[ { "id": 269036, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-120 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [1-2]", "page_number": 219, "title": "CO129-120 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [1-2]", "content_text": "The gratuity and pension\n\nat the rate of 266. 13.4\n\n&c.\n\nI am also to request\n\nHongkong\n\nAttaché for desk record in Jenkinson\n\npension\n\n197 2772\n\nThe Accountant General's Office 23 Sep\n\na\n\ncopy of the Certificate\n\ndesignating birth date\n\nforwarded\n\nto the\n\nh. 810172\n\nColony\n\nin support\n\nThis application is\n\nallowed to be drawn from the\n\nfurther drawing\n\npublic\n\nLu\n\nIR\n\nAf\n\nMurn SE\n\nAdderley\n\nI am to inform you that the Duke of Buckingham's letter No\n\nhas appointed\n\nyou Colonial Chaplain\n\nHongkong.\n\nThe Salary of the appointment\n\nis £800\n\na year\n\nand the\n\nCrown Agents 12 Spring\n\nGardens will be\n\ninstructed to draw on you for the usual allowance\n\n# £150 for your passage", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-120 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 458357, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 450, "title": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "Not that the question of the policy to be pursued in the liquidation of many prior claims was discussed in conference.\n\n2. I am accordingly to request that if convenient the representative of this department will attend at the Colonial Secretary's office on Tuesday next at noon.\n\nThe representatives of the other departments concerned will be there.\n\nFiddes not C. Jenkinson; 19 Holmes Levy H. propose that the former act as chairman.\n\nI am to add that in further consonance with Mr. Donar's view, he has come to the conclusion that the discussion should not be confined to a few points in Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements, but should comprise all British colonies and protectorates in which similar establishments exist owing primarily to the one threat of war.\n\nPage 450\n\nPage 451", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 460349, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "page_number": 482, "title": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "content_text": "announcement will be made, especially in China, of the admirable opportunities that are here available, and encouragement given to such students to equip themselves more thoroughly for their return to work.\n\nThe examination, both oral and written, again revealed the commendable perseverance of the students, and the care which had been shown in their training by Mr. Drake and Mr. Lan. I would, however, once more draw attention to the need of adopting some method for the improvement of enunciation. If, at the outset, a few lessons in Phonetics could be supplied, the work of teachers and students would be simplified, and greater accuracy of pronunciation ensured.\n\nIn Division II, three students were examined, two of whom obtained a place in the first class, and one in the third class.\n\nIn Division III, five students were examined, of whom one takes a place in the first class, three in the second, and one in the third.\n\nIn Division IV, eleven students were examined, one of them, Mrs. Kan, being a Chinese, born and brought up in Java, who is surely a unique instance of an adult Chinese learning Chinese for the first time in England. In this Division, the very excellent number of seven students obtained a place in the first class, three in the second class, and one in the third class.\n\nThe method of marking recommended in my last year's Report has this year been adopted, a maximum of thirty per cent of the marks being given for work done during the year, as shown by the students' notebooks. Thirty per cent, maximum marks are given for the oral examination, and forty per cent for the written papers. The result is shown in the Pass List given on the next page.