[ { "id": 243221, "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": "CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857", "page_number": 146, "title": "CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857", "content_text": "## Shipping Master Report\n\nIn 1857, the mortality rate amongst Chinese emigrants on board ships appears to have been a significant concern. Specifically, the ship \"John Calvin\" was employed in carrying Chinese emigrants from Hong Kong to Havana.\n\nOf the approximately 350 people on board, about 120, or fully one-third, died during the six-month voyage. As there is reason to believe that similar mortality rates occurred on other ships engaged in the same trade, the Shipping Master at Greenock brought this case to the attention of the Board of Trade.\n\n**(Signed) John Duff-Morrin** \nShipping Master \nGreenock, 6 February 1857\n\n## Response from the Lord Advocate's Chambers\n\nThe Lord Advocate's Chambers, Edinburgh, 12 March 1857.\n\nI have to acknowledge your communication of 13th February, transmitting a copy of a letter from the Shipping Master at Greenock to the Committee of the Privy Council for Trade, relative to the mortality on board the Chinese emigrant ship \"John Calvin\".\n\nI have to transmit, for your information, my precognition taken by my direction by the Procurator Fiscal at Greenock, with the relative letters and papers by the Crown Counsel.\n\n**(Signed)** \nThomas Erskine Perry, \nBound & dead, London | \n|---|\nمنگ was not part of the main text and has been omitted as it appears to be a non-relevant OCR output. The response is formatted according to the given instructions.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 246518, "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": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "page_number": 353, "title": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "content_text": "4 is received. I annex copy of the dispatch containing it, which has been sent out to Sir John Bowring. Mr. Harland has thought it right to join the Execution Committee with the Governor in considering this important a question.\n\n3. I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of the 20th April & 24th July on the subject of payment of salaries, and to state that it has been usual in other parts of the world. In 1848, Justices were duly rewarded to this Government by H.M's Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nNOV 19\n\nThe Right Honorable Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton\n\n10 Scotland Street, Edinburgh\n\nH. M's Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\n18 November 1855\n\nThat a vacancy has occurred in the office of Colonial Surgeon at Hong Kong, by the death of Dr. Fraser, I beg to intimate that I am desirous of obtaining that Appointment - and will very soon take the liberty of submitting further evidence of my qualifications to your Office.\n\nMy application for the situation is founded upon my long residence in China and my intimate knowledge of its Climate and diseases.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nYour Obedient Humble Servant,\n\nJ. Ford Murray, M.D.\n\nA.S.C.S.E & H.M.S.C.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 246653, "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": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "page_number": 488, "title": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "content_text": "In 12038/67\n\nScience and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education.\n\n485\n\nDIRECTORY\n\nOF\n\nTHE INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM\n\nOF SCOTLAND,\n\nAND OF\n\nTHE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, EDINBURGH,\n\nLONDON:\n\nPRINTED BY GEORGE E. EYRE AND WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE,\n\nPRINTERS TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY,\n\nAND SOLD BY CHAPMAN & HALL,\n\nAGENTS TO THE DEPARTMENT FOR THE SALE OF EXAMPLES, 193, PICCADILLY, LONDON.\n\n1858.\n\nPrice 1d.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 246655, "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": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "page_number": 490, "title": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "content_text": "SCOTTISH INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM, AND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY,\n\nUniversity, Edinburgh.\n\nDirector of Industrial Museum | Professor GEORGE WILSON, M.D.\n\nand Professor of Technology] F.R.S.\n\nKeeper of Natural History Professor ALLMAN, M.D., F.R.S.\n\nMuseum\n\nDIRECTORY\n\nOF\n\nTHE INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND.\n\nDirector\n\nChemist\n\nMUSEUM OF IRISH INDUSTRY,\n\nStephen's Green, Dublin.\n\nGeology\n\nChemistry\n\nPhysics\n\nNatural History\n\nSir R. KANE, F.R.S. ROBERT GALLOWAY,\n\nPROFESSORS.\n\nJ. B. JUKES, M.D., F.R.S. Dr. W. SULLIVAN,\n\nDr. BARKER.\n\nProfessor HARVEY.\n\nROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY,\n\nKildare Street, Dublin.\n\nPatroness, HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN.\n\nPresident, The LORD LIEUTENANT.\n\nSecretaries, L. S. FOOT, and J. F. WALKER, LL.D. Assistant-Secretary, Dr. STEELE.\n\nPhysics\n\nProfessor Scouler.\n\nCOMMITTEE OF LECTURES,\n\nThe Castle, Dublin.\n\nThe Right Hon. The CHANCELLOR. The CHIEF SECRETARY.\n\nR. GRIFFITH, Bart., LL.D., F.R.S.E.\n\nSir R. KANE, F.R.C.\n\nLord TALBOT DE MALAHIDE.\n\nThe Right Hon. F. BLACKBURN.\n\nF. J. SIDNEY, LL.D.\n\nThe Rev. J. GALBRAITH.\n\nSecretary, F. J. SIDNEY, LL.D.\n\nTHE establishment of the Industrial Museum of Scotland dates from 1854. In that year Parliament, influenced by the number of memorials which for a lengthened period previously had been addressed to Government by the various learned bodies, public societies, and representatives of the manufacturing, agricultural, and other industrial interests of North Britain, resolved to institute in Edinburgh a Museum similar to those of Economic Geology and of Industry in London and Dublin. In the votes for that year the House of Commons granted £7,000 for the purchase of a site upon which the Museum should be built, and a further sum was voted for expenditure in the acquisition of specimens, and for the salaries of the officers who should be appointed to collect, arrange, and preserve these.\n\nThe site purchased is in close proximity to the University of Edinburgh, lying to the westward, between it and Argyle-square. Besides a considerable open space, it is occupied by two buildings, styled, at the period of their purchase, Argyle-square Independent Chapel, and the Trades Maiden Hospital. As it was not the intention of Government to erect a new edifice till some progress had been made in the collection of objects suitable for an Industrial Museum, the buildings in question were appropriated to their reception, and within the walls a large series of examples of Industrial Art has gradually accumulated, and daily receives additions.\n\nLegal difficulties in the way of transfer of property made it necessary to apply for an Act of Parliament before the purchase of the entire site could be completed, nor was it till 1855 that possession was entered on. In the spring of that year Dr. George Wilson, of Edinburgh,\n\nPage 4\n\n3\n\n487", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 246656, "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": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "page_number": 491, "title": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "content_text": "181\n\n6\n\nwas appointed Director of the Museum by the Board of Trade, under which the new Institution, as included in the Department of Science and Art, was placed. In autumn of the same year the Director received from the Crown the appointment of Professor of Technology in the University of Edinburgh; the special object of the new chair being the public teaching of the principles of Industrial Science, as illustrated by the existing and prospective contents of the Museum. At the same time a Resident Assistant, having personal charge of the Museum, was appointed; and the Analytical Laboratory rented by the Director was constituted the Laboratory of the Museum, and an Assistant Chemist attached to it. Active operations were commenced in October 1855, and have since continued without interruption. As at present arranged the officials attached to the Industrial Museum are,\n\nDirector - Professor George Wilson.\n\nAssistant Chemist - Mr. Thomas Bloxam.\n\nResident Assistant - Mr. Alex. Galletly.\n\nPorter - Thos. Tyrie.\n\nIn 1857 the Department of Science and Art was transferred from the Board of Trade to the Privy Council Committee on Education, under which accordingly the Industrial Museum is now placed. It is proper here also to state that the Natural History Museum in the University of Edinburgh, under the charge of Dr. Allman, the Professor of Natural History, who holds a Crown appointment as \"Keeper of the Museum of Natural History,\" also ranks under the Department of Science and Art; the Professors of Natural History and of Technology having co-ordinate duties as Curators of the Museums under their respective charge. As far as circumstances permit the existing naturalistic and technical collections are managed as the constituent halves of the prospective new Museum, which will be organized in full when the promised buildings are erected. But as at present the Natural History and Industrial collections are in separate buildings, and under different officers, the statements which follow are limited to the Industrial Museum proper.\n\nProfessor Allman, Regius Keeper of the Natural History Museum, reports separately on it.\n\nThe Industrial Museum of Scotland is not intended to be a Museum of Scottish Industry alone, but a Museum of the Industry of the world in special relation to Scotland.\n\n7\n\nIn its fullest acceptation it embodies, like the similar Museums in the country, a fourfold idea:\n\nI. Exhibitional galleries, where the raw, workable, and accessory materials on which Industrial Art is exercised; the tools and machines employed to modify these; and the finished products resulting from their modification, including the various stages of progress between the original material and the perfect product, are systematically arranged.\n\nII. A Laboratory and Workshop, where the qualities of industrial materials and products, and the effectiveness of industrial apparatus and machines are investigated.\n\nIII. A Library, where the special literature of Industrial Art may be consulted.\n\nIV. Lectures on the contents of the galleries, the investigations of the Laboratory and Workshop, and the records of the Library, as illustrating the various departments of Technology or Industrial Science.\n\nAt present the greater part of the objects acquired by purchase and donation for the Museum are collected within the old Trades Maiden Hospital, whilst a number of the more bulky objects are stored in the Independent Chapel. In the former building a few of the objects are so arranged in glass cases as to admit of being examined, though only imperfectly, but the great majority of the specimens are simply stored away in safe receptacles; nor does the construction of the building allow any other procedure to be adopted, or permit steps to be taken for their free exhibition.\n\nThe public accordingly only profit by the acquisition of industrial objects to the extent that they are shown at the University Lectures on Technology; but as the lecture room is at a considerable distance from the temporary Museum, it is impossible to transfer safely bulky or fragile articles from the one building to the other.\n\nIn consequence of this state of matters, the accumulation, not the exhibition, of specimens and instruments is the end kept chiefly in view, and it may be stated generally, that the objects being collected are as follows:\n\nFirstly, such finished products as wrought iron, steel, glass, porcelain, paper, leather, cotton, linen, wool,\n\n488", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 246658, "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": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "page_number": 493, "title": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "content_text": "I\n\n88f\n\n10\n\npupils at intervals visit public works and manufactories along with the Professor.\n\nNo provision at present exists for addressing the general public through the organization of the Industrial Museum otherwise than by incidental, informal lectures. Of these many have been given, and when the new buildings are completed, arrangements will be made for periodically and systematically addressing the non-academical sections of the community.\n\nDIRECTORY\n\nOF\n\nTHE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, EDINBURGH.\n\nThe Natural History Museum of Edinburgh has been in existence since the year 1812, when it was established in connexion with the University, receiving at the same time for its maintenance a Government grant of 100l. a year.\n\nIn 1819 Mr. Bullock's museum and the very extensive collection belonging to M. Dufresne, of Paris, happened to be for sale, and a sum of money, amounting to 3,000l., was voted by the Senatus Academicus from the funds of the college for the purchase of a selection from Mr. Bullock's museum and of the entire of the collection belonging to M. Dufresne. From the manuscript catalogue which accompanied M. Dufresne's collection it appears that this collection contained 1,600 birds, 2,600 shells, 12,000 insects, 600 eggs of birds, 200 fossils, with a considerable number of radiata, and a few mammals.\n\nIn 1820 the Museum was opened to the public at an admission charge of 2s. 6d., which was subsequently reduced to 1s., and in 1831 the Government grant was increased to 200l. a year, the sum at which it has since remained.\n\nIn 1855, by a vote of the Town Council, who are patrons of the University, the Museum was handed over to the Department of Science and Art, then under the Board of Trade; and in 1857 the Department of Science and Art, having been transferred from the Board of Trade to the Privy Council Committee on Education, the Museum passed under the control of the last-mentioned body.\n\nThe Museum is situated within the University buildings, and occupies nearly the whole of the west side of the great central quadrangle. It is devoted to the systematic arrangement and display of the various classes of objects which constitute the subject of the Natural History Sciences, botanical specimens alone being excluded, as these are provided for in the Botanic Gardens and Museum under the charge of the Professor of Botany in the University.\n\nThe collection is one of considerable extent, and in some branches is exceedingly rich. Almost the whole of it was accumulated by the indefatigable exertions of the late...\n\n490", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 258368, "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": "CO129-096 - Others - 1863", "page_number": 369, "title": "CO129-096 - Others - 1863", "content_text": "Colonial Intifications-presided by His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh\n\nI think the question dealt with by you last year or the Committee of last year.\n\nFour Colonials. I should be advisable to recognise the former Private Secretary, if there are any Clauses.\n\nI am disappointed to find that notwithstanding the Report recently in the Official Gazette, the existence of the Private Secretary is still quoted.\n\nCofey to Carnarvon, 26 Oct, D5 M.O.10357, September Conson Sin.\n\nI have to acknowledge receipt of a letter from the War Office expecting land to be reserved for barracks and batteries in Kowloon.\n\nPack. Afferd. 21th September 1867. In Arpentle fal Chance the common entity is different & it would not be desirable to allow the Clausal Sur L.. Ministers_t: cncrfondand at all.\n\nSir F. Royds. Only 2 amendments yet been read to the C From Newfoundland, sit Put these papers with the haral.\n\nPage 362\n\n22 SEP 1863 REC 927 Hong Kong GD Bletchington\n\nPage 363\n\n \n74 Mauritius the offer usually quoted the existence the Private Sar..\n\nI rather think that the Church fast fo.\n\nPage 364", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-096 - Others - 1863.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 277654, "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": "CO129-136 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [1-3]", "page_number": 127, "title": "CO129-136 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [1-3]", "content_text": "124.\n\nrequisition, but that the Members of Council have expressed a strong wish to have much of the furniture Government House renewed and now at more purchased partly because the base requires such refit, but principally because it has now been officially communicated that His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh may be expected to arrive here about the 2nd of next August.\n\n3. I had signified my intention of making the Council a Committee of reception for this Royal Highness, so that they who have to vote the funds required might have the power to control the expense, and they are anxious that steps should be taken in the first place to make the House, where this Royal Highness may lodge during his stay, fit for his reception.\n\nFortunately the general repairs which the House underwent last year have greatly improved it, but rather by making it weather proof and by solid repairs to floor and walls than by decorations or furniture. The Council, or rather the Unofficial members of Council who recently held a meeting at Government House to consider the subject, have therefore thought the occasion suitable for doing at once things which many would have had to be done little later in the natural", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-136 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 279597, "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": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "page_number": 633, "title": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "content_text": "Enclosure Main Gov Expatch 170839 of 3.7. Decr \n\nTo Richard Graves MacDonnell's \n\n-1869- \n\n(Copy) \n\nPAYMENTS of an unusual or special Description, and Payments on Services amounting to £200, incurred without previous authority from Her Majesty's \n\nSecretary of State, for the Quarter ended 30th September 1869. \n\n \n Description of Service.\n Amount.\n To whom paid.\n Date of authority from the Governor.\n Date and description of the authority or instruction (if any) from Her Majesty's Government in England, in consequence of which the payment was made.\n Date of the Governor's Despatch to Her Majesty's Government in England respecting the transaction, in cases where no previous authority may have been received,\n Column for Remarks in any particular case, and for the statement of any special circumstances.\n \n \n Native District Watchmen.\n $41,500\n Acting Registran General.\n July 8\n \n Despatch No. 40 August 10th July, 1869. Despatch No. 740 of September 1869.\n This Corps is established under Ordinance 7 of 1866. Government contributes half of the expense.\n \n \n Grant for expenses City Halls held during Reception of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh\n $10,000.\n City Halls Committee.\n Sept.\n \n \n \n \n\nIn 2246/70", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 280982, "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": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "content_text": "the Duke\n\n2\n\nEdinburgh\n\nI have caused\n\nTesor\n\nSmith Elder of bo...\n\nbe instructive to\n\nbind 2 copies of that publication zen.\n\nof the\n\npresentation Queen\n\nthe Prince\n\nWales, and I shall\n\nhave much pleasure\n\npresenting\n\nin\n\nA M\n\n...\n\nof the Rumpption 20 Committee who so\n\nEnergetically laboured to promote the Success of the Duke of Edinburgh's visit & to the Colony.\n\nI shall also forward\n\na Copy\n\nof your despatch and\n\n...\n\nIt.R.H. the name of yourself\n\nI am sure that it\n\nwill be most\n\nSatisfactory & H M\n\nas it has been to me,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 280996, "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": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "page_number": 35, "title": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "content_text": "HONGKONG FACING THE HARBOUR.\n\n༣:;\n\n(11)\n\nat Pedder's Wharf. An invitation had been issued a few days before by the Harbour Master, H. G. Thomsett, Esq., R.N., calling upon the masters of vessels to form a lane of boats through which His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh might pass on the occasion of his Public Landing; and in compliance with this a large number of boats now drew up in parallel lines between the Galatea and the Wharf. One of the most striking spectacles connected with the Royal visit was presented to the eye as His Royal Highness approached the shore, followed by the multitude of boats, which, as soon as he had passed them, closed in and took their places behind the Royal barge. The morning was lovely, and the sight viewed from the verandah of Messrs. Hunt & Co., and other neighbouring houses, was most beautiful and imposing. The Prince was attended by Admiral Sir H. Kellett, and by his Equerries. At the Wharf, His Excellency the Governor, surrounded by the leading officials, both British and Foreign, received the Prince, and heartily bid him welcome to the Colony. His Royal Highness shook hands warmly with His Excellency and having reciprocated his good wishes, passed under the Triumphal Arch and took his seat in the State Sedan Chair prepared for him of yellow velvet embroidered with silver and furnished with a silk canopy. Then, escorted by the Governor, the Foreign Consuls, and the Civil and Military Officials, His Royal Highness traversed slowly the short distance to the New City Hall, amidst the booming of guns and the loud cheers of the large crowd assembled to do him honour. The road was lined with Troops and Police, and the greatest enthusiasm was manifested as the procession passed on.\n\nThe Chairman of the City Hall Committee, the Honourable W. Keswick, met His Royal Highness at the entrance, and escorted him through the Building. The Museum, the\n\n34", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 281011, "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": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "page_number": 50, "title": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "content_text": "(36)\n\nhis Cabin. Thither they were accordingly conducted; the Honorable E. C. Yorke, and all the ward-room officers, and many from the gun-room also coming to show them objects of interest, not only in the Duke's private apartments, where they enjoyed a sight of many specimens of high art such as are rarely seen except in the Capitals of Europe, but all over the ship. A gun's crew was mustered, Lieutenant McHardy, the Gunnery Lieutenant, showing how the monster cannon were handled. After this, upon the suggestion of one, whose name should here find honourable mention were it known, some liquor was poured on the delay; and libations of Moselle were offered between the after guns of the port broadside, on the main deck, not unto Bellona Bellatrix, but unto Bacchus. This pleasing rite performed, and while yet invitations to a repetition were being refused, the Captain of the Galatea descended, courteously turning and bowing to all, an honest smile mantling his face. After a short interval, the ship masters were summoned to their Levée, and each handing his card to the Equerry in attendance was presented on entering the cabin to His Royal Highness. The introductions over, and a few prefatory words from the Secretary of the Committee said, the Master who filled that capacity, supported by the Chairman and Vice-chairman of Committee, read the Address to the Master of the Trinity Corporation in the person of the Captain of the Galatea, His Royal Highness Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh. To speak of its presentation and not mention the pleasure of the recipient would be a simple disloyalty to truth and to the Worshipful Master, whose tones and demeanour, as he read his reply, both demonstrated that he was not engaged in a bit of conventionality, but that he was meeting seamen as a seaman. When his reply was concluded, in a few simple words he apologized for the delay which had occurred, alleging the cause, a Court Martial; to which the Secretary replied that 'duty was before all,' and they had profited in his absence by the courtesy of their many ad-interim hosts.\n\n(37)\n\n\"For the first time since the Galatea had left the shores of England, the Trinity Flag was displayed at the main, nor were the Officers of the Galatea slow to point it out to the Masters assembled. Many nationalities were represented on the occasion; it was a genuine enthusiasm born of the brine and the breeze, and it is highly satisfactory to know that amongst the squadron His Royal Highness has often spoken of the event as one that was most gratifying to him as the Master of the Trinity House, and that he showed his appreciation of the event by ordering the Trinity Flag to be displayed at the fore on the day of his departure.\"\n\nIn addition to the Cricket Match, which was not concluded until this day, a Match at Bowls was played this afternoon at the Oriental Bowling Alley, which had been specially engaged by the Committee of the Hongkong Club during the Prince's visit, between Eight of the Galatea and Eight of the Club, which resulted in a victory for our gallant guests. His Royal Highness headed the Naval side, and \"played throughout,\" says a reporter, \"with that spirit and enthusiasm which he appears to carry with him in whatever he undertakes.\" The total score in the two games played, was as follows:\n\nGalatea, 3,966\n\nClub, 3,882\n\n84\n\nIn the evening, Commodore Oliver Jones entertained at dinner on board the Princess Charlotte His Royal Highness, His Excellency the Governor, Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Kellett, and a numerous party.\n\n49", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 281020, "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": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "page_number": 59, "title": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "content_text": "(54)\n\nReply of His Royal Highness.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh has received your Address, and experienced much pleasure at the cordial expressions of esteem, and the affectionate words which it contains.\n\nSuch a greeting as you accorded him can only emanate from feelings of respect towards the laws and institutions which are established alike throughout the British Empire, under the happy rule of the Queen, his Mother.\n\nThe preparations made for his reception here, the decorations and illuminations adding additional beauty to the fine City in which you have found a home, have been viewed by him with great pleasure and much interest. Indeed, during the course of his travels through the numerous possessions of the British Crown no sight more striking and beautiful has come under his observation.\n\nHis Royal Highness has been gratified also at learning from the authorities of Hongkong, that the numerous Chinese residents here are distinguished no less for their industry than their orderly behaviour, and general respect for the law.\n\nIn conclusion, the Duke of Edinburgh offers his heartfelt thanks to the Chinese Community, and desires them to believe that he will ever bear in mind their kindness to him, personally, during his stay in Hongkong, and he will always preserve as an agreeable memento of his visit to the Colony, the remarkable and highly artistic Address which has been presented to him.\n\n(Signed),\n\nTo the Chinese Community of Hongkong.\n\nALFRED.\n\n(55)\n\nThou art now visiting many lands.\n\nAnd glory accompanies thy Royal Banner. May happy stars shine on all thy path!\n\nAll regard thee with respect, and bid thee welcome.\n\nDear to us the sweet T'ong tree, thy love will abide with us:\n\nAll will cherish remembrance of thee. Here, in Hongkong, royal favours surround us.\n\nOur youth, by education, are made talented: They have all the blessings of knowledge and refinement. Royal Prince! Thou hast condescended to visit us:\n\nWe, the Schoolmasters, approach thee with reverence. Deign, too, to convey to Her Majesty, the Queen,\n\nThis our sincerest wish, that she may enjoy\n\nPerfect Peace, Happiness, Length of Days, and the Love of All.\n\nReply of His Royal Highness.\n\nHis Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh returns his sincere thanks to the Chinese Government School-masters of this Colony, for\n\nthe Address which they have presented to him.\n\nIt will give His Royal Highness the greatest pleasure to comply with the request contained in the concluding words of their complimentary Address, and he will himself bear to Her Majesty their very sincere wishes for Her welfare.\n\n(Signed),\n\nTo the Government School-masters of Hongkong,\n\nALFRED.\n\n(E)\n\nChinese School-masters' Address.\n\nAN ODE IN HONOUR OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALFRED OF ENGLAND.\n\nIllustrious Prince!\n\nThou art all glorious as leaves of Gem, and as branches of Gold,\n\nThou art skilled in War: skilled also in Letters, Heaven having gifted thee with matchless talents.\n\n(F)\n\nThe Address from the City Hall Committee.\n\nTo His Royal Highness ALFRED ERNEST, Duke of Edinburgh. May it please Your Royal Highness:\n\nThe City Hall Committee desire me to welcome you most warmly\n\nto the Colony of Hongkong, and to convey to Your Royal Highness the expression of their grateful thanks for the kind consideration you have displayed in honouring this ceremonial with your presence. When the first stone of the City Hall was laid by His Excellency the present\n\n58", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 281021, "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": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "page_number": 60, "title": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "content_text": "(56)\n\nGovernor, in February, One thousand Eight hundred and Sixty-seven, none who were then present could have anticipated that its completion and formal opening would be inaugurated under the gracious auspices of the first British Prince who has ever visited the distant East.\n\nThis happy termination of their labours will more than compensate the Committee for the many difficulties, delays, and disappointments with which they have had to contend in bringing the arduous undertaking to a successful conclusion.\n\nYour Royal Highness has been graciously pleased to accede to our request, and formally to open an Institution which we sincerely hope will prove a permanent benefit to the residents of Hongkong.\n\nWe can already boast of a Library, recently formed, and which, though not very extensive, contains several very valuable works upon the East, and that portion of it especially with which we have most to do: the Museum we trust will soon be filled with choice and curious specimens of the natural and artificial productions of the vast Empire on the borders of which we are situated; while provision has been made in the Theatre and the Ball-room for the amusement of the Residents and our numerous Visitors.\n\nThe building itself may fairly be said to constitute one of the greatest ornaments of the City of Victoria, and will long redound to the honour of the Architects by whom it was designed and completed.\n\nYour Royal Highness has but just arrived from a visit to Australia, where you have seen what British energy and perseverance have achieved in its vast and flourishing Colonies, and still more recently you must have been struck by the contrast presented by the peculiar habits and manners of the Japanese and Chinese. Your reception everywhere has been gratifying; and though the Colony of Hongkong is more remote from England than almost any other of her possessions, and is in extent perhaps the least, its residents yield to none in fervent loyalty to the Crown, and warm attachment to the Royal Family. We all feel grateful for the visit you have paid to Hongkong, and in particular the City Hall Committee again tender their warm thanks to you for honouring this ceremonial with your presence. We shall long look back with pleasure to this auspicious day, and earnestly pray that Your Royal Highness may be blessed with health, long life, and prosperity.\n\n(Signed),\n\nW. KESWICK, for the City Hall Committee.\n\n(57)\n\nReply of His Royal Highness.\n\nGENTLEMEN, It is with mingled feelings of gratification at the duty which I have been called upon to undertake, and admiration of the magnificent structure which is before me, that I have complied with your invitation to inaugurate this building.\n\nIt is my most earnest prayer that this beautiful hall may realize all the expectations of its promoters, and continue throughout the great future of this Colony a source of permanent and ever increasing prosperity.\n\nI shall never cease to rejoice that I have been enabled to visit this distant portion of the British Empire, and to become acquainted with a people of whom I shall carry back with me the most pleasing recollections.\n\nI thank you for your kind wishes on my behalf, and for the expressions of your loyalty to the Crown and warm attachment to the Royal Family.\n\nTo the City Hall Committee.\n\n(Signed),\n\nALFRED.\n\nThe Address from the Clergy of Hongkong.\n\nTo His Royal Highness ALFRED ERNEST ALBERT, Duke of Edinburgh, K.G., K.T., &c., &c., &c.\n\nMay it Please Your Royal Highness:\n\nWe, the undersigned, the Archdeacon, Clergy, and Ministers of Religion, British subjects of Hongkong, beg to approach your Royal Highness for the purpose of giving expression to those feelings of loyalty and attachment which we entertain towards the Throne, Person, and Family of our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria.\n\nIt is, at the same time, a source of much pleasure to us to have this opportunity of tendering to Your Royal Highness a most cordial Welcome on the occasion of the visit of Your Royal Highness to this distant Dependency of the British Crown.\n\nThe Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of the Diocese who is now in England, also wishes us to express to Your Royal Highness his great\n\nPage 59\n\nPage 60\n\nPage 61", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 281302, "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": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "page_number": 341, "title": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "content_text": "## List of School Materials to be purchased in England for the Office of Education, Hong Kong, with probable Estimate of Cost, exclusive of packing, freight, and other charges\n\n1 Set School Maps (about 5 by 4) (Nelson, Edinburgh)\n- World, Europe, Asia, Africa, America, British Isles, India, Canada, Australia, Pacific Ocean\n\n| Quantity | Item Description | £ | S | D |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 144 | First Reading Book, Irish (New series) | | | @5/4 |\n| 144 | Second Reading Book, Irish (New series) | | 10 | 2 |\n| 144 | Third Reading Book, Irish (New series) | | | @7/6 |\n| 144 | Fourth Reading Book, Irish (New series) | | | 2/3 |\n| 30 | First Reading Book, Irish (Old Series) | | 7 | 6 |\n| 66 | Sullivan's English Dictionary | | | |\n| 72 | Webster's Dictionary, by Nuttall | | | |\n| 100 | Scholars' Arithmetics (Blackie) | | | |\n| 144 | First Book of Arithmetic (Jais) | | | |\n| 300 | Table Books (Jais, City Road) | | | |\n| 80 | Outlines of Modern Geography (Mackey) | | | @3/6 |\n| 40 | Power's School Atlas | | 17 | |\n| 50 | Black Copy Books (1) Combination 1st Book | | | @3/9 |\n| 20 | do. (2) Capital Letters | | | @7/6 |\n| 40 | do. (3) Text Lines | | | |\n| 20 | do. (4) Text and Round | | | |\n| 20 | do. (5) Round Hand | | | |\n| 120 | do. (6) Small Hand | | | 7/6 |\n| 20 | do. (7) Mercantile Copy Book | | | 2 |\n| 50 | Swan's Copy Books, Large Post | | | @1/4 |\n| 288 | Blank Copy Books (wide line) | | | @1/9 |\n| 2 | Dozen Lead Pencils (H. B. and B.) (Rowney) | | | |\n| 1 | Dozen Coloured Leads | | | |\n| 6 | Copies Colenso's Arithmetic | | | 24/6 |\n\nCarried forward | 108 | 1. Report Committee of Council on Education 1868-69 | 417 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | \n| | | | 4/9 (@3/9) | 44 | 0 | 4 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 283660, "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": "CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870", "page_number": 232, "title": "CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870", "content_text": "## B Mise: Offices. 7564 \n\nHongkong 231 7558 \n\nThe Officer Administering No. \n\nThe Government of Hongkong. Anders No. 9. \n\n22 July 1870. \n\nSir, \n\nWith reference to Sir R. MacDonnell's despatch No. 8 of the 7th January last, I have the honor to inform you that copies of the volume compiled by the Rev. Mr. Beach recording the visit of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh to Hongkong were in accordance with a request to that effect from Sir R. Macdona... \n\nlaid before H.M. The Queen, and A.R.H. The Prince of Wales.\n\n{MINUTE \nMR. Gladstone \n19. \nM'Herbert \nSur Kogers B 20 \nMonsell \n29 Earl of Kimberley 22 \n\nERUS Jul 24/70 \n\nin 1869, \n\nrequest to inform the Reception Committee that \n\nwith reference to... 17587 \n\nThe Wodehouse...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 288837, "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": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "page_number": 210, "title": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "content_text": "816\n\nTHE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\nhowever, and the daily business which is doing for manufacturing wants is at firm rates. In Canton Silk there have been sales at 178. to 173. 6d. for fair to good market Tsatlee, with certainly more general inquiry for this Silk, very few importers, however, are found willing to accept these rates. Japan Silks remain firm at last quotations, and Deliveries are fairly good, without any new movement of interest. being from 1st to 13th inst:-China, 974 bales; Canton, 308 bales; Japan, 263 bales; Bengal, 276; total, 1,819 bales.\n\nLONDON QUOTATIONS-Nov, 15.\n\nCurss.\n\nTsatlee, No. I\nRed Peacock\n305. 6l. to 31s. 6d.\n\nYuenfas and Hatnin, Nos. 1, 2, and S\nTaysaam\n29s. 6d.\n\nKeying, Nos. 1, 2, and 3...\nLong Keel\n24s. 6d. to 24s. 9d.\n\nChinese Throwns\n\n23s. 0d.\n\n20s. 0d.\n\nMaibosh and Siuchu, Nos. 1, 2, and 3\n\n24s. 0d. to 25s. 6d.\n\n25s. 0d. to 30s. 0d.\n\n28s. 0d. to 24s. 6d.\n\nJAPAN.\n\nIdah, No. 2\n\n20s. 0d. to 27s. 0d.\n\nSodai, No. 2\n\n24s. 6d. to 25s. 6d.\n\nOshtu, Nos. 1, 2, and 3...\n\n25s. 0d. to 30s. 0d.\n\nKochin, No. 2...\n\n28s. 0d. to 24s. 6d.\n\nElchizen\n\n20s. 6d. to 24s. 0d.\n\nMashta\n\n20s. 0d. to 23s. 0d.\n\natehoji...\n\n20s. 0d. to 24s. 0d.\n\nCAMPHOR.--China has slightly declined; of 176 cases offered in the public sales about half has been sold at £3 15s. 6d. to £3 16s., and a small business has been done privately on corresponding terms.\n\nCARDAMOMS.-There has again been an absence of business in Ceylon.\n\nCocoa Nuts.-The market for Cochin has been firm, and sales of fine have been made at £38 15s. both privately and at auction. Ceylon is steady at the previous value; viz., £33 10s. to £35 15s. per ton.\n\nCEREALS. The market continues very dull, and there are no transactions to report.\n\nCotton. The advance reported last week is maintained, about 500 tons having changed hands at 20s. to 22s. per cwt.\n\nDRAGON'S-BLOOD.-Little doing; 29 cases lump offered in public sale were retired.\n\nEBONY.-Ceylon is still very scarce, no part of the supplies reported to be afloat having yet come to hand. Good quality is still quoted £24 per ton, but no transactions are reported.\n\nESSENTIAL OILS.-Aniseed steady; about 100 cases sold privately at 9s. 8d. down to 9s. for a few cases, since which it has slightly rallied, and there are buyers at a shade advance; 13 cases at auction retired. Cassia very firmly held. Nutmeg firm; 6 cases sold at 9d. Citronelle again dull. Cinnamon: Fine, scarce, and wanted. per oz. Lower, and dull: 75 cases at auction, only a few sold at 2¼d. per oz. Lemon Grass: Value nominal, and difficult of sale; 40 cases retired.\n\nGUMS.--Benjamin: Siam quiet; 20 cases at auction retired; Sumatra also quiet; of 62 cases offered, one-half sold; 2nds, dark to fair, £7 2s. 6d. to £8 2s. 6d. Copal: Cheaper and very dull; 80 cases offered and retired; small sales privately at 80s. per cwt. for good. Damar Quiet and cheaper 150 cases sold at 53s. 6d. per cwt. for good clean, but rather dusty and yellow. Gamboge: Quiet.\n\nGUTTAPERCHA.-Market dull; 648 packages at auction nearly all sold; close reboiled and part genuine, 1s. 6d. to 1s. 6½d., mixed with fine white, 1s. 4d. to 1s. 4½d.; white fair to good clean, part barky, 1s. 1d. to 1s. 3d.; close reboiled and part perished and weak, 1s. to 1s. 0¾d.; Sumatra, barky and part loose, ¾d. to 1s.\n\nHEMP. The market for Manila continues weak, the supply being still considerably in excess of requirements; the small business done establishes a light decline in prices. Of 1,992 bales offered in public sale yesterday the bulk was bought in, fair to good raping at £47 to £48 10s.; about 200 to 300 bales sold damaged third to first class at £44 to £47, fourth class, £42 10s. to £43 5s.; inferior sound at £44 5s. to £44 15s. per ton.\n\nHIDES. At the last sales, somewhat contrary to general expectation, there was a fairly active demand for East India Hides for both home use and export, and rather over three-fourths of the quantity offered was disposed of. Former prices were well supported for nearly all descriptions, and for some of the most desirable piles of Dacca and North-Western slaughtered an advance of ½d. to ¾d. per lb. was paid. Singapore and Penang realised about former rates. Singapore and Penang Buffalo were in full demand, and generally brought full prices; Calcutta and Java were mostly bought in.\n\nHORNS.-Siam Buffalo firm at the last quoted rate, viz., 36s. 6d. to 39s. 6d. per cwt. for 3 lb. to 4 lb. Horns. Ceylon Deer also firm.\n\nISINGLASS.-The market continues firm, and at auction of 4 cases offered, a few only sold at 2s. 8d. to 2s. 9¼d. for middling Pipe; 10 bales Manila purse sold at 6d. to 8¾d. per lb.\n\nINDIA-RUBBER.-The market is very quiet, and in the absence of transactions of any importance prices are unaltered.\n\nJAPAN WAX.-There is but little doing, but the market is firm, and prices are well maintained; small sales of fine saucers are reported at £4 18s. per cwt.\n\nMusk.-Market steady: 51 caddies Tonquin at auction sold; fair selected, well-shaped pods part horny 34s. to 34s. 6d.; and rough and badly, fair middling 17s. 6d. to 18s.; 19 tins Grain sold, fine at 56s. to 57s.; dark at 48s. to 48s. 6d. per oz.\n\n[Nov. 18, 1872.]\n\nPEPPER.-Black has been very dull, and there have been only small sales, chiefly of Singapore, at 6d. to 6¼d., at which the market closes. White is also cheaper, having been with an extremely dull tone, quitted at 1s. 0d. to 1s. 0¾d.\n\nPLUMBAGO Ceylon of fine quality is very scarce, but mixed is dull of sale; 133 barrels in auction sold; dust, good and very good at 12s. to 13s. 3d. per cwt.\n\nRATTANS are scarce, and supplies would realise high prices.\n\nRHUBARB The market for China is steady but quiet; of 126 cases offered three-fourths sold; sundried root fairly trimmed and fresh small to large, 2s. to 2s. 4d.; duller coat and more mixed in size, 1s. 8d. to 1s. 11d.; inferior, 10d. to 1s. 2d. per lb.\n\nRICE Although there is no activity in the demand, there is a steadier tone observable in the market, and better prices have been obtained, especially for floating cargoes. On the spot Askoolie has been sold at 10s. 4½d. to 10s. 6d., old Necransie at 8s. 6d. cash, and Moulmein at 9s. 6d. ex quay. The floating cargo per Surrey, 1,200 tons Rangoon, has been sold at 9s. 6d. continental terms, the floating cargo, per Voltri, 760 tons Necransic, arrived off coast, sold at 9s. 3¼d. for a near continental port, and a floating cargo of 750 tons Moulmain at about 9s. 3d. ex ship.\n\nSAGO.-Market very quiet, and little business done. Of 897 bags offered, half sold at 16s. 6d. per cwt. for good small, and 17s. 6d. to 18s. for good large.\n\nSAPAN WOOD.-Manila and Siam steady; 55 tons Manila sold at auction at £8 2s. 6d. to £8 7s. 6d., for good wood, some damaged. Ceylon firm and in demand, but no offers have been made during the fortnight.\n\nSHELLS.-No business since the sales of the 5th inst.\n\nSPICES.-Chunamon: There is a steady demand for Ceylon and a moderate business doing at previously ruling prices. Cassia Liguea: Quiet; 400 cases unworked at public sale retired. Buds: Quiet. Cloves: Amboyna firm; 2 cases good sold at 8¼d.; Penang steady; of 13 cases at auction, 3 cases fair sold at 1s. 4d. to 1s. 4½d. per lb.; the remainder common retired. Mace: Steady. Nutmeg: Cheaper; of 450 packages at sale, a large proportion sold; 87's to 77's, 8¼d. to 8s. 7d.; 90's, 3s. 2¼d. to 3s. 3d.; 116's to 108's, 2s. 9¼d. to 2s. 10¼d.; but a large proportion common, shrivelled and worm-eaten sold at low rates.\n\nSoy.-Ching in very flat, and of 100 casks offered at auction only a few sold at 1s. 9d. per gallon. Japan: No business done.\n\nSTICKLAC.-Siam firm; 82 cases at auction sold at £4 8s. 6d. to £4 9s. for good quality.\n\nSTAR ANISEEDS.-Market quiet, and there are no transactions to report.\n\nTAPIOCA.-The market has been quiet, and closes dull. Of 8,000 bags at auction one third sold; Singapore at 2¼d. to 2½d. per lb. for middling to very good, and Penang 2¼d. to 2½d. middling to fair.\n\nTIN has declined £2 to £8 per ton, but the market closes steadily; quotations are: Straits, on the spot and afloat, £140; Banca, £155; Billiton, £146 per ton.\n\nARTICLES OF EXPORT.\n\nMANCHESTER GOODS.\n\nThe advance in the Bank rate to 7 per cent. has increased the dullness prevailing at the close of last week, and the sales effected since the 8th inst. have been extremely limited. At the close the market is without improvement in demand, and may be reported with a tendency of prices in favour of buyers.\n\nWidth...\n39 in.\n\nQuality...\nNo. 4.\n\nWeight..\n\nGRET SHIRTINGS,\n38-39 Yds.\n\n8.8.\n8¼d.\n\n9d.\n9¼d.\n\n9½d.\n9¾d.\n\nWidth....\n39 in.\n\nQuality...\nNo. 1\n\n8s. 6d.\n\n820\n\nGIBRALTAR\n\nMALTA............\n\nTHE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\nOVERLAND ROUTE....\n\nThe PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY book Passengers and receive Cargo and Parcels by their steamers for-\n\nALEXANDRIA.)\n\nAden\n\nBOMBAY\n\nGALLE.....\n\nMADRAS\n\nCALCUTTA\n\nPENANG\n\nSINGAPORE...\n\nCHINA\n\nJAPAN\n\nAUSTRALIA\n\nNEW ZEALAND\n\n(Cargo only)\n\nTrieste\n\nFrom\n\nFrom Southampton-calling at Brindisi.\n\nAncona)\n\nEvery\n\nThursday\n\nat 2 P.M.\n\nEvery\n\nFriday.\n\nEvery Monday,\n\nat noon.\n\nNov.\n\nNov. 15.\n\nNov. 4, 18,\n\n& Dec. 2,\n\nat 2 P.M.\n\nat noon.\n\nat 3 A.M.\n\nThursday\n\nFriday.\n\nNov. 29\n\nNov. 21,\n\nat 2 P.M.\n\nat noon.\n\nMonday, Dec. 2.\n\nat 1.\n\nAnd all Ports at which the British India Company's Steamers call.\n\nAn abatement of 20 per cent. from the charge for the Return Voyage is made to Passengers who have paid full fare to or from ports eastward of Suez re-embarking within six months of their arrival, and 19 per cent. to those re-embarking within twelve months.\n\nThrough Tickets to Brindisi can be obtained of LEGEAU and Co., &, Baliter-street, B.C. (South Italian Railway Office).\n\nFor Rates of Passage Money and Freight and all other information, apply at the Company's Offices 122, Leadenhall-street, London; or Oriental-place, Southampton.\n\nOVERLAND ROUTE VIA MARSEILLES-MESSAGERIES MARITIMES DE FRANCE, CANNON-STREET - FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS LEAVE MARSEILLES (via\n\nON THE FOLLOWING SUNDAYS, at 8.0.) 10 A.M.-\n\nAva... Ponnai\n\nPriho\n\nMeikong\n\nSindh...\n\nProvence\n\nNov. 10\n\nNov. 24\n\nDec. 8\n\nFor\n\n...\n\nDec. 22\n\n...\n\nJan. 5\n\n...\n\nJan. 19\n\nAden, Galle, Singapore, Batavia, Saigon, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Yokohama.\n\nThe steamers of the 24th Nov., 22nd Dec., and 19th Jan. connect at Aden with the steamers for Bombay and Mauritius.\n\nThe steamers of the 10th Nov., 8th Dec., and 5th Jan. connect at Galle with the steamers for Pondicherry, Madras, and Calcutta.\n\nFor Alexandria and Naples.. Every Thursday (noon)\n\nSaturday, &\n\nConstantinople\n\nAlgiera\n\n+7\n\nThe Company's weekly steamers to Alexandria connect at Alexandria with the English mail steamers from Brindisi to Bombay.\n\nFor Passage, Freight, or Information, apply to the Company's Agent, 97, Cannon-street, E.C.; G. I. FLETCHER and Co., Liverpool: at the Offices of the Messageries Maritimes of France in Paris, Lyons, Bordeaux, and Marseilles; or to SMITH and Co., Rotterdam.\n\n* Passengers eastward of Suez securing their Berths in London are entitled to the conveyance of their luggage free to Marseilles.\n\nPENANG, SINGAPORE,\n\nand JAPAN, The following high-classed SCREW STEAM and SAILING SHIPS will\n\nbe despatched as under:-\n\nDestination.\n\nLast\n\nClass.\n\nDock.\n\nShipping\n\nday.\n\n39 in.\n\n39 in.\n\n10\n\n23\n\n16\n\n5\n\n4\n\n7\n\n0\n\n7\n\n0\n\n17\n\n7\n\n8\n\n13\n\n8\n\n1\n\nCount\n\nPrice......\n\n12 x 9\n\n12x12\n\n14x13\n\n14 x 18\n\n14x12; 14x12½\n\n16x16\n\n16x15\n\nPH.D. 68.444.\n\n7s. 1d.\n\n7s.\n\n7s.\n\n7s. 1¾d.\n\nWeight...\n\nCount\n\nPrice......\n\nWeight...\n\n4\n\nCount...\n\nPrice......\n\nWidth\n\nQuality....\n\n# 1\n\n16x15\n\n16x15\n\n8\n\nN\n\n9\n\n0\n\n$\n\n4\n\n9\n\n4\n\n70\n\n16x16\n\n16x18\n\n17x17\n\n19x10\n\n12x8\n\n32x32\n\na.\n\n7d\n\n8s.\n\n10s.\n\n10s.\n\non.\n\n18.\n\n4¾d.\n\n10s.\n\n6d.\n\nPeng, Sing..\n\n49/50 in.\n\n34 in.\n\n60 in.\n\nHg. Kg.\n\n& Shanghai, via S.C.\n\n35\n\n36\n\n39\n\n45\n\n46\n\n49\n\n56\n\n59\n\n*\n\n0\n\n3\n\n◊\n\n00\n\n10\n\n0\n\n10\n\n0\n\n11\n\n0\n\n12\n\n0\n\n14x10\n\n14x12\n\n16x15\n\n16 x 18\n\n14x10\n\n16 15\n\n16 x 15\n\n16x15\n\n10x15\n\nAT\n\nTo Naukin 8.8.\n\n10\n\n9\n\n10\n\n11\n\n12\n\n14\n\nA1\n\nShanghai\n\nCarmarthen-\n\nSWID\n\nNov, 25\n\nSWID\n\nTo follow\n\n3d.\n\n9s.\n\n4½d.\n\n10s.\n\nd.\n\n12s.\n\n6d.\n\n10s\n\n10¼d.\n\n12s.\n\n4¾d.\n\n13s.\n\n6d.\n\n14s.\n\nd.\n\nT-CLOTHS.\n\nWidth\n\ndz in.\n\n36 in.\n\nWeight\n\n6\n\n0\n\n8\n\n0\n\n7\n\n0\n\n6\n\n0\n\n7\n\n0\n\n8\n\n0\n\n8\n\n4\n\nCount\n\n14x18\n\n15 x 15\n\n15x15\n\n18x18\n\n18x18\n\n18x19\n\n18x18\n\nPrice\n\n15s.\n\n10¼d.\n\n8s.\n\n9d.\n\n6s.\n\n10¾d.\n\n7s.\n\n4½d.\n\n8s.\n\n4½d.\n\n8s.\n\n7½d.\n\n6s.\n\nhrI._4_5,\n\nફત\n\n7s.\n\nd.\n\n7s.\n\n4d.\n\n8s.\n\n0d.\n\n9s.\n\n0d.\n\n9s.\n\n8d.\n\n2.\n\n4.\n\n8.\n\nd.\n\nChina Grey Shirtings, 84 ½ lbs. (Eagle Chop)\n\nMaddapoliams .......\n\nLong Cloths\n\n9\n\nY\n\n3\n\n7\n\n10\n\n3\n\n9\n\n*\n\nB\n\nWhite Spot Shirtings ...\n\nBrocade...\n\nDamasks\n\nnominal)\n\ndo, do.\n\n11\n\n...\n\n11\n\n9\n\n21\n\n0\n\nNos. 28-32\n\ndo.\n\nNo.40\n\ndo. (mock)\n\nNo. 40 Mule Twist\n\nNo. 30\n\n4o.\n\nCotton Yarn Water Twist), Nos. 16-24\n\nChina...\n\nX\n\n0 to 1\n\n1\n\n2 to 1\n\n3\n\n1\n\n2 to\n\n1\n\n24 to 1\n\n24\n\n1\n\n0 to 1\n\n2\n\n...\n\nChin-Kiang,\n\nF.A.\n\nshire 1\n\n14 yr.\n\nB.I.D.\n\nWith des.\n\nYokohama\n\nDenbighshire\n\nAl 15 yr.\n\nE.LD.\n\nWith des\n\n* And to Japan if sufficient inducement offers.\n\nExcellent accommodation for first-class passengers.\n\nFor Freight or Passage apply to Nonnis and JOYNER, 126, Bishopsgate-street Within, E.C. (corner of Cornhill).\n\nO TEAM TO BANGKOK\n\n(Crossing the Tar) Via the Suez Canal, with all possible despatch, calling at Tanjong Pagar Wharf, Singapore.\n\nthe new, powerful, first-class screw steamer KROMATAH, 805 tons, 180-horse power, nominal, W. B. HAFFENDEN, Commander\n\nSouth West India Docks, Splendid accommodation for passengers\n\nFor Freight, Passage, or further particulars apply to SMITH, SON, and COLE, 12 George-yard, Lombard-street, London, E.C.\n\nJAPAN AND CHINA. Great Mail Route via New York and San Francisco.\n\nTHE\n\nPACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY, under their new arrangement with the United States Government, despatch the following magnificent STEAMERS, OF 3,000 tons burden and upwards, with Mails and Passengers, from San Francisco, on the 1st and 16th of every month, for Yokohama, Hiogo, Nagasaki, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, connecting at Hong Kong with the Peninsular and Oriental Line, for Ports in India;-\n\nAcopilen\n\nJanan\n\nGreat Republic\n\n| Abaddon\n\nColorado\n\nChina\n\nCosta Rica\n\nTies\n\nConstitution\n\nNew York\n\nGolden Age\n\nOre-ronian\n\nAriet\n\nReturning from Hong Kong on the 12th and 27th of every month\n\nThe Pacific Mail Steamship Company's steamers also leave New York on the 10th, 20th, and 30th of every month for San Francisco, via Panama calling en route at Kingston, Jamaica, and ports along the North Pacific coast.\n\nFor rates of fare from England, which include railway transit across the American continent, and other Information, apply to H. STARR and Co, Agents, 27, Moorgate-street, London.\n\nTNION PACIFIC RAILWAY.-\n\nTHROUGH LINE from NEW YORK to SAN FRANCISCO.\n\nSan Francisco 18 days from England.\n\n***......\n\nin $8\n\nJapan\n\nChing...\n\nin 44\n\n기\n\n\"\n\n**\n\n**\n\nNew Zealand in 42\n\nAustralia......\n\nin 47\n\nPassengers for California and Intermediate points on this road are now booked through from England at the established rates of fare; and from San Francisco to Japan, China, Australia, &c., by the magnificent steamers of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and United States, New Zealand, and Australian Mail Steamship Company,\n\nFor Rates, Tickets, &c., apply to H. STARR and Co., Agents, 22, Moorgate-street, London,\n\nROUND the WORLD in NINETY\n\nA DAYS, by Steam and Rail, by Land and Sea,\n\nvia North America. Japan China, Sandwich Islands, New Zealand. Australia, Ceylon, India, Egypt, and Continent of Europa-By authority of the various mail steamship and railway lines comprising the above rates, FIRST-CLASS PASSAGE COUPON TICKETS are now issued for the ROUND JOURNEY, either by way of Japan and China or New Zealand and Australia, at one reduced and inclusive\n\nfare.\n\nThe route will be over the Great Union and Central Pacific Railway to San Francisco, passing through some of the grandest and most interesting scenery in the world. From San Francisco the tourist will be taken to Japan and China by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, or to New Zealand and Australia, by the United States, New Zealand, and Australia Mail Steamship Line, and thence by the Peninsular and Oriental Company, via Galle, Madras, Calcutta, and Bombay (over the Grant Indian Railway) to Southampton, or London, via Brindisi,\n\nThe journey may be broken at any point, and resumed at pleasure\n\nFare, via China, £21; via New Zealand and Australia, £197.\n\nFor further particulars apply to H. STARR and Co., 22, Moorgate-street, London. Agents Union and Central Pacific Railway, &c.\n\nCA\n\nNow ready (November issue).\n\nNASTLE LINE OF STEAM PACKETS for PENANG, SINGAPORE, HONG KONG, SHANGHAI, JAVA, and JAPAN. The following high-classed and full-powered STEAMSHIPS will be despatched as under:\n\nSteamer.\n\nClays.\n\nGlenroy\n\nClentyson\n\nGordon Castle......\n\n100 AL\n\n100 AT\n\n100 A1\n\nGlengyle\n\n100 A\n\nDruminona Castle.\n\n100 A1\n\nBraemar Castle...\n\n100 AL\n\nCawdor Castle......\n\n100 AI\n\n100 A\n\nFloors Castle\n\n100 A1\n\nGlenartney\n\nTons.\n\nDock.\n\nTo sail,\n\nPort\n\n[Nov. 18, 1872.]\n\nOBERTSON and Co.'s\n\nof STEAM and CLIPPER SHIPS.\n\nSkip.\n\nClass\n\nDock.\n\nTo sall.\n\nBombay and Kingston.sa\n\nGoast Ports via S.C....90 A1\n\nSingap. and\n\nSaigon\n\nChas. Collet\n\n3.3rds\n\nPen.. Sing.\n\n[SWID\n\nNov. 21\n\nSWID\n\n¡With des.\n\nLL.1\n\n190\n\nAi 1.\n\nKg.\n\n& Sylvia, 8.8.\n\n3-5rda\n\nShanghai...\n\nvia S.C...\n\nLI\n\nSWID\n\nNOS.\n\n-\n\nYokohama.\n\nTulking......A\n\n14 yr.\n\nSWID\n\nWith des.\n\ni\n\nFor Fraight or Passage apply to York Chambers 55, King-street, Manchester; or to 16, Orange-court, Liverpool; or 5, Newman's court, Cornhill, London, B.C.\n\nPENANG, SINGAPORE, CUINA, AND JAPAN,\n\nD\n\nPort.\n\nHE following SPLENDID First-class STEAM and CLIPPER -SHIPS will be despatched as under :--\n\nShip.\n\nTo sull.\n\nClass.\n\nDock.\n\nShanghai\n\nSir Lancelot\n\nA1\n\n26 ye\n\nE.LD.\n\nWith des.\n\nDo...\n\nMaitland...\n\nA1\n\n14\n\nB.I.D.\n\nWith des.\n\nHong Kong\n\nUndine\n\nAL\n\n16\n\nTEID.\n\nWith des.\n\nJashepherd\n\n19 yr.\n\nSWID\n\nTo follow\n\nYokohama\n\nDenka........\n\nA\n\n17 yr.\n\nE.LD.\n\nWith des.\n\nDu...\n\nEliza Shaw\n\nAi\n\n17 yr.\n\nE.ID\n\nTo follow\n\nHinge.....\n\nHanover.....\n\nAX\n\nII ye\n\njW.I.D\n\nWith des\n\nPen.. Sing\n\nH.K.. Shag\n\n& Yoko\n\nFlintshire,\n\n2.3.100\n\nAL\n\nJE.I.D.\n\nDec. 5\n\nFor Freight apply to Kutztor, MARTIN, and Co., 10, George-yard, Lombard-street, E.C.\n\nSteam via the Suez Canal. To sail on the 25th Nov,\n\nFOR\n\n208\n\nSINGAPORE, YO-KOHAMA, and HTOGO (with liberty to call at Hong Kong), the splendid full powered screw steamer DUNA. 100 A1, 852 tons register, 150- * horse power nominal; Victoria Docks, Cargo deliverable at Japan without transhipment.\n\nFor Freight, apply to D. R. MacGREGOR, Esq, owner, Leith; to SMU, SENDTUS, and Co., 33, Gracechurch-street; or to Sax, MARTON, and Co, 2, Royal Exchange-buildings, London, EC.\n\nFOR Tanjong Pagar, SINGA. PORE--The following VESSELS\n\nare now on the barth in\n\nAuriga......\n\nGlenroy, s.s....\n\nLONDON.\n\n[Tons]\n\nBrokers.\n\nTo Sai\n\n18\n\nWright Bros. & Co.\n\nNov. 16\n\n2,500\n\nThos. Skinner & Co.\n\nNov. 20\n\nChin-Kiang, s.s.