[ { "id": 229796, "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": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849", "page_number": 297, "title": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849", "content_text": "The Bestop of Victoria\n\nMINUTE 37 1 R Jade's MRElliot MMerivale M'Hawes\n\nBaxi firon\n\n1849 AUGT\n\nZv\n\n6635. Hong How y\n\nMy best\n\nI am directed by the Governor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter with its enclosures of the 2.0. July in which you solicit the aid of H.M. Govt. to the extent of £500 in support of a project for the establishment of a College, and I am directed to state to you in reply that Lord John Grey is sensible of the great advantage which would result from the establishment of the proposed College, and\n\nHowever, to follow the exact instructions given and to format it according to the rules, here is the revised output in HTML:\n\nThe Bishop of Victoria\n\nMINUTE 37 1 R Jade's MRElliot MMerivale M'Hawes\n\nBaxi firon\n\n1849 AUG T\n\nZv\n\n6635. Hong Kong y\n\nMy best\n\nI am directed by the Governor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter with its enclosures of the 20 July in which you solicit the aid of H.M. Govt. to the extent of £500 in support of a project for the establishment of a College, and\n\nI am directed to state to you in reply that Lord John Grey is sensible of the great advantage which would result from the establishment of the proposed College, and\n\nLet's correct and reformat the original text according to the given rules.\n\nOriginal text correction:\n1. \"hitural\" -> \"The Bishop\" (likely OCR error)\n2. \"The Bestop of Victoria\" -> \"The Bishop of Victoria\"\n3. \"MINUTE 37 1 R Jade's MRElliot MMerivale M'Hawes\" - No change, as it's not clear what it should be corrected to.\n4. \"Baxi firon\" - No clear correction.\n5. \"1849 AUGT\" -> \"1849 AUG T\" (separate the month abbreviation)\n6. \"Zv\" - Unclear, possibly a file reference or code.\n7. \"6635. Hong How y\" -> \"6635. Hong Kong y\"\n8. \"My best\" - Start of a sentence or phrase, possibly \"My Lord\" in formal correspondence.\n9. \"I am abrited by\" -> \"I am directed by\"\n10. \"to acknowled\" -> \"to acknowledge\"\n11. \"the sigh of your sosolips letter\" -> \"the receipt of your letter\"\n12. \"with its encloves of the 2.0. Etto\" -> \"with its enclosures of the 20 July\"\n13. \"in which you Solicit the aid of t. Jus : Gort.\" -> \"in which you solicit the aid of H.M. Govt.\"\n14. \"Iron to the extent of £500\" -> \"to the extent of £500\"\n15. \"At in support of a hich it is quspored te estathisch and Honey theng,\" -> \"in support of a project for the establishment of a College, and\"\n16. \"I am the state to to que in reply this reticle Lord Ging\" -> \"I am directed to state to you in reply that Lord John Grey\"\n17. \"is sensible of the quch adroitage which would result from the es lethshmech of the propiored College, and\" -> \"is sensible of the great advantage which would result from the establishment of the proposed College, and\"\n\nThe final output should be in HTML, using for paragraphs. Here is the corrected version:\n\nThe Bishop of Victoria\n\nMINUTE 37 1 R Jade's MRElliot MMerivale M'Hawes\n\nBaxi firon\n\n1849 AUG T\n\nZv\n\n6635. Hong Kong y\n\nMy Lord\n\nI am directed by the Governor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter with its enclosures of the 20 July in which you solicit the aid of H.M. Govt. to the extent of £500 in support of a project for the establishment of a College, and\n\nI am directed to state to you in reply that Lord John Grey is sensible of the great advantage which would result from the establishment of the proposed College, and\n\nHowever, the exact HTML formatting as per the last instruction is maintained in the revised response.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 271539, "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": "CO129-126 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [11-12]", "page_number": 99, "title": "CO129-126 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [11-12]", "content_text": "# Grace, notwithstanding the very different anticipations I had indulged before leaving England.\n\nthat the bootlege be closed and the Searchers dismissed, and that, when funds are again available, deblo and monies husbanded in case opportunity for reopening the bollege should happily be presented.\n\nI am also under the necessity of addressing Your Grace concerning the state of the Bishopric of Victoria. Your Grace is aware that previous to the Consecration the See of Victoria was in avoidance two years. On my appointment, I expected that the arrears of the Bishopric, which I am informed cannot legally be alienated from the See, would have been paid to me by the Trustees, viz. the Committee of the Colonial Bishoprics Fund of which Your Grace is President. Allow me to remind Your Grace that the sum in question, viz. £2000, is the interest contributed exclusively for the See of Victoria, and legally secured for its special endowment when the See was erected according to the formal request of Lord Grey, the Colonial Secretary of that day, and the official assurance to that effect given to His Lordship on the part of the Committee of the Colonial Bishoprics Fund, is correspondence to be perused at the Colonial Office attests. On my consecration I duly applied for these arrears.