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MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1955.
By Galbraith
SHEAFFER'S
J
ADMIRAL SNORKEL PEN
SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith Annual Congregation Of HK University
OUR AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER SIDE GLANCES
Annual Brawl Ends The
Same Old Way
FROM H. KING WOOD
Sydney, June 22.
The annual brawl between the Common- wealth and the States on the question of loan money to be spent this year, is on.
The brawl, which goes under the name of the Australian Loan Council, follows the same pattern: year after year.
The Council is made up of the Prime Minister, the Federal Treasurer and the Premier of each State. Almost without exception the States ask for the impossible, no doubt following the old principle that if you ask for far more than you want you stand a chance of getting more than you expect.
Skr
The Premiers came to the in spite of a husband and wife Council meeting, which isban, permit the two of them to being held in Canberra, with continue playing in the present proposals for workcs Pro-serts. gramme totalling £218 milion, ...The LTA Presi d'ent
not counting housing Prime Numan Brookes breathed a Minister Menzies made it clear te fire and water when the very early in the plece that the news of the States could not expect more than they received last year- about £180 milica.
Treasurer Sir Arthur Fadden, who is barely tolerated by the Labour Premiers, told them very bluntly that there would be no money from home, He sald the public lon market was weak and was falling be ow expectations, the Common- wealth could not afford to hand out any of its own money, and civil works programmes
were already
creating shortages of manpower and materials which the defence were hampering programme.
bew
mariage reached him, and seemed a though Lew and Jenny were to spanked and sent to bed with- out supper.
7. M.
Fai
p. 3. & Pat 00.
Car, 1964 by HEA Serviet, IL-
no
"Remember that basket of cabbage your aunt gave us when we drove out there last autumn?"
Five Months
For Robber
Tse. Ying-wah, 28 unemploy ed, was sentenced to five months and ordered to be placed under Police supervision for two years by Mr Hin-shing Lo at Central this morning, for housebreaking and larceny.
The Council debated the matter behind closed doors for 45 minutes and after the ver- diet no one would tell tales of what had happened but the main thing is that the Council decided to do the decent thing.
Thousands of tennis
watched with consider. able interest the romance be broken into No. 5 Liu Weh Ter tween these two young starsace, ground floor, and had for a long time and the paying stolen articles, including a clock customers would have snorted
have
their
fans
The Prosecution said Tse had
and clothing valued at $158 on
Tse, the Prosecution said, had Ave previous convictions for larceny and breach of a deporia-
order.
The deportation had been rescinded on
wrath bad the LTA June 15. It goes without saying that the decided to stand on its dig. Prenters will
The about this matter, Commonwealth,
will give or
BIG MONEY take a million here and there. And while on the question of tion They did not expert anything tennis....it was announced at order else when they went down - the same Council meeting tha, May 25, and Tse was placed but at least. they come back the Davis Cup
of matches last a bond for $500 for three years. with some magnificant political December showed a proft
Tse
cautioned was all be propaganda. They will
on 3 £65,188. Australia and able to hold press conferences United States shared the money bond and the bond was ordered the second charge of breach of the and tell how they sweated equally, blood and tears to get a fair
for their State only to be down- trodden by the
The
Big Bad Wolf preyl
of
£32,594 each received with £25,777 the year. The gross tak
wih"£111,554.
to stand:
in other words, the Comings were £170,000 compared SECTION NOT
monwealth.
In this
ternis business, and young.
Hood is one of the youngsters who is helping to shovel it in.
The mind slips easily back to There's the Loan Council meeting of two years ago when the Trea- surer threatened to give back to the States their own taxing powers - which was the last
the States wanted
effectively silenced the try that the Commonwealth is robbing its little brothers.
and
MELBOURNE PREPARES We looked in'on' Melbourne this week and, so help us, we are almost beginning to like the little place. It has one thing of which Sydney knows little- blue skies.. For two whole days the sun beamed down on us and we felt almost safe mnough to out without trailing an umbrella which is fast becoming the permanant badge of the Sydney sider.
record.
go
They're characters, these civic fathers of ours.