\n\n1,000\n\nNorris & Joyner...\n\nNov. 25\n\nKromatah.\n\n8.5........\n\nRosedale\n\n803,\n\nSmith, Son, Cole\n\nDes.\n\n1\n\n40\n\nWright Bros. & Co.\n\n¡Dec. 12\n\nLIVERPOOL.\n\nDeucalion, s.s.......\n\n1,506\n\nAlfred Bolt\n\nNov.20\n\nSarpolon, s.s.\n\n1,519\n\n......\n\nDec. 3\n\nSenle of wharf and dock charges may be had on application to the Company's London Agents, Mesars. MACTAGGART, TIDMAN, and Co., 34, Great St. Helens, E.C.\n\nST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL,\n\nHONG KONG,\n\nCOMPLETION FUND.\n\n2,100\n\nSWID\n\nNov. 25.\n\nJUST before embarking from Hong\n\n2,200 (SWID |To follow\n\n2,000\n\nSWID ! To follow\n\n1,700 !SWID To foliow\n\n2,000 (SWID To follow\n\n2,200 (SWID To follow\n\n2,200 18 WID To follow\n\n2,000 (SWIDTo follow\n\n2,000\n\nSWIDj To follow\n\nFor Freight or Passage, apply to THOMAS SKINEE and Co.,, East India-avenue, London, EC.\n\nTEAM VIA THE SUEZ CANAL to PENANG. SINGAPORE, HONG KONG, and SHANGHAI; taking cargo for transhipment to Java, Japan, o., at through ratos at shippers' rak. Last shipping day, 25th November. The new and splendid fail-powered screw steamer CHIN-KTANG, 100 AL 1,220 tons gross; 800 tons net register: 160- horse power nominal. J. HOGG, Commander: Sonth West India Doeks. This magnificent steamer, just bailt by Messrs. C Mitchell and Co., Walker-on-Tyne, expressly for the China trade, bide fair to be one of the fastrat in the trade. Has splendid accommodation for first-class passengers,\n\nFor Freight or Passage apply to the owners, WATTS, MILBURN, and Co., 85, Gracechurch-street, F.C.; or to Norma and JoYVER, 126, Bishopgate-street Within, E.C (Corner of Cornhill).\n\nAll Packages must be marked distinctly with port of destination,\n\nKong, on Tuesday. Nov. 16, 1849, HRH the DUKE OF EDINBURGH was graciously pleased to lay the first stone of a choir for this, the moth Church of the Diocese of Victoria. The cast of the fabric has been shared by the Executive Government and the local community; and it is proposed, by a general sebseription among former residents in and visitors to China, to uravide the necessary furniture and Ettings Should suficient funds be raised, it is proposed to erect a stone palpit.\n\nThe Committee will gladly receive and forward any special gifts with which they may be eutrasted. This schone having receive the cordial approval of the Colmus Chaplain and the Trustees, is circulated by\n\nthe Executive Committe\n\nThe Rev. IV. R. BEACH, HA., Chaplain to the Forces, Canon of St. John's Cathedral, Hong Kong, and late Colonial Chaplain. CHAS. 8. GEORGE CLEVERLY. Esq. ROBERT S. WALKER, Esq. Hon. Treasurer,\n\nthe follies.\n\nBerkenhau.\n\nS.E. HERBERT LAURENCE, Esq., Hon. Secretary\n\n1, Royal Exchange-buildings.\n\nE.C. P.O. Orders to ba made payable at Cornhill, E.C.\n\nPristed for the Proprietorsby WooFF ALL and KINDER Milford-tane,Strand, W.C., and published by James WEST, at the Office of the LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH, 2, Cowper'a-court, Combill, in the parish of St. Michael's. in the City of London. Monday, Nov. 18, 1879.\n\nPage 210\n\nPage 211", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 347830, "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": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "page_number": 272, "title": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "content_text": "# The Mercantile Marine Service Association\n\n## Hong Kong Telegraph 19/11/90\n\n### A National Disgrace!\n\n#### THE SUNDAY LABOUR QUESTION. AN APPEAL TO GOVERNMENT.\n\nHis Excellency the Acting Governor received a deputation from the British Mercantile Marine Officers' Association at Government House yesterday. The deputation, which was received in the first instance by Lieut. Thorburn, A.D.C., and subsequently introduced to His Excellency by the Hon. Secretary, consisted of Captain S. Ashton, Mr. J. W. James, Mr. Chesney Duncan (Hon. Secretary), Messrs. J. W. Gale, N.A. (President), Mr. Pearce, W. Winch (officers), and James Edwards (Hon. Treasurer).\n\nThe Mercantile Marine Service Association was incorporated by Special Act of Parliament for conserving the interests of the British Merchant Service, promoting the general improvement of nautical men by education, wholesome laws, obtaining redress of wrongs, procuring employment, and caring for the helpless and aged.\n\nCaptain Ashton said that the deputation felt most deeply grateful to His Excellency for granting them an interview. They sought to address the strong feeling amongst British officers that there should be a cessation of labour on board ships in this port on Sundays. Having studied Lord Knutsford's speech on the subject, made in the House of Lords on the 25th of July last, the Association came to the conclusion that the best way of causing much-needed legislation on the subject was to move the Chamber of Commerce to recommend Government to introduce a Bill which would cause the cessation of unnecessary Sunday labour.\n\n| **Position** | **Name** |\n| --- | --- |\n| President | J. W. Gale, N.A. |\n| Hon. Secretary | Chesney Duncan |\n| Hon. Treasurer | James Edwards |\n\nThe Association discussed the question at length with the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce at a public conference held at the City Hall on the 7th ultimo. Full reports of the arguments occasioned, together with the Chamber's written decision, dated the 31st of October, had doubtless come within His Excellency's cognizance.\n\nCaptain Ashton continuing said, \"We are very glad to think that His Excellency has taken notice of the movement which, we submit, is a righteous and justifiable movement, and a protest against moral slavery.\" He contended that the reply of the Chamber was unjustifiable in the circumstances and was an insult to officers. The Chamber's proposition was impracticable in the extreme and amounted to a modus vivendi.\n\nThe Chamber wrote, \"The Committee are of opinion that the Government could not legislate for the complete suppression of Sunday labour in this harbour, as the questions involved are very serious and would affect injuriously all the shipping interests of the Colony, and particularly the large Chinese population connected therewith.\" Captain Ashton argued that the Government could legislate for the suppression of Sunday labour without injuriously affecting the shipping interests or the Chinese population.\n\nHis Excellency, in reply, said he was very glad to receive the deputation and to hear their views on a question which was admittedly one of much importance. He believed it was admitted on all sides that it would be desirable to diminish Sunday labour if such could possibly be done. The question then arose whether it should be interfered with, and if so, by what means such interference should be brought about.\n\nThere were only two ways by which this could be done: one being by having recourse to compulsory legislation, and the other by the voluntary co-operation of those concerned in the shipping interests of the colony. His Excellency admitted that he did not altogether agree with all the arguments brought forward as proof that it was impossible to diminish Sunday labour in the colony.\n\n### Honorary Members\n\n* ADMIRAL HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, K.G., K.T., G.C.B.\n* LORD CLAUD J. HAMILTON\n* LORD BRASSEY, K.C.B.\n* HON. W. A. CROSS, M.P.\n* M. W. MATTINSON, ESQ., M.P.\n* CAPTAIN SIR JAMES ANDERSON\n* SIR E. BATES, BART., M.P.\n* PROFESSOR SIR WILLIAM THOMSON, LL.D., F.R.S.\n* WM. RATURONR, ESQ., M.P.\n* DAVID MACIVER, ESQ.\n* EDWARD WHITLEY, ESQ., M.P.\n* SAMUEL SMITH, ESQ., M.P.\n* RALPH NEVILLE, ESQ., Q.C., M.P.\n* T.B. ROYDEŃ, ESQ., M.P.\n* BARON H. DE WORMS, M.P.\n* W. F. LAWRENCE, ESQ., M.P.\n* SIR G. BADEN-POWELL, ESQ., M.P.\n* T. P. O'CONNOR, ESQ., M.P.\n* RALPH BROCKLEBANK, ESQ.\n* JAMES BEAZLEY, ESQ., J.P.\n* J. J. MAY, ESQ., J.P.\n\n### Honorary Council\n\n* African Steam Ship Company\n* Aspinal, J, Son & Brooke\n* Balfour, Williamson & Co.\n* Baring Brothers\n* Batea, Stokes & Co.\n* Bibby, James J., Esq.\n* Brocklebank, Sir Thomas\n* Brocklebank, Ralph, Jun., Esq.\n* Bushell Bros. & Co.\n* Cearns & Brown\n* Cary, John, Esq., J.P.\n* Cory, Alderman J., Cardiff\n* Coteaworth, Ingue & Co.\n* Cross, J. T., Esq.\n* Dixon, W. H., Esq.\n* Dixon, W. T., & Sons\n* Eusington & Co.\n* Farnworth and Jardine\n* Gibbs, Bright & Co.\n* Graham, Rows & Co.\n* Gruning & Co.\n\n### Executive Council\n\n* Captain T. VINCENT, President\n* CLARKE ASPINALL, ESQ., Treasurer\n* Littledale, T. & J., & Co.\n* Lyon, Comper & Co.\n* Lockett, John, Esq.\n* Mackie & Sons\n* Melones, John, Esq.\n* Maciver, Charles, Esq.\n* Maciver, Henry, Esq.\n* Morland, Sir Henry, Bombay\n* Moss, Charles, & Co.\n* Myers, W. J. Sons, & Co.\n* Muck, W. D., Esq.\n* National Steam Ship Co., Ltd.\n* Nixon & Thew\n* Nickels, J. T., & Co.\n* North, Colonel J. T.\n\n### Council Members (To serve Three Years)\n\n| **Name** | **Position** |\n| --- | --- |\n| Brooks, Capt. | Captain |\n| Burton, G., Capt. | Captain |\n| Campbell, H., Capt. | Captain |\n| Clarke, Janno, Capt. | Captain |\n| Gales, James, Capt. | Captain |\n| Hill, William, Capt. | Captain |\n| Hamil, Martin f., Capt. | Captain |\n| Hatfield, B., Capt. | Captain |\n| Hayes, H. W., Capt. | Captain |\n| Killy, C. J., Capt. | Captain |\n| Lewis, A. W., Capt. | Captain |\n| Murray, G. S., Capt. | Captain |\n| McBay, Horatio, Capt. | Captain |\n| Nowell, S., Capt. | Captain |\n| Ritchie, Joseph, Capt. | Captain |\n| Royden, T. B., Esq., M.P. | |\n| Suumier, Janges, Capt. | Captain |\n| Watt, H. F., Capt. | Captain |\n| Webster, J. K., Capt. | Captain |\n| Williamson, John, Esq. | |\n\nPage 363\n\nC. O. \n2340\nRECE(REG 2 FEB 91)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348655, "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": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "page_number": 388, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "# MATERIALS FOR A HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN HONGKONG.\n\nThe Board of Education, having undergone changes in its membership due to resignations and absences, now consisted of the Colonial Secretary, the Hon. W. T. Mercer (president), the Hon. A. Fletcher, M.L.C., Rev. W. R. Beach, the Rev. Dr. Legge, and Mr. W. Robinson (Secretary). The latter was soon succeeded by Mr. J. C. Power. At the request of the Board, Dr. Legge drafted a circular letter, which was forwarded (10th April, 1861) to the Registrar of London University and to the Principals of the Universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen, requesting each of them to recommend to Bishop Smith (then in England) two gentlemen likely to occupy efficiently the position of Headmaster Principal in the proposed Central School. Bishop Smith was authorized to select from the candidates thus recommended the individual most likely to give satisfaction. The circular described the Government Schools, noting that \"they are not religious Schools, but the sacred Scriptures in Chinese are used as a class book.\" Dr. Legge's characteristic sentences in the circular included: \"The Headmaster will be expected to acquire the Chinese language, without a knowledge of which he cannot fill the situation efficiently. Under the right man, the Institution will not only benefit the Chinese population of this Colony but tell powerfully on the enlightenment and progress of the adjoining Continent.\"\n\nOn 25th March, 1861, Dr. Legge's Plan was submitted to the Legislative Council, which approved it and authorized the purchase of premises for the proposed Government Central School in Gough Street for $20,000 and the erection of an additional building on the same site.\n\nThe Board of Education had abandoned its former, decidedly religious, principles of education and adopted secular principles. This is evident not only from the circular letter but also from the fact that the Board resolved (2nd April, 1861) that the Bishop's Diocesan Girls School, a Christian School and constituted differently from the Government Schools, could not remain under the Board's superintendence. The Rev. W. R. Beach resigned his seat on the Board (3rd September, 1861), and a merchant, Mr. J. J. Mackenzie, took his place. As the Colonial Secretary ceased to attend the Board's meetings around the same time, Dr. Legge was appointed Chairman. Before the close of the year, the Board received (3rd December, 1861) information from the Bishop that he had selected Mr. F. Stewart, M.A., for the Headmastership of the Government Schools.\n\nIn their report for the year 1861, the Committee stated that Dr. Legge had inspected the Schools in the absence of a regular Inspector and reported favorably on attendance and teachers, but the report gave no statistics.\n\n## 1862\n\nSt. Paul's College School, under Mr. J. Fryer, assisted by 4 Chinese teachers, received English boys during 1862, teaching them together with Chinese boys. There were 44 boys in average attendance, and the School cost $4000. The Diocesan Female Training School, under Miss Eaton, continued in the Albany, rent-free, with an average attendance of 17 girls, at a cost of $2043. Miss Baxter continued her Chinese Day School in Ashton Buildings with 20 children and a Chinese-Eurasian Boarding School in Mosque Terrace with 13 children, costing $125 and $625, respectively. Miss Mugrath's European Day School in Mosque Gardens had 16 children, and Miss Legge's Anglo-Chinese School had 12 children. The Berlin Foundling House had 13 children attending school. St. Andrew's School, having closed at the end of the previous year, disappeared from the records.\n\nThe Roman Catholic Schools included: Mr. Rowland's B.C. English Boys School in Wellington Street with 30 boys at a cost of $960; Mr. Pereira's R.C. Portuguese School with 35 boys at the same cost; and Mr. Maurus Leong's R.C. Chinese School with 30 Chinese boys at a cost of $144. The Propaganda Society also ran a Chinese School in Spring Gardens with 35 boys under Mr. Vincent Uen at a cost of $192, and another in Aberdeen with 18 boys under Mr. Stephanus Chu at a cost of $144. The Ecclesiastical School of the French Mission had 10 students under Père Jaqueminet at a cost of $489. The Italian Convent had 20 girls in their English School, 28 girls in their Portuguese School, and 35 girls in their Chinese School, costing $2400. Their Chinese Girls School at Spring Gardens had 30 children at a cost of $144. The Asile de la Sainte Enfance had 34 girls and 15 Chinese boys under Sister Benjamin and Mr. Joseph Lee, respectively, costing $360.\n\nThe great event of the year for Government Schools was the arrival (18th February, 1862) of the new Headmaster, Mr. (later Dr.) Stewart, who established the reign of secularism in local education. He exercised a beneficial influence on hundreds of Chinese youths through his strict discipline and noble character. The Central School became highly popular and the ideal of the community under his leadership.\n\nBefore Dr. Stewart's arrival, Dr. Legge and Mr. J. J. Mackenzie had amalgamated four Government Schools into one Central School at Gough Street. The question of its permanent organization and admission principles was solved by Mr. Mackenzie's Memorandum (3rd June, 1862), which was accepted by the Board (8th October, 1862) with slight modifications. The Regulations for the Government Schools in Hongkong excluded rudimentary Chinese teaching from the Central School, admitting Chinese scholars only after a test examination.\n\nPage 188\nPage 26\nPage 27\nPage 382", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380792, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 321, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "315\n\nJanuary,\n\n4 The Master and Mistress: should be out here not later than 1st. January, 1902: but if they could come out by the middle of September and Government would sanction a supplementary estimate for their salaries (etc.) for the last 3 months of this year, that would be a preferable arrangement.\n\n5. I have seen Mr. Reid, Secretary of the Kowloon School Committee. He is anxious that the Master should have had a Scottish education, and begs that the Crown Agents may be requested to communicate with D. Calderwood, Esq., Principal of the Church of Scotland Training College, Edinburgh.\n\nI think that his wishes might be met in this matter.\n\nI have etc., (Sd.) Edward A. Irving, Inspector of Schools.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381140, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 668, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "663\n\n8\n\n21-The Sanitary Board in 1898 recommended the erection of a Crematorium for incinerating carcases of diseased cattle which die at the depôts instead of burying them as at present. It is found that these diseased carcases after burial are frequently disinterred by coolies and used as food. Nothing has yet been done in this matter.\n\n22.-The Sanitary Board in 1898 strongly urged a reduction in the Height of Buildings and the Board has repeatedly recommended such reduction since. It is absolutely impossible for districts to be healthy where streets are only a few feet wide with five-storey buildings on either side. Nothing has been done in the direction indicated.\n\n23.—One of the greatest evils the Colony suffers from is Surface Crowding. Dr. Francis Clark, the Medical Officer of Health, dealt fully with this question at a meeting of the Sanitary Board on June 1st, 1899. He then said:\n\nThis \"surface crowding\" is a matter which has been brought to the attention of the Government at intervals during the past 25 years. In 1874 the late Colonial Surgeon, Dr. Ayres, directed attention to the matter; in 1889 and again in 1890 Mr. Osbert Chadwick spoke most forcibly, in his Reports on the sanitary condition of this colony, of this very matter. In 1889 Sir William Des Vœux reported to the Secretary of State for the Colonies that one of the principal objects of the Praya Reclamation scheme was \"to afford some opening for relief from the present overcrowding of the population,” but unhappily this object has not been attained to any great extent, for almost the whole of the Reclamation bids fair to be occupied by large godowns and blocks of offices. In 1894 both the Permanent Committee of the Sanitary Board and the \"Committee on the Housing of the Chinese\" directed attention to the amount of surface crowding which existed in this city, while in my Annual Reports I have reiterated their statements and endeavoured to show by statistics that the surface crowding here is greater by far than in the most densely populated metropolitan districts of the City of London. Again, the Unsanitary Properties Commission appointed in 1897 dealt largely with this matter and recommended further legislation—hopelessly inadequate I admit—on the subject. The Sanitary Board, at the request of the Government, deliberated upon the Report of this Commission and submitted a report of its own, dated June 9th, 1898, dealing fully with the various points raised by the evidence taken before the Commission and making a number of suggestions which, if adopted, would unquestionably tend largely to abate this surface-crowding. As a result of all this, a Bill was read for the first time in the Legislative Council on the 22nd day of November, 1898, but this Bill has not yet become law.\n\nThis Bill in an emasculated form eventually became law (Ordinance 34 of 1899) the more drastic remedies recommended by the Sanitary Board with a view to the betterment of the Sanitary Condition of the Colony having been deleted therefrom.\n\nThe Medical Officer of Health, in his Annual Report for 1900, again referred to Surface Crowding as follows:\n\nNos. 5 and 6 Health District, which are situated in the centre of the city, show acute surface crowding, while Districts 9, 4, 8, and 7 are almost as densely crowded. Owing to the conformation of the island, the only possible remedy for this acute congestion is the provision of more ready means of access to the outlying districts of the city, and it is to be hoped that the Government will see their way, at no distant date, to provide, or to encourage the provision of\n\n9\n\ntramways to East Point and the Shaukiwan Road with nominal fares for workmen, thus offering an inducement to the Chinese to reside in these suburbs.\n\nThe density of population of the City of Victoria as a whole, that is to say, including all the outlying vacant lands and the villages in No. 1 Health District, the Public Gardens in No. 3 Health District, and all the unoccupied hill-side below the upper limit of the City Health Districts (i.e. about 450 feet above high-water mark) is 126 persons per acre. In 1898 the average density of population in the administrative County of London was 60 persons per acre, while in Glasgow it was 61, in Liverpool 50, and in Edinburgh 47 persons per acre—Glasgow being the most densely crowded of the thirty-six large towns of the United Kingdom.\n\n24.—In November 1900, the Sanitary Board recommended the Limewashing of the houses of the rural villages, to ensure cleanliness and thereby act as a precautionary measure against Plague. The proposed bye-law was, however, unanimously rejected by the Legislative Council. Sixteen cases of plague have occurred during the present epidemic amongst the limited population of three of these villages.\n\n25.—One lamentable result of the long continued insanitary condition of Hong-kong was the outbreak of Bubonic Plague in 1894. The prediction of the late Dr. Ayres, made in 1873, and reiterated by him since, was fulfilled, twenty-one years later, and the disease has never been eradicated, and may not disappear until the most drastic sanitary reforms are effected. Mr. Chadwick likewise foretold a severe epidemic if the sanitation of the Colony was not improved, and his prophecy, so long unheeded by the Government, has come to pass. Since 1894, when most heroic efforts were made by members of the community to stamp out the disease, there have been up to the present nine thousand reported cases of Bubonic Plague with a mortality averaging from 89 to 96 per cent. It is believed on adequate grounds that the number of cases and deaths has been far in excess of these numbers. There is good reason to believe that had due heed been given to the warnings offered these epidemics might not have occurred. The daily medical returns show that the epidemic is increasing in its ravages and residents are confronted with the fact that the practical immunity which the Europeans appeared to possess from plague has passed away. The Government might not have been able to prevent the annual re-appearance of the disease, but your Petitioners believe, on good medical authority, that the recurring epidemics would have lessened in virulence and duration had the Government seriously applied itself to this very responsible task and not trifled with proposed measures of Sanitary Reform. In his very able report on the Plague Epidemic of 1894, Dr. James A. Lowson, Medical Officer in charge of the Epidemic Hospital and Acting Superintendent of Government Civil Hospital and Lunatic Asylum, said:\n\n1)\n\nIt is\n\n\"satisfactory to know that attempts are being made by those in authority to remedy faults which have been accumulating for years, and which have been \"pointed out but without result.\" Since 1894, with the exception of manfully fighting the epidemic as it annually occurred, with a grievously undermanned Medical and Nursing Staff, practically nothing has been done on the lines of", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381312, "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": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "content_text": "Enclosure (1). 22\n\nBristol Docks,\n\nEngineer's Office, Underfall Yard,\n\nSir Charles Wullon Gregory\n\n2 Delahay Street\n\nWestminster\n\nLondon. S. W. Dear Sir,\n\nHumberland Basin; 18th February, 1890.\n\nI have to acknowledge the receipt\n\nof your letter of the 17th instant and in reply thereto I have very much pleasure\n\nin stating that Mr W. Chatham has been an Assistant in my office for rather more than 5 years.\n\nHe was introduced to me by Mr James Forrest of the Institution and engaged him mainly on the recommendation of Messrs Thomas Meik & Sons of Edinburgh and of Mr. Robert Jamieson, Town and Harbour Clerk of Bo'ness; Mr Chatham having for some years acted as Resident Engineer under the Commissioners of that town.\n\nMr. Chatham is leaving me only because the Dock Committee of the Council of this city have finished certain heavy works, all of which Mr. Chatham, whilst here, has taken", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381535, "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": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "page_number": 248, "title": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "content_text": "He tells me that they have recently published a new Atlas (which he gave me a copy of) as a school book in China, Japan and Siam. It was done well, Gyth: Baitholomew of Edinburgh, who arranged \"spheres of influence in Asia\" at his own discretion. Only about 50 copies of the Atlas have been sold; and the Macmillan Company have already had strong remonstrance from the Chinese Legation against the indication of any spheres of influence whatever.\n\nHe came to understand that I had pressed the matter and they would in consequence withdraw the book from circulation; and would do this the more readily if the Government Schools in Hong Kong would take up the corrected Atlas which they would substitute. He said that they would be only too glad to submit proof of maps of particularly difficult countries to this Committee before publication, so that the corrections might be made.\n\nHe also told me that on page 13 they have got the Perak boundary quite according to the latest rights.\n\nHe refers to F.O. sending a copy of the telegram regarding the map in a confidential despatch No. 27/Wild saying we think the Publishers should be told that the map is entirely inaccurate & ask whether they will write to them or whether we shall make the letter.\n\nC.P.L. 28 at noon 216", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 383740, "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": "CO129-309 - Public Offices & Others - 1901", "page_number": 276, "title": "CO129-309 - Public Offices & Others - 1901", "content_text": "Poppy\n\nLuclosure (1).\n\nC.O.\n\n31304\n\nSEP C1\n\n274\n\nBristol Docks, Engineer's Office, Underfall Yard,\n\nSir Harbe Hullon Gregory\n\n2 Delahay Street\n\nWestminster\n\nLondon. S.W.\n\nSzar vir,\n\nHumberland Jasin ja ti February, 1996.\n\nI have to acknowledge the receipt\n\nof your letter of\n\nthe 17th instant and in reply thereto I have very much pleasure\n\nin stating that Mr W. Chatham has been an Assistant in my office for rather more than six years.\n\nHe was introduced to me by Mr James Forrest of the Institution and I engaged him mainly on the recommendation of Messrs Thomas Meik & Sons of Edinburgh and of Mr Robert Jamieson, Town and Harbour Clerk of Bo'ness; Mr Chatham having for some years acted as Resident Engineer under the Commissioners of that town.\n\nMr Chatham is leaving me only because the Dock Committee of the Council have finished certain heavy works, in which Mr Chatham, whilst here, was in charge of...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-309 - Public Offices & Others - 1901.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391656, "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": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "page_number": 616, "title": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "content_text": "610\n\nwith\n\ndue care and hard work in Edinburgh and in London being off duty from illness. Miss Moir has been, since the 12th of October, joining through the course of Tropical Medicine\n\n1:\n\nat the London School, she is however prepared to leave England towards the end of next month if required, so as to arrive in Hong Kong by the 6th February next.\n\n7\n\nShe has been made fully aware of all the conditions of the appointment and has been supplied with a copy of the \"Rules\" in force in the Hong Kong Hospital.\n\nThe Committee have every reason to believe that she will prove a suitable candidate for the post.\n\nI beg to enclose Miss Moir's application and papers.\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\nM. C. F. Macdonald Hay\n\nUnder Secretary of State\n\nColonial Office.\n\nAsst. Sec.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 394391, "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": "CO129-325 - Public Offices & Others - 1904", "page_number": 381, "title": "CO129-325 - Public Offices & Others - 1904", "content_text": "Erected and Supported by Voluntary Contributions. Delightfully situated on the Cheshire bank of the River Mersey, between Egremont and New Brighton.\n\nOPENED BY H.R.H. THE LATE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, 16th DECEMBER, 1882.\n\nTHE CENTRAL BUILDING, or \"CLIFF HOME,\" erected at the sole cost of the late Mr. W. CLIFFE, provided for the entire maintenance of Aged Mariners (Shipmasters, Officers, and Seamen), as the funds will permit. There are now 66 inmates.\n\nTHE COTTAGE HOMES, in the same grounds, viz. The \"SLACE Cottages,\" the \"DIXON Cottages,\" the \"KELLOCK Cottage,\" the \"SANDER Cottage,\" the \"REYNER Cottages,\" the \"FORWOOD Cottages,\" the \"AURANTA and ETRURIA Cottages,\" the \"BACON Cottages,\" the \"PICKUP Cottages,\" \"ASHTON Cottages,\" the \"BROCKLEHURST Cottages,\" the \"MCINNES Cottages,\" the \"POTTER Cottages,\" \"Chaddock Cottages,\" and the \"HARLING Cottages,\" are for Aged Mariners who have Wives or other suitable Relatives to live with them, or as may be determined by the Council. Here they have a comfortable home, firing, gas, water, and taxes free, and a small pension, with liberty to engage in shipkeeping or other suitable employment.\n\nTHE PARK will admit of additional Cottages being erected and endowed.\n\nOUT-PENSIONS, for Aged Mariners who have friends they prefer to reside amongst, but who cannot support them altogether, and CASUAL RELIEF TO THE WIDOWS OF MARINERS, are also included among the objects of the Institution, as the funds are provided.\n\nDONORS of £5,000 may name a Ward, and Donors of £1,000 may name a Cabin in the Main Building.\n\nMr. ALEXANDER SPEIRS, Mrs. W. WRIGHT, the late Miss MARTHA RIDGWAY, and Messrs. RANKIN GILMOUR & Co., have each endowed a Cabin.\n\n1904\n\nAged Merchant Seamen and Widows Fund, 19 Feb\n\nFor affording pecuniary relief to Aged and Poor Shipmasters, Officers, and Seamen of all ranks, and the WIDOWS and Children of Mariners, who are in circumstances of distress. Four-fifths of the Income is derived from Annual Subscriptions, Donations, and Collections—a small Invested Fund yielding the only reliable income.\n\nPensions were granted to 126 aged Mariners and Widows, and casual relief was given to aged and distressed Mariners and Widows in 862 instances during the past twelve months; over £24,700 paid in Monthly Allowances and Casual Relief, since its formation in 1870, by the Mercantile Marine Service Association.\n\nLiverpool Seamen's Pension Fund.\n\nFounded by the late Mr. T. H. ISMAY, in June, 1887, by a Jubilee Gift of £20,000.\n\nSince augmented by Gifts from other kind Donors to a total of nearly £48,000.\n\nThe income of which permits 110 Aged Mariners receiving a pension amounting to £20 per annum each.\n\nThe late Mr. Ismay also laid down the following basis for the fund:-\n\n1. The object of the fund is to provide pensions for British sailors who have sailed out of Liverpool or in Liverpool-owned ships, and who have been unable to make adequate provision for their declining years.\n\n2. The pension, which it is proposed shall be fixed at £20 per annum, will not be granted to any person other than a British sailor, and will be continued at the absolute discretion of the Committee.\n\n3. No person shall be eligible for a pension who is able to serve at sea, or who has not attained the age of fifty years.\n\n4. Those persons only will be admitted as Candidates, who can prove twenty-five years of service at sea in the mercantile marine as Captain, Deck Officer, or Seaman.\n\n5. The Fund may be invested in the name of the Mercantile Marine Service Association, who will have the power of selecting suitable Candidates for the pension.\n\nThe \"MARGARET ISMAY\" WIDOWS' FUND, established by Mrs. ISMAY, with a Donation of £10,000.\n\nProvides Grants of £10 per annum to Widows of Pensioners of the Liverpool Seamen's Pension Fund.\n\nThe above Institutions are under the management of the COUNCIL OF THE MERCANTILE MARINE SERVICE ASSOCIATION, (incorporated by Special Act of Parliament.)—See opposite page.\n\nHon. Treasurer—J. H. STOCK, Esq., M.P.\n\nSecretary—C. P. GRYLLS.\n\nOFFICES—67 & 68, TOWER BUILDINGS, WATER STREET, LIVERPOOL.\n\nHere Contributions may be paid in between the hours of 9 and 6; Saturdays 9 to 2, or at the Bank of Liverpool, Water Street.\n\nNo. 6022\n\n(Subject.)\n\nFood supply in\n\nDOMESTIC.\n\nC. O.\n\n6022\n\nPage 20 FEB 041\n\nWar time\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nDesp to for\n\non\n\nsubject\n\nTo for Sur Canada, con le cais 207\n\nFurther\n\nAnso 12 May 16:30 SHAY\n\naned to they\n\n76 & 1. (75) —13388–20700¬Z!· S\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\nYou\n\n16530\n\n(Minutes.)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-325 - Public Offices & Others - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 411316, "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": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 493, "title": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[6296]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[February 25, \n\n487 \n\nSECTION 10928 \n\nIR. \n\nREGE 26 MAR 07 \n\nMr. F. W. Fox to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received February 25.)\n\nReform Club, Pall Mall, London, \nFebruary 23, 1907.\n\nDear Sir Edward Grey,\n\nWITH reference to the interview which I had the privilege of having with Mr. Langley at the Foreign Office last Thursday, respecting the proposal of the China Missions Emergency Committee to send a deputation to China to inquire into and report on the bearing of the new conditions which are alleged to have recently arisen in China upon the question of missionary work in all its forms, evangelistic, educational, literary, medical, &c., I have the honour to say that this deputation, which leaves England in March next, will include Rev. Lord William and Lady Florence Gascoyne-Cecil, Professor Alexander Macalister, M.D., of Cambridge University, and myself; also it is probable that Sir Alexander Simpson, M.D., of Edinburgh, who is now in India, will join the deputation at Shanghae.\n\nI shall esteem it a great favour if you can kindly give me introductions to the Representatives of His Majesty's Government at Peking and Shanghae.\n\nI also take the opportunity of inclosing herewith a copy of the Instructions which the Committee will place in the hands of the members of the deputation for their guidance when in China, and would venture more particularly to direct your attention to clauses 7, 8, and 9 of these Instructions, which are as follows:-\n\n| Clause | Instruction |\n| --- | --- |\n| 7 | To inquire and consider whether any amendment or alteration in the Treaties between Great Britain and China would facilitate mission work in China by removing some of the wrong impressions produced in the minds of the Chinese people. |\n| 8 | To inquire in what ways the Chinese Government may be made to understand and realize the desire of this country that China should be held exclusively for the Chinese themselves; and by what means the British Government could give assurance that this is the desire of the English people. |\n| 9 | To make inquiries amongst Chinese officials and leaders of Chinese opinion whether there is anything in the conduct of missionaries or their methods which disposes the Chinese officials and people to receive them and their teaching in an unfriendly spirit.” |\n\nIn connection with these clauses, Mr. Langley kindly pointed out that Article XIII of the Treaty between Great Britain and China, signed at Shanghae on the 5th September, 1902, and which is as follows:-\n\n\"The missionary question in China being, in the opinion of the Chinese Government, one requiring careful consideration, so that, if possible, troubles such as have occurred in the past may be averted in the future, Great Britain agrees to join in a Commission to investigate this question, and, if possible, to devise means for securing permanent peace between converts and non-converts, should such a Commission be formed by China and the Treaty Powers interested.”\n\nProvides a suitable opening for the Chinese Government to approach His Majesty's Government on questions relating to missionaries and mission work.\n\nAs the members of the deputation to China are extremely anxious to find every possible means for lessening or removing the causes of unfriendliness between the Chinese officials and Protestant missionaries, may we inquire if you would permit us to assure the Chinese officials whom we may meet that His Majesty's Government will be glad to consider any amendments in the wording of the clauses of the existing Treaties which relate to missionaries, so as to facilitate missionary work, and to remove any wrong impressions at present produced in the minds of the Chinese people?\n\nMay we also assure the Chinese officials that His Majesty's Government has every \n\n[2376 bb-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422695, "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": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 98, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote `No. 25894/09` and address The Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, London.\n\n24389 \nRre nic2 21 JUL OS \nFOREIGN OFFICE \nJuly 20, 1909. \n96 \n\nSir, - \nI am directed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey to transmit to you, to be laid before the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the accompanying copy of a letter from Mr. C.E. Price, M.P., forwarding, on behalf of the Edinburgh Committee for the suppression of the Indo-Chinese opium traffic a memorial signed by some three thousand persons from all parts of Scotland urging the desirability of bringing that traffic to a more speedy conclusion than has yet been arranged for.\n\nI am to enclose at the same time the draft reply which, with the concurrence of Lord Crewe, Sir E.Grey proposes to return to the memorialists.\n\nIt will be noted that the Committee propose to make public the memorial and the answer.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.\n\nI am, Sir, \nYour most obedient, humble Servant, \nIn Campbell", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422696, "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": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 99, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# HOUSE OF COMMONS, 24389 \n\n## 97 \n\n### 9th July 1909 \n\n**RECD 21 JUL 09.**\n\nDear Sir Edward Grey:- \n\nOn behalf of the Edinburgh Committee for the suppression of the Indo-Chinese Opium traffic I send you a memorial signed by representatives of Divinity, Medicine, Law, Trade and Women's Work, and which contains about 3,000 signatures. Whilst the petition comes from the Edinburgh Committee it contains names from all parts of Scotland so that it is wholly of a representative character. I trust you will give the memorial your earnest consideration as the subject is one which is keenly felt by all classes in Scotland.\n\n(Signed)\n\nI am &c., \nChas. E. Price.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422699, "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": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 102, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "Registry No. 25894/09.\n\nDraft.\n\nMr. C. E. Price, M.P.\nHouse of Commons.\n\nF. O.,\nJuly 1909.\n\nSir:-\n\nI am directed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th instant forwarding on behalf of the Edinburgh Committee for the suppression of the Indo-Chinese opium traffic a memorial signed by some three thousand persons from all parts of Scotland urging the desirability of bringing that traffic to a more speedy end than has yet been arranged for.\n\nHis Majesty's Government fully sympathize with the object the petitioners have in view, but the reports from His Majesty's Representatives in India which have been laid before Parliament tend to confirm the opinion that the period proposed by the Chinese Government for the complete ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422925, "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": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 328, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# CHINA TRADE\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n(29404)\n\nNo. 1.\n\n326\n\n[August 9.]\n\n### SECTION 2\nC.O 9352\n\nSir,\n\n**Foreign Office to Mr. C. E. Price, M.P.**\n\nForeign Office, August 9, 1909.\n\nI AM directed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th ultimo, forwarding, on behalf of the Edinburgh committee for the suppression of the Indo-Chinese opium traffic, a memorial signed by some 3,000 persons from all parts of Scotland, urging the desirability of bringing that traffic to a more speedy end than has yet been arranged for.\n\nHis Majesty's Government fully sympathise with the object the petitioners have in view, but the reports from His Majesty's representatives in China, which have been laid before Parliament, tend to confirm the opinion that the period proposed by the Chinese Government for the complete suppression of the traffic is by no means excessive in order to enable a change of such magnitude in the habits of the population to be successfully effected.\n\nThe Chinese Government have expressed themselves as perfectly satisfied with the arrangement, which not only gives the Indian cultivator time to adapt himself to the new order of things, but also serves as a considerable incentive to the Chinese authorities to continue their laudable efforts to curtail the cultivation of the poppy in their own country; and in an Imperial decree issued last year the Throne declared itself deeply impressed by the enlightened and benevolent policy of the British Government.\n\nHis Majesty's Government believe that the steps they have taken are those best calculated to assist the Chinese Government in securing that the decrease of the growth and consumption of opium in China itself keeps pace with the decrease of the import from India. The Imperial decree of the Chinese Government confirms this view.\n\nWith regard to the action of His Majesty's Government in opposing the establishment of monopolies in the open ports, owing, as the memorialists are aware, to certain treaty provisions, His Majesty's Government are bound to uphold British treaty rights to which such monopolies would clearly constitute a contravention. But, while opposing such proposals as this, His Majesty's Government have been careful to make it clear to the Chinese Government that they have every desire to support bona fide steps for the suppression of the evils arising from the consumption of opium, and that it is possible and practicable to take such steps in a legitimate manner and without doing any violence to treaty stipulations.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nF. A. CAMPBELL.\n\n`[2396 i---2]`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422926, "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": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 329, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# CHINA TRADE\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[25894]\n\n### No. 1\nC.O 19352 \n[July 9]\n\n## SECTION 1\n\nMr. C. E. Price, M.P., to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received July 9.)\n\nDear Sir Edward Grey,\n\nHouse of Commons, July 9, 1909. ON behalf of the Edinburgh Committee for the Suppression of the Indo-Chinese Opium Traffic, I send you a memorial signed by representatives of divinity, medicine, law, trade, and women's work, and which contains about 3,000 signatures. Whilst the petition comes from the Edinburgh Committee, it contains names from all parts of Scotland, so that it is wholly of a representative character. I trust you will give the memorial your earnest consideration, as the subject is one which is keenly felt by all classes in Scotland.\n\nI am, &c.\nCHAS. E. PRICE.\n\n### Inclosure in No. 1\n\nSir,\n\nMemorial from the Edinburgh Committee for the Suppression of the Indo-Chinese Opium Traffic to Sir Edward Grey.\n\n[Undated.] WE, the undersigned Ministers, office-bearers, and members of the various churches in Scotland, resident in Edinburgh, gathered there at the annual ecclesiastical meetings, or resident in other parts of the country, desire respectfully to draw your attention to the urgency of bringing to a more speedy end than has yet been arranged for the Indo-Chinese opium traffic.\n\nWe are grateful for what has been done by our Government and chiefly by Lord Morley, Lord Crewe, and yourself during the last three years in response to the heroic efforts of China. We are glad to see that the late Shanghae International Commission has characterised these efforts as being carried on with \"unswerving sincerity.\" But we feel that as a Christian nation, professing a high moral standard, we have not, in comparison with non-Christian China, done all we should and as quickly as we should in this fateful business. We specially regret to note that the British authorities in China have thwarted some of the most enlightened provincial governors in their projects to establish an official monopoly of the drug at the open ports in order to control the consumption. This they have done because of certain clauses in the Nanking and Tien-tsin treaties, thus depriving the great Empire which is grappling with this vice of a right enjoyed and exercised by every other nation which has to deal with it, and the lack of which our Ambassador at Peking regards as a serious hindrance to the success of her efforts.\n\nIf this practical outcome of these articles is legal, which seems open to question, seeing they are applied to an import which at the time was contraband, we would urge that, in the interests of fair trade and fair play, orders should at once be given for their non-enforcement. We are aware that the effect of this would probably be to decrease the sale of British grown and manufactured opium, and bring about a consequent reduction of the Indian revenue, but we are persuaded that by thus hastening the end of what our country has pronounced an \"immoral\" traffic, the moral uplift would be of the highest significance and influence both to ourselves and the nations of the east.\n\n(Signatures follow.)\n\n[2363 --1] \n327 \n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422929, "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": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 332, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# CHINA TRADE\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n[25894]\n### 336\nC.O 19352\n[July 20]\n\n## SECTION 4\n### REP CO\n#### No. 1\n\nSir,\n\nForeign Office to India Office.* \nForeign Office, July 20, 1909.\n\nI AM directed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey to transmit to you, to be laid before the Secretary of State for India, the accompanying copy of a letter from Mr. C. E. Price, M.P., forwarding on behalf of the Edinburgh Committee for the Suppression of the Indo-Chinese Opium Traffic a memorial signed by some 3,000 persons from all parts of Scotland, urging the desirability of bringing that traffic to a more speedy conclusion than has yet been arranged for.\n\nI am to enclose at the same time the draft reply, which, with the concurrence of Lord Morley, Sir E. Grey proposes to return to the memorialists.\n\nIt will be noted that the committee propose to make public the memorial and the answer.\n\n*Also to Colonial Office, mutatis mutandis.\n\nI am, &c.\nF. A. CAMPBELL.\n\nMr. Price, July 9, and memorial without signatures. Draft reply to Mr. Price.\n[2363 U-4] \n## Page 336", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423504, "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": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "page_number": 108, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "# CHINA TRADE\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\nNo. 1.\n\n`BFGR 23 NOV 09 SECTION 1`\n\nOctober 25.30\n\nSir,\n\n**Edinburgh Committee for the Suppression of the Indo-Chinese Opium Traffic to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received October 25.)**\n\n8, Greenbank Terrace, Edinburgh, October 23, 1909.\n\nI BEG to inclose letter on the subject of the Indo-Chinese opium traffic signed by the chairman of Executive and trust it will have your attention.\n\nBe so kind as to acknowledge receipt to me.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nG. S. MUIR, Hon. Secretary.\n\nSir,\n\n**Inclosure in No. 1.**\n\n**Mr. M'Laren to Sir Edward Grey.~(Communicated by Mr. Muir.)**\n\nEdinburgh, October 23, 1909.\n\nAS the promoters of the memorial from Scotland regarding the opium traffic sent to you, through Mr. Price, M.P., in July last, and which you acknowledged to him on the 9th August, we desire most respectfully to refer again to the matter. We thankfully recognise in your reply the sympathy of His Majesty's Government with China in her efforts, but we feel that some of the statements made by you, and which have been widely published, may create misapprehension, and we respectfully submit to you one or two points which may have escaped your attention.\n\n1. **The Shortening of the Ten Years' Limit.-** His Excellency Tong Shai Yi, the originator of the Chinese Anti-opium Regulations, mentioned in London last February (see enclosed pamphlet) what is noted in Sir J. Jordan's letter to you of the 30th September, 1906 (`\"China No. 1 (1908)\"`, p. 2), that in 1905 he understood from conversations with Mr. Baker and other officials in Calcutta that India was prepared \"to dispense with the opium revenue.\" He accordingly returned to China resolved to take action. His first proposal to his Government was a limit of three years. When that was dismissed as too short, he suggested six years, but finally, against his advice, ten years was fixed on. We have reason to believe that this extended term was chosen largely because it was thought that no shorter period would be accepted by Britain. His Excellency, however, went on to say that within the last two years he had met at Peking with nearly all the provincial governors and they were unanimous in agreeing with him that the opium question, so far as China was concerned, must be settled before the three years of probation are out. It should be noted that these three trial years were never contemplated by China, but were proposed by the Indian Government. On the other hand, while ten years was agreed to by China, so far as the Indian import was concerned, the Imperial Decree of the 22nd March, 1908, makes it clear that a possible shortening of the limit was to be kept in view by the provincial governors in their operations against the home growth (`\"China No. 2 (1908)\"`, p. 15).\n\nAgain, the influential Viceroy Tuan Fang, who has since been promoted viceroy of the metropolitan province of Chili, in opening the Shanghae Commission last February, said: \"Poppy cultivation may be entirely stopped within the next couple of years. Fortunate it will be if, by the labours of this conference, a way is found to shorten the limit and bring about the abolition of opium at an early date.\"\n\nOnce more, the senior delegate to the commission, his Excellency Tang Kai Sun, said, in reporting for China: \"The experience of the past two years convinces us that speed in the extermination, instead of increasing the difficulties, will minimise them. When a nation is ready to abolish an evil it should be done as soon as possible.\"\n\nThat this opinion is general in China is, we think, made indisputable by the report of Sir A. Hosie, dated last November and published in June (`\"China No. 1 (1909)\"`, p. 41). He there says: \"It is well understood that the Government are...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423505, "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": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "page_number": 109, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "## \n\nanxious to shorten the ten years' limit.\" He then refers to Yunnan as a test case. This province is emphasised by Sir J. Jordan in his letter to you of the 30th September, 1906 (\"China No. 1 (1908),\" p. 2), as being specially difficult. Yet Sir A. Hosie mentions that \"the 21st January, 1909, is fixed on by the viceroy as the date on which both the cultivation and consumption of opium must cease.\" And he adds: \"If this herculean task succeeds it is not unlikely that the time limit will be reduced in other provinces.\" We have reason to believe that the task has succeeded. A missionary in Yünnan, Mr. H. A. C. Allen (and we are much gratified by the way in which your officials in China have used and trusted the missionaries in this matter), writes in April last: \"The poppy has practically ceased. It was beyond the guess of the most sanguine that it could disappear in so short a time. Our late viceroy ruled with a strong hand and the thing was done.\"\n\nIt is noteworthy that this energetic governor has since been promoted. The Province of Shansi is also reported by a correspondent of the \"Times,\" on the authority of a British official sent to investigate, to be entirely free.\n\nIn view of the above facts, we venture to suggest that China is in no need of such incentive as you think the ten years period provides, and that her energy and aspirations should, on the other hand, make the British Government willing to shorten the time limit.\n\n## 2. The satisfaction of China with the Ten Years' Limit.\n\nWe have noted these official expressions of approval, but are led to believe on the testimony of men well acquainted with Chinese ways, that they are largely the outcome of that excessive politeness which is a well-known characteristic of the people. No doubt China is pleased with what has been agreed on. She knows that it is not so long ago that she would have applied for such a concession in vain. She may well be both surprised and gratified that after these many years of controversy, the British Government should show that the resolution of Parliament, declaring the trade to be morally indefensible, is no mere academic opinion, but that it has been accepted by them as the principle which is now to dominate their policy and has led them to accept the ten years' arrangement. At the same time, from the facts we have mentioned, it seems evident that China herself is eager to shorten the period, and would welcome a corresponding move on your part.\n\n## 3. The Revision of the Treaties.\n\nYou say in your reply to the memorial that \"His Majesty's Government are bound to uphold British treaty rights.\" We would respectfully submit that this principle has limitations. If the \"rights\" are altogether, or largely, on the side of only one of the contracting parties, surely the sooner a change is made the better. Only thus amongst nations can that sense of justice be maintained which you, Sir, recently, in addressing the journalists of our Empire, rightly designated as the chief characteristic of the rule which enables us to hold our great dependencies. It is, we think, true historically, that the treaties both of Nankin and Tientsin, the former entered into at the close of what is truly called the opium war, were agreed to by China because of her felt impotence, after encountering the might of Western arms, to come to any other terms. In 1877, Sir Thomas Wade, referring to Sir R. Alcock's proposed revision of the Tien'tsin treaty which was rejected by Calcutta because it added 20 taels per chest to the opium duty, wrote thus, \"This rejection added greatly to our difficulties. It was the first instrument affecting British trade that had not been extorted from the Chinese by force of arms.\" Why then should not a revision of the treaties of 1842 and 1858 be attempted now, so that China may be given by the treaty Powers a similar right to deal with opium as these Powers have lately given her to deal with morphia? That some change in the existing system was deemed not unlikely, is implied in your telegram to Sir J. Jordan of the 4th January, 1908 (\"China No. 1 (1908),\" p. 29), where a possible proposal of the Chinese Government to obtain the right to impose direct restriction on import of Indian and other opium in treaty ports by convention with treaty Powers, is mentioned. A revision is not therefore a mere counsel of perfection, and that it is not far from the region of practical politics is indicated in the bringing forward of a resolution by America at Shanghae, which, if it had been passed, would, when carried into practice, have necessarily resulted in the proposal which we advocate.\n\nWe are accordingly brought to the inevitable conclusion that the only obstacle in the way is the finance of India. But we would once more remind you that again and again the House of Commons has declared that the money thus got is through a trade which is \"morally indefensible.