CHINESE ENGINEERS.
(Continued from Page 4.)
Thus it has coms about that the i civil engineering gradante in Obion values his services at about les pounds a mostb, "as a mini- mum. He explains that a medical student can commend that salary
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1917.
BEMOVAL OF BRANDY. ELECTRIC LIGHT DUTIES DAIRY FARM NEWS.
Wing On Company Flaed for a Techoical Offence.
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Selected Volunteers and Volunteer Reserves,
To-day's Volunteer Orders state that the undermentioned Volunteers have been selected for instruction in electric light duties and will attend at Volunteer Beadquarters on Saturday, 10th instant, at 500 p.m. for further
as soon as he has received The Wing On Company was orders. Mufti may be worn. Cap-]
a cummoned before Mr. J. R. Wood, Chinere graduate of a foreign for a breach of the conditions of at the Magistracy this morning. university, who enters business with a Chinese firm in the treaty Liquors Ordinaceo.
s permit obtained under the porta, is paid at least ten pounds
a month. One of our graduates Mr. J. Lloyd, Superintendent in civil engineering has joined a of Imports and Exports, appeared Hongkong Chinese firm of con- to prosecute, and Mr. F. B. L tractors. He is probably the only Bowley defended. A technical member of the firm who can (cffence was admitted. Trai and, write and speak The facts of the case, as out. both English. and Chinese lined by Mr. Lloyd, were that on £uently. Some of there February 2 the Company obtained local native contractors anders permit to remove 28 cases of ake work involving very large brandy-equivalent to 56 gallons rams of money. There are large-from the general bonded ware reclamation schemes, water sup-bouse at Kowloon to the s.8. Obil- ply proj'e'a, and reilway dar, which was loading at West constraction in and around the Point for Swatow. Teder the polony of Hongkong. It is pro- conditione ol the bable that the graduate with this the firm is the only person in it who been
Carple. A. J. W. Roster, L. M. Instructors will attend:-
Whyte, W. E L. Shenton, L 8 F. W. 8. Evans, Syme Thomson, Greechil, R. S. Vergette, Fics. Findlay Smith. I. Grant Smith, W. A. Cornell, E. G. Smith, G. B. Layton, A. H. G. Jackson, M. M. Mase, H. J. Nairn, G. H. Piercy, J. Rodger, R. A. Wilkinson, W. B. Maarfield, Manning, A.
Crew,
H.
L. A. Barton, C. Woodhead, J. Dickson, D. J. Brows, A. Sim mons, R. J. Rawlinson, T. Miller, J. D. Dick, T. O. Nézon.
The andermentioned members of the H. E. V. B have been permit, selected for inatruction in electric brandy should have light duties and will attend at taken traight to the Volunteer Headquarters on
can make a proper drawing, who the ship, and have reached the can esiculate steel work, or who vessel before 6 p.m. As a mutter koowe anything of surveying or of fact, the sampan carrying the the theory of etractare. He will, goods went over to Hongkong almost certainly, one day be a and stayed by the aide of the wealthy contractor himself. It is French Centon boat pier all Act unlikely that he is paid two night, the brandy being taken or three times as much as the ashore and stored in the Com graduate in England who leaves pany's premises. Early the next college with a degree, but only morning it was put back on the one language.
span, and it was there that it: was foond by Bereaus Officer Dawton.
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The First Graduates.
His Worship: It mesas that the taking of the brandy on board was delayed bayond the time allowed.
It will probably interest the readers of this journal to know that, of the thirty-seven under- graduates in engineering who entered the University of Hong Company received an order for 28 Mr. Bowley explained that the Kong in 19.2, about one-third of cases of brandy to be shipped on that number have reached the re-board the ship, and they at gaired standard for graduation The course tekes four years to
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will probably take five years to fact, the sampan did not leave Shanghai. pass all of the examinations. All Kowloon until nearly five o'clock, of the engineering students take and then came across to Hong- the degree of B.Sc. (Eng.), bat kong to get the cases roped into in their fourth year they specialise foare, se was the usual custom. on subjects beating directly apon By this time it bad got too late civil, mechanical, or electrical
to take them to the ship, and it engineering.
was also too late to notify the The majority of the engineering Permit Office. The cases were students take up the fret-named then taken to the Company's store branch. This is not altogether and put under lcek for the night. anexpected, as Chios is an un-As they were anxious to get the developed country, and there is stoff on board in time, they were #ugh a hankering after Government service. The mechani-ship early the following morning, the going to send it straight to the esl engineering students seem in- but the Revenue Offoot dincover- clined to go abroad for farther ed the goode whilst they were on study in mining or in shipbuild the empan. It was purely a ing work, neither of which is technics! cfferoe. included in the curriculum at
Hongkong. The graduatesinelec danger of allowing spirits to bs Mr. Lloyd pointed out that the trical engiste ing have been at-on shore all night was that the tracted to the large works in Am-epitit could be extracted from the erica, where special facilities are bottles and a subelitatè put in. given to them,. It ie quite usolo, Ne-006 would know until the while the war continues, to urge goods reached their destination, them to go to Britain, for they and then it could be said that will not take any risk. Nor does the goods had been broached it seem likely that they would be admitted to the works cow under Government control.
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Good Prospects.
on board, That made it possible | for people to get spirits into the Colony without duty being prid. That was the danger, and they were anxions that the prac naked for the confiscation of the tice ehould be put a stop to. He spirite, which was valued at $700, His Worship declined to make be very successful in accum-an order for confiscation, thinking. ulating wealth. They cannot that it was purely a technical graduate until they have reached offence which had arisen through a standard very much higher than circumstances. He imposed a that of other technical institutions 60e of $100.
It seems extremely probable that all of these graduates in engineering from Hongkong will,
in Ohine. Comparatively speck-
ing, they are well equipped.
They, all of them, seem to paseas,;
almost as a national instinct, com-
mercial genine. They will be.
coms agents for firms in Britain and a barren island. The colony
or America, bat they will expect contains half a million law.
• good reward for their labour, abiding Chinese, and it is said to
They will explain
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A rather sericus fire occurred in the early hours of this morning at broke out at 6, The Pray, which Kennedy Town. The fire first
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