\n\nIn conclusion, I can only repeat what I said last year, that, remembering the fact that the students have only their evening hours for study, their progress can only be regarded as remarkable, reflecting every credit not only upon Acting Professor Drake, and his Assistant, Mr. Lan, but upon the students themselves, to whose ability and diligence the Pass List gives evidence.\n\nLONDON, June, 1914.\n\nW. E. SOOTHILL\n\nPage 13\n\nPASS LIST.\n\nThis List shows the actual number of Marks obtained by each student.\n\n(Maximum 100).\n\n \n DIVISION II\n Teroi Work\n Oral Exam.\n Written Exam.\n TOTAL\n Class\n \n \n L-C FARNWORTH\n 25\n 38\n 35\n 88\n I\n \n \n P. G. KNAPPETT\n 20\n 29\n 34\n 83\n I\n \n \n A. P. SUTHERLAND\n 5\n 23\n 25\n 53\n III\n \n\n \n DIVISION III\n \n Oral Exam.\n Written Exam.\n TOTAL\n Class\n \n \n H. NORTON\n 20\n 15\n ...\n ...\n I\n \n \n A. F. CALDWELL\n ...\n 23\n 10\n 33\n II\n \n \n A. G. PEASLAND\n 15\n ...\n ...\n 33\n II\n \n \n R. I. VINT\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n J. M. SPENCE\n 25\n 37\n 36\n 98\n II\n \n \n ...\n 24\n 31\n 22\n 77\n ...\n \n \n ...\n 20\n 3\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n 2\n 3\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n $2\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n 74\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n 65\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n 56\n ...\n \n\n \n DIVISION IV\n \n Oral Exam.\n Written Exam.\n TOTAL\n Class\n \n \n D. B. NEWCOMB\n 30\n 28\n 36\n 94\n I\n \n \n B. F. HALL\n 30\n 28\n 35\n 93\n I\n \n \n GWENDOLINE KAN\n 25\n 30\n 35\n 90\n I\n \n \n E. JENKINSON\n 23\n 28\n 36\n 89\n I\n \n \n R. MACFARLANE\n 21\n 28\n 38\n 89\n I\n \n \n J. O. G. STUART\n 25\n 28\n 34\n 87\n I\n \n \n H. D. SWANSON\n 20\n 28\n 33\n 81\n I\n \n \n D. R. EBBS\n 18\n 27\n 34\n 79\n II\n \n \n H. R. OTTY\n 14\n 20\n 34\n 78\n II\n \n \n I. Srkes\n 5\n 26\n 34\n 65\n II\n \n \n A. MITCHELL\n 5\n 22\n 29\n 56\n III\n \n\nJuly, 1914.\n\nW. E. SOOTHILL.\n\n479", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 523836, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-523-12 Currency situation 17-2-1930 - 9-7-1930", "page_number": 90, "title": "CO129-523-12 Currency situation 17-2-1930 - 9-7-1930", "content_text": "78 110\n\nTHE HONG KONG WEEKLY PRESS &\n\nto pay only silver dollars. Yet a lot of energy is expended in arguing about the benefits of being on a note basis.\" What is meant by this ?\" What backing is suggested for these notes?\n\nEvery reliable currency is backed either by gold or silver. Ours is based on silver and we cannot blink our eyes to the fact. Any attempt to evade this and maintain our dollar at an artificial level can only bring into play an additional element of uncertainty to hamper our trade still more.\n\nIt is bad enough to contend with the vagaries of silver without introducing a further speculative factor, in having a fluctuating premium on notes which bears no relation to their silver backing.\n\n[January 1, 1930\n\nJUNIOR LOCAL EXAMINATION RESULTS.\n\nOUR WATER SUPPLY.\n\n[TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS.]\n\nSIR, I think the following figures concerning the recently published results of the Junior Local Examination are worth considering and ought to be more widely known.\n\nOut of a total of 545 candidates (boys) entered, only 153 or 28 per cent. passed. Even if we restrict our attention to the six schools sending in the largest number of candidates, the results are little better. Out of a total of 323 candidates entered, only 112 or 35 per cent. passed. In other words, only one student in three, educated by these schools, is deemed by the University to have reached a satisfactory standard.