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School inspections and the teaching of Portuguese were among the subjects discussed at yesterday afternoon's meeting of the Educa- tion Board. The Director of Educa- tion (the Hon. Mr. E. Irving) presid ed and there were also present the Rev. T. W. Pearce, the Rev. Fr. H. Valtorta, Mr. B. Wylie, Mr. H.B.I.
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OFFICIAL INQUIRY CLOSES
Yesterday afternoon at the Har bour Office the inquiry into the capsizing of the Namtao ferry launch "Fee Din Yat" on July 8 In the harbour of Salt Fish Lano,on July & resulting in the death of between 20 and 30 passengers was concluded. The Court was formed, of Commander C. W. Beckwith, R.N., Harbour Master, Captain W. Davison and Mr. F. W. James.
The first witness called was the Assistant Government Marine Surveyor, Mr. P. J. Taylor. He said that the launch came under him for survey on June 5 last. It did not strike hint then that the launch was "tender," nor that she was too narrow in the beau
Commander Beckwith: Did it strike you that the "Fee Did Yar was in any way a "tender launch or was its beam too narrow i
Mr. Taylor: No. Commander Beckwith: After receiving the certificate as to the stability of the launch from Bailey's Amber of buyers were in the shipyard wore you satisfied that local metals market at the begin-the launch was fit and proper for ning of the week with orders for service between here and Chinese Shantung principals, Yesterday and territory ?--Yes. to-day they were rather inconspien- ous and the market is quiet.
COMMERCIAL.
HONGKONG NOTES AND COMMENT.
METALS BUSINESS.
IRISH LOYALISTS.
FREE STATE PLEDGES "UNREDEEMED.
CANTEEN SALES.
35. 4D. CIGARETTE CASES. THAT BROUGHT 3D.
Two years ago the Government At a sitting of the Navy, and gave so-called Dominion govern Army Canteens Committee the ment to Southern Ireland, accom- chairman, Mr Frederick Banbury, who had been loyal to the British Rac, Smith, and Fisher that certain panied by a pledge that all those read from the report of Messrs. Crown in Ireland should be ade-sales were made through a Mr. quately protected and compensated Pollock, a hardware merchant, and for any losses which they might Mr. Stanley, a fruit and vegetablo systematic campaign has been con- cigars, cereals, spices of all kinds, suffer. Since then a steady and grower, of candles, cigarettes, ducted in order to drive them out clocks, hosiery, and sports re- of Ireland.
...The Free State quisites. The report criticised the Goverment has shown by its method of disposing of such a large whole attitude and by its legisla-variety of goods through a veget- tion that it has no intention of able grower and a hardware mer- redeeming its pledges to those chant. unfortunate people."
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MajorH. Van den Bergh who hekl a position with the Canteens Board, continuing his evidence, said these assistant and not by himself. sales were carried out by his chief
This statement was made by the Duke of Northumberland, chairman Relief Association, at a Mansion of the Southern Irish Loyalists House meeting in aid of the dis
The Chairman: Am I right in "tressed Loyalists. Lord Carson, saying, the transactions were sub- Lord Willoughby de Broke, Brig-mitted to you for your approval?-- Gen. Frescott Décie, the Hon. Yes. Esmond Harmsworth,. M.P., Sir Did you take any steps to find out William Ellison-McCartney; and who Mr. Pollock was ?--I left that Mr. A. Somerville, M.P. were to my assistant, among those present.