At the annual conference of the Shires Association last week a motion was proposed that all members of Parliament and local government .be compelled reike at the age of 63.
to
APPLICABLE
Man Ka-kang. 38, a tailor of Maidstone Lane, Matauwei Road charged with loitering at Kai Tak Airport on June 25, at 10,35“ am. was discharged by Mr W. S. Collier at Kowloon this man- ing.
Mr Collier remarked he could not convict defendant. under Section 3. (24) of the Summary
Reservoirs Now 70% Full
The Colony's reservoirs are now 10 per cent full,· according to official figures released by the Water Authority this morning.
Thanks to the recent heavy
the water storage now totals 4,182.34 million gallons.
Intake from the streams and catchments for the 24- hour period ending 8 o'clock today,, was 131.79 million gallons, and for the previons. 24 hours 68.05 million gallons.
Russell's
Peace Plan
st
Chancellor's Exhortation To The Graduands
"The years one spends at a university are amongst the best in one's whole life. They are " such an enriching, such a rewarding, such a happy, experience. Like dutiful and loving sons and daughters, who have now grown up, foster your Alma Mater as she has fostered you..
"Remember always the years you spent at your University with gratitude, a gratitude that. should express itself not only in thought but in deeds; a continuing and active interest in the affairs of the University."
Lady Grantham
ferring of Degrees which waj held in the Great Hall of the University,
1
This exhortation to the student graduands of 1955 was made by His Excellency the Governor, Sir Alexander Grantham, G.C.M.G. in his capacity as Chancellor of the University of Hongkong when he addressed the Annual Congregation of the University this (Monday) morning,
was present | As regards the first point, Sir such an enriching, such a re- was bom. in Chekiang province the Congregation for Con- Ivor Jennings and Dr Logan perience, quite apart from appointed
warding, such a happy, ex-in 1895 and la 1830 he was mace certain recommendations
lecturer in Chinese in the constitutional part of the knowledge that one ac-Llterature at
Yenching Unl- their Report. These Have been quires, that one always looks versity.
back on them with a feeling of A year later he was appointed on nostalgia by a committee set up ex-
Chinese professorship in pressly for the purpose by the
"As a one-time undergraduate History at the Peking National I am quite
have never ceased to
be University and he held this post I that
mother. I am sure moved west and held professor-
moved
The following is the full text of the Chancellor's address:
This is the last occasion on
examined and commented
sure
to a
which shall address this Con- Umething will be worked grateful to my Alma Mater, my until 1937. During the war, he
gregation because next year
that you, the Bot
have ceased to be Chan- out to the satisfaction of all fostering cellor. Chancellors come and concerned It is very important that
THREE PHASES Chancellors ge, but the Univer- sity carries on. "The King
"Since I have been is
has University dead: long live the King; but the the Chancellor is not even king phase was what I may call the the years you
through three phases. The first dim the hallowed memory
ing
pt
of
the
to
1
ships in Chinese history in various universities
1955, are
sentiments. Do not allow Chancellor same
In 1947 he was appointed the passed
time passage
Dean of the Faculty of Arts at of the Chiang-nan University in have spent at Wuhat, and two years later he
He is not the most important Phoenix' phase, when the Val- HKUA Adial and loving sons/left Chira for Hongkong, where'
is
versity
official of the University. What In fact is his
rose from its ashes, and position? Is he
and a magnificent achievement that
daughters, who have now he founded the New Asia College aho merely a gurehead dusted off once a year in order
was. The next phase was when grown up, foster your Alma Kowicon, or which he has we thought we had got the
the later sa she has fostered you been the President for six years. to confer degrees and to make University on its feet, both ad-Don't walk out of this ball with For the last two and a half a nice sounding speech, written ministratively and academically, the thought that it was by your pers; and Profesor King maybe, by somebody else; or
Anal phase
ten has efforts alone that you attained a does he, since he is Bisu Go the present phase, which I might degree and derived the bereft Fastitut emor of the Colony, control the whe
instit ough, these lang of term the 'Jennings/Logan' phase. and pleasure that University? The answer 18 This
phase is more administra-membership 'Nelther".
