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HE Undersignod have received instructions to sell by Pubile Auction

ON

MONDAY, April 18, 1982, commencing at il a.m., at their Sales Room, 4, Duddell Street.

(for account of the concerned)

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LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers. Hong Kong, April 14, 1932.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the SUPPLY of ELEC- TRICITY in the Shamshuipo Dis trict will be discontinued between the hours of 12 Noon and I p.m. on FRIDAY, 15th instant.

Hong Kong, 13th April, 1932

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THE MACAO JOCKEY CLUB,

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Second Extra Race Meeting. (Postponed from 3rd April, 1932).

the Fanling Hunt & Rate Club, By courtesy of the Stewards of

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од

THURSDAY, APRIL 14,

Retrenchment Commission's

Recommendations

(Continued from Page 7.)

1932.

two schools does not warrant the maintenance of both in the same area, and they recommend the clos ing down of the Victoria British School and the amalgamation of the pupils with those of Quarry Bay School, where there is sufficient ac- commodation, and where the school itself is of more modern construc tion. It might be necessary to

(b) It is hoped to institute next demned as too difficult of execution. seeing that a full day's work is done transfer one member of the Staff year a school leaving certificate, The Commissioners consider that by all the members of their staff, from Victoria

British to Sunday, the 17th April, 1932,

Quarry examination.

the proposal is not impossible of but blame must also be attached to Buy School. Transport is now so The Matriculation First Saddling Bell at 1.45 pm. and Senior Local will then cease to the pupils have for long paid their for inadequate supervision of the ship for the children, who formerly execution. In the British schools the inspectors of English Schools excellent that it will entail no hard- First Race at 2.15 p.m.

be school examinations; whether fees termly not monthly; thus the time-tables. It is recommended that attended Victoria British School, to Admission to Members* En- the Junior Local examination will payment of these at the Head Office in no school should the correction go to Quarry Bay School. It might closure will be limited to Members: of this Olub and Fanling Hund also be abolished has yet to be de nould prevent no great obstacles. period for any full-time member of be possible in the future for the

It was stated that in the case of the staff exceed five hours weekly. Race Club who must wear thoir cided. The Board of Education | Chinese schools It would not be

Government to open a primary Badges.

Government's Comment.

school to serve the western districts collect fees termly, proposes, and Government concurs, practicable to Non-Members will be admitted that on the inception of the school and that therefore the monthly pay hard and fast rule for the different Victoria British School could either

of Hong Kong. Paragraph 15.-To iny down one

20. The building and site of ments by hundreds of pupils or parents at the Head Office would categories of Government schools be sold, or form the site of a new present a formidable labour to the does not appeal to Government. It and mich needed District School to clerical staff at the office. Never prefers to leave the arrangement serve the Chinese population of the theless, the Commissioners feel and supervision of school time-

eastern districts of Hong Kong. strongly that the proposal should tables to the Director not be dismissed as impracticabla. tion and his Inspectors, by whom all

of Educa

Government's Cominent. Paragraph 19-20.-Vieterin Bri Every pupil is registered at his or teachers' time-tables have

to be tish School is to be closed at the her school under, an Admission passed.

end of the year. Number, (which should remain the

It is proposed to use the building as a technical same throughout the pupil's school life), and

school as recommended by the Com- the Department could

mittee on Technical Education.

to the Members Enclosure upon

Icaving certificate examination, payment of $5 per badge.

Tickets for admission to the Government should pay the fee for Public Enclosure $1 each.

each entrant from Grant-in-Aid Each Member is entitled to 2; Ladies' Tickets free on application schools oace only.

(e) Dealt with under paragraph to the Secretary.

Leay. 21.

Special Train services.

ing Kowloon at 1.05 p.m. and re- turning from Fanling at 5.58 p.m. 32 fare including admittance charge to the Race Course.

By Order,

W. L. ALEXANDER, Secretary. Hong Kong, 13th April, 1932.

SUBSIDISED SCHOOLS.

QUEEN'S COLLEGE AND KING'S COLLEGE.