Had the launch any ballast when you surveyed her?-I don't know. Considerable attention is being In reply to a further question Dowbiggin, Mr. A. F. B. Silva devoted to Wire Nails. In the last witness said the launch had a life Netto, Mr. U. Ruijahn, Dr. Wan fortnight there has been a genuine boat and seventy-two life belts and Man-kai, Mr. E. Ralphs (Inspector demand for them but with a few boys. of English Schools), Mr. R. A. D. oporters canvassing indents at
Commander Beckwith: Launches Forrest (acting Inspector of Ver comparatively low prices, there has surveyed are measured, for pas- nacular Schools) and Mr. Y. P. Law been a disquietening effect. Yester-sengers and not for cargo. If they (Secretary),
In regard to the question of teach-day eight lots of various quantities carry carge they will have to carry passengers in ratio to the ing Portuguese at the Belilios Pub-were accepted of the assortment less
at $1000 per picul keg, arrival in amount of cargo, so that there is Jic School, the Director of
practically no measurement for Education said be promised at the three in five months, ex-godown. Jast meeting tu olitain further in- Plate Cuttings-Shantung buyers
cargo?-Yes. formation front the Headmistress. Were buying at about $1.20 per At the time the question of them but clearances have eased off vacation did not enter into his and deannud has diminished. mind, and he was afraid the Board Round Bars.-A Chinese dealer would have to wait another six offered $5.00 for a quantity of the weeks before he could obtain the size to be imported on the asim information. He proposed that the terms but the offer has not her natter he adjourned until the Oc-accepted by Home ammufacturersĄ, tober meeting. There was no par- deular hurry they could not start
a new curriculum until the end of
the School year. Mr. Ralphs
seconded and the Board unani-
COTTON FIGURES.
There were exported from Liver, ously agreed to the Chairman's pol to Hongkong the following proposal.
SCHOOL PLANS.
cation goods-
Week ending Jun 15, 129,000 The next item on the agenda, yards plain piecegods, 138,000 was the consideration of the ques- tion of the appointment of a Sub-, yards dyed, coloured, and printed Committee to examine new school piegods and 2bs. cotton plans
Mr. Wylie took exception to the words new school plans." He thought the Board wanted to see plans of proposed alterations as well as those of proposed new schools.
The Director of Education: Yes, this should apply to important ex-; tensions and alterations to schools as well as new schools. Some time ago this question was referred to the Government, and the Govern- ment agreed to show the Board the plans. It is only a matter now of appointing a Committee.
Mr. Wylie, Mr. Ralphs and Mr. Rumjahn were appointed on the Sub-Committee.
SCHOOL INSPECTIONS. The Inspectar of English Schools, dealing with the question of the appointment of menibers to inspect schools, said that at the April meeting it was proposed that no Committee should be appointed but that the selection of members to visit schools siiould be left to himself. He thought Mr. Wylic had over-looked that fact when bringing the question forward at the last meeting. It was decided at the same time that the visits to
yarn.
The corresponding figures for the week ending June 22 were, 289,000 yards, 398.000 square yards and
2,00 h.
HOME TRADE.
Taylor said several launches had In reply to Captain Davison, Mr. been surveyed in recent months for
stability.
shipyards, said he issued a Mr. George Swan, of Bailey's certificate of the stability of the "Fee Din Yat" in June and explain- ed in detail the method adopted in testing the vessel. The "Fee Din Yat," in his opinion, was a very good launch with a good deal more Stability than the harbour launches, and quite fit to carry the number of passengers allowed by the licence. Leung Shing, a salvage con- tractor, gave evidence as to raising the "Fec Din Yat."
Commander Beckwith: How was she lying when you raised her?
Witness: The launch was lying on the starboard side with the bridge touching the bottom of the wall. The mast was broken. sca and the bow pointing to the sea
Was there anything you did not
was all over the country. leave to your assistant ?--My work
doubted whether the Free State The Duke of Northumberland
Government, with, the spectre
The chairman said Mr. Stanley of bankruptcy looming closer, purchased certain lots of tapioca for could redeem its pledges if it 23s. a cwt, and re-sold them at 275. wished to do so. We had a debt 6d. Mr. Stanley also received of honour to pay, and pressure £1,300 odd in commissions. ought to be brought to hear on the
Asked about the sale at 3d. cach Government to ensure that grants of a large number of cigarette cases due to the Irish Government under which had cost 35. 4d. each, Major the Treaty should be paid only on Van den Bergh said he did not condition that all claims of Irish think he ever sold any cigarette Loyalists were paid in full.
cases. That was done by his chief Lord Carson said he had been a assistant, Mr. Fenton, who was false teacher because he had told dead. "I had to put a lot of his fellow-countrymen trust in reliance on my assistants," he said. the justice, intelligence, and fair-"I think a mistake must have been would not be suffering if they had cases." ness of England. Many of them made with regard to the cigarette not taken that advice-if they
On the subject of the sales made could have made themselves party by Mr. Fenton, Major Van den and pillage. to murder and assassination, arson Bergh said that he himself was
morally responsible.
change in the Government of fre
It was not their wish that the land should be carried out of the cheap and that the only sufferers in the transactions should be the friends who had assisted them in the past, There was a duty in- cumbent upon bis Government, whoever they might Majesty's be, to see that those things should not be.
