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He said be was told that the aduen- tion given, to British children was se good as that given in the schools at home, and, in any case, thoy were getting more per head spent on their education than they were entitled to when the paroontage of taxation paid by the British and

MR. LITTLE'S VIEWS. Chinese communities was taken in Chinese General Chamber of Com Mr. Id Fo-kwai, chairman of the consideration. (I am afraid this marce, at a meeting of the com- in which the plaintiff, Wong Hong same view, is taken by most mittes yesterday afternoon, men Shing-tong alleges undervaluation The Chinese partnership dispats Governora). Considering this to be tioned that the Hon. Mr. H. E. of property sold by defondant. Au a most unsatisfactory answer to our Pollock, K.C... Chairman of the Man hit, manager of the Yue Tok petition, I wrote to His Excellency Housing Commission, had written, Firma, furnished a further discus end pointed out that he had been misinformed as to the education to the Chamber inviting suggestions sion on the market values of pro- given, and requested an interview.anent the bousing problem. Mr. porty, when the hearing was con I was asked to interview the Direc. i thought that the most feasible tinued before the Chief Justice (Bis tor of Education (Mr. J. R. Wood scheme would be to appoint a quali- William Rees Davies, K.C.) at the was then acting), which I did, tak-dub-committes to go into the Supreme Court yesterday. ing another gentleman who was also should comprise members fully con-pute over certain property which question. The sub-committee Plaintiff and defendant are in dis- interested in the subject with me vermut with house-building. the result being that a properly After some discussion, the follow-which he claims was worth $55,000. defendant sold for $34,000 and be spent on education to enable from home and is now Flendaising were alected to serve on the sub-e is asking that the share which British children to compete with tross, and a mastor installed in committee:Merang. Ti Sui-kuta, should have thug been realised from Germans, and it is high time that temporary quarters, as an experi-o Wah-tong, Fok Ta-kai, Fu Yik- the gale, bo given to him. not only the local Government, but ment, for the older boys. This has ping, Chan Harr, Li Yau-chuen and

The chief witness" yesterday was the heads af firms and, in fact, now become a permanent arrange the Building Contractors Associs Mesure. Littlo Adams & Wood, the chairman, and vico-chairman of Mr. Colburu Little, of the firm of every Briton, came to recognise the ment, the boys' school being held in tion. MR. D. L. FROST'S PIONEen wonk, fact that the best education possible what was formerly the Headmas

should be available for the British ter's house.

Mr. Ip Lan-chuan, the Cham- Examined by Mr. Eldon Potter, show that the highest market price

architects and civil engineers. the sales before January 11, 1021, LATEST SHIPPING NEWS. children of the Colony.

On inany occasions I have inter.ber's secretary, expressed the opin counsel for the plaintiff, is enti is $30,500 for two houses? After reading the findings of the This I think, could be best viewed both the Director of Educk-ion that though the standardisation mated the value of the property in

ARHIVALS. report regarding the education of tral school for all British children, and on some occasions have boension might reduce the cost of build-that sales of a similar class of neigh-that, none of those sules are within Canton-C39.

Mr. am to Education Ecard Sub-Committee's brought about by having one Cen- tion and the Inspector of Schools, scheme suggested by the commis- dispute at $50,000. He considered accopt that, but I uro prepared t Prosper, Fok Tai Cheong) from will read with special interest the about the same number of teachers which were under consideration, the Government to build houses and period gave a fair index of the: Mr. Jenkins of the sale89.

ing, the real solution would be for following letters from Mr. B. L. as are at present-on the staff of the and I must say that the suggestions, let them at cheap rentals. A house market price. Mr. Little gave the sale of those particular houses in! Frost published locally some con- Victoria or Kowloon schoolu. But given have been in soine cases acted costing four or five thousand dollars following sales of similar property 1921 at a figure of .$34,000, was, ai

the teaching staff must be properly upon. These opinions were gener-lo erect could be let to bring in alia the same street. House number fraudulently gross undervalue 2-

ally given after consultation with return of six per sent, and tenants und was gold in December, 1902, for would pay less than they did now $24,500; house number 13 in other interested parents. British, schools are passed me guns devoted to read-making used Deceber, 1021, for $25,000; house, What you at that the defen-