\" The issue at root is therefore a moral one. It is a question of \"revenue v. righteousness or justice,\" and we are convinced that in such a case a Christian nation should, not by degrees but at once, sacrifice revenue so that it may be exalted by righteousness. We have pledged ourselves to do what we can to help China in this matter. The Shanghae Commission, representing twelve countries, has given her unanimously a certificate of \"unswerving sincerity\" in her efforts. But the first official report from Peking says explicitly that \"Whether she can obtain the goal she seeks without Government control of opium, both native grown and imported, is somewhat doubtful. At present she is debarred from doing so by the treaties\" (\"China No. 1 (1908),\" p. 32). Surely it is not too much to ask that you, with your well-known sense of justice, should make an effort to give China the right which she alone of all nations is deprived of. She has again and again sought to establish this control at Canton (\"China No. 1 (1908),\" p. 28); also at Nanking (\"China No. 1 (1908),\" p. 26), at Chefoo (\"China No. 2 (1908),\" p. 8), and in Kiang-si (\"China No. 2 (1908),\" p. 11), and in every case the opium merchants—British subjects, but not of British race—have appealed to British authority, and China, conscious that she is not yet strong enough to set aside the treaties—as we, in similar circumstances, would not hesitate to do—has been compelled to yield.\n\nWe cannot but think that the position of His Majesty's representatives in China must be felt by them to be very anomalous when they are thus constantly compelled to put in force the provisions of treaties which confessedly stand in the way of that reform which we have promised to help China to accomplish. We trust you will excuse us for entering at such length into this matter, on the ground that our object is to assist and strengthen you in it. Public opinion in Scotland is progressive on this subject. So long ago as 1859 the Edinburgh Merchant Company petitioned Parliament against the traffic, and we are confident that if you saw your way to take action along the lines we have indicated, you would have the approval of the great majority of the electors of all parties.\n\nWe have, &c. (On behalf of the Committee),\n\nDUNCAN M'LAREN,\nChairman of Executive.\n\nPage 108", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423513, "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": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "page_number": 117, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "# 38162\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n**Race**\n**CHINA TRADE.**\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n[39353]\n\n## No. 1.\n### Foreign Office to India Office.\n[November 8.]\n\nSro 23 NOV 09, 116\n\n### SECTION 1.\n\nSir,\n\nForeign Office, November 8, 1909. With reference to your letter of the 4th August last, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you herewith a copy of a letter which has been received from the Edinburgh Committee for the suppression of the Indo-Chinese opium traffic, in regard to the desirability of taking steps for the immediate suspension of this traffic.*\n\nSir E. Grey would be glad to be favoured with Lord Morley's views in regard to the reply which should be returned to the committee.\n\nIn this connection, I am to state that the Governor of Hong Kong, in a recent despatch to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, a copy of which is enclosed,† has drawn attention to the large increase in the export of native opium from Changking, and to the abundance of the opium crop for the year, while the import of foreign opium is said to have decreased by one-half. These facts appear to Sir E. Grey to form an excellent argument against the modification of the existing arrangement between the Government of India and the Chinese Government, and Sir E. Grey is of opinion that the information furnished by Sir F. Lugard could be used with advantage in controverting the contentions put forward by the committee.\n\n*Edinburgh Committee, October 23, 1909. `[2494 h-1]`\n\nI am, &c.\nF. A. CAMPBELL.\n\n†Colonial Office, October 22, 1909.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423651, "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": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "page_number": 255, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote \nNo. 43633 \nand address \nForeign Office, \nLondon. \n\nThe Under-Secretary of State, \n30885 \n254 \nMALC? \nFor 9 DEC 09 \n\nThe Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the Under-Secretary of State for Colonies and, by direction of the Secretary of State, transmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper. \n\nForeign Office, \nDecember 8th, 1909. \n\n| Reference to previous letter: | Name and Date | Description of Inclosure | Subject |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| To Edinburgh Committee for suppression of the Opium Traffic | December 8th | Opium Traffic | (12) |\n\n(Similar letter sent to ...) \n`SC Tune`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423652, "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": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "page_number": 256, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "## \n\n255 \n\n43633/09. \n\n39886 \n\nReceived FOREIGN OFFICE, 9 DEC 09 \n\nDecember 8, 1909. \n\nSir,- \n\nI am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to inform you \n\n1. that your letter of October 23rd last in regard to the Indo-Chinese opium traffic has been carefully considered in communication with His Majesty's Secretary of State for India, \n\nand Sir E. Grey now desires to offer the following observations:- \n\nThe Committee press for the revision of the ten years limit on the ground that the Chinese Imperial Government and some at least of the provincial Viceroys are anxious to suppress the cultivation of the poppy in China within a shorter period and are sanguine from the progress already made that this will be accomplished within the next two years. The sincerity of these aspirations is not questioned, but their ability to be translated into facts... The information laid before the Shanghai Commission showed that \n\nThe Honorary Secretary \nto the Edinburgh Committee, \n8, Greenbank Terrace, \nEdinburgh. \n\nChina", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423755, "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": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "page_number": 359, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\nNo. 1.\n\nIndia Office to Foreign Office.-(Received November 29.)\n\nSir,\n\nIndia Office, November 27, 1909.\n\nI AM directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated the 8th November, 1909, with enclosures, in which Lord Morley's views are invited as to the reply which should be made to the Edinburgh Committee for the suppression of the Indo-Chinese opium traffic.\n\n2. In reply I am to make the following observations:\n\n### Shortening of the Ten Years' Limit\n\nThe committee press for the revision of the ten years' limit on the ground that the Chinese Imperial Government, and some at least of the provincial viceroys are anxious to suppress the cultivation of the poppy in China within a shorter period, and are sanguine from the progress already made that this will be accomplished within the next two years. The sincerity of these aspirations is not questioned. But they have still to be translated into facts. The information laid before the Shanghae Commission showed that China herself was unable to give any satisfactory statistics from which the extent of the reduction in the cultivation of Chinese opium could be inferred.\n\nIn the sixth session of the commission Sir Alexander Hosie examined at length the reports and returns which the Chinese delegates had submitted, and carried the commission with him in his conclusion that the Chinese estimates of production, consumption, and reduction were altogether unreliable, while the actual progress up to date was not known with any approach to certainty. The mention made in the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Reports for 1908 of the opium crop in the province of Szechuan having \"turned out most satisfactorily,\" of the increased export of native opium from Chung King, and of the decreased import of foreign opium, confirms these criticisms.\n\nThe committee appear to be under the impression that the three years of trial were unnecessary, and that the ten years' limit in some unexplained way impedes the progress of reform in China. As regards the former, it may be observed that the trial period was accepted by the Chinese Government themselves as an essentially just and reasonable arrangement to ensure that the object of the steps taken by the Government of India for the gradual suppression of a hitherto legal traffic should not be frustrated by a want of corresponding restrictive action on the part of the Chinese authorities.\n\nNothing has since occurred to throw doubt on the wisdom of the arrangement agreed to. According to the figures supplied to the Shanghae Commission by the Chinese delegates, the normal production of opium in China at the time of the agreement was eleven times as great as the import from India, and even in 1908 the diminished production (on the most favourable estimate of the progress of the reforms), was eight times the amount of the import. The essence of the agreement of 1907 was that this huge production should diminish pari passu with the import, and that satisfactory evidence of this, as regards the first three years, should be furnished for the assurance of the Indian Government at the end of 1910. Judging from the very imperfect nature of the returns and reports which the Chinese delegates were this year able to furnish, the experimental period would seem to be by no means excessive. As regards the ten years' limit, it in no way prevents the Chinese Government from ante-dating the time by which the production of opium in China is to cease. Of this the Chinese Government is well aware. But the period was deliberately proposed by the Chinese Government itself as being the shortest length of time within which so gigantic a reform might be expected to be effectively accomplished. It may prove to be unnecessarily long, but of this there is no satisfactory evidence at present nor apparently can there be for some time to come.\n\n### Revision of the Treaties\n\nThe committee urge that China should be given by the treaty Powers a similar right in respect of opium to that lately given her by those Powers in respect of morphia. The cases are not analogous. China produces no morphia, has never legalised its use, and has on those grounds obtained the assent of...\n\nPage 358\n## CHINA TRADE\n\n...\n\nencore de se convaincre par un contrôle minutieux que ces mesures ont été suivies d'un résultat efficace donnant toutes garanties sur la sincérité et la réalité de la suppression de l'opium en Chine.\n\nD'une manière générale les intérêts français en matière d'opium sont bien moins considérables que ceux de l'Angleterre, et ces intérêts étant de même nature, je me propose de conformer mon attitude à celle qui sera adoptée dans la circonstance par le Gouvernement britannique.\n\nAgréez, &c.\n\nS. PICHON,\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government\n\n41444 [November 29.]\n\nGro: 24 DFC 09 SECTION 1-\n\n358 \n\nNo translation is required as per the instructions. The Chinese text is not present in the given OCR output. \n\nThe response is formatted according to the given instructions.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423756, "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": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "page_number": 360, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "## This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n### CHINA TRADE\n\nthe Powers to the prohibition of import from abroad. But in the case of opium the question was one of the gradual modification of a national habit, and of the reduction simultaneously and by degrees of an immense internal production and a comparatively small import. The principle of pari passu reduction being accepted, the choice of procedure, as regards the import trade, lay between restriction by treaty or restriction by the voluntary action of the Indian Government. The Chinese Government accepted the latter as being simpler, more certain, and more expeditious. It is not alleged that the Indian Government have not scrupulously adhered to their undertaking. It has still to be proved at the end of 1910 that China has been able to perform her part of the engagement. On the basis of a pari passu reduction—a principle to which exception has not been taken—no present case exists for modification of the treaties. The treaties do not fetter China in respect of the suppression of the production of opium, or of the regulation of consumption, whether of native or imported opium. They merely protect the wholesale dealer against action which, in the present stage of the opium question in China, would either promote the sale and stimulate the production of native opium or create monopolies in favour of individuals.\n\nIn conclusion, I am to say that not only the Indian Government, but also the chiefs of native States and the Indian producer and trader, have been called upon to make considerable sacrifices in the effort to co-operate loyally and generously with the Chinese Government in reforming a state of things in China for which they at most are only partly responsible. The effort has been warmly appreciated by the Chinese Government and has stimulated it in its great enterprise. It might be suggested to the committee that it is a policy of doubtful expediency to disparage and hold of no account what has been done, and to press for a reopening of the case before a fair trial has been given to engagements voluntarily concluded by the responsible Governments.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 1.\n\n359\n\n47444\n\nRec'd 24 DEC 09,\n\n[November 29.]\n\n### SECTION 2.\n\nIndia Office to Foreign Office.—(Received November 29.)\n\nIndia Office, November 27, 1909.\n\nI AM directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, dated the 15th November, 1909, giving cover to a minute adopted by the Representative Board of British Anti-Opium Societies.\n\nIn reply, I am to invite reference to my letter of to-day's date on the subject of similar representations made by the Edinburgh committee for the suppression of the Indo-Chinese opium traffic, and to suggest that the same reply to both societies would be suitable.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nR. RITCHIE,\n\n[2494 ƒ-2]\n\nPage 360\nPage 361", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423757, "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": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "page_number": 361, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "# CHINA TRADE\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n(43633)\n\n### No. 1\n\nDecember 4/444 SECTION 24 DEC 09.\n\nSir,\n\n**Foreign Office to Honorary Secretary, Edinburgh Committee.**\n\nForeign Office, December 8, 1909.\n\nI AM directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to inform you that your letter of the 23rd October last, in regard to the Indo-Chinese opium traffic, has been carefully considered in communication with His Majesty's Secretary of State for India, and Sir E. Grey now desires to offer the following observations :-\n\nThe committee press for the revision of the ten-years' limit on the ground that the Chinese Imperial Government and some at least of the provincial Viceroys are anxious to suppress the cultivation of the poppy in China within a shorter period, and are sanguine from the progress already made that this will be accomplished within the next two years.\n\nThe information laid before the Shanghae Commission showed that China herself was unable to give any satisfactory statistics from which the extent of the reduction in the cultivation of Chinese opium could be inferred. In the sixth session of the commission Sir Alexander Hosie examined at length the reports and returns which the Chinese delegates had submitted, and carried the commission with him in his conclusion that the Chinese estimates of production, consumption, and reduction were altogether unreliable, while the actual progress up to date was not known with any approach to certainty. The mention made in the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs reports for 1908 of the opium crop in the province of Szechuan having \"turned out most satisfactorily,\" of the increased export of native opium from Chung King, and of the decreased import of foreign opium, confirms these criticisms.\n\nThe Committee appear to be under the impression that the three years of trial were unnecessary, and that the ten years limit may, in some manner, impede the progress of reform in China. As regards the former, it may be observed that the trial period was accepted by the Chinese Government themselves as an essentially just and reasonable arrangement, to ensure that the object of the steps taken by the Government of India for the gradual suppression of a hitherto legal traffic should not be frustrated by a want of corresponding restrictive action on the part of the Chinese authorities. Nothing has since occurred to throw doubt on the wisdom of the arrangement agreed to. According to the figures supplied to the Shanghae Commission by the Chinese delegates the normal production of opium in China at the time of the agreement was eleven times as great as the import from India; and even in 1908 the diminished production (on the most favourable estimate of the progress of the reforms) was eight times the amount of the import. The essence of the agreement of 1907 was that this huge production should diminish pari passu with the import, and that satisfactory evidence of this, as regards the first three years, should be furnished for the assurance of the Indian Government at the end of 1910. Judging from the very imperfect nature of the returns and reports which the Chinese delegates were this year able to furnish, the experimental period would seem to be by no means excessive.\n\nAs regards the ten years limit, it in no way prevents the Chinese Government from antedating the time by which the production of opium in China is to cease. But the period was deliberately proposed by the Chinese Government itself as being the shortest length of time within which so gigantic a reform might be expected to be effectively accomplished. It may prove to be unnecessarily long, but of this there is no satisfactory evidence at present, nor apparently can there be for some time to come.\n\nThe committee urge that China should be given by the treaty Powers a similar right in respect of opium to that lately given her by those Powers in respect of morphia. The cases are not analogous. China produces no morphia, has never legalised its use, and has on those grounds obtained the assent of the Powers to the prohibition of import from abroad. But in the case of opium the question was one of the gradual modification of a national habit and of the reduction simultaneously and ... \n\n360 \n[2553 A-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423804, "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": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "page_number": 408, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "# THE TIMES, SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1909.\n\n## WESTERN TEACHING FOR CHINA.\n\nThe China Emergency Appeal Committee are about to make an appeal for assistance in medical training and other educational work in China. The fund for this purpose will be opened at a meeting to be held at the Mansion House on Tuesday, March 18, at 8 p.m., under the presidency of the Lord Mayor. The meeting will be addressed by Sir Robert Hart, the Bishop of London, the American Ambassador, Lord Strathcona, Dr. Gibson, and the President of the Wesleyan Conference.\n\nSir Robert Hart is the president of the committee, of which the vice-presidents are the Bishop of London, the Vice-Chancellors of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Glasgow Universities, the Lord Mayor of London, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Armitstead, Lord Kinnaird, Lord Reay, and Lord Strathcona.\n\nThe offices of the China Emergency Committee are at 28, Victoria-street, Westminster, where all particulars can be had.\n\nRepresentative boards will be established in China in each locality where they do not already exist to secure the proper administration of funds devoted to union or inter-denominational work. Contributions, if desired, can be specifically given for one or more of the three objects included in the appeal.\n\nContributions may be sent to the treasurers, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Mansion House, É.C., or to Mr. Robt. Lathain Barclay, 54, Lombard-street E.C., in addition to the bankers of the China Emergency Appeal Fund, Messrs. Barclay and Co., 54. Lombard-street, and the Hong-kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, 31, Lombard-street, \"E.C.\n\nThe change which has taken place in China, says the memorial prepared by the committee, has been rapid. The educational system has been transformed, and schools and colleges of various grades have been established. To refashion her institutions and educate her children China is seeking help from the West. Happily she knows the West through missions as well as through the opium trade.\n\nOut of the co-operation of some missionary societies and the earnest interest of others, there has arisen a new enterprise, the scheme of which the committee sets forth.\n\nThe first and most urgent need of China, according to the committee, is for medical colleges where natives may be prepared to practice among the people. It is proposed, therefore, to develop a medical college recently established at Peking and to bring up its equipment to the highest modern standard, and to reorganize in the same way three other institutions in West, Central, and Southern China. In support of this scheme the committee propose to appeal provisionally for £40,000.\n\nFor educational purposes the committee hope that efficient help will be provided by the equipment of a central University. This important object, however, is not included in the present appeal, because a special committee has been formed to deal with it. Primary and secondary schools are, however, now being established in all parts of the Empire, and these need Chinese teachers trained in the new learning. To provide such teachers it is proposed to form normal training colleges at various mission stations. A scheme has also been drafted, and has received the cordial approval of all English societies represented at the Shanghai Conference, by which missionary societies would be invited to establish theological colleges for pastors by the side of each central training institution for teachers.\n\nThe management of the central institutions would be vested in the hands of a local board representing the societies concerned. These societies would provide the salaries of the staff, the cost of the general upkeep of the colleges being met by the fees of the students.\n\nThere is, moreover, a growing demand for literature in China. To supply it there are already at work at least ten literature and tract societies, to assist which the committee appeal for £20,000.\n\nFinally, the memorial points out that the aim of the committee is not primarily evangelistic, but educational, and their appeal is, therefore, not to the supporters of any particular missionary society, but to the nation as a whole. It is proposed that this National Fund shall be administered in England by a board, including the honorary treasurers and an advisory committee, one-half the members of which shall be representatives of the missionary societies and the other half representatives of the emergency committee.\n\n## TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.\n\nSir,-A meeting is announced to be held at the Mansion House on the 16th inst., with a view to providing Western teachers--especially medical teachers--for China. It so happens that an earnest effort is being made just now to found a University (at the very portals of China) in the British colony of Hong-kong, and I venture to suggest that the object in view could not be better furthered than by supporting that project. The coincidence appears, indeed, so opportune that I may perhaps be permitted to outline the position.\n\nAn aspiration expressed by the Governor, Sir Frederick Lugard, in the course of a public address, induced a resident in the colony, Mr. Mody, to offer to present the necessary buildings to start a University if the Government would provide a site and if the sum necessary for an endowment can be raised.\n\nIt is estimated that the buildings will cost some $200,000 (say approximately £29,000); the Colonial Government will provide a fitting site; there remains the endowment, which is estimated at £110,000. When Mr. Mody's munificent offer reached Sir Frederick Lugard he called a meeting of representative residents to discuss it, and I have before me a memorandum in which he states their conclusions and elaborates his conception of the objects to be kept in view.\n\nIt was the unanimous opinion of the meeting that the two faculties of primary importance to the Chinese, the establishment of which should take precedence of any others, were those of medicine and applied science (engineering).\n\nIt is proposed accordingly to amalgamate and extend the \"Hong-kong Medical College,\" which was founded in 1887 for the education chiefly of Chinese in medicine and surgery, and which has already turned out 36 qualified licentiates, besides 24 who are still undergoing training. The diploma does not at present represent a medical degree, though men possessing it have practised in the colony and elsewhere with excellent results; but powers would be taken and arrangements made under the new scheme to institute examinations and confer degrees on students who attain a standard equal to that required in England.\n\nAs regards engineering, there exists also the nucleus of a faculty in a so-called \"Technical Institute\"--which combines lectures on various subjects, but especially engineering and its allied studies. The lecturers' fees, apparatus, and lecture room are provided by the Government, supplemented by certain Chinese contributions and students' fees.\n\nNeither is the moral side of \"education\" (in the fullest sense of the word) overlooked, for foremost among the objects which the University should keep before it is placed the training of character.\n\nI would hope [writes his Excellency] that the graduates of Hong-kong would establish for themselves a reputation as patriotic and loyal citizens whether of this colony or of China; that during their sojourn here they shall learn to appreciate British ideals of justice and fair play; in short, that, while remaining in every respect Chinese, the University shall turn out men of upright character and not merely pour new wine into old bottles and evolve machines capable of passing examinations, but incapable of moral control.\n\nIt would seem that here are precisely the objects at which the China Emergency Committee aims.\n\nPage 17 \nPage 9 \nPage 7 \n06 MAR 09", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423862, "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": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "page_number": 466, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "## Edinburgb Committee for the Suppression of the Indo-Chinese Opium Traffic\n\n**President**-LORD POLWARTH.\n\n**Vice-Presidents**-- \nSir MARK STEWART, Bart.\nVery Rev. Dr RUSSELL,\nARTHUR DEWAR, ESQ., M.P.\nC. E. PRICE, Esq., M.P.\n\n**Chairman of Executive**-DUNCAN M'LAKEN, Esq.\n\n**Hon. Treasurer**-JOHN NICHOLSON, Esq., Clydesdale Bank, George St.\n\n**Hon. Secretary**-Rev. G. S. Mor, M.A., & Greenbank Terrace.\n\n25 June 1909\n\nDear Sir,\n\nFor some time past, it has been urged by various authorities that the Straits Settlements opium ordinance should be studied carefully. The \"Morphine Ordinance\" and \"Deleterious Drugs Act\" have been pored over with great care, and it has been necessary to cross-reference various clauses.\n\nI should be grateful if you could inform me if there are any Blue Books or official reports to be found regarding the Colonial offices. I wish to know if there are any reports or documents that might be of use to me in my study. I am particularly interested in learning if there is any prospect of legislative action being taken.\n\nC.0. 21288 \n465 \n-3- \n(1390), Wt, 20024-26, 8000, 11/08, A, & E, W, (8327). 1081-7. 6000. 4/09,\n26 JUN 09", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423864, "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": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "page_number": 468, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "# Edinburgh Committee for the Suppression of the Indo-Chinese Opium Traffic\n\n## President - **LORD POLWARTH**\n\n## Vice-Presidents\n- **Sir MARK STEWART, Bart.**\n- **ARTHUR DEWAR, Esq., K.C., M.P.**\n- **Very Rev. Dr RUSSELL**\n- **C. E. PRICE, Esq., M.P.**\n\n## Chairman of Executive - **DUNCAN M'LAREN, Esq.**\n\n## Hon. Treasurer - **JOHN NICHOLSON, Esq.**, Clydesdale Bank, George St.\n\n## Hon. Secretary - **Rev. G. S. MUIR, M.A.**, 3 Greenbank Terrace.\n\n \n\n# Edinburgh Committee for the Suppression of the Indo-Chinese Opium Traffic\n\n## President - **LORD POLWARTH**\n\n## Vice-Presidents\n- **Sir MARK STEWART, Bart.**\n- **ARTHUR DEWAR, Esq., K.C., M.P.**\n- **Very Rev. Dr RUSSELL**\n- **C. E. PRICE, Esq., M.P.**\n\n## Chairman of Executive - **DUNCAN M'LAREN, Esq.**\n\n## Hon. Treasurer - **JOHN NICHOLSON, Esq.**, Clydesdale Bank, George St.\n## Hon. Secretary - **Rev. G. S. MUIR, M.A.**, 3 Greenbank Terrace.\n\n12.7.0 \n21285/1909 \nI beg to thank you for perusal... \n...ir bist - I \n467 \na \n...to lean \nBrit... \nfor \nBar has \n... Edenz \nprospect of Leg... laten \nultrahely \nthe winche \ntrust t \nbe passw \nS \nYour jourspellen \nG.S. Muir \nHobak of Crave the #ton Cal Seely M.P.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428485, "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": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 410, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nOPIUM.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nR\n\nC\n\n408\n\nReceived [February 14-MAR 10,\n\nSECTION 1\n\n[5267]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nEdinburgh Committee for the Suppression of the Indo-Chinese Opium Traffic to Foreign Office. (Received February 14.)\n\nDear Sir,\n\n8, Greenbank Terrace, February 12, 1910.\n\nIN answer to your letter of the 8th December I beg to enclose joint reply from Edinburgh and London Anti-Opium Organisations.\n\nI am instructed by our executive to say that, in the event of your answering our letter in detail, a meeting of our General Committee will at once be convened to consider your communication.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nG. S. MUIR.\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure in No. 1.\n\nLondon and Edinburgh Anti-Opium Organisations to Foreign Office.\n\nTHE Edinburgh Anti-Opium Committee, in replying to your letter of the 9th December, desire to associate themselves with the London board. You were kind enough to send a copy of your letter to them, and what follows is accordingly the unanimous opinion of the London and Edinburgh Anti-Opium Organisations.\n\nIn all our communications to you we place in the forefront our heartfelt appreciation of what you and Lord Morley have recently done. We regard the ten years' arrangement to be a great advance on the part of the British Government as compared with their former attitude. We would not for a moment disparage or hold of no account the present agreement, yet we do not hesitate to say that it does not satisfy our conscience or come up to our conception of what Britain owes to China by way of reparation and assistance.\n\nTong Shao-Yi, the eminent statesman who initiated the reform movement, thought from the first that a short and sharp struggle was more likely to be efficacious than a prolonged and gradual reduction. We note from the recent White Paper (\"China No. 3, 1909\") that both the Imperial and Provincial Governments have now come to be of the same opinion. This White Paper, issued since the date of your letter under reply, explains the increased opium importation down the Yang-tsze in 1909, and affords reason to anticipate that the present year will show a great reduction of this traffic. Reports recently received from Eastern Szechuan, where there was an increased cultivation of the poppy in the season 1908-9, confirm these anticipations, and show that in part, at least, of this district prohibition has been resolutely enforced and quietly accepted during the present season.\n\nIt appears that seven of the eighteen provinces of China proper,* in two of which scarcely any poppy has ever been grown, are now virtually free of cultivation, while in no fewer than nine orders have been issued that it cease this year. In one other it is to cease in 1911, and in the remaining province, while consumption is still very unsatisfactory, there is but little opium produced, so that prohibition in the other districts must speedily affect it. In Manchuria poppy cultivation had ceased in one province, and was to cease that year in the other two. Mr. Max Müller says that the progress has been most marked where cultivation was definitely prohibited, and adds, \"We are justified in looking forward to similar results in the further provinces where the growth of the poppy has been forbidden.”\n\n* Shansi, Yunnan, Fukien, Hunan, Kuangtung, with Kiangsi and Kuangsi, in which but little poppy has ever been grown.\n\n† Chibli, Shantung, Honan, Kiangsu, Anhui, Szechuan, Shensi, Kansu, and Kueichow,\n\n‡ Chekiang.\n\n§ Hupei.\n\n[2836 0-1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428486, "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": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 411, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "He also says \"I cannot help feeling that we shall find that China has more than fulfilled her share of the bargain.\"\n\nIn these circumstances we think that our Government ought to modify the ten years' arrangement. On the 29th July, 1907, three friends of our cause were accorded a private interview with Mr. Morley, when the present arrangement had just been announced and was the subject discussed. One point concerned a probable plea on the part of China for more speedy reduction, and the question was asked: \"Would Mr. Morley be prepared to consider such a plea if deliberately put before him by the Chinese authorities?\" In reply he said he could only refer to his statement on the 30th May, 1906, that any deliberate proposals from the Chinese Government on the subject of opium would meet with sympathetic consideration.\" So far as we are aware the Chinese Government have not thus deliberately proposed a modification of the arrangement, for they feel that as the weaker nation they must take what they can get rather than get what they ask. But Sir Alexander Hosie has distinctly certified to the anxiety of the Central Government to shorten the limit (\"China No. 1, 1909,\" p. 4). And at the Shanghae Commission, when the possibility of a change was brought forward by the American delegates, Tong Kai Sun, the leading Chinese spokesman, said that, while China had no wish to go back upon the agreement, she would appreciate any assistance in curtailing the period of importation. China, he thought, was not precluded from asking that her case be taken into further sympathetic consideration. (Report, Vol. I, pp. 55-6.)\n\nWe therefore venture to suggest to you that it would be altogether worthy of Britain, with her record of justice and consideration for nations not so highly favoured as herself, if, even in the absence of any official proposal from China, the British Government intimated a willingness to modify the agreement, and to shorten the period agreed upon.\n\nWe note with interest the statement in your letter that there is nothing in the agreement which binders China antedating the ten years, and that she is well aware of this. But what she is not equally well aware of is our willingness to antedate in that case the cessation of the Indian export of opium to China. In replying to a deputation in Edinburgh on the 17th December, 1909, the Under-Secretary for India gave us hope that such might be the policy of the British Government. He said that, in the case of China thus antedating the production of her opium, \"the trade in foreign opium will, under the arrangement with Great Britain, correspondingly cease.\" If Lord Morley confirms this statement, and it is approved by you, we trust you will not delay to communicate it officially to China, as we are certain that the knowledge of it would have an immediate and immense effect in stimulating her in her heroic efforts to eradicate the evil against which she is struggling.\n\nIf the concession regarding the shortening of the ten years' period is granted, the other matter treated of in your letter—the revision of the treaties—becomes less important. Yet we continue to think and to urge that the clauses which our Peking Legation deems so detrimental to China (“China No. 1, 1908,\" p. 32) should by mutual agreement be held in abeyance. We are thankful for the clear interpretation of these clauses which you give in your letter. We only wish that the \"wholesale dealers,\" to whom you refer, and your consular agents would apply the clauses accordingly. We fear that they have not been so applied in regard to the Kucheng incident referred to in the \"Times of the 11th January.\" The \"unswerving sincerity\" of the Chinese is deliberately certified to in a resolution at the Shanghae Commission drawn up by the British delegation. But in the case referred to their sincerity was called in question, although they had evidenced it by raising thousands of dollars voluntarily in place of opium revenue. You seem to think that the Kucheng authorities by their action in shutting the shops wished either to institute a monopoly of all opium, or to give an unfair opportunity for the sale of the native drug to the detriment of the Indian. We cannot see how the facts, carefully verified by Bishop Price, give any colour to this theory. The bishop wrote to the agent of Messrs. Jardine after he had a report of your reply to the Scottish memorial of last June, in which you said that, while upholding treaty rights, you would support bona fide steps for the suppression of the evil, and we cannot but think that he was right in supposing that the effort came under such a category. But even if, on enquiry, you find that the forcing of our Indian opium upon an inland district was thus in accordance with treaty right, surely, if such practices are to be allowed, it is high time that the clauses that make them legal were swept away. They seem to us to be entirely obsolete, belonging to a period when it was held that the destiny of Britain was to rule and the fate of China to be ruled,\" but totally foreign to a time when China is plainly seen to be qualifying herself for being included in the comity of nations, and likely before long to rank as a great world Power.\n\nEre closing, permit us to mention the matter of morphia. At p. 28 of the recent White Paper Mr. Max Müller refers to it. He says, \"It is to be feared that, without the assistance of countries from which the morphia is exported, China will be unable to check the smuggling of it along her extensive sea and land frontier.\" More than half of the world's supply of morphia is still manufactured in Britain (the larger part in Edinburgh), and quantities of it are sent directly or indirectly to the East. The Shanghae Commission, as you are aware, recommended that its \"manufacture, sale, and distribution\" should be supervised. We have asked the Board of Trade to put morphia separately among the export of drugs, so that the quantity sent out might be known, but this very slight \"supervision\" has not as yet been granted, and we should be glad if you could see your way to do something in the matter.\n\nWith every desire to assist and not to hinder a beneficent foreign policy, which shall redound to the good name of our country abroad, we remain,\n\nOn behalf of the Representative Board of British Anti-Opium Societies,\n\nJAMES L. MAXWELL, M.D.,\n\nChairman of Representative Board. On behalf of the Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade,\n\nJOSEPH G. ALEXANDER,\n\nHonorary Secretary.\n\nOn behalf of the Christian Union for the Severance of the Connection of the British Empire with the Opium Traffic,\n\nB. BROOMHALL, Honorary Secretary.\n\nOn behalf of the Women's Anti-Opium Urgency Committee,\n\nRACHEL B. BRAITHWAITE,\n\nA. CALDECOTT,\n\nHonorary Secretary.\n\nChairman of the Church Anti-Opium Committee.\n\nG. S. MUIR,\n\nHonorary Secretary, Edinburgh Committee for Suppression of Indo-Chinese Opium Traffic.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428488, "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": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 413, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCO\n\n7291\n\n411\n\nOPIUM.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[5267]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[February 21.]\n\nREGE TI MAR 10\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nSir,\n\nForeign Office to India Office.\n\nForeign Office, February 21, 1910. WITH reference to the letter from your department of the 27th November last, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you herewith a copy of a letter from the London and Edinburgh Committee for the suppression of the opium traffic,* urging that His Majesty's Government should take steps for modifying the arrangement whereby the Government of India have undertaken to bring the exportation from India to China to a close within ten years.\n\nThe following considerations occur on this communication:\n\nThe committee quote as a reason for the modification of the ten years' agreement the fact that in the greater part of the provinces of China decrees have been issued by the Chinese Government ordering the cessation of the cultivation of opium with one, or at most two years, and apparently assume that the issue of a decree is in itself sufficient to ensure the attainment of the object in view within the time specified. Szechuan is included among the provinces cited as having been ordered to cease cultivation within the year. This province is notoriously the one where it is admitted the greatest difficulty will be encountered in carrying through the intended reforms, as by far the larger proportion of the native-grown opium of China comes from that province.\n\nAll authorities are agreed that some time must yet elapse before the opium evil in Szechuan can be eradicated, and of this fact the committee must be well aware, from a perusal of the report of the acting British consul at Chungking, which was laid before Parliament simultaneously with Mr. Max Müller's report, to which they refer. Mr. Sly states in that report that no progress had been made on the eastern side of the province, that in most districts no steps had been taken towards suppressing the cultivation of opium, while in some there had been an actual increase in the amount grown in 1908.\n\nIt may be desirable to draw the attention of the committee to these facts, and Sir E. Grey would propose at the same time to refer them to the information contained in the annual report of the trade of China for 1908 (p. 38), in regard to the movements of native opium in China for that year. No diminution appeared to have taken place at that date.\n\nWith regard to restrictions being placed on the export trade of morphine from this country to the Far East, Lord Morley is aware that the Board of Trade have decided to defer taking any steps in this direction pending a decision in regard to the participation of this country in the Opium Conference which the United States have proposed shall assemble at The Hague. It would, therefore, seem sufficient, in replying on this point, to state that the matter has not escaped the attention of His Majesty's Government.\n\nThese observations might be embodied in a provisional reply to the Edinburgh Committee, but Sir E. Grey would be glad to have Lord Morley's view in regard to this communication, and is of opinion that it would be advisable to obtain the views of His Majesty's Minister at Peking before sending a definite reply to the committee. At the same time I am to enquire whether the Government of India have as yet furnished any reply to the suggestion of Sir J. Jordan and Sir A. Hosie, which was referred to the India Office in the letter from this department of the 4th November last, that at the end of this year consular officers should be dispatched to the principal opium-producing provinces of China with a view to ascertaining whether the steps which are being taken by China for the suppression of opium justify His Majesty's Government in adhering to the arrangement for suspending the Indian traffic within ten years. In the event of the Government of India concurring in this suggestion, the fact that an investigation of the matter was to be undertaken might be communicated to memorialists addressing His Majesty's Government on the subject.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nF. A. CAMPBELL.\n\n[2636 a-\n\n-1]\n\n* London and Edinburgh Committee, February 12, 1910.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428572, "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": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 497, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nOPIUM.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[7503]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n494\n\nRe\n\n4 APR 10, [March 11.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nSir,\n\nForeign Office to Professor Caldecott.\n\nForeign Office, March 11, 1910.\n\nI AM directed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 18th ultimo, enclosing a printed copy of a memorial in regard to the attitude of His Majesty's Government towards the opium traffic question, together with the names of the signatories and the letters in support of the memorial from professors, lecturers, and writers in ethics, and to transmit to you herewith a copy of a letter which was addressed by the Secretary of State to the Edinburgh Committee in December last, in reply to similar representations.\n\nThis communication represents fully the views of His Majesty's Government in the matter.\n\nI am to add that Sir E. Grey has no objection to the publication of the memorial and of the accompanying documents.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n* To Edinburgh Committee, December 8, 1909.\n\nF. A. CAMPBELL.\n\n[2661 7--1]\n\nApril", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428617, "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": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 542, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nOPIUM.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n([10346]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n539\n\n[March 26.]\n\nC. O.\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n12549\n\nREC (REG) 28 APR 10\n\nSir,\n\nIndia Office to Foreign Office.-(Received March 26.)\n\nIndia Office, March 24, 1910.\n\nI AM directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated the 21st February, 1910, transmitting with remarks a copy of a letter from the London and Edinburgh Committee for the suppression of the Opium Traffic on the subject of the agreement for the gradual extinction of the Indian opium trade with China,\n\n2. In reply, I am to say that it seems doubtful whether the committee's letter calls for a detailed and reasoned reply on the lines suggested in your letter. The Government case has already been stated at length in the reply addressed by the Foreign Office to the Edinburgh Committee on the 8th December, 1909, and that case is not materially disturbed by the considerations advanced by the London and Edinburgh Committee. The reports in the \"China White Book No. 3 of 1909,\" from which the committee quote, were before His Majesty's Government when your letter of the 8th December, 1909, was written, and they entirely bear out the view taken in that letter, that the present question is not whether the ten years' period for the extinction of the Indian trade should be shortened, but whether the Chinese Government will be able to satisfy His Majesty's Government, when the experimental term expires in December of this year, that they have carried out so far their part of the agreement. This being the present position, it is useless to speculate whether total suppression of the poppy cultivation in China will or will not be achieved within or before the appointed time, and what would be the disposition of His Majesty's Government in circumstances at present unknown.\n\n3. I am also to suggest that, for a definitive statement of the present attitude of His Majesty's Government with regard to the ten years' agreement, the committee should be referred to the answer given by the Under-Secretary of State for India in the House of Commons on the 10th March, 1910, to a question asked by Mr. Theodore Taylor.\n\n4. With reference to the last paragraph of your letter, I am to say that the Government of India have now telegraphed that they concur in the suggestion that steps should be taken by the British Government during the present year to ascertain by means of an enquiry conducted by a selected consular officer the extent of poppy cultivation in China prior to the close of 1910. They presume that Sir Alexander Hosie would be the officer selected, and that he would choose his assistants, who would work under his direction. I am to express the hope that Sir Edward Grey will be able to arrange for the enquiry, and that it will be set on foot as soon as practicable. Viscount Morley considers that the revenues of India should not be required to defray any portion of the cost.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nCOLIN G. CAMPBELL.\n\nEnclosure in No. 1.\n\nQuestion asked in the House of Commons, March 10, 1910.\n\nMr. Theodore Taylor asked whether, seeing that the production of opium in China is being very largely restricted, he is now prepared to respond to the desire of the Chinese Government to shorten the period of nearly eight years during which India is to continue to send opium to China?\n\nAnswer.\n\nThe Under-Secretary for India (Mr. Montagu).-In undertaking, in response to the request of the Chinese Government, that the Indian opium traffic with China should,\n\n[2661 cc--1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429824, "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": "CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910", "content_text": "TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS.\n\n\"REPARATIVE.LONDON,\n\nTELEPHONE--743, KENSINGTON.\n\n14\n\nThe Colonial-Nursing Association.\n\nImperial Institute, S.W.\n\nTo. 38448/1909.\n\nSir,\n\nJanuary the 13th, 1916.\n\nCO 1454\n\nREC 14 JAN 10\n\n738448/09\n\nIn further reference to the letter from the Department of December the 3rd last, I am desired by the Committee to forward\n\nthe enclosed copy of a letter received from Mr. Clunie Macgregor,\n\nEdinburgh, in reply to their enquiries regarding Miss C.E.\n\nMcLeish's present address.\n\nThe Committee regret that since the receipt of the enclosed letter, no further information has been received, but on hearing from Mr. Macgregor again they will at once communicate with the Department.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office, S.W.\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\nM. E. Dobson\n\nSecretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 431026, "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": "CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4]", "page_number": 208, "title": "CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4]", "content_text": "# Enclosure 1.\n\n## HONGKONG\n\n### Petition against the inclusion of the Director of Education of the Colony in the Senate of the University of Hongkong.\n\n#### In the matter of the \"University Ordinance 1911\".\n\nTo the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nThe Humble Petition of\n\n* T. C. Dalmahoy Allan, M.B., Edinburgh.\n* D. Arthur, B.Sc., Glasgow.\n* W. J. A. Bell, M.B., Edinburgh.\n* R. A. Belilios, M.D., Edinburgh.\n* Reginald J. Birbeck, M.A., Cambridge.\n* K. E. O. Bird, M.A., Oxford.\n* Francis Clark, M.D., Durham.\n* Henry A. Cox, B.A., London, B.A., Dublin.\n* Alfred H. Crook, M.A., Dublin.\n* R. M. Dyer, B.Sc., Glasgow.\n* Gerard H. L. Fitzwilliams, M.D., Edinburgh.\n* Charles Forsyth, M.D., Edinburgh.\n* Herbert L. Garrett, B.A., Cambridge.\n* K. Maclean Gibson, M.D., Edinburgh.\n* G. Alfred Hancock, M.A., Adelaide.\n* S. Montagu Harston, M.D., London.\n* John W. Hartley, M.A., Victoria, Manchester.\n* C. M. Heanley, M.B., London.\n* Frederick Trench Johnson, M.A., Dublin.\n* Percy James Kelly, M.B., Glasgow.\n* Frederic T. Keyt, M.D., Aberdeen.\n* Wilfrid V. M. Koch, M.D., Edinburgh.\n* Alec J. MacDiarmid, M.B., Aberdeen.\n* Oswald Marriott, M.D., London.\n* W. H. Mearns, M.A., Aberdeen.\n* Sandon W. Payne, B.A., Oxford.\n* Wilfrid W. Pearson, M.D., Aberdeen.\n* Eleanor W. Perkins, M.A., London.\n* Charles B. Shann, M.A., Cambridge.\n* Ernest A. Shaw, B.A., Cambridge.\n* Elizabeth D. Skipton, B.A., London.\n* Frederick O. Stedman, M.D., London.\n* A. D. Stewart, M.A., Cambridge.\n* A. R. Sutherland, M.A., Aberdeen.\n* Charles E. Thompson, B.A., Dublin.\n* Arthur B. Thornhill, M.A., Oxford.\n\n200 Graduates of various Universities in the United Kingdom and in His Majesty's Dominions beyond the Seas; Residents of Hongkong;\n\nSHOWETH :-\n\n1. That an Ordinance entitled the \"University Ordinance 1911\" was amended in Committee of the Legislative Council on the 23rd day of March 1911 and then passed the third reading at the same meeting, and received the signature of His Excellency the Governor on the 30th day of March 1911.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 431554, "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": "CO129-377 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [5]", "page_number": 129, "title": "CO129-377 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [5]", "content_text": "## (2)\n\nBeas constitutes a valid reason for praying His Majesty's Government to decline to ratify the Declaration or to proceed with the Naval Prize Bill.\n\n125\n\n## (C)\n\nThat the admission of the principle of destruction of neutral prizes would be in the highest degree prejudicial to the interests of this country.\n\nThese recommendations were formally adopted by the Council of the London Chamber of Commerce on 14th November last.\n\nIn order to make the position of H.M. Government plain in the matter, correspondence bearing on the subject was presented to both Houses of Parliament (`miscellaneous No. 4 1910`).\n\nThis correspondence, as here published, was carried on between the Foreign Office and the following bodies:-\n\n* The Glasgow Chamber of Commerce\n* The Leith Shipowners Society\n* The Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce\n* The Bristol branch of the Naval League\n* The Belfast Chamber of Commerce\n\nwho together may be taken as well representing the various communities more directly interested in the over-seas trade of our Empire.\n\nAll these bodies strongly supported the London Chamber in urging that the ratifying of the Declaration would cause great injury to our trade and most seriously affect our supplies of food stuffs, and raw materials for our home manufactories, in time of war.\n\nA careful perusal of the Declaration should, I consider, convince any impartial person that this agreement, if ratified, will far more seriously affect Great Britain than any Continental Power, and will therefore place a serious handicap upon us in the event of our being unfortunately engaged in warfare with one of our neighbours.\n\nThere are other points, particularly the list of articles which it is proposed should be considered contraband of war, to which reference might be made, but this is hardly a fitting moment for going fully into details.\n\nAfter a very careful consideration of the documents referred to, the Committee decided to telegraph to the London Chamber of Commerce strongly endorsing and supporting the finding of the Special Committee and added that we had asked His Excellency the Governor to telegraph", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-377 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435874, "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": "CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 84, "title": "CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "P.S.-I intend sending you from home an advance copy of a mémoire on the opium question by my friend M. le Pasteur Paumier, prepared in view of The Hague Conference.\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nJ. G. A.\n\nSociety for the Suppression of the Opium Trade to the \"Yorkshire Post”\n\n181, Queen Victoria Street, London, October 4, 1911.\n\nON my return from attending a conference on the continent I have read the Shanghai telegram on the subject of the suppression of opium traffic in China, published in issue of the 27th September. I note that the Indian opium merchants in China are asking, in their own interests, for the immediate stoppage of the Bengal sales. This is a demand which our society can heartily support, as it would put an end at once to the direct connection between the British Government of India and the opium traffic with China.