1949-06-22 — Page 3

PETITION OVER SCHOOLS FOR WORKERS' CHILDREN

Reminders

Today

Talbot House 50, Merton Road, 1.30 pm HK Amateur Radio Transmitting reeling, awwal Society,

Toc II Club meeting,

China Firet Club theatre, 5.30 Dan.

Ivery Engraving Exhibition, Hntol Creil, 10 an.

Flog Whist,

Women's Section. European YMCA, Sino-British Club Orebesha 19 livarɛal, Cosmu Chub, 6 D19

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TOMORROW

Y's Men's Club, talk on "chica

lion" by Me Jim Hay-tan, Roof Garden, LK tutel, 12,46 pan.

Half a loaf is bottor than no broad stressed the Right Ravorand R. O. Hall, Bishop of Victoria, and the Reverend George Sho Cathedral Chap- lain, in a petition to the Governor-in-Council yesterday.

The petition asked for the Director of Education's closure order sørved on the Hong Kong and Kowloon Schools for Workers' Children to be revoked; that his notice to withdraw subsidy be cancelled; that the existing subsidy be in- creased and that new Government schools should be open to workers" children.

The Director of Education has i That the Director of Schuention's antice to withthaw subsidy fo ordered that schools he closed m

the Schools may be cancelled and August 31, this year. His pro-

used to accommodate the children | But the existing subsidy be ine In two new schools to be con-

Truewd by Government.

At the end of 1846 there was a large number of children of utility com→ employees of loent

govern- pranies, dockyards and ment departments restimated then at about 36,000) who were

Un-

timmys of the Colony.

RAF Ancelation, huurbem, Juco-able to svetle admission into the

bean Room, HK Hotel 12.45 03.04.

Kowloon Rotay Club

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artenstrance

With tumchen,

Malish burch Misionary Society "Pask-wir

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That the

Government W Schools should be open to new pupils whose parents up workers in the Colony ated that the work- ers' Falucation Advancement So- +icly Crepresenting 32 lending Untons in the Folony) Labour Chall have e sole right of dominating pupils to there schools.

Schools, the Educater AdvaIMPROVEMENTS TO

R. A. C. Beceling Penilaient Surely for Workers in Hong

Kowloon started

Hy Hales, 12.30 pan. m 30 Mont

school for workers' children munes of a Flower Day and exi The

meeting will be closed }

Delay In

Payments System

The Hague. June 21. Neither the new European payments system nor the Ben- elux "pre-uplore" arrangement will be ready to start operatizi as due on 1sty 1, Dr HM, Jie- schfeld, Netherlands' commis. inner for the European Regus

H My

lev-cs to the "yopathise

BRIDGES IN NT

The Army authorities Burne

yesterday that work will start charly on the improvements 15

, land wres sorted he spiippad ridges in the New Terr

eval schools.

In September 1948 the wärkere Education Advancement Society ased $15.719.79 from a lower my e num was banded to the Management Committee la meet Haneint responsibility educating the children.

On May 20, received

very Propronmae, drelared ty- į Fillable premises.

day.

Dr.

5,1

Jories to enable the bridges to accept heavier traffic.

a certain

Thx will result amount of traffic dislocation pecially on the main road leading

round the Western New Territor les.

hair of the

Every effort will be made fo keep such an inconvenience to a minimoan and as much work carried out posable will be night, added the slatement.

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1949 letter was from the Director of Education cancelling the registra- tion or all the workers' chi'dre: chools (with the exception of

SOLD CIGARETTES Col on Jaffe Road called the

reason WITHOUT LICENCE School). Tramway

The that the schools are in Further as

ahedding The woman invernment interiks to open onerigarettes from her walet all along 2 pre large school each on either side the way," said RJ Millington, when conference that no agreement has: of the harbour the subsidy to the Chinese women, Che Lai, aged yet been reached on the payments, schools will cgure after August 3153, was charged at Central yea- system but expressed hope that on 1949 but pupils from these schools accord might be found at a meel- ing of the ERP big four Sir Stafford Cripps, M. Maurice Pets che, M. Paul Henri Spank and A. E. Harriman, to be held in Bris- sels on Thursday

Hirschfeld told

Even if this happens, he said, It is no longer possible for tech- nical reasons to put it into effect en July 1, when the currency rangement expires.-Associated Press,

BOY HIT BY FALLING POLE

A boy of 13, Li Ching, was walking on the street in Wan- chat Road, when a pule fell on him from the first floor of a building.