Many of the questions concerning He would like to see n part of the

number 21 in July, 1922, for dant aliould have employed a broker owing to the fact that the Director instead for building houses,

$26,500; house number 27 into, dispose of the property? At the present innment there is of Education, owing to his other

March, 1921, for $21,000, and should certainly have unployed ja site which is admirably suited for duties, has little time for matters

half share of house number 41 in broker. The purpose, viz., the old German in connection with the Education Are all other subjects so well

July, 1022, for $18,000. This gave #Club. But the Government will Department, and the Inspector of taught that they do not require con-way-It is out of the question, we Schools, having more than 100 have no money for such a place." Chinese schools to look after, has Whether, if a proper system of Supposing they have not, is it not no time to devote to the British teaching was adopted in all the in the interests of the British firms schools, and he has frankly admitted sehools, British and Chinese alike, in the Colony to provide such to me that the Chinese schools come the number of subjects might be school for their own flesh and blood, Orst i increased instead of reduced?

and if they caing-forward and offer.. In the early part of 1917 I wrote With regard to the teaching fed the building, could the Govern a letter to the papers under a "noy}{ English in the British schools, it is

siderable time ago :---

CENTRAL SCHOOL

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In the first, dated April 24, 1917,

Mr. Frost asked:-

1s the teaching of Englishs British schools no perfect that does not require looking into?

Hideration?

in

it!

qualified, and if such teachers were provided, together with the Univer- ity, there would be little reason for many of the to send our childrer Home by be educated.

to

COMIC CARICATURE.

THE THREE MUST-GET-

THERES."

see his own figure comically dis.

It takes a very dour person indeed torted in one of those crooked. mirrons and refrain from smiling at

50,000 at that time.

Witness: I say the value was

You perhaps do not know that he

an average price of $24.500. If two did?-It is not up to me to know houses were sold together, one as a what he did. shop and the other as a godown, as in the present cas, it was only realed $17,000 for that property' and If he employed a broker and ask- $1,000. This would give au aver Isonable to expect to get another

eventually got $34,000, would you

nge of $25,000 per house.

AVERAGING SALES. Mr. Eldon Patter: You have

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Suaning, (B. & S.) from Canton. Kiangsu, (B. &S) from Bangkok, Swatow.-BII.

Kucichow, (B. & S.) from Tien- tsia, Wei Hai Wei-C34.

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Van Vollenhoven, (Kai Yu) frum Haiphong, Hoihow. C45 from Saigon.-B56.

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Bangkok, Swatow-C37.

Yat Shing, J., M. & Co.) from

Malay Manu, (0. S. K.) from Osaka, Moji-Kowloon Wharf. Canton.-C46

Englee, (Yee Tai Hong) from

Singapore-Kowloon Wharf. Shantung, (B: &,S.) from Shang- hai.B12.

Benmohr, (Gibb Liv.) from 'Lon

say that the sale was at a fraude-don, lently gross undervalue?-I have not said that yet...

Would you say so?-I am only

the opinion of many of the parents/ent then reftise, lo supply an ade-fde plunze," on this subject. the absurdity of it. And it would been informed, and no doubt you here to say what the value is. that, to say the least of it, it is not quale and properly qualified teach-kpointed out what were considered take a much bigger effort of mind have read it in the papers, that Mr. | good. The children are not bughty staff? I think not, especially if by many of us to be the principal caricature of the Fairbanks filmat $15,000 each. Would you call not expected to indulge in flower

ary.

every British parent demanded it points of weakness in the present

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very well.

