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hich confront the Colony in these days, not of business de- pression, but of political unease and uncertainty, which may de- mand vital decisions or the ten- dering of momentous advice at any time Nor did he show him- self any the less well versed in the Colony's purely internal pro- blems, acknowledging his indebt- edness to the guide which Sir Andrew Caldecott ventured to give in his last speech in Legis lative Council.

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believe will soon come before the Governor in the form of con crete proposals and recommenda- tions, and we think we can now be assured of a sincere and sym- pathetic study.

welcome distinct from one involv““

The Colony's new Governor, Sir Geoffry Northcote, made his In the meantime, the Colony first acquaintance with Hong welcomes Sir Geoffry. It is a Kong and Hong Kong's people ing official display and ceremony. yesterday, and if His Excellency's It is a welcome to a man to whom impressions at the close of the the Colony, after the first intro- formalities of welcome were as

ductions are over, believes it can look as a helpful friend, as well happy as those of the members

as a competent administrator. of the community who pledged |their loyal co-operation in his

work, both His Excellency and Health Campaign the Colony must to-day feel well content. Sir Geoffry lost no The campaign which is being time in winning that confidence run to encourage a fuller use of which is the first essential of a

Britain's health services is to last for six months, and it will successful regime. His personal deal in turn with what can be ity did much to make the achieve-done under the various schemes ment possible. His speech at for mothers and children, for the King's Theatre in reply to the schools, for adolescents and the Public Address of Welcome, adults, and for what is usually known as "physical training." confirmed it. No-one could have In the last subject prominence listened to the speech and assess will naturally be given to the ed its trend without feeling that possibilities of new Physical if Sir Andrew Caldecott's peculTraining and Recreation Act. The conference in Manchester of the lar genius as an administrator Nursery School Association of has become something of a legend Great Britain was a fitting pre in the Colony, His Majesty's ad-lude to the campaign, and the visers in London could not have speakers king part in it right- fly claimed that the foundations chosen a successor more likely to of physical fitness might be laid fill with distinction the gap left in the nursery schools. Dr. Cathe by Sir Andrew's departure. Sirrine Chisholme, in her ap preciation of the work of the Geoffry's predecessor în office

school medical service, urged achieved his eminence and com- that the doctors should not be plete command of public esteem content with routine inspections

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