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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1930.
SCHOOL PATRON HONOURED.
PORTRAIT OF MR. R. M.
DYER UNVEILED.
ALLEGED ROBBER COMMITS SUICIDE,
MAN. ARRESTED AFTER
··LAICHIKOK AFFAIR,
Sensation after sensation
has
train of the
His efficient management of the Docks and bis free-handed genero- sity we all know something about and it is safe to say that no hon- our has been better carned than the one. His Majesty the King has recently been pleased to confer on him; but, in the motives that led A portrait of Mr. R. M. Dyer, him to encouraging this school in C.B.E., chief manager of the the way we have heard he has followed in the Hongkong and. Whampoa Dock done, I see something more than frustrated armed robbery attempted Co.. Ltd., was unveiled on merely a highly efficient Naval Ar- by four men at 203 Laichikok Road, Sunday morning by the Hon.chitect or a very generous soul.carly on Sunday morning. It will Mr. E. R. Halifax, C.M.G., This efficiency and his generosity be recalled that the men C.B.E., at the Hop Ying Free combined in these premises, to set their way into the house about 1.55 School, Hunghom. The children an example which is for the good am., but had to decamp after an attending the school, about 300 in of the concern he manages, but his alarm was raised by the women number, were lined up on each perspective is not limited to the inmates, one of whom received a sitle of the street leading to the Docks: he has in mind the adran-slight stab wound. school and presented a tidy and tage of the whole Colony through, smart appearance.
a far-sighted trentment of his own workinen.
D. Keith, Mr. Lo Chung Kue and many others,
Headmaster's Speech. Mr. Chun Ping-fai. Voluntary Headmaster, on welcoming those present, said that the object of the
Modern Ideas.
But it is to the No. 1's, workmen and their families who benefit by this school that I really want to address myself. Numbers of you
forced
A man believed to be one of the robbers was later arrested, and a suspect was also traced to a house. in Wellington Street by a Chinese-
While interrogating. detective. the inmates of this house on Sun- day evening, as reported yesterday, the detective was stabbed in the
in this world which has changed morning on a
with
intent to
The Hon. Mr. Hallifax and Mr. Dyer were met on arrival by the' committee of the Hunghom Kai- fong and escorted to the school.
Amongst those present were Mrs. R. M. Dyer, Miss, Hallifax, Mr. C. D. Melbourne, Mr. and Mrs, H. H. Scott, Mr. and Mrs. G. Dun-workmen have found good employ- abdomen by the suspected man, can, Mr. and Mrs. W. Forsyth, Mr.ment in the Docks for many years: who made good his escape by jump some have followed their fathersing from the first floor of the in the service. Mr. Dyer is giving house to the ground
Since then, there has been_an- the sons of those now employed a better opportunity than their other peculiar turn in the affair. fathers: as a father myself, IThe previously arrested man, who doubt whether they will succeed, was brought before Mr. Butters at but they are to have every chance the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday gathering was to do to their benefactor, Mr. R. M. Dyer, so much. The new ideas of to-day armed with an automatic pistol and to whom the school was greatly in- have value, of course: they empha-a dagger, did assault Leung Sik, debted and whose sense of sympa-size the dignity of labour, the shop keeper, and Lo Ping-chan thy and generosity had won for necessity for the proper treat-married woman, the Ilongkong and Whampoa Dock ment of workmen, and many im-ob." and was remanded for 48 Co. a host of loyal workers. The portant points of the kind: bat hours, committed suicide in a cell School was founded in 1922 and they have their dangers and you at Shamshuipo Police Station yes- taught voluntarily by members of must always remember two points terday shortly after noon.
It is understood that at about the Hop Ying Society, most of them when you deal with them, sunes of contractors and No. 1's.
Firstly, new ideas are as dan-112.30 p.m., this man, who At the end of every year some of gerous as unfamiliar tools. Un-named Au Yick, was found with a these voluntary teachers had to
less you thoroughly understand strip of blanket round his neck give up their posts for want of them in all their bearings, they dangling from a cross-bar in the time. Mr. Dyer was approached may do as much harm as a steam cell. A blanket was found tern into on the subject in 1928 and he hammer managed by a raw
ap- strips.
He was immediately taken down, readily lent the school a helpingprentice; and, secondly, nothing
The Dock Company will ever take the place of good but life was found to be almost ex immediately contributed a dona- hard work. You cannot eat and tinet. Efforts were made to tion of $600 annually and drink ideas, and they are only use-vive him but they were of no avail, Mr. Dyer himself provided fol by way of teaching you to work and he succumbed in a few minutes. $100 annually for the prizes of more efficiently. Learning to read the Day and Night Schools. The and to write and to figure will all school flourished and they had help in that way; but study of to-day, through Mr. Dyer's genero-any kind is better left alone if you sity, three teachers in actual em- ployment,
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only use it to tell everybody else he is wrong. Even reading and writing can be so misused.