16.-In pursuance of a policy of VERNACULAR MIDDLE SCHOOL

have

13. The Commissioners have al-issue a receipt bearing the name of ready stated that in their opinion the School, the admission number of too much is spent on secondary or the pupil, the amount of payment, encouraging the spread of elemen- higher education in proportion to, and the name of the month for tary education rather than of giving 21.-The Commissioners the amount spent on elementary or which payment was made. This increased impetus solely to the considered the evidence which has primary education. They would receipt should be presented by the spread of higher education, the clos- been laid before them on the But- therefore deprecate a policy of cur- pupil at the scohol, say, not later ing of Queen's College, and the sale ject of this school and have conte tallment of subsidies to private than the fifth of each month, and a of the building and site is recom-to the conclusion that inder present check kept by each class-teacher in mended. The present King's Col-conditions the school is a luxury. the class-register. The admission let should be renamed Queen's In the scope of its work it us numbers of absentees or defaulters College, and should be

a purely different from King's College, to could be reported to the office by secondary school for boys, with which it is in the Heads of Schools at a fixed date graduate masters only. The present Greater attention

close proximity. later in the month, and thus a check Queen's College is an

is paid to the unsuitable Chinese Classics, but English is also kept upon the payment and receipt building, and owing to the age of taught. of fees. This system of collection the fabric is expensive to maintain, that the policy of the Government in

Commissioners

vernacular schools.

Rather they LAMMERT BROS. would urge an increase of subsidies

As soon as the finances

of the Colony perait. The ultimate ideal to be kept in view is free element ary education for all.

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HE Undersigned have received

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Government's Comment.

The

feel

Paragraph 13.-The 1929 figure of fees would necessitate holding and the Commissioners can see zo vernacular education should follow of $100,000 for subsidies to ele-school entrance examinations before necessity for the provision of two that of the Nationalist Government mentary vernacular schools which the beginning of the term.

The large colleges, each providing of China, and that the somewhat Batructions to sell by Public was reduced to $95,000 in 1930 and payment of school fees at the Head secondary as well as elementary special education, which is given at Auction

to $80,000 in 1931, has been re- Office is in accordance with the education, at such close quarters to the

Middle School, system in vogue in England, where each other. The name of Queen's should not be provided by Govern fees are paid at the educational College commands respect in the ment.

minds of the Chinese and the Col- may be to preserve the classics it is However, praiseworthy it

ON

FRIDAY, April 15, 1932, commencing at 12 o'clock Noor, at their Sales Room,

4, Duddell Street,

(for account of the concerned)

3 Cases Lining

stored in the Estimates for 1932.

FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF HEADS OF SCHOOLS,

14 In the larger schools the 160 Cases Condensed Skimmed Head has the services of a clerk, and, if the present system remains

Milk,

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers. Hong Kong. April 13 1,932.

centres.

bills at Queen's College.

Vernacular

the

Anglo-

(c) The Education Office should lege has a long tradition, whereas not the business of Government to carry out the payment of school King's College is as yet in its in-do so. The primary concern of monthly bills. The present method fancy. The latter is built to accom- Government in education is to give proved itself unsatisfactory when modate 1,000 pupils, but as it is to its youthful citizens the mental there was a few years ago an em- unlikely that it would be, from the training that will enable them to bezzlement of public moneys allotted beginning of the new scheme, filled earn their bread and butter. Even operative, the same method should for the payment of the monthly to capacity by secondary classes, it if it be maintained that the Chinese be applied Belilios Public School,

has been suggested elsewhere that Classics form a necessary part of where the Head now utilises the full

one section of the building be tem- the education of Chinese youths, it Government's Comment. time services of a Mistress. Under

porarily set aside for the Govern would seem better to Paragraph 14. The proposals ment Training College.

raise existing conditions the Heads of contained in the sub-paragraphs alternative there might be tempor- Chinese schools which are attended

As an standard of Chinese in Schools in addition to their ordinary (a) (b) (c) were all,referred to arily some elementary classes. scholastic duties are responsible the Treasurer. The amount of

by the many, than to concentrate on. 17.-The graduate masters at Tnstructions to sell by Public (a) The drawing up of the monthly

present at Queen's College should be comparatively

one school which is attended by the fewi to King's College, costs

The school pay-sheets and payment of the up amongst many, whereas to con- though some economy should

Government $47,000 per teachers' salaries,

centrate it all on the head office effected in staff by the amalgama pension rights, etc., of the staff..

be annum, exclusive of the cost of (b) The collection

over-burden of pupils' fees, would be to

that tion of the classes and the raising The Commissioners auggest that the

1. und the payment of these into office.

The probable result of of the maximum number per class school be handed over to private. carrying out the Commissioner's to 35. The Commissioners consider interests. There are many Chinese (a) The disbursement of moneys in recommendations, would be an in- that for this education of senior gentlemen of standing. In the Colony.

crease in the Head Office staff with boys the employment of men teach and elsewhere who are interested In account of the school monthly out any corresponding decrease in ers is advisable. When the present the school. Doubtless they will see

THE Undersigned have received for:

Auction

ON

FRIDAY, April 15, 1932, commencing at 2.30 p.m., at their Sales Room,

4, Duddell Street.

A Collection of VALUABLE CURIOS.

Comprising:---

dhas Pictures, etc., etc.

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

the Baak.

bills.