\n\nThe other proposal put forward by the opium merchants, however, can only meet with our most determined opposition. They wish, it seems, that the prohibition of the entry of Indian opium should not be extended to any more Chinese provinces until \"a more strict observance of the last agreement\" on the part of China has taken place. This may sound plausible, but is in fact a mere pretext for delay. Let me briefly state the facts :-\n\nOn the 8th May we signed an agreement with the Chinese Government providing (clause 3) that \"Indian opium shall not be conveyed into any province in China which can establish by clear evidence that it has effectively suppressed the cultivation and import of native opium.\" China, on her part, undertook in the meantime (clause 7) to withdraw \"all restrictions placed by the provincial authorities on the wholesale trade in Indian opium,\" but this stipulation was not to \"derogate in any manner from the force of the laws already published or hereafter to be published by the Chinese Government to suppress the smoking of opium and to regulate the retail trade in the drug in general.\"\n\nWhen the Chinese Government claimed to exclude Indian opium from Szechuan, Shansi, and Manchuria, on the ground that opium production has ceased in those provinces, the British Minister at Peking replied that in Canton province additional taxation was in force contrary to article 7. This taxation was consequently withdrawn, and China's request was thereupon conceded. Objection was also taken in the first instance that in Fukien province regulations contrary to article 7 were in force, but this objection appears to have been dropped. A translation of the regulations in question has been sent to me by Bishop Price, of the Church Missionary Society in Fukien, and they contain nothing to which the Indian opium merchants could be entitled to object. Yet it is now proposed that the British Government should withdraw from its pledges, and refuse to free further provinces of China from the curse of imported opium, simply in order to give these merchants a chance of disposing of their accumulated stock.\n\nWe may surely trust that our representatives in China and their superiors in the Foreign Office at home will repel such a monstrous claim. In China enormous sacrifices are being made by both Government and people in the effort to stamp out a national vice. Four or five years ago, when the opium dens were all closed on one day in the native city of Shanghai, a noble Chinese official provided out of his own pocket a large sum to enable their owners to set up in honest business. No such assistance is needed, much less is it deserved, by the opium millionaires of Hong Kong and Shanghai, who have already made large fortunes out of China's vice and misery and the dishonour of the British Empire.\n\nAs Mr. Theodore Taylor, M.P., recently wrote to the Times, \"respecting their claim to go on selling Turkish and Persian opium: \"It is well that the attention of the British public should be drawn to the kind of thing in support of which these gentry ask power and prestige of the British good name.'\n\nYours, &c.\n\nJOSEPH G. ALEXANDER, Hon. Secretary.\n\n(Private.)\n\n3\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nDr. Maxwell to Dr. Richter.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nON behalf of the representative board of anti-opium societies, I am desired to lay before you the following considerations with regard to the international conference on the opium question proposed to be held at The Hague. We hope that the Ausschuss der deutschen evangelischen Missionen, of which we believe you are a member, may see its way to exercise its influence with the German Government in support of the proposed conference. A copy of this letter is being sent to Mr. Oldham, secretary of the continuation committee of the Edinburgh Missionary Conference.\n\nAs you may remember, an international commission on the opium question met at Shanghai in February 1909 at the instance of the United States Government, at which the following Governments were represented :----\n\nUnited States of America, Austria-Hungary, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Persia, Portugal, Russia, and Siam.\n\nThe commission adopted a series of recommendations, which have been considered and to some extent acted upon by the Governments represented. The United States Government last year proposed that an international conference, composed of representatives of the same Powers, should meet at The Hague, in order to complete the work of the Shanghai commission and adopt an international convention for the regulation of the traffic in opium. The British Government, in accepting the proposal, stipulated that the scope of the proposed conference should include the regulation of the trade in morphia and cocaine, on the ground that these drugs are being extensively used in the Far East as substitutes for opium. This was, we understand, readily accepted by the United States and most of the other Governments, but difficulties have been raised which are thus referred to in a telegram from Reuter's agency at The Hague dated the 14th August, 1911-\n\n\"There is now very little probability that the International Opium Conference will meet at The Hague in October, as the participation of one of the States most interested in the question is still uncertain. The postponement of the conference till next spring is under serious consideration,\"\n\nThe British Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey, replying to a question in the House of Commons on the 17th August, stated that no date had yet been fixed for the conference, but that it was hoped that the conference might meet during the spring of next year, to this extent confirming the telegram; but he said nothing as to the reason for postponement.\n\nWe have learned on private, but reliable, authority that the Government referred to in Reuter's telegram is that of Germany. This fact has not yet, so far as we know, been published in the British press.\n\nThe World's Chinese Student's Journal\" for July 1911, published at Shanghai, states that the Dutch Minister in Peking has informed the Wai-wu Pu that the opium conference has been indefinitely postponed, and that the Chinese chargé d'affaires in Holland has also wired to the same effect saying that the reason for the postponement is the refusal of Germany, Portugal, and Japan to agree to the fifth resolution adopted by the conference held at Shanghai. This resolution was in the following terms -\n\n\"That the International Opium Commission finds that the unrestricted manufacture, sale, and distribution of morphine already constitute a grave danger, and that the morphine habit shows signs of spreading; the International Opium Commission, therefore, desires to urge strongly on all Governments that it is highly important that drastic measures should be taken by each Government in its own territories and possessions to control the manufacture, sale, and distribution of this drug, and also of such other derivatives of opium as may appear on scientific enquiry to be liable to similar abuse and productive of like ill effects.\"\n\nIt is said that the action of the German Government in this matter is due to the influence of German manufacturers of morphine and cocaine, and we believe it to be the fact that by far the greatest portion of these drugs imported into the Far East come from Germany. A recent official report on the working of the Government\n\n83", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 436866, "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": "CO129-387 - Individuals - 1911", "page_number": 256, "title": "CO129-387 - Individuals - 1911", "content_text": "HONGKONG.\n\nPetition\n\nagainst the inclusion of the Director of Education of the Colony\n\nin the Senate of the University of Hongkong.\n\nCo 14115\n\n249\n\nRECORDS I MAY 11\n\nIn the matter of the \"University Ordinance 1911\".\n\nTo the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nThe Humble Petition of\n\nT. C. Dalmahoy Allan, M.B., Edinburgh.\n\nD. Arthur, B.Sc., Glasgow.\n\nW. J. A. Bell, M.B., Edinburgh.\n\nR. A. Belilios, M.D., Edinburgh.\n\nReginald J. Birbeek, M.A., Cambridge.\n\nR. E. O. Bird, M.A., Oxford.\n\nFrancis Clark, M.D., Durham.\n\nHenry A. Cox, B.A., London, B.A., Dublin.\n\nAlfred I. Crook, M.A., Dublin.\n\nR. M. Dyer, B.Sc., Glasgow.\n\nGerard H. L. Fitzwilliams, M.D., Edinburgh.\n\nCharles Forsyth, M.D., Edinburgh.\n\nHerbert L. Garrett, B.A., Cambridge.\n\nR. Maclean Gibson, M.D., Edinburgh.\n\nG. Alfred Hancock, M.A., Adelaide.\n\nS. Montagu Harston, M.D., London.\n\nJohn W. Hartley, M.B., Victoria, Manchester.\n\nC. M. Henley, M.B., London.\n\nFrederick Trench Johnson, M.A., Dublin.\n\nPercy James Kelly, M.B., Glasgow.\n\nFrederic T. Keyt, M.D., Aberdeen.\n\nWilfrid V. M. Koch, M.D., Edinburgh.\n\nAlec. J. MacDiarmid, M.B., Aberdeen.\n\nOswald Marriott, M.D., London.\n\nW. H. Mearns, M.A., Aberdeen.\n\nSandon W. Payne, B.A., Oxford.\n\nWilfrid W. Pearse, M.D., Aberdeen.\n\nEleanor W. Perkins, M.D., London.\n\nCharles B. Shann, M.A., Cambridge.\n\nErnest A. Shaw, B.A., Cambridge.\n\nElizabeth D. Skipton, B.A., London.\n\nFrederick O. Stedman, M.D., London.\n\nA. D. Stewart, M.A., Cambridge.\n\nA. B. Sutherland, M.A., Aberdeen.\n\nCharles E. Thompson, B.A., Dublin.\n\nArthur B. Thornhill, M.A., Oxford.\n\nGraduates of various Universities in the United Kingdom and in His Majesty's\n\nDominions beyond the Seas;\n\nResidents of Hongkong;\n\nSHOWETH :-\n\n1. That an Ordinance entitled the \"University Ordinance 1911\" was amended in Committee of the Legislative Council on the 23rd day of March 1911 and then passed the third reading at the same meeting, and received the signature of His Excellency the Governor on the 30th day of March 1911.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-387 - Individuals - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 445723, "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": "CO129-406 - Public Offices - 1913", "page_number": 194, "title": "CO129-406 - Public Offices - 1913", "content_text": "2\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nExtracts from the “Peiching Paö\" of June 20, 1913.\n\nTRANSLATION OF TWO LETTERS FROM GENERAL CHANG TO PRESIDENT YUAN SHIH-KAI.\n\nA LETTER written the other day by Chang Yu-chün, representative of the National Anti-Opium Association, to the President, contains the following:\n\n\"I earnestly trust that the Chinese Government will maintain a firm front to the end, seeing that there is no risk of friendly relations with Britain being impaired. Sir J. Jordan, as an experienced diplomat, was bound to make a show of opposition, but this is only an unavoidable diplomatic move; it does not in the least imply an unfriendly attitude, nor can it conceivably bring about any other complications. If the Wai-chiao Pu allows itself to be coerced by His Majesty's Minister and suddenly weakens its attitude, not only will a rebuff be suffered, but foreigners will ridicule China's complete lack of persistence. China's diplomatic relations with foreigners have invariably ended in discomfiture, owing to the mask worn by foreigners being accepted as genuine. The British people are opposed to the action of their Government in regard to the opium sales, and will never allow provocative measures to be undertaken on this account against China. I earnestly trust that you will instruct the Wai-chiao Pu to maintain a firm front to the end, thereby causing Great Britain to revise and do away with the restrictions of the Agreement of 1911, thus permitting China to have complete liberty in suppressing opium, both native and imported.\"\n\nSecond letter:-\n\n\"Since last week I have been in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, where I have been delivering addresses in all the churches. I have received support on all sides, and the decision has been formed to present a request to the British Government to revise the agreement and stop the import, as well as to remove the stocks now held at Shanghai. The general public is also most warm-hearted in its support; all expressed their shame at not knowing how earnestly aroused China was, nor the obstinate selfishness of the British Government. I have made great progress in the English language, and am able to give addresses with my own mouth, as a result of which my hearers are all much moved. I am (or they are) ignorant as to the action taken by the Wai-chiao Pu, as to whether it will be able to maintain a firm front to the end, and whether it will be possible to prevent the opium stocks now held at Shanghai from being disposed of in China. British Members of Parliament, such as Messrs. Taylor and Scottie all agree with what I say, and give me great encouragement. They intend to introduce me to Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and to Lord Crewe, Secretary of State for India, in order that I may have a talk with them about everything. My idea is that if the Wai-chiao Pu finds it difficult to bring the negotiations in China to a successful issue, the best thing to do will be to transfer them to my charge in Great Britain. Owing to the assistance of the British public this will be much easier. Otherwise this will be another case in which we shall fall into the trap set by others, and the reputation of the republic will be injuriously affected.\"\n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nExtract from the \"Peking Daily News\" of July 3, 1913.\n\nANTI-OPIUM CAMPAIGN.\n\nA LETTER from General Chang Yu-chün, the representative of the Chinese Anti-Opium Society, to President Yuan Shih-kai, regarding the anti-opium movement in London:-\n\nYour Excellency,\n\n\"This afternoon the various anti-opium societies in England held a meeting in the committee room of the House of Commons. Many members of Parliament such as Mr. Taylor, &c., were present, and I was invited to take part in the conference. It was proposed that delegates should be appointed to call upon Sir Edward Grey, the Minister of the Foreign Office, and to request him to cancel the treaty for the sale of opium to China, in order that China might be enabled to carry on her prohibitive measures freely, and that the stock of 20,000 chests of opium at Shanghai might not be sold in the interior.\n\nIn the course of the meeting I was asked whether the Government of China had any intention to prohibit the stock of opium at Shanghai as well. Thereupon, I said that China wants very much to remove the stock of opium, but for the lack of funds our Government, though earnest to stamp out the evil, has been afraid lest your Majesty's Government should not comply with our request for its removal. Mr. Taylor, however, told me that China need not be anxious about the question of payment. 'His Majesty's Government,' he said, 'would never compel the Chinese Government to pay any compensation. If the Chinese Government were really in earnest to prohibit the importation of this opium stock, and would make clear demands for its exclusion, we would use our best efforts to persuade His Majesty's Government to act accordingly. The Chinese Government is too ignorant of the conditions of foreign countries. It does not know, even now, that we are sincerely helping it with respect to this opium affair. It has been too careful to make known its intentions even in a matter of claiming its own rights. How can a person give up anything without being asked? Your country remains as weak and timid as ever and we are now at our wits' end.' I was really ashamed to hear him say so, and I could not but excuse ourselves by saying that all these faults were due to the weakness of our nation. Then he advised me to urge our Government to lodge a strong representation immediately with the British Government, without any fear or doubt, and said that although there were verbal demands of compensation made by the British Government, these demands were merely formalities of the diplomatic officers, and that the British Government would never insist on them.\n\n\"At last two resolutions were passed, namely:\n\n\"1. His Majesty's Government should be requested to give back to China the right of opium prohibition, and to enable China to prohibit the opium stock in Shanghai as well; and\n\n\"2. His Majesty's Government should be requested to stop the cultivation of opium in India for two years, so that the present stock of Indian opium may be sold to other countries during this period of time.\n\n\"After the close of the meeting I sent to your Excellency a telegram requesting that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Assembly should be ordered, and requested respectively to settle this question as soon as possible, and to lodge a demand for the prohibition of the Shanghai opium stocks, and I trust that this telegram has reached your Excellency in due course.\n\nHoping our Government will adopt the measure advised by Mr. Taylor without loss of time, I have, &c.\n\n\"CHANG YU-CHUN.\"\n\n193", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-406 - Public Offices - 1913.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 446478, "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": "CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913", "content_text": "BOARD\n\nREC\n\nC.O\n\n20173\n\nREG 14 JUNE\n\nHONG KONG, JUNIOR ASSISTANT MASTERSHIP.\n\n12\n\nThe candidate whose name is given below has been interviewed by the Selection Committee.\n\nFurther details concerning him will be found in the accompanying application form.\n\nNAME: William Kay\n\nADDRESS: 6 Castle Street, Brechin, Scotland.\n\nAGE: Twenty-six (26) years\n\nBorn 20th February 1887.\n\nEDUCATION:\n\nLochee Liff Road School 1892 - 1899.\n\nEdinburgh, Bruntsfield Higher Grade School 1899 - 1904.\n\nEdinburgh University 1907 - 1912.\n\nV.A.\n\nEdinburgh Provincial Training College 1907 - 1910.\n\nTeachers' Certificate of the Scotch Education Department.\n\nEXPERIENCE:\n\nEdinburgh St. Bernard's Public School 1904 - 1907 Pupil Teacher.\n\nEdinburgh Viewpark Public School 1910 - 1912. Head Mathematical Master.\n\nBrechin High School 1912 to present time. Assistant Mathematical and Science Master.\n\nAlso teaching elementary and engineering mathematics in Evening Classes.\n\n1.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 446568, "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": "CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913", "page_number": 103, "title": "CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913", "content_text": "C. O.\n\n43154\n\nThe 16 FC 13\n\n99\n\nThe candidate whose name is given below has been interviewed by the Selection Committee. Further details concerning him will be found in the accompanying application form.\n\nNAME: Hugh Phillips Turner.\n\nADDRESS: 1, Seaforth Place, Kirkcaldy, Scotland.\n\nAGE: Thirty-one (31) years. Born 22nd June 1882.\n\nEDUCATION:\n\nBroomloan Public School, Govan. 1888-1893.\n\nPublic School, Kingskettle, Fife. 1893-1895.\n\nEdinburgh University. Winter sessions 1906-7, 1907-8, and 1910-11. Pass certificates for the M.A. Degree course in Mathematics, Latin, Natural Philosophy, English, and Political Economy. Classes also attended in Logic, Moral Philosophy and Educational Problems.\n\nFree Church Training College, Edinburgh. 1906-1907.\n\nProvincial Training College, Edinburgh. 1907-1908.\n\nTeachers' Certificate of the Scotch Education Department.\n\nTeachers' Vacation Class under the Glasgow Provincial Training Committee. Summer 1909.\n\nCertificate for work done in Practical Chemistry.\n\nTeachers' Class under the St. Andrew's Provincial Committee. Sessions 1908-9 and 1909-10.\n\nCertificate for work done in Swedish Drill.\n\n-1-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 452036, "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": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914", "page_number": 394, "title": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914", "content_text": "## AFUT \n\n(C) Organized and held lectures and discussions on matters pertaining to Accountancy, and on legal and other subjects.\n\n(d) Established a Students' Society for training candidates for entry into the profession of Accountancy.\n\n(e) Established Libraries in London and the provinces for the use of members.\n\n(f) Compiled and published a Year Book of the Society.\n\n(g) Published a Quarterly Journal known as \"The Associated Accountants' Journal,”\n\n(h) Established a Benevolent Fund for the relief of necessitous members.\n\n(i) Organized and held meetings and social functions for the bringing together of the members for their mutual benefit and advantage and the interchange of ideas.\n\n(j) Generally aimed at advancing the interests of the profession of Accountant and rendering membership of the Association a guarantee of ability and integrity.\n\nThe membership of the Central Association, consisting at the present time of 930 members, has been secured by individual accession only, and not by the absorption of numerous small District and Foreign Societies, as is the case with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and the Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors.\n\n## (4) Scottish and Irish Societies\n\nAs the proposed Bill mentions and affects three Scottish Societies of Accountants and one Irish Society, a few observations are necessary as to the origin of these Societies and the profession of Accountancy in the countries named.\n\nSocieties of accountants were established in Scotland many years before any organization of the profession had taken place in England.\n\n(1) The first Society to be formed in Scotland, was the Institute of Accountants in Edinburgh, in the year 1853, with the object of uniting into one body persons practising accountancy in Edinburgh. Royal warrant for the incorporation of the Institute by Royal Charter, was given on the 23rd October, 1854.\n\n(2) The Institute of Accountants and Actuaries in Glasgow, was formed in 1853. Royal warrant for the incorporation of the Institute by Royal Charter, was given on the 15th March, 1855.\n\n(3) The Society of Accountants in Aberdeen was formed and incorporated by Royal Charter in the year 1867. In the year 1872, these three Societies entered into an Agreement, constituting a General Examination Board, and assimilated their rules relating to admission of members. This step practically effected the affiliation of the Chartered Accountants of Scotland, at the same time leaving each Society free to administer its own funds and manage its own internal affairs.\n\nAdmission can now only be obtained after a full term of service under Articles with a Scottish Chartered Accountant, and after attendance at certain University Law Classes. The examinations are three in number: Preliminary, Intermediate and Final.\n\nThe Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland is a small Society which was incorporated in the year 1888 with 31 members.\n\n## (5) Growth of the Profession\n\nThe growth of the profession during the past 100 years can be judged by a comparison of the number of accountants whose names appear in the London Directories during that period. It was pointed out by Sir Albert K. Rollit, in his speech as Chairman at the Annual Dinner of the Central Association of Accountants, in 1908, that the London Directory of 1799 contained the name of but one accountant, that of 1809, four accountants and that of 1822, seventy-three accountants.\n\nThere are ninety-nine accountants in Pigot & Co.'s London and Provincial Directory for 1826.\n107 in the London P.O. Directory for 1840.\n264 in 1850.\n310 in 1860.\n467 in 1870.\n757 in 1883.\n\nAnd in last year's issue, the names of upwards of 1,400 accountants appear.\n\nFifty years ago, there were but two Societies in existence in the United Kingdom with a membership of a little more than 100.\n\n## (6) Attempted Legislation\n\nFrom the year 1891 to the present time, twelve Bills (apart from the Bill under consideration), relating to the organization of accountants, have, mainly on the initiative of the Institute, been introduced into Parliament.\n\nThe following is a summary of the former Bills :—\n\n| TITLE | OBJECT |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1891 An Act to amend the law relating to Chartered Accountants. | To impose a penalty on unauthorized persons using the title of Chartered Accountant. |\n| 1892 Do. | Similar object. |\n| 1893 To regulate the profession of Accountancy, and to provide for the registration and control of persons acting as Public Accountants. | To provide for registration of all Public Accountants. |\n| 1893 To amend the law relating to Public Accountants. | Do. |\n| 1894 To amend the law relating to Accountants. | Do. |\n| 1895 To amend the law relating to Chartered Accountants. | To complete the organization of the profession of Chartered Accountants on the same lines as the profession of Solicitors, &c., and to protect the title, Chartered Accountant. |\n| 1895 To amend the law relating to Accountants. | To provide for registration of all Public Accountants. |\n| 1896 Do. | Do. |\n| 1896 To complete the organization of the profession of Accountants throughout the United Kingdom. | Do. |\n| 1897 Do. | Do. |\n| 1898 Do. | Do. |\n| 1900 To provide for the better organization of Professional Accountants. | Do. |\n\nThe whole of those Bills had practically the same object and were in effect attempts to create a monopoly for the members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, either solely or in conjunction with the members of the Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors. Needless to say, none of these Bills made any progress, but the persistence with which they were amended, modified and reintroduced by their promoters was worthy of a better cause.\n\n## (7) The Professional Accountants Bill, 1909\n\nTurning now to the Professional Accountants Bill, 1909, promoted jointly by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and the Society of Accountants and Auditors, its object (like that of its predecessors) is stated to be the organization of the profession of accountancy on the same lines as the learned professions, by establishing a register of qualified accountants in England and Wales and prohibiting any unregistered person from stating or implying that he is a Professional Accountant and undertaking accountancy business for remuneration.\n\nThe Bill provides in effect that the persons entitled to registration shall be\n\n(a) All present and future members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and the Society of Accountants and Auditors.\n\n(b) The members of the before-named three Scottish and one Irish Society who give notice of their intention to practise in England or Wales.\n\n(c) All persons, though not members of any Institute or Society, who were in practice in England or Wales at the passing of the Act, subject to certain reservations.\n\n(d) Any person not entitled as aforesaid who passes the examination prescribed by the Committee to be formed under the Act, and on proof to the satisfaction of the said Committee that he has served under Articles to a Professional Accountant in England or Wales for not less than five years (or in case of graduate of any University in the United Kingdom, for not less than three years), such service having been commenced before the passing of the Act.\n\nA Committee (called the Professional Accountants Register Committee) is proposed to be formed under the Bill consisting of fifteen members, nine to be appointed by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales, and the remaining six by the Society of Accountants and Auditors. These Societies each have the right to remove any member of the Committee appointed by them and also the right in perpetuity to fill up vacancies in the ranks of the Committeemen appointed by them respectively. The Registrar proposed by the Bill is the Secretary for the time being of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and the Register is to be kept at the office of the Institute.\n\nThe Professional Accountants Committee are empowered to make rules with respect to the inspection of the register, the holding of examinations at such times and on such subjects as they may please, to determine questions relating to the qualification for admission to the register of persons other than members of the Institute and Society, to prescribe fees for examinations and registration. Specific powers are given to the Professional Accountants Committee to refuse registration in certain cases, including (inter alia) :-\n\n(1) Persons excluded or suspended for membership of the Institute or Society or any other Society mentioned in the Act.\n\n(2) Any person who is proved to the satisfaction of the Committee to have been guilty of an act or default discreditable to a Professional Accountant.\n\n(3) Any person following any business or occupation other than that of a Professional Accountant or some business which, in the opinion of the Committee, is incident thereto or consistent therewith, with certain exceptions.\n\nThe Bill contains provisions relating to correction of register, removal and restoration of names by the Committee.\n\nSection 19 prohibits persons falsely describing themselves as members of the Institute or Society, and section 20 provides that:\n\n“It shall not be lawful for any person registered as a Professional Accountant under this Act and not being a member of the Institute or the Society, to take or use any title, description or initials by letters or otherwise indicating that he is a Professional Accountant (other than the title or description of \"Professional Accountant\") unless such title, description or initials be approved by resolution of the Committee,”\n\nEver since its incorporation the Institute has put forward the untenable claim that it has the exclusive right to exist as a professional body of accountants in this country, and its desire has ever been to secure for its members a monopoly.\n\nPage 383", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 452067, "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": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914", "page_number": 425, "title": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914", "content_text": "## INDIAN AND COLONIAL EDUCATIONAL APPOINTMENTS No. 462\n### CANDIDATES to be INTERVIEWED\n\nat the \n**BOARD OF EDUCATION**, \nWhitehall, S.W. \n\non \nWednesday, 9th September 1914, at 3.0 p.m. \n\n### HONG KONG EDUCATION DEPARTMENT – ASSISTANT MISTRESS\n\nCommittee:- Dr. Heath, \nMr. J. A. Nisbet, \nMrs. Baines, \nMr. Cornish, \nMr. Howarth.\n\n| Time | Candidate |\n| --- | --- |\n| 3.10 | Miss M.J. Preece, Beira Evesham Road, Broadway, Worc. |\n| 3.20 | Miss C.E. Clarke, Ridgbarn, Cuddington, Aylesbury. |\n| 3.30 | Miss L. Shutt, 29, Ombersley Road, Balsall Heath, Birmingham. |\n| 3.40 | Miss A.J. Jamieson, 106, Marchmont Road, Edinburgh. |\n| ... | Miss B. Jamieson, Willowbras Avenue, Edinburgh. |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 457056, "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": "CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 372, "title": "CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nOPIUM.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL,\n\n[2022]\n\n&\n\nSir+\n\nNo. 1.\n\n367\n\n[January 6.]\n\nC\n\nSECTION\n\n17818\n\nREC? 19 APR 15\n\nDr. Caldecott to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received\n\nKing's College, Strand, London, January 4, 1915.\n\nTHE representative board of British anti-opium societies desires once more to address you on the present position of the opium question as regards—\n\n(1.) The continued pressure on China to admit Indian opium into three of her provinces;\n\n(2.) The sale of opium in licensed shops in Shanghai.\n\n1. That the board ventures to press these matters again upon your attention, even during the present time of strain and anxiety, is due to its earnest desire that at this grave juncture the position of our country should be free from any shade of injustice towards the Chinese nation and consistent with that high standard as regards the claims of weaker States which His Majesty's Government is engaged in maintaining elsewhere at so tremendous a cost. The board is profoundly convinced that a right attitude towards China in this matter is of momentous import to Britain's position before God and man.\n\n2. The board has had before it the following:\n\n(a) Your letter to Mr. T. C. Taylor, M.P., of 8th October in reply to a resolution of the Society for the Suppression of the Opium Traffic.\n\n(b) Your letter to Mr. C. E. Price, M.P., of 5th November in reply to a letter of the Edinburgh Anti-Opium Committee.\n\n(c) A pamphlet by the Rev. Arnold Foster of Wuchang entitled \"Municipal Ethics,\" commenting on the action of the Shanghai Municipal Council licensing opium shops (copy herewith).* \n\n(d) The \"Shanghai Municipal Gazette,\" 22nd October, 1914, containing correspondence between His Majesty's consul-general at Shanghai and the Chairman of the Municipal Council on the same subject.\n\n3. As regards the release of China from her obligation to admit Indian Opium.- The board recognises the important concession offered to China, in the intimation that His Majesty's Government is willing to release her from the obligation to admit Indian opium as soon as it is shown that the three provinces in Eastern China not yet certified as free from poppy cultivation-Kwangtung, Kiangsu, and Kiangsi-have been cleared of the plant, without waiting for similar proof as regards the five remaining provinces in the west, which are practically inaccessible to Indian opium. At the same time the fact that it will be impossible to obtain evidence of such clearance for some months to come, as the poppy is in these provinces a spring crop, involves a delay which is both humiliating and vexatious to China. The maintenance in the meanwhile of the treaty obligation to admit Indian opium into these provinces affects, not only themselves, but other neighbouring provinces like Chekiang, which find it almost impossible to protect themselves against smuggling, although they have been declared free of poppy growth themselves. (See on this point the testimony of Mr. Alexander Langman, of the China Inland Mission, Hangchow, already submitted by the Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade.) Considering how wholly unprecedented is the claim of Great Britain to dictate to another nation that she shall complete her own measures of suppression before being permitted to exclude from her territory an injurious drug; considering, too, the abundant proof given by the Chinese Government of its determination and ability to carry out this great reform, notwithstanding all the hindrances interposed by revolution and disorder, and the enormous vested interests, both public and private, which have to be overcome, the board submits that it would not merely be generous but essentially just on the part of His Majesty's Government\n\n* Not printed.\n\n[2362 f-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 469366, "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": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 240, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nOPIUM.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSECTION 2.\n\nSir,\n\nBoard of Trade to Foreign Office.-(Received February 28.)\n\nBoard of Trade, February 26, 1917.\n\nWITH reference to your letter of the 25th January, enclosing copy of a letter from the Edinburgh Committee for the Suppression of the Indo-Chinese Opium Traffic, I am directed by the Board of Trade to transmit to you herewith copy of a letter from the National Health Insurance Commission on the subject, together with a statement which has been furnished by the War Trade Department of the quantities of morphia, morphine, and morphia salts licensed for export during the year 1916.\n\nThe recorded exports of morphia and morphia salts to Japan (including Formosa and Japanese-leased territories in China) during the years 1913-15 were, according to the trade returns of the United Kingdom, as follows:—\n\n \n 1913\n 1914\n 1915\n \n \n Ozs. 252,110\n 352,180\n 204,742\n \n\nThe licensed exports to Japan in 1916 were, however, 1,029,616 ozs, and the Board have no doubt that if the exports to that country by parcel post during the years in question (which are not separately recorded) had been included the total exports would have been seen to be equally disproportionate to the legitimate requirements of Japan. The Board are therefore disposed to suggest, for Mr. Secretary Balfour's consideration, that the licensing authorities should be instructed to restrict exports from the United Kingdom to Japan to the quantity which may reasonably be assumed to be required in that country for legitimate medical purposes, and they presume that the National Health Insurance Commission will be able to furnish some estimate of the total Japanese requirements for such purposes.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nGARNHAM ROPER.\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nNational Health Insurance Commission to Board of Trade\n\nBuckingham Gate, December 21, 1916.\n\nI AM directed by the National Health Insurance Commission (England) to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 6th instant, and enclosure, and to say that they were in correspondence with the War Trade Department in June last on the subject of the quantities of morphia and morphia salts exported from the United Kingdom to Japan, and that the fact became apparent that the figures given by the Customs authorities, which were approximately the same as those given in Parliament on the 16th November, 1916, by the President of the Board of Trade in reply to Mr. T. Taylor, did not include any quantities exported by parcel post. In the course of dealing with applications for licences to export morphia and its salts to Japan, it has been observed that very large quantities are sent in this way, and it is probable therefore that the figures as to export would be very largely increased if it were possible to include accurate statistics of consignments sent by post.\n\nThe Commissioners consider that the quantities of morphia and morphia salts exported to Japan and Japanese territories are largely in excess of the quantities that could be regarded as necessary for legitimate medicinal purposes, and they have very little doubt that considerable quantities are smuggled into China.\n\nI am to add that the suggestion made by the Rev. G. S. Mair, that morphia should be subjected to the regulations recently instituted with regard to opium and cocaine would not have any substantial effect in limiting the exports of morphia to the Far East.\n\nPage 240\n\nPage 241", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 469375, "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": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 249, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[75694]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[April 12.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n245\n\nEdinburgh Committee for the Suppression of the Indo-Chinese Opium Traffic to Foreign Office. (Received April 12.)\n\nSir,\n\nTHE morphia traffic.\n\n120, Braid Road, Edinburgh, April 11, 1917.\n\nI have only to-day noticed the answer which you gave to Sir William Collins in the House of Commons on the 26th February last regarding the export of morphia to Japan. When asked if the large quantity sent from this country was not evidence that it was finding its way into China as a substitute for opium, you are reported to have replied, \"I am afraid I have no information on the point.\"\n\nI desire to remind you that on the 11th January last I wrote to you giving the details of this export, and mentioned that in May 1916 Lord Grey said he was aware of the evil, and was in consultation with the Board of Trade regarding it.\n\nI regret to say that last week a communication from the Board of Trade instructed that, so far as their Department was concerned, nothing could be done. They were of opinion that, if morphia were regulated in the same strict way as opium and cocaine, the good standing of the firms engaged in the trade was such that licences could not be withheld from them. We regard this answer as most unsatisfactory. The trade is one which is as \"morally indefensible\" as the House of Commons repeatedly declared the opium traffic to be. It involves the moral and physical degradation of at least half a million Chinese. It is one which Mr. Montagu, Under-Secretary for India, urged the anti-opiumists to check and abolish as they had done with the opium. This we are resolved to do.\n\nThe Edinburgh society is specially interested in the matter, as two-thirds of the morphia exported is made in our city, and our fair fame is not enhanced thereby. I have interviewed some of the gentlemen connected with the manufacture of the drug. They do not deny, and they deplore the evil effects of the trade in China, but they do not see their way to diminish the output so long as they are unhindered by law.\n\nWe trust therefore that you will do all in your power, along with our Ally, Japan, to have the output of the drug restricted to medicinal requirements, and that at the soonest possible date.\n\n[2684]\n\nI am, &c.\n\nG. S. MUIR, Hon. Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 469376, "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": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 250, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nOPIUM.\n\n(\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[75694]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[April 20.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nForeign Office to Edinburgh Committee for Suppression of Indo-Chinese Opium Traffic.\n\nSir,\n\nForeign Office, April 20, 1917.\n\nI AM directed by Lord Robert Cecil to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of the 11th and 18th instant on the subject of the export of morphia to Japan,\n\nI am to inform you in reply that the matter is being given most serious consideration in this Department, and that you will be informed if and when it proves possible to surmount the difficulties which, as must be apparent to your committee, surround this question.\n\n[2684]\n\nI am, &c.\n\nR. GRAHAM.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 469510, "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": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 384, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n379\n\nOPIUM.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nC.O.\n\n80-\n\n61262\n\nREC.\n\nREG? 14 DECIZ\n\n[June 9.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n[115025]\n\n(No. 263.) Sir,\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir C. Greene to Mr. Balfour.-(Received June 9.)\n\nTokyo, April 29, 1917.\n\nIN reply to your despatch No. 26 of the 12th February last asking for my observations on certain papers which were enclosed therein relating to morphia smuggling into China through Japan, I have the honour to draw your attention to the reports on this subject which were forwarded in Sir John Jordan's despatches Nos. 7 and 35 of the 6th January and the 1st February, 1916, respectively, as well as to my earlier despatches Nos. 160 and 253 of the 17th June and the 31st August, 1915, respectively.\n\nA perusal of these various reports will show that there are very good grounds for believing the accuracy of the statement made by the Edinburgh Committee for the Suppression of the Indo-Chinese Opium Traffic to the effect that large quantities of morphia have been exported from the United Kingdom to Japan and thence smuggled into China.\n\nAs this traffic appears to be not only illegal, according to both Japanese and Chinese law, but is also immoral, and as the export of morphia from the United Kingdom is prohibited except under licence, I venture to recommend for the serious consideration of His Majesty's Government the advisability of refusing all permits for export to Japan or to Dairen unless certificates are obtained from the Japanese Home Office or the authorities of the Kwantung leased territory showing that the morphia is for actual consumption in Japan or Dairen and vicinity for medical purposes only.\n\nThere might be some outcry at first from the dealers, who have been making large profits out of this business, but, as will be seen from the enclosed newspaper extract,* it would be possible to invoke the aid of the Anti-Opium Society, which numbers among its members several very influential persons, and this would counteract any agitation which might be started by the morphia dealers.\n\nI have, &c. (For the Ambassador),\n\nH. NORMAN.\n\n*Not printed.\n\n[2751-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 478687, "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": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "page_number": 152, "title": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "content_text": "# EX-OFFICERS.\n## EX-OFFICERS.\n\n| No. | Regt. | Age | Medical Notes | Qualifications and Previous Employment | O.U.T.C. Courses | Present Locality |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 10. 861 | D.O. 240 Major London | 64 | Good | Ed. Cambridge Univ. 28 yrs. Vice-Chairman The Field and Law Times.\" 6 yrs. Director Diesel Engine Co. (French) | | London |\n| | Lieut. D.C.L.I. | 34 | Fair | Ed. Oxford Univ. Father's business since leaving school, jeweller and antique dealer. Knowledge accounts and business routine. | Oxford | |\n| D.O. 301 | 2nd Lieut | 25 | | Ed. privately. Clerk and assistant cashier to firm of auctioneers. General office experience. | London | |\n| 2. 365 | 2nd Lieut. | 22 | Exner | Good | Ed. Colchester Grammar, No previous business experience. [French] | Essex | \n| 10, 966 | Capt A.S.C. | 42 | Fair | Ed. Kent | | Kent |\n| D.O. 303 | 2nd Lieut | 31 | | A.S.C. | Fair | Ed. privately, and Queen's Coll, Cork. 4 yrs. farming, Canada, 16 yr. stock exchange, Ireland. accountancy and shipping, Evans Thornton & Co., America. | | \n| D.O. 307 | Lieut | 45 | | Worcester | Fair | Ed. privately. 2 yrs. clerk British Trade Journal, 6 yrs, clerk surveyor's office. 12 yrs. clerk, also coal traffic Inspection, Metropolitan Water Board. | | London |\n| D.O. 314 | Corporal | 35 | R.E. | Good | Ed. Lowestoft. 5 yrs representative coal and shipping firm, and 2 yrs. cereal merchants and importers, Bristol. 3 yr. London manager Uvico Cereals, Ltd., Liverpool. Now Naval and Ordnance Dept., Admiralty. Hobby-agriculture. | | London |\n| 10. 380 | Lieut. R.D.F. | 34 | Hanta | Good. E, hand damaged | Ed. St. Martin's College, Canterbury. Banking exp. with F. Bruit & Co., and Anglo-Foreign Banking Co., Ltd. Left London Stock Exchange 10 yrs. ago; became representative different Financial and engineering firms abroad. [French] | | London |\n| D.O. 321 | 2nd Lieut | 31 | A.R.C. | Good | Ed. Harrow, Edinburgh Univ. 2 yrs. Medical Student. 1 yr. nat. sec. Emile Erlanger & Co. 2 yrs. Wounded Allies Relief Committee, | London | London |\n| 10. 396 | Capt | 40 | Good | R.W.Surrey | | Ed. privately. 22 yrs. in Regular Army. School attendance officer, L.C.C., until outbreak of war. Knowledge of accounts and book-keeping. | London | \n| D.O. 327 | Lieut.-Col | 76 | Lincoln | Good | Ed. Uppingham. 16 yrs. with Corporation of London, also as Censor, War Office. | London | London |\n| | | | | Ed. privately. Retired from Army 1903. Compound Manager Chinese and Natives S. Africa Basuto] | | London |\n| 10. 309 | Private | 28 | Good | 1.S.O. (M.T.) | | Ed. privately, 5 yrs. mantle and costume manuf. Knowledge of book- | London | \n| D.O. 329 | Lieut | 53 | Good | Welsh | | Ed. privately. Joined Army 1885, retired 1892, rejoined 1914, retired 1917. Good disciplinarian. [French] | Dorset | \n| 10. 400 | Lieut | 29 | Good. R. eye deficient | Monmouth | Cambridge | Ed. Cambridge Univ. Law student, but relinquished studies on outbreak of War. Desires a secretarial post. Knowledge of stock breeding, poultry farming. | | \n| D.O. 349 | Lieut | 14 | R.B. | Fair | Essex | Ed. privately and London Univ. Diploma, arts, classica, theology. Divinity student. 4 yrs. exp. on stage and sketch writing, also theatrical business management, Diploma cinema operator and electrician. Hon. organiser Comrades of Great War for county. [Hindustani] | | \n| D.O. 353 | Lieut | 15 | Devou | | 3. Staffs | Fair Neurasthenis, L, hand injured | Indian Provincial Civil Service, Govt. of Bengal 1907-1912, Studied law before outbreak of war. [Hindustani, Bengali] | | \n| D.O. 360 | Capt | | W. Riding | | H.Q. D.O.4.-20.7 | | | 20. 407 |\n| 20. 407 | Lieut | 46 | W. Yorks | Good | London | Ed. privately. 2 yrs. clerical and business experience with Becketta, York. Relinquished position to join Army. | Lanark | HQ D.O.5.-20.7.13. \n| | Lieut | 28 | Cheshire | Fair | London | Ed. Cambridge Univ. keeping and accounts. | | \n| 0.422 | 2nd Lieut | 25 | W. Yorks | Fair | | Ed, privately. Served 18 yrs, in Boots Cash. And retired with rank of sergt. 6 yrs, head steward, Township Ca. frmary, Leeds. Good disciplinarian, | Yorkshire | \n| 50. 489 | Lieut | 24 | R.F.A | Fair | 21 | Fair, L. leg weak | Ed. privately. 8 yrs. business training, export merchants., 2 yrs. manager. Temp. clerk Food Production Dept. Hobbies, photography, poultry, gardening. | London | Essex \n| | | | | Ed. privately. Undergoing private tuition for Civil Service before the war, | | Oxford |\n| | | | | Ed. privately. 5 yrs. experience general store, Harrod's Ltd., Good business knowledge. Unable to follow previous employment through ill health contracted on active service. Awarded M.C., France. [French] | | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 478691, "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": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "page_number": 156, "title": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "content_text": "# EX-OFFICERS.\n## EX-OFFICERS.\n\n| Rank | No. | Regt. | Age | Medical Notes | Qualifications and Previous Employment | O.U.T.C. Present Courses. Locality. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Major | D.O. 949 | A.O.D. | 63 | Good | Ed. privately 25 yrs. Reg. Army. 7 yrs. Staff Officer, to L.G. of Police Local Forces (West Indies). 5 yrs. Inspector of Police, Barbadoes (West Indies). Rejoined Army on outbreak of war. | London. |\n| Lieut. | D.O. 885 | R.E. | 40 | Good | Ed. privately. Sound commercial experience. Knowledge accounts and book-keeping. Asst. executive officer New Romney and Romney Marsh Food Control Committee. | London. |\n| 8.-Sergt. | D.O. 887 | A.S.C. | 65 | Good | Ed. privately. 5 yrs. Allmey & Layfield, wholesale provision and shipping merchants. 7 yrs. Paterson, Lalaw & Co., West Africa, buying palm oil, cocoa, cotton, &c. Considerable exp. cattle breeding and plantation work. | D.O. 896 |\n| Lieut. | D.O. 912 | R.E. | 20 | Fair (Gassed). | Ed, Watson's Coll., Edinburgh, and Univ. 1912-14 Course Faculty of Arts M.A. Languages, Literature and Psychology, 8 yrs. Course Chemistry, Physics. [French] | London. |\n| Sergt. | D.O. 918 | B.E. | 34 | G.S.W. R. leg. | Ed. Brighton. Reg. Army, 1864–1890, Held staff appt, as asst, mil. secretary to G.O.C., West Indies; rejoined 1915; appointed as area commander for Berkshire. (Recruiting Staff,) [French.] | London. |\n| Colonel | D.O. 975 | B.E.A. | 73 | Good | Ed. privately. 1 yr. clerk Commissioner Taxes. 4 yrs. Lloyd's Bank, S. Africa. 2 yrs. Standard Bank, S Africa. 2 yrs. Central Mining and Investment Corporation, Ltd., S. Africa. yrs. Manager Lichtenberg. Ventersdorp Rly, Trading Co. 3 yrs. Organiser S. Africa Unionist Association. [French, Dutch, Kaffir.] | Wales. |\n| Capt. | D.O. 976 | R.F.A. | 49 | Good | Ed. Cambridge. Reading for Cambridge Tripos when joined Army. Adjutant labour group and secretary to O.C. Chinese Labour Corps, Experience, public speaking. [French, Chinese.] | Wales. |\n| Major | D.O. 979 | R.Q.A. | 46 | Fair | Ed. Cheltenham and R.M.A. Woolwich. Reg. Army 23 yrs, 1 yr. Purveyor in East, 2 yrs. poultry and fruit farming British Columbia, & mos, superintendent mining camp. [French, Hindustani, Baluchi, Persian, Chinese.] | Berks. |\n| 2nd Lieut. | D.O. 982 | Tank | 38 | Good | Ed. privately, University Coll, Wales, B.A., economics, law, &c. Sec. to coal exporter. Cardiff, Sen. Housemaster Univ. Sch., Victoria, B.C., 2 yrs. [French, Welsh.] | Wales. |\n| Fleet Paymaster, R.N. | D.O. 921 | | 49 | Good | Ed, privately. $1 yrs. R.N. Service. Thorough knowledge of accountancy. | Dorset. |\n| Lieut. | D.O. 985 | W. Riding | 36 | | Ed. St. Albans. Articled to auctioneers 3 yrs., clerical work, railway hotel dept., till outbreak of war, | Herts. |\n| 2nd Lieut. | D.O. 931 | Middx. | 24 | Injury | Ed. privately. 3 yrs. clerk Stock Exchange. Representative Shell Marketing Co. (1 yr), Supervisor farm tractors, control staff. Knowledge internal combustion engines. Photography. | Kent. |\n| 2nd Lieut. | D.O. 986 | B.B. | 22 | L. leg. | Ed. Bristol Grammar, 2 yrs. clerk, Nichols, Young, Hunt & Co. | Devon. |\n| 2nd Lieus. | D.O. 940 | I.S.C. | 22 | Good | Ed. privately. 2 yrs. private secretary. 1 yr. supervisor, Food Production Dept. Shorthand and typing. Interested in mechanical engineering. [French.] | Private |\n| 2nd Lieut. | D.O. 955 | D.L.I. | 25 | Fair | Ed. privately. Clerk, decorator and plumber's business 7 yrs. | Devon. |\n| 2nd Lieut. | D.O. 956 | Cheshire | 25 | Good | Ed. Wellington, Sandhurst. Continuous army service since 1885. [French.] | D.O. 961 |\n| Major | D.O. 961 | | 64 | Good | Ed. privately. 5 yrs. mining and smelting, America, Employed Harvey's Chemical Works, Plymouth, until 1890, Since then own business grease manufacturer and oil importer. | Dorset. |\n| Capt. | D.O. 965 | | 56 | Good | Ed. privately. Army career only. | Devon. |\n| Lieut | D.O. 993 | R.F.A. | 27 | L. arm. | | Somerset. |\n| 2nd Lieut | D.O. 995 | Labour Corps | 53 | Nephritis | Ed. Exeter Grammar and H.M.S. \"Britannia.\" 14 yrs. Naval service retiring with rank of Lieut. 14 yrs. British Columbia Copper Co. 2 yrs. chief clerk, Mexican Oil Co. | Warwick. |\n| Capt. | D.O. 996 | I.A. | 47 | Good | Ed. Grammar Sch, Preston, Cambridge Univ, B.A. Left Univ. to join Army, [French, Arabic, Greek,] | Surrey. |\n| Lieut. | D.O. 997 | E.G.A. | 34 | Good | Ed. privately. Knowledge Morse signalling. 3 yrs. Oriental Telephone Co., Calcutta: 9 yrs. Nat. Telephone Co., London; 17 yrs, asst. Treasury officer Foreign office; 6 yrs. director Govt. transport supplies agent, Uganda. [Hindustani, Ki Swahili.] | Hants |\n| | D.O. | | | | Ed, privately. 19 yrs. Regular Army, qr-mr. Adjutant; supervision and control estab. Military cantonment Be Court magistrate. [French, Hindustani, German,] | Cornwall. |\n| | D.O. | | | Paralysis, | Served 9 yrs. India; Q.M.S. in France. | Devon. |\n| | H.Q. D.O.4.—20.7.18. | | | | | Hants |\n| | H.Q. D.O.4—29.7.18. | | | | | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 478698, "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": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "page_number": 163, "title": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "content_text": "## EX-OFFICERS.\n\n| No. | Rank, Regt. | Age | Medical Notes | Qualifications and Previous Employment | O.U.T.C. | Present Courses | Locality |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| D.O.1904 | Private, H.A.C. | 39 | Fair | Ed. privately. Higher Grade Certificate. Teacher, asst. West Ham Education offices. Desires post abroad. [French.] | | | London |\n| D.O. 879 | Major, R.A.M.C. | 51 | Good | Ed. privately, Univ. Coll. Wales. B.A. Wales Matric. 5 yrs. Rhondda Ed. Committee. [Welsh, French.] | | | Leicester |\n| D.O.1407 | Capt, Manchester | 42 | Fair | Ed privately. 7 yrs. schoolmaster. Statistical clerk, Surrey Educational Comm. [French] | | | London |\n| D.O. 444 | Lieut, R.E. | 63 | Good | Ed. privately, Durham Univ. 13 yrs. Reg. Army. 23 yrs. Army tutor, [French] | | | London |\n| D.O.1479 | Lieut.-Col. | 58 | Good | Cheshire | | | |\n| D.O.1676 | Capt. 19 Madras Inf. | | Good | Ed. Dublin Coll. & R.M.C., Sandhurst, 14 yrs. Reg. Army. After resigning East, master Govt. Schools S. Shan States, came home 1916 and took up motoring. Good organiser and disciplinarian. [French, Hindustani, Burmese, German.] | | | Kent |\n| D.O.1538 | Seaman, R.N.D. | 25 | Good | Ed. privately. Asst. master preparatory school, 3 yrs. clerical experience. | | | Bucks |\n| D.O. 461 | Private, R.A.M.C. | 28 | R. arm partially paralysed. | Ed, privately. Queen's Univ., Belfast. B.E., B.A. A.M.I.C.E. 8 yrs. Asst. City Surveyor, Belfast. | | Engineering | Ireland |\n| D.O. 498 | 2nd Lieut., R.A.F. | 40 | Fair | | | | London |\n| D.O. 121 | Lieut, M.G.C. | 22 | Good | Ed. King Edward's School, Sheffield Univ. Lectures on Engineering, 2 yrs); 1st and 2nd yr. exam, in machine drawing; 2 yrs. Vickers, Ltd., Sheffield; 6 mos. assist. foundry manager, Sheepbridge Coal & Iron | | | Durham |\n| D.O. 530 | Eng. Com., R.N. | 45 | Good | Ed. Croydon. Has considerable experience as electrical, mechanical, aircraft and commercial engineer. 12 yrs. Spencera, Ltd., London, Edinburgh; yrs, London Electric Railways Co.; 2 yrs, Colonial Office. | | | Kent |\n| | | | | Ed. privately, App. Brush Eng. Co. 22 yrs RN, Exp. marine engines, boilers, gas & oil engines, electric machinery, tools, repairs, mountings. | | | Co. |\n| D.O. 150 | Capt., Gen. List | 50 | Good | Ed. Bishop's College, Canada; retired from Army before war; knowledge of chemical engineering [French, Russian, Dutch, German,] | | | London |\n| D.O. 532 | Sergt. Maj., A.S.C. | 47 | Good | Ed. privately. Discharged a Col.