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-126 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302520, "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": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "page_number": 41, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "# Letter to the Government of Hong Kong\n\nproviding additional masters and improved appliances. It is committing itself more deeply, more irrevocably to the support of a purely secular system of education. The secular schools are the Government schools, with all the prestige and pre-eminence belonging to that position and a large additional sum of public money will be wasted on them. A boy who now costs at the Central School from $20 to $30 a year will not cost less than $50 or $60 at the new Schools, an extravagance which has never been witnessed in any other British Colony; leaving without education more than 14,000 poor children, who will naturally grow up rogues and thieves in the interests of secularism. Nor is it necessary to expend so much money on behalf of one Secular School on the pretext of forming interpreters to the Government, as experience proves that good interpreters can be had cheaply from Denominational Schools. Denominational Schools are refused recognition as such. Government will only look at them in their secular aspect, and even then gives them but a very disproportionate share of its countenance and support. They are to be subordinated to the Government Schools and under the Government secular inspectors. This is an unsatisfactory position and one we can hardly accept with any degree of self-respect.\n\nWe are under the conviction that the Government in favouring so extravagantly the secular system of education is not carrying on in Hongkong the wishes of the majority. It is a right inherent to the parents to choose the system of education for their children and if we take into consideration the number of children frequenting school in Hongkong, we shall see that the secular Government Schools with all their immense advantages have a less number of pupils than the denominational Schools with all their innumerable disadvantages. Number together the pupils frequenting Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Confucianist Schools you will have not less than 3,000, while from the 2,000 and odd children frequenting the Government Schools you have to take away the pupils of some of the Village Schools, where in spite of the principles proclaimed by the Government in favour of purely secular education, the system of education is practically Confucianist. Even if we consider the tax-payers we are of opinion, that were the Chinese residing in Hongkong to be formally and clearly asked, whether they prefer that the money they annually pay should be employed in giving to Chinese children a purely secular education, or in imparting to them an education according to their religious ideas, I am sure two-thirds would be in favour of the latter.\n\nGovernment must either cease to interfere directly in the work of education by handing its Schools over to some secular organisation, and putting all the schools alike under a liberal grant-in-aid scheme or, if it is impossible for it now to draw back from the position it has taken up, then let that portion of the Government scheme which affects denominational Schools be so modeled that religionists and secularists derive equal benefits from the Government grants.\n\nIf Denominational Schools enter into the Government system, they enter as an inferior class, under restrictions and not entitled to equal consideration and equal rewards with the Government Schools.\n\nTill this inequality is removed how can we enter into the Government system? If we do, we ratify the view the Government takes of us and condone the injury done us in the past. It is enticing Christian boys to go against their conscience, if you favour the secular schools more than the denominational ones.\n\nThis inequality of the Denominational and Secular Schools and school systems in the eyes of the Government is the great obstacle to a speedy settlement of the education question. His Excellency the Governor has keenly seized the point and clearly demonstrated the possible solution in his speech at St. Paul's College on the occasion of the last distribution of prizes, which took place there. Let that be done and everything will be right. Grant us equality in any shape or form and we shall be content.\n\nI subjoin copy of a semi-official letter dated the 10th July last addressed by me to the Acting Inspector of Schools Dr. Eitel.\n\nIn it, I detailed the alterations I should like to see made in the Grant-in-aid Scheme. I can add nothing to what I have said in that letter. I have only to suggest now that if the Grant-in-aid scheme should be amended in the sense of that letter, and if the capitation grant should be increased to something like an adequate figure, and some provision could be made for building grants to Denominational Schools, there would then be something more like equality of treatment and some more reasonable hope of a satisfactory settlement, but these four things are indispensable:\n\n1. Proportionate building grants for Denominational Schools.\n2. Adequate capitation grants.\n3. Payments for results at such rates as will enable a properly conducted school to compete on something like even terms with the Government Schools.\n4. Freedom from restrictions as to methods so long as the required results are obtained.\n\nApologising for the length to which this letter has run, I have the honour to be\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient humble servant,\n\nBishop\n\n## Semi-Official Letter\n\nRAMAX CATHOLIC MISSION HOUSE,\n\nHongkong, 10th July, 1878.\n\nMY DEAR SIR,\n\nI have the honour to return herewith a letter of Dr. BURDON on the subject of grants-in-aid, which you were so good as to leave with me for perusal and consideration. I have already more than once pointed out the gross inequality of the amounts assigned for the standards in purely Chinese schools and in schools for Europeans. Of course, I do not mean absolute inequality, but inequality when compared with the expenditure necessary for the maintenance of each class of school. The grant-in-aid given to a Chinese school nearly covers the whole annual expenses of the school, or at least goes a long way towards it. The largest grant-in-aid that can be earned by a school for Europeans will not cover one month's necessary expenditure in salaries of teachers. The grant-in-aid scheme is liberal as regards the purely Chinese school. It is niggardly as regards schools for Europeans.