THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1936
RETIREMENT OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE LEAG
LONDON CIVIL SERVANTS
LETTER
From Our Own Correspondent)
Question Of Pensions
Considered
SALARY CUT.COMING-
+ Continued from Pupk: 13:
"May I congratulate the shivara master's certificate is not sun- sity authorities on so successful cient thr oke Junior Local Fr ly gauging our standards for the amination
pose to Perlenme extent.” Last week about 80 "There has been much diseta-boys
110 from my two That it would not be economical sion during the last year, both in senior classes sat for the Govers- to permit a Government officer to the Press and elsewhere, about ment Clerkships Framination retire on pension after ben years examinations in general, and the they want posts, they are pre- London November 21 Just before the ceremony, three the public service irrespective School Certificate in particular pared to leave, they stay on to London has a new Lord Mayor starlings entered the Guildhall of the age of such officer, unless! The writer of a recent report stig-Class 1 now, if they can get there, and his traditional "show the and made a thorough inspection. his post could be abolished or at matises examinations as a disease to take the present School Certi- best for some years brought the They perched on the table upon least kept vacant for a crusider to be stamped out: I am not at all ficate Examination and I view country to town. Sir Percy Vin-which later were to be laid the able period, was the answer given sure that young humanity them with concern the future of these ceat, the new Lord Mayor who Sword and Mace and hopped to a question by the How Me selves, in Hong Kong would a senior classes if many of them has succeeded Sir Stephen Killik, about the carpeted floor.
M. K. Lo at yesterday's meeting prove of such drastic action- pass and are called up by Govern- spent his early youth in the coun- When the procession entered, of the Legislative Council.
believe it was Huxley who said ment. An examination at try. He decided, therefore, that a two of the birds flew on to the The Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo asked: that ‘examinations are a neces- carlier stage would not. I think, pageant of country life should stonework but the third rested on precede him as he drove in his the back of a chair. It was only (1) Wat was the total sary evil but at least he admitt, affect those who wish to enter a
number a European Civil Sered they were necessary. There is University later. state coach, along a route through when the occupant of the chair vants employed by Government at little doubt that, when run en pro- "Owing to the change in the the city where so many former arrived, that this third one moved (a) end of 1923, (8) end of 1931. per lines, they are not only indis School year this Examination. now men of his office have been cheer-on to the head of the senior end of 1935; (2) What was peniable but are invaluable.
sheriff, Colonel J. D. Laurie!
ed.
-!
the number of persons constitut-
streer. The
jcuta- right across our school year and I would ayain plead that the taken by Goverment as their re- School Leaving Examination bej cruiting examination for clerks.
Renewals And Repairs "During the year Government levelled and returfed, at consider-
baaing and live turkeys gobbling cient fees and emoluments of the ny, have been made in the Euro-reinforced by independent tests. jɛchools, and I have no hesitation |
And towards the end, came the Old Berkeley Fox Hounds with their Master and bis buntamENTI and whips one of the most un-
seem in the streets.
Marshal
Maintenance.
pean Staff on the Civil List?
and basket
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Stimulus to Pupil Following detachments of the Po- after fitting off, he later deing the European Senior Clerical It has been well said that they lice, Navy, Army and Air Force and scended. While the Lord Mayor and Accounting Stad at the afore set both as a powerful stimulus representatives of the City Ward elect was signing the declaration.
sald periods?
to puril and a necessary audit to Clubs and Companies, came cars the bird flew to one of the com-
2.What was the total amount teacher, and without them I fear drawn by famous old breeds of mittee men and alighted on the country horses-Suffolk Punches. top of a silver-headed staff, where of salaries paid to the Public our work would
hat self-possessed for a while Works Department Staff Euro- school record and school reportable expense, a large portion of Percherons, and Shires.
|pean and non-uropean,; in (a) system of assessing the intelli-
our recreation ground at Cause-} Country Produce
Real Monsent.
