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Hong Kong, Friday, July 17, 1981.

A New Type.

The

News in Brief.

Two Chinese cases of typhoid fever were notified yesterday.

The lowest open air temperature.

The yesterday was. 88 degrees. humidity was 83 at 10 am, and p.m. Between these hours the rainfall was 0.06 Inch.

Notices to mariners posted at

FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1931.

MONEY FOR PUBLIC WORKS

Votes at Council Meeting.

NO MORE NEW TAXES?

At the meeting of the Legislative Council, five financial resolu- tions proposed by the Colonial Secretary (Hon. Mr. Wilfrid T. Southorn), amounting to a vote for $2,538,000, were duly passed, at the second reading yesterday.

the Harbour Office state that The Council also passed the second reading of a Bill authorising the appropriation of a supplementary sum of $2,486,577.02 to defray charges during the year 1930.

from

quarantine restrictions have been imposed against arrivals Swatow on account of cholera, and from Pakhot on account of plague.

In

The Colonial Secretary, introducing the first motions, explained that various public works had at different times been approved by Resulting from the taking, mistake of an unknown powder the Council. The proposed expenditure was referred to in the 1931: in order to cure a headache,

woman, Leung Man-hing, aged 63 Budget discussion, but no formal resolution on the matter was years, and living at 44 Ko Lung made. The present motions were intended to regularise the popi- Terrace, became seriously ill, and tion. died on the way to hospital.

The manager of the Nippon Yushen Kaisha, King's Building, has reported to the Police that about 9 a.m. on Tuesday, two Chin- ese entered the offices and removed

SOME RE-ADJUSTMENTS.

Nine months had elapsed since Various other Bilis, as already

year.

FINANCE COMMITTEE,

two overhead electric fans. "At the the printed Estimates were drawn set out in the columns of the time it was presumed that they up, and it had; therefore been ne, China Mcil, also passed their second were taking the fans to be repaired,cessary to make a closer estimate reading. but nothing has been seen of them of the amount likely to be this Hence, more money was re- since.

quired for the Shing Mun Scheme, In no small measure due to the first section, the Aerodrome and the appearance of Ralph Lynn and Vehicular Ferry; and less for the Tom Walls in "Rookery Nook", at Aberdeen Valley and Shing Mun, the King's Theatre packed houses second section, schemes. The in-. greeted their reappearance increase at the Aerodrome was large- Plunder" at the Central Theatrely due to the bigger size of the yesterday. "Plunder" is another hangar now being erected, of which triumph for British film produc- the Air Ministry had undertaken to tions and ought not to be missed. bear half the cost.

The writer of "Talkie Talks" hus| The decrease on the Shing Mun romething to say about it elsewhere Valley section was due to the In this issue.

The Details,

Secretary of State having so far confined the work to that on filters. At the Central Police functions was recognised.

Court The sanction for the whole scheme establishment of local authorities yesterday Mr. E. H. Williams, was at present held up, pending ex-

Coroner, and a Jury, composed of pert consideration of the designs. with direct duties in respect of Messrs. R. K. Hepburn (foreman), secondary education, and the re-H. H. Mundy and A. F. Delgado, The total amount asked for was, organisation of the central office held an inquest on the body of therefore, $2,538,000 as against the

Lam Ya-yuk, the criminal patientmount of $2,210,000 in the printed, with reference to the three of the Mental Hospital who ran Estimates.

However, the state of branches of education, elemen-amok on July 6 last, and, after In-the surplus balances in 1930 was a large much more satisfactory than could tary, secondary, and technicolo-juring four people with

have been anticipated. The small gical, rendered possible for the fron nail, collapsed and died.

was stated that Lam Yu-yak was:

were then first time an adequate treatment sontenced to death at, the November increase need cause no concern. of the problem of public second- Assizes in 1926, but the penalty moved and passed. They were: ary education as a whole.

It!

was commuted to penal servitude for life. The hearing was adjourn wased until Monday.

An undoubted stimulus given to secondary education în the great centres of industry bý the rise of the new university col- leges, among which must be rec koned those established express: ly for women. In the main the influence of these new institu- tions made for a non-classical and scientific type of curriculum in}

ANNAMITE GIRL REBEL ?

Detained Here by the S.C.A.

UNUSUAL CASE.

The five motions

Expenditure of $350,000 on the Shing Mun Valley Water Supply

scheme.

