Your Children and the Years to Come
Jack Intends
If Dad can finance it, Jack intends to co to college next year He's a eix. teen-year-old. tren
on sports,
intensely alive, interested in every. thing that goes on. man-size in all but years.
Every year he's kaming new buying habits-stopping-up bis spending power. It means that Dad will have to do some figuring to give the boy his start.
Edna Hopes
As soon as Did can manage it, Edma hopes to begin that special training course. She's going out more... wears evening dress--has to have more clothes. More than ever, each dollar counts... must be well spent. So Mother plans and saves to keep expenditure within bounds. Her son and daughter have camed the right to be well-equipped to face life's battles so that they may have every chance of success.
What plans are you making for the future of your children? It is important that they should be enabled to follow their natural bent. Guaranted them a good start in life by providing for their future no matter what may happen to you. A Manufacture Life Endowment Policy will do it.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
CHINESE CUSTOM.
THE SCHOOL FEE SYSTEM..
A peculiar custom relative to the payment of school fees in all vernacular educational institu- tions as claimed to be in existence by the Headmaster of the Kau Kong School, of No. 14 Temple Street, when the parents of several pupils were summoned before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy: yesterday for failing to pay their children's fees.
In all sixteen adults appeared in
court on summonses for vari-
ous amounts. Three defendants whose names were called were not present in court, while in some cases it was "claimed by the per sons summoned that they were not the parties mentioned in the charges. These latter were all discharged.
The first case heard concerne a small boy, whose parents were alleged to have withheld $3 due to the school. The mother of the child complained that her son had been expelled from the school by the complainant, fr. Yau Shi- chung, She had paid $10 and produced receipts for $7, remark- ing that no recept was given for the remaining $3. She was stil indebted to the school to the sum of $3 for tuition for the Autumn ferm.
In explaining the system of the school, the complainant said that his school was a free institution, but in order to defray the ex- penacs, such as rent and the pay- ment of the teachers' salaries, each scholar was required to pay Tel. C. 1600. 20 cents per month: This
was later found insufficient and a "expenses" fee of $1 for each pupil was imposed.
Queer Sytem.
The sum payable by each parent was $12 annually, but payment was accepted in the first week of each term, the year being divid ed into three terms. Parents were liable to the full payment of a year's expenses even if the
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1927.
PRUSSIAN LOAN,
SYNDICATE BEING FORMED
IN NEW YORK..
STONE WATER LILY.
ANOTHER DESCRIPTION OF HONGKONG.
BRIBE TAKER SHOT.
TREASURY OFFICIAL WHO AMASSED A MILLION,
"A roundish
New York, Oct. 12. "This is precisely what
thought Hongkong would be like," Objections to the £6,000,000 said Kipling's Brushwood Boy
"Canton, Oct. 12. Prussian State loan having been when in his dreams he saw a stone head of the Kwangtung Provincia! withdrawn, Messrs. Harris, Forbes water lily floating on the sea with Treasury, who was arrested short- Hsu Shao-yim, a departmental and Company are heading a sya luggage label attached which ly after the departure of Koo dicate for handling the loan. "It has been announced that bonds dream because Hongkong is like by order of the Garrison Headquar read "Hongkong." It was a good Ying-fan, was shot this afternoon will be offered on Thursday at a stone water lily. 964 to yield about 6.28 per cent. island floating in a jade coloured ters in the East Parade Ground. The issue is in the form of six per sea, with steep-sides and a com- cent. Sinking Fund gold bonds dac position so barren that even goats of Hsu was decided by the Caneg
As was reported, the on October 15, 1952.-Reuters cannot be sustained. American Service,
The label. Political Council at its 68rd. meet- perhaps, says "Britain," not ing. An order was subsequently "Hongkong."
issued to the effect that the charge For now there are beautifulstantiated he therefore should be of bribery against Hsu was sub- gardens on Hongkong and there shot in order to warn other off- is an export trade of cabbages to cers of the Government against ar- Singapore. There is even a model cepting bribes. He is said to have dairy farm where a Scotchman accumulated a fortune of no less with enormous ingenuity main than one million through his offl- tains in health a herd of Ayrshires cial corruption. and Holsteins fed on artificial foods and sterilised rice straw.
BRITISH TRADE,
BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS
FOR SEPTEMBER.
London. Oct. 12."
Board of Tradic returns for September show improvement in British trade as compared with those of a twelve month ago, Ex ports figuring at £60,500,000 which is an increase of nearly £10,000,- 000, while imports figure at £101.- 500,000 and show an appreciable reduction of one third of the in- creased imports, due to the re- covery of foreign markets in coal.
Renter.
On being asked, the defendant admitted that she still owed the complainant $3 for the Autumn term and his worship ordered her to pay the money through the
Court.
Second Claim. “
This morning when the order
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FOR ONE WEEK ONLY
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There are clubs of every hue of execution reached the Garrison TSANG FOOK PIANO
snobbery,. a race-course-hall- Headquarters, where Hsu has been mark of every British occupation detained, the Military Court snt golf clubs by the score, more and passed sentence on the pri snobbery, a University, law and soner. Hsu was allowed to have order, and sanitation.
Meticulous Neatness.
one hour's conversation with his wife and two children, in. the course of which his son presented him with a cup of brandy, and the The long narrow quayside and daughter presented him a bowl of business quarter-almost jostled pork. After the conversation, Hou into the sea by the rotundity of was taken in an armoured car on the Peak that residential moun- which were twelve soldiers and tainful of villas-the tall, deep one officer from the Political Coun- verandahed business houses look cil and one from the Finance De ing like a series of honeycombs,partment. The prisoner was taken, the Blue Funnel dry docks, Jar to the East Parade Ground and dine and Matheson's shipbuilding shot there at about 2 p.m. yards, the barracks, even tho buildings of the old Portuguese town and the sordid slumminess of the Chinese quarter all have a restrained and tidied appearance; the heat meticulousness of u maiden aunt's hand.