1923, (b) 1937; (c) 1935.
gence and industry of pupils Is
way Bay; I can assure Govern- Onlookers SIW country pro- His real moment came, how-
3. Since the date of the Report surely open to the objection that ment that it was money well spent. duce of every kind-wheat and
not always infail Since then the ground has been barley, potatoes, tomatoes, mush-ever, when Sir Percy Vincent, rooms and watercress, butter: then in the Lord Mayor's chair of the Retrenchment Commission teachers are
(May 1931) (a) what additions.ible in their judgments of their made available for organised was signing the agreement to ac-!
if any, (b) what reductions, if pupile. These methods mast games for four other Government cheese and bacon. There were live pigs grunting, live sheep cept £12,500 in lieu of all the an-
The present "School Certif-in saying that school games for Lord Mayoralty.
cate Examination falls one in-all of us have taken on a new During the signing, the starling (a) In view of the impera-portant condition of a good lease of life. There is tremend- perched on the head of the City tive necessity for retrenchment. school examination, viz. that it is ous activity nowadays in games; and appeared interested what is the policy of Government determined largely by the school we play cricket, football, hockey. usual and refreshing sights ever in all the proceedings. When this in regard to European officerseniculum and syllabuses and tennis, volley ball
City's traffic-worn was over the bird flew to the top who hates dirty, but at the not vice versa, and in this respect ball, and both inter-class and in of the Sword Bearer's far Cap of vice in the Colony, but not having it differs fundamentally from the ter-school matches are arranged reached pensionable age, are never-" old Matriculation, 2 difference regularly. Occasionally we play So they moved through London, At last he was caught and for theless willing to retire? (3) If bringing to the thousands of).
appreciate. In certain respects|ganised games now take place cheering City people a breath of his curiosity he was turned out der existing regulations there which I am afraid some do not teams from Canton, etc. Our or into the rain. His less venture is no power to permit such retire the old Matriculation was an evil during school hours: parties of some fellows continued to fly mente, wil Government consider for a school-leaving examination:[100–150 - boys go down twice a about at a safe distance round the the question of amending such there is now little conflict between week, in charge of masters, and hall. They dared not approach regulations with the view to co the criculum and the present all boys, unless specially exempt- nearer than the chandeliers.
ferring such power, in order to
examination.
ed, are expected to play games." save the heavy expense of paying
No Incubus*
"Under this" hall we have a the return passage for such off The School Certificate should splendid basement equipped for
recreation-ping further short period to serve in
pong, suggested, for if is a test at the chess, reading of library books "Bedlam" is a word which ori-jorder to qualify for pension?
magazines, end of a pupil's school career on and
display of ing. pig breeding-aot forgetting
Official Statistics
most of the ordinary school sub-pictures of current events, news- that familiar figure, the shepherd ginated with a predecessor of the new premises, the former Bethlem with his faithful dog.
jects, taught over many years, and papers, etc. It is invariably Delightful splashes of colour Royal Hospital The original bos-
In replying, the Colonial Secre which, after much discussion, crowded both before and after came with lorries bearing the Pital was the oldest mental asy-tary said:
were considered necessary in Hong school A few months ago the lum in the world.
1 (1) (2) 647; (b) 93; (c) Kong. The examination is some boys in charge of this basement England's orchards, nurseries and glasshouses. An and another have to be
Ten thousand relics of one kind 975.
what rigid, but as stated on started a weekly periodical of trans- (2) (a) 24; (b) ́63; (c) 63. old country inn, with the square
anything their own: it is typed, in English previous occasion 2 ferred. These weigh something of the village, the farmer and the
There was
no Senior Clerical elastic is apt to perish in Hong(and" Chinese, is illustrated and is labourer enjoying a glass of ale will be one of the most awkward and Accounting Staff in 1923, but Kong: or to apply a well known pinned up for all to read a "moet
will be one of the awkward sgures have been given in respect principle of economics, bad (Le commendable effort. together. was the climax to a jobs, it is expected. Another will of officers who tablean showing Ceres, the God- the transfer of thousa is of
within, soft) subjects will always drive
jout good subjects
"I regret to say that only 30 to the links which join us to the Old which you have given me sheaves of barley, and growing photographs and the thousands of (a) 1923 European $579,963 Keeping in mind the educa-40 per cent. of our boys can swim Boys, the other being the Old morning. I always enjoy visiting
books and documents from the re- hops, with the pickers going busi-ference library. The task is ex
Non-Enropean
225,859 tional requirements and wishes of -- ather deplorable in a place like Boys' Association. The latter again Schools because I am me of those ly about their work.
