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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1932.

SOUTH AFRICANS

ROUTED.

Innings Defeat Against Small Total.

MCMILLAN'S "PAIR".

Melbourne, Yesterday, Australia to-day won the fifth and final Test match against the South Africana by an innings and

2 runs.

South Africa, Ist Innings Australia, Ist Innings ..

South Africa-2nd Innings

J. A. J. Christy, c and b Nash 6. J. Curnow, Fingleton, b

Ironmonger

A. J. Bell, & McCabe, b O'Reilly E. Mitchell, e Oldfield, b Iron-

monger

H. B. Cameron, e McCabe, b

O'Reilly

D. P. E. Morkel, e Rigg, b Iron-

monger

H. W. Taylor, e Bradman, b

ironmonger

K. C. Viljoen, e Oldfield, b

O'Reilly

Q. McMillan, e Oldfield. b Iron-

monger

C. L. Vincent, not out

N. A. Quinn, e Fingleton, b

Ironmonger

ion.

THE CHINA MAIL.

PROFIT – MAKING HOUSEMASTERS

EVILS OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL'S SYSTEM WHICH WILL HAVE

TO BE ABANDONED.

During the last few months some, meal? Not at all, it is left ontirely hundreds of columns of newspaper to the discretion of Mr. Caterem. articles and correspondence have

Suppose he provides nothing ex- been devoted to Public Schools. The to eat between lunch on one day and cept bread and butter for the boys fees, extras, possible economies, and breakfast next morning, and there many other matters have come un- by makes an extra profit of between the searcntigut of public opin-120 and £150 a year? As before, a few parents will send foodstuffs What

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emerged from this to their boys, or provide them with analysis? Unquestionably, the fea- extra pocket-money, but there is no ture of school ate that has come other consequence. under the severest criticism is the But won't they go away if he house system, by which a House- feeds them badly? They cannot go muster runs his house as a specula-away, because no other hotel will, tion and makes his profit on the take them if they have once started result of the year's working.

at his establishment. But perhaps 16! One hundred and fifty years ago if he feeds them badly, after a time 6 the colonel of a regiment in the no new boys will come. Yes, that

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British Army was responsible for 4feeding and clothing his men. Some of the colonels made a very good othing out of it; but the men suffer- ed, and the system was abolished.

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Fifty years ago the same thing existed in the drapery trade. Under! 2 the living-in system the manager of, a big draper's shop did not receive o a very large salary, but he made his money out of feeding the shop as- O'sistants.

This brought in its train

Extras

Total

BOWLING ANALYSIS.

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R.

W

Nash

7

1

Ironmonger

'Reilly

15 7 13

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U $ 19

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8 such intolerable abuses that it was

made illegal by an Art of Parlia 5 ment.

School Hotel-Keeper. These illustrations from history 45 point oral: that evil results from any system by which a man can make mo: oy out of feeding others who are committed to his charge. And this is the system which is still in operation at many of the British Public Schools at the ¡present day.

BOTH UNIVERSITIES

DEFEATED.

Coventry Fail to Score Against Blackheath.

POLICE AND ARMY DRAW.

The Housemaster, at the schools which still work on this plan, is in a similar position to the man who keeps un hotel or a se side board- ing house. His visitors pay to him so much a week, or a month, or a term; he provides them with food and lodging, and makes what he can

Stephen Foot, Bursar of Eastbourne College, an authority

educational matters, dis- cusses an urgent reform which the Parents' Association has approred.

might happen in the course of time, out in recent years there has been such a rush that the name of the establishment is sufficient, and he is always full.

Suppose he provides inadequate heating, or accommodation, or too few servants, what happens then? | Nothing, except that he makes a

rather larger profit.

And who is the sole judge of all these things? Why, the proprietor of the establishment who is making the profit. The only control is that

an

System At Fault,

RADIO

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME,

EUROPEAN LECTURE.

The following programme will) be broadcast to-day from the Hong The man who takes to school on a wavelength of 355 metres Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. mastering as a vocation ought not (845 K.C.'a) :— to expect to get into the super-tax the profession when men join it class, and it will be an evil day for with that idea. The fact that so few men take advantage of their position is a great tribute to the race of Housemasters, for temptation must sometimes be very strong.

the

It is the system which is at fault, and it should be changed.

5-8 p.m.--European Programme. tor and H.M.V. Records.

5-7.31 p.m.-Programme of Vic-

tor Herbert's Music.