A resolution calling for adequate compensation to the Loyalists of Southern Ireland was passed.
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PIG WITH A TRUNK.
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ZOO FOOD PROBLEM OF THE TAPIR,
Esop's frog that tried to swell to the size of an ox had a cousin in the into an elephant, and at the Zoo the shape of a pig that tried to grow
beast is called a tapir.
Did you do anything more than to raise her?-On the 27th, 1 towed the launch to the Kwong Hip Loong shipyard. Commenting on Home trade in the launch, such as the engines or You did not take anything from maii wrok, the Manchester ballast ?-No. Guardian Commercial says:--- The coxswain, recalled, was ask- Cotton,Raw material weaker, ed by the Chairman if the launch Yoru and cloth trade restricted. had a boat The coxswain replied steady that there was neither a life boat nor davits. Further examined, the coxswain said that after the survey and before going to Bailey's ship yard the "Fee Din Yat" was lying at Shamshuipe. He had never re-it moved the ballast.
Wool-Raw materials
owing to French purchases. Home trude slack.
__Other__ Textiles:--Fins steady, cloth orders scarce dute firm hessians in considerable pen.
Prpery, etc.--163d buying fairly good. Manufaefuters quiet.
Shoes and Leather Honio out look disappointing. sport trade quiet.
Metals-Copper unchanged, re- fined weaker. Tin prices falling.
end casier. Spelter wenk. Chemiens, Intetive: prices
steady.
The evidence was concluded and the Court adjourned to consi- der the finding.
STRANGE AFFAIR.
The black and white Malayan tapir who has just arrived in London clearly shows this pig-like shape with a half-developed trunk and is a moral to any child..
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PIANO SALES. The chairman said that it was only fair to the witness to say that he had not attempted to evade the responsibility that was on his shoulders.
Major Van den Bergh: I was morally responsible.
The chairman referred to a sale
of pianos at £14 and £rs at a time when the ordinary auction prices were from £29 10s. to £37 105.
Colonel Hodge: Do I understand that a man named Blake was in the position of having delivery orders in his possession to obtain goods of the value of £250,000 to which he was not entitled, and to sell the goods and decamp?--Yes.
Do you agree that was 2 very serious thing ?-It was, but it ought never to be able to happen,
Sir Francis -Towic, managing
was a member of the original com director of the Gordon Hotels, who
mitter before the Canteens Board was formed, was the next witness. He said: "I have waited for three years for this opportunity, and I have had an uncomfortable three years." He had the greatest pos- There is no other moral to be sible confidence in Major Van den drawn from this particular beast Bergh, and had not the slightest
particular" is the very word, for turns up its snout-like nunk at any food which costs less than 5d.
mouthful.
suspicion of dishonesty on his part. Asked whether he thought large amounts of money were lost on ac count of inefficiency, he replied:
It insists on bananas or death" No. On the whole, the results from starvation. Mashed mangel-were extraordinarily fortunate. wurzels it regarded with snobbish The Committee adjourned. horror. A really expensive porage made up of boiled rice, breakfast cats, treacle and milk it toys with under protest. The only hearty meal it takes is the cut-down ration
Cul-Improved inquiry, husi. ATTEMPTS SUICIDE IN H. G. of a beggarly 30 bananas a day.
ness quiet. Export dethani, better.) Tron and Steel.-Pig iron prices | schools should be made by not reduced, Imyers cautions. Finished more than three members of the Board at any one time, one of whomiron and steel quiet, should be the Inspector of Freights. Stagnant. English Schools.