Hong Kong parents and boys, our Hong Kong. It would be a splen-held a successful dinner in this plucky people who enjoyed their Total
programme (and did thing, if only for theirhall during the year. -$.805,822 jesamination
own, school days and Iîke to be. 1,605,054 hence your whole educational sy-physique, if schoolboys could be Mr. B. Burney, His Majesty's reminded of them. In the
495,840 stem) must of necessity differ sent regularly to the beaches it inspector, on his visit to the school trospect certčin, shall we say, considerably from those obtaining the summer months as was the last year remarked on the excel-salutary but painful incidents fall $2,100,894 elsewhere, and of these there are case a few years ago before the lence of our libraries we have a into a proper,--and now painless, $1,105,375 endless varieties. We are not Government beaches were closed College Library for Staff and perspective. I have listened with
620,149 called upon, for example, to fit down:
[senior pupils (1510_TOK),-19 gresterinterest to the Headmaster's
countryside atmosphere
Sheaves of golden English wheat and barley stacked high on newly-painted farm vehicles went by. The story of the dairy indus- try was told in another group andj them folowed one car äfter an-
War Relics For "Bedlam" London's Imperial War Museam
other depicting aspects of farm is moving from South Kensington cers and families who have only act be an incubus" or an evil, as indoor
life-calf rearing, sheep rais-to a new home-"Bedlam "
fruits of
*****Old Times" Coach
pected to take four months.
The Museum was first amSÜTI- Four shire horses, each weigh-led in the Crystal Palace. Later, ing more than a ton and a cham-
the lighter exhibits went to South
pion in his class, drew the lorry Kensington and the heavier ones
The "Old Times” coach rattled:
to Bedford. I their new home,
merrily by strange contrast to all exhibits will be assembled and the vehicle of the speed age. But the creaking veteran was z re-
many more shown then hitherta. Seven Centuries
for lunatics.“
13 4
that category.
now fall
(b) 1981 European Non-European
Total
(c) 1935 European Non-European
Total
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our boys into any particular niche With our modicum of Physical Class Libraries (1,602 volk), a perch: L'adn't pretend to unde eard-breaker in its way. In 1888. Although the present Bethlema
.725 518 of employment or social life. It is Training in school, organised science Library (299 vols.), a stand all-that he has said about it was driven from London to
3. (a) 86; (b) 34-
somewhat dificult to state an aim games in the winter, and organised Teachers' Reference Library (528 examinations, which is lucky, per- Brighton and back for a wager of Royal Hospital was opened in the
4 (a) The Govemment consi-lin so many words-8 School Certi-swimming in the summer, the pro- vols.) and a Chinese Library (433 hape; because, if I had, I might İyear of Waterloo, the original bos- ders that it would not be ecomo-ficate Examination should be less blem of Physical Education, on vols.)
have been tempted into rash and $1,000 to £500 against the jopital dates back nearly seven cetical to permit an officer to retire,academic than Matriculation, of which so mach stress is laid in Bey being accomplished in eight turies. It began in 1247
"Mr. Ng Fung Chan, the senior unguarded consent or diesent. If hours. The trip was completed priory and later became a hospital on pension after ten years in the a more human and everyday kind: modern education all over the Anglo-Chinese masterin the the Director of Education feels 10 minutes under time and · 40)
public service irrespective of the it should be taken in the stride world, would in large measure be Education Department, retired or that representations on this sub- minutes within the record.
When a committee visited "Bed-age of such officer, less bis of pupils, without the necessity solved of tremendous beneft to pension from Queen's College inject should be made to Government The other old veteran roused & iam in the 16th centum, they re post could be abolished or at less for cramming; and with a good the pupils individually and to the November after 37 years of faith he will doubtless make them, and cheer. This was "Old Bill," the ported that it is so loathsome
kept vacant for a considetable prospect of success, provided pre- Colony generally
ful and legal service. I regret they will of course be carefully war-time
which carried that it not it for any man to bus
"The increased siertress vious promotions have been con- period
in the impending departure of Mr. H. considered. I can SAY. DO troops to the front line. It was enter."