\n\nHong Kong has very little influence on the price of silver and was powerless to prevent the recent slump. The slump is serious, and Hong Kong and Shanghai are equally hard hit by it. We are all grumbling. But whereas the Shanghai people recognise that the fall is due solely to economic causes, the Hong Kong sufferers who have so far given vent to their feelings in the Press seem bent upon finding a scapegoat. In the course of doing so, a great deal of nonsense has been published. Elaborate arguments have been built up on false premises, not only by writers who admit that they are only speaking as laymen but by \"experts\" who do not appear to have acquired much grasp of the realities of the situation.\n\nSome argue as though we have only been on a silver basis for the past three months, others demand a gold basis with the dollar fixed at 1/9, 1/10 or 2/-, under the delusion that this will give us an immense advantage over Shanghai in our trade dealings with China. Can it be seriously believed that if we could miraculously transform our system into a gold basis at this very moment, with the dollar, say, at 1/10, our trade with South China would be any better footing than it actually is? Would the mainland, with its depreciated silver currency, be in any better position to buy goods from us? Obviously, it would not. Great Britain, with a gold basis, cannot sell its goods to China at the moment. Is it reasonable to suppose that Hong Kong, with a gold basis, would be in any better case? Critics are apt to forget that Hong Kong is practically a depot and for trade purposes, we and South China are as one entity.\n\nI do not wish these remarks to be construed as an attempt to justify \"low dollar\" or as showing no sympathy with the wage-earner whose purchasing-power has been reduced by the drop in exchange (most of us are \"in the same boat\" in that respect). This is outside the province of my argument, which is that we must face the fact that we are on a silver basis, that at no time have the banks been under an obligation to pay other than silver against their notes, and that all suggestions as to our dollar being maintained at 2/- or 1/10, when it is worth but 1/6, are not only foolish but futile.-Yours, etc.,\n\nA.I.T.S. Hong Kong, Jan. 11, 1930.\n\nHong Kong, Jan. 10, 1930,\n\nTHE CHINA-JAPAN SOCIETY.\n\nACTIVITIES IN VICTORIA, B.C.\n\nThe China-Japan Society of Victoria, British Columbia, is continuing its get-together activities, and on December 18 a delightful social party was arranged in the form of a supper-dance at the Crystal Gardens. Many of the members availed themselves of the opportunity of bringing their local friends, and prettily decorated tables were arranged in groups, and old friends were able to talk over former experiences.\n\n3 MONTHS AT PRESENT CONSUMPTION.\n\nWILL RESTRICTIONS BE NEEDED?\n\nHong Kong's supply of water on January 1 totalled 1,300 million gallons compared with just under 1,000 million gallons a year ago. A twelve-hour supply was given and the expenditure was 438 million gallons. We have, therefore, a three months' supply at the present rate of expenditure.\n\nOver at Kowloon reservoirs, there are 462 million gallons and the consumption was 173 million gallons.\n\nAt the end of November, the total was 494 million gallons, so the net decrease is only 32 million gallons and 141 million gallons have been received from the Shing Mun. Details follow:-\n\nCITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WORKS.\n\nTytam Tytam Byewash Tytam Intermediate Tytam Tuk Wong Nei Chung Pokfulam\n\n1929. 1930.\n\n15' 6\" 11' 3\"\n\n24' 5\" 19' 5\"\n\n2' 2\" 0' 7\"\n\n47' 0\" 31' 11\"\n\n24' 4\" 19' 1\"\n\n23' 2\" 10' 11\"\n\nThe figures are the depth of the surface in feet and inches below overflow level.\n\nStorage in Millions and Decimals Gallons.\n\nTytam Tytam Byewash Tytam Intermediate Tytam Tuk Wong Nei Chung Pokfulam Total\n\n1929. 1930.