-Sergt. Middlesex Regt, 1911. Motor and general engineer until outbreak of war. Sec. to Cowper Coles Aircraft Co. | | | London |\n| D.O. 202 | 2nd Lieut., R.E. | 27 | Good | Ed. Trinity Coll., Dublin. App. L, & S.W.R. locomotive dept.; arts and civil engineering degrees; special certificate in practical engineering. | | | Dublin |\n| D.O. 211 | Lieut., R.E. | 23 | Neurasthenia | Ed. Liverpool Univ. Passed 1st & 2nd Intere. for Degree of B. Engineering. | | | Wilts |\n| D.O. 239 | 2nd Lieut. | 23 | Neurasthenia | Ed. Dulwich (Engineering aide), 1 yr. est. draughtsman Rutters, Ltd, London, Telegraph Engineers. Knowledge steam, gas and water, electric plants, engine testing, boiler trials, &c. | | | |\n| D.O. 313 | Sergt., A.S.C. | 43 | Neurasthenia | Ed. privately. Wireworker until 1912; asst. foreman Abbey Wharf and Bonded Tea Merchants; 4 yrs, traffic foreman London Tramway Co. | | | H.Q. D.O./5.-28.7.16 |\n| D.O. 315 | Sergt., A.S.C. | 42 | L. sim damaged. | Ed. Felixstowe, 5 yrs. app. Cowells Ltd., Ipswich, was county representative Grimwades Ltd., Stoke-on-Trent, | | | |\n| D.O. 551 | 2nd Lieut. | 29 | Good | | | | Lancashire |\n| D.O. 663 | Lieut | 37 | Fair | Ed, privately. 7 yrs. app. Thomas Piggott & Co., Ltd., engineers, Birmingham. Exp. lathe driller, shaper, slotter bench. Private sec, the Right Hon. Henry Hobhouse, P.C. Good organiser. Exp. agriculture and market gardening. Travelled in tropics. [French, Hindustani.] | | | Middlesex |\n| D.O. 735 | 2nd Lieut. | 28 | Good | Ed. privately. Went through engineering shops. Engineer's draughtsman, British United Shoe Machinery Co. [French.] | | | Yorkshire |\n| | | | | Ed. Bradford Grammar School. Cambridge Univ. B.A. Hon. Eng. Tripos, 1911. Hon. Science, 1912. 6 mos. app. Scott Engineering Co., Shipley. 1 yr. app. Faubairn Eng. Co., Shipley, | | | Sussex, Berks, Yorkshire |\n| D.O. 160 | | | | Ed. privately, M.I.C.E., Fellow. Ex-Pres, Inst. San. Engs. 9 yrs. articled civil eng. 16 yrs. various firms consulting eng. Travelled business purposes. Lecturer R. San. Inst., R.A.M.C. Author works on sewage, coal conservation, gas supply. Studied geology, chemistry, Shorthand. [French] | | | London |\n| | | | | Ed. Stoneyhurst, M.L.C.E. 4 yrs. articled pupil Sir Douglas Fox; consulting engineer private practice many yrs special knowledge electric and hydraulic power. Constructed military hutments, Sutton Coldfield. Author various text books. Exp. in New Zealand, Australia, China, B. Columbia and U.S.A. [French, Chinese.] | | | Hants |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 480726, "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": "CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9]", "page_number": 456, "title": "CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9]", "content_text": "**Colonel Amery.**\n\nFor Eastern Dept\n\n`A.5.17/1/20`\n\n450\n\n**Dr. Emmens**\n\nOfficer\n\nThere is a vacancy at Hong Kong for a Medical Officer with salary £480 per annum for the first three years, triennial then £540 rising by annual increments of £40 to £720, with a temporary allowance of 20% of salary, and a conveyance allowance of $270 a year.\n\nFor this appointment I submit Mr Norman Hubert Smith, M.D., Ch.B.; aged 27, married; educated at Victoria College, Jersey, and at Edinburgh University, where he took his qualifications in 1916. He served in the R.A.M.C., from May 1916 to October 1919, during which period he saw service in India, Palestine and Egypt as well as on the Western Front. During this time he gained experience in tropical diseases, venereal disease and radiology. He is now demobilised.\n\n## TESTIMONIALS\n\nMr George Cowen, F.R.C.S., states:-\n\"Doctor Smith held the post of Junior House Surgeon at the Royal South Hants and Southampton Hospital from August to November 1915. He did his work excellently. He is well up in professional knowledge and a good Anaesthetist. He is energetic, conscientious and most pleasant to work with.\"\n\nMr David Wallace, C.M.G., F.R.C.S., of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary says that he was entirely satisfied with Dr. Smith's work, and other members of the Edinburgh University staff have written him similar testimonials. Doctor Smith's referees are the Reverend John Gray of Edinburgh and Mr. Alfred Hind, F.R.C.S., of Jersey, who testify to his good character.\n\nThe Medical Appointments Committee reported on him as...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 481297, "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": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919", "content_text": "Why /55266/19 \n\nHorny Kory \n\n27 \n\nBet. \n\nbiblets t \n\n* \n\n! \n\nLONDON \n\nPrinters to the King's most \n\nPrinted by EYRE and SPOTTISWOODE, LTD. \n\nEast Harding Street, London, S.E.4, \n\nfrom K. PONSONBY, LTD., 116, Grafton Street, Dublin. Imperial House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2, and 28, Abingdon Street, London, S.W.1: 57, Petreburgh Street, Manchester; 1, St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff; 23, Forth Street, Edinburgh; or \n\nPUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE; \n\n[Bill 135] \n\n[Price 2d. Net.] \n\n17 July 1919. Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, \n\nPresented by Mr. Secretary Shortt, \n\nsupported by \n\nColonel Sir Hamar Greenwood, Mr. Solicitor-General and \n\nA \n\nBill \n\nto continue and extend the provisions \n\nof the Aliens Restriction Act, 1914. \n\nCOMMITTEE ] [AS AMENDED BY STANDING \n\nORDER] \n\nAliens Restriction. \n\nBILL \n\nDRAFT. \n\nKony \n\nM.453 046 Sum \n\n1 \n\n1. 2919 \n\nMr. B \n\nMr. \n\nMr. \n\nMINUTE. \n\nMr. Grindle. \n\nSir H. Lambert. \n\nSir H. Read. \n\nSir G. Fiddes. \n\nCol. Amery, \n\nLord Milner. \n\nMr. Ridley 30/4 \n\nSir \n\nI have to refer to your despatch No. 191 \n\nof the 12th June relating to the \n\nMy minute of 30th June in capacity as Mr. C.W. ... is \n\nPast \n\nfurther minute \n\nJun 30th \n\nAdmty 20 Sept (55266) \n\nAliens Restriction Bill (55166) \n\nBr. for que Sept \n\n52325) \n\n16th Sept Amery. 2nd Sept (50928) \n\nG Amery \n\n26th May. (49464) \n\nArmy Bag. T. 232 \n\nMay. (49093) \n\nreply 2th Sept \n\nact as master of a British \n\nship, and to transmit to \n\nyou \n\na copy of corresp. with \n\nThe Army, and the BoT., \n\ntogether with \n\na copy of the \n\nAliens Restriction Bill now \n\nbefore Parlt. \n\nI proposed that has hoblin \n\nS.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 481878, "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": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919", "page_number": 610, "title": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919", "content_text": "C.R.T.8495/1919.\n\nT6784\n\n583\n\n27 DV.12.1 Commercial Relations and Treaties' Dept.\n\nBoard of Trade,\n\nGreat George Street,\n\nWestminster,\n\nLondon, S.W.1.\n\n7th November, 1919.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nWith reference to your letter (No.142418/10/F) of the 25th October, regarding the exportation of morphia to China via Japan, I am directed by the Board of Trade to observe for the information of Earl Curzon of Kedleston, that morphia may not be exported from the United Kingdom to Japan (or to the Kwantung Leased Territory) either as freight or by parcels post except under licence from the Board's Export Licence Department.\n\nIn the case of freight shipments, the Edinburgh Anti-Opium Committee are apparently satisfied that the arrangements brought into force in 1917 have been satisfactory and that shipments of morphia to Japan have practically ceased. The Committee may not, however, be aware that the same conditions of licensing are also applied to exports by parcels post and that no licence is issued for an export by parcel post, unless the Export Licence Department is in possession of the usual certificate from the Japanese Home Office certifying the consignment in question to be required in Japan for medical purposes only.\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State,\n\nForeign Office,\n\nS.W.\n\nMorphia.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 481881, "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": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919", "page_number": 613, "title": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919", "content_text": "(C) \n\n( @d+ tuu,rebro už ed od bavot need sved Jalsode \n\n+ \n\nį JOMLAZA Vned evad seİJİTOŃSKA \n\nin vidameless, anoijentimarƏ \n\nMULTIGRA \n\nlim bereof dr \n\nTelephone No... \n\nVic. 9800. \n\nreply to this communication should quote the following reference \n\nLOONS 10 Sireet and oj \n\nC. R. T.8495/1919. \n\n...a mi eð beitiaoq \n\n1 \n\ndevou 2 \n\nMy Lord, \n\nCommercial Relations and Treaties Dept. \n\nBOARD OF TRADE, \n\nCO \n\nGREAT GEORGE STREET, 67841 \n\nWESTMINSTER, 602 \n\nLONDON WAN 17 \n\n7th November. 1919. \n\n149905 \n\n8 NOV 191 \n\nWith reference to your letter (No.142418/10/F) of the 25th October, regarding the exportation of morphia to China via Japan, I am directed by the Board of Trade to observe for the information of Earl Curzon of Kedleston, that morphia may not be exported from the United Kingdom to Japan (or to the Kwantung Leased Territory) either as freight or by parcels post except under licence from the Board's Export Licence Department. \n\nIn the case of freight shipments, the Edinburgh Anti-Opium Committee are apparently satisfied that the arrangements brought into force in 1917 have been satisfactory and that shipments of morphia to Japan have practically ceased. The Committee may not, however, be aware that the same conditions of licensing are also applied to exports by parcels post and that no licence is issued for an export by parcel post, unless the Export Licence Department is in possession of the usual certificate from the Japanese Home Office certifying the consignment in question to be required in Japan for medical purposes only. \n\nMorphia, therefore, cannot possibly be conveyed by parcels post from the United Kingdom to Japan without due authorisation from the Export Licence Department, unless despatched under some other name... \n\nThe Under Secretary of State, \n\nForeign Office, \n\n3.4. \n\nร", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 482458, "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": "CO129-458 - Public Offices & Others - 1919", "page_number": 506, "title": "CO129-458 - Public Offices & Others - 1919", "content_text": "492\n\nIMPERIAL WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY\n\nCOMMITTEE, 1919-1920.\n\nREPORT.\n\nPresented to Parliament by Command of His Majesty.\n\nJune, 1920.\n\n[Cmd. 777.]\n\nLONDON:\n\nPRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY\n\nHIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE.\n\nTo be purchased through any Bookseller or directly from H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses: IMPERIAL HOUSE, KINGSWAY, LONDON, W.C. 2, and\n\n28, ABINGDON STREET, LONDON, S.W. 1:\n\n87, PETER STREET, MANCHESTER;\n\n1, ST. ANDREW'S CRESCENT, CARDIFF;\n\n23, FORTH STREET, EDINBURGH;\n\nor from E. PONSONBY, LTD., 116, GRAFTON STREET, DUBLIN.\n\n1920.\n\nPrice 6d. net.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-458 - Public Offices & Others - 1919.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 483711, "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": "CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7]", "page_number": 64, "title": "CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7]", "content_text": "Mr. Collins (rung)\n\nthe\n\nThe vacancy for Dist. Starter Master, Hong Kong (£550-25-£750) was brought before the Promotions Committee at their meeting of 5th August, when, with Lt. Commander Hake, the candidate recommended by the Governor, the following were considered: Commander J.M. Barker, R.N. (Retd.), late Coast District Commr., EAP.; Commander W.H.C. Calthrop, R.N., late Harbour Master, S. Leone; Mr. F.W. Kirby, Harbour Master, Georgetown, B. Guinea; and Lt. Col. M.B. Sayer, CBE, late of Nigeria Marine; also Lt. Commander J. Birch, R.N.; Commander A.B.S.H. Maske, R.N. (Retd.); Seant J.K. Brook, R.N.R., D.S.O.; Lt. Commander C.L. Dettmayr, R.N.R.; Commander M.F. Findlay, R.M.\n\ncandidates on the\n\nPrivate Secretaries'\n\nlist.\n\nThe Committee decided to remit the reconsideration to the Private Secretaries\n\nto Major\n\nJurse\n\nAF 6/8/2\n\n6/8/20\n\nL\n\nLife Wilkes 7.9. Dept.\n\nLots\n\nto lay\n\n63\n\n(min in H.K.)\n\nget\n\n19/8/20\n\nFor a vacancy for an Assistant Harbour Master, Hong Kong\n\ninitial salary £550 per annum\n\nI submit\n\nLT. COMMANDER WALTER CONWAY HAKE, R.N.R.\n\nAge: 31.\n\nEducation:\n\nLouth Grammar School, 1896-1902.\n\nH.M.S. Conway, 1902-1904.\n\nQualifications:\n\nMaster's certificate, 1911.\n\nHarbour Service:\n\nYounger Brother of Trinity House, 1918. Appointed to H.M.S. \"Edinburgh Castle\", 14.9.14.\n\nH.M.S. \"Tyne\", 19.5.18.\n\nH.M.S. \"Tyne\"\n\n1.9.18.\n\n2\n\nTestimonials:\n\nMr. G.T. Dann, Master Ship \"Erne\" of London, writes:\n\n\"This is to certify that Walter Conway Hake has served as an apprentice in the above vessel under my Command for the whole of three years, beginning on July 5th '04.....\n\nDuring this time he has conducted himself in a faithful manner, he is a good Sailor, very willing and respectful to his superiors and is of strictly sober habits and will, I am sure, make a thorough good officer and I have great pleasure in testifying to his character and ability.\"\n\nCommander H.M. Broadbent, of H.M.S. Conway, writes:\n\n\"Mr. Hake was a Cadet on the 'Conway' from September 1902 till August 1904. He showed marked ability in his studies, being of a cheerful and...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 485776, "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": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "page_number": 130, "title": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "content_text": "To\n\nTel\n\nMy Lord,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nYour Lordship's most obedient, humble servant,\n\nE.O.\n\nThe statistics furnished by the India Office in their letter of April 20th, to the Edinburgh Anti-Opium Committee.\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 485777, "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": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "page_number": 131, "title": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "content_text": "130\n\nGeneral Secretary, Anti-Opium Assoc. to H.H.Minister, Peking.\n\nSir,\n\nJune 29th, 1920.\n\nWithin the last few days I have received from the Rev. G.S. Muir, Secretary of the Edinburgh Anti-Opium Committee, copies of letters sent to him from the India Office, Whitehall. The arguments contained in those letters are considered subject to reply, and such a reply has been prepared by the members of the Board of Directors whom you were good enough to receive a few days ago. I now beg to enclose copies of these letters from the India Office, and of the reply that has been prepared, so that Your Excellency may know what is the latest communication we have received from England, and the impression produced here.\n\nI have etc.\n\nPage 130\n\n...\n\n...\n\nPage 130", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 486166, "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": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "page_number": 520, "title": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "content_text": "My Lord,\n\nEdinburgh Anti-Opium Committee\n\nFor promoting the Objects of\n\n**THE HAGUE INTERNATIONAL OPIUM CONVENTION**\n\nPresident—LORD POLWARTH.\n\nVice-Presidents—\n\nSir MARK J. M'TAGGART STEWART, Bt. Very Rev. Dr. RAINY. \nRt. Rev. Bishop Walpole, D.D. Professor JAMES SETH\nC. E. PRICE, Esq.\nJ. M. HOOGA, Esq., M.A., M.P. W. GRAHAM, Esq., LL.B., M.P. C. D. MURRAY, Esq., K.C., M.P. Captain J. G. JAMESON, M.P.\nSir EDWARD PARROTT, LL.D. \nChairman of Executive—A. H. F. BARBOUR, Esq., M.D., LL.D. \nHon. Treasurer—T. S. MANTLE, Esq., C.A., 7 Dean Park Crescent, \nHon. Secretary—Rev. G. S. MUIR, M.A., 120 Braid Road\n\nC.O. \n24393 \n**RES REG'd** 17 MAY 20 \n\n15 May 1920 \n\n519 \n\nIn behalf of our Committee, I beg to draw your attention to the continued import of Opium into Hongkong in large quantities. \nHence, from 1910 quantities from Calcutta into Hongkong, I allude to illicit sales. A proportion of the imports is smuggled into China. \nIn the \"North China Daily News\" of Dec 8th 1919 appeared a review of the Returns of Trade by the late Inspector General of Maritime Customs. The Kowloon report states that at the beginning of 1918 there were 799 chests of Opium in store at Hongkong, that 1259 were imported, making a total on hand of 2058. Of these, 1266 were exported leaving 792 for consumption, 539 of which were sold to the Opium Monopoly, leaving a balance of 253 chests. \nOf the 1266 exports a large quantity, it is safe to assume, was smuggled into the mainland, probably via Macao, with a population of 50,000, where much of it would find its way into the mainland surreptitiously. \nIndeed, the \"Returns of Trade\" for 1918 frankly state, page 171, \"Smuggling is extensively carried on, both at Hongkong and...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 486169, "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": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "page_number": 523, "title": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "content_text": "## Edinburgh Anti-Opium Committee\n\nFor promoting the Objects of \n**THE HAGUE INTERNATIONAL OPIUM CONVENTION**\n\nPresident—**LORD POLWARTH** \nChairman of Executive—**A. H. F. BARBOUR, Esq., M.D., LL.B.**, 4 Charlotte Square \nHon. Treasurer—**T. S. Mantin, Esq., C.A.**, 19 Dean Park Crescent \nHon. Secretary—**Rev. G. S. Mu, M.A.**, Braid Road \n\n## The Drug Traffic: The Peace Treaty: and Smuggling\n\nThe Covenant of the League of Nations (Article 23) \"entrusts the League with the general supervision of agreements with regard to the traffic in women and children and the traffic in opium and other dangerous drugs.\" Article 295 of the Peace Treaty runs thus: \"Those of the high contracting parties who have not yet signed or not yet ratified the Opium Convention, signed at the Hague on 23rd January, 1912, agree to bring the said Convention into force, and for this purpose to enact the necessary legislation without delay,\" &c. This is, so far, satisfactory. Special recognition is due to Lord Robert Cecil for his efforts in the matter. Are anti-opium operations, therefore, no longer necessary? By no means. The traffic is deeply rooted. It has many roots and branches. Only continued vigilance can ensure its extirpation. We must see that our own and other Governments apply the Hague Convention in both letter and spirit.\n\nThe kindred agitation against the West African Liquor Traffic has suffered disappointment. From utterances of the Colonial Office, it was expected that the import of all foreign alcoholic liquors would be prohibited, but only the \"trade gin\" has been banned, and this can easily come in under other names. Our Government are not indifferent to the drug peril, but they have hitherto worked on altogether wrong lines. They have been content to regulate distribution instead of controlling and restricting production. In 1917, they made a beginning by supervising the export of morphia direct to Japan. But the dealers had only to send their consignments by way of France or America, and now similar arrangements have been made with those two countries. Only licensed parcels may be sent there. But other routes can be used. And when all legitimate outlets are guarded, the illicit traffic will still flourish. It is like labouring to empty the trough while leaving the tap running. With destructive poisons so bulkless and scentless, it is a futile policy.\n\nTo land a cask of gin, or its equivalent in 36 dozen quart bottles, is difficult. When the victims are reached, only about 4000 of them can be intoxicated, allowing a gill to each. This is bad enough. But two ounces of heroin in an envelope will narcotise as many thousands, and a seven-pound parcel, easily sent by post under another name, will debauch nearly 200,000 bodies and souls, at a quarter of a grain to each. Now, from 20 to 30 tons of morphia and heroin are being secretly sent into China every year. Opium, some of it from India, is also being smuggled in. The methods of the smugglers are countless.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 486201, "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": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "page_number": 555, "title": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "content_text": "## Sympathise with the Justin's operetest \n\nI sympathise with the undertone, but I think it will be better if a statement is made that we don't intend to promote the objects of the Edinburgh Anti-Opium Committee for promoting the Objects of **THE HAGUE INTERNATIONAL OPIUM CONVENTION**.\n\n### Edinburgh Anti-Opium Committee\n\n**President**-Lord Polwarth.\n\n**Vice-Presidents**- \n| Name | Title |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sir MARK J. M'TAGGART STEWART | Br. |\n| Very Rev. Dr. Russell | |\n| Rt. Rev. Bishop WALPOLE | D.D. |\n| Professor JAMES SETH | |\n| C. E. PRICE | Esq. |\n\n| Name | Title |\n| --- | --- |\n| Avon Clynx | Baq, K.C., M.P. |\n| J. M. Hoces | Esq., M.A., M.P. |\n| W. Graham | Esq., LL.B., M.P. |\n| C. D. MURRAY | Esq., K.C., M.P. |\n| Captain J. G. Jason | M.P. |\n| Sir Edward PAXHOTT | LL.D. |\n\n**Chairman of Executive**-A H. F. Barbour, Esq., M.A., LL.D.\n**Hon. Treasurer**-T. S. MARTIN, Esq., C.A., 10 Dean Park Crescent.\n**Hon. Secretary**-Rev. G. S. Moffat, M.A., 199 Braid Road.\n\n## Correspondence Details\n\n| Code | Number | Date |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| C.O | 553 | |\n| | 35643 | |\n| Rec | | 20 JUL 20 |\n\n19 July 1920\n\nReferring to yours of 29 May (`24398/20`)\n\nMy Lord,\n\nAs it might revive the opium evil, we don't want to be put into new heathles. In our letter of 15 May, we stated that the British Forces were not allowed, if it could not discourage, abuse of opium in Singapore, having in view the valley of my friend China. General Leely, when under pressure for the flowers, and that we should not have Colonel Thoracoloss... than that of lobus. We hold therefore that far from discouraging opium smoking, we do actually recommend the severe law it brought in. We beg to call your attention to the enclosed leaflet and the disastrous consequences of the policy of the Military Office.\n\nOpium, as sanctioned by the Government, will not be adopted by the Government, far too conscious of the deleterious effects regarding the Hague Convention. We are treated with respect in the same way as the Cameroons. But out that... \n\nPage 363", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 486202, "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": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "page_number": 556, "title": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "content_text": "# The Indian Government, the Hague Convention, and the Opium Traffic\n\nFriends of the anti-opium cause have for years been expecting that when the Hague Convention came into operation, the opium traffic in India and all over the world would cease, except for legitimate, medicinal, purposes. The articles, taken as a whole, have evidently this view. The first five, it is true, make provision for the production, export, import, of \"raw opium.\" But, taken in connection with the following three, which deal with \"prepared opium,\" it is reasonably inferential that \"production,\" previously mentioned, refers only to that which is to be sold as medicine and not also to what is \"abused\" in vicious indulgence. Thus Article 6 runs: \"The contracting powers shall take measures for the drastic and effective suppression of the manufacture of, internal trade in, and use of prepared opium,\" i.e., opium for smoking. Now, the Indian Government does not itself make this prepared opium, but it sends out annually to other countries 13,000 chests, which it knows will, before they can be smoked, have to be thus \"prepared\" by those who must accordingly, in doing so, be acting in defiance of the article which aims at \"suppressing\" the operation. The abuse of morphia and cocaine is more definitely prohibited in Article 9, which confines those drugs to \"medical and legitimate purposes\" and binds the Powers to \"co-operation\" to prevent their use in any other way. But we have all along believed that it was intended that \"raw opium\" should be dealt with in the same way, seeing that from it the other derivatives come. It will be calamitous if this is not so. Moreover, the words of the Hague preamble strengthen our view. It expresses the desire on the part of the assembled Powers to take a step further than the Shanghai Commission (an assembly which unanimously agreed that the opium vice must cease, and recognised China's drastic operations as a model) determines to bring about the gradual suppression of the use of opium, and is convinced that in this \"humanitarian effort\" all will co-operate. This, then, is the anti-opium position.\n\nThe Indian Government in the past have taken an opposite view. In 1914 Ibrahim Rahimboola, in the Indian Budget debate, asked why the export should not be prohibited to other parts as well as to China. Sir E. Meyer, Finance Minister, replied that, \"first, he did not admit the \n\n## Edinburgh Anti-Opium Committee\n\nFor Promoting the Objects of \n**THE HAGUE INTERNATIONAL OPIUM CONVENTION**\n\n### Office Bearers\n\n* **President** - Lord Polwarth\n* **Vice-Presidents**\n * Sir Mark J. M'Taggart Stewart, Bart.\n * Very Rev. Dr. Russell\n * R. Rev. Bishop Walpole, D.D.\n * Professor James Seth\n * E. Frick, Esq.\n * J. M. Hogge, Esq., M.A., M.P.\n * W. Graham, Esq., LL.B., M.P.\n * C. D. Murray, Esq., K.C., M.P.\n * Captain J. G. Jansson, M.P.\n * Sir Edward Parrott, LL.D.\n\n* **Chairman & Executive** - A. H. F. Barbour, Esq., M.D., LL.D., 4 Charlotte Square\n* **Hon. Treasurer** - T. S. Martin, Esq., C.A., 10 Dean Park Crescent\n* **Hon. Secretary** - Rev. G. S. Muir, M.A., 120 Braid Road\n\nPage 554", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 486203, "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": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "page_number": 557, "title": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "content_text": "## \nwickedness of sending opium to China, and second, that while the amorphous Government of that country could not control its affairs very efficiently, other countries could, as they knew how, like India, to realise a maximum of revenue from a minimum of consumption.\" He added, \"if you send opium to a country like that you are really promoting the cause of Temperance, because the people get less under high taxation than they would under smuggling.\" It might have been supposed that views like those, reminiscent as they are of the Royal Commission of 1895, would, like that discredited instrument, have become obsolete now after the Philippine success, the triumph of China, the resolutions of Shanghai and the following Articles of the Hague. But they are still alive, as letter from the present Secretary for India to the Edinburgh Anti-Opium Committee proves.\n\nThe moral and humanitarian aspect of the question has been pointed out to him, and the opinion expressed that the Hague Articles if carried out, would necessitate the reduction of the opium manufacture in India to medical requirements. He had also been asked if the Dangerous Drugs Bill included India. The date of his reply is 26th June:— \n\n\"SIR, I am directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 12th May, 1920, on the subject of the opium traffic, as affecting India. \n\n\"for Secretary, Revenue and Statistics Dept.\" \n\nIt is well to note, in connection with India being declared outside the scope of Mr. Shortt's Bill, that this seems contrary to the declaration which appears below the signatures of the three British delegates to the Hague Convention. It runs thus: \"The Articles of the present Convention, ratified by His Britannic Majesty's Government, shall apply to the Governments of British India, Ceylon, the Straits Settlements, Hong-Kong, and Wei-hai-Wei in every respect in the same way as they shall apply to the United Kingdom and Ireland.\" \n\nIf the view taken in the above letter of the objects of the Hague Convention is to prevail, Britain will continue to lead in an opium traffic which is every whit as morally indefensible as that which she abandoned for her own sake and China's. A traffic which the League of Nations in Article 23 couples with that in \"women and children.\" We have acted on, the provisions of the Convention; they have invariably construed these provisions in the manner most consonant with the avowed objects of the signatory Powers; and, as has already been pointed out, have in certain cases gone further than the provisions of the Convention. \n\n| Government Action | Description |\n|-------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| Accepted Provisions | The Government of India have accepted, and acted on, the provisions of the Convention; |\n| Construed Provisions | have invariably construed these provisions in the manner most consonant with the avowed objects of the signatory Powers; |\n| Further Action | and, as has already been pointed out, have in certain cases gone further than the provisions of the Convention. |\n\nThe Dangerous Drugs Bill does not apply to India. I am to explain, however, that the Government of India were requested some time ago to examine their laws, regulations, departmental rules, and practice, and arrange for such emendations and alterations, if any, as might be necessary in order to bring their laws, rules, and procedure into exact conformity with the provisions of the Hague Convention. It is believed that no alterations will be necessary, as the Indian law and practice have for years been in accord with the principles of that Convention.—I am, sir, your obedient servant, \n\n\"H. J. TOZER, \n\n\"3. The views of your Committee, and of the Government of India, as you point out, widely divergent. The Government of India do not admit that the opium used in India, or exported, is 'abused'; they do not consider it advisable to limit the export of opium from India to the amount required solely for 'medicinal' purposes; and they do not accept the suggestions that India should prohibit the export of opium in order to force, or to attempt to force, the countries which now receive their supplies from India to abandon their present opium policy. In this connexion, I am to point out that the Hague Convention contemplates, and provides for, the use of opium for other than purely medicinal purposes; it does not stigmatise the use of opium for such purposes as an 'abuse'; and it places the responsibility for regulating the import of the drug, and the derivatives, upon the importing country. The Government of India have complied with all the provisions of the Convention; they fully accept the ultimate object of the measures adopted by the Government of India for controlling and regulating this traffic are by no means in consonance with the spirit of the Hague Opium Convention. \n\n\"z. Mr. Montagu takes strong exception to the statement that the measures adopted by the Government of India for controlling and regulating this traffic are by no means in consonance with the spirit of the Hague Opium Convention. \n\nAs the preamble states, that Convention was concluded with the object of achieving certain ends set forth therein, and the provisions of the Convention embody, in precise terms, the considered decisions of the various Governments represented as to the most suitable means to be adopted in order to attain those ends. The Government of India have accepted, and acted on, the provisions of the Convention; they have invariably, in order to raise £2,000,000 or £3,000,000 of revenue, continued to cultivate 200,000 acres of the best land of India (and the number has risen of late) for growing opium, 8000 chests of which are consumed in India, several thousands more than what is needed for medicine, the excess of which is exported to countries for a \"pernicious luxury\" which the terms of the Convention neither denounce nor suggest as desirable. In these circumstances, Mr. Montagu cannot say that the Government of India are certainly not open to the charge that they have failed to act in consonance with the spirit of the Convention. \n\nIt is a case of the pot and the kettle. Still, if smoking is worse than eating opium, which was recently described in the Legislative Assembly, it must be bad indeed. Rai Bahadur Lala Frijut Ram, as reported in the Calcutta newspaper Capital, said in May: \"Since 1903 the consumption of the drug has been steadily increasing. Though the price is touch higher, the victims pay it freely, at the cost of comforts and the bare necessities of life. They are fully aware that they are in the grip of a most deadly poison, which they cannot get free from even if they wish to, but they would welcome any measure which would save their children from it. If I could convince the European members of this House, as well as the members from the other Valley, of the most appalling moral, intellectual, spinal, and economic deterioration of these victims. There is no mean, no humiliation, which a needy opium-eater will refuse to stoop to, in order to get a dose of the drug. How many useful persons have been thoroughly spoilt. How many happy homes have been ruined for good.\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 486204, "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": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "page_number": 558, "title": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "content_text": "## DRAFT\n\nSurely this points to an \"abuse\" of opium, in one province of India at least, which the \"Humanitarian\" Powers represented at the Hague would surely include in their programme with a view to remedy. It is to be hoped that all who realise the critical position which all this indicates will ventilate the matter, and communicate with the Government, and also with their members of Parliament. The Edinburgh Anti-Opium Committee have passed the following resolution, and sent copies to the Prime Minister and the various heads of departments concerned :-\n\nThe Committee thank the Government for the prompt introduction of the Dangerous Drugs Bill, and trust that facilities will be given for it speedily becoming law; they, however, desiderate in it a more definite restriction of both \"raw opium\" and morphia and cocaine to medical requirements, which they believe to be the intention of the Hague Articles, when taken as a whole; they also trust that the provisions of the Bill will be extended to India and other Eastern Dependencies, according to the terms of the Declaration of the British signatories at the Hague, which says, \"The Articles of the present Convention shall apply to British India, Ceylon, the Straits Settlements, Hong-Kong, and Wei-hai-Wei, in every respect in the same way as they shall apply to the United Kingdom and Ireland.\"\n\nJuly, 1920.\n\nG.S. Duin M.A.\n\n## MINUTE\n\nB 26/7\n720/35643/20\nHong Kong\nStraits\n30\n\nUpon receipt of your letter of the 19th on the subject of opium in the Far Eastern colonies.\n\nMr. Bothius\nMr. Trade\nLord Milner\nMr. Grindle\nSir H. Lambert\nSir H. Read\nSir G. Fiddes\nCol. Amery\n\nIt is stated in your letter that \"if the present manufacture and trading in prepared Opium is continued in these colonies, the 6th Article of the Hague Conference is directly traversed\" and that the matter is of great importance.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 486205, "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": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "page_number": 559, "title": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "content_text": "## DRAFT MINUTE\n\nYour letter purports to quote the Article in question and reiterate the contention (3). I own it is more to the point to refer to the actual text of the Article, which takes the form: \"The Contracting Powers shall take measures for the gradual and effective suppression of the manufacture of and traffic in... with due regard to the varying circumstances of each country concerned, unless regulations on the subject are already in existence\".\n\nAs the Committee is aware, regulations on the subject have been in force in the U.K. and the Settlements for many years prior to the signing of the Hague Convention on that date. The following facts are worthy of note:\n\n| Year | Quantity |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1912 | 557 |\n| 1919 | 182 |\n\nSince 1912, we have been consistently carrying out a policy of gradually and effectively restricting the traffic, with the result that the quantity has been diminished to an extent which the Edinburgh Anti-Opium Committee is possibly not aware of. For example, in Hong Kong, the annual consumption of prepared opium per thousand of population has been reduced from 3.15 taels in 1912 to 182 taels in 1919. Further restrictive measures...\n\nMr. Grindle, Sir H. Lambert, Sir H. Read, Sir G. Fiddes, Col. Amery, Lord Milner, and the other Eastern Colonies...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 486243, "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": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "page_number": 597, "title": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "content_text": "## 595\n\nThe candidate whose name is given below has been interviewed by the Selection Committee. Further details concerning her will be found in the accompanying application form.\n\n**Liss Dorothy Lilien Stewart**\n\n23, Albert Road, Falkirk.\n\n* 29\n* Edinburgh, Provincial Training College, 1911\n* Higher Leaving Certificate.\n* 1913: Falkirk, Comely Park School, Aug. 1913 - Dec. 1913. Certificated Mistress.\n* Falkirk, Comelon School, Dec. 1913, still serving. Certificated Mistress.\n\nHas a marked Scotch accent. Has not got a prepossessing manner and has never been out of Falkirk, except when she went to the Training College.\n\nWould not accept the post, if offered to her as she regards the salary as inadequate.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 486276, "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": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "page_number": 630, "title": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "content_text": "## Extract of a letter from the Conference of Missionary Societies in Great Britain and Ireland\n\nEdinburgh House, 2, Eaton Gate, London, S.W.1.\n\n15th October, 1920.\n\n**Sir,**\n\nI am directed by the Standing Committee of the Conference of Missionary Societies to enquire what steps will be taken to apply the provisions of Article 438 of the Peace Treaty with Germany to the various territories where German missions were at work and where trustees have not yet been appointed to hold the property. In particular, we should be glad of information in regard to the following matters:\n\n- **Hongkong**: We should be glad to be informed that action has been taken in Hongkong in regard to the property of the German missions there. We think that the best plan would be to constitute a body of local trustees consisting of representatives of the Church Missionary Society and the London Missionary Society. We think that the matter can probably best be arranged between the Colonial Office and the local missionary bodies.\n\nPage 630 \nPage 631", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 486993, "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": "CO129-466 - Individuals - 1920", "page_number": 672, "title": "CO129-466 - Individuals - 1920", "content_text": "at liberty to consult the laws of Hong Kong dealing \nwith the matter in the \nLibrary of the C.O. between \n7.30 am and 11 am, 7 \npm Sat. when the house \nis except \nat 11 am \n\n15 \n\nI found \nBigod, G. GRINDLE \nWatt & Co. \n1920 \n25480 \nC.O. \n\n25480 \nREP \n[REC 22 MAY 20] \n667 \nHONG KONG \nOpium Production \n19 May Jos. copy resolution passed by the \nLast \nProbyting \nLet previous Paper. Presbytery of Kowloon praying that steps \nbe taken for reduction of \n\n... \n\n-24308 \nMr. Gottes \n\n: \n\nThis \nis \nthe \nfirst fruits of the Edinburgh Anti-Opium Committee's efforts, of which they sent us \na copy recently. \nWe \nmay get others. ? Ack receipt shall \n\n... \n\nAfter \nsubsequent Paper. \n23232 \n(13-1_h) Wt. 26689-35 50,000 / H. St. G. 132/ 41. \n24.5.20 \nAt once \n25.5.20", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-466 - Individuals - 1920.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 489825, "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": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 316, "title": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[F2514/15/10]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[July 11]\n\n## SECTION 2\n\n(No. 277.)\n\nSir B. Alston to Earl Curzon.—(Received July 11.)\n\nHIS Majesty's Minister, Peking, presents his compliments to His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and transmits herewith copy of a letter, dated the 9th instant, from the Anti-Opium Association respecting the restriction of opium traffic in British possessions and protectorates in the Far East.\n\nPeking, May 23, 1921.\n\nSir,\n\n### Enclosure in No. 1\n\nAnti-Opium Association to Sir B. Alston.\n\nTHE board of directors of the International Anti-Opium Association, Peking, has received from His British Majesty's Legation a document entitled \"Opium,\" containing the following:\n\n1. A letter from the Colonial Office to the Foreign Office, dated the 5th January, 1921.\n2. A letter from the Governor of Hong Kong to Viscount Milner, dated the 31st July, 1920.\n3. Return of confiscated opium for period the 1st January to the 20th July, 1920.\n4. A letter from the Governor of Singapore to Viscount Milner, dated the 27th October, 1920.\n5. A report of a committee appointed by the Governor of Singapore.\n6. A letter from the Governor of Singapore to Viscount Milner, dated the 25th November, 1919.\n7. Extract from Recommendations of Committee for Abolishing the use of Opium.\n8. A letter from the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong to Viscount Milner, dated the 25th September, 1919.\n\nAccompanying the above there was also a copy of a letter from the Foreign Office, Whitehall, to the Hon. Secretary, Edinburgh Anti-Opium Committee.\n\nPeking, May 9, 1921.\n\nAfter the most careful study of these documents the board notice the following points of importance:\n\n1. That Viscount Milner and the Governors of British Malaya and Hong Kong consider that the Governments of British Malaya and Hong Kong have fully and conscientiously complied with the terms of The Hague Opium Convention.\n2. That there are great difficulties in the way of prohibition, partly on account of extensive smuggling, which is difficult of suppression because of the geographical position of the Colonies, partly on account of the effect of prohibition on the labour question, and for other reasons.\n3. That there are certain serious dangers which might result if prohibition were enforced, among them being the indulgence in alcoholic drinks, and in more dangerous drugs, such as morphia and cocaine.\n\nConcerning these the board of directors would most respectfully submit the following considerations:\n\n1. While acknowledging that by the imposition of more stringent regulations, and by maintaining a high price for opium, the Governments of Hong Kong and British Malaya have taken action in accordance with the terms of The Hague Opium Convention, yet the board desire to draw attention to the following:\n\nFrom the report attached to the letter from the Governor of Singapore to Viscount Milner it appears that while the amount of chandu sold has decreased, and in 1917 was...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 489833, "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": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 324, "title": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "# SSE \n\n## A \n\n: \n\n120. \n\n**[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]** \n\n## OPIUM. \n\n**CONFIDENTIAL** \n\n`[F 2514/15/10]` \n\nNo. 1. \n\nJuly 11. \n\nSECTION 2. 44732 \n\n(No. 277.) \n\nSir B. Alston to Earl Curzon.—(Received July 19.) \n\nHIS Majesty's Minister, Peking, presents his compliments to His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and transmits herewith copy of a letter, dated the 9th instant, from the Anti-Opium Association respecting the restriction of opium traffic in British possessions and protectorates in the Far East. \n\nPeking, May 23, 1921. \n\nSir, \n\n### Enclosure in No. 1. \n\nAnti-Opium Association to Sir B. Alston. \n\nTHE board of directors of the International Anti-Opium Association, Peking, has received from His British Majesty's Legation a document entitled \"Opium,\" containing the following:- \n\n1. A letter from the Colonial Office to the Foreign Office, dated the 5th January, 1921. \n2. A letter from the Governor of Hong Kong to Viscount Milner, dated the 31st July, 1920. \n3. Return of confiscated opium for period the 1st January to the 20th July, 1920. \n4. A letter from the Governor of Singapore to Viscount Milner, dated the 27th October, 1920. \n5. A report of a committee appointed by the Governor of Singapore. \n6. A letter from the Governor of Singapore to Viscount Milner, dated the 25th November, 1919. \n7. Extract from Recommendations of Committee for Abolishing the use of Opium. \n8. A letter from the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong to Viscount Milner, dated the 25th September, 1919. \n\nAccompanying the above there was also a copy of a letter from the Foreign Office, Whitehall, to the Hon. Secretary, Edinburgh Anti-Opium Committee. \n\nAfter the most careful study of these documents the board notice the following points of importance: \n\n1. That Viscount Milner and the Governors of British Malaya and Hong Kong consider that the Governments of British Malaya and Hong Kong have fully and conscientiously complied with the terms of The Hague Opium Convention. \n2. That there are great difficulties in the way of prohibition, partly on account of extensive smuggling, which is difficult of suppression because of the geographical position of the Colonies, partly on account of the effect of prohibition on the labour question, and for other reasons. \n3. That there are certain serious dangers which might result if prohibition were enforced, among them being the indulgence in alcoholic drinks, and in more dangerous drugs, such as morphia and cocaine. \n\nConcerning these the board of directors would most respectfully submit the following considerations: \n\n1. While acknowledging that by the imposition of more stringent regulations, and by maintaining a high price for opium, the Governments of Hong Kong and British Malaya have taken action in accordance with the terms of The Hague Opium Convention, yet the board desire to draw attention to the following: \n\nFrom the report attached to the letter from the Governor of Singapore to Viscount Milner it appears that while the amount of chandu sold has decreased, and in 1917 was... \n\n`[6641 7-2]` \n\nPage 323", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 490586, "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": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "page_number": 278, "title": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "content_text": "# An Agreement made this 19th day of [Month] BETWEEN THE OVERSEAS NURSING ASSOCIATION hereinafter called \"the Association\" of the one part and [Name] hereinafter called \"the Nurse\" of the other part.\n\n1. The Nurse will upon such date not being less than [number] days or more than [number] days from the date hereof as the Association may fix proceed to [location] in the Colony of [Colony Name] and immediately on arrival will report herself personally to the President of the Local Committee.\n\n2. The Nurse will for [number] years from the date of her reporting her arrival, work as private nurse to such persons and at such places within the said Colony as the Local Committee may from time to time require, and will during that period conform with the Rules and Regulations for the time being in force of the Local Committee, and obey all directions which may from time to time be given to her by the President or in the absence or incapacity through illness of the President by such other person as may be authorised in that behalf by the Committee.\n\n3. The Nurse shall be paid through the Local Committee commencing at the rate of [amount] per annum for the first year, and increasing by £[amount] per annum in £[amount] is reached. The salary each succeeding year until a maximum salary of £[amount] shall be paid to the Nurse by such instalments as may in each case be from time to time arranged between her and the Local Committee, and in the absence of any other arrangement, the payment shall be by quarterly instalments. The salary shall commence from the date of her arrival being reported as before mentioned and cease upon the expiration of the said term of [number] years, or upon any earlier determination of this Agreement, and she shall during the term of her service be provided with board and lodging by the Local Committee.\n\nAll Nurses entering into the service of the Association must distinctly understand that during the period of their Agreement of service they must undertake whatever cases the Local Committee find it necessary to send them to. Each Local Committee is requested, where there is more than one Nurse under their control, to endeavour as far as circumstances will allow to vary the duties for each Nurse, but the discretion of the Local Committee as regards the cases to which each Nurse is sent is not under any circumstances to be questioned by the Nurse herself.\n\n4. Except as hereinafter otherwise provided the Nurse shall have a free 2nd class passage out and home, but as to the homeward passage, in any event, only if she shall leave by a ship sailing within 3 months after the termination of her engagement.\n\n5. This Agreement may be determined at any time by 3 calendar months' notice given in writing to the Nurse by the President of the Local Committee, or such other person as aforesaid or by the Association, but the determination under this Clause of this Agreement shall not affect the right of the Nurse to her homeward passage.\n\n6. The Local Committee, either with or without direction from the Association, may dismiss the Nurse without notice for misconduct, wilful breach or persistent neglect of duty, such want of knowledge or skill as to render her unable to perform her duty, or if for any other reason the Committee come to the conclusion that her conduct or behaviour is such as to be detrimental to the interests or discipline of the service.\n\n7. In the event of the Nurse being dismissed under the provisions of the last Clause, or if for reasons unapproved by the Local Committee she shall break her engagement, she shall not be entitled to her homeward passage, and she shall, if so required by the Association, refund her outward passage money, and the Nurse shall, on signing this Agreement, procure two responsible sureties to guarantee such repayment.\n\n8. The Nurse shall always wear the badge of the Association.\n\n9. The Nurse shall wear washing dresses when on duty, and at all other times grey or blue uniform, subject to such departure from the terms of this Clause as the Local Committee may sanction or require.\n\n10. The Nurses of the Overseas Nursing Association are forbidden to accept presents of any sort from patients.\n\n## Form of Application\n\nTo be filled in and returned to the Secretary, Overseas Nursing Association, Imperial Institute, S.W. 7; or, if in Scotland, to: The Hon. Secretary, Scottish Branch, No. 23, Regent Terrace, Edinburgh.\n\n| Question | Answer |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1. Christian and Surname in full, Present Address and Home Address for permanent reference. | Bertha Thomasson, Lambeth Infirmary, London, S.E., Sherwood, Eltham Road, Lee, London. |\n| 2. Age and Place of Birth. | 30 years, Bolton. |\n| 3. Whether married, single, or widow. | Single. |\n| 4. Father's Name and present or former occupation. | George T. Thomasson, Cotton Spinner. |\n| 5. Of what Religious Denomination? | Nonconformist. |\n| 6. What serious or infectious illnesses have you had? | None since childhood, Revaccinated January 1919. |\n| 7. State in what Hospitals or Institutions you have been trained, and give dates of entering and leaving each. | Lambeth Infirmary, Brook Street, Kennington Road, date of entering, May 1916. |\n| 8. What Certificates do you hold? | Certificate of general trained, Certificate of the Central Midwives Board. |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-472 - Others - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 490862, "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": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "page_number": 555, "title": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "content_text": "## BOARD OF EDUCATION\n\nWHITEHALL, S.W. \nat Victoria and Albert Museum, \nExhibition Road, \nSouth Kensington, S.W. 7. \n14th July 1921.\n\nHong Kong, Education Department \nFive Assistant Mistresses, \nC.A. 4683/20.\n\n(10)\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to Mr. Grindle's letter of the 3rd June 1920 (`19822/1920`) and subsequent correspondence, I am directed to state that the Board of Education have decided to recommend Miss Olive Clytie Jenkins, Miss Ivy Ruth F. Etheredge, Miss Agnes E. Hendry, Miss Isabelle S. Hurrey, and Miss Alice M. Grant for appointment as Assistant Mistresses, Hong Kong. Particulars of their qualifications and experience will be found in the attached papers.\n\nMr. B. Tanner and Mr. Cherrill H., Inspector of Schools, were members of the Selection Committee when Miss Jenkins, Miss Etheredge, and Miss Hendry were interviewed, and Mr. Tanner and Mr. Jamieson H., Chief Inspector of Schools for Scotland, interviewed Miss Hurrey and Miss Grant in Edinburgh.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, \nColonial Office, \nDowning Street, \nS.W. 1.\n\nI am, \nSir, \nYour obedient Servant, \n[A signature] \nDirector of Special Inquiries and Reports and Chairman of the Selection Committee.\n\n### Instructions on the Original Document\n\nLetters should be addressed (in an envelope marked \"C.A.\") to: \n\"The Secretary, \nBoard of Education, \nWhitehall, S.W.\" \nand should show the complete postal address and designation of the writer.\n\nTelegraphic Address — \"RENSEIGNE, PARL, LONDON.\"\n\nPlease write at the head of any reply: \n`548 35336`\n\n### Metadata\n\nPage numbering is not explicitly shown but the number \"21\" is written at the top, potentially indicating a page number.\n\nRECEIVED \n'16 JUL 1921 \nICOL. OFFICE", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-472 - Others - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 490877, "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": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "page_number": 570, "title": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "content_text": "563\n\nThe candidate whose name is given below has been interviewed by the Selection Committee. Further details concerning her will be found in the accompanying application form.\n\nMiss Isabella Scott Murray.\n13, Home Street, Eyemouth, Berwickshire.\n\n| **Details** | **Date(s)** |\n| --- | --- |\n| Selkirk, Burgh School | 1901-1908 |\n| Selkirk, High School | 1908-1915 |\n| Junior Student Certificate | |\n| Edinburgh Provincial Training College, S.F.D. Teachers' Certificate | 1915-1917 |\n| Wigtown, Higher Grade School, Assistant Mistress | 1917 |\n| Eyemouth Public School, Assistant Mistress | 1920-1921 |\n| Still employed | 1921 |\n\nPage 570\nPage 571", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-472 - Others - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 490879, "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": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "page_number": 572, "title": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "content_text": "The candidate whose name is given below has been interviewed by the Selection Committee. Further details concerning her will be found in the accompanying application form.\n\nMiss Alice Marguerite Grant.\n\n**ADDRESS:**\nHoundlaw Park, Eyemouth, Berwickshire.\n\n**EDUCATION:**\nForfar, The Academy, 1906-1913.\n| Qualification | Year |\n| --- | --- |\n| Lower Grade Leaving Certificate | 1910 |\n| Higher Grade Leaving Certificate | 1913 |\n| Edinburgh, Provincial Training College | 1913-1915 |\n| General Certificate | 1915 |\n| S.I.D. Teachers' Certificate | |\n\n**EXPERIENCE:**\n| Location | Position | Years |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Fifeshire, Kilrenny | Assistant Mistress | 1915-1916 |\n| Stirlingshire, Larbert, \"The Village\" School | Assistant Mistress | 1916-1918 |\n| Berwickshire, Eyemouth | Assistant Mistress | 1918-Still serving 1921 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-472 - Others - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 490993, "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": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "page_number": 686, "title": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "content_text": "Telephone: 4255 Regent.\n\nTelegram: Vy\n\nI\n\nInternational Woman Suffrage Alliance 184\n\nHeadquarters :-11, ADAM STREET, ADELPHI, LONDON, W.C. 2, ENGLAND.\n\nEXECUTIVE BOARD OF OFFICERS\n\nREG. 679 Reet 15 vic 2\n\nPresident, CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, 404, Riverside Drive, New York, U.S.A.\n\nTreasurer, KATHERINE DEXTER McCORMICK, 399, Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Mass. U.S.A. ELEANOR RATHBONE, City Council, Liverpool, England. ANTONIA GIRARDET-VIELLE, 16, Arme du Lotan, Lamisse.