\n\nIt is difficult to imagine how, with the enormous expenditure of the Central School present to his mind, Mr. STEWART could have prepared a scheme so unfair to such schools as that of St. Joseph's.\n\nI suppose it is useless to ask now for any change in the amounts assigned to each standard. Your proposal to give a capitation grant, however, affords an easy remedy. Let the capitation grant for every European child receiving a suitable education be raised to at least six dollars. This will go some way towards removing the inequality complained of and for the attendance for capitation at 160 days as it is elsewhere.\n\nReferring to our conversation on the subject of the grant-in-aid scheme generally, I shall put down here in writing our objections to this scheme as it now stands. I shall point out in what way it might easily be amended, so as, without undergoing any substantial alteration, to get rid of those objections, and then I shall add a few words from our standpoint on the educational policy of the government generally. I shall be glad if you can lay my views before His Excellency the Governor, giving him, of course, to understand that this communication is at most semi-official and that if he wishes to have my views in a more formal shape I shall be happy to communicate them officially in answer to any application to that effect.\n\nThe Grant-in-Aid scheme is based on the principle of payment by results. It says in effect to the Managers of schools: Satisfy the government that during the year you have educated so many boys up to a certain standard and we will pay you for what you have done at so much per head. The grant-in-aid scheme professes to be indifferent, within very wide limits, as to how the result is attained. It professes to leave the teacher, the books, and the religious instruction to be given in the school to the free choice of the school manager. Why does it not carry out this principle to its fullest extent and leave the manager free in all respects to attain the required results how he pleases, so long as they are satisfactorily attained? Of course, government must exercise a certain amount of supervision, a very large amount if you will, over government-aided schools, but if they are open to inspection at all times, if the Inspector has the power to reduce the entire grant-in-aid by cumulative penalties under the heads mentioned in section 3 of the Grant-in-Aid Scheme, published in last Saturday's Gazette, and if the Government has the right to withdraw or refuse a grant on assigning sufficient reasons, it seems to me that enough is done to secure the proper management of the school without dictating how many days each boy must attend school in the year or how many hours each day he must give to particular studies.\n\nThe use of the word \"secular\" as applied to instruction throughout the Code and the stipulations in Sections 1 and 2 that \"secular\" instruction should be given for not less than four hours daily, and that religious instruction should only be given before or after these four hours secular instruction, are most objectionable to us Catholics, who believe and teach that religion ought to pervade every action of our daily lives, and who, on principle, refuse to dissociate religion from education. The phrase \"secular instruction\" has got, through the writings and teachings of the Secularists, a distinct and definite meaning and implies in their minds and in the minds of their followers, teaching from which faith, religious faith is excluded and in which reason reigns supreme. Our principles are the very reverse of all this, and our system of teaching corresponds with our principles. The books we use are drawn up on the plan of combining moral and religious instruction with lessons in reading, in history, geography, and natural science, in fact with everything that is taught. You give us permission to use what books we please provided they contain sufficient matter to satisfy the standards whatever else they may contain. Why not leave our time equally at our disposal, provided we attain the required result of turning out so many boys each year up to the required standards? If we do not do so, we are punished by a diminished grant.\n\nSo long as the word \"secular\" now the recognised shibboleth of a class of educationists, remains in the Code we are in danger, at any change in the Inspector, or in the personnel of the Government of Hongkong, of finding our books, our teachers, our methods of instruction, found fault with on the ground...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 307911, "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": "CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880", "page_number": 489, "title": "CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880", "content_text": "Testimonial from the Authorities\n\n482\n\nof\n\nthe\n\nBritish and Foreign School Society's College\n\nBritish and Foreign School Society\n\nBorough Road\n\nLondon, S.E.\n\nDec 18th 1879.\n\nMr. Stutchison has been a student in\n\nthis college for two\n\nyears, and has\n\nconducted himself to our entire satisfaction.\n\nHe is an\n\nintelligent young\n\nman and\n\na good teacher. We entertain the fullest confidence that he will earnestly and\n\nsuccessfully perform the duties\n\nof his\n\nprofession.\n\n(signed). I. C. Burtis, B.A. Principal.\n\nAlf. F. Smith, B.A. Vice Principal\n\nEdwin Barkly, B.A. Tutor\n\nGeorge Collins, Normal Master\n\nW. P. Williams, Resident Superintendent\n\nThe Revd Alf. Bourne, B.A.\n\non\n\nbehalf of the committee.