Will

be given

priority of entry into the proposed new schcols,

There are 1.947 pupils in the schools whose registration are belha cancelled. It la believed that the two new Government Schools

will be able to hold 1,920 puplis and this means after abrorbing the children In the Workers Children Schools. would be unable other pupils

that

to gain admittance into the new schoolc.

No Increase in Vacant Places

This means that although there

is an increase In two schools in..

On the complaint of the boy's volving a sum of $700,000 there is no increase in vacant places for Chin father, a

Chinese woman,

sald children,

the unschooled Sheung. of 223, Wanchai Road.

st floor, was charged at Central petition. There would then be an in the quality of Improvement yesterday with negligently allow ing a pole to fall from the first school-premises but not in quan.

floor to the danger of persons Jawfully using the street.

She was fined $10 and ordered to pay $40 compensation to the boy.

USED TOY GUN IN TAXI HOLD-UPS An unemployed axi-driver, who is alleged to have held up four taxi-drivers during the past two weeks and robbed them of about $200 in cash and two watches, was yesterday arrested by the police at a pawnshop in Wanchal, when he attempted to pawn one of the watches,

His arrest led to the discovery of a toy revolver, said to be the phony weapon he used, which was hidden in the roof of a house in Lockhart Road,

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But with 35,000 children sull dented education (with no pros- peets of the majority of them get- ling education probably in their pre-adult lives at the present rate

of of the building of progress schools and the birth of New child.en), it seems that half a leaf is better than no bread, added the petition.

as high Although

not of standard as the Committee desires to attain, yet the schools are not below the standard of the average subsidised primary schools in the Colony, said the petition.

The

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with selling cigaretios erdny without a licence and possessing Hutiable commolt ics,

The prosecuting officer said that 10 clgarettes were tied to de- fendant's waist when she was ar rested at the Star Ferry wharf, A fine of $50 or 14 days' in de- fault was imposed,

"THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22; "1949.

Trip North Cancelled

Two hours after 1,200 Shanghai-bound Chinese passengers had embarked in the Dutch steamer Tiksadane. (above) the trip was cancelled when it was decided that it would be dan. gercus to sail up the Whangpoo because of the Anchises bomb. Ing. Below is a group of those who were among the first to board the ship relaxing on deck after choosing the most com. fortable spot--("China Mall" Photos).

Scathing Attack On Immigration Dept.

A scathing attack on the Immigration Department was made by Mr. M. A. da Silva before Mr. F. X. d'Almada at Central yesterday in the case of Mrs. Galina Ivanovna Kamachkina, agod 31.

Mr. Silva's attack followed the statement in court that the Governor-in-Council had rejected on appeal by her lawyer to allow her to stay in the Colony.

who Mudd, Sub-Inspector prosecuted, said that the Gov- ernor-in-Council had rejected her petition Colony

After Mr. Silva had pleaded

Ordinance On Fishing Trawlers

An

Ordinance

10 bring

fishing trawlers, which ore in- creasing in local waters, within the complete scope of the Mor- chant

Shipping Ordinance, 1800, will have its First Reading at today's Legislative Council meeting.

No part of the Merchant Ship- ping Ordinance, 1899, is completo- ly applicable to mechanically pro pelled vessels of large dimensions used for fhing. In view of the Introduction into the Colony of fishing with such vessels is con- sidered that certain provisions of the Ordinance be made.applleable to them and that further, provision

may be made by Kingdon

exton-

In the United alve provision is made for fishing boats under the Merchant Ship ping Act. 1094. In view of the different circumstances in which Aisling is carried on from this Colony it is considered more feasible to extend to trawlers such of the provisions of the principal Ordinance as are consider op- plicable and to provide a power to make regulations for cller mailers covered by the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, rather thun enact provisions analogous to that Act at a stage where sufflelent practical experience of the opera- Ashing tion of large mectionleal vessels in the Colony has not been gained..

DUAL ROLE FOR TRAM CONDUCTOR

Chan Shing. a Hong Kong Tramway Company conductor,! was defendant as well as com- Together with Law Shiu-kau, a plainant al Central yesterday. goleman of the Tramway Com pany, he was charged with com- mon assault on Wong Chat in the

third class compartment of a tram, He was fined $75 and ordered in pay $2 compensation plainant.

do com-

were bound Both defendants over in the sun of $200 for one year.

Immediately after sentence was passed. Chan was called as com by finding against an unemployed plainant in a charge of larceny Chinese, Chung Kim, in the Lo stay

Complainant said that during scuffle in the assault incident, that he would

Defendant press for an expulsion order others and have

and

the

for an adjournment, Mr. d'Almada adjourned the case to Friday.

