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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY
1937. 13,
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School Mistresses Say End "Group Exam." System
SUGGEST EDUCATION CERTIFICATES INSTEAD
at
The annual conference of the As- sociation of Hend Mistresses Brighton recently voted for the abolition of the group system In the School Certineate examination, un- der which a candidate must 1nkc English, one language, arithmetic, and either science, mathematics, or geography with three other subjects.
the system
abolished,
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a candidate would have the freedom to take the examination in any five subjects.
Miss W. M. Casswell (Edgbaston! High School) said they found that
JUDGES ARE ANGRY
Because Whitehall Makes So
STRONG
PROTEST
EXPECTED
A REVOLT of the judges
against the making of laws by Whitehall is likely. Behind the scenes, D storm has been brewing for a long time.
It will probably be brought to really able but perhaps lopsided-In head by the Council of Judges pupils were meeting with Year after year they had the ex-presenting a
fallure.
essential
strongly worded
The question has been agara- vated by the recent publication
of another mass of legislation by regulation, and events relating to
It.
perience of the worthy hard work-protest to the Lord Chancellor. ing girl who just scraped through the examination, while the really in- telligent pupil, who might gan double the marks, failed to get # certificate beenuse of a bud per- formance in one of the groups.
One of the those events was "Surely the ident of our secondary unusual course talten by 50 M.P.S schools,"
she added, "should be to who signed a petition to the Minister harbour pupils showing n great of Transport praying that some of diversity of gifts, and to give them, his proposed regulations should be when they leave, a certificate show-annulled. ing that they had profited by that! education."
WHAT IT SHOWS
the
In the opinion of the judges--in which they are supported by eminent jurists and others such an incident shows the unconstitutional nature of the procedure by which a department exercises functions" approprinte
"OLYMPIAN HEIGHTS" Miss A. Catnach (Putucy Council School) said: "We are on Olympian heights so for as examinations are concered, for we have not had to face any for 20 or 30 years. Would we be so detached and Olymplan if Parliament alone. we still had to go on with examina- tions-1f, say, at the end of every term we had a report on our head
and it. mistress-ship,
Ave every years, we had to sit for an examina- tion, and found that we could go no further because we failed in one of five subjects?"
Miss M. S. Smith (Syden- ham High School) said it was the average and girl who suffered
boy
to
For nuny years, Lord Hewart, the Lord Chlef Justice, has inveighed against it.
There are now in force 210 Acts and Regulations governing -road transport The former are few in number; the vast majority of the laws are contained in re- gulations made by the Minister of Transport.
pages of They
cover GOO
close
most from the present system. Ifj print and contain 1,775 sections and they could get away entirely from 1518 sub-sections. They create some the schoul certificate examination thing like 2,000 criminal offences to she thought they might hope to see which motorists and those engaged a right emphasis in education and in the motoring business are liable. In consequence a life with a better balance.
FINES
Miss E. A. Jones (Clapham Coun-;
358,325 motorists
ty Secondary School), mentioned that Last year, in respect of
those the Civil Service Commissioners had offences, said that they were getting a better fined £441,450: 134,427 were warned
of girl than they needed for the by the police, and (in lower grade work of the Civil Ser-those who made default in
their fines) 435 were sent to
type
Vice
not
were
addition to paying prison
those
nu
"The remedy, unfortunately, does "without the option."
ile oftogether in our banda," sald It is the emphatic view of Miss Jones, "because we have to concerned in the protest that contend against the anxiety of Minister should be given power the parents to place their girls within exercise of which affects the liberty the safe sheller, as they think, of the of the subject; and that any authority Government service, in the bellef to make regulations should be strictly that a broad path of promotion lies limited to matters of administrative before them."
routing.
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MICKEY STEPS OUT—Crown Prince Michael of Rumania, as ho arrived in Warsaw, Poland, for a series of state receptions, Embarrassment followed when it was learned his biggage had been misplaced. Instead of wearing a brilliant uniform here he reviews Polish troops in a sack suit. Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck, right, and General Gluchowski, left.
OUR GUIDE TO THE
CINEMAS
Many Laws
NO PAY FOR THE PEERS
During discussion in the House of Lords last month of the ministers of the Crown Bill Lord Salisbury asked why was
It laid down that the Prime
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First Lord of the Treasury.
The Lord Chancellor said the unit- ing of the offices of Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury was carefully considered by the Cabinet and the Dill embodied their decision. "But," he added, "this does not, In fact, deprive members of the House
frem of
Prime Lords
being Ministers."