\n\nSwitland-\n\nVice-President, MARGUERITE DE WITT SCHLUMBERGER, 14. Rue Piana fer de Serbia, Paris, Franco-\n\nVice-President, CHRYSTAL MACMILLAN, 17. Charlotte Square. Edinburgh, Scotland.\n\nAnh Visa Frenchot, ANNA LINDEMANN, Degerlach, Stuttgart, Germany.\n\nLas Vice-President, ANNA WICKSELL, Stocksund, Sweden.\n\n1. Secretary, MARGERY CORBETT ASHBY. 33, Upper Richmond Road, London. S.W. 15. England- Chairman of Headquarters Committee, CHRYSTAL MACMILLAN.\n\nMonthly Orpin MARGHERITA ANCONA, 8. Via Morigi, Milano, Italy.\n\nADELE SCHREIBER-KRIEGER, M.P., Abgeordneten 50, Charlottenburg Berlin, Germany-\n\nChairman of Committee of Admissions, ANNA WICKSELL, Blocksund, Sweden. Chairman of Committee of Enfranchised Women. ANNIE FURUHJELM, M, P, Helsingfors, Finland. Secretary of Committee of Enfranchised Woman, INGRID AF SCHULTEN, Helsingfors, Finland. Secretary for League of Nations Business, MARGERY CORBETT ASHBY, 23. Upper Richmond Road, London, S.W. 15, England.\n\nTHE INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE NEWS (La Suffragii).\n\nAnnual Subscription, 8/- Editor: ELIZABETH AD BOTT\n\nHeadquarters Secretary: KATE E TROUNSON:\n\nPlease reply to 11. Adam Street, Adelphi, London, W.C. 2\n\nDecember 14th. 1921.\n\nBRITISH OVERSEAS COMMITTEE\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nLondon, S.W. 1.\n\nSir,\n\nre Child Slavery in Hong Kong.\n\nMy Committee request me to thank you for your prompt reply to the letter on the above subject, and for the very full particulars which you have sent to us in your letter dated December 8th. 1921 reference 59974/21, on Kul Tsai.\n\nI am instructed to ask for any reports that you may have received from Luong Kuk, referred to on the second page of your report on Kul Tsai, and\n\nshould you not have received any, may I ask you to be good enough to send us the address where they can be obtained, in order that we may at once take steps to procure same.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\nJ\n\nRau & Trounson\n\nHeadquarters Secretary. (Kate E. Trounson)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-472 - Others - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 490997, "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": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "page_number": 690, "title": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "content_text": "Telephone: 4255 Regent.\n\nTelegram: Vocorajto.\n\nInternational Woman Suffrage Alliance.\n\nHeadquarters:-11, ADAM STREET, ADELPHI, LONDON, W.C. 2, ENGLAND.\n\nEXECUTIVE BOARD OF OFFICERS\n\n683\n\nPresident. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, 404. Riverside Drive, New York, USA.\n\n1st Vice-President, MARGUERITE DE WITT SCHLUMBERGER.\n\n14. Rue Pierre fer de Sorbie, Paris, France\n\n2nd Vice-President, CHRYSTAL MACMILLAN.\n\n3rd Vice-President, ANNA LINDEMANN,\n\n17. Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, Scotland.\n\n4th Vice-President, ANNA WICKSELL.\n\nStocksund, Sweden.\n\nSecretary, MARGERY CORBETT ASHBY.\n\n33. Upper Richmond Road, London, S.W. 15. England\n\nChairman of Headquarters Committee, CHRYSTAL MACMILLAN,\n\nSocial Policy Organiser:\n\nTreasurer, KATHERINE DEXTER McCORMICK.\n\n393. Commonwealth Avenue. Boston, Mass. USA.\n\nELEANOR RATHBONE, City Council, Liverpool, England.\n\nANTONIA GIRARDET-VIELLE, 18, Avenue du Leman, Lausanne.\n\nSwitzerland.\n\nMARGHERITA ANCONA, 8, Via Morigi, Milano, Italy.\n\nADELE SCHREIBER-KRIEGER, M.P., Abarmales 50, Charlottenburg\n\nBerlin, Germany\n\nChairman of Committee of Enfranchised Women, ANNIE PURUHJELM, M.P.\n\nHelsingfors, Finland\n\nSecretary of Committee of Enfranchised Women, INGRID AF SCHULTEN, Helsingfors, Finland\n\nSecretary for League of Nations business, MARGERY CORBETT ASHBY, 33. Upper Richmond Road, London, S.W. 15.\n\nTHE INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE NEWS\n\n(Jus Suffragii),\n\nAnnual Subscription, 6/-. Editor: ELIZABETH ABBOTT,\n\nEngland.\n\nHeadquarters Secretary: KATE E. TROUNSON:\n\nPlease reply to 11, Adam Street, Adelphi, London, W.C. 2\n\nD.0.62104/1921\n\nGrindle Esq., Colonial Office Downing Street\n\nDear Sir,\n\nEnd January 1922.\n\nactivities of the Heung Luk Kuk\n\nI beg to acknowledge receipt of the Blue Book. I report on the activities of the Heung Luk Kuk,\n\nI may\n\n1 is confidential and that you will be glad of its return. On enquiry today, I also note that the Secretary of State has asked the Governor of Hong Kong that we shall be furnished\n\nwith any subsequent reports.\n\nI am,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nLaw & Fraser.\n\nMondquest. 23\n\nSecretary\n\nre. Kate Trounson\n\nPage 690\n\nPage 691\n£80", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-472 - Others - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 490998, "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": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "page_number": 691, "title": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "content_text": "Telephone: 4255 Regent.\n\nTelegrams: Vocorajta.\n\nInternational Woman Suffrage Alliance.\n\nHeadquarters :-11, ADAM STREET, ADELPHI, LONDON, W.C. 2, ENGLAND.\n\nEXECUTIVE BOARD OF OFFICERS.- President, CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, 404, Riverside Drive, New York, USA. Vice-President, MARGUERITE DE WITT SCHLUMBERGER, 14. Rue Pierre ler de Šerbis, Paris, France.\n\nTreasurer, KATHERINE DEXTER MCCORMICK, ¿, Vice-President. CHRYSTAL, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, Scotland.\n\nMACMILLAN,\n\nVice-President, ANNA LINDEMANN, Depurlock, Stuttgart, Germany. Vice-President, ANNA WICKSELL, Stockend, Sweden. Jac. Secretary, MARGERY CORBETT ASHBY, 393. Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Mass U.S.A.\n\nELEANOR RATHBONE. City Council, Liverpool, England ANTONIA GIRARDET-VIELLE, 18 Avenue du Leman, Lausanne, Switzerland.\n\nMARGHERITA ANCONA, ¿. Via Morigi, Milano, Italy.\n\nADELE SCHREIBER-KRIEGER. M.P., Aberualles 50, Charlottenborg, Berlin, Germany.\n\n33. Upper Richmond Road, London, S.W. 15, England- Chairman of Headquarters Committee, CHRYSTAL MACMILLAN,\n\nChairman of Committee of Admission, ANNA WICKSELL, Stocksund, Sweden Chairman of Committee of Enfranchised Women, ANNIE FURUHJELM, M.P. Helsingfors, Finland, Secretary of Committee of Enfranchised Women, INGRID AF SCHULTEN, Helsingfors, Finland, Secretary for League of Nations Bureau, MARGERY CORBETT ASHBY, 15. Upper Richmond Road, London, S.W., 15, England.\n\nOfficial Monthly Organ: THE INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE NEWS (Jus Suffr), Annual Subscription, 5/- Editor: ELIZABETH ABBOTT.\n\nHeadquarters Secretary: KATE E TROUNSON.\n\nPlease reply to 11, Adam Street, Adelphi, London, W.C. 2\n\nRECEIVED\n\n31 JAN 22\n\nSir. G.Grindle, K.C.B.\n\nTHE COLONIAL OFFICE S.W.1.\n\n30th January 1922\n\nSir,\n\nI beg to return herewith the Report of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs in Hong Kong, sent with your letter of 31st December, for which we thank you.\n\nWe note that in your letter you refer to the possibility of your being able to supply us with later reports, and we shall be very glad to receive these in due course.\n\nI am, Sir\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nKate E. Trounson\n\nHeadquarters Secretary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-472 - Others - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493953, "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": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "page_number": 344, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "22\n\nadded to the private claims amounted to about 2,800,000; and the balance, 2,200,000 was remitted by proportionate deductions from the future payments. This was done without any conditions being imposed. At this point, the American Minister at Peking, Mr. W. W. Rockhill, a persona gratissima with the Chinese Ministers, induced the Chinese Government to continue to issue the American quota of the indemnity without deduction: and to pay that portion which was not claimed by the United States Government to a Commission of Education for the purpose of sending Chinese students to American universities. With the money so freed (about 75,000 a year), 400 Chinese students are provided with full scholarships in American universities, each receiving the amount of the university fees and a sum of about 170l. a year for his or her personal expenses. This fund is entirely under Chinese control. The Boxer indemnity also contributes towards the Tsing Hua College near Peking. This college was opened in 1911 by the Chinese Government with the assistance of a staff of American teachers. In 1913, there were 624 students, about two-fifths of whom were in the upper school, and the remainder in the preparatory school. The object of the Tsing Hua College is to prepare students for a further course of study in the United States of America. The college is independent of foreign control, but Dr. Tenney, Chinese secretary of the United States Legation, is an honorary member of the governing body. The college has been a most successful experiment.\n\nBesides the \"Indemnity\" scholars, about 100 of the Chinese students in the United States of America are supported by various provinces in China; and there are about 1,500 private students. The China Club of Seattle, in co-operation with the University of Washington and certain commercial and manufacturing firms, has inaugurated a scheme by which each firm will receive one Chinese student or more, and provide his tuition charges at the University and 600 dollars a year for his maintenance.\n\nWhen to these factors are added the powerful contribution of American missionary establishments in China, which, as Sir J. Jordan says, can always count upon receiving money for any new enterprise they may think desirable, some idea may be formed of the influence which America can exert in China through these channels. The following list of prominent alumni of St. John's College Shanghai (American) is significant: Wellington Koo, Chinese Minister in London; Alfred Sze, Chinese Minister in Washington; W. W. Yen, formerly Chinese Minister in Berlin; Dr. Y. T. Tsur, formerly president of the Tsing Hua College; Z. T. K. Woo, superintendent of the Hanyang Iron and Steel Works; S. C. Chu, general secretary of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway; Dr. H. L. Yen, secretary of the Board of Foreign Affairs; David Z. T. Yui, general secretary of the Y.M.C.A.; Yen Fu-ch'ing, dean of the medical faculty, Yale College, Changsha; W. Y. Hu, justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals, Peking.\n\nThe Rockefeller Foundation is giving a great impetus to medical education in China. The commission which visited the country in 1915, has recommended the opening of medical schools, the training of Chinese men and women for hospital work, and a system of pensions to allow missionaries on furlough in America to study medicine. This will all be financed by the Rockefeller Institute. Five scholarships of 300 dollars each have already been established for Chinese nurses. A medical institute has been erected in Peking at a cost of 6,000,000 dollars and amply endowed. Clearly, it will be difficult for Great Britain to compete with such munificence.\n\nFrance. The Société franco-chinoise d'Education (see Sir J. Jordan's despatch No. 40 of the 23rd January, 1920), was founded in 1914 to take the place of a former society of the same nature founded in 1911, which had already sent 200 students to France in 1912. The executive powers of the society are exercised by a Peking committee and a provincial committee, each consisting of French and Chinese members. The society maintains two schools in Peking, schools at Tien-tsin and Chengtu; and language courses at Pao Ting Fu and Shanghai. These schools prepare students for a further course in France. In 1919 (January–September) the society sent 300 students or artisans to France. These Chinese students must possess at least 300 dollars, and must count on having an income of 600 dollars to 1,000 dollars a year. However, the society makes arrangements for them to live in France as cheaply as possible. The most advanced are then placed in the technical schools: but usually they do one year's course in a factory. The least advanced are placed in a lycée or college to perfect their French. A journal in Chinese is published in Paris for their benefit. Other reports announce further projects on the part of the French.\n\n23\n\nstates that the French Government have invited 600 Chinese students to France and have offered to defray all their expenses. According to the British Engineering Standards Association, the French have a scheme for training 5,000 to 6,000 Chinese in France during the next few years, 800 already having arrived in French colleges. The Association also states that Italy is considering a similar policy. Newspaper reports have estimated that there are as many as 2,000 Chinese students now in France; and even a casual visitor to Paris cannot help being struck by the considerable number of young Chinese to be seen about the city.\n\nBy the Treaty of Versailles, article 134, Germany renounced in favour of the French and Chinese Governments conjointly the property of the German school situated in the French concession in Shanghai. This article in itself gave a considerable impetus to the cause of French education for Chinese; so we find a supplementary vote of 300,000 fr. in the 1920 budget assigned to the Shanghai school (see W814/814/17, memorandum on French policy with regard to propaganda in foreign countries). The \"Daily Mail\" of the 20th January, 1921, states that the French Government's contribution is 30,000 dollars (3,000l.), that the school will be jointly controlled by the Chinese and French Governments, both of which will provide for its annual maintenance expenses, estimated at 130,000 dollars (13,000l.). The \"North China Herald\" of the 4th December, 1920, further states that French manufacturers have allotted a sum of 2,000,000 fr. towards this school. So reports are contradictory as to the amount and origin of this endowment. With a staff of a dozen professors from the French universities and a similar number of Chinese instructors it is hoped to make this new institution a preparatory school for the French universities.\n\nBesides the vote for the Shanghai school, a sum of 1,072,625 fr. is allotted in the 1920 budget for propaganda in China (as compared with 115,000 fr. for Japan). The sums appropriated for propaganda in the Far East in 1919 and 1918 respectively were 1,000,000 fr. and 215,000 fr.\n\nBut still more significant was M. Painlevé's mission to Peking in the autumn of last year. Though M. Painlevé was nominally adviser to the Government Technical Board on the Standardisation of Railways, his main interest was evidently in education. His mission ended with the conclusion of an agreement by which the Chinese Government is to provide an annual subsidy of 4,000l. for the Institute des Hautes Études chinoises in Paris; they will also furnish a sum of 20,000l. a year for the creation of a branch of the university of Paris in one of the Chinese universities on the condition that the French Government supplies a similar amount. The President of China has given to France three copies of a reproduction of the four great Chinese classics.\n\nDuring his stay at Peking, M. Painlevé made the following statement (\"Far Eastern Review,\" August 1920): \"Already there exists in Paris an institute for advanced Chinese study, but it will be necessary for us to develop it in such a way that the youth of China shall come to it for study in increasing numbers. We purpose to make the curriculum at this institute so interesting that the powerful attraction which it will exercise on the minds of our young Asiatic friends will be simply irresistible. This course of study, which will comprise all the technical courses of our advanced commercial schools, will include, in addition, the study of English, since this language seems to be considered a necessary finishing touch to the equipment of every Chinese intellectual. Moreover, we intend to do something which has never occurred before to those at the head of any foreign institution of learning to teach, likewise, the history of Chinese culture in order to keep the students in touch with their own civilisation. Unlike other nations, we do not wish our Chinese students to lose the sentiment of their own nationality and become for ever Frenchified: we wish that they may remain Chinese, yet arrive, notwithstanding this, at a real realisation of the superiority which they gain by making themselves part of two civilisations, the oriental and the occidental.\n\nSo much for Paris. In China, our task will be far more arduous, because practically everything there tending to the attainment of the end which we have set ourselves must either be created out of the whole cloth or recreated. Our first task will be to establish at the universities of Peking, Canton and Shanghai, courses in\n\nIt is not without significance that twenty girl students are also being sent over by the Chinese Government to Paris. They will study medicine, law, science and art, and when they have graduated, they will return to China to found girls' schools and colleges on European lines. There are about four Chinese girl students in London, and two or three in Edinburgh.—(\"Daily Mail,\" February 2 and 8, 1921.)\n\n339", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 496844, "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": "CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923", "page_number": 89, "title": "CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923", "content_text": "# \n**CONFERENCE OF MISSIONARY SOCIETIES IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND**\n**COMMITTEE ON RELATIONS WITH GOVERNMENTS**\n\nEDINBURGH HOUSE \n2 EATON GATE, LONDON, S.W.1 \nTELEPHONE: —VICTORIA 1428 \n\nSecretaries: \nJ. R. OLDHAM \nHon. Assistant Secretary: \nMiss M. J. HUNTER, M.B.E. \n\nChairman: \nSir ROBERT WILLIAMS, Bt. M.P.\n\nMembers:\n| Name |\n| --- |\n| Rev. F. ASHCROFT |\n| Rev. C. C. B. BARDSLEY |\n| Rev. NILSON BITTON |\n| Mis. CREIGHTON |\n| S. H. GLADSTONE |\n| Rev. W. GOUDIE |\n| HENRY T. HODGKIN, M.B. |\n| KENNETH MACLENNAN |\n| H. G. JUDD, C.B.E. |\n| BISHOP KING |\n| Mrs. KING |\n| H. LANKESTER, M.D. |\n| Williamson LAXPLOUGH |\n| Rev. FRANK LENWOOD |\n| Miss F. MACKENZIE |\n| Very Rev. J. N. OGILVIE, D.D. |\n| The BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGH |\n| Rev. J. H. RITSON, D.D. |\n| Rev. C. STEDEFORD |\n| JAMES STEEL |\n| Rev. GEORGE THOMPSON, D.D. |\n| Rev. G. E. WILSON |\n| The BISHOP OF WINCHESTER |\n| Rev. BASIL WOOD |\n\n`C.O.` \n`37394` \n`[RECT` \n`[RE. 20 JUL 23]`\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, \nColonial Office, \nLondon, S.W.1 \n\n23rd July 1923 \n\nSir,\n\nThe Conference of Missionary Societies had during the past few years been giving attention to the future of the work of the former German missions in different parts of the world and is endeavouring to arrive in each instance at some permanent settlement, as far as possible with the assent of the original German missions. We are now in a position to submit the proposals with regard to the former German missions working in Hong Kong.\n\nIn regard to the Rhenish Missionary Society, the Berlin Mission and the Berlin Foundling Mission, we have been...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 497126, "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": "CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923", "page_number": 372, "title": "CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923", "content_text": "## (d) Traffic in Cocaine\n\nThe Advisory Committee noted that eighteen Governments had replied to the request for information with regard to the manufacture of cocaine and that twelve countries had furnished an estimate of their requirements. In addition, estimated requirements had been received from a large number of British Colonies. The report of the Sub-Committee appointed to enquire into the possibility of establishing a system whereby uniformity in statistics could be obtained is annexed (Annex 3). The Committee approved the suggestion in the report that the memorandum prepared for the Sub-Committee by the Secretariat should be transmitted to all Governments with a request for their observations.\n\nThe Secretariat is in correspondence with Peru and Bolivia regarding the production and export of coca leaves as well as of crude cocaine and its salts. The Netherlands representative informed the Committee that the Minister for Foreign Affairs was willing to ask the Minister for Labour to introduce a Bill authorising the Netherlands Government to publish figures for the manufacture of cocaine the moment that the Committee had received similar figures from all other manufacturing countries.\n\nThe Committee noted that, with the exception of Peru and Bolivia, the only statistics of manufacture which had not yet been able to be obtained were those from France and the Netherlands, and the French representative informed the Committee that the French figures would be in the hands of the Secretariat in a short time. The representative of the Netherlands requested the Secretariat to send him the French figures on their arrival in order that he might request his Government to take the necessary action.\n\n## ARTICLE XIV OF THE CONVENTION: MEMORANDUM ON EXEMPTIONS SUBMITTED BY THE SIAMESE REPRESENTATIVE\n\nThe Siamese representative raised the question as to what exemption should be granted by a State to preparations which did not come within the terms of the Convention because the percentage of morphia or cocaine which they contained was less than that prescribed therein. A quantity of morphia, for instance, might be so diluted by a solvent as to bring it below 0.2 per cent and thus use the preparation to fall outside the scope and control of the Convention.\n\n## EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION WITH REGARD TO THE SEIZURES OF DRUGS\n\nThe Advisory Committee attached the utmost importance, in connection with the suppression of the traffic, to the exchange of information between Governments of the seizures of drugs. It therefore adopted the following resolution:\n\n\"The Advisory Committee recommends the Council to draw the attention of the Governments to the extreme desirability not only of direct communication to other immediately interested Governments of the details of any seizures made, but also of a general communication to the Secretariat of the League of Nations of all important seizures in order that fullest international publicity may be secured by the transmission, with the consent of Governments concerned, of this information by the Secretariat both to other Governments not immediately concerned in the specific case and to the Press.\"\n\n## WORLD PRODUCTION OF OPIUM\n\nIn reviewing the general situation with regard to the world production of opium, the Committee noted the lack of accurate or detailed information for most of the producing countries. The Committee understood that the investigations which the Chinese Government undertook to make this year were being made, but that the reports of these enquiries had not yet been received. The Committee noted that, according to the latest information in its possession, the position was worse than last year.\n\nIn the course of the discussions, the French representative explained that his Government had taken steps to prevent any passage through Tonkin of opium from Yunnan destined for a province in the South of China. The Chinese representative assured the Committee that the Government of the Republic of China would never under any circumstances legalise the production of opium in China and that the present recrudescence was due to the lack of control by the central Government in various provinces. The rumour which had been circulated regarding the establishment of an opium monopoly by the Chinese Government was untrue; that Government would never recede from the position which it had taken up in 1917 when the final prohibition of cultivation had been carried out.\n\n## VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS\n\nThe Committee took note of resolutions and reports submitted by the following voluntary organisations: \n| Organisation |\n| --- |\n| The Harvard International Assembly |\n| The International Anti-Opium Association |\n| The Edinburgh Anti-Opium Association |\n| The International Women's Suffrage Alliance |\n| The League of Red Cross Societies |\n\n## CO-OPERATION BETWEEN JAPAN AND CHINA WITH REGARD TO ILLICIT TRAFFIC\n\nThe Committee noted that negotiations were in progress between Japan and China regarding co-operation between these countries in order to suppress smuggling. A joint committee was about to be set up to examine this question.\n\n## INCREASE IN PENALTIES: PROPOSAL BY THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT\n\nThe French representative informed the Committee that the French Government attached great importance to the question of increasing the penalties for illicit traffic in drugs. By reason of the ease with which these drugs can be smuggled, it considered that, however stringent the measures taken on the frontiers of a country, it was impossible to detect more than a very small quantity of the contraband drugs passed through. During the discussion, the French representative drew attention to the advisability of instituting the penalty of imprisonment, and, if possible, of prohibition of residence (`interdiction de séjour`). He called attention to the fact that certain courts were not always ready to apply with complete strictness the penalties laid down.\n\nAttention was also called by the British representative to a new provision which had just been adopted by Parliament in the Dangerous Drugs Act of the present year, which was to the effect that: \n> Any person \"who, in Great Britain, aids, abets, counsels or procures a commission in any place outside Great Britain of any offence punishable under the provisions of any corresponding law in force in that place, or does any act preparatory to or in furtherance of any act which, if committed in Great Britain, would constitute an offence against this Act\", shall be guilty of an offence against the Act.\n\nThe Committee adopted the following resolution:\n\"The Advisory Committee, considering that the infliction of severe penalties on persons engaged in the illicit traffic in narcotics is one of the best means of preventing the spread of that traffic, recommends the increase of penalties in certain countries, the adoption of the penalty of imprisonment, and, if possible, of prohibition of residence (`interdiction de séjour`), a very strict application of the penalties laid down, and the introduction of clauses providing for the punishment of infractions committed in foreign countries.\"\n\n## DISCREPANCIES IN STATISTICAL RETURNS AND THE POSITION OF BONDED WAREHOUSES\n\nThe Advisory Committee had before it the replies of the Japanese, British and United States Governments on the discrepancies between British and American statistics of exports of drugs to Japan and the Japanese statistics of imports of drugs from those countries. The British representative proposed that some arrangement should be come to between the Governments regarding the preparation, on a uniform basis, of their statistics of the import and export of drugs, whereby uniform particulars could be given, more especially as to the countries from which the drugs were consigned, the country of destination, if possible, the countries through which the drugs passed by way of transit or transhipment, shipments out of bond and, if possible, the country of origin, that is, the country in which the goods were manufactured or produced.\n\nDuring the discussion on this question, the Japanese representative informed the Committee that the former practice in his country of waiting until narcotics landed in bond were withdrawn before regarding them as imports had been discontinued. The new regulations laid down that all narcotics landed in bond would be considered as imports from the date of their entry.\n\n## CONCLUSION\n\nIn submitting this report to the Council, the Committee draws attention to the importance which it attaches to the collaboration of the United States of America and expresses the hope that this collaboration will be continued.\n\nPage 366", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 499256, "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": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924", "page_number": 365, "title": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924", "content_text": "# MINUTES\n\n## CONFERENCE OF MISSIONARY SOCIETIES IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND\n## COMMITTEE ON RELATIONS WITH GOVERNMENTS\n\n### Chairmen\n- Col. Sir Robert Williams, Bt., MP\n- Rev. P. Alford\n- Rev. C. C. B. Bardsley\n- Rev. Nelson Bitton\n- Mr. Creighton\n- H. H. Gladstone\n- Rev. W. Gould\n- Henry T. Hodgkin, M.B.\n- H. G. Jude, C.B.E.\n- Bishop King\n- Mrs. King\n- H. Lankester, M.D.\n- Williamson Lamplugh\n- Rev. Frank Lenwood\n- Miss F. Mackenzie\n- Very Rev. J. N. Ogilvie, D.D.\n\n### Members\n- The Bishop of Peterborough\n - Rev. J. H. Fison, D.D.\n - Rev. C. Stdefford\n - James Steel\n - Rct. George Thompson, D.L.\n - Rev. C. E. Wilson\n - The Bishop of Winchester\n - Rev. Basil Wood\n- T. H. Oldham\n- Kenneth MacLennan\n- Hon. Assistant Secretary\n - M. J. Hunter, M.B.E.\n\nEDINBURGH HOUSE \n2 EATON GATE, LONDON, S.W.1 \nTelephone: 1 – Victoria 1438 \n23 SEP 24\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, \nColonial Office \nLONDON\n\n18th September 1924.\n\nSir,\n\nIn a letter dated July 23rd, 1923, the Conference of Missionary Societies submitted certain proposals with regard to the former German missions working in Hongkong. In a reply dated January 9th, 1924, (`954/1924`) we were informed by the Secretary of State that the Hongkong Government considered it undesirable that the Basel Mission should resume work in the Colony, though they had no objection to the return of Mr. Jucker. It was thought at that time that the other German missions did not wish to return to the Colony and it was suggested that the Trustees should dispose of their property and hand over the proceeds to the societies for work in the Tungtung Province of China.\n\nA new situation has been created through the decision of the Secretary of State to remove any discrimination against German missionary societies in regard to missionary work in the colonies, protectorates, and mandated territories under the supervision of the Colonial Office. Mr. Thomas has stated that it will now be open to the Conference of Missionary Societies to recommend German missionary societies for inclusion in the list of societies \"recognised\" by His Majesty's Government under the existing arrangements.\n\nThe/", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 502115, "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": "CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925", "page_number": 362, "title": "CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925", "content_text": "TELEGRAMS: \"ANCOMBRO, BLOANE, LONDON\n\nCODES:-\n\nCHINA INLAND MISSION\n\nTELEPHONE: VICTORIA 1475\n\nCONFERENCE OF MISSIONARY SOCIETIES\n\nIN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND\n\nSecretaries:\n\n1. H. OLDRAM\n\nCOMMITTEE ON RELATIONS WITH GOVERNMENTS\n\nChairman:\n\nCol. Sir ROBERT WILLIAMS, Bt. M.P.\n\nRev. F. ASHCROFT\n\nRev. W. T. A. BARDER, D.D.\n\nRev. C. C. B. BARDSLEY, D.D.\n\nRev. NELSON BITTON\n\nRev. R. H. BOYD\n\nMrs. CREIGHTON\n\nS. H. GLADSTONE\n\nMiss G. A. GOLLOCK\n\nKENNETH MACLENNAN\n\nHon. Assistant Secretary:\n\nMiss M. J. HUNTER, M.B.E.\n\nF. H. HAWKINS\n\nH. G. JUDD, C.B.E.\n\nBISHOP KING\n\nWILLIAMSON LAMPLOUGH\n\nH. LANKESTER, M.D.\n\nMiss F. MACKENZIE\n\nBASIL MATHEWS\n\nVery Rev. J. N. OGILVIE, D.D.\n\nTHE BISHOP OF SALISBURY\n\nH. T. SILCOCK\n\nTHE BISHOP OF SOUTHAMPTON\n\nRev. J. H. RITSON, D.D.\n\nRev. C. STEDEFORD\n\nRev. E. W. THOMPSON\n\nRev. A. L. WARSHUIS, D.D.\n\nRev. C. E. WILSON\n\nTHE BISHOP OF WINCHESTER\n\nRev. BASIL WOODD\n\nEDINBURGH HOUSE\n\n2 EATON GATE, LONDON, S.W.1\n\n15th July, 1925.\n\n349\n\nDear Mr. Paskin,\n\nFollowing on the conversation we had yesterday,\n\nI enclose a copy of a letter which I have received from\n\nDr. Harold Balme, the Principal of the Shantung Christian\n\nUniversity. Dr. Balme is one of the most experienced missionaries in China and has an exceptional knowledge of\n\nthe mind of the Chinese. In accordance with the suggestion\n\nwhich you made yesterday, Dr. Balme is, at my request, sending\n\na copy of his letter to the Foreign Office.\n\nAs I said in conversation yesterday, we recognise\n\nthat", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 502138, "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": "CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925", "page_number": 385, "title": "CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925", "content_text": "CONFERENCE OF MISSIONARY SOCIETIES.\n\nKENNETH MACLENNAN\n\nIN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND\n\nCOMMITTEE ON RELATIONS WITH GOVERNMENTS\n\nKer 372 46615 EDINBURGH HOUSE R 15 OCT 25 2 BATON GATE, LONDON, S.W.1\n\n...\n\nConsultation in the course of this letter (as B). Say that in the facts at present before him the Solicitor is disposed to agree with what is said (at A) and with what is said by Oldham.\n\nI feel difficulty in agreeing to the permanent exclusion of the Basel Society from mission work in Hongkong.\n\nAlso ask the Kin...\n\nThe assumptions at (a) & (b) in this letter are concerning...\n\nReply that a copy of the Chu's new letter is being sent to you, to whom the suggestion at B is being made: and that as the plans for missions are approved.\n\nAberne 22/15/25 A. E. Collins 22 OCT 1925 G.G.v10.25-\n\nJaface. Please proceed as prepared.\n\nIn Buklet 1.4.6 30.10.15\n\n2. Remand Gor LF ON ves this woring atoree W 19alon eyond Yes 30.00-\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nDowning Street,\n\nS.W.1.\n\nSir,\n\n13th October 1925\n\nYour letter of August 27th, 1925, dealing with German missions in Hongkong, was submitted to the above Committee at a meeting held on the 9th instant, the matter was carefully considered, and I have been directed to reply as follows:-\n\n2. In regard to the Rhenish, Berlin and Hildesheim missions the Committee are satisfied that the Secretary of State should approve the arrangements proposed regarding the properties of these missions, which arrangements we believe to be in accord with the wishes of the societies themselves.\n\nIn regard to the Basel Mission, while recognising that it is possible that the Government has sufficient reasons for objecting to the return of individual Basel missionaries, though the Committee are without information in regard to any such reasons, the Committee would find it very difficult to acquiesce in a decision to exclude the Basel Society permanently from Hongkong. Such exclusion would seem to them to be a violation of the principle of missionary freedom, which the missionary societies of all countries regard as a vital missionary interest, and the recognition of which it has been, and is, their constant endeavour to secure alike within and without the British Empire. Having regard, however, to...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 502143, "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": "CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925", "page_number": 390, "title": "CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925", "content_text": "TELEPHONE-VICTORIA 1428\n\nCONFERENCE OF MISSIONARY SOCIETIES\n\nIN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND\n\nSecretarias:\n\nJ. H. OLDHAM\n\nCOMMITTEE ON RELATIONS WITH GOVERNMENTS\n\nChairman:\n\nCol. Sir ROBERT WILLIAMS, Bt. M.P.\n\nRev. F. ASHCROFT\n\nRev. W. T. A. BARBER, D.D.\n\nRev. C. C. B. BARDSLEY, D.D.\n\nRev. NELSON BITTON\n\nRev. R. H. BOYD\n\nMs. CREIGHTON\n\nS. H. GLADSTONE\n\nMiss G. A. GOLLOCK\n\nKENNETH MACLENNAN\n\nHon. Assistant Secretary:\n\nRev. M. J. HUNTER, M.B.E.\n\nF. H. HAWKINS\n\nH. G. JUDD, C.B.E.\n\nBISHOP KING\n\nWILLIAMSON LAMPLOUGH\n\nH. LANKESTER, M.D.\n\nMiss F. MACKENZIE\n\nBASIL MATHEWS\n\nV. Rev. J. N. OGILVIE, D.D.\n\nThe BISHOP OF SALISBURY\n\nT. T. SILCOCK\n\nTHE BISHOP OF SOUTHAMPTON\n\nRev. J. H. RITSON, D.D.\n\nRev. C. STEDEFORD\n\nRev. E. W. THOMPSON\n\nRev. A. L. WARNSHUIS, D.D.\n\nRev. C. E. WILSON\n\nThe BISHOP OF WINCHESTER\n\nRev. BASIL WOODD\n\nEDINBURGH HOUSE\n\n2 EATON GATE, LONDON, S.W.I\n\n6th November, 1925.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nS.W.1.\n\nSir,\n\nIn Mr. Oldham's absence, I have to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 4th November, 1925, No. 46615/25, regarding German Missions in Hong Kong.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\nA. Oldhamson\n\nPage 390\n\nPage 391", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 515870, "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": "CO129-511-22 Annual general report 1927 12-10-1928 - 26-11-1928", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-511-22 Annual general report 1927 12-10-1928 - 26-11-1928", "content_text": "7\n\n# EMPIRE DEVELOPMENT\n\n# EMPIRE MARKETING\n\nPUBLICATIONS.\n\n## BOARD\n\nNote on the work of the Board and Statement of Research Grants approved by the Secretary of State from July, 1926 to May, 1927.\n\nCmd. 2898.\n\n3d. (3½d.). (E.M.B. 1.)\n\n## AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS\n\nAgricultural Economics in the Empire. 6d. (7d.). Tropical Agricultural Research in the Empire, with special reference to Cacao, Sugar Cane, Cotton and Palms. (E.M.B. 2.) 1s. 6d. (1s. 9d.).\n\nAgriculture in Trinidad. Report on Development. (E.M.B. 3.) 3d. (3½d.).\n\nAgriculture in British Guiana. Report on Development. (E.M.B. 4.) 9d. (10d.).\n\nAgriculture in Leeward and Windward Islands and Barbados. Report on Development. (E.M.B. 5.) 6d. (7d.).\n\n## OTHER PUBLICATIONS\n\nGeophysical Surveying. Report of a Sub-Committee of the Committee of Civil Research. November, 1927. (E.M.B. 6.) 6d. (7d.).\n\nThe Chemistry of Wine Making. A Report on Oenological Research. (E.M.B. 7.) 1s. od. (1s. 2d.).\n\nGrass and Fodder Crop Conservation in Transportable Form. (E.M.B. 8.) 1s. od. (1s. 2d.).\n\nEmpire Marketing Board May, 1927 to May, 1928. (E.M.B. 9.) 1s. od. (1s. 2d.).\n\n## IMPERIAL ECONOMIC COMMITTEE PUBLICATIONS\n\nThe Imperial Economic Committee has issued a series of publications on the problems connected with the marketing and preparing for market of foodstuffs produced within the British Empire. The following six volumes are now ready.\n\nGeneral Questions, 9d. (10d.); Meat, 9d. (10d.); Fruit, 4s. 6d. (4s. 10d.); Dairy Produce, 1s. (1s. 3d.); Fish, 6d. (8d.); Poultry, Eggs, Honey, 1s. (1s. 2d.).\n\nThe Eighth Report of the Committee, \"The Functions and Work of the Imperial Economic Committee,\" 6d. (7d.). The relationship between the Committee and the Empire Marketing Board is explained in this Report.\n\nAll Prices are net. Those in brackets include postage.\n\nNo. 1414.\n\n# HONG KONG\n\nREPORT FOR 1927.\n\n(For Report for 1925 see No. 1324 (Price 1s.6d.) and for Report for 1926 see No. 1356 (Price 1s. 3d.).)\n\nPRINTED IN HONG KONG\n\nLONDON:\n\nPUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE.\n\nTo be purchased directly from H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses: Adastral House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2; 120, George Street, Edinburgh; York Street, Manchester; 1, St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff; 15, Donegall Square West, Belfast;\n\nor through any Bookseller\n\n1928\n\nPrice 1s. 3d. Net,\n\n(3330-21) Wt. 17458-1324 500 12/28 P.st. 0.7 8", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-511-22 Annual general report 1927 12-10-1928 - 26-11-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 516666, "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": "CO129-512-4 Boxer Indemnity Settlement 22-12-1928 - 9-5-1929", "page_number": 94, "title": "CO129-512-4 Boxer Indemnity Settlement 22-12-1928 - 9-5-1929", "content_text": "## Lead \n\n93 \n\nD.J. Colfey, M.A., LL.D., University College, Dublin. \n\nProfessor B. Ifor Evans, M.A., Ivy Cottage, Whiteley Wood, Sheffield. \n\nProfessor A. Gardner, Litt.D., 18, Well Walk, N.W.3. \n\nE. \n\nMiss Lynda Grier, M.A., Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. \n\nAlex Hill, M.A., M.D., Universities Bureau, 50, Russell Square, W.C. \n\nPhilip H. Kerr, C.M.G., Rhodes Trust, 17, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, S.W. \n\nThe Rt. Hon. Sir Frederick D. Lugard, G.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O., Little Parkhurst, Abinger, near Dorking, Surrey. \n\nMajor General Sir Neill Malcolm, K.C.B., D.S.O., 35, Cranley Gardens, S.W.7. \n\nPrincipal Alexander Martin, D.D., New College, Mound, Edinburgh, Scotland. \n\nW. Foot Mitchell, M.P., House of Commons, S.W. \n\nSir Theodore Morison, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E., Armstrong College, Newcastle on Tyne. \n\nRt. Hon. Lieut. Col. Sir Matthew Nathan, 37, Cornwall Gardens, S.W.7. \n\nArchibald Rose, C.I.E., Westminster House, 7, Millbank, S.W.1. \n\nProfessor P.M. Roxby, B.A., School of Geography, 10, Abercromby Square, Liverpool. \n\nP. Scott, M.A., LL.D., 23, Grey Coat Gardens, Westminster. \n\nT. Franklin Sibly, D.Sc., University College, Swansea. \n\nH.R. Silcock, M.A., Friends House, Euston Road, N.W.1. \n\n## A \n\nMiss J.P. Strachey, M.A., Newnham College, Cambridge. \n\nJ. Wells, M.A., Wadham College, Oxford. \n\n## II \n\nThe origin of the Universities China Committee and its main purpose has been described as follows by Sir Arthur Shipley, First Chairman of the Committee: \n\n\"On the initiation of the Society of Friends, a small committee was formed last summer with the object of promoting closer cultural relations between China and Great Britain. The Universities Bureau of the British Empire took up the scheme when...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-512-4 Boxer Indemnity Settlement 22-12-1928 - 9-5-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 524623, "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": "CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930", "page_number": 130, "title": "CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930", "content_text": "14\n\nIn addition, between 1922 and 1925, to these annual sums a non-recurring grant of £569,400 was made by the Government to provide retrospective superannuation benefit for members of the staffs.\n\nIn 1925 there was an addition to the grants of £257,430 which was used in part to provide salary improvements for existing members of the staffs.\n\nSpeaking at University College, London, in June 1927, the Rt. Hon. H.A.L. Fisher said, \"Taking the fifty institutions comprised in the survey of the University Grants Committee, we find that the proportion of Government grant to total income is now 39.5%, while the proportion of endowments to total income is only 10.7, the remainder being furnished by fees and grants from Local Authorities\".\n\n15\n\nAppendix II.\n\nPercentages of Income from various sources of Universities in the United Kingdom (1924-25) and Hong Kong (1929).\n\n \n \n Endowments\n Donations & subscriptions\n Grants from Local Authorities\n Parliamentary Grants\n Tuition Fees\n Examination Fees\n Other Income\n \n \n Birmingham University\n 15.2\n 1.2\n 10.2\n 40.0\n 26.0\n 5.1\n 2.3\n \n \n Bristol University\n 7.3\n .3\n 17.0\n 53.0\n 16.2\n 5.0\n 1.2\n \n \n Merchant Venturers' Technical College\n .1\n \n 22.4\n 11.6\n 35.9\n \n 27.8\n \n \n Durham University\n 15.2\n \n .7\n 77\n \n \n \n \n \n Armstrong College\n 14.7\n 4.7\n 9.6\n 45.8\n 23.2\n \n \n \n \n Colleges\n 29.0\n 28.7\n 16.9\n 19.1\n \n \n \n \n \n College of Medicine\n 7.2\n \n 24.6\n 35.9\n \n \n \n \n \n Exeter University College\n 2.3\n 2.1\n \n 35.7\n 42.4\n \n 15.7\n \n \n Leeds University\n 5.7\n 5.6\n \n 30.7\n 28.8\n \n 23.2\n \n \n Liverpool University\n 14.8\n 4.9\n 10.2\n 35.9\n 26.7\n .4\n \n \n \n London University and Attached Institutions\n 9.1\n 1.8\n 6.9\n 34.8\n 30.1\n 8.4\n 8.9\n \n \n Manchester University\n 24.9\n .7\n 7.0\n 34.7\n 24.5\n 6.2\n 2.0\n \n \n College of Tech.\n 2.3\n \n 68.6\n 7.1\n 18.1\n .1\n 3.8\n \n \n Nottingham University College\n 2.7\n \n 5.9\n 24.4\n 42.9\n \n 19.8\n \n \n Reading University College\n 14.4\n 1.8\n 2.5\n .2\n 54.0\n \n 20.2\n \n \n Sheffield University\n 5.7\n 4.9\n 6.4\n 29.3\n 31.7\n \n 17.5\n \n \n Southampton University College\n 2.0\n 1.9\n \n 28.9\n 47.4\n \n 17.6\n \n \n University of Wales\n 1.9\n 4.1\n 20.6\n 36.1\n 26.7\n \n 10.6\n \n \n Aberystwyth University College\n 6.7\n 1.6\n 17.0\n 53.8\n 16.2\n .4\n 4.3\n \n \n Bangor University College\n 8.0\n .9\n 19.5\n 54.7\n 14.5\n .1\n 2.3\n \n \n Cardiff University College\n 4.5\n .4\n 26.5\n 43.0\n 21.0\n 1.6\n 3.0\n \n \n Swansea University College\n \n 10.7\n 14.8\n 21.3\n 38.8\n \n 13.3\n \n \n Aberdeen University\n 18.2\n 1.0\n 5.9\n 40.6\n 22.0\n 8.7\n 3.6\n \n \n Edinburgh University\n 18.7\n 2.1\n 4.9\n 31.6\n 31.2\n \n 10.8\n \n \n Glasgow University\n 17.3\n .5\n 4.1\n 29.6\n 35.3\n \n 12.9\n \n \n Royal Tech. Col.\n .7\n .3\n 6.2\n 8.6\n 12.8\n 44.4\n 27.2\n \n \n St. Andrew's University and Dundee University College\n .2\n .6\n 26.8\n 3.0\n 5.0\n 42.6\n 13.9\n \n \n Hong Kong University ((a)\n 48.3 (1)\n 3.0\n 13.8\n \n 20.3\n 4.2\n \n \n \n (as in Estimates for 1929)\n 51.5 (1)\n 2.3 (2)\n 9.0 (2)\n \n 21.7\n \n \n \n \n \n 37.9 (1)\n 1.7 (2)\n 33.0 (2) (3)\n \n 16.0\n \n 4.5\n \n \n \n \n 3.3\n 10.4\n \n 11.0\n \n 8.1\n \n\n(1) Interest on Loke Yew's loan taken less Sinking Fund Contribution.\n\n(2) Donation from Mr. Kwok Chun Yeung ($5,000) and Supplementary Government Grant of $32,200 for proposed School of Chinese Studies omitted.\n\n(3) Assuming Government increased its grant from $50,000 to $250,000 per annum.\n\n134\n\nPage 130\n\nPage 131", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 528149, "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": "CO129-531-10 Hong Kong University- encouragement of Chinese students to counteract American influence 30-5-1931 - 1-9-1931", "page_number": 106, "title": "CO129-531-10 Hong Kong University- encouragement of Chinese students to counteract American influence 30-5-1931 - 1-9-1931", "content_text": "- 4 \n\n113 \n\nread from the London Committee to the following effect:- \n\nthat Dr. Parker has resigned the Chair of Pathology and \nthat Dr. Wang has been appointed in his place and will \nleave England on the 1st March.\" \n\n9. It will appear from the above recital that the \nlate Professor C.Y. Wang was a pathologist and not a \ngynaecologist and that he was a Professor in this \nUniversity from 1920 until his death in December last. \n\n10. I am unable to give you the inner history \nunderlying the resolutions of the Council and Senate. \nDr. C.T. Wang refers to the University having \ntelegraphed to Edinburgh asking for a recommendation, \nand to the University having replied, when Dr. C.Y. \nWang's name was put forward \"that they did not wish to \nhave him because he was a Chinese.\" As I have already \npointed out, the Council is, under the provisions of the \nUniversity Ordinance (see Statute 8.4), the only \nUniversity body empowered to appoint professors, lecturers and other academic officers of the University. \nIt is clear from the action which the Council did take \nin the matter that that body could not possibly have \nauthorized any such reply as that which, according to Dr. Wang Chung-hui, was sent to Edinburgh. Paragraph 4 of Statute 8 of the University Ordinance, which places \nthe right of appointment in the hands of the Council, \ncontains a proviso to the effect that no appointment \nshall be made by the Council without due consideration \nof the claims of any candidate who may be recommended \nby the Senate. There is evidence that the Senate was \nat the time a little inclined to go beyond its statutory \npowers in the matter of appointments, but there is \nnothing", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-531-10 Hong Kong University- encouragement of Chinese students to counteract American influence 30-5-1931 - 1-9-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 528150, "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": "CO129-531-10 Hong Kong University- encouragement of Chinese students to counteract American influence 30-5-1931 - 1-9-1931", "page_number": 107, "title": "CO129-531-10 Hong Kong University- encouragement of Chinese students to counteract American influence 30-5-1931 - 1-9-1931", "content_text": "## 114\n\nIf nothing in the file suggests that the Senate ever communicated to Edinburgh such a reply as is now assigned to the University by Dr. Wang Chung-hui, such a reply was ever communicated to Edinburgh it looks as if this must have been done by the London Committee. All I can say as regards that is that I have before me the statement of the qualifications etc., required in the new professor and the letter from the Pro-Vice Chancellor to Sir Charles Addis, the Chairman of the London Committee. Not a word is said in either of these documents about the exclusion of Chinese.\n\nI must, however, confess that the story of the incident, so far as it can be told from the resolutions passed in the Senate and in the Council, does suggest that the London Committee was under the impression that a Chinese professor would not be acceptable and that the London Committee, who advertised the post, was approached on Dr. C.Y. Wang's behalf. How the Committee got that impression, if it did get it, I cannot say. But the whole incident was most regrettable. Dr. C.Y. Wang had excellent specialist qualifications; Dr. Parker had none. Moreover, Section 18 of the University Ordinance enacts that:\n\n**\"No distinction of race or nationality shall be permitted, and no test of religious belief or profession shall be imposed, in order to entitle any person to be admitted as a member, professor, lecturer, teacher or student of the University, or to hold office therein or to graduate thereat, or to hold any advantage or privilege thereof.\"**\n\nHowever, as I have already said, the Council intervened (how the Council got the information that Dr. Wang's application had been ignored does not appear) and, having intervened, nothing was clearly allowed to stand in the way of the best man being appointed, even though another man had actually accepted the post.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-531-10 Hong Kong University- encouragement of Chinese students to counteract American influence 30-5-1931 - 1-9-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 528655, "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": "CO129-531-9 Hong Kong University- proposal to found faculty of Chinese studies 17-10-1930 - 10-6-1931", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-531-9 Hong Kong University- proposal to found faculty of Chinese studies 17-10-1930 - 10-6-1931", "content_text": "## 3.\n\n26 meeting of the Council His Excellency Mr. Claud Severn, who was then administering the Government of Hong Kong, the late Professor G.P. Jordan Pro-Vice Chancellor, the Hon. Mr. H.B. Pollock, the Hon. the late Mr. Lau Chu Pak, the Hon. the late Mr. Ho Fook, Dr. D.W. McKemmy (Acting Principal Civil Medical Officer), Mr. E. Ralphs (Director of Education), Professor H.Q. Earle, Professor A.O. Warren, Professor J.D. Wright, and Mr. N.T. Mackintosh who was the Registrar.\n\n## 7.\n\nThe resolution of the Council which I have just quoted came before the Senate on the 30th September, 1919, and that body passed the following resolution: \"The Senate understanding that Dr. Parker has already been offered and has definitely accepted the appointment to the Chair of Pathology is therefore of opinion that it cannot otherwise than confirm its recommendation of Dr. Parker for the appointment of Professor of Pathology.\"\n\n## 8.\n\nAt the meeting of the University Council which was held on the 12th December 1919 \"Correspondence was read from the London Committee to the following effect:- that Dr. Parker has resigned the Chair of Pathology and that Dr. C.Y. Wang has been appointed in his place and will leave England on the 1st March.\"\n\n## 9.\n\nIt will appear from the above recital that the late Professor C.Y. Wang was a pathologist and not a gynaecologist and that he was a Professor in this University from 1920 until his death in December last.\n\n## 10.\n\nI am unable to give you the inner history underlying the resolutions of the Council and Senate. Dr. O.T. Wang refers to the University having telegraphed to Edinburgh asking for a recommendation, and to the University having replied, when Dr. C.Y. Wang's name was put forward \"that they did not wish to have him because he was a Chinese.\" As I have already pointed out, the Council is, under the provisions of the University Ordinance (see Statute 8.4), the only University body empowered...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-531-9 Hong Kong University- proposal to found faculty of Chinese studies 17-10-1930 - 10-6-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 528656, "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": "CO129-531-9 Hong Kong University- proposal to found faculty of Chinese studies 17-10-1930 - 10-6-1931", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-531-9 Hong Kong University- proposal to found faculty of Chinese studies 17-10-1930 - 10-6-1931", "content_text": "## 4 \n\n27 empowered to appoint professors, lecturers and other academic officers of the University.\n\nIt is clear from the action which the Council did take in the matter that that body could not possibly have authorized any such reply as that which according to Dr. Wang Chung-hui was sent to Edinburgh. Paragraph 4 of Statute 8 of the University Ordinance which places the right of appointment in the hands of the Council, contains a proviso to the effect that no appointment shall be made by the Council without due consideration of the claims of any candidate who may be recommended by the Senate.\n\nThere is evidence that the Senate was at the time a little inclined to go beyond its statutory powers in the matter of appointments, but there is nothing in the file to suggest that the Senate ever communicated to Edinburgh such a reply as is now assigned to the University by Dr. Wang Chung-hui. If such a reply was ever communicated to Edinburgh it looks as if this must have been done by the London Committee. All I can say as regards that is that I have before me the statement of the qualifications etc., required in the new professor and the letter from the Pro-Vice Chancellor to Sir Charles Addis the Chairman of the London Committee.\n\nNot a word is said in either of these documents about the exclusion of Chinese. I must, however, confess that the story of the incident, so far as it can be told from the resolutions passed in the Senate and in the Council, does suggest that the London Committee was under the impression that a Chinese professor would not be acceptable and that the London Committee, who advertised the post, was approached on Dr. C.Y. Wang's behalf. How the Committee got that impression, if it did get it, I cannot say. But the whole incident was most regrettable.\n\nDr. C.Y. Wang had excellent specialist qualifications; Parker had none. Moreover Section 18 of the University Ordinance enacts that:- \"No distinction of race or nationality shall be", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-531-9 Hong Kong University- proposal to found faculty of Chinese studies 17-10-1930 - 10-6-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 529778, "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": "CO129-533-12 Additional revenue proposals- revision of postal rates 2-3-1931 - 8-10-1931", "page_number": 90, "title": "CO129-533-12 Additional revenue proposals- revision of postal rates 2-3-1931 - 8-10-1931", "content_text": "O/Misc.214/5\n\nMr. Gent.\n\n20\n100\n(16)\n\nWith reference to Colonial Office letter dated 23rd May, No.53581/35, and our telephone conversation to-day, we note that you do not wish the selling price to be shown on the Report on Education in Hong Kong, but that the following imprint should appear:\n\n**Published on behalf of the Government of Hong Kong**\n**by the**\n**Crown Agents for the Colonies**\n**4 Millbank,**\n**London, S.W.1.**\n**1935**\n\nWe understand that you wish us to distribute copies as follows:\n\n| Destination | Number of Copies |\n| --- | --- |\n| The Secretary of State, Colonial Office, Downing St., S.W.1. | 50 |\n| The Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong | 50 |\n| The Crown Agents for the Colonies, 4 Millbank, S.W.1. | 18 |\n| The Secretary, Board of Education, Whitehall, S.W.1. | 1 |\n| The Clerk in Charge, Copyright Receipt Office, British Museum, W.C.1. | 1 |\n| The Librarian, Bodleian Library, Oxford | 1 |\n| Cambridge University Library | 1 |\n| National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh | 1 |\n| Library of Trinity College, Dublin | 1 |\n| National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth | 1 |\n\nIn accordance with Colonial Regulations.\n\nWill you please let us know in due course whether copies may be sold by us and if so at what price. We assume that you will supply 30 copies to the Advisory Committee on Education (as provided in Colonial Regulations) from the 50 required by the Colonial Office.\n\nDepartment, CROWN AGENTS,\n30th May, 1935.\n\nPage 90\nPage 91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-533-12 Additional revenue proposals- revision of postal rates 2-3-1931 - 8-10-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 530990, "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": "CO129-535-1 University of Hong Kong- vacancy for Reader in History 12-5-1931 - 22-3-1932", "page_number": 30, "title": "CO129-535-1 University of Hong Kong- vacancy for Reader in History 12-5-1931 - 22-3-1932", "content_text": "3.