Mr. Silva sald: "When I return- from Kunming in September back like many 1945, I came

with high hopes In my he dropped a watch. her sent back to heart that the bureaucratie op-picked it up and hoarded another Canton whence she had come.pression that offtime existed betrom going in the opposite direc-

fore the war here would be alto-ion,

Hc chased defendant, got gether abolished after the harrow- ing example of the heavy mall-back the watch and took him to Asted Japanese oppression during the Police Statlon.

of three months A sentence was passed on Chung.

Office

Social Welfare

Report For May

the war years.

Wartime Measure

others like mie "I and

have viewed with alarm the continu- ance of what was really a wor- time and emergency metisure-the

of Immigration Department

the

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Mr. Thomas R. G. Fletcher. Foreign Service Officer of the Broom-making and clothing co-operatives to help Folce Authorities. We ylowed this Causadian rovernment, has ar

and children have been with alarm because that office or rived here to act as Canadian

could only operate to department

destituto women

planned by the Government Social Welfare bar and British subjects Commissioner. Previously, Mr. |

Office, according to the Office's report May.

for foreigners

In the same month, the Social Welfare Office dealt with 36 would-be suicides, 25 of whom have been in the Colony for more than two years.

The highlight of May's activi- ties, according to the report, was the Exhibition of Social Services which was sponsored by the Hong Kong Council of Social Services and in which 62 government and private agencies took part. The Exhibition was formally opened by the Governor.

in

Government has undertaken to help this enterprising co-operative get on to its feet again.

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were referred

a comparative handful of Government Assistant Trade and would not exercise Its powern Fletcher served to bar hundreds of thousands at Chinese.

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graduated Cominerce (cum opinion of every right-thinking where he was citizen of Hong Kong, no justin- Bachelor of

the whatsoveer for con-laude). He served in the Canadian ention tinued existence of the Immigra the rank of Captain following ser- igra-Army 1942-1945 and retired with tion Department, and it is

my carnesi hope that as and when vice in England and North West

when Europe. car we obtain a revitalised and re-

the Department Joining constituted Legislative Counell, the first act of that democratic Trade and Commerce in 1945 as holy will be the abolition of that Foreign Service Offeer, he was

Designed to Melbourne in 1946. Police Immigration Department Mr. Fletcher is arccenpanied by

blot on so that a on Hong Kong's wife and infant doughter. Ther escutcheon will be remo

removed.

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A new informal evening class for 40 destituto children was planned in Shamshulpo and all the expenses are being born by one of the Kaifong. The now

Wal gardens at Happy Valley Wel- fare Centre have been sucCOES- "Not one of the reasons which The petition added that in thes

clamour for It was a very successful one and

fully developed by the chil-

Your Worship enumerated at a days of desperate

dren's horticultural co-operative

previous hearing as the true respon- for the whole of its three days in- schools, it is a serious

mambore of

bals for an explusion to close a single school was crowded with visitors. sibility

public have oven boon having

namely undesirability or politi. chain of schools.cluding 315 children from Social

etc. exist in and still more

cal involvement, themselves photographed with

The food and fuel costs com- The work of educating some Welfare Camps and Welfare Cen-

their back- the gardon

this case, and I challenge this 2,000 children has cost Govern- tres; and members of the Social

ground.

Government and the Police to piled by the Labour Department ment $36 a child a year as against Welfare Office were required to

The Squatter Screening Squad

make the allegation If it does for the week ended June 18. about $900

a child a year phid by nuke at least one visit. The Eng-

reactions concentrated on the Metaukok

exist, for I know that it does Rice & Flour Government Lo Grant-in-aldsh and Chinese press

Exhibition were -com-

1,170 In Kowloon, and Brea

Vegetables Secondary schools. Multiply this to the

Arbiter Of Morals

Salt Cabbage by 2,000 and the saving to Gay-plimentary, although the lack of families consisting or 3.413 per- sons were interviewed there, or space and consequent overcrowd- ernment is obvious,

"As I see it, the only reason foll ink of stills was commeated upon the 1,170 families screened Better Than Homos

sympathetically.