Since that
date it had been considered necessary to visit only a Berlin, July 31. The strike of certain class of school. These metal workers in Silesia, mention schools had been visited several ed in a cable message dated July times and on nearly every occa-21, has terminated.-Reuter sion he had invited one member
of the Board who had been special-
ly interested in the schools, to
WELLS'S FLAT.
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Details of a tragic scene whic occurred in the flat of H. G. Wells, the famous novelist, at Whitehall Court, London, are given by the
Star.
An Austrian lady, who had translated into German several of Mr. Wells's most popular books, called on him at his flat, and at- tempted to commit suicide by cutting her throat with a razor.
She arrived at the Bat and asked to see Mr. Wells, who was then dressing for dinner.
She was
accompany him. The autumn near the school buildings. He had term was, for various reasons, the been in correspondence with the most suitable term for visits to be Government about it and he hoped shown into his study, and when made by members of the Board. that, eventually it would be Mr. Wells entered the room a little Mr. Ralphs said that he had found arranged to have a water closet, to later he found the woman acting the comments and suggestions be flushed by means of water ob-rather strangely. made by members very useful in-tained from a well to be sunk there. She appeared to be very much deed. As there were 30 schools Nothing had yet been definitely upset, and threatened to commit
suicide.
he proposed to visit and as settled about moving the latrines, but he was still in correspondence
Mr. Wells endeavoured to calm with the Government about it. her, and left her sitting in a chair
Mr. Silva Netto drew attention to the latrines at the Ellis Kadoorie School.
while he went downstairs to request the porter of the flats to com- municate with the police.
it was his intention to ask two members of the Board to ac company him on each visit, he predicted that the members would be called on rather frequently dur- ing the coming term. It was not
The Chairman, replying, said On his return to his study Mr. desirable as a rule that any school there was a suggestion made that Wells was horrified to sea his should be visited by members more the Sanitary Board should be visitor walking round the room than once a tenn; in some case cases asked to be responsible for the with blood coming from, a terrible only once a year, and as the Board maintenance of the latrines at the wound in her throat, which had originally decided that not more School. The matter was referred beed inflicted with a razor which than two members should accom- to the Head of the Sanitary Deshe held in her right hand. Before pany the Inspector at any one time, partment, who did not see his way he could reach her she collapsed on he thought the reasonableness of to accept the responsibility. He the floor, 7 the suggestion was apparent.
(the Director of Education) did not Assistance was summoned, and
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hospital.
Mr. Silva-Netto agreed with Mr. think that in any case it would have it was then discovered that the in- Ralphs remarks. He thought there been a desirable arrangement to jured woman was only wearing a was no necessity to appoint meni-| have dual control. He was afraid | nightdress under a long coat. She bers to visit any particular schools, he could give no further informa-was removed in an ambulance to hut to leave it entirely to Metion on the subject. Ralphs to arrange. The system Rev. T. W. Pearce said that after It is stated that before going to had worked well in the past. the last inspection in which he took Mr. Wells's flat the woman had The Director of Education said part, formal recommendation visited the flat of a famous wona that at the last meeting, members was made that the Sanitary Board novelist and behaved in a very who had visited the Indian School, should take over the latrines, but stringe.way. commented, unfavourably on, the they declined to accept respon Este of the intrines which were too sibility
Sho had been living in Eng land only a few months.
RICHBOROUGH.
HANDS.
There IS one other food which it deigns to eat sweet potatoes-of which a small supply is left after Richborough, the great war-time the voyage. To keep this on the Kent port, is once more on the tapir'sinenu would mean importing Government's handls. special consignments at ruinous In 1921 the port was sold to the expense.
Queenbrough Development Co So the matter of the tapir's diet Ltd., for £1,447,000, the purchase has been taken up as a challenge money to be paid in three yearly by the authorities at the Zoo, who instalments.
rute shall live on the same food are determined that the faddy
as his betters.
The tapir's reply is to flop down and drop into a deep slumber when any of these cheap substitutes are offered him at meal-times;
"Bananas are all right," he seems say "but have you no hot-house pine apples?"
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WOMEN'S PROBLEMS.
