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FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1930.

The moral to be found is that YING WAH SCHOOL. the design makes the City, and The that controls the design, has it Annual Distribution of

in his power to make or mar the [... beauty of that City. There Is one

Certificates.

INSPECTOR'S PRAISE

CHOPIN RECITAL.

Mr. Harry Ore at Helena May Institute.

BALLET DANCING.

ray of hope. In the P.W.D. there is a public-spirited gentleman, a newcomer, let it be said, who finds wife of the Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy, which may be ranked among the

Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Creasy.

The performance of anything pleasure in

giving voluntary Director of Public Works, dis-arts, to be aesthetically satisfac- public lectures on the principles tributed the certificates on the tory, needs more than feeling. of architecture. If encouraged by

occasion of the annual Speech Day Hard, commonplace, daily prac in the Ying Wah Girls' School. this example more men of his

tice is an essential, especially to The acting head mistress's report the musician. Kreisler, one of the calibre would arise from the drab showed that all the students who great modern violinists, hau ad- ranks of the Government, we may at for the Junior Local Examina-mitted this; he confesses that he entertain the hope that one day passed, thus keeping up the tradi- pianoforte recital which Mr. Harry tion at the University last year, plays the scales regularly, The Hong Kong may not be as ugly tion of the school. The entries Ore gave at the Helena May In- architecturally as it is now.

for the examination were small, stitute yesterday was adequate in but the candidates were: not salect- feeling, generous in tone, but 3d-they were just those girls who rather starved of technical perfec- had worked steadily from the lower tion. In short, there were pass- forme,

Mr. Y. P. Law, Inspector ages In Mr. Ors's Interpretation of Vernacular Schools, visited the of Chopin which suggested that he noti-chool on December 8, and he re- had omitted to practice lately. ported that the school is "thorough-But his understanding was real, 'y efficient."

and he gave the delicate "Scherzo" Two Chinese who appeared at the

In her address to the students, just the desired emphasis.

One Kowloon Magistracy this morning,

Mrs. Creasy said:-

could have wished him to give on charges under the Opluc Ordin- fentes to the pupils of the Ying Funebre," which, in spite of its Before presenting these Certi-more robust vigour to "Marche ancea, were convicted by Mr. Whyte-Wa Girls' School I should like to always being played at funerals, Smith and fined $300 each, with the alternative of three months' jall.

News in Brief

One case of smallpox was Aed yesterday.

make a few remarks.

and associated with thoughts of

I visited the school for the first death, is splendid in the fullness It la formally mentioned by the mensely struck by the bright and resent the suggestion, but what a time yesterday and I was im- of life. Chopin would probably Malay Mail that Dr. R. B. Jackson, airy class rooms-the extraordin-Ane setting for a sonorous Scan- Health Officer, Pahang. and Mr.rily good behaviour of the puplis dinavian song-saga his "March. M. R. Deb, Health Inspector, are and by the very efficient way in Funebre" would make! In accord- shortly leaving for Hong Kong as which the various teachers con-ance with the conventional man- Anti-Malarial Specialist and Aducted their classes.

ner, it was played by Mr. Ore with I noticed too that there were pathetic subtlety.

few Found in the precints of a con- shows how good the attendance so happy; he appeared to treat vacant goats which With Sibelius Mr. Ore was not tractor's matahed at Homuntin, in

him lightly, although "Night

sistant Specialist.

an attempt to steal some iron bars,

very

ia.

a young Chinese lad, 16 years of Davies's report that the numbers ed better than they actually de We have heard from Miss Music" and "Solitude" were play- age, was arrested, and at the Kow-are increasing, another reason for serve although this may be rank loon Magistracy this morning was satisfaction and one sentenced to three months' fall.

which goes heresy. to prove how badly the new In the last item, which to every beauty or proportion, senses.

school was needed. We regret to record the death of

one's delight was Liszt's "Second Hong Kong those principles have Hr. K. L. O'Hoy, compradore of the head mistress to find old was evidently in his element, for It must be very gratifying to Hungarian Rhapsody," Mr. Ore either been wilfully defied or,

the local office of the Dollar Line. pupils of the Ying Wa returning he played this lively plece, so re- Mr. O'Hoy came here originally to the school as teachers. through ignorance, unconsidered. from Australia, and joined the

dolent of the gypsy life on the For a variety of reasons, we can-steamship company about five years that some of the pupils have work stirred the blood.

