HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1937.
GOVERNOR LEAVES IN BLAZE OF POPULARITY
(Continued from Paze 1.)
FAREWELL ADDRESS:
Reading the farewell address, Hon. Sir Henry Pollock said:-
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very early recognised, and you were ter like the sun as he rises into the chosen to fill many important Į sky, and your..." ever-successful posts. Wherever you went you carcer soaring like the Roc's won golden opinions as an admin-flight over the earth. istrator. During your thirty years' service promotions, honours and decorations have been showered upon you, “
About a year ago the Govern- TO HIS EXCELLENCY SIR AN- ment of Great Britain paid a tri- DREW CALDECOTT, K.C.M.G.,bute to your ability by appointing C.RE, GOVERNOR AND COM. you to be Uovernor of Hong Kong. MANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE CO- When the decision was announced LONY OF HONG KONG AND ITS the people of the Colony were over- DEPENDENCIES AND VICE-AD-joyed, and hastened to tell each MIRAL OF THE SAME.
Sir,
When Your Excellency set foot In this territory, your first care was
other the glad news; for, to them, it was as though some great man Whilst heartily congratulating of the times of Han, Huang Pa or you upon your promotion to Cey-Chien Pu-I, had come back to the lon, the people of Hong Kong very earth. much deplore the drastic curtail- ment or your term of Office here.
They had counted upon the knowledge and exceptional grasp of the Colony's affairs acquired by you in so comparatively short a time, to guide them with wisdom and understanding during the re- mainder of your normal term "of Office here, and they feel that their keen disappointment at your carly transfer to Colombo is excusable, and in no way reflects upon your successor.
Having no knowledge of the rea- sons of high British poitcy which brought about your 'ransfer at a mament so promising to British Interests in South China, they can but accept the situation.
Arriving in Hong Kong at a time when the trade depression had re- duced Government revenue and à depreciated currency had in-
the welfare of its people; your ad- ministration has been firm but kind, and, above all liberal. In all, that you have done, you have acted fairly and openly; by this means you have
Won your way
without imposing fear, and kept good order without the need of force.
When Your Excellency reached us, lean times had affected the public revenue.
and measures to
restore it were urgently needed You realised that the straitened circumstances of the people would
This course
not admit of increased taxation. and decided rather to reduce of- nctal salaries, including your own, to meet the crisis. You took to lighten the burden of the people, and so to give them time to recover. Thus it is plain to all that you "looked upon the
This is our respectful prayer.
From The Chinese Community
of Hong Kong, The 15th day of April, 1937. GOVERNOR'S REPLY Replying. His Excellency sold:— Gentlemen.When I received from Sir Henry Pollock and from Dr. Kotewall advance coples of the wonderful addresses with which you have presented me this after- noon I went into my office at Gov- ernment House, turned the key.. blushed, and felt exceedirigly un- comfortable. I do not suppose that looking-glasses, being inanimate, have feelings; but if they had could now sympathize with the mirror which, conscious, of, Its own very ordinary composition of glass and quicksilver, found itself credit ed with all the good and beautiful but extraneous things which it re- fected. And so my mind passed on to a quotation which I remem- bered having heard from the lips of a lecturer in Political Science at Oxford.
Sir William Hornell bas kindly, traced its original source lox me; it is a translation of a
phrase occurring in a letter writ Maistre who died in 1821. His ten by Joseph Marie Conte de words, in their English translation, are "Every country has the govern ment it deserves.” That is a state- ment of the mirror principle to which I have just alluded. The falled in an atmosphere of ill-will. able administrators have
most
dally thought and daily talk of my wife and myself. The splendid screen with which the Chinese have presented me is not only a thing of beauty in itself and there: fore intrinsically alloy for ever, but guests and visitors who see and ad- mire it will ask us what the writ ing means, and how we came by it, and so the conversation will be turned to 'our happy memories of the Colony which we have both loved so much and from which are being so prematurely parted.
I may perhaps have bored of even distressed you sometimes with my frequent references to Malaya, but you have. kindly borne with me: I trust that the kind people of Ceylon will equally bear with me when I enlarge upon Hong Kong. even though, if I may recall the words of a duce popular song, "they may not belleve me when I tell them, as I'm certainly going to tell them, how wonderful you are." (Prolonged Applause).
creased expenditure, you succeed- neople as on wounded men who / misrepresentation and disservice | Mr. T. H. King (Inspector General
ed, by wise measures of finance
and the introduction of economics, In tiding over a very difficult Bud- getary position.
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You have continuously striven to strengthen the bonds of friendship between Canton and Hong Kong. upon which so much of the pros perity of both cities depends.
To you also belongs the credit for surmounting the difficulties which, prior to your arrival, ap-, peared to be preventing Hong Kong trom assuring her natural geo- graphic role as one of the chief centres for air trafe "between the Far East, Europe and the United States.
You have likewise greatly en- couraged ine raising of local sub- scriptions for the King George the Fifth Memorial Fund, and have been instrumental in local areas being set aside as open spaces and playing-grounds for the people.
need succour."
