw-of from the Board of Trade who consider-lar point exists here that while
GREATEST THRILL
tall top of a' Shing Mun. The size of the tuned that the application of the Con- an aéroplane is a very delicate
building." Instructor will run no risk of nel was governed by considera- ventions would involve some per- and. highly controllable vehicle Probably the few minutes - This feeling never exists in the sending you solo before you are.
ready. tlong such as economy of con- manent addition to the work of white in the air, it is a very poorly mediately succeeding your first air, simply because there are no struction.
опе the Department. The temporary controlled
the solo are some of the most thrif lines of perspective connecting In conclusion, let me say that
there la increase asked for by the Har ground, and great care must being in your life, but after eight you to the earth,
noage is no bar to learning to fly, of bour Master on that occasion was taken when taxing near buildings years of flying instruction, I have effect of great height from an not granted as the Board of Trade etc.
still not decided who gets the aeroplane a from a tall building. advised the Government that they After a few minutes of this the greatest thrill, the pupil' or the
RIDICULOUS were dealing with the first rush machine will be taken off by the instructor, I am sure that every
Another one is the person who of work by working overtime, and instructor and climbed to about time, I send a pupil off on a first
suppose the engine considered that the same might be 1,000 ft. and he will there demon solo I get far more sense of says, "but
strate to you the action of the achievement out of having train- should stop, you're bound to successful. done in Hong Kong.
I should like to refer, in this connection, to the completion of School at Wanchal the Trade which, thanks to the cooperation of the Building Contractors' Asso- clation has been constructed at a very moderate cost.
TEACHING. OF CHINESE
·
I have listened to Mr.-Dodwell's rather melancholy views on the I do not know what grounds the
subject of the Colony's trade with Honourable Member has for his statement that the Grant Behools the respect which is due to one teach Chinese better than the Gov-01 our merchant princes. I hope ernment Schools; but I would point he will be proved wrong, and that out that, besides, the Anglo-Chin- as speedily as possible, but I have .ese Schools such as King's and no intention of going in for pro
when on
On
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course it is easier to learn anything when one is young and fzfig is. no exception to this rule, but zay own personal pupils have, varied from a young girl of 17 to à mán, of 69, and both were equally.