\n\n30 meeting of the Council His Excellency Mr. Claud Severn, who was then administering the Government of Hong Kong, the late Professor G.P. Jordan Pre-Vice Chancellor, the Hon. Mr. H.S. Pollock, the Hon. the late Mr. Lau Chu Pak, the Hon. the late Mr. Ho Pook, Dr. D.V. Cowery (Acting Principal Civil Medical Officer), Mr. E. Ralphs (Director of Education), Professor H.G. Earle, Professor A.G. Warren, Professor J.D. Wright, and Mr. N.T. Macintosh who was then Registrar.\n\n7.\n\nThe resolution of the Council which I have just quoted came before the Senate on the 30th September, 1919, and that body passed the following resolution:\n\n8.\n\n\"The Senate understanding that Dr. Parker has already been offered and has definitely accepted the appointment to the Chair of Pathology is therefore of opinion that it cannot do otherwise than confirm its recommendation of Dr. Parker for the appointment as Professor of Pathology.\"\n\nAt the meeting of the University Council which was held on the 12th December 1919 \"Correspondence was read from the London Committee to the following effect:- that Dr. Parker has resigned the Chair of Pathology and that Dr. Wong has been appointed in his place and will leave England on the 1st March.\"\n\n9.\n\nIt will appear from the above recital that the late Professor C.Y. Wong was a pathologist and not a gynaecologist and that he was a Professor in this university from 1920 until his death in December last.\n\n10.\n\nI am unable to give you the inner history underlying the resolutions of the Council and Senate. Dr. C.I. Sang refers to the University having telegraphed to Edinburgh asking for a recommendation, and to the University having replied, when Dr. C.Y. Wong's name was put forward \"that they did not wish to have him because he was a Chinese.\" As I have already pointed out, the Council is, under the provisions of the University Ordinance (see Statute 8.4) the only University body empowered\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-535-1 University of Hong Kong- vacancy for Reader in History 12-5-1931 - 22-3-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 530991, "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": "CO129-535-1 University of Hong Kong- vacancy for Reader in History 12-5-1931 - 22-3-1932", "page_number": 31, "title": "CO129-535-1 University of Hong Kong- vacancy for Reader in History 12-5-1931 - 22-3-1932", "content_text": "31\n\nempowered to appoint professors, lecturers and other academic officers of the University,\n\nIt is clear from the action which the Council did take in the matter that that body could not possibly have authorized any such reply as that which according to Dr. Wang Chung-hui was sent to Edinburgh. Paragraph 4 of statute 8 of the University Ordinance, which places the right of appointment in the hands of the Council, contains a proviso to the effect that no appointment shall be made by the Council without due consideration of the claims of any candidate who may be recommended by the Senate. There is evidence that the Senate was at the time a little inclined to go beyond its statutory powers in the matter of appointments, but there is nothing in the file to suggest that the Senate ever communicated to Edinburgh such a reply as is now assigned to the University by Dr. Wang Chung-hui. If such a reply was ever communicated to Edinburgh, it looks as if this must have been done by the London Committee. All I can say as regards that is that I have before me the statement of the qualifications etc., required in the new professor and the letter from the Pro-Vice Chancellor to Sir Charles Addis, the Chairman of the London Committee. Not a word is said in either of these documents about the exclusion of Chinese.\n\nI must, however, confess that the story of the incident, so far as it can be told from the resolutions passed in the Senate and in the Council, does suggest that the London Committee was under the impression that a Chinese professor would not be acceptable and that the London Committee, who advertised the post, was approached on Dr. C.Y. Wang's behalf. How the Committee got that impression, if it did get it, I cannot say.\n\nBut the whole incident was most regrettable. Dr. C.Y. Wang had excellent specialist qualifications; Parker had none. Moreover, Section 18 of the University Ordinance makes it clear that:\n\n\"No distinction of race or nationality shall be...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-535-1 University of Hong Kong- vacancy for Reader in History 12-5-1931 - 22-3-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532781, "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": "CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932", "content_text": "accrue to the University from the contribution from the Boxer Indemnity has not yet been finally assigned to the various purposes of the Institution, In the course of last year the Boards of the Faculties met and drew up schemes which embodied the minimum of their most urgent wants. The Senate approved these schemes.\n\nBut the Council of the University suggested to the University Court that, before finally allotting the additional income, the question of the provision which the University should make for the teaching of Chinese should be thoroughly investigated by a Special Committee. The Court agreed and appointed a special committee of which the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn was made Chairman. The Committee's report was not made available until after the close of the period under review. When the claims of Chinese have been adjusted against those of the other University activities, then the scheme for assigning the whole of the balance will go before the Court of the University. Considerable savings were also effected by the deputation of Professor Brown to the Henry Lester Trust.\n\nConsiderable improvements were made to the grounds and buildings.\n\n# UNIVERSITIES' CONGRESS\n\nThe Universities Bureau of the British Empire organised in July 1931 in Edinburgh a Congress of the Universities of the British Empire. The University was represented at this Congress by Professor G. T. Byrne, Professor W. Brown and Mr. W. J. Hinton who was formerly Professor of Economics in the University and is now working for the Institute of Bankers, London.\n\nThe Universities Bureau is now being reorganised and the University has appointed Mr. Hinton to represent it on the Universities' Council which is now being organised in London.\n\n# FARADAY CELEBRATIONS, 1931\n\nThe centenary of Michael Faraday's famous discovery of the production of electricity from magnetism was celebrated in London during September, 1931. The commemoration took the form of a series of events arranged by the Royal Institution, together with the organisation of a great exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall, where much historic apparatus was displayed.\n\nThe University of Hong Kong was represented at these celebrations by Professor C. A. Middleton Smith. It is interesting to note that the Tsun Hua University of Peking was represented, its delegate being Dr. C. Y. Chao.\n\nPage 6\n\n# DEATHS\n\nSir Charles Eliot, the University's first Vice-Chancellor died at sea on the 15th March, 1931. Dr. J. Anderson the University's first Professor of Medicine, died at Shanghai on the 28th March 1931.\n\nMr. Fung Ping Shan—a life member of the Court and a benefactor to the University, died on the 31st August, 1931. The Fung Ping Shan library is now being erected in the University's grounds. Dr. J. Fenton who was formerly a Lecturer and Tutor in English in the University died in Hong Kong on the 26th August 1931. Mr. Wong Kam Fuk a member of the Court of the University died in November 1931. Miss Leung Tsui Hoh died in Canton on the 30th June 1931.\n\nShe was a medical student in the first year of her studies.\n\n# CEREMONIES\n\nThe chief ceremony of the year was the opening on the 28th September 1931, by His Excellency the Governor, of the Tang Chi Ngong School of Chinese. The following account of the building was given by the Vice-Chancellor in his last Congregation speech:-\n\nIt is an admirable building—a worthy memorial of the generosity of him who gave it. Just inside the door of the building the donor has had inscribed in Chinese and English a legend to the effect that the building is given to the University to enable it to fulfil its statutory obligation in the matter of Chinese teaching. Chinese studies are to have the first claim on the accommodation of the building; when that claim has been reasonably met, the University is at liberty to make the best use it can of the rest of the building.'\n\n# MANAGEMENT AND STAFF\n\nPage 7\n\nThe Finance Committee.—Mr. Paul Lauder the Treasurer was on leave for 6 months during 1931 and Mr. G. S. Archbutt acted for him during that period. The University owes a debt of gratitude to Mr. Archbutt not only for his work as acting Hon. Treasurer but also for the work which he did as Chairman of the Special Committee which was appointed by the Council to revise the Superannuation Fund regulations.\n\nPage 24", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532912, "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": "CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932", "page_number": 152, "title": "CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932", "content_text": "32\n\nCHINA REPORT\n\nother British scholars on the staff of Hong Kong University, or of one of the Christian Universities in China, might also offer their services.\n\nWe feel that the suggestion is an interesting and important one and well worthy of consideration. We are not in a position, however, to determine whether the obvious difficulties of organising such a \"School\" could be overcome. It is essentially a proposal which an active local committee in China might be asked to investigate and we therefore suggest that it be referred to the sub-committee in China, the creation of which is recommended below.\n\n(b) Research Fellowships.\n\nWe recommend the foundation of a few Research Fellowships to be held by Chinese graduates in England and also (occasionally) by British graduates in China. The fellowships should be granted to advanced students who have already distinguished themselves in particular lines of research or have given evidence that they are likely to distinguish themselves hereafter if given the benefit of a course of further study in Great Britain or in China as the case may be. We do not wish to discourage the foundation of scholarships for carefully-selected Chinese undergraduate students in Great Britain, but we are definitely of opinion that the small amount available for the subsidising of students out of the fund at the Committee's disposal could best be utilised in the manner indicated.\n\nOn the general question of the advantages and disadvantages of sending immature youths from an Eastern to a Western country for their education, we invite attention to a paper read by Sir Thomas H. Holland, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, on July 10th last, before the Congress of Universities of the Empire. In this paper he argued very forcibly that undergraduates from foreign countries are handicapped in their work by the distractions of a strange social as well as a new academic atmosphere. He added that mainly to this cause the numerous instances of failure could generally be traced. He drew attention to the erroneous but too common assumption that an undergraduate from overseas cannot usually get as good a general education in his own country as he can in Britain; and he pointed out that so far from university life in England having the necessary effect of widening the mind of an immature overseas student, it more often confirms his national prejudices, while the new social environment hampers his academic work.\n\nPage 33\n\nSir Thomas laid stress, however, on his belief that the situation is quite different for the post-graduate student, who has a well-defined specific group of subjects to tackle. Such a student, he pointed out, is not expected to take part in undergraduate club-life; he meets only the teaching staff or senior students of his own specialised type; and his experiences tend to the increase of international friendliness. He added that post-graduate and specialised students from overseas frequently compare very favourably, in achievement as well as in intellectual energy and industry, with their British contemporaries.\n\nIn these views we concur, and we have reason to believe that they are held to an increasing extent in educational circles in China. For example, a leading article in the semi-official Chung-yang Jih Pao - a Nanking daily newspaper - in its issue of June 11th last, made pointed comments on the comparative failure of the system of sending immature Chinese students to study abroad; and similar criticisms are frequently heard in other quarters.\n\nThe views expressed by Sir Thomas H. Holland and others are in harmony with those arrived at by the members of the Willingdon Delegation in 1926; and our recommendations regarding Research Fellows is in substantial agreement with that made in Part X. (xii.) of the Willingdon Report. (See pp. 22-23 and 150-151 of the \"Report of the Advisory Committee\", China No. 2, 1926.) Reference was there made to the general view as regards subsidising of students to be educated in Great Britain; that the subsidised students should be few in number, should be post-graduate and carefully selected. The Willingdon Delegation therefore recommended the subsidising not only of post-graduate students but also of mature scholars of recognised standing, and expressed the hope that the new outlook and new insight acquired by those maturer minds which cannot be easily denationalised might in some way contribute towards the training of future leadership in China.\n\nThe recommendations of the members of the Willingdon Delegation were in minor details somewhat different from our own. They proposed that provision be made both for fellowships and for scholarships; but as the scholarships which they contemplated were for post-graduate research students, they differ only in name from the fellowships. We prefer the term \"fellowships\" suggested by us, as the former term seems to emphasise the fact that they are intended not for schoolboys but for mature students who have already entered upon and shown promise of future distinction in specialised lines of research. The \"fellowships\" which the Willingdon Delegation proposed to endow were to ...\n\n24.7", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532988, "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": "CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932", "page_number": 228, "title": "CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932", "content_text": "33\n\n335\n\n(B) Research Fellowships.\n\nWe have no recommendations to make regarding the provision of scholarships tenable by Chinese undergraduate students in British schools or colleges. Little in this direction could be accomplished by the Universities China Committee out of its slender resources. We are strongly of opinion that the Committee should confine itself to the establishment of a few Research Fellowships to be held by Chinese graduates in England and also (occasionally) by British graduates in China. The fellowships should be granted to advanced students who have already distinguished themselves in particular lines of research or have given evidence that they are likely to distinguish themselves hereafter if given the benefit of a course of further study in Great Britain or in China as the case may be. We do not wish to discourage the foundation of scholarships for carefully-selected Chinese undergraduate students in Great Britain, but we are definitely of opinion that the small amount available for the subsidising of students out of the fund at the Committee's disposal could best be utilised in the manner indicated.\n\nOn the general question of the advantages and disadvantages of sending immature youths from an Eastern to a Western country for their education, we invite attention to a paper read by Sir Thomas H. Holland, Principal and Vice-chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, on July 10th last, before the Congress of Universities of the Empire. In this paper he argued very forcibly that undergraduates from foreign countries are handicapped in their work by the distractions of a strange social as well as a new academic atmosphere. He added that mainly to this cause the numerous instances of failure could generally be traced. He drew attention to the erroneous but too common assumption that an undergraduate from overseas cannot usually get as good a general education in his own country as he can in Britain; and he pointed out that so far from university life in England having the necessary effect of", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 533959, "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": "CO129-539-3 Mui Tsai system 8-2-1932 - 10-1-1933", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-539-3 Mui Tsai system 8-2-1932 - 10-1-1933", "content_text": "383\n\n24\n\n23\n\n382\n\nTHE VOTE\n\nTanner, made a special feature of the characteristic Shetland woollies. They also had a good display of leatherwork and Sheffield plate.\n\nWIMBLEDON STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Catmur, and her sister, Mrs. Holmwood, Mrs. Rann, and Mrs. Rolfe had a good display of general goods, including tea-cosies, hand-bags, and home-made jams.\n\nARTS AND CRAFTS STALL, in the charge of Miss Alix Clark, is to be commended on its selection of artistic lavender bags, shopping-lists, and small hand-bags.\n\nCAKE AND PRODUCE STALL, in the charge of Miss Alix Clark, Mrs. Elias Pritchard, and the Misses Edith and Maud Codd, had its usual fine array of decorated Christmas cakes and home-made confectionery.\n\nCHINA STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Lindus, Miss Lindus, Miss Thompson, and Miss Vesey, looked very bright and attractive with its Ashstead pottery made by ex-Service men.\n\nOVERALLS AND APRONS STALL, in the charge of the Misses Underwood, Mrs. Turriff, and Miss Charles, this year had an exceptionally fine assortment of aprons and overalls. A special feature was made of dainty silk afternoon aprons.\n\nLINGERIE STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Holmes, Mrs. Overy, Mrs. Trafford Williams, and Miss Overy, had a particularly fine assortment of hand-worked baby clothes and underwear.\n\nSWEET STALL, in the charge of Miss Annie Hoare, Miss Joan Elias Pritchard, and Miss Robinson, did a good trade in boxes of chocolates, small tins labelled 'Weekly Assortment,' and home-made sweets.\n\nTOY STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Shore and Mrs. Boyce, had its usual fine collection of animals, dolls, and mechanical toys. The special attraction was a life-like black French poodle puppy, forming a fascinating night-dress case.\n\nWOOLLEN GOODS STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Delbanco, Mrs. Dore, and Mrs Jacoby, had a choice selection of hand-made jumpers, scarves, etc.\n\nLITERATURE STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Gerard and Miss Simpson, had a delightful collection of children's books-fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.\n\nTHE VOTE STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Wardi and Miss Hoyer, displayed a variety of useful articles to be found at the chemist's.\n\nEntertainments\n\nThis year a new feature in our entertainments was a short play, 'Widows,' in which Leona Cooper, Fay Myddleton, and Emma Dhai took part. This ironic little sketch, which was splendidly acted, caused much interest and amusement.\n\nThere was a charming display of operatic, classical, and character dances by pupils from Miss Grace Woollacott's Wimbledon School of Dancing. Several new and original dances added to the pleasure of this popular feature.\n\nA number of delightful pianoforte solos were given by Miss T. A. Davis; items by Madame Leoni and the Leoni Trio gave much pleasure; banjolele spirituelles by Mrs. Neville were much appreciated; and Miss Duncan, Miss Grant, Miss King, Miss Fordham, and Miss Joan Somes contributed to the musical programme.\n\nMrs. Seymour Pritchard, assisted by Mrs. Crocker, Mrs. Hamilton, Mrs. Richardson, Mrs. Roles, and Miss Ivy Hawke, organised the Information Bureau and side shows. Miss Peggy Smith was kept busy executing her wonderful lightning portrait-sketches. Character readings were given by Miss Brassington, Miss Hudson, Madame Vere, and Miss Wall.\n\nThe Competition Corner, which was very popular, was arranged by Mrs. Riches and Mrs. Haines, assisted by Miss Riches, and the lucky wheel was busily rotated by Esmé May Dorrington.\n\nThe prizes, kindly given by McDougall, Ltd., for the Cake Competition, arranged by the Chiswick Branch, were won by: (1) Mrs. Baxendale; (2) Miss Whitehead; and (3) Mrs. Anderton. The judges were Miss Charles, Miss Reeves, and Mrs. Watling.\n\nAfternoon teas and refreshments were daintily served by our efficient Minerva Club, under the direction of Miss Reeves, assisted by Mrs. Atkinson, Mrs. Boyd, Miss Brewer, Miss Britain, Miss Edwards, Mrs. Ellis, Mrs. Hilliard, Madame Inglis, Miss Lucienne Inglis, Miss Jackson, Miss James, Mrs. James, Miss Josa, Mrs. Langston, Miss Parks, Mrs. Paul, Miss Phillips, Mrs. Rogers, Miss Thompson, Miss Thomas, Mr. Yoxall, and Miss Wesley.\n\nSpecial Thanks\n\nOur most cordial thanks are due to the Hon. Mrs. Franklin, who so kindly came to open the Fair at very short notice, Miss E. Berry, whose untiring efforts year by year make the Fair a success, and to the Fair Sub-Committee for their whole-hearted co-operation during the months of preparation.\n\nSpecial thanks are also due to the stallholders; to all who contributed to the entertainments; to those who assisted so essentially with the Information Bureau; to our caterers and their assistants; to our doorkeepers Miss Cornwell, Mr. Clifford Jones, and Mr. Thompson; to Mrs. Scott for so kindly undertaking the cloakroom; to Miss Auld for general help; to our kind purchasers, and to all who helped in any way to make the Fair a success.\n\nHow to Reach the Fair\n\nDear Fellow Members,-Very many thanks to those members who have so kindly sent contributions towards the Fair expenses and to all our kind buyers.\n\nMany members were for one reason or another prevented from reaching the Caxton Hall last Thursday and Friday, but I shall be most grateful to any who will join with us in this fund-raising fixture by sending me a small sum, to include their return fare to Westminster, their tea and supper, and perhaps a part of the useful articles they would have purchased there.\n\nIn hopeful anticipation,\n\nE. KNIGHT,\n\nHon. Treasurer.\n\n144, High Holborn, W.C.1.\n\nMARRIED WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT\n\nThe 'North Mail' reports that the question of married women teachers who hold positions in Wallsend while a number of single women were unable to find appointments was raised last week at the meeting of Wallsend Education Committee.\n\nCouncillor A. McFarlane referred to a list of names of young women who had come out of college and said there did not seem much possibility of their getting posts. He thought they might replace some of the married teachers. 'Some of the married teachers have husbands who hold good positions,' he said, 'and I do not think it is fair to girls who have come out of college and have been on the list for some time.'\n\nThe Chairman, Councillor John Mason, suggested the matter might be referred to the staffing sub-committee. There were great complications involved, and they must give careful thought before deciding upon anything.\n\nCouncillor McFarlane said he was agreeable to this course, which was adopted.\n\nWe ourselves would like to think and say if a body of women systematically applied this kind of means test to all men's employment.\n\nIt is reported that the question of the employment of married women on the staff of the B.B.C. has recently been raised again to the consternation, so it is said, of the hundreds of secretaries and stenographers at Broadcasting House.\n\nMarried women have always been employed by the Corporation and its predecessor, the old Broadcasting Company, and many of them have married during their service. It is absurd that this question should be settled on any other ground than that of efficiency.\n\nFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1932\n\nTHE VOTE\n\nBRANCH NOTES\n\nWomen's Freedom League\n\nBARNSBURY AND DISTRICT\n\nOffices: 144, HIGH HOLBORN, W.C.1. Telephone-HOLBORN 9301. President-Mrs. PETHICK-LAWRENCE. Hon. Treasurer-Dr. E. KNIGHT. Hon. Organising Secretary-Mrs. WHETTON. Hon. Head Literature Department-Mrs. GERARD. General Secretary-Miss F. A. UNDERWOOD.\n\nWHERE TO GO\n\nWOMEN'S FREEDOM LEAGUE\n\nLONDON AND SUBURBS\n\nMonday, November 28th, 7.30 p.m. Brentford and Chiswick Branch. Public meeting at Stamford Brook House, W.6. Hostess Mrs. Macgregor, Speaker: Miss H. M. Dovey, B.A. Subject: Educational Economies - Actual and Threatened.\n\nMonday, November 28th, at 8 p.m. Mid-London Branch. Meeting at 25, Wimpole Street, W.1.\n\nTuesday, November 29th, 4.30 p.m. (Tea, 4 o'clock, price 6d.) Public Meeting at the Minerva Club, 28a, Brunswick Square, W.C.1. Speaker: The Hon. Mary Pickford, M.P. Subject: Votes for Women in India. Chair: Mrs. Pethick-Lawrence.\n\nThursday, December 1st, 4.30 p.m. (Tea, 4 o'clock, price 6d.) Tea and Politics Up-to-date Meeting at the Minerva Club, 28a, Brunswick Square, W.C.1. Speaker: Mrs. Isabel Donzé. Subject: The Nationality of Married Women.\n\nThursday, December 1st, 7.45 p.m. for 8 p.m. Highbury and Stoke Newington Branch. Whist Drive at 27, Bethune Road, N.16. Hostess: Mrs. Pearson. Tickets 2s., including refreshments.\n\nTuesday, December 6th, 3 p.m. Wimbledon Branch. Meeting at 'Duart,' 67, Grand Drive, Raynes Park, Speaker: Councillor Jenner. Subject: The Minor Activities of the League of Nations.\n\nTuesday, December 6th, 8 p.m. Welwyn Garden City Branch. Club Room Public meeting in the Arts Speaker: Mrs. Bhuttacharji. Subject: India.\n\nWednesday, December 7th, 3 p.m. Thames Valley Branch. Meeting at 27, Gloucester Road, Kew. Hostess: Miss Bulkeley Johnson. Plans for future work.\n\nSaturday, December 10th, 2.30 p.m. Jumble Sale at St. George's Vestry Hall, Bloomsbury (entrance Little Russell Street). Admission 2d. Gifts urgently needed.\n\nSaturday, January 14th, 1933, at 10 a.m. National Executive Committee Meeting at 144, High Holborn, W.C.1.\n\nPROVINCES\n\nTuesday, November 29th, 3 p.m. Bexhill Branch. Drawing-room meeting at 13, Park Road, Bexhill. Speaker Mrs. Donzé. Chair: Miss D. Osborn.\n\nTuesday, November 29th, at 7.30. Portsmouth Branch. Branch Coming-of-Age Party at St. Bartholomew's Hall. Speaker: Miss Nina Boyle. Music: Coffee.\n\nMonday, December 12th, at 8 p.m. Edinburgh Branch. Debate on Birth Control. Affirm., Mrs. Garden Blackie: Neg., Mrs. Alice Ross, M.A., J.P. At India Buildings, George IV, Bridge.\n\nOTHER SOCIETIES\n\nWednesday, November 30th, at 8.15 p.m. British College of Psychic Science, 1, Queen's Gate, S.W. Lecture by Miss Lind-af-Hageby on 'Mind in Animals.'\n\nThursday, December 1st, 8 p.m. The Alpha Study Circle. Meeting at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, W.C.1. Speaker: Sir George Paish. Subject: International Aspects of the Money Problem. Chairman: Mrs. Pethick Lawrence. Tickets, 1s. each, from W.F.L. Office, 144, High Holborn, W.C.1.\n\nFriday, December 2nd, at 2.30 p.m. Council for the Representation of Women in the League of Nations. Annual meeting at Women's Service House Annexe, 35, Marsham Street, S.W.1. Mrs. Corbett Ashby will speak at 4.30, on 'Disarmament or Re-armament.' Admission free: collection.\n\nSaturday, December 3rd, at 2.45 p.m. Society for the Ministry of Women (Interdenominational). Members Conference at Wesley's Chapel, City Road, E.C.1. Speakers: Miss Margaret Taylor, the Rev. Rosalind Lee, M.A., and the Rev. Violet Hedger, B.D., L.L.A. Chairman: Dr. Maude Royden, C.H.\n\n'The Vote'\n\nSubscription Rates Annual Subscription 6/6. Post free, everywhere.\n\nTHE VOTE may be obtained through all Newsagents and at the Bookstalls of Messrs. W. H. Smith and Sons.\n\nA very well-attended meeting was held on Tuesday, Nov. 15th, at 15, Richmond Crescent, Mrs. Potter presided, and Miss Pearson gave a very instructive address on new developments in educational services. Questions and discussion followed, and competitions were held at the close of the meeting.\n\nWIMBLEDON\n\nOn Tuesday, Nov. 15th, a Branch Meeting was held at 'Duart,' 67, Grand Drive, by kind permission of Mrs. Catmur. A display was made of the pretty articles sent by Branch members for the general stall at the Green, White and Gold Fair; a business meeting was then held, when a programme of work was drawn up for the New Year.\n\nEDINBURGH\n\nMrs. Miller (vice-president) presided at our last meeting in the unavoidable absence of Mrs. Alice M. Ross, M.A., J.P., at a most uplifting meeting. Mrs. Milne Robertson spoke on 'Women and the Ministry.' Her speech was more like a sermon, packed with good things and beautiful thoughts.\n\nGREEN, WHITE AND GOLD FAIR\n\nAPRONS AND OVERALLS STALL\n\nThe Misses Underwood and Mrs. Turriff very cordially thank the following for their very kind gifts to this stall: Mrs. Gilbert, Mrs. Fisher, Miss Round, Mrs. Terry, Miss C. Newman, and Mrs. Forman.\n\nA REMINDER\n\nTUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29th, at 4.30: THE HON. MARY PICKFORD, M.P.; 'Votes for Women in India'\n\nTHURSDAY, DECEMBER 1st, at 4.30: MRS. ISABEL DONZÉ: 'Nationality of Married Women'\n\n(Tea at 4 o'clock - price 6d.) AT THE MINERVA CLUB, 28a, Brunswick Square, W.C.1\n\nWANTED URGENTLY\n\nMiscellaneous Goods for Jumble Sale\n\nParcels of Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Household Goods and anything else that can be turned into money to MISS AULD, 144, HIGH HOLBORN, W.C.1\n\nMembership Application Form\n\nTo be returned to the Secretary, 144, High Holborn, London, W.C.1. Please enrol me as a member of the Women's Freedom League.\n\nName...\n\nAddress...\n\nI enclose £... s... d... as my first, Annual Subscription.\n\nMinimum Annual Subscription, 1/-.\n\n9\n\nFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1932\n\n23\n\nPage information retained as per instructions.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-539-3 Mui Tsai system 8-2-1932 - 10-1-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548137, "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": "CO129-553-12 Education- report of Mr Burney's visit 28-3-1935 - 7-8-1936", "page_number": 90, "title": "CO129-553-12 Education- report of Mr Burney's visit 28-3-1935 - 7-8-1936", "content_text": "O/Misc.214/5\n\nMr. Gent.\n\n20\n\n100\n\n(16)\n\nWith reference to Colonial Office letter dated 23rd May, No.53581/35, and our telephone conversation to-day, we note that you do not wish the selling price to be shown on the Report on Education in Hong Kong, but that the following imprint should appear:\n\nPublished on behalf of the Government of Hong Kong by the Crown Agents for the Colonies 4 Millbank, London, S.W.1. 1935\n\nWe understand that you wish us to distribute copies as follows:\n\n 50The Secretary of State, Colonial Office, Downing St., S.W.1.\n 50The Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong\n 18The Crown Agents for the Colonies, 4 Millbank, S.W.1.\n 1The Secretary, Board of Education, Whitehall, S.W.1.\n 1The Clerk in Charge, Copyright Receipt Office, British Museum, W.C.1.\n 1The Librarian, Bodleian Library, Oxford\n 1University Library, Cambridge\n 1National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh\n 1Library of Trinity College, Dublin,\n 1National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth\n\nIn accordance with Colonial Regulations.\n\nWill you please let us know in due course whether copies may be sold by us and if so at what price. We assume that you will supply 30 copies to the Advisory Committee on Education (as provided in Colonial Regulations) from the 50 required by the Colonial Office.\n\n\"O\"\n\nDepartment, CROWN AGENTS,\n\n30th May, 1935.\n\nPage 90\n\nPage 91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-553-12 Education- report of Mr Burney's visit 28-3-1935 - 7-8-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 552587, "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": "CO129-559-8 Hong Kong University- winners of British Boxer Indemnity scholarships 20-5-1936 - 11-7-1936", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-559-8 Hong Kong University- winners of British Boxer Indemnity scholarships 20-5-1936 - 11-7-1936", "content_text": "# THE BRITISH BOXER INDEMNITY SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME\n\nThis scheme is worked by the Board of Trustees for the administration of the Indemnity Funds remitted by the British Government, aided by the Universities China Committee in London. It is quite distinct from the scheme for sending Chinese engineering graduates to work as student apprentices in British workshops. The object of the latter, which was initiated by the Federation of British Industries and is handled by a Committee in Shanghai, is to send young Chinese graduates in engineering to serve as apprentices with British Engineering Manufacturers; the purpose of the former is to send selected Chinese graduates to Great Britain for courses of advanced academic study and research in Universities or Institutions of University rank in that country.\n\nThe plan of the Board of Trustees is to offer 20 scholarships a year.\n\nAll awards are made on the results of competitive examinations. The range of subjects includes: geodesy, engineering (civil, railway, and mechanical), aeronautics, naval architecture, metallurgy, textiles and weaving, medicine and public health, geography, physics, mathematics, western history, English, economics. Selection examinations were held in 1934 and 1935. Examination for 1936 was held in April. To qualify for admission to the examination, a candidate must have had two or more years of experience, after graduating, in a University, College, or Technical School.\n\nEach scholarship provides for 3 years of study abroad with possible extension to 4 years. After studying for 2 years, a scholarship holder may be sent into works or to study in a country other than Great Britain. Each scholarship holder receives £20 for general expenses, £80 for a passage to England and back to China, £24 a month for university fees and board. For a scholarship winner who goes either to Oxford or Cambridge, an extra allowance of £30 a year is allowed.\n\nIn 1934 Dr. Ku Hsueh Chin won a scholarship in \"General Surgery\". He went to study in Edinburgh and is believed to be still there. In 1935 Dr. Sze Tsung Sing won a scholarship in \"Tropical Medicine\". He is studying in the London School of Tropical Medicine. At the last scholarship examination, Dr. Woo Kai Fun won a scholarship, his subject being \"Pathology\". He will probably go to London for further study.\n\nAll these scholarship winners are medical graduates of the University of Hong Kong.\n\nIn the last examination, Miss Lai Po Kan, a B.A. of the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-559-8 Hong Kong University- winners of British Boxer Indemnity scholarships 20-5-1936 - 11-7-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 554209, "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": "CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937", "content_text": "## ECONOMIC ADVISORY COUNCIL\n### COMMITTEE ON CATTLE DISEASES\n## REPORT\n\nPresented to Parliament by Command of His Majesty May 1934\n\nLONDON\nPRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE\nTo be purchased directly from H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses\nAdastral House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2; 120, George Street, Edinburgh 2;\nYork Street, Manchester 1; 1, St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff;\n80, Chichester Street, Belfast;\nor through any Bookseller\n\n1934\nPrice 2s. 6d. Net\n`Cmd. 4591`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 554210, "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": "CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937", "content_text": "# ECONOMIC ADVISORY COUNCIL\n## COMMITTEE ON CATTLE DISEASES\n### REPORT\n\nPresented to Parliament by Command of His Majesty May 1934\n\nLONDON\nPRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE\nTo be purchased directly from H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses\n| Location | Address |\n|---------------------------------|----------------------------------|\n| London | Adastral House, Kingsway, W.C.2 |\n| Edinburgh | 120, George Street |\n| Manchester | York Street, Manchester 1 |\n| Cardiff | 1, St. Andrew's Crescent |\n| Belfast | 80, Chichester Street |\n\nor through any Bookseller\n\n1934\nPrice 2s. 6d. Net\n`Cmd. 4591`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 554269, "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": "CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937", "page_number": 67, "title": "CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937", "content_text": "## Witness\n\nMr. J. E. Shaw, County Clerk, County of Ayr \nMr. Hugh Begg, F.R.C.V.S., County Veterinary Inspector, Lanarkshire \nMr. H. A. Pritchard, Town Clerk, Leicester (Chairman of the Law Committee of the Association) \nMr. J. K. Allerton, Town Clerk, Worthing \nMr. Brennan de Vine, F.R.C.V.S., Chief Veterinary Officer, Birmingham \nMr. P. W. Margetts, Secretary of the Law Committee of the Association \nDr. W. Allen Daley, Principal Medical Officer in charge of the General Public Health Division of the Public Health Department \nMr. T. E. Birtwisle, Chairman \nMr. H. T. Perry, Senior Vice-Chairman \nMr. T. Topping, Member of the General Council \nMr. E. Whone, Member of the General Council \nMr. W. B. Jepson, Secretary \nDr. E. G. Annis, Chairman of the Pure Milk Committee of the Institute, and Medical Officer of Health for Greenwich \nDr. G. W. N. Joseph, Medical Officer of Health for Warrington \nMr. H. E. Bywater, M.R.C.V.S., Veterinary Officer for West Ham \nProfessor H. E. Armstrong, D.Sc., F.R.S. \nSir Daniel Hall, K.C.B., F.R.S. \nSir Frederick Menzies, K.B.E., County Medical Officer of Health, London County Council\n\n## Description of Witness\n\nRepresentatives of the Association of County Councils in Scotland \nRepresentatives of the Association of Municipal Corporations \nRepresenting the London County Council \nRepresentatives of the Sanitary Inspectors' Association of England and Wales \nRepresentatives of the Pure Milk Committee of The Royal Institute of Public Health\n\n## (b) List of Institutions and Persons from Whom Written, but Not Oral, Evidence Was Received\n\n| Institution/Person |\n| --- |\n| Agricultural Economics Research Institute, University of Oxford |\n| Animal Diseases Research Association, Moredon Institute, Gilmerton, Midlothian |\n| Viscount Astor |\n| Professor J. Basil Buxton, F.R.C.V.S., D.V.H., Director, Institute of Animal Pathology, Cambridge |\n| Dr. E. P. Calder, M.B., Ch.B., D.Ph. |\n| Cumberland Agricultural Committee |\n| Mr. Arthur Gofton, F.R.C.V.S., Chief Veterinary Inspector, Edinburgh |\n| Mr. John Golding, D.S.O., F.I.C., National Institute for Research in Dairying, University of Reading |\n| The Graham-Enock Manufacturing Company, Limited |\n| Mr. G. H. Johnstone |\n| Dr. H. D. Kay, Director, National Institute for Research in Dairying, Reading |\n| Dr. E. C. V. Mattick, M.Sc., Ph.D., National Institute for Research in Dairying, University of Reading |\n| Royal (Dick) Veterinary College, Edinburgh |\n| Royal Sanitary Association of Scotland |\n| Dr. Evelyn Sprawson, M.C., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., L.D.S., Director of Dental Studies and Lecturer on Dental Surgery, the London Hospital |\n| Mr. A. M. Trotter, M.R.C.V.S., Chief Veterinary Inspector, Glasgow |\n| West of Scotland Agricultural College |\n\n## APPENDIX 2, The Average Life of Dairy Cows\n\nThere are three sources from which estimates of the average annual wastage of dairy cattle have been made: \n(i) from the investigations carried out by milk recording societies into the number of animals drafted out of recorded herds; \n(ii) from the age distribution of a large sample of cows; \n(iii) from the annual agricultural census carried out by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Scottish Department of Agriculture.\n\n### (i) The Investigations of Milk Recording Societies\n\nThere have been two large-scale investigations by milk recording societies which bear upon the annual wastage of dairy cattle, undertaken respectively by the School of Agriculture, Cambridge University, and by the National Institute of Research in Dairying at Reading. The results of these two investigations are surprisingly difficult to interpret. It appears that only about 80 per cent. of the actual number of disposals are reported by farmers. This deficiency is said to be largely accounted for by the fact that dry cattle which are awaiting disposal on the 1st October, the date at which the annual register is opened, are not entered in the register and their disposal is not subsequently noticed. In addition, some disposals are overlooked, as a result, e.g., of transfers between herds belonging to the same owner.\n\nIn view of the discrepancies resulting from these causes, those responsible for both these investigations have taken the number of new entrants as being the better measure of wastage. In one case (Cambridge), the size of the herd has been based upon the number registered at the beginning of the year (which excludes dry cows being fattened for sale); in the other (Reading), the closing number has been chosen. As the opening number presumably corresponds with the two classes \"cows and heifers in milk\" and \"cows in calf, but not in milk,\" adopted for the yearly agricultural census, it has been used in the sequel.\n\nThe principal source of error in this method of calculation is to be found in increases or decreases in the numbers included in the herds during the period under review. The cow population of England and Wales does not vary greatly; but it is possible for variations to take place in the herds in question which would sensibly affect the results.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 554757, "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": "CO129-562-8 Hong Kong University- Engineering Faculty 16-6-1937 - 5-4-1938", "page_number": 41, "title": "CO129-562-8 Hong Kong University- Engineering Faculty 16-6-1937 - 5-4-1938", "content_text": "## CONFERRING OF DEGREES \n### AT HONGKONG UNIVERSITY \n#### BRILLIANT ASSEMBLAGE SEEN AT CEREMONY \n#### CONGREGATION DAY \n#### THE VICE-CHANCELLOR'S FAREWELL\n\nWith all the traditional and colourful ceremony connected with the occasion, the University of Hongkong yesterday afternoon held its 28th Congregation at which degrees were conferred on the graduates in the faculties of Arts, Medicine, and Engineering.\n\nH.E. the Governor, Sir Andrew Caldecott, Chancellor of the University, opened the Congregation and later conferred the degrees; while Sir William Hornell, Vice-Chancellor, made his farewell speech at the last Congregation at which he will be present before leaving for Home on retirement.\n\nIn his address to the Congregation, the Chancellor drew attention to the regrettable lack of considerable endowments being made to the University during the year. In connection with finances, he said that he had decided to appoint a small Committee to investigate the financial position of the University, to enquire whether any changes are advisable in staffing, personnel, or salary scales, and to tender any other advice or suggestion for the future of the University.\n\n### Staff Personalities\n\nOn December 21, 1936, the enrolment was 412—139 in the Faculty of Medicine; 133 in the Faculty of Engineering, and 140 in the Faculty of Arts. Three hundred and forty-eight of these students were Chinese. In 1921 there was one woman undergraduate; to-day there are 76. I have once again to pay to the students my grateful tribute for their loyalty, discipline, and for the goodfellowship which prevails not only amongst themselves but between them and their teachers. The cynical might learn much from a visit to the night school which is conducted by the students.\n\nIn the Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Examination held early last year, two of our graduates appeared, and each won a scholarship. Miss Lai Po Kan came first in a competitive examination in Chinese and English Philology, and she is now reading in Oxford for the honours school English language and literature. Forty-five candidates sat for the scholarship examination. The other winner was Dr. Woo Kai-fun; his subject being pathology. He is now working in London. The Boxer Scholarship Examination was first held in 1934. Our record is four competitors and four winners.\n\n### Students Abroad\n\nDr. H. C. Ku, who won a Boxer Scholarship in 1934, has been elected a Fellow of the Edinburgh Royal College of Surgeons. Dr. Lee Hah-liong and Dr. Lim Gim-kheang (medical graduates of ours) have gained respectively the London Diploma in Child Health and the London Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Miss Irene Ho has secured the London University Doctorate in Philosophy. Mr. Donald Anderson now holds the London University degree of Bachelor of Laws. Mr. E. B. Ahmed and Mr. Eric Wong Tape have qualified to be Associate members of the Institute of Civil Engineers, the former being top of the list of those who were successful at the examination qualifying for membership. Mr. Gan Kee-poon has been awarded the Diploma of the Imperial College, London. Mr. W. J. C. Fletcher has won the Parsons Memorial Prize—a prize awarded to the best apprentice by Messrs. C. A. Parsons & Co. Ltd., Newcastle-on-Tyne, in whose works Mr. Fletcher is working as an apprentice.\n\nTo the Chair of Anatomy, which was rendered vacant by the retirement of Professor J. L. Shellshear, Dr. Louis R. Shore has been elected. To the junior lectureship in English—held until last September by Mr. A. B. Reynolds—the Council has appointed Mr. Keith William Salter. Professor Shore comes from the Anatomy School of Cambridge; Mr. Salter during his career from the University of Bristol.\n\nOn New Year's day, Sir Grafton Elliot Smith died in London. As Head of the Department of Anatomy of University College, London, Sir Grafton helped this University in many ways. I take this opportunity of recording the University's grateful tribute to the memory of a great scientist to whose kindly interest and encouragement many an anatomist owes his career.\n\nPaying a tribute to Sir William Hornell, Sir Andrew Caldecott said he declined to conclude his speech with the word \"Goodbye,\" as had been the tribute to a great Vice-Chancellor, but would merely say, \"Thank you.\"\n\nSir William Hornell in his address drew attention to the successes which had been achieved by sons and daughters of the Alma Mater during the past year, and the brilliant work done by Professor Ride, whose work on human physiology and pathology had won for him the right to supplicate for the University of Oxford's degree of Doctor of Medicine.\n\nSir William also mourned the losses suffered by the University during the year, by the death of a number of its supporters and brilliant graduates, and drew attention to the distressing lack of playing fields for the undergraduates and the lack of a real connecting link between this university and English universities.\n\nTea was served in the University grounds from 3:45 p.m., and at 5 p.m. the Procession, including members of the Court, Council, Senate, and Faculties of the University, entered the Great Hall, and the members took their places on the dais.\n\nMr. Shore, and Mr. Salter, are going to be happy here—they are the sort of people who know how to be happy. Each one of them is, moreover, going to be a success not only in the University but also in the Colony. I do not often prophesy; here I dare assert.\n\nMr. Reynolds (who also came from the University of Bristol) did excellent work here. He deserves to do well and I am sure that he will.\n\nOur Chinese Staff was further strengthened last year by the appointment to it as Lecturer of Mr. Ma Kiam, M.A., of Columbia University. Mr. Ma Kiam has taught in the Peiping Union Medical College and he came to us from the Yenching University where he was Professor of Chinese. Mr. Ma Kiam's reputation as a scholar and teacher stood high in Peiping.\n\nThe Procession was led by H.E. Sir Andrew Caldecott, the Chancellor; followed by the Mace Bearer, Mr. I. Day, the Vice-Chancellor, Sir William Hornell, and the following: Treasurer and Dean, Faculty of Medicine; Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Dean, Faculty of Arts; H.E. Major-General A. W. Bartholomew, the Registrar; H.H. Sir Atholl MacGregor, Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith; The Rt. Rev. Bishop R. O. Hall, The Rt. Rev. Bishop Valtorta; Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North; Hon. Mr. Edwin Taylor, Hon. R. M. Henderson; Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, Hon. Sir Shouson Chow; Hon. Dr. A. R. Wellington, Hon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell; Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga, Hon. Mr. Ts'o Seen-wan; Hon. Com. G. F. Hole, R.N., (Retd.), Hon. Mr. Chau Tsun-nin; Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, Hon. Mr. T. H. King; Hon. Mr. Lo Man-kam, Hon. Mr. A. W. Hughes; Mr. Eu Tong-sen, Mr. Mok Kon-sang; Mr. Ho Kom Tong, Professor C. A. M. Smith; Professor K. H. Digby, Professor G. T. Byrne; Professor F. A. Redmond, Professor L. Forster; Professor W. L. Gerrard; Professor W. C. W. Nixon, Professor L. R. Shore; Professor Hsu Ti Shan, Lt. Col. H. B. L. Dowbiggin; Mr. K. E. Greig, Mr. J. R. Masson; Mr. F. J. de Rome, Mr. G. R. Sayer; Mr. M. P. Talati, Mr. P. S. Cassidy; Mr. T. E. Pearce, Mr. J. H. Seth; Ir. G. P. de Martin, Mr. E. Cock; Mr. Sum Pak-ming, Mr. Kan Tong-po; Mr. B. Wong Tape, Mr. Tang Shiu-kin; Dr. G. D. R. Black, Mr. A. Brearly; Mr. Li Jow-son, Mr. Li Tse-fong; Dr. G. A. C. Herklots, Dr. Li Shu-fan; Mr. D. W. Morley, Mr. B. G. Birch; Mr. D. F. Davies, Mr. A. H. Fenwick; Mrs. M. Ring, Mr. R. A. Hill; Mr. K. W. Salter, Dr. D. J. Valentine; Mr. Chan Kwan-po, Mr. A. H. Paterson; Mr. S. V. Boxer, Mr. Ma Kiam; Dr. J. S. Guzdar, Miss Baxter; Father B. C. Kelly, S.J., Rev. G. K. Carpenter.\n\nWhile the Procession entered the Great Hall, the Band of the 2nd Battalion, The East Lancashire Regiment, played the Processional March.\n\nWhen all the members had taken their places on the dais, the Chancellor declared the Congregation open, and the Vice-Chancellor delivered his address. Sir William said:\n\nNineteen hundred and thirty-six has been a year of tragedy and mourning, and the University has had its share of unhappiness. We lost Mr. Wong Kwong-tin and Mr. Kwok Siu-lau. Both were staunch supporters of the University, and to the latter we owe the Biological Department.\n\nOn April 1, Maurice Alfred Cooper died. As Lecturer in Commerce and indeed generally as a member of the University Staff and for a time the Warden of a University Hostel, Cooper did devoted work. His untimely death was a severe shock to us all. Those who came into contact with Cooper will not forget him.\n\n### Dr. Ride's Success\n\nMention has already been made of the visit which the University's Professor of Physiology, Dr. Ride, made in 1931 and 1932 to Borneo in connection with his genetic researches. In 1933 the University granted Professor Ride study leave, and the Rockefeller Foundation asked him to tour America and to report on the present study of genetics and heredity with special reference to their application to problems of human physiology and pathology.\n\nThe thesis which Professor Ride wrote has been accepted by the University of Oxford and, in the language of that ancient institution, he may now supplicate for the University's degree of Doctor of Medicine.\n\nIn 1927 there were 292 students on the University's roll. On October...\n\n...some millions of dollars to bequeath (this, I regret to say, is pure hypothesis and not a prospect) I should certainly want to know two things; whether the institution which I selected for endowment was...\n\n(Continued on Page 9.)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-562-8 Hong Kong University- Engineering Faculty 16-6-1937 - 5-4-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 555604, "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": "CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937", "page_number": 66, "title": "CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937", "content_text": "## THE FUND FOR THE RELIEF OF DISTRESS IN CHINA.\n66\n\nSir,\n\nWe write to ask you to allow us through your columns to announce that in conjunction with the Committee of the China Association, the British Red Cross Society, and the Conference of British Missionary Societies, we have decided to open a fund for relief of distress in China. The money and material sent to China will be administered by an organisation to be constituted in that country under the Presidency of H.M. Ambassador, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen and the Vice-Presidency of the Governor of Hongkong, Sir Geoffry Northcote.\n\nWe have been moved to take this decision, and we base our appeal for contributions, upon the broad, human ground that the conflict is occasioning terrible suffering in all its forms amongst untold numbers of Chinese. The total of those rendered destitute is immense. Reliable figures cabled to the China Association from Shanghai show that 100,000 completely destitute refugees are being maintained in camps in the Shanghai area alone, while help is also being given in various forms to another 100,000 in that district. Some 250,000 have been moved away from Shanghai by boat and train, but they are being rapidly replaced, the estimated total of destitute Chinese for whom Shanghai will have to provide in the near future being 500,000. Tientsin, Peiping, Hankow, Canton, and many other centres are faced by similar problems. British national societies and firms are doing their utmost to help, but their resources, already crippled by the disorganisation of trade, are quite inadequate. There is a desperate shortage at all centres of essential hospital equipment, including anaesthetics and antiseptics, the lack of which is resulting in suffering too hideous to describe. The resources of British hospitals are breaking down under the strain of emergency service, while there are also British subjects in urgent need of help.\n\nThe care of sick and wounded members of the fighting forces will be the special interest of the British Red Cross Society, which is already acting in co-operation with the Chinese Red Cross Society.\n\nContributions may be sent to the Hon. Treasurers, Mr. D.G.M. Bernard, Hon. Treasurer of the China Association, 161, Shell-Mex House, Strand, W.C.2, or Mr. F.P. Harris, Treasurer of the Conference of British Missionary Societies, Edinburgh House, 2, Eaton Gate, S.W.1. Contributions for the British Red Cross Society may be specially earmarked and sent to the Hon. Sir Arthur Stanley, British Red Cross Society, 14, Grosvenor Crescent, London, S.W.1. All cheques should be crossed \"& Co\": funds will be remitted to China through the `Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Ltd`.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 557346, "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": "CO129-567-10 Companies Amendment Ordinance- draft bill 15-9-1938 - 28-9-1938", "page_number": 93, "title": "CO129-567-10 Companies Amendment Ordinance- draft bill 15-9-1938 - 28-9-1938", "content_text": "100\n\n101\n\n3\n\nBy whom Deposits may be made.\n\n5. Deposits may be made by and in the name of :\n\n(a) A person of full age and not under legal disability. (b) A married woman.\n\n(c) An infant of the age of seven years and upwards.\n\n6. Deposits may be made on behalf and in the name of an infant under seven years of age by one of the parents of such infant or by any other person.\n\n7. Deposits may be made on behalf and in the name of a person of unsound mind by the Committee of his Estate.\n\n8. Deposits may be made in the joint names of two or more persons entitled to make a deposit.\n\n9. Deposits may be made in the name of one person as trustee for another person whose name shall also be entered in the title of the account.\n\n10.-(1) Deposits may be made by a Friendly Society through its trustees either in the name of such Society or in the names of such trustees, the full name of the Society being entered in the title of the account.\n\n(2) Deposits may be made to the credit of any account opened in the Post Office Savings Bank on behalf of a Friendly Society before the 1st day of November, 1888, although such account may not conform to the provisions of this Regulation, but no new account shall be opened except in accordance with such provisions.\n\n11. Subject to the approval of the Postmaster-General, deposits may be made by the trustees or treasurer of a Charitable Society.\n\n12.-(1) Deposits may be made in the name of a Building Society incorporated under the Building Societies Acts, 1874 to 1896, in the name of a Society incorporated under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1893,(a) and (subject to the approval of the Postmaster-General in each case) in the name of any other body corporate or in the name of a corporation sole.