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Witness: Property in 1022 was worth a little inore. Properties in prove every year. In other words the value of the property was loss in 1921 than in 1923.

Tsurugisan Maru, (M. B. K.) from Miike.--B50.

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to keep from laughing at the comiH. W. Bird has valued these honges

The Chief Justice: I think that is, a fair answer. The witness is the roots or derivatious of words as a right, and it is time the British syster, or want of system, and ven-version of The Three Musketeers"

that the market valuation or the of rhetoric as to fraudulent inten nor are they taught-to-use-a-diction-munity had some right in the tured to auggest that the only way which the Coronet-management are security valuation were went up for the senior at Colony. This proposition has been out of the difficulty was by estul).showing this week under the title, Witness: 1 cannot answer that)tions. He gives you his opinion as |

Some of the children wit

to what the property is worth. junior university examinations haul criticised as cburity, but I fail to see lishing a Central School such as the of "Tho Three Must-get-theres.

Fooksang, J.M. & Co.) for where

it, comnes in. Was it charity Director of Education mentions in As Douglas Fairbanks did in his not the faintest iden of the meaning to give large sums of money to build his report, and begged the heads of picture. Mas Tander takes the bulk-No, I do not agree with his vahua-witness still hold that the real value

Do you agree with his valuation? In reply to further questions the Calcutta, Singapore.-April 12.

Oostkerk, U.C.JL) for Yoko. of words which they were using in the University? If it was not, and the wealthy firms to come forward of the "business upon his capable tion.

of the property was $60,000. He hama, Shanghai.April 12, every day conversation.

I have never heard it said that it with their money to help this course shudens in this absurd burlesque. Is your own figure of $50, pointed out that many Chinese pro- Englee, (Yee Tai Hong) for As regards other subjects, take was, why should this propnest be by securing the old German Chab One of the most thrilling us based on what you consider to be perty buyers were satisfied with a

Foochow April. f2. geometry. Is it conceivable that charity either?.

for a Central School for British the one in which, after a des the market value at that time?low rate of interest on account of

Chipshing, U. M. & Co.) for Can→ geometry could be taught or learned I trust that every Briton in this children, pointing out how it would perate duel, he “crowns" Berna Res.

the position of the premises. They:

ton.April 13. by anyone, unters the problem Colony will give this matter his eventually be to the benefit of the x, the Duke's expert swords- wore worked out on paper, and yet,earbest consideration, especially the firms theinselves if this were dos malt, with

In cross-examination by Mr. got their profits from the business Malay Maru, (O. S. K.) for Cal- to my certain knowledge, the heads of firms, who, by putting up

soda water bottle.j F. C. denkin, counsel for the defen- that the property in 1991 was worth hai April 13.

The Chief Justice: Mr. Bird spitsutta, Singapore--April 13. I went on furlough soon after and

Bejmohr, (Gibb Liv.) for Shang- attempt has been made in one of the money for such a school, would was away nearly a year and cums

dant, Mr. Little said he was aware the schools, and was carried out do so not as a gift, but on an invest-back to find that instead of the

COUSIN. KATE,"··

Do yuli that charges of having frullently no more than in 1929. natil 1 complaint was maenent, as they would then be able. British community having cocured

sold the property at a gross under agree? about it.

value on January 11, 1921, had In arithmetic, sums we worked and women of the Colony, as they bad, with a substantial grant for

later on, to draw on the young men the premises, the Christian Brothers ALICE JOYCE'S ACHIEVE been made against the defendant.

MENT, out in the class and homework have been forced to do more or less alterations, etc.!

Mr. Jenkin: You will therefore books and the scholars were not lately, young men and women who

agree with me that you must judge In the report of the Director of allowed to put down the questions. would be well educated, used to the Education he says:Speaking of display of her dramatic power and market on that date?

