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HONG KONG, SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1932.
AFTER TWELVE YEARS' LABOUR
Twenty-five years ago when |left my curacy, my old vlcar, who was one of the sagest and most loved men I have ever met, said to His Excellency the Governor and At Mr. Cassidy's request, Lady me, "Never take saying good-bye Lady Peel held an, "At Home" at Pool handed an envelope to the too seriously." Even if I did not Government House yesterday after- Bishop, containing the draft and fully understand what he meant at noon in honour of the Rt. Rev. a list of well-wishers who had con- the time I have learnt since-and C. R. Duppuy, D.D., Bishop of Vic-tributed to the fund. toria, who had resigned his Bishopric and salis on the P. & O.
FAREWELL TO BISHOP
Replying, Dr. Duppuy said:
The Bishop's Reply.
most of you have learnt it too- that there are some good-byes you simply daren't take too seriously- and this for me is one of them.
A Britisher never finds it easy
a.a. Corfu to-day for Home, where "Mr. Chairman, Your Excellency, he is to take up the Canonry of Lady Peel and Friends,--My first Worcester Cathedral. Mrs. Duppuy word must be to say how exceed to say thank you when he feels was, unfortunately, prevented from ingly sorry my wife is not to be deeply. But there's a big thank attending, on account of illness. able to be here to-day. You will you I must try and say to you all There was a large gathering. understand how keenly ahe will before I go.
Gift Appreciated.
The function took the form of a miss being here to see you all. In tea party which was followed by a letter I have just received from To make a beginning, I thank you presentation organised by the hospital she writes, "I should love all, on behalf of my wife and my V.D.M.A. and which was respond to have taken farewell of the self, for this present and for all ed to by all classes and national-friends who have helped to make the kind thought that lies behind ities in the Colony. The presenta my life so happy and enriched it in it. From my heart I thank you for tion was made with the warmest so many ways."
your generosity and for all your wishes for Dr. and Mrs. Duppuy's A wise old Chinese poet wrote friendship, forbearance and er future happiness.
long ago, 'When the time comes to couragement. We shall carry away On the platform together with gogo with as little fuss with us many happy recollections Sir William and Lady Peel were possible. There are many things of our time in Hong Kong and of Bishop Duppuy, Bishop Valtorta. to remind me that the time has the kindly spirit of comradeship the Ven. Archdeacon Mok, of Can- ceme for me to go-including a which is so manifest here. ton, the Very Rev. Dean A. Swann, Mr. P. S. Cassidy, Mrs. G. D. R. Black, the Rev. C. I. Blanchett, and the Rev. Walton Rogers.
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letter addressed to the "LATE Then, Sir. I want to thank you Bishop of Victoria"; yet it is very and Lady Peel for inviting us all hard for me to realise that twenty here to-day. The first lunch I four hours from now I shall have ever had in Hong Kong was in Gov- Mr. Cassidy's Address.
left this place which has been my ernment House; since then I have Addressing the gathering. Mr. P. S. Cassidy
home for nearly twelve years; and experienced much kindness from said that it was
and governors 1 am not really finding it at all successive
their
nearly 12 years since the Bishop simple to go; there has been so wives, and now I shall always as]
was consecrated to this Diocese.
I only sociate my last afternoon in Hong
He would not be so presumptuous much to do before I leave. as to give Dr. Duppuy a "charac hope I am not going to have to- Kong with this Farewell Party at ter." All those present had come morrow any similar experiences to Government House:
I had never;
before I came out
in contact with the Bishop in one one I had in London not very long seen anything of British Colonial
I had occasion to go and see administration or more branches of Church life, 40.
The interview over. here. I will only say that I take and they had, therefore, all experi- specialist.
courteously away with me an impression of an enced his good fellowship, his the gentleman very broad-minded guidance and his en-escorted me to the Tront door him exacting service very honourably thusiastic leadership. They all self to sea me off, but seemed rather and efficiently discharged. united, the speaker said, in express-to prolong the good-bye ceremony
I want to say a word of thanks
Ing their sympathy to the Bishop and to be loath to part with me. to the lay folk of the Diocese and Mrs. Duppuy in that they had As I turned it over in my mind on Chinese and British-for all the been so handicapped by 1-health. the top of a bus afterward I re- help they have given. He knew that the Bishop had felt membered I had forgotten to pay the his disability and how desperately him his fee,
he had tried to get the better of
it until there was
no alternative
On the day Simon Report on India was published I had де fellow traveller in 3 long railway journey man who
but to face the decision of resigna- RETRENCHMENT COMMISSION'S had occupied a leading position in
tion. They sympathised particu-
larly with Mrs. Duppuy in being laid up
at such a time as this. The Bishop and Mrs. Duppuy could
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public life in India. He remarked upon the difficulty of getting pro- minent business men in the part of India where Ea lived to serve I have no means
rest assured that they were leav. specialists. It is bad policy to have on public bodies. ing with an abundance of good an officer one day in the Surveys of knowing whether he was taking will, and the speaker knew that he Office, the next in the Drainage a too gloomy view about this ques- could, on behalf of those present, Office, and the day after in the tion in India, but I do know that wish them God-speed and bon voy. Architectural Office. Promotion and here in Hong Kong I have been im age with a speedy return to good acting appointments should, with pressed again and again by the way the exception of junior engineers on people have given lavishly of their The Dean's Appreciation. their first tour of duty, take place thought and time for public ser- The Dean spoke in respectful ap-within the sub-departments, and sot vice. preciation of the Bishop, referring according to senferity in the Public
health.
self in this work.
The Presentation.
Press Thanked.
to the arduous duties that fell to Works Department as a whole. And next I want to thank tho hia lot, particularly in such a Dio-Selected officers would have to be Press of Hong Kong for the back- cese as Hong Kong. There were, earmarked for command; but their ing it has so generously and readily he said, a multiplicity of demands number is so small as not to affect given. I have often thought that upon the Bishop, physically, men- the general rule. The problems of the value of the Press in a place tally and spiritually. In addition the Public Works Department of like this is not only in forming and there was the language difficulty Hong Kong are largely municipal helping to mould public opinion in but the Bishop had not spared him- It would be well if its administra the more populoss centres, but tion were in conformity with equally in keeping those in mors municipal practice.
isolated places in touch with the Government's Comment.
outside world. And this applies Paragraph 43.-The Crown also to wireless. I remember once fund to purchase a memento of Lande and Surveys, Architectural, during a confirmation tour landing the Bishop and Mrs. Duppuy's con- Buildings Ordinance, and Elec- on a lonely island where I found nection with Hong Kong but other trical Offices are each specialist one Britisher and his wife and childj considerations had cropped up, and closed sub-departments, so among a population entirely Chin- not the least being the menace of also to all intents and purposeA све. customs duty.
I had confirmed the wife in It had, therefore, are Waterworks and Port Develop St. John's Cathedral. They told been decided to convert the dona- ment; this accounts for every sub me they often listened in to the tione into a sterling draft and department except Drainage and
service on Sunday evenings and
Mr. Cassidy Baid that the first idea was to devote part of the
leave it to the recipients to use it Roads. Specialisation is thus an joined in themselves and that it in whatever way they thought|accomplished fact. best. The draft was for £109 188.
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