\n\n266.14 295.90\n\n0.86 3.03\n\n183.90 192.65\n\n522.00 757.42\n\n7.03 10.55\n\n18.60 42.38\n\n998.53 1,301.93\n\nConsumption of water in the City and Hill District in millions and decimals of gallons during the month of December.\n\nConsumption 1928. 1929.\n\n196.41 210.64\n\nEstimated population 428,260 438,580\n\nConsumption per head per day 14.8 15.5\n\nBetween dances, a local amateur dramatic society presented some entertaining turns.\n\nServices to houses in the Rural Main Districts were disconnected and a supply was given by public street fountains only during December 1928.\n\nAmongst former residents of China, Japan, or Hong Kong, who were present there were seen Mrs. J. F. Abbott, Mr. G. M. Billings, Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Dawson and their daughter, Mrs. Leeds, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Darnell, Mrs. L. Dowdall, Mr. and Mrs. A. Eek, Mr. and Mrs. W. Ford and Miss E. Ford, Mrs. G. P. Gabbott, Mr. R. F. Hinton, Miss E. Hotson, Dr. and Mrs. G. E. Hansen, Mrs. E. Jenkinson, Mr. and Mrs. H. P. King, Mr. A. R. King, Mrs. N. McKinney, Mr. R. A. McConaghy, Mrs. C. W. Marshall, and the Misses D. and E. Marshall, Mrs. Muriel, Mrs. H. N. Olsen, Dr. and Mrs. C. H. Rutherford, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Schramli and Miss Schramli, Mr. W. M. Sparke, Mr. J. G. Thompson, Mrs. A. L. Tayler, Miss R. Tayler, Mr. F. E. Tucker, Captain and Mrs. D. L. Watson, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. M. Williams.\n\nFrom December 1 to 31, 1929, a 12 hours of supply (6 a.m. to 6 p.m.) was given to all Rural Main Districts. Principal Mains closed (6 p.m. to 6 a.m.).\n\nKOWLOON WATER WORKS.\n\n1929. 1930.\n\nKowloon Reservoir 9' 6\" *0' 2\"\n\nSheklaipui Reservoir 3' 0\" 9' 11\"\n\nReception Reservoir 1' 8\" 1' 8\"\n\nFeet and inches below overflow. * Above overflow.\n\nStorage in Millions and Decimals Gallons.\n\n1929. 1930.\n\nKowloon Reservoir 260.74 354.24\n\nSheklaipui Reservoir 104.10 79.28\n\nReception Reservoir 28.75 28.75\n\nTotal 393.59 462.27\n\nPage 90\n\nPage 91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-523-12 Currency situation 17-2-1930 - 9-7-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564349, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-575-5 Passport Office- authorisation for writing off deficiencies 31-3-1939 - 19-3-1940", "page_number": 48, "title": "CO129-575-5 Passport Office- authorisation for writing off deficiencies 31-3-1939 - 19-3-1940", "content_text": "# ENCLOSURE III\n\n| NAME | Amount $ | Date |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| G. E. Stoker | 6.60 | 16th Sept. 6958 |\n| L. Sombuntham | 11.00 | 16th Sept. 6964 |\n| A. G. Kowles | 6.60 | 19th Sept. 6972 |\n| F. F. Sung | 11.00 | 19th Sept. 6975 |\n| Tsai Tee Tee | 11.00 | 26th Sept. 6981 |\n| Chao Ting Chi | 11.00 | 19th Sept. 6982 |\n| E. A. Knieg | 0.66 | 27th Sept. 7010 |\n| Yang Sio Chee | 11.00 | 22nd Sept. 7014 |\n| C. Grenz | 11.00 | 23rd Sept. 7016 |\n| L. S. Vaught | 6.60 | 27th Sept. 7028 |\n| Hsu Yu Chin | 11.00 | 24th Sept. 7030 |\n| A. A. Traubitzky | 11.00 | 26th Sept. 7033 |\n| Sir A. B. Jenkinson Bart. | 1.10 | #1 7039 |\n| do | 1.10 | 24th Oct. 7040 |\n| A. G. B. Clarke | 6.80 | 2nd Nov. 7228 |\n| Irene Woo | 11.00 | #1 7250 |\n| Anna Woo | 11.00 | 26th Oct. 7251 |\n| Fise Zienssen | 1.10 | 26th Oct. 7249 |\n| Chen Sung You | 11.00 | 9th Nov. 7307 |\n| Lin Pei Sheng | 11.00 | 10th Nov. 7332 |\n| L. De C. De Courcelles | 11.00 | 4th Nov. 7352 |\n| Mrs. L. De C. De Courcelles | 11.00 | #1 7353 |\n| Chu Yee Shee | 11.00 | 15th Nov. 7386 |\n| Chan Ng Sai Yong | 11.00 | 11 7389 |\n| Wu Chein Hon | 11.00 | 17th Nov. 7394 |\n| A. Mayer-Mader | 11.00 | 11 7435 |\n\nTotal: 118 nos. $1,155.78\n\nGranted \n1938 \nRegistered No.\n\n927.22 \n92 nos.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-5 Passport Office- authorisation for writing off deficiencies 31-3-1939 - 19-3-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]