Though little more than a year has passed since Your Excellency and quiet reign within our borders, assumed the Government, peace and trouble and calamity have no place there; rulers and ruled are of one mind; every day streng- thens the bonds of friendship with our neighbours.
rule t
. Such a beneficent acknowledged by all; and we feel that it is worthy to be carved on metal or stone, or to be set to music and celebrated in song, for 16 deserves more than one anort- lived eulogy.
does
Your Excellency's genius not lle only in administration. You are also a profound scholar,
·THOSE PRESENT Among those present, besides His Excellency the Governor were: His Excellency the General Officer Commanding, Major-General A. W. Bartholomew, Thie Colonial Secre- Attorney General (Hon. Mr. C. G. tary (Hon. Mr. N. L Smith), the Alabaster), the Secretary for Chi- nese Affairs (Hon. Mr. R. A C North), the Colonial Treasurer (Hon. Mr. W. J. Carrie), Hon. Mr. R. M. Henderson (Director of Pup- lic Works), Hon. Commander J. B. Newill, R.N. (Retd.) (Harbour (Director of Medical Services), Hon. Master), Hon. Dr: A. R. Wellington
ut Police), Hen. Mr. J. J. Paterson, Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau, Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo, Hon. Mr. M. T. Johnson, Hon. Mr. A. W. Hughes. Hon. Mr. Leo D'Almada e Castro (Jun.), Hon. Dr. Li Shu Fan, Hon. Sir Shouson Chow. Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, Col I am most gratified to learn from H. C. Harrison, Rear-Admiral.C. G. these Addresses that my brief ser- Sedgwick. Sir Atholl MasGregor vice here has been acceptable to Bishop H. Valtorta, Mr. Justice R. the people of Hong Kong, but the E. Lindsell, Sir Robert Ho Tung, Str real authors of whatever success William Hornell. Rev. J. R. Higgs. there has been are the persons Rev. K. Mackenzie Dow, Rev. H. W whose names, are subscribed to the Baines, Col King, Major V. E. Addrestes and the many others Duclos, Professor R... K. M. Simp- whom they represent. And to sun, Professor W. C. W. Nixon, Pro- them I must add the name of per- fessor L. Forster, Dr. R. A. de Cas- haps the most important contro Basto, Dr. G. W. Pope, Messrs. tributor, my wife. Indeed rear-
whereas the ordinary plain man, in whose category I am proud enough to claim my place, will with the gift of friendship from others. benefiting from their advice and sure of their understanding and support, sometimes make good
not refrain from citing the words which the Son of Sirach put into
Was
a skilled musician, and an accom-the mouth of personified Wis plished painter. You have always dom: "In three things I been ready to praise and encour- age, Chinese who have shown ap-
beautifled: The concord of bre- tude for painting and calligraphy,
thren, and friendship of neigh It must be gratifying to you that and for this reason the practice ours, and a woman and a husband during your, Governorship the of the fine arts in Hong Kong has
that walk together in agreement." Shing Mun Dam, forming the Jubt-progressed as never before. There lee Reservoir; has been opened, is a saying, "A great soul produces thus .. considerably alleviating, great art," Is not this true of though not altogether, removing. Your Excellency? -uur water troubles. Other import-
We know how Hist Fu Chi owed ant works, completed in your termals fame to a good wife, and how of Office are the Central British Liang Bung attained the goal of School, and the new Gaol at Stan his aspirations through marriage luy.
with Meng, Kuang. Like them. Your Excellency has achieved tame
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SOUVENIR OF HONG KONG And now I must come to the sad business of valediction. I spoke some length in Legislative Council yesterday but there
want to add. I received last Satur- one or two little things that day a souvenir of Hong Kong which I value very much it was a Chi- nese scroll painting from the
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In many other matters of local and general importance your sound and rendered great service with brushes of two 'Chinese and one Tang Shina Kin, and many others. Judgment and diplomatic tact have the help of Lady Caldecott.
European artist, and is thus a contributed to a successful solu- Her Ladyship is gentle, graceful, symbol in itself of what the Hong tion, but above all you have gain-full of unassuming charity. Her Kong Working Artists Guild stands ed the affection of the whole com- household acknowledges her fair- for. I very much hope that this munity by the human, democratic Gess; you, her public-spirited help: institution will never be allowed to and understanding
the people, her friendliness. A suffer from a lack of interest, en- which you have invited different lover of good deeds, she is ever couragement or support. I have sections of the residents to come solicitous for the public welfare, been delighted to hear from Dr. before you and express freely their and does her best to help and fur-
Kotewall that he and a number of views.
ther charitable work for the Chi-Influential people are determined nese people. She and Your Ex- that it shall not. The various cellency are worthily matched, nther Societies "devoted to Art,
In the Spring of this year the Music, Literature and Drama Kave Britannia and proceed' to Kowloon Other local estates admitted to
manner
We are confident that in your new Governorship you will earn fresh laurels, and we wish health and happiness to
you and Lady -Caldecott who. during her all too
short stay here has endeared her
self to us not only by her charm of manner but also by her keen interest in local welfate matters.