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 309823, "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": "CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9]", "page_number": 484, "title": "CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9]", "content_text": "481\n\nthe Normal School, on thed. of\n\nNormal School, in the\n\nthe salary indicated\n\nwithin, I beg to recommend Mr. Alfred May, at present Acting Third Master Government Central School, as\n\nthe\n\nonly Master on Department will qualified for the post. Mr. May received a high-class professional training in England at a regular Training College (St. Mark's and St. Nicholas College, Lancing),\n\nwas\n\nsome years the Headmaster\n\nof St. Paul's College in Hongkong, possesses also a fair knowledge of the Chinese written language\n\nand\n\nof\n\nthe Cantonese Colloquial, and is a gentleman of considerable fact and Experience\n\nas a School teacher.\n\n3. For the post of Chinese Assistant Master\n\nthe salary indicated within, I beg to recommend Mr. Wong Shun-lan, who has been referred to in His Excellency's Dispatch to the Secretary\n\nof\n\nState Mr. B of 21 February 1881, paragraph 7. Mr. Wong Shun-lan is at present\n\nMaster of the Chinese division\n\nof\n\nthe Westpoint\n\nof\n\nGovernment School, is a\n\nfirst-rate\n\nClassical scholar in Chinese and an\n\nexperienced teacher in Chinese schools for the last 25 years. He is also possessed of the personal and Moral qualifications requisite for the post.\n\n4. As regards the Students to be received I recommend to leave to the Principal of the Normal School the\n\nSelection", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 317801, "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": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "page_number": 52, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "# 50\n\nin\n\nI observed several evil tendencies arising from some of its provisions. All The Hongkong Public School, conducted at St. Paul's College, with an enrolment of boys, all of whom were the sons of English-speaking parents, presented only 14 boys for examination under the Grant-in-Aid Scheme. There is no need to detail the results of the examination of each of the 23 Grant-in-Aid schools, as the results are summarily tabulated in the comparative Tables appended to this report. But a few general observations, which forced themselves into notice lately in connection with these schools, may be interesting to the taxpayer and possibly contain useful hints to the Managers of these schools.\n\nI observed, in the first instance, a general steady improvement going on, from year to year, in the quality of teaching given in these schools, as well as in their organisation and discipline. As I knew all those of these schools which existed before they were brought under the Grant-in-Aid Code, I am certain that this general improvement in the effectiveness of these schools is principally due to the provisions of the Grant-in-Aid Scheme. On the other hand, this scheme, like all other schemes, has also its drawbacks.\n\nThe class of residents, for whose children this Public School was specially designed, is too small to give any solid prospect of securing a larger attendance in future. In my opinion, it would be more advantageous to the school to revert to the former plan of admitting a number of respectable Chinese youths to be taught together with the English-speaking boys, as the increased number of scholars would enable the Committee to reduce the fees and to increase the staff, whilst the mixing of the two races would produce a healthy emulation without at all endangering a good discipline, to which Chinese boys are far more amenable than European youths.\n\nAs, for instance, one-fourth of the annual grant earned by a school goes, according to the provisions of the Code, to the paid teacher as a personal bonus, there is among most of the native teachers a strong tendency, not only to neglect the religious teaching which is not examined into nor specially paid for by the Government, in favour of the particular subjects required by the Code, but also to adopt objectionable expedients.\n\nAnother objectionable expedient lately resorted to by some of the native teachers of these schools is the practice of admitting at the beginning of the year a much larger number of children than there is teaching power to provide for, and to select out of the mass, and to drill in preference, the more intelligent portion of the scholars, but quietly to get rid, by neglect or otherwise, of the unpromising scholars. A further objectionable device of the same sort is the practice, which appears more generally to be setting in in all the boys' schools, of bringing forward as many scholars as possible for the lower standards in which passes can be obtained at the examination with comparative ease, but to bring forward as few scholars as possible for the higher standards in which the risk of failure is much greater.\n\nThus, the liberality of the Code appears to have engendered a mercenary spirit among many of the native masters of schools in Class I, and it seems that this very scheme, which was introduced to raise the standard of education in the Colony, is, as far as these schools in Class I are concerned, liable to an abuse tending to lower the standard of education materially. Although the number of these schools and the number of their scholars has very largely increased since 1876, yet the subjoined figures show that the number of scholars annually brought forward into the two highest standards of the Code has considerably decreased since 1876.\n\n| Year | Number examined in Standards V and VI |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1876 | 11 |\n| 1877 | 33 |\n| 1878 | 33 |\n| 1879 | 15 |\n| 1880 | 5 |\n| 1881 | 28 |\n\nI find that the slight increase in the number of scholars brought forward into the higher standards in 1881, as compared with the three preceding years, is due to the laudable efforts made in this direction by the girls' schools and their Managers. It is principally in the boys' schools in Class I that the standard of education has manifestly been lowered instead of being raised.