The Commissioners understand that these financial duties

Vases,

are ä

14, 1932.

LAMMERT BROS.,

·

Auctioneers. Hong Kong, April 12, 1932.

large

schools with an attendance roll of

schools is exall, since it is divided present at Q work thrown on the heads, of

the staffs of the schools..

F

Headmaster of King's College re-that it is maintained." Amber and Agate Ornaments,

Hours of Work in Schools. tires there would not be any neces Ivory Ware, Porcelain

16. The Commissioners have had sity

Government's Comment. Bronze Ware, Bowls, Plates, Em-source of aggravation to the Heads for their information the

to fill this

appointment, it Paragraph 21.—The question `of time carries with it a salary of £1,100 to Chinese studies at the University, broideries, Cloisonne Ware, Bud- of Schools, especially in

tables of each member of the De- £1,300.

with which is bound up the future 18.-It will probably be necessary policy regarding the Vernacular over six hundred pupils, and a large partment, and as a result of their

time-tables the at some future date for Government Middle School and regarding Chin- On View from Thursday, April grades. They consider that the following observations and recom- to build a primary school to servoj ese as a compulsory subject in the

staff of teachers of varying salary rutiny of these

mendations are made:-

the western district of Hong Kong Senior Local and Matriculation duties more properly belong to the

(a) The number clerical staff of the Education Office, periods per week in proportion to of King's and Queen's Colleges. Investigated by a special Com of teaching and to care for the primary classes examinations, le at present being (a) The duty of the drawing up the number of correction periods The building of such a school should mittee. of the monthly pay-sheets has only allotted to each teacher is in sorte be financed out of the sale of the reported it is not proposed to take Until this Committee has of recent years devolved upon the schools or sections of schools far too present Queen's College site, which any action. Heads of Schools. This devolution small, and points to considerable is extremely valuable. adds unnecessarily to the burdens of over-staffing. This applies parti-

Medical Officers of Schools. the Heads by making them share cularly to Queen's

22. The Commissioners recom College, King'a unduly in the financial responsibility College, and the Chinese Staff at

Paragraph 16-18. These far mend that the posts of two Medical of the Department.

Belilios Public School. In one case caching proposals Tave received Officers of, Schools and three School. (b). In regard to the collection of a full-time teacher has only ten the anxious consideration of the Nurses, be abolished. When money gram is lying at the office of pupils' fees by the Heads of Schools, teaching periods per week, in others the present Queen's College build-to go, in order to preserve the essen- Government. The unsuitability of Is scarce many desirable things have the Great Northern Telegraph the Commissioners consider that the some teachers have up to fourteen Ing has long been recognized, but tial things. In the opinion of the Company (Limited) of Den present plan is cumbersome and ill-hours for corrections, weekly; while

managed. During the sessions of in one school under a European fied that the proposals of the Com-

the Government is far from satis Commissioners the Medical Officers the Commission it was tentatively Head three of the non-British Staff

of Schools are desirable but not. Silverlead, from Kobe..

proposed by the Commissioners that had no teaching time-tables at all. missioners represent the best pos-essential. They would substitute the pupils' fees should be paid at The Commissioners consider that Bible solution of a discult educa- another system, whereby every new the Head Ofice Instead of at the the Heads of Schools have not all tional problem, which involves Pupil would be required to produce Schools, but the proposal was con- shown the necessary strictness in available in the eastern end of be in a standard form, before he consideration of the facilities medical certificate, which should

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Government's Comment.

Victoria and in Kowloon. At pre- would be permitted to enter school.. sent a different, but almost equally This scheme would tend to bring By J. MILLAR WATT. than one Government school and gis of the Director of Medical and far reaching scheme affecting more the schools more directly under the

involving the sale of the site of Sanitary Services, and would aid Queen's College, le under con him in his plans for the batterment

of, the

general health of the.. Colony.

Government's Comment... Paragraph 23-The fees charge- able for this service have been re- 19. These are mixed primary is now estimated at $9,655 per vised and the net cost of this work ichools

which prepare British children for secondary education at extension, as soon as funds, permit,..

annum,Government hopes for an the Central British School, Kowloon, rather than a cessation. The re The schools are at comparatively

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Bideration.

VICTORIA BRITISH SCHOOL & QUARRY BAY SCHOOL.

close quarters, and in proportion to commendation of the Commission- the number of pupils are very fallacious assumption "once healthy ars seems to be based on the pensive to the Government to main; always healthy. The Director of tain. A considerable proportion of the pupils of Victoria British School in close touch with the Medical

Medical ende Sanitary Services are children of Government ser

vants. In the view of the Commiscere of Schools who are under sloners the expenditure upon these his direct control...