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BRITISH EDUCATION,
Points from the Director's Annual Report.
new
Syllabuses of the British Schools were thoroughly rovised in the course of the year. The staff has been strengthened.
it A Local Stadium. To cite one instance, disclosed that Messrs. Moller and
It appears to us, from what Company were permitted to let transpired at Wednesday's munt out. the s.s, Castlefield on a mosting in connection with the pro-LIBERTY CAN HAVE NO SECURITY posed Stadium for Hongkong, that advantageous charter for twelve the whole idea bas very little WITHOUT POLITICAL POWER. months from Decomber, 1918, public support, and that the pro-1
"There are some interesting and that when the charterer did, moters have not given sufficient
The health return for yesterday in this Colony contained in the | facts regarding British education not take the vessel up, the thought to the practical aspects
of the question. Apparently the bows two Chinese cases of small-annual report of the Director of Government joined with the only clubs prepared to give the pox. «
Education (Ron. Mr. E. Irving), steamship company in au action schemo their unqualified support
which has just been issued. Three mining licences were
It is stated that the four British against the charterer, the matter are the football, and to some
extent the baseball, clubs. The issued for areas in the Territorios Schools had an average atten- being finally Bottled on paymont others, especially those that cater last year.
dance of 233: (209 in 1921) The of between $300,000 and $400,000. principally for oricketers; point
increase took place mainly on The soreamingly funny bed-the Kowloon aide: two- The Government made no claim out that they have their own nelo
grounds. As matters stand at room farco, "Twin Beds,' is the classrooms were, added to the in respect of the sum due to it up presant, the Stadium would be attraction at the Star to-day and Senior School. to the time its control terminated, come little more than a glorified to-morrow. but it did expect Messrs. Moller grandstand from which to view
Owing to the absence of the and Company to pay out of that football matches, and with chang
ing rooms situated underneath. Bonior Police Magistrate, Mr. J. suma debt of $44,512 still owing Even then, with several soccer" R. Wood, only one Court at this The Kowlood School, Senior, in respect of money paid in error matches played on single morning, this being conducted by failed rather badly with its can- on account of cargo oatried in Saturday afternoon during the Mr. C. D. Melbourne.
didatos for the Junior Local. This local season, there would not
was mainly due, as the Inspector the s.s. Patriot. In any case, all be aufficient attraction to fil When the Jary was being em points out, to too rapid promo- the controlled vessels did not a fraction of the seata in panelled for a murder trial in tions. There was also an unfor- Here also Singapore last week, the counsel tunate tendency to drop organized make losses, and even Mr. really big Stadium. Barkill has to admit that his firm pters the question of cost-tho for the defence objected to one of games: this is being remedied. most important consideration of the jurors because he was the Mr. Nightingale, the Headmaster received considerably more from all. It is, again, impossible to local undertaken!
was absent on leave during most tho as. Patriot whilst under have really big orowds in Hong.
of the year... Govorument control than had kong, and gate-money receipts Another quick mail came to Nearly 40,000 Pupils.
would be comparatively meagre hand yesterday by the P. and O been the case whilst she was un- These clubs who are decidedly liner Macedonis, which arrived of the Colony numbered 39:214..
The total pupils in the schools der oharter. It is, of course, true lukewarm towards the project are in port at 3 p.m. She brought This is an increase of 3,932 over that the owners of the controlled not likely to provide large sums mails posted in London on the 1921, the increase in pupils in ships were unable to reap the awards the cost of erection of a evening of June 28th., thus being English. Schools being 2,058,
Stadium. It is obviously not only 28 days in transit. huge profite which they undoubt-likely that the Government would
and in the Vornacular Soboola 1,874. Of the English Schools, odly would have procured if the provide the money, for they are The Hon. Mr. A. G. Stephen the altendance at Govern- vessels had remained in their already, contributing fairly by bas rosigned his seat on the ment schools has increased own hands, but in that respect recreation grounds, including pro-stated, to be succeeded by Mr. H. by nearly 400.
their expenditure on new public Legislative Council and is, it is by 200 and at the Grant schools they were no worse off than the vision for those to be set aside in W. Bird. In the meantime, dur-are practically full, and in con- All these schools owners at Home-both had to re- future years.
ing Mr. Bird's absence, Mr. A. R.sequence the Private echools baro concile themselves to this result Definite Proposals Wanted. Lowe is occupying the seat. reaped the benefit of the persistent of war conditions. The Govern-
demand for more English. Nobody at the meeting on.
