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EDUCATION,
All too seldom do we get such an outspoken and well-reasoned dis-i serintion on the Colony's educa- tional shortcomings as those which were voiced yesterday by the Head- master of Queen's Culleze.. Mr. de
DAY BY DAY
HAVEN'T YOU DISCOVERED THAT
WOMEN KNOW BY INSTINCT WHAT MEN THEY CAN MAKE FOOLS OF, AND THEY ONLY TRY THEIR ARTH, ON THEM?-W. S. Maughan.
The Empress of Canada ià duo here at 8.30 am. to-morrow and will
berth at Pier No. 5 Kowloon Wharf.
FLYING IN 1931.
By Major OLIVER STEWART.
Faster-Farther-Safer.
VIATION is, as it were, the machines is not maximum
His Excellency the Governor hos A Secretary of State for Speed of only about high, a max
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of the basic constituents of a sound education. That much accomplish- ed, the brighter lads who wish to enter the University can, as Mr. de Rome anys, later proceed to Matri- culation in special subjects, A ́ro- form of the existing system on some such: lines as those appears to be Imperative if the aims of educa- tion are to be realised. The selec- tlow of promising students for the been pleased to appoint Captain M.
J. Reidy, M.R.C.V.S., to act as Co- ple want to know about flying dur-But these machines will upper schools in another point, as lonial Verterinary Surgeon. Ing 1931 is the probable progress oconomical in running costs, and
that will be mado in speed. The will convey ench paasonger at nothing whatever is to be gained
The ms. Talwin (With, Wilhelm-Schneider Trophy race, which fuel consumption of about 40 miles. by taking in pupils who are unliko-sen) left Singapore on the 6th and should be flown in September in to the gallon, or about the rate of ly to make good.
la due here on the 12th inst. with British waters, will show how far the lightest, light enra.
constructors have advanced since Despite the constant reiteration cargo from Norway and Porta.
1920.
With the introduction
of the of the fact that examinations are His Excellency the Governor has It was then won at the average heavy oil engines, which are now be-al or the end-all of appointed Dr. A. R. S. D. McEiney, of 128 miles an hour. This, it approaching the practical stage, not the
to be a Member of the Midwives will be remembered, is not a freak further economies in running costs education, so much of the Colony's Board, vico Dr. Agnes L. G. Dovey, speed over a short, straight course, will be effected. The heavy oil or education has been based on this resigned.
but the average of sustained Aying compression Ignition engine not over a course more than 200 miles only burns less fuel than the petrol for misapprehension. Cramming
His Excellency the Governor has long and containing some 28 sharp engine, but it also burns a fuel results has been all too obvious. appainted Mr. E. W. Hamilton to act corners,
which costs less to buy. It has the may be tong District Officer in the Southern This year the race, if it taken additional advantage that its fuel The immediate effect
District of the New Territorica in place under normal conditions, will is rather less easily set on fr give some doubtful glory to the addition to his other duties. probably bo won at more than 350 than petrol. It may not repince achools which adopt this policy, but
miles an hour. The speed record, the petrol engine in the smallor A bankruptcy notification states which is made over a 3 kilometres (short-distance alreraft, but it far from conferring any Insting that a first and final dividend of straight course, is now 357.7 miles likely to do no in the long benefit on the student, such $13.50 per cent, has been declared an hour. Before the end of 1931 commercial machines.
in the case of the Kwong Shing It will be more than 400 miles an
in increasing the safety of air methods are likely to have an Cheong firm, of 8, Wing Wo Street hour; a respectable speed, but by transport, the chief effort will be posite result. For the lad who does and 4, French Street.
no means terminal.
along the lines of improved •ór- not intend to specialise in his life's
ganisation and, in the machine it- At the time of the last Schneider self, better control, the retention work, nothing can be better than been pleased to recognise, provision. Trophy race, just after it had been of a low landing speed, and im- a sound primary education. If he ally and pending instructions from won at a speed which astonished proved view for the pilot to re- can give evidence that he has re-the Secretary of State for the Co-the world, I spoke to Mr. Mitchell duce collision risks, It may be loales, Mr. J. Jose Sallas as in and Mr. Folland, the two British that parachutes will be adopted on ceived such a grounding, he would charge of the Consulate General for designers who have been respon-the commercial-lines.
able for a series of the fastest man.. prove of far greater value to his Pern in Hongkong.