Remarkable opportunities for the his conduct by the position of the

The witness painted out, in reply as it was considered to be waste of climate and to the local language, the conditions governing the British the rare chart of manner which Withean: Yes,

to further questions, that there was time, so that, unless the sims were and gonditions. How much better schools, they are adversely affected have made her a prime favourite One of the methods of arriving at big demand for property in this very simple neither the subolars; would they now be served had such by climatic conditions, which makes among "movie" pairs the world the market value of the property, basis was a generous basis for pro particular vicinity. A six per cent, ner anyone else, could tell what the conditions prevailed in the past. the attendance low in the summer over are provided for Alice Joyce, the witness said, was to take the working meant without referring to.

months and which lowers the the beautiful young Vitagraph star, actual sales over a period and strike Perty of this kind. In buying pre- the arithmetic book." I wonder

stasuina and therefore the mental in the title role of Cousin Kate an average. The witness was quite mises for his own use a Chinese what help sa engineer or architect

powers of the children who remain a file version of which is being prepared to accept Mr. Jenkin's hardly ever considered the percent- would get from a notebook if be Mr. Frost's second letter is dated in attendance." simply put down the working of the Septuinber 3, 1918-A "one who

shown at the Star Theatre, Kow- auggestion that no-sales of similar age he was likely to get from it Whilst not going so far as to say. loon, this week, problems which occur in his work has taken the greatest interest in that there is no effect on both chif- The play deals with a triangular during the years 1919 and 1920.

property in the vicinity took place He was content with the profits Ec

would make on the business thore. without knowing very clearly what education, especially the education dren and adults in the summer romance although it was noted at Mr. Jenkin suggested that the The Chief Justice Mr. Bird the working referral to? In my of British children, in Hongkong, months, I contend that such effect the time of its first stage presenta- only way to find the market value says that it should be purely a, com- opinion, a scholar's exercise books for the past seven years,' is greatly exaggerated both by the tion that it made a departure of the was to take the sales before the pro-mercial transaction. In the sale of should take the place of an engi. Frost referted to some remarks on Director of Education and by any obvious and tine-worn love triangle perty in question was disposed of or property you should consider what neer's notebook, so that he could the subject made by the Hon. Mr.of the parents themselves. Many forming the basis of more conven- January 11, 1921.

return you are likely to get upon it. Pollock at a meeting of the Legisla-parents who consider that the wea- tional pieces. In the title role Mire Mr. Little replied that he had You say that the property' in ques tive Council, and then added ther is far too trying for their Joree appears as a novelist who, taken the only sales he had been tion Ins enhanced in value owing

Mr. Potter pointed out that there overar has promised to look into home work, allow them to go to the love stories, fully runs into a real time. The fact that His Excellency the children to go to reboot or do their after publishing several successful able to discover within a reasonable to its surroundings, and although

you get a smaller return on the were hundreds and thousands of the matter is niso n hopeful sign, ciems of an afternoon or evening love story in her workaday exist

capital you get it out of the busi- properties in the Colony which were ence. It is something of a new role Mr. Jenkin. Take any computa-ness. The two propositions are not bought for the purposes of hours or more in a foetid atmos

investment: * here, seeing pictures which are admirably in it.

The witness agreed.

! The cane Nas adjourned. often, in my opinion, not fit for thoir elders to see.

refer back and see what he had been doing previously.

These, and many other example-

which I could give, go to show the

necessity for an all-round enquiry

STILL POINTED.

Mr.

UNDERVALUND?

into the subject of education in the and I trust that, in view of that sturing the aurumor and sit out for her and she acquits hemelf tion you like, you will find that entirely different.