tive, wh
which term also financial,
is
Then the
than
acadernic.
that
Comes
Ch'ien
Mc
been an Honorary of the University's of Oriental Studies.
years
of
try's foremost scholars in his- torical research,” said Professor King.
includes educational instabier in the activity his pen has not iain idle. Colony, and that all that is in By his long list of publications "Academically the University cumbent on you is to say she has won recognition in China got on its feet in the second polite but forinal Thank you and abroad as one of that coun- phase, though there are still and many developments ahead, but,
always the year given
the financial where necessary, these can
backing you spent at your University be with gratitude, a gratitude that coped with without dificulty should express itself not only in the administrative base, thought but in deeds; a continu- without which
academic ing and active, interest in the cannot fully function, does need affairs of the University.". Some attention.
LARGE GATHERING
But
the
"It was whilst we were in the
second phase that it came to A large
was
"Alleged Attempt To Smuggle
and, distinguished HK Chinese
"In a sense he is a gurehead, but he does take a very direct interest,perhaps close interest' would be a better phrase,in the University. He takes this but interest not only personally. also because as Governer he is interested in anything as im portant to the Colony as the University. He does not however interfere in the running of the University, He has no executive power
"He offers advice to the Vice Chancellor i it asked, and
gathering, including relatives of light that repairs were needed to some of the graduands, filled the if it sometimes even
not the administrative base. This Great Hall for the ceremony. asked; but it is entirely up to
need was brought to light by the (Continued from Page 1)
the Vice-Chancellor to decide
Appearing in the official pro-
which made its way whether or not he takes that Keswick Report. What happened session
that this meant another from the robing room down the "This is the most difficult advice. Fimagine,
and
certainly
financial commitment. Could it centre atile of the Hall and to step. Let
consider hope, that this advice has proved *now
be met? An the step that could be taken of use to the
exaimnation by the raised dais were: after this initial
the
officers of the University and the Students success had and
Union Secretary, been won.
Government followed, and hence to the University.
and it Students Union President, Mr "The first step which should After all, the Governor from his
was then discovered that certain A. Hardie, Rev: E. Kvan Rev. be taken at once would be position should know more
to
administrative of
repairs were S. Withers-Green, Rev. Fr. F.
apart secure a temporary cessation of the broad picture of the Colony necessary, quite
from Cronin, Mr Lar Yan Chi, Mr sioner,
Dr Leung conflict, either hot or
he Vice-Chancellor. cold, than
whether or not the recommenda- Kui Wai, Dr Pan more while
permanent mea-
AUTONOMOUS BODY
of the Keswick Report B. C. Jones, Dr Spring Chen, said today that an over- sures were devised.
"Perhaps one телят why
implemented, and this Miss Margaret Yu, Dr F.M. Such
negotiations
national should some people think, mistakenly, led to the visit, and sub Driver, Dr R. A. Bones, Mr R.Baying Chinese due course. But if that Government interferes in sequently the follow in
regor Mr B: P. Ruxton, Mr. P. Lamb in an attempt to smuggle Simpson, Dr G. M. Parida, had admitted participation they are to be fruitful they must the University arises from the Iver Jennings and Dr Logan,
be conducted. im the fact that the Governor is Chan-
SATISFACTORY POSITION
Dr L. F. Tinckler, Var TR
MD E
US$98,000 in cash and Z. F. Szczepani cheques to Hongkong on Fri mosphere of hostility and sus cellor and that not only does be
himself interfere in the Univer Logan in their report have given pleion which exists at present. hatred
not
STI
1
Pro-
tions were
"Sir Ivor Jennings erd De 28. Leung, Dr M
Detained In Manila
The
Manila, June 27.'.