On the present occasion' we will
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His Excellency the Governor and Lady Caldecott will bid official farewell to Hong Kong at 11am at Queen's Statue Pier where they will embark on the motor launch Other 1
Japan, which sails at noon for to board the liner, Empress of Wilkie Paterson, late of No. 116. probate are as follows:-Duncan
Vancouver, via Shanghal, Japan at the Hospitat for Tropical Cannon Street, London, who died and ports..
Your Excellency to the Governor success; the Muses are well and Government promoted my best wishes for their continued ship of Ceylon. Such twofold eleva- happily established here as old tion in a period of less than two Hong Kong residents, and long years is an unsurpassed honour may they remain so.
Diseases, Middlesex, on June 25, these days. In ancient times, Bu
Queen's Statue Pier has been 1935, $32,900; Llang was promoted thrice in one
artistically decorated with coloured not say goodbye but merely au re-genius. Your Excellency is a second thing cannot be praised too often year, and all men hailed him as a
It has been said that a good flags and palms for the occasion wise known, as, Quan Yuen Hops. H, Quan, alias Quan Hoy, other- voir, because, despite lack of pre- su Liang Yet, recently, when a bad one too often denounced. Road Central, will be the Guarda ter, British Columbia. Intestate 'on Outside the wharf, in Connaught who died in the City of Westmins cedent, we cannot help honlux we went to offer our congratula-I therefore want to take off my that you may eventually be, able
of Honour provided by the Royal October 15, 1935, $9,000; motion is of little moment. I can who are supporting by subscrip- RAN., Seaforth Highlanders, un- only feel regret that my stay has tions or by personal service one or der Major L. C. Barclay, Royal Air Rivage, Greva d'Adette, St. Clement And right glad we shall be to been so short, and sorrow that I more of our many charitable so-Force, under Flight-Lieut. J. E. M. Jersey, who died at St. Saviour, welcomed you back.
leave my good Chinese clettes, I wish that I had had more McCallum. and, the Hong Kong Jersey, on May 15, 1935, $3,000, friends". Untiring in the work of time to familiarize myself with all Volunteer Defence Corps, under Government, always fair and kind their many fields of activity, and Capt. H. Owen. Hughes,D The English version of the Chi-to the people you govern, a true there is one particular subject on nese valediction to His Excellency friend to the Chinese, Your Excel which my mind and consciente the Governor, was read by the Hon. lency exemplines the saying, "Sin are very uneasy. Dr. R. H. Kotewall as follows:-
cerity of beart shows itself in TO HIS EXCELLENCY SIR AN-
action": DREW CALDECOTT, K.C.M.G.,
to return to Hong Kong as Gover.tions, you sorrowfully said, "Pro-hat, figuratively, once again to all Navy, under Lieut. H. A. Green. Henry Milner. Late of Beaux
nor, to resume your work here.
Hong Kong. 18th April, 1937. CHINESE VALEDICTION
CBE, GOVERNOR OF HONG
KONG.
must
AN APPEAL
I know that there is a great deal Now, as the day of Your Ex-of cruelty to animals going on in Chinese feel heavy-hearted, as one Chinese and British friends have cellency's departure draws near, we this Colony, concerning which my A wise man once wrote, "On the efforts to stay your departing suffering a personal loss. All our path of a virtuous ruler a great charlot have been without avail light shines When be comes, the All that is left to us is to sing the people are glad;"when he departs, Songs of the Tree that Shaded Us. his memory stays with them." Very and of the Grain that Nourished true are these words. Too few in Us:
Sequel To Motor Mishap
cellency and Lady Caldecott with
The route along which His E EUROPEAN IN COURT travel by car from Government House to the Pier will be lined with" troops; ' Motor cycle escort with be provided by the Hong Kong Capt. H. G. Willams, and the Hong Messrs Carroll Brothers appeared Volunteer Defence Corps, under Mr. Peter W. Grant Cameron of
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May I ask all of you here this expressed to me an equal diagust. Kong Police afternoon to ease my conscience and give this matter your most tive as well as preventive and earnest attention? A lot of educa
hope, that as many responsible as punitive work is necessary and I possible will rally to the support of the local branch of the Bleepers Shelter Society RSPCA (4
before Mr. W. Schofield "at: the Central Magistracy' yesterday for driving private car No. 2100', in "a dangerous manner at 9.16 pin on Tuesday, along Queen's Road near LA Chit Street. Tramic Inspector! Saunders hald that the defendsint
closed was admitted to the G.CH and was driving, at a very high speed and inccked down a Chinese who
disa yesterday?”, mirning. The xecu-| ** or the car were found to be
fake
The three shelters of the Street
last night when a hot
our time walk this ancient road; "Humanity, Righteousness, Loy Your Excellency is one of those few.alty, Faith: he who finds unwear Your Excellency open-minded led joy in these four," said Men and generous, courteous and clus, "is of Heaven's nobility." The
arm-hearted, devoted to duty men of old sought Heaven's nobil DAILY THOUGHT, to the and a good friend, an accomplish-ty, and earthly honours came to
"scholar and a true gentleman. them with Your Excellency, The
Boon we shall see your achieve that Hong Kong and our Hons even of their ments glowing brighter and brigh-Kong friends will always be in the past winter.
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