In the P.WD annust report The increase in the Vernacular ment statement neatly disposes Wednesday, seemed able to put for last year it is stated that an sobools of the Colony is 12 per of the vital point in this connec-forward a single definite proposal area of 375 square feet known as cent, and 10 per cent. in the THE CRITICS ANSWERED. tion when it suggests that in the that would meet with unanimous Inland Lot 2377 was granted Vernacular Schools of the New
acceptance. The Colonial Socre without premium for a period of Territories. minds of some of the owners tary, we fancy, went to the meet-five years to the Helens May In- "there has boon confusion of ing to bear what the sporting stitute for the purpose of erecting
At the close of the year, the thought between losses supposed, public wasted, and so decide how
laundry. far the Government could meet the
permanent British staff was two ly incurred and profits anticipat-wishes expressed. However, the
men and seven women short of ed from war conditions which whole affair was more in the to have influenced a Chinese con- There were employed 17 tempor- Domestic disagreement is said the Estimate (3 and 16 in 1921). were not received." There are nature of a big preliminary die-
cubine living at Bonham Strand
ary British women teachers, the almest innumerable remarks in cussion," about it and about "
and the Colonial Secretary, like day by a dose of opium. She was fiosted. They are being gradu- to attempt to take her life yester-great majority of whom are certi the cfficial statement establishing Omar of old, after the great argu discovered before the drug could
ally replaced by trained teachers
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HONGKONG, 27th July, 1923.
A close analysis of the official statement on the Shipping Con- trol question will, we think, con-. vince all excepting those who are willfully blind that the Govern- ment has effectually answered the recent allegations made against it by two Shanghai ship-i
Staff.
owners. The document makes it beyond all doubt that the Hong-mont was probably as wise regard take full effect. and immediately engaged at Home.
Home Government.
rushed to hospital.
kong Government was in this ing what was desired, when he came away, as when in he went.
Cost of Education. control scheme merely the agent We imagine that those interested of the Imperial Government; in in a Stadium will have to meet Mr. Tom Addis, B.A., Oxford, After deducting the school fees" fact, the owners were informed again, several times, and thresh of the Inner Temple, was called received, the total nett expendi the whole matter out before they to the Bar on June 13. In the re-ture on education was $606,797.80 as far back as 1918 that the ships can put a concrete proposal before cont Renours List of the Cam- ($478,583.07 in 1921). The increase were requisitioned on behalf of the sport-loving public and the bridge University Mechanical is mainly due to an increase of and ander instructions from the authorities. We do not eavy the Science Tripos appears the name $50,000 in Personal Emoluments committee their task. If there is of William Addis, of Magdalen. caused by the employment of more to be a Stadium worthy of becom Both these are sane of Sir Charles British Teachers; to an increase ing the centre of the Colony's Addis, K.C.M.G., and brothers of of $40,000 in the subsidies paid to athletic acivities, a very largo Mrs. D. G. M. Bernard of Hong. Vernacular Schools; and to an increase of $29,000 under building sum of money will be required,
grants, all approximate. and here we thinks the promoters
School and Technical Institute Our Picture Page to-morrow will find a stumbling block; unless
were collected ($104,063 in (which we trust is not the case) will include two photographe of fees amounting to $114,504.50 the whole scheme is to be com- the big snake recently captured ra addition, 10814:00 14:1221). mercialised, and floated by a at Lai Chi Kok; a snapshot of the syndicate that willlock to the crowd watching Nicola in the air 86,725.50 were remitted to fee
Įscholars ($5,496.50 in 1921),
It is recorded that members of galereceipts for its reimburse-near Blake Pier; a picture of a meat and for profite--and probably junk washed up on the Praya in the Board of Education lette last week's typhoon blow; and a group of the winners of the the English Schools and their Queen's College inter-class volley-criticisms have proved very valu
able in many instances. ball competition.
look in vain.
kong.
abundantly clear that Mr. Moller, in accusing the Government of unjustifiable actions," and in describing the Government's policy as "a travesty of justion," was allowing his feelings to get the better, of his judgment. Equally, his reference to the
Might is Right" doctrine muet With regard to the unworthy 50 regarded as a piece of cheap inference by Mr. Moller that Mr. clap-trap. We can understand Fletcher induced the owners to the chagrin felt by shipowners stay legal proceedings in order to over the fact that, as a result of out-wit them by bringing in an the Shipping Control scheme the Indemnity Bill, the facts cited in Hongkong Government is in the report constitute a complete possession of more than two mil- answer to the insinuation. The lion dollars which would normal Government, whilst taking care to y have found its way into the point out that the owners first owners' pockets. But to accuse suggested staying the proceedings, the Government of taking away is generous enough to concede ships solely for profiteering pur- that the arrangement was mutual. poses, as Mr. Moller has done, is The best evidence that can be not only absurd, but is a diator. quoted to free the Government
Mr. Baldwin permitted himself. tion of facts. That much is from the suggestion that it has
one word of protest against a cer- proved by the statement that the been guilty of sharp practice is
tain form of publicity. He had
· London, July 26. Hongkong Government proposed the statement made by Sir G.
succeeded in dragging from their. In the House of Commons, Mr.