Customs Commis-
Manuel Manakan,
The Chinese, who was arrest-
"During this period when sity, but that this interference us a chart to steer by. Then Lee, Mr R. Strahan, Dr T. B. day.
Mir An amendment was moved offence Ordinance, because the there should be a lessening of tary, the Financial Secretary, more znportint, from the ad. Un Mr J. D. Bromballed yesterday in Pasay City, was.
that the age limit be 95 and this was carried by a large majority. BUILDING PRŬJEUTS
within
to
section did not properly apply to the case.
ing.
sentenced
and
Bati: There
to
contest
for
Dr
poel
Dr
試
money is to be spent. More- degree courses, with Chinese as G. Cr. Bu M
A
A
F.
was
fear are abating extends to the Colonial Secre- report is as important, IT
P. M. Hul
Mr M. Visiek, identified as Kaw Lick, 24, who journalistic invective and even and all the other secretaries, to ministrative as it is from the well merited criticisms of either say nothing of Executive Coun-academic point of view. Examina D Fu Shang-ling. Mr
was said to have come to the King, Dr More large building projects He told defendant that never-side by the other should becil and Legislative Council. tion of their report has meant a
De C. T.
Philippines in 1948 as a tem Huang, porary visitor. are going on
Believe me, not only is there no great deal of work not only for De the city theless it did not mean that his muted," Earl Russell caid.
Earl'
Dr K. T. Limits than for many years behaviour could not amount to
Chen, Dr G. Choa, Dr. Russell
University such interference but there is the
erankaistration
Friday's smuggling aftempt should certainly there is more activity another charge.
sta Ada Wong Sau Haan, Mr H. B. be encouragement
no desire for it.
but also
foiled by for the University Arthur, Mr L. K. Chen, Miss agents when they arrested an government than at any stage since the war.
mutual trade
The University is an autono- faculties, but it has proved a Louise She. Mr K. C. Wu, Mrs Australian, and to mutu
mous body and it is essential mental stints. This is shown, E. Johnston, A new, ultra-modern building
visite of deputations, especially
Miss
B. T.
Harry Ken The people are beginning to for the Commonwealth Bank of
of a cultural and educational that it should be so, and should think, by the fact that in the get a little on their toes about Australia in the heart of the
POLICE RAID sort. All this should be by way remain so. Since however
year more research has beed Mrs I. A. Collins, Mr.nedy, 34, as he was about to of
much preparing the ground for a
of the funds for the carried out than ever before.
Mr M. Hugo-Brunt, board a plane for Hongkong. ext year's Olympic Games. It city is being pushed ahead
and "I do not wish here to deal Hui, Mr J. F. da Silva. Dr D. W. hidden in secret compartments enter
from Govern- world conference and of enabling University come
K. Skimmer, Dr K KL. The US$88,000 in cash everyday conversation | rapidly.
Fleading guilty to possession
were cheques
found cleverly quite
frequently now and
ment, Government must know, with the Fecommendation in the. It will cost more than £1 of heroin and Part I Faison such a conference to be more
Gould, Mr J. Gransden, a ruthless Melbourne has no doubt in the million before it is completed, without a licence, Cheng Chan- than
broadly
JH speaking, how the Keswick Report thi certain F. Bjorck, Dr CT Y
T. Yang, Mr of two suitcases he carried world that they are going. 10 but so hard up is the Bank for bau, 32, unemployed, who had when a comparatively over, it is not as if the Colony the medium
COMPLICITY CHARGE turn on the greatest Games on space that it had a tiny little also given the Police seven other friendly atmosphere has been Government
of instruction, Dr A.