\n\nThe Hongkong Public School, directly connected with any foreign Missionary, presented 14 boys for examination. None of the Kaifong schools has as yet been placed under the Grant-in-Aid Scheme. The results of the examination of the other Grant-in-Aid schools are as follows:\n\nThe Basel Mission, with an enrolment of 47 boys, presented only 19 boys for examination. Of the 18 boys examined, 3 failed in 1 subject each, and 1 failed in 2 subjects. Considering that 4 of the boys examined were clearly too young to be expected to pass in arithmetic, the result showed that good teaching had been given.\n\nThe time devoted to the teaching of reading and writing colloquial Chinese in the Roman character, and to arithmetic, makes a serious inroad upon the time required for learning to read and write in the Chinese character and, in my opinion, mars, if it does not hinder, real proficiency in the latter.\n\nThe Basel Mission Girls' School, admirably organised and conducted as a boarding school, shows this system to its best advantage. Of 43 girls examined, all passed in every subject, with the exception of 11 girls in Standard IV, of whom 3 failed in 1 subject each, 1 failed in 2 subjects, and 1 failed in 3 subjects.\n\nThe Berlin Foundling House Bethesda, a girls' school worked under the same system, also produced very favourable results. Out of 37 girls examined, 4 failed in 1 subject each, and the result was that only one failed to pass.\n\n## Grant-in-Aid Schools under Class I of the Code\n\nAll the remaining Grant-in-Aid schools are worked under Class I of the Code, giving a purely Chinese education in the Chinese language only. But as all these schools, 23 in number, teach principally the Chinese Classics and supplement the ethical teaching of the Confucian Classics by religious Christian teaching, the work done in these schools has, in my opinion, a high educational value.\n\nUntil the beginning of last year, the Protestant Missions of the Colony held the monopoly of this system of teaching. Last year, for the first time, the Roman Catholic Mission placed one school, worked under this system, under the Grant-in-Aid Scheme, so that now 22 of these schools are Protestant Mission schools and 1 is a Roman Catholic school.\n\n## Normal School\n\nA Normal School has been started by the Government in September 1881, beginning with 10 students, with a view to supply trained native Masters for the schools of the Colony. The ten students were examined by me at the end of the year, and the result was very satisfactory.\n\nI enclose also the usual Tables, `I-XVI`, containing the Educational Statistics for 1881.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nThe Hon. F. STEWART, LL.D.,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nE. J. EITEL, \nInspector of Schools", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 321717, "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": "CO129-209 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [5]", "page_number": 130, "title": "CO129-209 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [5]", "content_text": "STATEMENT\n\nOF\n\nASSETS AND LIABILITIES\n\nON THE 31ST DECEMBER,\n\n1882.\n\nGovernor,\n\nDate.\n\n1883\n\nNo.\n\n56\n\nQuay\n\nLast previous Paper,\n\nGor\n\n1081.\n\n7038\n\nGaps that it is eminently in school.\n\nM\n\nSpeck to Sin\n\nR. Herbert.\n\nfor\n\n14974\n\n22.f.\n\n1\n\nHong Kong 10471\n\nNo.\n\n(Subject.)\n\nnew Central School\n\nDESPATCH.\n\n127\n\n104.\n\nRECP\n\nREGS 19 JUNE\n\nwill submit plaus title of \"College\"\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nM. Bramston.\n\nThere can be no\n\nCalling\n\nobjection to it \"The Royal College:\"\n\nI would not insist on\n\nSupervision\n\nsuggests\n\ngreater\n\nin in the Normal School but\n\nThe minimum age is 21.\n\nJury visits had ereer should from\n\ntime to time be paid\n\nWait to acknowledge till the plane\n\nArrive\n\nCPd\n\n20\n\nAnd der Entertes lehet te Ineen's appant\n\nin the Style \"Bezel College\"\n\nof the Chubs acadang\n\nli\n\nas is it cost\n\nLov\n\nLee\n\n9077/81\n\nJears ago Jagen M. 62 Art for 22 Uhre 2\n\nGWR me 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-209 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 323700, "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": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "page_number": 131, "title": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "content_text": "130\n\nGazetted Government & Notification\n\n(No. 0 of 1849.)\n\nIn this my appointment I was placed two steps above Mr. W. Kinney (now 4th Master) who had already been gazetted as Acting 5th Master, in consideration of my being a trained master, and further consideration of my having been Head Master of St Paul's College School for four years.\n\n3. By Government Notification No. 192 of 1880 I was Gazetted Acting Second Master. Although I had been Acting Academic Master at St. Paul's College for four years and under Government inspection for three years (for Reports vide Govt Not's Nos 58 of 1844, 18 of 1848 and 77 of 1879.) and Acting in permanent posts as third and second Masters, especially in the Central School for three years, yet I was never confirmed. This I have always considered a hardship. I may mention here that both Mr Arthur and Mr McKinney suffered in like manner.\n\n4. By Govt Not 307 of 1881, I was Gazetted as Principal of the Normal School (C.S.O. 2508 of 1881).