\n\n(2) Subject to the approval of the Postmaster-General, and to such conditions as he may require, deposits may be made by a responsible officer of any Government Department or Office in his official capacity and the accounts shall stand in the name of the official title of such officer with such additional description in regard to any account as the Postmaster-General may think fit.\n\n13. (1) Deposits may be made by the Registrar of a County Court under the provisions of the County Courts Act, 1888,(b) the County Courts (Investment) Act, 1900,(c) and the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1906,(d) or any statutory modification of the said Acts.\n\n(2) The term Registrar as used in these Regulations shall be deemed to include (1) any two or more persons appointed and acting jointly as Registrar, and in such case any one of such persons may for the purposes of these Regulations act for and so as to bind the others; and (2) any person for the time being lawfully performing the duties of Registrar and authorised by the Treasury to make the withdrawal.\n\n(a) 56-7 V. c. 39. (c) 63-4 V. c. 47.\n\n(b) 51-2 V. c. 43. (d) 6 E. 7. c. 58.\n\nLONDON\n\nPRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE\n\nTo be purchased directly from H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses: Adastral House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2; 120 George Street, Edinburgh 2; 26 York Street, Manchester 1; 1 St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff; 80 Chichester Street, Belfast;\n\nor through any bookseller\n\n1936\n\nPrice 1d. net\n\n18767\n\nA 2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-10 Companies Amendment Ordinance- draft bill 15-9-1938 - 28-9-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 561670, "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": "CO129-571-17 Hong Kong Eugenics League 14-4-1938 - 8-7-1938", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-571-17 Hong Kong Eugenics League 14-4-1938 - 8-7-1938", "content_text": "## THE NATIONAL BIRTH CONTROL ASSOCIATION \n**(with which is incorporated the Birth Control Investigation Committee)** \n69, ECCLESTON SQUARE, LONDON, S.W.1 \n\nTelephone: VICTORIA 3368 \n\n**Hon. Treasurer:** \nIAN C. BAILLIEU, Esq. \n\n**Secretary:** \nMRS. PYKE. \n\n**Headquarters' Organiser:** \nMISS HOLLAND. \n\n**President:** \nTHE LORD HORDER, K.C.V.O., M.D., F.R.C.P. \n\n**Chairman of Executive Committee:** \nTHE LADY Denman, D.B.E. \n\n### BIRTH CONTROL INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE \n**Chairman:** \nSIR HUMPHRY ROLLESTON, Bart., G.C.V.O., K.C.B., M.D., F.R.C.P. \n\n**Hon. Secretary:** \nC. P. BLACKER, ESQ., M.C., M.D., F.R.C.P. \n\n### Vice-Presidents \n| Name | Title/Honors |\n| --- | --- |\n| C. J. Bond, Esq. | C.M.G., F.R.C.S. |\n| Robert J. G. Boothby, Esq. | M.P. |\n| Aleck W. Bourne, Esq. | F.R.C.S. |\n| Geoffrey Bourne, Esq. | M.D., F.R.C.P. |\n| Professor F. J. Browne | Professor of Obstetric Medicine, University of London |\n| Professor A. M. Carr-Saunders | |\n| Harold Chapple, Esq. | M.Ch., F.R.C.S. |\n| The Earl of Cromer | P.C., G.C.V.O. |\n| Major Leonard Darwin | Sc.D. |\n| Earl De La Warr | P.C. |\n| Sir Mark Grant-Sturgis | K.C.B. |\n| The Rev. Herbert Gray | D.D. |\n| Capt. D. W. Gunston | M.C., M.P. |\n| Miss Gertrude Herzfield | M.B., Ch.B., F.R.C.S. |\n| J. Maynard Keynes, Esq. | M.A., C.B., F.B.A. |\n| Major-General Sir Alfred Knox | K.C.B., C.M.G., M.P. |\n| Cedric Lane-Roberts, Esq. | M.S., F.R.C.S. |\n| The Rev. Gordon Lang | |\n| R. Langdon-Down, Esq. | M.A., M.B., B.Ch. |\n| Professor H. J. Laski | |\n| Professor Lelean | Professor of Public Health, Edinburgh University |\n| The Countess of Limerick | |\n| Professor E. W. MacBride | D.Sc., F.R.S. |\n| C. Killick Millard, Esq. | M.D., D.Sc. |\n| R. Hopkin Morris, Esq. | |\n| Claud Mullins, Esq. | |\n| The Hon. Clive Pearson | |\n| Sir Allan Powell | C.B.E. |\n| Sir James Purves-Stewart | K.C.M.G., M.D. |\n| The Lord Raglan | |\n| The Lady Maureen Stanley | |\n| The Right Hon. Oliver Stanley | P.C., M.C., M.P. |\n| L. A. G. Strong, Esq. | |\n| H. G. Wells, Esq. | |\n| Mrs. Wintringham | J.P. |\n\n3rd June, 1938 \n\nColonial Office, \nDowning Street, \nLondon, S.W.1. \n\nDear Mr. MacDonald, \n\nI enclose a letter of introduction from Lord Horder and shall be very grateful if you will allow me to come and see you in order to discuss a matter which has arisen in connection with the Hong Kong Eugenics League which is a Branch of this Association. I understand that Sir Geoffrey Northcote is already in communication with the Colonial Office in the matter and I am told that Sir Geoffrey would be glad if Dr. Nixon, late President of the Hong Kong Eugenics League and former Rockefeller Fellow of Gynaecology and Obstetrics in the University of Hong Kong, could explain to you one or two points about this matter. \n\nMr. C. D. Forrest of the Hong Kong Civil Service and Dr. Yeo of the Hong Kong Medical Department would like to accompany Dr. Nixon and myself if you are good enough to see us and if you have no objection. I think we need only take up about fifteen minutes of your time and we shall be most grateful if you can spare us this. \n\nYours sincerely, \nKayout Pyke \n**Hon. Secretary**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-571-17 Hong Kong Eugenics League 14-4-1938 - 8-7-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563107, "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": "CO129-573-7 Education- government grants to vernacular schools 30-5-1938 - 28-7-1938", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-573-7 Education- government grants to vernacular schools 30-5-1938 - 28-7-1938", "content_text": "**FOR OFFICIAL USE**\n\nIssued by the Colonial Office\n\nToberman L\n\nAdvisory Committee on Education in the Colonies\n\n**Memorandum on Educational Grants-in-Aid**\n\nApril, 1933\n\n**Crown Copyright Reserved**\n\nLONDON\n\nPRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE\n\nTo be purchased directly from H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses:\nAdastral House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2;\n120, George Street, Edinburgh 2;\nYork Street, Manchester;\n1, St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff;\n15, Donegall Square West, Belfast;\nor through any Bookseller\n\n1933\n\nPrice 3d. net\n\n**COLONIAL NO. 84**\n58-9999", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-573-7 Education- government grants to vernacular schools 30-5-1938 - 28-7-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563108, "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": "CO129-573-7 Education- government grants to vernacular schools 30-5-1938 - 28-7-1938", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-573-7 Education- government grants to vernacular schools 30-5-1938 - 28-7-1938", "content_text": "## Reports, etc., of Imperial and Colonial Interest\n\n**IMPERIAL ECONOMIC CONFERENCE AT OTTAWA, 1932.**\n\nSummary of Proceedings and Copies of Trade Agreements. `[Cmd. 4174.]` 1s. 6d. (1s. 8d.).\n\nAppendices to the Summary of Proceedings.\n\n**COLONIAL OFFICE CONFERENCE, 1930.**\n\nSummary of Proceedings. `[Cmd. 3628.]` 2s. (2s. 2d.).\n\nAppendices to the Summary of Proceedings. `[Cmd. 3629.]` 3s. (3s. 3d.).\n\n**CONFERENCE OF EMPIRE SURVEY OFFICERS, 1931.**\n\nReport of Proceedings. `[Colonial No. 70.]` £1 (£1 0s. 9d.).\n\n**SYSTEM OF APPOINTMENT IN THE COLONIAL OFFICE AND IN THE COLONIAL SERVICES.**\n\nReport of a Committee appointed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies. `[Cmd. 3554.]` 1s. (1s. 1d.).\n\n**TANGANYIKA TERRITORY.**\n\nReport by Sir Sydney Armitage-Smith, K.B.E., C.B., on a Financial Mission to. `[Cmd. 4182.]` 2s. 6d. (2s. 8d.).\n\n**MALAYA, CEYLON, AND JAVA.**\n\nReport by the Rt. Hon. W. G. A. Ormsby Gore on his visit during the year 1928. `[Cmd. 3235.]` 4s. 6d. (4s. 9d.).\n\n**PAPERS RELATING TO THE HEALTH AND PROGRESS OF NATIVE POPULATIONS IN CERTAIN PARTS OF THE EMPIRE.**\n\n`[Colonial No. 65.]` 3s. 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(1s. 2d.).\n\n**MALTA ROYAL COMMISSION, 1931.**\n\nReport. `[Cmd. 3993.]` 3s. 6d. (3s. 11d.).\n\nMinutes of Evidence. `[Colonial No. 68.]` 5s. (5s. 9d.).\n\n**'IRAQ.**\n\nSpecial Report by H.B.M. Government to the Council of the League of Nations on the Progress of, during the period 1920-1931. `[Colonial No. 58.]` 5s. 6d. (5s. 11d.).\n\nReport on the Administration of, 1931. `[Colonial No. 74.]` 4s. 6d. (4s. 8d.).\n\n**REPORT BY H.B.M. GOVERNMENT TO THE COUNCIL OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF PALESTINE AND TRANS-JORDAN FOR THE YEAR 1931.**\n\n`[Colonial No. 75.]` 8s. 3d. (8s. 4d.).\n\nAll prices are net, and those in parentheses include postage.\n\n## HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE\n\nObtainable from \n**STATIONERY OFFICE** \nAt the Addresses on the Front Cover of this report\n\nPage 10\n\n## FOR OFFICIAL USE\n\nIssued by the Colonial Office Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies\n\n**Memorandum on Educational Grants-in-Aid** \nApril, 1933 \n**Crown Copyright Reserved**\n\nLONDON \nPRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE \nTo be purchased directly from H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses: \nAdastral House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2; 120, George Street, Edinburgh 2; York Street, Manchester; 1, St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff; 15, Donegall Square West, Belfast \nor through any Bookseller \n1933 \n**COLONIAL No. 84** \nPrice 3d. net", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-573-7 Education- government grants to vernacular schools 30-5-1938 - 28-7-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564025, "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": "CO129-575-2 Vacancy for lady medical officer in the Medical Department 12-4-1939 - 13-10-1939", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-575-2 Vacancy for lady medical officer in the Medical Department 12-4-1939 - 13-10-1939", "content_text": "## Application Form\n\n7. Give particulars of any physical impairment from which you may have suffered. It is particularly important that any previous trouble such as neurasthenia or an impediment in speech should be mentioned.\n\n8. State here whether you possess special knowledge of any language other than English.\n\n### 9. Schools\n\n| School Name | Location | Dates of Entry and Leaving | Examinations Passed/Distinctions |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Victoria High School | Derry, Ireland | 1905-1908 | ... |\n| Ladies College | Jersey | 1908-1909 | ... |\n| Welsh School | Aberdare | 1909-1912 | ... |\n| Walthamstow Hall School | Edinburgh | 1912-1914 | ... |\n\nMention any Examinations passed [e.g., Matriculation, School or Higher Certificate], any distinctions gained in school work, games, school societies, etc., and positions of responsibility held. Give the names of your Head or House masters.\n\n### 10. University (or other similar Institution)\n\nState (a) any scholarships held or prizes won. (b) Subject or subjects read in degree or diploma course. (c) Athletic and other non-academic distinctions. (d) Give the name of your college Tutor, or of the Professor or Lecturer who knew you best.\n\nEdinburgh University, M.B., Ch.B. 1923.\n\n### 11. Degree, Diploma, or Professional Qualifications\n\n| Qualification | Date Obtained | Result/Class |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| M.B., Ch.B. | 1923 | ... |\n\nThe result or class obtained in each part of your course must be clearly shown here. If not completed at the time of application, give particulars and date of final examination.\n\n### 12. Civil employment or occupation\n\n| Employer | Position Held | Dates | Cause of Leaving |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Hish. Delte | House Surgeon | 1923 | ... |\n| R.M.O., GLING | R.M.O. | 1924-25 | ... |\n| R.M.O., Matering Hosp. | R.M.O. | ... | ... |\n| Matering Hosp., Bangalore | M.O. | 1925-27 | ... |\n| Government Infant Welfare in Cantonments | ... | ... | ... |\n| R. Watford Informary | ... | 1933 | ... |\n| ... | ... | 1938 | ... |\n\nMention in chronological order each position held by you, the dates between which you held it, and the cause of leaving; also any dates between which you were not employed. The name of each employer should be stated and his address should also be given, unless it is stated in Section 15.\n\nState present employment and salary you are now receiving.\n\n## Testimonial\n\nDr. Anna Blair has been working as the doctor in charge of the Indian Welfare work in Cantonments in Quetta during the past Summer. The work entailed the supervision of Child Welfare and Maternity practice in connection with the Indian Units in Quetta. As the strength of the Indian Garrison in the station is between seven and eight thousand men, Dr. Blair has had a wide and varied experience of Indian Welfare and Maternity work. Dr. Blair has carried on the work very successfully and has given every satisfaction to the committee under whom she worked.\n\nI.M.H. QUETTA. 19.9.30.\n\nCertified true copy.\n\n(sa) W. M. Cruickshank. Major. I.M.S. Off. Commanding. I.M.H. Quetta.\n\n22nd July, 1939.\n\n(sa) Welling, Secretary, Medical Department.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-2 Vacancy for lady medical officer in the Medical Department 12-4-1939 - 13-10-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 568297, "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": "CO129-581-6 Government grants to vernacular schools 30-1-1939 - 6-2-1940", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-581-6 Government grants to vernacular schools 30-1-1939 - 6-2-1940", "content_text": "TELEGRAMS:\n\nCABLEGNAMO!\n\nANCOMISso, KNIGHTS, LONDON'\n\n*ANCOMISso, LONDON**\n\nis knowledged\n\nCODES:-\n\nMISSIONS\n\nCHINA INLAND MISSION\n\n2\n\nTELEPHONE: SLOANE 903\n\nCONFERENCE OF MISSIONARY SOCIETIES\n\nIN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND\n\nHon. Treasurer\n\nF. P. HARRIS\n\nSecretaries\n\nRev. S. H. DIXON\n\nRev. J. W. C. DOUGALL\n\nPMS\n\nArthur Mayhew Esq.,\n\nParliament Square House,\n\nParliament Street,\n\nS.W.1\n\nEDINBURGH HOUSE\n\n2 EATON Gate, LONDON, S.W.1\n\n(Two minutes from Sloane Square Station)\n\n11th July 1939\n\nMy dear Mayhew,\n\nI have received a long communication from the Bishop of Hongkong on the subject of the proposed Grant in Aid Revision in Hongkong. It appears that the representatives of the Grant Schools have very considerable objections to the revision and they feel that this is a subject which should be raised with the Advisory Committee. I hope that there may be a chance of discussing this and that you may be able to find room for it at the next meeting of the non-African Reports Sub-committee.\n\nI am enclosing a copy of the Bishop's letter to the Colonial Secretary Hongkong and \"Observations on the proposed revision of the Grant-in-Aid Code\".\n\nHe has also sent me a copy of the report of the Grant Code Revision Committee, but I expect you have seen it already.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nEncl.\n\nJames W. C. Dougall.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-581-6 Government grants to vernacular schools 30-1-1939 - 6-2-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579153, "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": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "page_number": 69, "title": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "content_text": "34\n\nmight have had disastrous results in such an undernourished, and, therefore, highly susceptible community. But our luck held and the camp emerged from its trials with a death rate which was probably unique in the Far East and the prospect of early return to normal health of the large majority of its inhabitants.\n\nEdinburgh.\n\n6th March, 1946.\n\nN. C. MACLEOD,\n\nDeputy Director of Health Services,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nAPPENDIX IV\n\nWork of the International Welfare Committee in Stanley Internment Camp, Hong Kong.\n\nJanuary, 1942 - August, 1945\n\nWhen the Japanese Authorities rounded up the enemy national civilians in Hong Kong in January, 1942, for the purpose of interning them, many of the latter were without any personal possessions, clothes, household equipment, etc. of any kind. It became apparent in the Chinese hotels, which were the first stage of internment for many people, that some relief organisation would be necessary to provide the barest necessities for those who had lost everything. It was also obvious that the Japanese authorities were not prepared to make any distinction in their treatment of the infants, young children, the sick and the elderly among the interned community, and that some assistance would have to be given to these categories who were unprovided for, especially in matters of diet.\n\nAs soon as the camp on the Stanley Peninsula was established the representatives of the three national communities, the Dutch, American and the British, were asked to nominate representatives for a Committee to deal with distress. The first meeting was convened on 4th February, 1942 - those present being Mr. A. Hartog (Dutch), Miss M. Dudley (American) and Miss N. E. Elliott and Miss M. S. Watson (British). The International Welfare Committee thereupon came into being with Miss M. S. Watson as Chairman, Mr. A. Hartog (Treasurer), Miss M. Dudley (Secretary), Miss N. E. Elliott (social worker) and a panel of medical practitioners, nominated by the British Medical Association, (Drs. Dean A. Smith, Annie Sydenham, and A. Balean) were asked to sit on the Committee and advise on medical matters. In July, 1942, Mr. F. C. Gimson (Hon. Colonial Secretary) took the Chair, and, at the request of the Camp Council, representatives of the four main residential Blocks were added to the Committee. Miss M. S. Watson became Deputy Chairman, and Mr. E. W. Pudney agreed to act as Treasurer and Accountant following the repatriation of Mr. Hartog, and Miss E. Rawlings as social worker on the departure of Miss Dudley for America on a similar repatriation ship. At the same time each residential block was asked to appoint (not elect) a welfare officer to be responsible for the distribution in an equitable manner of clothing and equipment to the residents. The panel of doctors was made responsible for the allocation of foodstuffs.\n\nIt is perhaps important at this point to emphasise the international character of the Welfare Committee. Whatever the source of such supplies as were received, each community was treated equally, according to the need of its individuals. It is also necessary to stress that the Committee at all times maintained a position, common to all humanitarian organisations of its kind, which was outside the range of Camp politics.\n\nOn the advice of Dr. P. S. Selwyn-Clarke (Director of Medical Services), a small quantity of money and clothing had been collected and brought into the camp for immediate distribution. Secondly, as soon as the Camp Canteen was established, arrangements were made for a very small profit to be added to the selling price of each article, this profit being handed over to the International Welfare Committee in the form of valuable foodstuffs for distribution on the advice of the medical panel. By far the largest part of the supplies received during the first year of internment, however, were sent in by Dr. Selwyn-Clarke, who was allowed to remain in the town for relief and humanitarian work for seventeen months until his imprisonment by the Japanese Authorities in May, 1943. By organising the Informal Welfare Committee, Hong Kong, and keeping in personal contact with the Stanley Camp, Dr. Selwyn-Clarke was able to arrange for the supply of foodstuffs, clothing, toilet articles, drugs and hospital supplies.\n\nAfter his arrest, this personal contact was lost, and the International Red Cross delegate took over the problem of supplies. The purchase of essential special diets, etc. became increasingly more difficult and it was necessary for the Committee's panel of doctors to limit severely the quantities available for the sick and young children. The situation was relieved to a small extent with the arrival of the British Red Cross parcels and supplies in November, 1942, and the Canadian parcels in September, 1944. A certain proportion of valuable foods were set aside for allocation by the medical panel, and, by very careful distribution, was made to last until the Colony was relieved in August, 1945.\n\nThe functions of the Committee were outlined as follows:-\n\n(a) To enquire into the specific needs of individual internees and to make these known, collectively, to the organisation in Hong Kong.\n\n(b) To distribute equitably on a selective basis the articles received.\n\n(c) To allocate, on a basis of medical necessity only, the various foodstuffs received.\n\n(d) To keep accurate records of the health and nutrition of infants and young children and children up to the school leaving age.\n\nIn relation to (c) it should perhaps be emphasised that the function of the Committee was not to supply extra nourishment to the Camp as a whole, though the Japanese rations were at all times grossly inadequate, but to provide extra or alternative diets for the infants, young children, the chronically and temporarily sick, for all of whom the rations, besides being inadequate, were entirely unsuitable.\n\n1. NUTRITIONAL\n\nDetails of Distribution\n\nA detailed report on the nutrition of the Camp has been made by Dr. Dean A. Smith, M.O. in charge, Nutrition Clinic. A short description of the types of cases assisted may be of some interest, however:\n\n(a) For the first six months, when supplies were relatively plentiful, a clinic was held daily and patients attended such as those suffering from (1) deficiency diseases, i.e., beri-beri, ulceration of the mouth, scurvy and pellagra, (2) malnutrition, extreme loss of weight, low blood pressure, giddiness, etc. (3) diseases of long standing, i.e., gastric ulcers, diabetes, coeliac disease, anaemia, etc. (4) acute conditions, i.e., gastro-enteritis, etc. (5) debility following hospitalisation. These patients were advised, and given extra foodstuffs such as milk, fruit juices, dried fruits, vegetables, tinned meats, fish and oats. Later the Medical Panel were forced through lack of suitable supplies to cut down these issues and to concentrate almost entirely on giving extras to the Hospital and Diet Kitchens, where the goods could be cooked and given out on a semi-communal basis. Severe cases of beri-beri and central nerve blindness, however, continued to be helped almost to the end of internment, a daily dose of bran being given to the former (incidentally this helped to conserve the limited supply of thiamine available), and peanut butter, eggs, egg yolk, soya bean milk, all rich in the essential vitamins, to the latter.\n\n(b) Infants and young children. A detailed report has already been prepared by Dr. Annie Sydenham, Camp Child Welfare Officer, regarding the health and nutrition of the children.\n\nDuring the first few weeks of the Camp a Milk Board was set up, consisting of Dr. D. J. Valentine, Camp Medical Officer, the three Medical advisers to the Committee and Miss M. S. Watson, and, after an exhaustive survey of all available milk supplies and the estimated needs over a long-term period, a schedule of consumption was drawn up. This schedule was varied at different times, but it is interesting to note that at no time did the Camp run out of this most essential item of diet for infants, many of whom were born in this Camp.\n\nEvery effort was made to maintain the health of the children of school age. A careful nutritional survey was made every six months by Dr. Sydenham. Acting on this, the Medical panel allocated valuable foodstuffs which were distributed as school meals. During the first winter months, bowls of porridge and milk were given as additions to the poor rations. Later, gelatine and dried fruits, cocoa, oranges, sweets, honey, peanuts and peanut butter were supplied at intervals. Over the last eighteen months it became increasingly more difficult to maintain this standard, and much to its regret the Committee were forced to discontinue this distribution. From that point it became apparent in the half-yearly surveys that the children were not keeping up a normal rate of growth, as measured in height and weight, as a consequence of the inadequacy of the Japanese rations.\n\nThree Baby Kitchens were established in different parts of the Camp. The Japanese rations, with the addition of milk, eggs, flavourings, sugar, honey, cornflour, fruit, etc. were cooked in such a way as to be suitable for infants. This service came to an end about nine months before the end of internment as the amount of firewood supplied by the Japanese was insufficient to allow of cooking subsidiary to the general kitchens. Fruit juices, shark liver oil and calcium continued to be administered, however.\n\n85\n\n35\n\n86", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579172, "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": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "page_number": 88, "title": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "content_text": "122\n\n123\n\n34\n\nmight have had disastrous results in such an undernourished, and, therefore, highly susceptible community. But our luck held and the camp emerged from its trials with a death rate which was probably unique in the Far East and the prospect of early return to normal health of the large majority of its inhabitants.\n\nEdinburgh.\n\n6th March, 1946.\n\nN. C. MACLEOD,\n\nDeputy Director of Health Services,\n\nHong Kong\n\n# APPENDIX IV\n\nWork of the International Welfare Committee in Stanley Internment Camp, Hong Kong.\n\nJanuary, 1942-August, 1945\n\nWhen the Japanese Authorities rounded up the enemy national civilians in Hong Kong in January, 1942, for the purpose of interning them, many of the latter were without any personal possessions, clothes, household equipment, etc. of any kind. It became apparent in the Chinese hotels, which were the first stage of internment for many people, that some relief organisation would be necessary to provide the barest necessities for those who had lost everything. It was also obvious that the Japanese authorities were not prepared to make any distinction in their treatment of the infants, young children, the sick and the elderly among the interned community, and that some assistance would have to be given to these categories who were unprovided for, especially in matters of diet.\n\nAs soon as the camp on the Stanley Peninsula was established, the representatives of the three national communities, the Dutch, American and the British, were asked to nominate representatives for a Committee to deal with distress. The first meeting was convened on 4th February, 1942—those present being Mr. A. Hartog (Dutch), Miss M. Dudley (American) and Miss N. E. Elliott and Miss M. S. Watson (British). The International Welfare Committee thereupon came into being with Miss M. S. Watson as Chairman, Mr. A. Hartog (Treasurer), Miss M. Dudley (Secretary), Miss N. E. Elliott (social worker) and a panel of medical practitioners, nominated by the British Medical Association, (Drs. Dean A. Smith, Annie Sydenham, and A. Balean) were asked to sit on the Committee and advise on medical matters. In July, 1942, Mr. F. C. Gimson (Hon. Colonial Secretary) took the Chair, and, at the request of the Camp Council, representatives of the four main residential Blocks were added to the Committee. Miss M. S. Watson became Deputy Chairman, and Mr. E. W. Pudney agreed to act as Treasurer and Accountant following the repatriation of Mr. Hartog, and Miss E. Rawlings as social worker on the departure of Miss Dudley for America on a similar repatriation ship. At the same time, each residential block was asked to appoint (not elect) a welfare officer to be responsible for the distribution in an equitable manner of clothing and equipment to the residents. The panel of doctors was made responsible for the allocation of foodstuffs.\n\nIt is perhaps important at this point to emphasise the international character of the Welfare Committee. Whatever the source of such supplies as were received, each community was treated equally, according to the need of its individuals. It is also necessary to stress that the Committee at all times maintained a position, common to all humanitarian organisations of its kind, which was outside the range of Camp politics.\n\nOn the advice of Dr. P. S. Selwyn-Clarke (Hon. Director of Medical Services), a small quantity of money and clothing had been collected and brought into the camp for immediate distribution. Secondly, as soon as the Camp Canteen was established, arrangements were made for a very small profit to be added to the selling price of each article, this profit being handed over to the International Welfare Committee in the form of valuable foodstuffs for distribution on the advice of the medical panel. By far the largest part of the supplies received during the first year of internment, however, were sent in by Dr. Selwyn-Clarke, who was allowed to remain in the town for relief and humanitarian work for seventeen months until his imprisonment by the Japanese Authorities in May, 1943. By organising the Informal Welfare Committee, Hong Kong, and keeping in personal contact with the Stanley Camp, Dr. Selwyn-Clarke was able to arrange for the supply of foodstuffs, clothing, toilet articles, drugs and hospital supplies.\n\nAfter his arrest, this personal contact was lost, and the International Red Cross delegate took over the problem of supplies. The purchase of essential special diets, etc. became increasingly more difficult and it was necessary for the Committee's panel of doctors to limit severely the quantities available for the sick and young children. The situation was relieved to a small extent with the arrival of the British Red Cross parcels and supplies in November, 1942, and the Canadian parcels in September, 1944.\n\nValuable foods were set aside for allocation by the medical panel, and, by very careful distribution, were made to last until the Colony was relieved in August, 1945.\n\nThe functions of the Committee were outlined as follows:-\n\n(a) To enquire into the specific needs of individual internees and to make these known, collectively, to the organisation in Hong Kong.\n\n(b) To distribute equitably on a selective basis the articles received.\n\n(c) To allocate, on a basis of medical necessity only, the various foodstuffs received.\n\n(d) To keep accurate records of the health and nutrition of infants and young children and children up to the school leaving age.\n\nIn relation to (c) it should perhaps be emphasised that the function of the Committee was not to supply extra nourishment to the Camp as a whole, though the Japanese rations were at all times grossly inadequate, but to provide extra or alternative diets for the infants, young children, the chronically and temporarily sick, for all of whom the rations, besides being inadequate, were entirely unsuitable.\n\n## I. NUTRITIONAL\n\n## Details of Distribution\n\nA detailed report on the nutrition of the Camp has been made by Dr. Dean A. Smith, M.O. in charge Nutrition Clinic. A short description of the types of cases assisted may be of some interest, however;\n\n(a) For the first six months, when supplies were relatively plentiful, a clinic was held daily and patients attended such as those suffering from (1) deficiency diseases, i.e., beri-beri, ulceration of the mouth, scurvy and pellagra, (2) malnutrition, extreme loss of weight, low blood pressure, giddiness, etc. (3) diseases of long standing, i.e., gastric ulcers, diabetes, coeliac disease, anaemia, etc. (4) acute conditions, i.e., gastro-enteritis, etc. (5) debility following hospitalisation. These patients were advised and given extra foodstuffs such as milk, fruit juices, dried fruits, vegetables, tinned meats and fish and oats. Later the Medical Panel were forced through lack of suitable supplies to cut down these issues and to concentrate almost entirely on giving extras to the Hospital and Diet Kitchens, where the goods could be cooked and given out on a semi-communal basis. Severe cases of beri-beri and central nerve blindness, however, continued to be helped almost to the end of internment, a daily dose of bran being given to the former (incidentally this helped to conserve the limited supply of thiamine available), and peanut butter, eggs, egg yolk, soya bean milk, all rich in the essential vitamins, to the latter.\n\n(b) Infants and young children.--A detailed report has already been prepared by Dr. Annie Sydenham, Camp Child Welfare Officer, regarding the health and nutrition of the children.\n\nDuring the first few weeks of the Camp, a Milk Board was set up, consisting of Dr. D. J. Valentine, Camp Medical Officer, the three Medical advisers to the Committee and Miss M. S. Watson, and, after an exhaustive survey of all available milk supplies and the estimated needs over a long-term period, a schedule of consumption was drawn up. This schedule was varied at different times, but it is interesting to note that at no time did the Camp run out of this most essential item of diet for infants, many of whom were born in this Camp.\n\nEvery effort was made to maintain the health of the children of school age. A careful nutritional survey was made every six months by Dr. Sydenham. Acting on this, the Medical panel allocated valuable foodstuffs which were distributed as school meals. During the first winter months, bowls of porridge and milk were given as additions to the poor rations. Later, gelatine and dried fruits, cocoa, oranges, sweets, honey, peanuts and peanut butter were supplied at intervals. Over the last eighteen months it became increasingly more difficult to maintain this standard, and much to its regret the Committee were forced to discontinue this distribution. From that point, it became apparent in the half-yearly surveys that the children were not keeping up a normal rate of growth, as measured in height and weight, as a consequence of the inadequacy of the Japanese rations.\n\nThree Baby Kitchens were established in different parts of the Camp. The Japanese rations, with the addition of milk, eggs, flavourings, sugar, honey, cornflour, fruit, etc. were cooked in such a way as to be suitable for infants. This service came to an end about nine months before the end of internment as the amount of firewood supplied by the Japanese was insufficient to allow of cooking subsidiary to the general kitchens. Fruit juices, shark liver oil and calcium continued to be administered, however.\n\n35\n\n52077\n\nA 6", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579926, "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": "CO129-592-9 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 13-1-1945 - 4-3-1946", "page_number": 93, "title": "CO129-592-9 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 13-1-1945 - 4-3-1946", "content_text": "Smith sq.\n\nChairman of Harbour Committee, Hong Kong Park Strat W...\n\n2,\n\nDear Mr. Smith,\n\nMany thanks for your letter.\n\nI shall be happy to stay at 5, Lutter Place, Edinburgh.\n\n93/28\n\nth October 1945.\n\n70\n\nI received your letter of the 24th inst.\n\nI am writing to you in connection with the Harbour Trust proposal and suggest Tuesday, 13th November, as a suitable date subject to your concurrence.\n\nI can see no reason why the 13th should not be a suitable date.\n\nA memo on Harbour Transportation should not be read by the Committee because it is confidential, but this matter was discussed by the Committee with reference to the Star Ferry.\n\nI have sent a copy of the memo to H.K. and the Owen reports and allied matters, and the airport may be of interest to your committee.\n\nPerhaps you could have this copied and returned to me when you are done?\n\nThank you for offering accommodation, but I am glad to accept the kind invitation of the Lothians, who have promised to put me up.\n\nShould they fail, however, I shall be glad to accept your kind invitation.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nKuo Hicos.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-9 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 13-1-1945 - 4-3-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579927, "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": "CO129-592-9 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 13-1-1945 - 4-3-1946", "page_number": 94, "title": "CO129-592-9 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 13-1-1945 - 4-3-1946", "content_text": "6994\n\nColonial Office,\n\n2, Park Street,\n\nLondon, W. 1.\n\n24th October, 1945.\n\nDear Nicol,\n\nAs you know I have been appointed Chairman of a small Committee to consider the steps necessary for the implementation of the David Owen Report. We have not yet met and it would be very useful if you could, when you feel well enough, pay a flying visit to London to give the Committee the benefit of your views. Please say frankly if you feel up to this and, if so, suggest a date, I shall be very glad to give you a bed at our flat if this is any help.\n\nThe memorandum you left on \"Cross Harbour Transportation\" is marked \"Confidential\" but I presume that there is no objection on your part to copies going to the members of the Committee in question. Is there anything else in writing that you would like them to have?\n\nFor your information the Committee consists of Messrs. A. O. Lang, S.H. Dodwell (lately returned from Australia), D.F. Landale, C.E. Wurtzburg (formerly on Malayan Harbours Committee) and Warren Swire, with myself as Chairman and Mr. McElderry representing the Colonial Office.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nAndrew Nicol, Esq., 5, Lutton Place,\n\nEdinburgh 8.\n\nNL Sent", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-9 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 13-1-1945 - 4-3-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 580110, "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": "CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946", "content_text": "Apologies for delay.\n\nForward this file for Colonel.\n\nInvitation to Members in sending how Seven days fathers of 4-16 4 were proposed for the\n\nA. het woon\n\n15.R. Mr. MacDougall to Sir A. Caldecott\n\nR. E. Priestley\n\nmens forster\n\nMorse.\n\n28 JUL 1945\n\nCommittee 17.7.45.\n\n23. Extract from a Memo by Sir H. Priestley,\n\n24: My Priestley,\n\n25. Ain a cate\n\n30/7/45-\n\n31.7.45 I have spoken to Mr. Cox about (24) and he agrees that Mr. Priestley will be one of the most valuable members on the Committee and that, therefore, we should try to arrange their meetings at such times as will be convenient to him. In any case there is no reason why they should start as early as 10.30 a.m.\n\nI also spoke to Mr. Cox about 18B and he agreed that we might take the preliminary step of consulting the Vice-Chancellor of Edinburgh University about Mr. Wilson. We should not want to appoint Mr. Wilson, of course, without the Committee's recommendation, but no doubt they would find it useful to have the Vice-Chancellor's views.\n\n13.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 580115, "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": "CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946", "content_text": "There are several matters outstanding on this file and I apologise for the delay in sending it forward.\n\nThe fact that Hong Kong is now in our hands again makes it necessary, I think, to reconsider our plans for the establishment of a Committee to represent the University. Mr. Sloss, the Vice Chancellor and a strong supporter of an enlarged University capable of being regarded as an expression of British culture in the Far East is (or very soon will be) on his way home from internment. No doubt others of his colleagues on the staff of the University will be with him, and it will probably be agreed that, in these circumstances, it would be inappropriate for a Committee to be set up until Mr. Sloss can be consulted and take part in its deliberations.\n\nThis might, however, mean delay in taking steps towards the rehabilitation of the University for two or three months and the question arises, therefore, whether any work could usefully be done in the meanwhile in estimating, and possibly collecting the supplies and equipment which will be needed before the University can re-open.\n\nI do not know whether such work could suitably be undertaken by a potential Registrar, but we have received an application from a Mr. John Wilson in this connection (183). It was suggested (I think at the meeting held on the 29th of December last, although it is not so recorded at (9)) that it would probably be necessary to appoint at least one full-time officer to undertake the details of planning for the restoration of the University, and that such an officer might act as Secretary to the proposed Committee and later become Registrar of the University. (It will be recollected that Lt. Davis, now Chief Printer in the Hong Kong Planning Unit, was at one time proposed for this post).\n\nThe position in regard to Mr. Wilson is that Mr. Thomson sent him an interim reply to his letter, a copy of which is behind 18B, and we referred to the Vice Chancellor of Edinburgh University for an opinion on his suitability for the post in mind. The Vice Chancellor's reply is at (35).\n\nI am not sure that, in the new circumstances, we should be justified in holding out to Mr. Wilson the prospect of becoming Registrar in Hong Kong University until we know the position as regards the present Registrar. Nevertheless, we might take up the reference suggested by the Vice Chancellor at the end of his letter (35) and consider whether there is anyone who meanwhile could be looking into the question of supplies and equipment.\n\nWith regard to Sir Andrew Caldicott's letter at (28) Mr. Gent may like (a) to invite him to have an informal discussion on the points raised in it, with himself and Mr. Cox, or (b) to write to Sir A. Caldicott saying that his arguments have been carefully studied but that, in view of the changes which have taken place since our original proposal to establish a Committee, and as it is hoped that the Vice Chancellor and other members of the staff of the University will soon be in this country, it seems best that the matter should be left in suspense until it can be discussed with himself, Mr. Sloss and members of the Colonial Office.\n\nI submit two alternative drafts.\n\nPage 22\n\n6. 9.45.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 580262, "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": "CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946", "page_number": 171, "title": "CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946", "content_text": "54147/45\n\n27\n\n167\n\n3rd August, 1945\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by Colonel Oliver Stanley to inform you that an application has been received from Mr. John Wilson of 5 Bonnington Road, Peebles, in connection with the possible appointment at a later date of a Registrar for Hong Kong University.\n\nIt is the intention that a small Advisory Committee should be established in the near future to represent the University and to undertake planning and make recommendations in regard to such matters as the assembling of staff, the collection of equipment and the priorities to be given to the re-establishment of the various faculties. It is expected that this Committee will recommend the appointment of a full-time paid Secretary and possibly other staff to assist in this work.\n\nIt would be appropriate if the secretary to this Committee were a person suitably qualified to become Registrar of the University when it is re-established.\n\nIt is understood that Mr. John Wilson was a member of the teaching staff of Edinburgh University from 1925 and 1936 and Colonel Stanley\n\nTHE VICE-CHANCELLOR,\n\nEDINBURGH UNIVERSITY.\n\nwould", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 580264, "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": "CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946", "page_number": 173, "title": "CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946", "content_text": "3824B' Wt. 47664/398 20m. 1/45 C.N.Ld. 748\n\n54147/45\n\nC. O.\n\nXXX Miss Ruston 1. 8.45\n\nMr. Paskin\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\n2. 8.45\n\n+5 f.\n\nDRAFT OFFICIAL LETTER\n\nThe Vice-Chancellor,\n\nEdinburgh University,\n\nLet the despatches\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\n\nPermi. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\n169\n\n27 August, 1945\n\nFOR MR. PASKIN'S SIGNATURE\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed to inform you that an application has been received from a gentleman named John Wilson of 3 Bonnington Road, Peebles, in connection with the possible appointment at a later date of a Registrar for Hong Kong University.\n\nIt is the intention that a small Advisory Committee should be established in the near future to represent the University and to undertake planning and make recommendations for its rehabilitation.\n\nIt is expected that this Committee will recommend the appointment of a full-time paid Secretary and possibly other officers to assist in studying the problems involved and making recommendations to the Committee in regard to such matters as the assembling of staff, the collection of equipment, and the priorities to be given to the re-establishment of the various faculties.\n\nIt would be appropriate for the Secretary to this Committee", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 580275, "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": "CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946", "page_number": 184, "title": "CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946", "content_text": "180\n\n18.B.\n\nCOLONIAL\n\n117/2/1.\n\nOFFICE\n\nKise Ruston\n\nI attach a letter from a Mr. John Wilson, together with a covering minute by Mr. Thomson. You will see that Mr. Wilson offers himself as a candidate for the post of Registrar of Hong Kong University when it is re-established and in the meantime could be considered for appointment as the Permanent Secretary of the University. Committee\n\nI have discussed this with Mr. Rowell who suggests that the first thing to do is to write confidentially to the Vice-Chancellor, Edinburgh University, saying that we have had an enquiry from Mr. Wilson regarding the possibility of being considered for appointment as Registrar, Hong Kong University, and that we would be grateful for any observations the Vice-Chancellor may care to offer.\n\nI feel that the University Committee will not get very far until", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. 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Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946", "content_text": "3 Bonnington Road, Peebles.\n\n7th July, 1945.\n\n182\n\nDear Thomson,\n\nI understand that there is a vacancy for a Registrar in Hong Kong University and, given my experience over many years in university teaching and practice, I should like to be considered for the appointment.\n\nI would add that I have gained much practical experience during the last seven years as\n\nHead of a Secondary School sending forward annually students to all faculties of the Scottish Universities.\n\nI graduated in Arts in Edinburgh University in 1912 and have taken two Honours Courses in Languages therein. In London University I graduated B.A. with 1st Class Honours in 1923 and again in 1926, and took the Master's Degree in 1929. From 1925 to 1936 I was a member of the teaching staff of Edinburgh University and have been in touch with the work of the Universities of Cambridge and Liverpool. I am therefore familiar with the background of the three distinctive types of university in this country.\n\nFrom the point of view of the present appointment I can lay claim to contacts which would enable me to carry out researches into the organisation of our home universities and to lay before any committee set up to consider the future of Hong Kong University the possible lines of its development.\n\nI", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 580522, "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": "CO129-593-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 12-1-1946 - 27-10-1946", "page_number": 213, "title": "CO129-593-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 12-1-1946 - 27-10-1946", "content_text": "Colonel L.O. Davis, O.B.E.\n\nc/o Park Lane Hotel,\n\nPiccadilly,\n\nLONDON.\n\n227\n\n(Temporary address, till end of January)\n\n-\n\nc/o Royal Scottish Automobile Club,\n\nBlythswood Square,\n\nGlasgow, C.2.\n\n25th January, 1946.\n\nMy dear Davis,\n\nYou have probably concluded long ago that I must be\n\ndead, in body or in soul. Actually, I have been almost continuously\n\non the move, with no fixed address, so that correspondence is often\n\nlate in finding me, and later still in receiving the attention it\n\ndeserves.\n\nPlease consider that my appreciation of your fine letter\n\nof 24th December, 1945 is directly, and not inversely, proportional\n\nto the time I have taken to mention it!\n\nIt is\n\ngratifying to see your loyalty, energy and efficiency receiving\n\nrecognition. Your \"O.B.E.\" was duly recorded in the press (London,\n\nEdinburgh, Glasgow). Herewith my cordial congratulations.\n\nSome day you must convert that \"O\" into a \"K\". What?\n\nWith regard to Hong Kong University, it is most kind of\n\nyou to evince such a keen interest in its fate. If only a majority\n\nof Hong Kong's business men had your vision and breadth of outlook,\n\nthere need be no fears for its future. Of course the background to\n\nall our schemes and hopes and doubts is the attitude of the Home\n\nGovernment, and down to date no policy has been declared regarding\n\nthe Colony as a whole, or any of its institutions or functions in\n\nparticular. D.J. Sloss, C.B.E., our late Vice-Chancellor, though\n\nhis present status is undefined, is understood to be doing what he\n\ncan to arouse the interest of the Colonial Office, thus far\n\nwithout tangible results. He has collected some kind of Committee,\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-593-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 12-1-1946 - 27-10-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 582874, "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": "CO129-596-3 Hong Kong University- recognition of wartime training of medical students 24-1-1946 - 10-3-1949", "page_number": 103, "title": "CO129-596-3 Hong Kong University- recognition of wartime training of medical students 24-1-1946 - 10-3-1949", "content_text": "# DRAFT AND RECORD COPY\n\nColonial Office, \nDowning Street, \nS.W.1. \nJanuary, 1946.\n\nDear Mr. Hazelrigg,\n\nI am very sorry to learn from Brigadier MacDougall's telegram No. C.A. 1609 of the 24th January that the copies of the Order in Council setting up the University of Hong Kong \"Medical Degrees Emergency Committee\" were not attached to the letters of appointment to yourself and members of the Committee. I attach six copies and should be grateful if you would distribute them.\n\nMr. Sloss telephoned me recently to ask if it was expected that the Committee would be able to confer these \"emergency\" medical degrees in the near future as two of the candidates listed in the enclosure to Dr. Gordon King's letter to him of the 15th August are now in this country on scholarships for the purpose of undertaking post-graduate studies and I understand that the authorities of Edinburgh University wish to have formal proof that these scholarship holders are graduates of Hong Kong University before submitting them to Edinburgh.\n\nI hope therefore that you will be able to convene the Committee and confer the degrees in the near future.\n\nAs I think I mentioned to you when you were here the future of the University is now being considered by an Advisory Committee appointed by the Secretary of State. The Committee includes four members of the Asquith Commission, two of whom have been nominated as members of the Inter-University Council.\n\nT.L. HAZELRIGG, ESQ., C.B.E., M.C. \nCivil Affairs Administration, \nHong Kong and Shanghai Bank Building, \nHong Kong.\n\n[3185B] Wt. 17782/355 10m. 6/44 C.N.Ld. 748", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-596-3 Hong Kong University- recognition of wartime training of medical students 24-1-1946 - 10-3-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 586221, "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": "CO129-603-2 Education Department- revised grant code 5-4-1948 - 6-1-1949", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-603-2 Education Department- revised grant code 5-4-1948 - 6-1-1949", "content_text": "As Mr. Rowell explained to the Other Territories Sub-Committee at their meeting on 16th July, 1948 (2), the Bishop wishes to have a free hand to collect whatever school subscriptions he can.\n\nIt is interesting to learn from paragraph 3 of his letter that the Anglican Schools could take between $100,000 and $150,000 less grant each year. This implies either that the grants in Hong Kong are too lavish or that the parents prefer to contribute this sum of money to Hong Kong revenue by way of school subscriptions than by ordinary taxation. The Bishop's request for preferential treatment either by block grants or by any other radical revision of a code which has been accepted by every other denomination in Hong Kong should not be supported. If the Department considers that they would like to hear further discussions between the Bishop and Mr. Rowell I suggest that the first step should be to invite the Bishop to state exactly what freedom he claims and at the same time to explain the phrases in paragraph 8 of his letter on which he bases this claim.\n\nI agree with Mr. Radford that the final approval and implementation of the amended code should wait the decision on the Bishop's proposals.\n\nLi notation.\n\n5th August, 1948.\n\n(2)\n\nAt the meeting of the Hong Kong Sub-Committee of the A.C.E.C. on the 20th July, at which Mr. Rowell was present, the amendments to the Code were considered and approved, although copies of (4) had not then been received. Advantage was taken of Mr. Rowell's presence to get him to talk to the Sub-Committee about the radical changes in the Code that are now proposed by the Bishop of Hong Kong. The idea was to give the Sub-Committee the necessary background on the assumption that the case for drastically changing the Code in order to meet Anglican wishes would shortly be received officially from the Government of Hong Kong and might well be referred by us to the Sub-Committee.\n\n7\n\nSince then the Bishop, at his request, had had a long talk with me and explained the case which he has already put to the Governor in the first enclosure to (3). Bishop Hall said that, after the interview which he had with the Governor, the Colonial Secretary and the Acting Director of Education just before he left for Lambeth, the Governor suggested to him that he should come and have a talk with me alone and afterwards meet us with Mr. Rowell also present. At the end of his talk with me Bishop Hall asked that he might have a further talk in the Office at which Mr. Rowell should be present, and I said that I would try to arrange it.\n\nI advised the Bishop to see that Mr. Grace of Edinburgh House, as the non-Roman Catholic Missionary representative on our Advisory Committee, ...was...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-603-2 Education Department- revised grant code 5-4-1948 - 6-1-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 586263, "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": "CO129-603-2 Education Department- revised grant code 5-4-1948 - 6-1-1949", "page_number": 50, "title": "CO129-603-2 Education Department- revised grant code 5-4-1948 - 6-1-1949", "content_text": "TELEPHONE: SLOANE 9030\n\n50%\n\nTELEGRAMS\n\nCABLEGRAMS:\n\n\"ANCOMISSO, KNIGHTS, LONDON.\"\n\n\"ANCOMISSO, LONDON.\"\n\nCODES\n\nMISSIONS\n\nCHINA INLAND MISSION\n\nCONFERENCE OF MISSIONARY SOCIETIES\n\nIN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND\n\nHon. Treasurer\n\nSIR NIGEL DAVIDSON\n\nSecretaries\n\nREV. S. H. DIXON\n\nREV. H. M. GRACE\n\nREV. W. DUDLEY DIXON\n\nHMG/PMS\n\nMy dear Robison,\n\nEDINBURGH HOUSE,\n\n2 EATON GATE, LONDON, S.W.1\n\n(Two minutes from Sloane Square Station)\n\n6th August 1948\n\nAma\n\nBoth Cox and I have been having separate interviews with R. O. Hall Bishop of Hong Kong. In my talk with him the Bishop and I felt very strongly that he should be at the Committee when this matter is discussed again. I rang up Cox about this and he is not quite happy about it as matters have taken rather a different turn from the ordinary, the Bishop having appealed to the Governor and the matter being a departmental one. Cox suggested that if Rowell isn't going back soon, probably the best thing would be for the Bishop, Rowell, Cox, yourself, myself and one or two others to meet together before the matter is discussed in Committee. I gave Cox R. O. Hall's dates as 20th to 29th September inclusive, but I shall not be back from Sweden until September 21st so it would have to be 22nd to 29th inclusive, or October 4th morning or 14th October afternoon. Cox said he would get in touch with you about dates, but I thought I would also let you know the result of our 'phone conversations. Could you let me know as soon as possible if any date is fixed and I will get in touch with Bishop Hall?\n\nYours very sincerely,\n\nL. McD. Robison Esq. Colonial Office\n\nPage 50\n\nPage 51", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-603-2 Education Department- revised grant code 5-4-1948 - 6-1-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]