May only 185 had been in Hong underlining request for delen-Tea

Balt Fish During May the residents of Keng for 10 or more years; four-dant's expulsion is that some un-

Fish of all the families came known men at some official dosk The Workers Children School-Shamsluips became increasingly fifth

and Chiu has thought to make himself in Pork the 'East River from

of arbiter of morals and such arbiter Firewood districts premites although in some cases actively interested in promoting

fare work [chow - speaking helter further constructive welfare work are not ideal are much

already longe Kwanglung. Three-quarters of the has decreed that it Gorman (who Bean Curd, 14 piecs

Ained $1,000 stcently casual was than the homes from which the through their

Institution. wage-earners Kalfong

sont into tablisheri

defendant into pupils come,

enthusiastic Several

bringing meetings workers.

wife

in England at-Colony) has confe- most distressing

Never quence of the closure ofder is that have been held in which a great

whom he will not give support Hearly 500 children will have to deal of constructive preparatory tempts at suicide

THAILAND'S walk a long way (or pay, trom work was completed. Some of the to the Welfare Office during May: for ertain reasons, this wonian,

NATIONAL DAY fare) in order to get to the two leading members including Messrs. 20 of the unfortunates had been whom he considers to be his com

Wong

Paak-kan, Ma Tox-sau in Hong Kong for more than two non law wife should also be ant Diew Government Schooi9.

Mr. Winal Pachimsavat, Secre the tection by

continued residence in The workers are passionately Wong Yun-saam, Cheung Chung-years. There were 17 successful entitled to his support and pro-

Chau phan, Lal Yam-such,

suicide cases reported by the

were this

tary in charge of the Thailand Colony. Jeager to secure education for their Chaam-kwong, Chan Taat-saam. I Folice. The principal causes were

The

spectacle is so shameful Consulate General at Hong Kong, children and are prepared to co and Sham Trol-wah.

ecorfomic in 22 cases, domestle

tal I ask your worship: not to make sald yesterday that on instruction Butte raising part of the cost. The

eu trouble in 14. physical or mental Inundry The amateur

from his Government, no recep- the expulsion order asked for." closure order

and miscel- therefore leaves them with a feeling of frustration, operative run by a small group of sickness in eight,

remaining

Continuing, Mr. Silva-said: "yption in connection with Tholland's National Day, will be held on Juns the Your Worship makes When the Management Compenr-destitute women at the Bal-aneous reasons in the

Weltere

Expul Government

24. yingpoon

nine cases.

and sion order you will still have to mittee 'was kilowed to open r

The number of women school in the afternoon called Centre expanded a Hilo after the Mongkok School, the Edues. making somewhat slow headway children emigrants interviewed in consider whether she can land in The Consulate will be closed on

and

for further ex-{ tion Department stated that, at first.

A house belonging to the China in April; many of the field or

Power On plans for broom-rent returning to Singapoto or pulsion proceedings against her Light and

Company, could be so used for three years. Youmal Welfare Centres started May, wos nearly three times as Canton or will he left on the air that day." This period has not yet a working

making and clothing co-operative Mainyn after visiting their horses by the Chinese Nationalist Goy Limited, a Taipe was requla

formitition he will not be given The two Pelitioners said they ventures to be run mainly by the In China for the Cling Ming ernment, Inasmuch as on my in-nederlerde, for the Army

children who attend Festival. are satisflod that the Education deatifute

prosecuted by the permit to land in Canton, Wolfare Office, was sentenced to

Widow Ordinance and other legislative there.

Mr. Sliva: then made's suggT COS -

that the case be adjourned animation but apparently the imprisonment and tien, the mesures contain :adegunto safe-

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A flourishing horticultural co-hiring out in girlins a' prostitute. Are erdened by

By: the end of May: a total of Refugees Organisation or from Agency, an, A body to which no

respect méïould be accordiäitida WORLD ALWAYS Departocht. The curriculuția operative vim by the hays of the Gbitvised skha” thờ gchoots urb | Government Matsuchung Relief 1,129 wards bef, boen-registered By Chincio ·Ministry of Fore! "I with certainly: piesă; to “thế - subject 15 indilar" " fupsetions,

Camp received a t-back when nince February 1946, and 955, of Affairs, co- *Tire PatifionOEN ALKUA: swan Hound that the Mittals das giftalateraled of the most count on the anda 1500 to suppe forward to help whil

That the Director of Education's Authorities were moving in in Jung gistero duhay/dl, 1940, there | "This-woman is under the mecial Worku, 7

Aleo 825 voluntarily reported prototip of the Inn and has a tien is purposeices and there is loture order of MAY 2% JU mix, and the Canda would boye 1920s sul on the register certingale given to her by that oz. no justification for its axlitetice."

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sired.

be revoked;

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