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 325389, "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": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 649, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "of it \n\nt which referred more \n\nespecially to the Chinese Community have been translated \n\n~ \n\nin the vernacular newspapers, and luwe produced (as I am informed) a very favourable impression on the Chinese who, as Your Lordship is awan, form the overwhelming ruajority of the population of this Colony) I have the honour to be, \n\nMy Lord, \n\nYour Lordship's most obedient, \n\nHumble Servant, \n\n5.7 Bowen \n\nEnclosure \n\n# LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE \n\n## OF VICTORIA COLLEGE. \n\nSaturday afternoon (April 26th, 1884) witnessed the formal commencement of the long projected work of erecting a new building for the accommodation of the institution hitherto known as the Central School, but which has \n\nnow been honoured with the more distinguished title of Victoria College. The ceremony of laying the foundation stone was performed by His Excellency the Governor, who was accompanied by Lady Bowen and the Misses Bowen, and the Officers of his Staff. Amongst \n\nthe large assemblage present were Bishop Burdon. Admiral Sir W. M. Dowell, K.C.B., Col. Walker, R.E., Hon. F. Stewart, Hon. E. L. O'Malley, Mr. Justice Russell, Hon. J. M. Price, Hon. A. Lister, Hon. H. G. Thomsett, Hon. W. Keswick, Hon. T. Jackson, Hon. Wong Shing, Rev. W. Jennings, Rev. Dr. Chalmers, M. Du jardin (Consul for France) and other Consuls; A number of Naval and Military officers and Members of the Civil Service, and a good many ladies. Most of the leading residents of the Colony were also present, including the principal Indian and Chinese Merchants. A mat-shed tastefully decorated had been erected and was furnished with seats for the accommodation of visitors. The decorations and all the arrangements, we understand, were due to the energy and good taste of Mr. Butler, an officer of the Public Works Department, assisted by Mr. McLeod, also of the same office. \n\nThe new College buildings which will be erected on the site overlooking Hollywood Road, purchased for the purpose by Sir Arthur Kennedy as far back as 1876, will be in the Doric style, and will be remarkable rather for their severe and academic simplicity and their efficiency to meet the requirements of the Educational Department than for any pretension to ornateness of design. They comprise a main building facing the North, flanked by extensive wings at right angles to the former, the whole forming three sides of a quadrangle, very much in the style of many of the colleges at Oxford and Cambridge. The main block, which is three storied, includes a large Examination Hall or theatre, designed to hold 700 students. Spacious galleries run round the four sides of the Hall, and these, together with the auditorium, are approachable from the class-rooms by ample lobbies and wide stair-cases on both sides of the Hall. The two wings of the building are devoted to class-rooms, of which there are seven large ones to accommodate forty scholars, and fourteen smaller ones to accommodate thirty scholars each. The wings also contain the College library and the Masters' offices. In the basement the entire left wing is devoted to a gymnasium and covered play-ground for recreation during wet weather, while the right wing is divided off into an extensive chemical laboratory, a scholars' day room, luncheon and cloak rooms, and also a large store room for school furniture. It is intended to construct \n\nthe entire fabric of red brick with granite quoins and facings and the use of timber in the floors and roof will be restricted as much as possible and substituted by iron joists and cement concrete with a view to ensure not only a fire-proof building but immunity from the ravages of white ants. The lower portion of the site, immediately overlooking Hollywood Road, will be levelled and planted with trees, and laid out as a play ground. The new College will take two years to build and when completed will be the largest public building in the colony after the City Hall. We understand the cost of the work, including the preparation of the site, is estimated at about $100,000. \n\nThe \n\nC 0. \n\n9454 \n\nRECR \n\nREGS 5 JUN 14 \n\nThe proceedings on Saturday commenced by the Hon. J. M. PRICE addressing the Governor as follows:-Your Excellency, in the name of the Head Master and the students, as well as of other friends and supporters of the Central School present here to-day, I have been deputed to thank your Excellency for the honour you have done us in coming to lay the foundation stone of the new Victoria College. We accept this act as a proof of the great personal interest taken by your Excellency in the welfare of the institution and in the promotion of education in this colony, and we trust that your Excellency may be induced to remain among us to preside over the more interesting ceremony of the opening of the new College Buildings upon their completion two years hence. (Applause.) On my own behalf I have only to express the hope that the new College, when finished, may realize the expectations of your Excellency in enabling the 700 students, whom it is intended to accommodate, to prosecute their studies under improved sanitary conditions, in airy and capacious class rooms, in enabling them to attend lectures in an adequately large theatre, in giving them facilities to undertake the practical study of physical science in a suitable laboratory, and giving them the means of improving their physical training by healthy recreation in the proposed new College gymnasium. With these advantages held out under the project which your Excellency is initiating to-day, its friends and supporters are confident that the new Victoria College will not only prove a great acquisition in respect of local requirements, but that it is ultimately destined to exercise a very important social and political influence beyond the confines of this colony in the opportunities and facilities which it will give to the rising generation of the neighbouring Empire of prosecuting European studies, of acquiring European ideas, and of realizing the advantages of the civilization of the West. (Applause.) \n\nHIS EXCELLENCY-Mr. Price and gentlemen, It