Another Interesting factor is Steppes, with a vivaciousness that not select for vituperative criti-ago. The sympathy of the com-ed their way from the kindergar- Overland China Matl. eism all the buildings we have in munity will be extended to his four ten to the Senior Form. One girl cital, two dances were givan by In an interlude between the re- children, who are left to mourn his told me she had been at the school Miss Winifred Henderson, The mind, but we do aver that they loss.

for fourteen years an excellent Autumn," and "Love's are some of the ugliest erections

Joy." record when one remembers the There was evidence of grace In ever tolerated by a continental Police Recreation Club was held at

The third whist drive of the strikes of 1922 and of 1925. the dancer's control of her hand market town. No proportion, no the Club-house, Happy Valley, laat ficates in front of me is a proof

The goodly number of corti and breast gestures. style, just a jumbled mass of evening, when prize were won BS of a very good year of school bricks and granite facings. The follow:--Ladies: 1, Mrs. Jones work. I agree thoroughly with only saving consolation is that we (17); 2, Mrs. Wayman (175): 3, Miss Davies that games are most COAL MINES' BILL. Mrs. Russell (175); Hidden Num- essential for girls as well as boys, bar, Mrs. Kirman (167). Men: 1 though I must confesa Mr. Banwell (178); 2, Mr. Phillips looked up at the playground yes.

when Third Reading Passed by (171); 8, Mr. Rogers (166).

terday and realised how many

Parliament. steps must be climbed before reaching it I was thankful I was not a School girl!

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NO MEAN CITY.

MAJORITY, OF 43..

London, Yesterday,

In the House of Commons to-

do not have to live in them. The architects who designed these masses of monstrosity should be sent back

Home to serve their

Two Chinese from Canton were articles over again, or, if there yesterday sentenced to ous month's were the danger of corrupting hard labour each by Mr. T. 8.

It is a great pleasure to find in Whyte-Smith, their younger co-students, should Magistracy, on a charge of harbour- the Ying Wa pupils find time and day the Coal Bill passed its third

at the Kowloon addition to their work and play be condemned to building facing two girls at 177, Woosung energy to devote to social service reading the divisions resulting:- tories for life.

Street. The first accused was work. Such work in my opinion sentenced to an additional month on requires three attributes--love; The American tourist strolling a charge of being in possession of real love and affection for one's along Pedder Street or Queen's a knuckleduster. Mr. H. Rfellow creatures: sincerity. For Butters, of the Secretariat for if we are not sincere in our de Chinese Affairs, conducted the pro-sire to help others our efforts secution.

prove useless. Then I think we nced a sense of humour to carry

CORRESPONDENCE

For

Against

Majority

Liberals Abstain

277

234

43

Reuter.

London, Later. Only five Liberals participated in

us through when troubles and the third reading of the Coal Minea". dimculties arise in our dealings Bill, of whom one voted with the with others.

Government and four against.— Miss Hutchinson and her staff Renter. are to be very heartily congratul- [As a result of Liberal absten- ated in that they have been able tion the House of Commons on to instil these qualities into their March 20 rejected by 274 votes to pupils so early in life. That this 229 the Conservative amendment so is proved by the fact that proposing to remove the power to the poorer girls who attend the a minimum price for each Summer schools return year after class of coal.]"

"GOOD-BYE.”

Mr. Robert Duncan Leaving.