Expenditure of $568,000 on the Kai. Tack Aerodrome.

Expenditure of $750,000 Aberdeen Valley.

Expenditure of $140,000 on

on the

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in connection with the Shing Mun Valley Water Scheme.

Member And "Matter Of Principle.'

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At the meeting of the Finance Committee which followed that of the Legislative Council, votes total- ling $240,755 were passed. Details have

the already appeared in

columna of the China Mail,

The Hon. Mr. Paterson raised a question of practice in connection with a vote for $200,021, Personal

ment. It was explained in the Emoluments, Public works Depart- minute that the amount had al- ready been provided for under Public Works Loans Account. But until the approval of the Secretary.... of State had been received, approv

the amendment of the Fensions nute povering the salaries of officers seconded to loan work, it would be necessary to charge them to Personal Emoluments. A re- Imbursement from loan funds would be made in due course.

Mr. Paterson thought these alaries should not be charged to

the loan but the Colonial Secretary Chairman of the Committee) re- plled that be thought the charge a proper one. The step had been sanctioned in atanding orders.

An Analogy. Mr. Paterson repeated that he thought the action was wrong in principle. Only people specially the Colony All the expenditure is to be in-engaged from outside curred in 1931, to be met by a fu- for purposes of the loan, should be He asked if charged against it. advance from the surplus such a procedure could be adopted.

in raunicipal work. -

The Chairman: Yes, in Govern- ment work

Expenditure of $730,000 to the Vehicular Ferry.

the popular secondary schools, A case concerning a 16-year-old ture loan, and meanwhile charged At the same time, the pressure Annamite girl, who is being held as

ал

(Hon.

Mr.

4

next

Mr. Paterson:, The Government can do anything!

The Hon. Mr. Bell agreed with the Chairman, but instanced a case in his own, office where he had employ- Edwin engineer in charge of the

work.

of the School Boards influenced under the Deportation Ordinance, funds of the Colony.

was mentioned before Mr. W.

Better Than Expected. secondary education in two ways. Schofield at the Central Magistracy

The Colonial Secretary In the first place, the elementary yesterday, when Mr. F. H. Laseby moved a Bill to authorise the ap- Hong schools were found to act as applied for bail.

propriation of a supplementary sum Kong on July 17, 1931, by the "fcedera" for schools of a high- It is understood that the girl is of $2,180,677.02 to defray the being held as an alleged revolu-charges of the year 1930. The men Both of Deal, Kent, to Triner-type-and-the-iden of the tionary and conspirator-against-the sure was seconded-by-the-Colonial-ed outside labour but put his own Rev. G. T. Waldegrave, Charles

"educational leader" began to Government of Indo-China, and in Treasurer dad Morales, of Vera Cruz.

play a leading part in plans for making his application for bail Mr. Taylor), after which the Hon. He wanted to charge the salary to expreas that work, but the Head Office the organisation of national edu-Loeby remarked "I have just at Mr. Shenton rose to

the moment discovered that she has the appreciation of the Unofficial directed otherwise. cation. It was seen that there been detained by the Secretariat for members of the successful adminis- must be schools to which the Chinese Affairs,

tration of the Colony's finances in Chief Detective Inspector Rey-1930. more advanced scholars could

In a difficult year, keen WINDOW SMASHING AT ‘'NO, 10.” nolds told the Magistrate that he foresight and sound judgment had The declaration in the House pass from the public elementary knew asmething of the case, but carried them through with an actual

Lewis 'Colville Miller, aged 61, of Commons laat night by the schools, and scholarships to as-was not in a position to say "Yes" deficit of $301,178 only-a position

who was stated to have been telens- Minister of Education that one sist such scholars to continue or "No" to Mr. Loseby's application. which was hardly anticipated.

