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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 7, 1941.
URGENT NEED OF PRIMARY EDUCATION FACILITIES
THE MOST URGENT development re- quired in the field of education in Hong. Kong, says the report for 1940-41 of the Director of Education, Mr. C. G. Sollis, is the extension of Government provision for Chin- ese primary education, especially for the children of the poorer classes.
This, says Mr. Sollis, should take two forms: the provision of Government schools and more generous subsidies to private schools.
For the former a ten year plan, has been drawn up and approved by the Board of Education, pro- viding ultimately for 50 schools (20 urban to accommodate about 7,200 children, and 30 small rural ischools to accommodate from 2,500
to 3,000).
For the latter a new subsidy code has been prepared and 115- proved by the Board of Education and the Hong Kong Government. The plan for Government rural, schools includes a new teachers' training college for rural school teachers.
Another development of almost equal urgency is the provision of playgrounds for schools in the urban districts. A list of argas in which such playgrounds are quired has been prepared and sub- mitted to the Town Planner.
New Grant Code
When the
new grant code ceives flual approval, there
re- will be reasonable provision under ex- isting conditions for English edu- cation, and further expansion should await the prior develop- ment of Chinese schools as out-
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COLONY AS HAVEN OF REFUGE FOR HOMELESS
The war in Europe has dominated the outlook of the staff and the war in China that of the pri soners to a large number of whom release from prison has meant a return to land in occupation by the enemy and to devastated homes with families probably dead or scattered, writes Major J. L. Will- cocks, in his report on the Prisons Department for 1940-41.
With these conditions prevailing, he says, it is hardly surprising that Hong Kong has been regard- The report of the Education De-ed as a haven of refuge by the hungry and the
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partment also reveals that the provided schools (that is, Govern- ment schools) cost $1,915,234 dur- ing the period January 1940 to March 1941 and fees collected totalled $368,529, Aided schools cost Government $578,570 in grants and subsidies.
There were no less than 400 ap- plications for the 48 places in the new course starting in Septem- ber 1940 at the Teachers Training College.
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The year has been one long of cholera (26 cases and 7 deaths), struggle against the evil effects both in Stanley Prison. of over-crowding due to abnormal conditions which have, of course, Remand Prison aggravated the miserable poverty
Chinese In the of the majority of the
industrial, spiritual, physical training of from whom the prison population mental and
been prisoners there has comes.
with the position In consequence, progressive pri- change and
and son administration has been sadly regard to young offenders
same. hampered and the only grounds after-care remained the for satisfaction are that things On the 1st. April, 1941, however, have not been allowed to slip back the Juvenile Remand Home was to what they were in the bad old transferred from the Police to the days.
Prisons Department and became In addition to their normal the Causeway Bay Reformatory dutles, which have been heavier for convicted boys while boys on
went to the than ever before, both the Europ-remand ean and Indian staff have worked Juvenile Section of Victoria Re-
take mand Prison. The midday Russian communi- hard to fit themselves to que yesterday stated. During part in the defence of the Colony,
The incarceration of persons our should the need arise, as, units of the night of 5/6 August tropps continued to wage battle the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence awaiting trial, debtors, destitutes with the enemy in the Kholm- Corps. The wardress staff of Lai and deportees in Victoria Remand Smolensk, and Byelaya-Tserkov Chi Kok Prison have to-day ca- Prison (11,464 admissions, includ- directions and on the Estonian operated wholeheartedly in working. "Special Release" prisoners, for the British War Organisation. during the period) has proved a sector of the front.
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success and 'continues to function "In other directions and set-
satisfactorily. The popularity of tors of the front there were no
the move of the Remand Prison large scale military operations.
Prison industries have assisted with the poorest section of the "In the Baltic Sea an enemy transport with troops and amin defence measures by the manu-general public who formerly were munition was sunk by our sub- facture of articles required by the not able to visit their friends and military authorities and by sup-relatives on remand in Stanley "Our air force continued to plying convict labour for digging Prison owing to the cost of trans- inflict blows upon motor and trenches, levelling camp sites and port is evidenced by, the number of visitors to Victoria Remand mechanised units, infantry and on anti-malarial; work.
..viz: artillery of the enemy and
Apart from extensive civil de- Prison during the period, the air force at his aerodromes," fence, measures the only major work has been the trenching and ---British Wireless.
manuring of a large piece of land on the west side of the prison in preparation for the growing of al- falfa and Chinese spinach as an experiment to be carried out in conjunction with the Medical and Botanical and Forestry Depart ments."
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NANTAO GATES TO BE REOPENED (SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL”) After being closed for a week
[SPECIAL TO “CHINA- MAIL") the gates of Nantao, In Shanghai, are expected to be reopened to- In June the prison printing in- THE FULL BRITISH COURT day by the Japanese authorities. dustry was closed down, the OF APPEAL IN SHANGHAI, OVER BY SIR Closure was due to searches for printing machinery and stock PRESIDED terrorista following the wound- were transferred to the Govern- ATHOLL MACGREGOR, YES- ing of a Japanese gendarme last ment Printers in Hong Kong, and TERDAY REDUCED THE FIVE-- weck-International News Ser- the printing shap was converted YEAR SENTENCE PASSED LAST vice.
into a temporary workshop for JANUARY ON PATRICK" "J. the newly started concrete block MACKELLAR TO 18 MONTHS making industry.
MacKellar's appeal against the In spite of gross overcrowding sentence on the ground. that the discipline has been well main- jury was misdirected at the trial tained and up to the close of 1940 was turned down, 25
MacKellar, a well-known The United States has unfrozen health equally so. Unfortunately, millions of dollars worth of So- during the period Ist, January Shanghai Briton was convicted viet orders In America, according. 31st. March, 1941, there occurred on a charge of embezzling the to a Reuter despatch from Wash- an outbreak of dysentry (99 funds of the American Express.-
cases) followed by an outbreak International Nows Service. ington."
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