Dr D
Kaw was arrested after he bad unlimited should be established by
contacted the Filipino wife of comer of the basement com- names, was
the Chun, Mr. Te hotel where we stayed is plead and moved in, although months and 20 days by Mr Hin world comference should meet fortunately it has
to two generated by these methods, a funds at Ht disposal, Un- University, except to say that S. T. Louey, Mir Bunnan Torg Kennedy, whom government in the process of being vamped the building will not be com shing La at Central this mom for the purpose of creating ways doubt
not; as no this is Es important matter Mr Leung Fung Ki, Mr H Wong agents bad placed under you are until after Christmas. up. We murmured something pitted until
aware, the which must not be overlooked Tape, Dr D. K. Samy, Mr Evan surveillance. ather then war by which dis- about the Games and the mana- The city's first skyscraper is
Mr Manahan sald charges of Insp. J. D. Carty said Police agreements between states could budget for the current but should be earnestly con- Stewart, Fr. J. Carroll Mr. U
a deficit of $32 sidered ger said yes, costing a small for- to be built on the water-front
year shows
the by
University Tat Chee, Mr Hion Man Wai, complicity in the smugglers' at- be settled. Such a conference raided No. 29B Pokfulam Road could not hope to succeed un-Government, and here I and it, too, will cost more than third floor.
millions. This means
·and. that authorities
and start a long way
others con- Mr Lo Min Nung. Mr Lee temat
violation of the tune, had to aheid because one wasn't sure
and in the. a million. It will be 20
Fearless opinion has been adequately
have in cerned. atoreys
Cheung, Mr. J. R. Jones Immigration Law would be filed of labour and so forth, but they and 192-feet high at its lowest spoca with traces of heroin and cubicle, seized three plastic
mind particularly Legislative "How do I now view the M Tang Shur prepared.
Kk Mr today against Kaw, Council and more. particularly position of the Univeralty?
Mr had to have the old place look. point.
1 Leung Yew_
L. Kadoorie,
Mr Manahan said Kaw told The first of the problems to the Unofficial Members thereof, see it firmly established but with Professor Sydney has a law which nitrate."
seven grammés of strychnine be tackled
RA
Persons ing at its best for the visitors,
should be
what Investigators called a the
Pro-Mumbled. And even at the risk of the limits heights of buildings
have to decide how the Colony's certain administrative steps still Professor Z. C. Blunder, diminution of national: zera-
He said the story funds shall be allocated amongst necessary, but we
declared that the know what lessor B. Harrison, Professor F. statement
to 150-feet--usually about getting back
13-
ments.
the many competing claims,
has to be done.
E. S. Sydney, we must admit that the storeys, but some bright lad wa
On the S. Drake, Professor FREEDOMS RESTORED
peats to S. Kirby, entrusted: 240,000 pack and the trees and the able to find a loophole in the liaerected by one of the in-
So far as government grants academic side I see the Univer-Professor D. Barker, Professor Kennedy but was vague as to buildings and the wide streets Act us to the location of the surance companies, and another of the treedom
"There should be restoration to the University are concerned sily as first-rate and very much 41 S. McFadzean, Frofess how the pesos were converted
that existed this is educational expenditure, alive.
C. Wong, Professor F. Stocks, Into looked pretty good. There was Proposed skyscraper and the
Tantis insurance company is about to before 1914, especially freedom which has to compete with such
certainly a
American currency Professor P
Rt. Rev. Hou, his
start even something human about Law Department
satifactory position erecting another agreed
one to Irival thi..
of travel and freedom in the things
ss the 76 MAISONETTES
Kennedy, who has been the cops drinking beer
Hon. A. M. Rodrigues, Hors detention since his arrest was circulation of books and news quarters for the Police
But have I not been wander Bishop B. . Hall, Hon RC dollar cheques. Several organisations are to for in a pub-something that round never, never be seen Sydey's commercial cent Harbour which will
Han, C. E. education, between in being forced across the bridge obstacles to the tree dissemine- in Sydney.