6-5.45 p.m.:-A Selection of Vic-

Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life,

Victor Salon Orchestra, Selections from Naughty Marietta, Victor Light Opera Company,

9145.

Quite recently there was a state- ment in the Press to the effect that Winchester is considering the mat-Kiss Me Again, ter, and it was also stated that Selections from The Fortune Teller, Clifton is contemplating the aboli- tion of the old system. Such Badinage,

Victor Salon Group, 9146. schools as Marlborough, Haileybury, Air de Ballet-Al Fresco, and Wellington have got over the March of the Toys, difficulty by means of a central dining-hall in which almost all of

Victor Concert Orchestra,

the boys have their meals. There Selections from Babes in Toyland,

9147. is no doubt that his method of feed-Selections from Sweetheart, ing is the most economical, but Selections from The Red Mill, there is much to be said in favour of the seystem of separate Houses.

Victor Light Opera Co.. 9148-9.

5.45-6.12 p.m.:-Glibert and Sul-j

The solution in the latter case is really not very difficult, and Oundle, livan Selections. Eastbourne, Mill Hill, and Repton Patience, have already shown that it is per- feetly possible to introduce into a school of separate Houses a system The Gondoliers, in which the making of profit by a Housemaster no longer exists.

Eastbourne Plan.

The Eastbourne system la per- haps the best known, and inquiries about how it is worked have been made during the last few years by

Rugby,

The Band of H.M. Coldstream

Guards, C1274.

The Band of H.M. Coldstream

Guards, C1279. Pirates of Penzance,

The Band of H.M. Coldstream

Guards, C1368, Piano Solo-

6.12-7 pm-Variety.

I Found You,

Let Love Take Care of You,

Raie da Costa, B3997.| Humorous Song--

That Must Been Our Walter, River. Stay 'Way From my Door, Cracie Fields, B3824.

of his own conaciance, and if he has, Winchester, Wellington (for their!

extravagant wife or several four private Houses). Sherborne, children to educate he will have a Clifton, Charterhouse, strong pull in the direction of mak-Shrewsbury and Malvern. ing a good proft.

Under this system the House- master is paid a fixed salary, while! the school receives the boarding fees and pays the bills. The House- master's wife, or a housekeeper, does the catering as before, though certain things are bought wholesale by the bursar; she engages and dis-Humorous Song- misses the servants.

Once a week she renders a stato- ment to the college barsar showing the totals of tradesmen's accounts, amounts due to wages, etc., and to cover them receives a cheque from him instead of from her husband.

Orchestral-

La. Violetera, The Song of Songs,

De Groot & His Orch., B3808.

Auto-Suggestion, Fish-Sauce,

Piano Solo

Alexander and Mose, B3925,

When the Circus Comes to Town, Reaching for the Moon.

Why does the system still con- tinue at Public Schools? The chief reason is that most Housemasters are to a large extent idealists, at any rate when they start, and, con- out of it. At schools, however, sequently, the full evils of the sys- there is this important difference-tem have never developed. It is the boys cannot leave and go to an obviously wrong, however, to expose other hotel.

a man to temptation of this kind, and it is within the knowledge of everybody who has had to do with Public Schools that the temptation sometimes proves too strong.

In August of last year a House- Many subsidiary advantages are master; from one of the most at once realised. Economies can be famous Public Schools, was com-effected by the exercise of control plaining to me about the amount of super-tax that he had to pay He big differences in the food provided over buying: there are no longer thought it was very hard that the in the various Houses; questions of Piano Solo- year's surplus on his House should what is necessary be treated in exactly the same way their merits, in consultation with

are judged on Viktoria and Her Hussar-Medley, as the profits of a business. But the school doctor, and not left, to

Rale da Costa, B3957. where is the difference when the the whim of a Housemaster, or the

7 p.m.:-Stock Quotations. profit goes into the pocket of an readiness with which he opens his

7.5-7.31 p.m.:-Orchestral. individual?

purse.

Islamey (Balakirew),

Mr. Caterem, the proprietor of the Albion Hotel of Muddlecombe, would be delighted at such a pros- London, Jan. 29. pect; fixed number of visitors Results of the principal Rugby who have got to stay for four or five Union games played yesterday years, excluding holidays, whether were as follows:-

Blackburn 11 Coventry Old Milhillians 3 Portsmouth S. L'don Scottish 18 Oxford U. Harlequins

11 Cambridge U.

Richmond

Leicester

Rosslyn

Police Gloucester

0 O.M.T.

they like it or not. What happens of Mr. Caterem vives them mar- 6 zarine instead of butter, and makes jan extra £40 or £50 profit every 9 year? Nothing happens, except 13 that a few of the parents send but 10 ter to their boys, and so add a

5 little more to his profit.