ONLY ONE EXCEPTION
asked why the
Lord Salisbury
Government had arrived at the con- clusion that the Prime Minister should always be the First Lord of the Treasury.
Lord Hailsham: With one exception Prime during the past century the Minister had always been First Lord. Secondly, the Prime Minister ought to be the head of the Treasury.
asked why Lord Mottistonc Leader of the Opposition should be debarred from the House of Lords.
THE DIFFERENCE
the
Lord Hailsham: We have not de- barred anybody in this House from being Leader of the Opposition, but what we have debarred them from is the receipt of a salary as Leader of the Opposition..
Lord Mattistone: Why?
Lord Hailsham: Because in this
"Under The Bed Robe" (Queen's) story is translated with tremendous House all of us give our services free. Theatre, to-day).High class pre- verve, and finely modulated studies In the House of Commons it so hap- do not give their sentation of a finely dramatic story. are given by Barbara Stanwyck, pens that they
In the House of Com- Distinguished performance by Con- Preston Foster and Una O'Conner, services free. rad Veidt, weil supported by a clever the latter being remembered for her mons, be added, the Leader of the
work in "Cavalcade",
Opposition performed dieuit and cast.
arduous duties which did not exist in the House of Lords,
The Bill was read a second time,
"Night Must Fall" (King's Theatre, "Maytime" (Majestie Theatre, to- day).Tuneful, amusing, romantic, to-day)-Emlyn Williams' macabre the play, concerned chiefly with strange: this picture is "lops" among Jeanette MacDonald-Eddy Nelson psychological studies. Presented on
an the screen with great power output. It is spectacular. has
very finely vision, though at times inclined to engaging story and is
rag Robert Montgomery gives an WHEN acted by a strong cast.
outstanding performance, und both
and
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AQUARIUM SOCIETY
TO-MORROW'S MEETING AT SOUTH CHINA NURSERY
The next meeting of the Hong-
them a little encouragement.
This, in effect, was the advice given by Dr. T. Drummond Shiels when dis- cussing the art of courtship at the summer school of the British Social Hygiene Council at Friends House, Euston Rond, recently.
"There is no doubt," he said, "that
kong Aquarium Society will be held there have been cases where a shy at 5.15 p.m. to-morrow at the Southman, who was very much attracted to China Nursery, East Point Hill.
a girl, would have been greatly help-
more frankness and
Mr. Fan the proprietor and a led by a little meirer of the Sacuty has the most honesty on the part of the girl. intergtin & and by for the largest, calicetion of tropical fishes in Ilous ventiunul ideas, a woman, if she is "But very often, owing to her con- kong. The lon Secretary will attracted to conduet the meeting and give a short being particularly disagreeable to him man, makes a point of talk on each species of fish to be
seen. It is hoped that all members, for fear that he should think she is
(Laughter.) especially those who are beginners, running after him.
will attend as they will see tanks "Nevertheless; aby men in matters of tropical fishes with beautiful of love need encouragement. and
plants seldom seen in Hongkong be-women should not be thought un- fore. Each of the hundred or 50 maidenly for giving them this en- tanks will be an abject lesson to the couragement within limits. of aquarist who wishes to have a neat course." (Renewed laughter.} tank with crystal clear water, de- lightfully green plants and healthy Ashes.
Non-members are welcome.
Dr. Drummond Shiels urged that chivalry should be encouraged in the training of boys.
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Two Irish judges found themselves in much the same predicament as Solomon recently in disputes over the custody of children.
At Dublin, Mr. Justice Hanná ordered the committal to prison of a 60-years-old grandmother, Mrs. Bridget Cummins, of Garnish, County Cork, because she failed to hand over her eight-years-old granddaughter Maureen to the child's father, Mr. C. B. Earle, of Calcutta.
The father, in an affidavit, illaer on the way from the United anid that he married Mrs. Gum-¡States to Ireland. The mother, Mrs. mins's daughter in 1927 and that Owen Waters, of Brooklyn, New his wife took their child without | York, It was sold, had not wished to his knowledge to Ireland from risk the henith of her child and had Calcutta. Ho left India in left the baby with her sister, Mrs. search of his daughter and Mary Ritchie, of Bangor, Ulșter. found her with the grandmother,
When the parents wished to take who refused to give the child to the girl back to New York last year, him.
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