Government agents trailed Mrs. years, a mulibecause on in the city proper boundaries. Another few
of the impossible
of degrees? 3. S. Crozier, J. A. Black HAPPY DECISION storey block of 76
70 maisonettes are to be
to be erected. The 76 unitsst week the Master Builders Obd of the nicest things 10 will comprise four one-rown building in the heart of the city: steps towards the creation of a such searching, questions of the wed foremost of course is Math For A, C
mony now taking place. First S Association sold its seven-storey former treedoms are necessary | Financial Secretary has 10 ask leading figures in the cere Wood, Eon, J.-Keswick, Hoed berUnited Press, happy on the Conor of the flats 10 one-bedroom flats: 40 buc intens could not find sentiment that mandad forms
University,
ority authorities. It is hech two-bedroom flats; 18 three- Lawn Tennis Association to bedroom flats, six penthouses, a
he Ch'len Mu a most parking
space nearby. The one family and that government who has largely to present the Chinese scholar whose smile upon Lew Hoad and his
University's to the Mea of the newwife, married
degree restaurant,84
garage sections, the suburbs. laundries and a creche,
harsh as they are at present, bers
adds. create diman obstacles in the is essential.
therefore
that there Univerity. But it is
is rather Most of the flats in
stage should be the closest liaison be- the student graduands to ing will be sold on the build
So far 188 drivers have paid way of peace
authorities remarks This bulking is going to take an entrance fee of £30 to take these tasks were achieved, tween the University They decided to send the couple have not been announced
graduated from a university a pongratulatory cable, buy Already North Sydney has the One entry has been received
without this
there them, a wedding possent,
cannot be proper under-feelings, even though a third of by UNOS
liaison can a century in age lies between standing Printed and published by WILLIAM ALICE: "Grinnast, fur comme in up to July 12, but the leved the question of atomis say, machinery
New Guinea Drivers can still In this way, Earl Russell be partly be procedural, that is, to us
laid down and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-3 entrance grill now set them back weapons would solve Ilect the Wyndham Street, City of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong. EBO
but also by intownal
this
week was
N
or a hat in Lexicon
in
new
and.
under
Over on the north side of the build st North" "Sydney, and are papers and the removal of the new hospitals and so on; and Congregation, which is, in the Flon S. K, Yea Ho Kenedy fler the visit and
at crop lumies, latin
As a matter of fact, the old
gentlemen dirka: Bikie more than
centre in
outright,
Dark-
conceng from the main point of this by Chin, Hon. D. Buttonjec, visited by his wife yesterday.
education rima It is the new i
and tech for the cords who are i
tion of kleas across national
restorations of education.
These
That
ad Is why
the
words I
spoke at the
at the opening
Terry Hon
C.
Sr. Man-kam Le Hon T. N.
G.. Clarke, Hot
B. C. K. Hawkins, Hon. Ride- banigh, The Reparar
Amodiatich is to move out into divisions, when they become re of. Levation Council It of tree to the Davidi, D. S. Y.
will be origina
Gordon BrORD PRO
Hon. EB.
Priest
arrested Kaw when he contact-
Confidentially Deported
Chów /Mán-bung detained by | the" Polket hark been/ deported": E.Driver. Mir confidentially on Saturday, re
KE Kibarn. Professo
Professor
endo they became practical. 10 months to build but cupts part in the 10,500 miles v round the conference: would have to - and F, Governmental author= DAYS cu studied at and Calen MU, MF. C. B. Hack veiled Insp. in: Soufar before Mr
20,
Australia Redex trial in Augut advance to the creation of leng
world authority already twice1 and biggest office bulléng in Austra from New Zekland and one from 1dfied by the
and the League CERE
The
The
Hin-shing Lo at Central this
1 able to share some of them Pro-Vice Chair CXISTong of Messy.
and The Treasurer, The
Chancellor.
TOREMOST SCHOLAR
Peter Mo and Cogwho repre Before the Degree of Doctorsented Chow in an appbation
The years one spends et a of Laws was preferred upon to bail previous heazing fitution, university are amongst the best Chien Mu, Professor Klog: said two weeks ago, zaid he would Contacts.) in one's whole le. They are in the citation that Mr Ch'ien withdraw, the applic
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