Aviation Is unfortunate in that carrying craft of any kind ever pro- its accidents are often spectacu future employer and make a better
Malicious damage to the front duced. They both told me that they lar and that they sometimes claim ancoran of his life than many au- tyres of a motor lorry belonging to were dissatisfied with the resulta more public attention than the cir other who has been forced through the Ying Sang Tai shop, of Shatau and, when asked the reason, they cumstances warrant.
You may number of examinations for the sake of being kok, was reported to the police hy nld that it was simply that their crush quite a large
foli yesterday. It was stated aircraft
were not nearly fast people to death in a charabanc able to say that he has matriculated.that the vehicle had been loft out enough. They could see, with the ex-without attracting undue atten- Not only here in Hongkong, but Inside the premises on the evening of perience of the race behind them, tion; but if two people fall out of
February. 4.
many ways in which their machines England as well, the constant com.
could be improved. The curve of an aeroplane, there is a great deal.
of excitement. Tenders are being invited for the progress has not yet begun to fall plaint of employers is that it is ex-
The spectacle of two people fall- reinstatement of the wall at Jar-off in flying. tremely difficult to get. Ind
dine'a Corner, Peak, The work We shall not only go faster inng from a great height fa undani- straight frem school who can con- comprises the taking down of the 1931 but we shall also go fartherably interesting; but it is atruct an ordinary sentence or existing lime and cement concrete The distance record non-stop is now remembered that there are many wall with rabbie facework and 4,912 miles. By the end of the other ways of getting killed and make a relatively simple arithmeti-rebuilding in cement concrete year it will be more than 6,000 that pieces of banana skin are Rume squarely faced the realities cat calculation this often in the with rubble facework for a length miles. We shall also go higher. But almost certainly responsible for in his observations on the examina-
case of boys who have gone through of 30 feel, together with any con- in the attainment of great heights more deaths than aeroplanes.
It is not even on account of there has lately been a lack of etheir danger that we shall give tlagent works, tion problem, having no difficulty
a secondary school. Admittedly,
thusiasm which may be attributed Blessed City (Bairstow) Westminster Special Choir | in delving home his point that to
we want something more from A report has been made to the to the belief that, at the moment,p airships. It is merely because Blessed City Part 2.
pelice by LJ Ping-cheung, master of speed and distance are of greater the work of the airship can be done pl atudents in for the Matricula-
education than ability to write the Fa Sheung Knitting Factory of value. When, for some reason, we better and more cheaply by the tion after three years in a seniorenherently or to do sums correctly, 197, Kilung Street, Shanshuipo, desire to go above 43,000ft., which aeroplane. The airship experi school is unduly forcing the pace. but if these essentials are lacking, that his sou, Li Cheung, took a mais the present record, we shall do mont was costly; but if it sorves concentrate offort on the Apart from the attempting of the it is certain that the tuition given he was having it repaired.
chine valued at $650, stating that 80. But there are other things of to
The more immediate importance. heavier-than-air craft it will have almust impossible, there is the fur-has failed in important" respects.
machine, however, was in
Progress will also be made in been worth while. good ther point that the students are
working order and the son has not economy; but when considering Mr. C. R. Fairey, reviewing the returned since,
economy it is as well to decide at growth of aviation at the Royal left in what Mr. de Rome aptly de-
once whether it is economy in time Aeronautical Society the other day, scribes as mental muddle. What
or in money that is desired. If said that to-day the world's civil- is worse still is the disappointment The Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, the property of Lending Stoker reduction in the monetary cost of air route milenges amounted to caused to teachers, students and the Attorney General, in moving H. K. Hawkins, of H. M. Submarine travel is the aim then aircraft can nearly 200,000,000 miles, and that Oswald, a Chinese was sentenced to not give it. But the barge and over half million passengers, parents alike when it is found that the first reading of the Estate four weeks' hard labour by Mr. Wil the bath-chair can. The barge nearly 10,000 tons of goods, and so few of the entrants ever succeedly Bill, appealed for sympathe-liams at the Central Police Court and the bath-chair are both much nearly 5,000 tons of mail
the understanding of his difficul this morning. It was stated by cheaper to ran than the acroplane carried annually on scheduled The tremendous waste of effort in-ties, but made no serious attempt Detective Sergeant Lamont that the and are likely to remain so.