Was
a tradition: even if the name by any chance becomes erased or the details of the history forgotten, it will still be remembered as a picture of an "Old master" and of one who always realised that the interests of his men and their families were identical with the interests of the Docks.
across
In addition to the School, Mr. Dyer treated the workmen kindly
Value of Education. and rendered. help whenever pos-
Mr. Dyer's object in helping and sible. A few years ago, owing to the scarcity of houses in the vici- encouraging this school, as we al nity of the Docks and to the high know, is to let the young families
Influence of the Docks. rental, Mr. Dyer at once built hun- of his workmen have a proper
Mr. Hallifax then unveiled the dreds of wooden houses and chary education with which to begin ed the workmen very reasonable their lives: whether that educa-portrait, following which, Mr. rent. Also, during the water tion is to be used or misused 15, Dyer, in returning thanks, said he shortage, Mr. Drer supplied men to imagine, a matter for the parents. had been interested in Engineer- open and maintain wells for them. But among children that have been ing education in the Far East ever since its infancy, which ex- Every year a matshed theatre properly educated and at the same was built to give performances to time properly trained by their tended back over 60 years; this. was in the life-time of the Dock! celebrate the birthday of the God-parents, you are going to find very dess of Mercy. The profits made few who are misguided enough to Co., it having been in existence from the performances were used think that they can better them before that period. The Dock Co. had been the pioneers in educat- to finance the vernacular schools. selves by making trouble-by en- Mr. Dyer always obtained per-couraging Communist views, for ing Chinese Engineers in Hong- or by fostering such tong, and one could find men who mission from the Government for instance, the erection of the matshed. The things as strikes. With a genuine had been trained in the Kowloon installing of the matshed theatrely sympathetic master such as you Dock all the way from Suez down to India, through the Straits, up with electric lights was formerly have here, fair treatment can be
to Hongkong, and even right done by the Electric Company and secured by peaceable means,' and
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San they were obliged to pay a great that is what his encouragement of sum but Mr. Dyer now undertook this School really means. If work-Francisco, to supply men to do the job and men know and understand we shall
He was always ready to further charged them $100, which amount have less of rash action such as education and took a great pride was not kept by him but contribut has been only too common dur in the Hop Ying Free School,
ing the last twenty years in which was founded principally for i ed to the Vernacular School fund.
As a tangible expression of their Hongkong.
the children of workers in the Dock. He expressed the wish that appreciation for his kindness and generosity, it was thought that a
the younger generation would take memorial should best take the
fall advantage of the tuition they form of a portrait to be hung in
would receive by attending the the school. The speaker express-
school, and hoped they would be a ed gratitude to Mr. Dyer for his
credit to their predecessors whe help to the school and for many
had not had the same privilege. other good works, too numerous to
He had been the means of carrying out numerous extensions at mention, which he had done. His presence with Mrs. Dyer and
Dock during the past few years, friends at the unveiling ceremony
and he trusted the coming genera- had given them great pleasure,
tion would reap the benefit of the concluded the speaker.
same in due course. It might be heresy to say so in the presence of the Colonial Secretary but he was a great believer in free education, and he hoped that in due course all education in the schools in the Colony would be free. In concluding, he said he would do what he could to help the Hop Ying Free School and was sure the members of the Hop Ying Society and the Committee of Kaifonga were fully alive to the benefits the children would derive from attendance at the school. He wished the school a long and successful career,
Mr. Chan then asked Mr. Halli- fax, on behalf of the Members of Hop Ying Society and the Com- mittee of Kaifongs, to unveil the portrait.
A Deserved Honour. Mr. Hallifax, said: I took a peculiar pleasure in accepting the invitation which was extended to me to come here and unveil this portrait to-day, as I saw in it an opportunity not only of doing honour to Mr. Dyer but of reveal ing a side of his character to which he himself would be the last to direct attention.
'.
But, Mr. Dyer goes further. He sees the advantage to workman and employer in the settled family life. It does not matter where you work, that place should be your permanent home, and it can only be that if you can live there in comfort, and comfort must in- clude facilities for looking after a family. This school is a great step in that direction, and should help him in his object to get fathers, sons and grandsons and more generations still to follow one another through the opening to life offered by employment in the Docks. Each generation should be better than the last and many workers will no doubt reach standard where they can break into a better field of employment than the Docks can afford to offer them: but they will still have to thank the Docks, as Mr. Dyer would like to see them run, for their original training which made promotion possible.
I like to think that this picture will stay in this School to become
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