Colony.

fact, Mr. Polluck has arranged that

I would now tuuch on the reasons his loci tenous," Mr. Bird, wilt

for what I have ahrady slated.

not let the multe drop during his

One of the excuses put forward absence.

as the cause of the backwartinces of His Excellency'a "inherent My two children attended Kow far away for any of them. There' the pupila in the British schools, objection" to committees is possibly on British School for five yeais, arc, the difficulty of teaching children due to his having to deal with large summer and wintor, without miss travelling fron Kennedy Town to or were, overal children who are so widely different in theis ones; but surely is Excellency ing a single attendance, did their Causeway Bay to school, in all wea. standard of knowledge, and yet cannot doubt that the requirements homework, passed the Junior and there and all tines of the year, or 30 years ago it was quite a com-of the children of different sections Senior University Examinations some of thein being less than eight mon thing for one master to teach of the British community (by see and were both head of their school. years old. Many children in the a school of 50 boys, whose agus tions I incant residential sections) Neither of them had a day's illness of country have miles to walk in ranged from 6 to 17, and still give could be better explained by parents in that time. They are no different all wenfiers, summer and winter, them a good education. Is it not of each section, than by the Director from other children who are treated and under far more trying eircum the system that is bad?

of Education or the Inspector of With cosse methods as to stances than any child has to face Again, there are very few persons Schools, who are only able to get how their time is occupied that take any interest in British their information indirectly, such "As regards the higher classes anderkind that the Govern schools, including the parents, inforntion being offen of a very owing to the small number attend of opening another branch Britali even more serious disability is found ment le considering the advisability One of our unofficial members of conflicting character, the Legislative Council did not I will give a few of my experi-ing, etc. This would be entirely School, but I trust that before this know until recently where theses as well as of any views on this done away with by having a Cons done His Excellepey will have schools were! The schools are subject.→

the time to go, thoroughly into the seldom, if evey, visited by anyone' On returning to the Colony in That suggestion is frequently subject and not diedain to get the whose interest would tend to give February, 1911, 1 brought hinek twee, but without regard to the views of some of those most con- the teachiens the proper enthusiasm of my children of school age, and difficulties." for their work, whereas these same being a firm believer that British

cerned, viz., the parents. Tho difficulties, the same as the What is wanted. is co-operation persons have plenty of time to give parents should get their children linuatic conditions, are also greatly between the whole of the British

tra! School.

Take Care of Yourself.

here.

to the foreign schools. How many British schools, I sent them to exaggerated. For children of eight community in the matter, whether times has the Director of Education Kowloon British School.

years of age and over, school they have children in the Colony or been into the British schools, or uby Not being satisfied with the situated in the neighbourhood of the not, or whether they live at the other school for the matter of that education given. (I did it, blame old Gorman Clubs would not be to Peak Kowloon, Kennedy Town or during the past three years? un

elsewhere, co-operation between the yet the colony is paying him £1,600 the teachers), in conjunction with

teachers and parents as well.. Barely- year at least, and for what?me of the other parents I got up

this is not too much to ask, especí Nothing! Does not that require petition to the then Governor,. Sir Froderick Lugard, giving our viswa looking into also?

If you want a clear head and good ally with the great lessons of the There are three British schools in on the subject and making that soupe dicatim you must not let you howels war before us. We should see that thing be done to give British chil become anvend with poisonous waste every British child is able to gët, the Colony, not counting the mill arou a chance of as good on cues from the body, as is always the cas in the Colony, as good an education fary school having a total of 15

when you become constipata 1. - Prop,♬ asters and mistresses to about 150tion as that of the Asiatics resident food, an's undation of water and plenty as a Chinese coolie a child can get, of outdoor exercise abooid. kaap your which is not now the chee, as they children on average of 10 scholars to in the Colony,

The petition was sent in in August, bowels reculars When that all too can go to a Chinen preparatory teacher, and yet the education but beyond a formal acknowledge should take Chaubarista e blets Babooty teen's College unt cording to recent cables, the ment no answer; was given until /* hay ounso a genial movement of the University; if the parents can pró”

beweis and are easy and plassent to Gereration has come to the November, when His Excellency for male by fil Choma kod vide the money and the child has Mon Coby HATE money must alluded to it in his Budget speech, Staickers

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