5 Army

16 Guys

6

Northampton 20 R.A.F.

But surely some authority lays 6 down what shall be provided at each

THE H.K.C.C. ELEVENS

FOR SATURDAY.

League Encounters Against I.R.C.

The following will represent the Hong Kong Cricket Club on Saturday, February 20, in their League matches against the Indian Recreation Club as below:-

1st XI. at Sookunpoo- H. Owen Hughes (captain). H. J. Armstrong, A. C. Beck, E. R. Duckitt, R. P. Edwards, H. L. F. Erwin, O. E. C. Marton, :

G. E. Mirehouse, E. J. R. Mitchell,

J. R. Ratten, and A. Reid.

2nd XI. at H.K.C.C.-

R. S. W. Patterson (captain),

R. R. Davies, J. B. Davis, G. E. R. Divett, F. A. M. Elliott, C. E. Gatagan, L. D. Kilbee, P. W. J. Planner, L. B. Smith, J. M. Sunley and LA. Whipps.

CHAMPIONS" TEAM FOR SATURDAY.

League Eleven Against Hong Kong C.C

The following will represent the Indian Recreation Club in League match against the Hong Kong Cricket Club on the R.C. ground on Saturday, February 20:

AA Rumfahn (captalb), FD. Pereira, S. R. Kermanf, AH Bumjahu,AHMadar AR

Minu, A. K. Ming, J. A. Khail, 0. Ismail, H. D. Rumjahny and FM. alrealll

Oxford and Cambridge Skiers

Hold First Meeting on British Soil

Hands in Counter coat by were ever Thistory was written In Canadian) Canadian college teams, wero en Walter (Oxford) individual win Marguerite, Que., over the end of cellency the Governor-General, second, and H. Spence former D. Dunn, Cambridge, 1931 and the beginning of 1992, and made the acquaintance of a British cross scuntry ski champion when the sal terms of the Univer number of Canadian Bid: Chiba, and member of the technical.com alties of Oxford and Cambridge The plotur show (Dark Sweaters) mit held thair Inter-Varsity meet on the Ozford Team (Light Sweateral Brital timekeeger, Insets fine of the Bld Club of Great British soll for the first time. Cambridge, who won the British jump by three of the British under- Hitherto the famous British Uni internity meats and (in group) gradatatens Bäll, werg, enthusiatic versities have always wettled their takanammadistaly sitar, the Ose about their visit to Canada and Winter sports differences In Swit-ord-Cambrid a crosi unte) face, the beautiful mountain) resor) ön, Keriand, the recent visit to Crava

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Orchestral

Raie da Costa, B3909.

Tunea of Not-So-Long-Ago—|

1921 and 1922,

New Mayfair Orchestra, B3944.

Hollywood Bowl Orchestra,

6870.

The Sleeping Beauty-Ballet Suito

(Tschaikowsky),

Hollywood Bowl Orchestra,

6871/6872.

7.31-7.51 p.m.:--From The Studio. Mrs. H.M. Broadbent will con- clude her lecture on "Twenty Years in Buruna,"

751-8. p.m.:-Programme of Vic- tor & H.M.V. Records.

Planoforte Solos.

Suggestion Diabolique, Op. 4.) No. 4 (Prokofief),

Concerto in E. Minor (Medtner),

Benno Moisgivitch, E680. Sonata in A Major (Scarlatti), Ecossaise (Beethoven),

Mischa Levitzki, E537.

8 p.m.:-Local Time, 8.3-11.30 p.mRelay from Ko Shing Theatre,

11.30 pm.:---Close Down, All records in the above Euro- pean Programmes are kindly sup plied by Messrs. S. Moutrie and Co.

HARMSTON'S CIRCUS.

Harmston's Creus and, Royal Managerie has moved over 'to Hong Kong and they start their season on this side of the harbour with a grand opening programme to-night, on the reclamation at Wanchai, The Circus gave their last per formance at Kowloon on Sunday when they were given hearty fare well by Kowloonites who have givan the Circus excellent support throughout its season there. There La no doubt that many Hong Kongers have not yet seen the Ctrem as the cold spell made them hesitate to go cross the harbour, especially with children... These will welcome this Instance of Mohamed coming to the moantain, and a full tent may be expected to-night and ivery (otuar knight; and at the matiuces * during the Hong Kong

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