Those whose chief concorn. in re. to defend the new schedule. defendant was searched as he was volved needs no stressing. Happily. True, as we have already pointed casing the Naval Yard and the duction in the cost of travel, there-ndustry is capitalised at scarly
knife was found on him. In-fore, are recommended to travel by the evils are recognised, for, con-out, the duty on estates between vestigations revealed that it had barge. As Mr. C. C. Walker lines alone that are to be consi- vlowed that there is something $1.000 and $5,000 has been reduced been stolen from H.M., Subraarine pointed out, the barge offers the
cheapest form of transport perdered. Private flying gives more radically amiss with the system, His from two to one per cent.: true. Oswald.
ton-mile available. City men who notable signs of health and high Excellency the Governor has de-again, the duty on estates between
travel daily to and from their spirits than any other branch of cided that the whole question shall $5,000 and $25,000 remains as duty at such high figures, but it offices by large along the Thames aviation. There are now 44 light before. But that does not alter is to such windfalls that a British will save large sums of money. aeroplane clubs, the majority be investigated in the light of such the fact that the duty is just as Chancellor looks for relief when time as being of more use to them while the number of private owner Some people, however, rogard unsubsidised, and 69 gliding clubs, criticisms as the Colony's education high as that prevailing in Greal a Budget deficit looms large. Athan money, and for these the is about: 900, and will increase experts may feel inclined to ad-Britain to-day, if the dollars are Hongkong state of $5,000,000, motor-car and the aircraft are of rapidly in the Spring.
We hope that in this in-converted at 2/-, while the in-should be required to pay duty of value. On the foreign air trans- quiry the scholastic profession will crease recommended in respect of more than 12 per cent, just as dozen passengers will soon be a typical example, flow 1,268 hours port lines machines carrying a The Cinque Ports Club, to take of $500 should not be not be overlooked, for we should like estates between $25.000 and $50,- estate
000 contemplates the payment of mulcted at all. There is a sus-fam
cruising at more than 150 miles last year, and trained 37 now pilots to feel that men like Mr. de Rome, death duty by Hongkong residentspicion that a guiding principle in cruising at more than 120 miles are holding back private flying. One hour-already they are during the period. Only two things who have clear-cut idens on the 3 per cent. in excess of that re- the arrangement of the schedule an hour,
is the lack of aerodromes and the issues and who are not cranks, will quired of estates of similar value has been the profusion of small Our own company has been another is the Air Ministry's nursery be given an opportunity of putting | fat a 27-dollar) in Britain. From estates as compared with larger it has neglected speed, and in this cording to the latest information as obsessed with paying load that governess attitude towards it. Ac- that point, the rates grow lower If this is so, it would appear to it has resembled the barge travel-to permanent establishments there forward their views.
Some little time ago,
and lower in proportion to Mr.be grossly unfair. In com-
(Continued on Page 7.). Snowden's schedule, wherein lies menting on the Matriculation ex-
enuse for strong criticism. We amination results, we emphasised dislike the necessity of repenting the value of a good grounding in fourselves, but we cannot fathon; primary subjects, suggesting that the reasoning which would justify for the great majority of school high rates on small estates and
on the children in this Colony this was the low rates
bigger. Mr. Inniu essential. Give them that, Alabaster says he will welcome,
regarding suggestiona we remarked, and they would go out clauses of the BIL He does into the world suficiently equipped not express willingness to ex- for the life which lies ahead oftend a similar welcome to pro- Į them--possibly better equipped, pusals regarding the schedule, for all practical purposes, than which from the public, viewpoint they would be by dabbling in subs the most important feature of the Bill." He appears, in- jects of which they could not hope
eldentally, to be wrongly In- to secure a really good grasp. The formed regarding the datles im- oyer-emphasis on secondary educa- | posed in Britain. He places the tion which has been too long ap-.maximum at 40 por
cont. The parent in Hongkong, and the maximum, applying to estates In anxiety to rush: students through excess of £2,000,000 in fifty per for Matriculation, has resulted in cent. In this connexion, we see why the Hongkong so much disappointment that it is schedule should stop at $2,000,000. high time there was more concen-It should go on, up to seven, eight- tration on essentints. We are glador nine millions, with atendy in- to see that Mr. de Rome favours the creases in the rates per cent. at replacement of the Matriculation which duty is to be paid. It may examination by a School Leaving few estates assessable for estate be quite true that there will bo Certificate examination, in which
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