HOUSEWIFE'S
HARD LIFE AT ATHENS..
Mr. E. A. Wright, one of the latest and most interesting of our writers on classical literature, whose excellent verse translations from the Greek Anthology have received wide commendation, has written a delightful book in his "Feminism in Greek Literature" (Routledge, 65.). He shows in
deed, that our modem feminist problems are as old as Euripides and Aristophanes. Much that he has to say is quite fresh, and will
EDUCATION.
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Lowestoft Police Court was packed at the hearing of sum- monses against 12 parents who are sending their children to the welfare Centres carried on by the National Union of Teachers and staffed by teachers dismissed last March by the local education authority for refusing to accept reduced salaries.
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secution objected to two of the At the outset counsel for the pro magistrates on the ground that they had shown interest in the teachers' AGAIN ON GOVERNMENT'S surprise and please scholars quite dispute. Dr. Mead, one of the
as much as the lay public.
magistrates referred to, immediate- Despite its splendid civilisation, ly retired from the Bench, but the Athens degraded women to a low other, Mr. C. Jacobs, retained position, and that may have been, his seat and protested against he thinks, one of the hidden causes counsel's suggestion." When I of her fall.
was appointed a magistrate," added A woman's life at Athens in the Mr. Jacobs, I was asked to do 5th century BC. was a dreary busi-justice, and that I intend to do." ness. She was confined closely to
Mr. Dodson, for the prosecution, the house, a haren prisoner, but said that under the Education Act placed in the hands of a receiver, which the harem system sometimes their children to school. The wel- The property was subsequently without any of that luxurious case it was the duty of parents to send Sir Albert Wyon, of Messrs. Price, offered as a solace for the loss of fare centres were opened by the Waterhouse, and Co., chartered ac freedom. An Athenian house was countants.
small, dark, and uncomfortable, who were attending the.centres dismissed teachers. The children, Litigation followed to determine and a woman's day was occupied were receiving some sort of educa the situation between the Gov-with a long round of monotonous tion, but what kind the Education ernment and the company. Steps work.
Men and women dressed Authority did not know, as it had were taken on behalf of the com-alike: pany to get the agreement with the There were some slight varieties Authority was bound to take no access to the centres. The in shape, material, and colour, but, notice of these centres because speaking generally, it is correct to about 1,500 children were withheld say that an Athenian lady or an from the certified schools. Athenian gentleman was dressed
Counsel for the defence intimat informally when he or she had one
ed that the local authority was in blanket draped about their person.duty bound to have in its school an Full dress consisted of another efficient staff. It was his intention blanket over the first, and the art to call evidence to show that both of dress consisted in suitable on moral and educational grounds. pinning and the proper arrange some of the new teachers appoint- ment of the folds.
ed did not come within the 'Bourd Euripides taught, however, of Education code. ・ against the opinion of Athens,
Following a consultation the that women are different from chairman said that they had decid The proposal to inaugurate amen, but they are not inferiored that the defence should proceed cash-on-delivery system of shop and with intense irony questioned on its own lines. ping for farmers through the man's position as the natural
The case was adjourned for. He taught, week. medium of the Government postal lord of creation." service is likely to be carried a step too, that women were not wanting farther.
in courage. Into Medea's mouth.
Government rescinded."
It is now understood that after lengthy negotiation the port will again become the property of the Government and that it will once more be for disposal,
POSTAL SHOPPING.
BUSINESSMEN'S SUPPORT OF SCHEME FOR FARMERS,
It is understood that the Post #Rather would I stand three masterfulness and independence he put the striking words: [Austen] to whose Emma in Office Advisory - Committee of business men, is in favour of the times in the battle line of shields the Athenian lady Lysistrataf suggestion and may make certain than bear one child." And that bears a close resemblancer recommendations,
point was made afresh・・ by! Socrates held that "a mans whời Aristoplanes,
habitually thinks ill of women has probably no very good reason to's That he understood the female think well of himself? He admired mind almost as well as Euripides; beauty, and, like Goldsmit, të better far than most women anthers cognised that a beautiful workan except only the incomparables Jame fwa bere antideg to mank TË MËNYRËS
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