(b) The Government is prepar-scientiously made.
school during the last few months G. Warington and Mr. E. L. Chau, than that decorated with wreaths and popi
“For the average Hong Kong has been remarkable and many on transfer to other, schools, after
New Premises pies made by-disabled ex-service Moorfields in
A new building was erected ined to give the matter careful
pupil I feel that, (to quote from members of my Staff have com 12 32218" in 1675% Apparently
ja previous report), if on leaving wented on this. It is a common Queen's. the conditions were not inach Finally came the new Lord
school he can read the varied thing now for boys themselves to "A nots better, because the patients, both Mayor himself, bowing to the male and female, were locked in of the Secretary of State for the newspaper with fair ease and in than sit as heretofore a study It is learned that the sanction news in English and Chinese open up doors and windows, rather. cheering crowds from his State cella, naked and chained and 17-colonies has been obtained for a telligence, then the schools have rooms. I should like to remove a King
ing on straw, with only one blan-retrenchment in the salaries of done, academically, all that can misapprehension which, I under ket for covering.
Government Servants.
The expected of them," and the stand, exists in the minds of car-
men.
consideration.
Salary Cats Sanctioned
service. "As regards new premises for this school, anybody who is study- event during the ing the public furnce of thisc celebration o the lorry seriously will agree with me: of His Majesty the that the project of new buildings: -coach.
must be relegated for the present Brilliant Scene At Guildhall
At University> to the extegory of castles in the # The Lord Mayor's Banquet ztj
air And, as Calverley put it, H During the 18th century the A lety on the salaries of Goy-School Certificate Examination, tain: parents, viz, that school "We have at least 50: 012 Boys you can't realise your ideal you the Guildhall the same night, the lunatics were visited just as lions ernment Servants will come into based as it is on a curriculum hours devoted to organised games at various Universities: at the re-must do your best to idealise the most daming event of the Year at the Tower of London Zoo" Afect this month, but the exact which provides a good background are so much waste time, or per cent Hong Kong University Con- real In other words, we must in the City, lost none of its tradi-penny admission was charged! - tional brilliancy through Seing!
details of the levy are not yet ob of knowledge in a number of sub-bass I should say time-lost to the gregation 1: former - pupils of make the best of what we have, held in the midst of the General 1815. and later 450 lumatica we that the Colonial Treasurer is ing this sim. It is rather the fas by actual experiment at home that extend to them our hearty con ready tarmen of the traditions A new "Bedlam was opened in tainable. It is, however, learned jects, will go far towards ensur-pupils' stadies. It has been proved Queen's received their degrees. 1 got, and from what i have, al- Election. Because of the Elec secommodated there. Perhaps the swing up a circah on the bion to gird at newspapers and the work was better done after the greations
and record, of, Queen's Collegezk tion, the Prime Minister and most notorious criminal lestie mater, which will be jasned, in the yet they do enter largely into our introduction of these games I can desire to thank Sir Robert know that this will be philoso other prominent Ministers could interned at "Bedlam" was Oxford,
daily lives to t
not attend, but otherwise there who found asylum there after his course of the next few days
was the same brilliant gathering conviction on a charge of having
of the leaders of the nation's life fired at Queen"Victoria while the
All the famous gold plate of the latter was driving in St. James's City was on view on the long Park in 1841--
tables, which were decorated with
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red and white carnations. As the LONG-DISTANCE TELEPHONE guests took dizner, an orchesza played in the Minstrels Gallery, fawked by the giant figures" of{ Gog and Magog Two chefs with towering white hats, stood at one
Gu huge bar
slices
As the result on Wedi
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essure, parents that there will be Ho Tung for défraying the cost|phically and successfully done. no loss of efficiency on this score of renovating the paintings which It now remains for me to con and that the school wurk will not adom "this hall; "the Queen's Cot gratulate not only - the prize win-
Hege, Old Boys' Association for nere but the manners up, that few their continued support and forto, say, all who have put in was all their generosity in emmy Ja, term's work Every hard
there the Editors of the Yello
ulun the year has been onm way, and steady progress>žbe
and tone of the school
Lauring lacuminations “I am much in sympathy with 13 recommendation of the recent be allowed to sid Įreport which states that a Leaving "Formerly ap
Exazination should be held at asjaristocrats at gan earlier stage than at present, in work and little or order to cater for a wider range a little danger of
papl I have frequently winging too fa attention to the abnormal Each boy gets
off in numbers in the
School from Class 13 to and
nally shouter 60-
before the end
ationally unsound and salsoj
convinced
ay-he said to participate
the base that
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