obscurity his father's coachman that any profits accruing from Grindle at the Colonial Office in
Ronald McNeill, replying to dir
and his old nurse. Fortunately the scheme should go to the In November last to the effect that E. F. Stookton, stated that the
In the course of his annual re-these had been loyal. But he had. perial Government, subject to the the Indemnity Ordinance was not Powers were still considering the port, the Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax. read the most amazing things latter guaranteeing the Colony a device of the Hongkong Govern-matter of holding a judicial con- Secretary for Chinese Affairs, about himself from correspondents against losses. This proposal the ment to meet its own special ference on the extra-territoriality makes lengthy reference to the who signed their names as being
seamen's strike of last year, and an old friend of the Prime Minia Shipping Controller would not difficulties but was passed on
The suggestion that, in the in- then states:
ter, or someone who was at school Much trouble could have been with the Prime Minister. He was accept, but it is clear from the the instructions of the Imperial terests of China, the British
should prohibit avoided during the year by com credited with proficiency in arts, mere making of the offer, and Government, Mr. Burkill himself Government
Chinese agitators taking san- mon action among employers: the to which he never aspired, and also from Sir Henry May's state- was present when that statement etuary in an international con- want of it has resulted in ignorance of some things of which ment in the Legislative Council was made,, whilet the other cession was impracticable, owing differences in the treatment of the he thought he had some know. in March, 1918, that the Hoogwners were represented by a to the difficulty of carrying out auch a policy equitably and kong Government did not went solicitor.
affectively-Reuter.
to undertake the risks which the Reviewing the whole question, scheme involved and was quite we can understand the disappoint- willing to forego tho-profits under ment of the owners, but the main Incidentally, Mr. Burkill, fact to be kept in mind is that
CHINESE
EXTRA-
TERRITORIALITY.
Question of Sanctuary for Agitators.
of China.
HONGKONG DIVORCE.
HONGKONG LABOUR
TROUBLES.
Need of an Employers' Federation.
to make concogeeions.
A STORY REPUDIATED.
same classes of labour and con- ledge. But the unkindest cut of sequent comparisons, alway ten-all came in the Nation, of all ding to force wages to the highest papere," Mr. Baldwin said, "where level conceded by any one om someone who said he had born at ployer, the smaller employere school with me heard one of my being naturally the more ready schoolmasters tell me that I bad no brains. I do not mind in the It is to be hoped that some kind least not being classed as a first- who complained that the owners the Government ran big risks and Unfaithfulness Admitted.ciation will be formed in the near because I always hrad, and I have of Employers Federation or Asso-class brain. That I am proud of, did not know the Government the scheme might easily bave Recently, in England, Mr. future: the advantage to be a hearty dislike to the phrase. I was bearing war risks on the oxided in a loss. We should then Sydney O. Taylor, described as an employers is obvious, but it is na remember that some men who | requisitioned ships, is well an- have heard nothing from the Eastern merchant, of Clapham less important to the labourer. The were merely geniuses, and not, swered by being referred to owners and, even now, we doubt Common, London, petitioned for a existence of a body to which dis-first-class brains, had the very circular letter which he quoted whether such a fuss would have divorce against bis wife, which putee can be referred at any time, lowest opinion of that particular
was granted..
with the certainty that all nec85kind of quality, but that particular WE HAVE ALSO A LARGE SELECTION in criticising the Government, been made but for Mr. Severn's The parties were married in 1920sary technical knowledge can be little story always rather galled which letter definitely intimated fanciful talk some time ago of and in the following year went to represented on it, will prevent me because, of all the things my OF GOLF HOSE IN HEAVY, MEDIUM
that the Government was assume utilising the profits for the longkong, Mr. Charles P. Tom that delay which is so dangerous mastors did say to me, they never
pleton, who was cited as the co-fin the early stages ofa dispute and į Baid that." AND LIGHT WEIGHT, IN PLAIN COLOURS,ing all risks.
building of hotels and flats. The respondent, stayed in the same will at the same time secure to CHECKS. AND PLAIN COLOURS · WITH · On the question of the alleged report is a clear vindication of bouse with them in August, 1921, the men that they will be un- losses suffered by the owners, our acting Colonial Secretary, and it was shown that at the end derstood without the necessity for
of the year his wife received alwearisome explanation of detail in the wider field of experience the Government is unable to who has been so maliciously loving letter from him, seat from to untechnical ears. The Govern- and technical and special know- accept all the figures put forward. maligned, and also of the good Manila and addressed "Poste ment would also resp material kdge which would be always at TD It appears to us that owners were faith of the Government in carry-Rostento," Hongkong. Later, Mrs. advantage in the saving of the the disposal of such a body with time required before, the serious fout delay and in the probable treated with every consideration ing out instructions from Home Taylor admitted unfaithfulrose
Costs wore ordered against the formalities of appointing a Com-settlement of disputes without possible under the circumstances in a matter of extreme difficuity.
mission are considered justified, Government intervention," co-respondent."
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