is with very great satisfaction that I have come here to-day to lay the first stone of the new Victoria College, the chief educational institution in this colony, on which, in view of its growing importance, Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to confer her own name. I know that this entire community loyally appreciates the honour thus bestowed upon it by our beloved Sovereign, the Queen of Great Britain and Empress of India, in Chinese phrase the Ta Hwang Ti of the English race. (Applause). I well remember that when I first went to Australia in 1859, as the first Governor of Queensland, I announced to the great public meeting which was held to welcome me on my arrival, that the name of the new colony (formerly called Moreton Bay) was the happy thought and inspiration of the Queen herself. The announcement of this simple fact was received by the four thousand of Her Majesty's subjects who formed my audience with an emotion rarely witnessed in so large a concourse; it was received with tears of joy and shouts of \"God Save the Queen!\" (Applause). For myself, I have throughout my long career as Her Majesty's Representative in several provinces of her Empire, always been a zealous advocate for the extension of education \n\namong all classes of the people, and I shall devote to the same sacred cause whatever yet may remain to me of active public life. (Applause. I am sure that you will all concur with me in thanking the Surveyor-General for his able and \n\ninteresting address, describing the handsome and commodious College which will soon replace the present very inadequate and inconvenient building. Mr. Price's plans have been approved by high professional authority at home, and the new College, in addition to its other advantages, will be an ornament to this grand site, overlooking the city and our noble harbour, and the neighbouring mainland of China. (Applause). And here let me take this opportunity of saying a few words of friendly sympathy to the Chinese contractors, artisans, and working men, who, by their skilful labour, will erect here an edifice scarcely more honourable to the head that has planned than to the hands that will execute it. Let them be told that in England it is from their class that the chieftains of art and industry \n\nhave \n\nPage 646", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 325391, "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": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 651, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE\n\nOF VICTORIA COLLEGE. Saturday afternoon (April 26th, 1884) witnessed the formal commencement of the long projected work of erecting a new building for the accommodation of the institution hitherto known as the Central School, but which has now been honoured with the more distinguished title of Victoria College. The ceremony of laying the foundation stone was performed by His Excellency the Governor, who was accompanied by Lady Bowen and the Misses Bowen, and the Officers of his Staff. Amongst the large assemblage present were Bishop Burdon, Admiral Sir W. M. Dowell, K.C.B., Col. Walker, R.E., Hon. F. Stewart, Hon. E. L. O'Malley, Mr. Justice Russell, Hon. J. M. Price, Hon. A. Lister, Hon. H. G. Thomsett, Hon. W. Keswick, Hon. T. Jackson, Hon. Wong Shing, Rev. W. Jennings, Rev. Dr. Chalmers, M. Desjardin (Consul for France) and other Consuls; a number of Naval and Military officers and Members of the Civil Service, and a good many ladies. Most of the leading residents of the Colony were also present, including the principal Indian and Chinese Merchants. A mat-shed tastefully decorated had been erected and was furnished with seats for the accommodation of visitors. The decorations and all the arrangements, we understand, were due to the energy and good taste of Mr. Butler, an officer of the Public Works Department, assisted by Mr. McLeod, also of the same office.\n\nThe new College buildings which will be erected on the site overlooking Hollywood Road, purchased for the purpose by Sir Arthur Kennedy as far back as 1876, will be in the Doric style, and will be remarkable rather for their severe and academic simplicity and their efficiency to meet the requirements of the Educational Department than for any pretension to ornateness of design. They comprise a main building facing the North, flanked by extensive wings at right angles to the former, the whole forming three sides of a quadrangle, very much in the style of many of the colleges at Oxford and Cambridge. The main block, which is three storied, includes a large Examination Hall or theatre, designed to hold 700 students. Spacious galleries run round the four sides of the Hall, and these, together with the auditorium, are approachable from the class-rooms by ample lobbies and wide staircases on both sides of the Hall. The two wings of the building are devoted to class-rooms, of which there are seven large ones to accommodate forty scholars, and fourteen smaller ones to accommodate thirty scholars each. The wings also contain the College library and the Masters' offices. In the basement, the entire left wing is devoted to a gymnasium and covered play-ground for recreation during wet weather, while the right wing is divided off into an extensive chemical laboratory, a scholars' day room, luncheon and cloak rooms, and also a large store room for school furniture. It is intended to construct the entire fabric of red brick with granite quoins and facings, and the use of timber in the floors and roof will be restricted as much as possible and substituted by iron joists and cement concrete with a view to ensure not only a fire-proof building but immunity from the ravages of white ants. The lower portion of the site, immediately overlooking Hollywood Road, will be levelled and planted with trees, and laid out as a play ground. The new College will take two years to build, and when completed will be the largest public building in the colony after the City Hall. We understand the cost of the work, including the preparation of the site, is estimated at about $100,000.