Hong Kong, Friday, April 4, 1930. Road might erupt eulogies about Hong Kong, for when their win. dows are filled with multi-coloured shawls, Ivory carvings, jade, or displayed with the latest thing in Hong Kong is no mean City. Fair Isle jumpers, they are apt to Its harbour, not so large as look no further or higher than the

RUSSIAN EMIGRES Sydney's, or so beautiful as that entrance. But one who standing of Stamboul, can yet provide hos on the Peak looks down on Hong (To the Editor, China Mall] ́ pitality for ships of the biggest Kong, could he forget the loveli Sir, I shall be obliged if you will find it possible, to publish the following burden. The prospect is pleasing, mess of the seascape, might think lines in reply to the letter of "Hong as we gaze from the mainland at he were looking........down

upon kongite." those serrated hills, clad with Clapton or a subarb of Man with the present Communist Hess

The writer, if he is not in sympathy | year.

It gives me much pleasure to shrub and villa, that resemble chester.

which are being so vigorously spread be here to day and I thank Miss Mentone or Torquay," Yet archi-

from the present Russia, must realise Hutchinson for inviting me to Our architects may complain that it fa the natural right of every present the certificates. tecturally we cannot be said to be that they have no scope or op employer to employ the most efficient plause.)

(Ap- as successful. There are no portunity to be original. Often {labour he can find and at the best price noble buildings in the Colony, but they have to execute a "cheap that some Russians have found employ- obtainable. It is for this reason only plenty of ugly ones. The City job," and there have to be veran-ment in Hong Kong. With the excep Hall and the Albert Hall in Lon- dahs. Surely, then, this is where Russians now in Hong Kong are in |tion of a handful the majority of the don have this in common, that the Government supervisors come non-British employment. The British they should both of them be in? So long as a buliding is safe employer in Hong Kong and elsewhere dynamited. Heresy and libel as and fulfils the provisions of ever possible, has given employment to has always been patriotic, and, where this may sound, it must be the the Act, no objections are raised his countrymen. opinion of any who understand It may be as Britain there is a considerable num- Among the millions of unemployed in the principles of architecture, who ugly an the Crystal Palace or aber of people who are not merely an

At a meeting in the Sanitary De have visited the Acropolis er London biscuit factory, but it is Ceployed, but unemployable. It is the body of a Chinese on the partment Board Room yesterday after strolled down modern Regent passed Now is the time for a Hong Kong authorities are sometimes junction of Centre Street. On the of the staff, presented Mr. Duncan with people of the latter catagory that the Connaught Road Fraya, near, the noon, Chief Inspector Frith, on behalf Street agape with awe. The only measure of reform. The Govern-compelled to detain and subsequently to neck there was a mark of strangula a wall barometer. building in Hong Kong which can ment, since it is not able to think The Russian refugees are qutalde investigations because two theories if trusted that everybody would carry

repatriate,

tion which led to the C.I.D. making Mr. Duncan, in acknowledging the be said to approach anything like for itself, should at least allow Rassis because they are in opposition suggested themselves as to the cat in the bands position of going away beauty in that of the Hong Kong others to think for it. In the the conditionschings in Rume of death murder or suicide. fairly fit and able to enjoy their pen- to the Communist regime, and," when

on as long as he had, and eventually be and Shanghai Bank, with its P.W.D. are men of Initiative: they will form the nucleus of the new Yesterday as reported in the lon

Bussis, organised on saper and mare | China Mall it was learned that the moral lines. The unemployment pro body had been identifed, as that of blap In Great Britain will then be fokl of No. 8 cons

Junk intomatically solved, and if the writer who had committed suicide by bang- wishes this to be brought about soon. In himself on board, while the laid he would be illogical to join the faw vessel wa

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On Wednesday the Police found

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Mr. Robert Duncan, Sentor Sanitary Inspector in Kowloon, and his wife, will, leave the Colony on April 9 on the Empress of Russia. Mr. Duncan thur" severs an arsociation of over thirty years in the Colony. Mr. Duncan, who la well known In local ber of the Volunteer Corps for over sporting circles, had also been a Diem twenty years

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