His Worship said that I was Mr. Shenton also expressed the ed from prison after serving a sen- of the most important results of their education in this way, In

usual when an application was be hope that revenue would prove tence for window breaking at 10, scholarship grants to elementary the next place it was recognised ing made for ball, for the Police sufficient, and that increased taxa Downing Stroot, was charged at and secondary school children that to provide adequately for to ask the S.C.A. if it had any ob- tion would not be found necessary Bow Street Police Court a week later with breaking another win- was the evolution of a new the further education of public jection.

in the next estimates. Mr. Loseby replied that the

dow at the same place, and was was clementary scholars a new type 5.0.A. had nothing to do with the

Enough Imposts! which National type

Thus matter and that It was for the

The Hon. Mr. Kotewall echoed sentenced to two months' imprison-

ment. healthier and more self-reliant of school was required..

the sentiments on behalf of the

unoficials. But Chinese

Miler told the Magistrate that and better equipped to meet the there came into being, through Magistrate to decide, being the per-

he difficulties of life than were past the initiative of the great Schools who came in between the execu-felt incumbent upon him, as re- he was penniless, and the only tive and the person detained. Thero generations, Brings to mind the Boards what were known as must be a complete divorce between presentative of the Chinese, to try alternatives open to him were eui- enormous strides which have higher-grade elementary schools: the departments concerned, he con- to add emphasis to the plea that nocide, the workhouse, and prison. been made in Britain since the These were really secondary tended, and suggested further disfresh taxation should be imposed. Suicide was repellent, and the con-

eussion in Chambers.

In less than one year, the assess versation of men in the workhouse Education Act of 1902, which at schools of the third grade and, Mr. L., H. V. Booth, A.S.P., ment rates had been increased four was unbearable. In prison he had the time excited an acute and as the Commission on Secondary officer in charge of the case, was per cent, shipping charges raised, at least the privacy of a cell at prolonged controversy. The most Education cbserved, the School then fetched by C.D.I. Reynolds, duties on liquer and tobacco subs night, where he could think his own

and he attended the discussion in tantially augmented, stomp diaty thoughts. marked progress has undoubted Board simply stepped in, to fill Chembors.

raised, and taxes imposed on cer tain forms of entertainment. World-TRAN ly been in secondary education, the educational vold which the and in no direction has the Act Schools Inquiry Commissioners

still, had an, adverse effect on wide depression and local unrest In of 1002 proved more fruitful. At had proposed to fill by schools of the end of the nineteenth century that name,

The work of the organisation secondary instruction in England was still provided chiefly by en- of the material means of educa- dowed grammar schools, by pro- tion has largely been accomplish- prietary schools established by ed in the civilised world; that of

His Excellency the Governor, Arising out of the wages dispute religious bodies or joint-stock determining the true theory and Prince's Theatre, will be opened after thanking the speakers for in which local painters demand 'n companies, and by private enter practice of the educative process this afternoon by the Hon. Dr. their remarks, sald revenue was uniform 80 per cent. Increase prise. No public provision was Itself is still incomplete. To Kotewall, the time fixed for the coming in very satisfactorily, and Chinese appeared at the Central made for secondary education as that both discussion of the philo official opening being o'clock, it was hoped this year to balance re- Police Court this morning charged such; what financial assistance sophy of life and of the relative After the official opening the venue and expenditure, in spite of with having threatened a paint was forthcoming from municipal values in life, of various kinds of guests, a large number of whom a previous estimated Budget defelt serpper in Hunghom

experience and experiment in the have been invited, will be shown at of two million dollars. The finanInspector Aris, who prosecuted, sources was given indirectly light of the conclusions reached, special performance fox plehl position of the Colony was said that the complainant and the under cover of the grants under are needed. The problem will ture Salute po much more satisfactory at the pro-defendant ware both members of the Technical Instruction Acts, never be absolutely solved, for There will be two shows open to sent time, and compared very the paint scrapers guild. Da that weld imply an absolutely the public to-morrow at 7.16 and favourably with any British Colony July 14 the defendant is alleged to while in the administration of beat education irrespective of 9.15 Commencing from to-mor Careful thought was necessary, have stopped and threatened the row there will be four performances however, as to the extent of restric-complainant who was on his way to solu dally at 2.80, 5.15, 7.15, and 9.15 ton of publle works

work for a certain contractor whom PMHell's Angels has been His Excellency echoed the hope the guild had boycotted

for the opening attraction that increase of taxation for the and will ned for a five days 1032 Budget would not be naces

central grants for the first year "conditions:

rking of the Board of tion will Act of 18896no abroadjustm

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Prince's Theatre to Opened To-day.

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A Note of Hope..

Ten Years Ago.

1From the "China Mail": of July 17, 1921.)....

To-day's dollar is worth 2/8.

The case was adjourned unul July 27. Ball of $250 was allow