The main difficulties in Hong In claiming $8 from another kong appear to be snakes, parent the complainant admitted typhoons and class distinctions. to his Worship that the boy had Snakes
sadden your walks left during the previous term and typhoons knock down your houses, had not returned for the present and class distinctions circuni term. He was claiming the sum acribe your mode of life even to
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The defendant said that her son! had left school after studying for
CHINA'S PROBLEM,
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Shanghai, Oct. 12.
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Addressing a large Chinese and Helss, Massey & Co., Ltd.
foreign gathering at the Union, Club, Sir Frederick Whyte said China's trouble lay within herself
His Worship asked if all intend- ing pupils were informed of this system and the complainant re-two months, and had not been as a standard of measurement for solve China's problem, which was
plied that all parents were, is- sued with a prospectus notifying them of the regulations of the school.
months. She back to the school for the last six therefore for two months' fees.
was only liable
The complainant said that ac- A printed notice was handed cording to the custom of Chinese to his Worship, who, after ex-schools a parent was liable for the amination, painted out to complainant that according to the if the boy studied for any part of the payment of a whole year's fees school's prospectus "expense+" a year. were payable during the firat week of each term, and should any pupil cease to continue his studies during the course of a term no money would be refunded.
His Worship: I cannot see that you are entitled to the Autumn fees if the boy did not go to the school.
DISTRIBUTORS.
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and was not the result of the so- Drchange Bldgs, A Standard of Measurement.
called "unequal" treaties. The For the visitor the Peak acts abolition of the latter would not ascertaining the local caste sys-like India's, the result of an at- tem: the top of the Peak is usual-tempt to adapt the Asiatic char- ly wreathed in. fog, which causes acter to Western political systems furniture, books and silk dresses and idens. Incidentally, he re- to mould; the lower, reaches, or marked that a six weeks sojourn in the Happy Valley, on the other China had convinced him that hand, are free from fog, but are there were justifications for the
people," therefore, live on the top, previous to his visit,--Reuter 5o hot and feverish that man presence of the British Defence becomes damaged, the "best Forces. He had not realised this
and as the visitor ascends in Sedan chair or funicular the gradations of income are perfectly apparent,
The complainant said that it was the custom in Chinese schools
views 12. to collect for the whole year.
In reply to his Worship the complainant stated that the last term started on August Several of the boys, whose parents wire before his Worship, had left the school, but the son of the defendant, whose case was then being dealt with, had gone back
August 12. He had tinue until only recently, when he suddenly failed to attend.
on
con-
The defendant informed his Worship that her son discontinu- ed his studies because he had been expelled.
Headmaster's Lapse. His Worship said that it did not matter whether the boy was expelled or not, the mother was still liable to pay the expenses for the Autumn term. It was clearly stated in the printed circular that should a boy be expelled no money would be refunded
His Worship then pointed out to the complainant that he him self had not acted according to the rules of the school in not ex- acting payment in the first week of the term.
To Prove Custom.
His Worship said that he could not understand how the complain- ant could claim for the whole
year..
The best people" also have ibe advantage of being able to teacli their children the terms of physical geography, because in the from their" windows, "inlet," "capes," "peninsulas," "islands," "bays," "straita" all are spread out like in an aerial photo graph.
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"PURE FICTION.”
MOSCOW'S DESCRIPTION OF ALLEGED EXECUTIONS.
Moscow, Oct. 12.
The official Tass Agency declares the report from Warsaw "The' Compensations.
with regard to the alleged execu- There is something amounting Tsarist Army, "pure fiction."--
tions of officers of the former. The complainant replied that to tragedy about the Wandering Peter ning of each term in order to meet Dispersion. Working away in the payment was made at the begin- Britons-the people of the British the needs of the poorer people. various parts of the globe to find 1 This custom prevailed through living, they endure bad climates, FLIGHT TO BANGKOK.
queer food, loneliness, dangerous. diseases, undermined health, and tolerate; but rarely enjoy, the coni- their lot is cast. pany of the races among whom
out China.
His Worship said that proof would have to show that a student attending for be produced to part of the year was liable to pay for the entire year.
The complainant reiterated his plea that this custom applied in all Chinese schools, his Worship remarking that he could not ac- cept his assertions.
It as suggested that somebody from the Education Department should be called to give evidence on the point
ARRIVES AT ROME.
Rome, Oct. 12. The most real entertainment to
Capt. Challe arrived from Paris them is thinking and talking about "Home." Then when leaves or on his flight to Bangkok in daily f retirement come they find England stages of 1,500 miles.---Reuter cold, servantless, and expensive, their children exclaim loudly
"Look at those white coolies work Kowloon or from the ferry boat is relations have grown used to their chains of diamonds and pearls, ing! Why?" Their friends and like a fairy-land of twinkling
rubies and emeralds, the Peak
absence.
But there are compensations looks like an illuminated cobweb, All the cases were then ad-
even in life on a stone water lily. And it is warn enough to bathe didjourned till next Wednesday morn-in the straits are lit up at night Income-tax Barbara Bliss in the When Hongkong and the shipping by moonlight, and there is no the view from the mainland at Westminster Gazette.
The complainant replied that the defondant had stated she not have the money.
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