\n\nThe proceedings on Saturday commenced by the Hon. J. M. Price addressing the Governor as follows:-Your Excellency, in the name of the Head Master and the students, as well as of other friends and supporters of the Central School present here to-day, I have been deputed to thank your Excellency for the honour you have done us in coming to lay the foundation stone of the new Victoria College. We accept this act as a proof of the great personal interest taken by your Excellency in the welfare of the institution and in the promotion of education in this colony, and we trust that your Excellency may be induced to remain among us to preside over the more interesting ceremony of the opening of the new College Buildings upon their completion two years hence. (Applause.) On my own behalf I have only to express the hope that the new College, when finished, may realize the expectations of your Excellency in enabling the 700 students, whom it is intended to accommodate, to prosecute their studies under improved sanitary conditions, in airy and capacious class rooms, in enabling them to attend lectures in an adequately large theatre, in giving them facilities to undertake the practical study of physical science in a suitable laboratory, and giving them the means of improving their physical training by healthy recreation in the proposed new College gymnasium. With those advantages held out under the project which your Excellency is initiating to-day, its friends and supporters are confident that the new Victoria College will not only prove a great acquisition in respect of local requirements, but that it is ultimately destined to exercise a very important social and political influence beyond the confines of this colony in the opportunities and facilities which it will give to the rising generation of the neighbouring Empire of prosecuting European studies, of acquiring European ideas, and of realizing the advantages of the civilization of the West. (Applause.)\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY-Mr. Price and gentlemen, It is with very great satisfaction that I have come here to-day to lay the first stone of the new Victoria College, the chief educational institution in this colony, on which, in view of its growing importance, Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to confer her own name. I know that this entire community loyally appreciates the honour thus bestowed upon it by our beloved Sovereign, the Queen of Great Britain and Empress of India, in Chinese phrase the Tu Whang Ti of the English race. (Applause). I well remember that when I first went to Australia in 1859, as the first Governor of Queensland, I announced to the great public meeting which was held to welcome me on my arrival, that the name of the new colony (formerly called Moreton Bay) was the happy thought and inspiration of the Queen herself. The announcement of this simple fact was received by the four thousand of Her Majesty's subjects who formed my audience with an emotion rarely witnessed in so large a concourse; it was received with tears of joy and shouts of \"God Save the Queen\" (Applause). For myself, I have throughout my long career as Her Majesty's Representative in several provinces of her Empire, always been a zealous advocate for the extension of education among all classes of the people, and I shall devote to the same sacred cause whatever yet may remain to me of active public life. (Applause). I am sure that you will all concur with me in thanking the Surveyor-General for his able and interesting address, describing the handsome and commodious College which will soon replace the present very inadequate and inconvenient building. Mr. Price's plans have been approved by high professional authority at home, and the new College, in addition to its other advantages, will be an ornament to this grand site, overlooking the city and our noble harbour, and the neighbouring mainland of China. (Applause). And here let me take this opportunity of saying a few words of friendly sympathy to the Chinese contractors, artisans, and working men, who, by their skilful labour, will erect here an edifice scarcely more honourable to the head that has planned than to the hands that will execute it. Let them be told that in England it is from their class that the chieftains of art and industry have sprung.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 328335, "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": "CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6]", "page_number": 110, "title": "CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6]", "content_text": "109\n\nThere are no suitable schools from which masters can be drafted to fill these posts.\n\nThe problem is how to provide efficient Chinese Assistants in addition to the 1st and 2nd who may be considered permanent.\n\nThe 3rd and 4th of the Assistants at present receive twenty dollars as monthly salary, but they are continually leaving on obtaining higher salaries, no less than 6 changes having taken place among them within 18 months. We have therefore every reason to suppose that when the new College is ready, we shall not have two Assistants of the present year's experience. To induce two Assistants to remain in their posts, I propose an increase of five dollars each per month, as a total annual increase of one hundred and twenty dollars.\n\nInstead of 2 Pupils Teachers and 3 Monitors we now have at a total cost of four hundred and thirty-two dollars per annum, and who leave whenever occasions offer, I suggest having Pupil Teachers duly apprenticed and bound in securities for three or four years as His Excellency the Governor may appoint, who shall receive ten dollars a month the first year, and fifteen dollars a month afterwards (with a promise of at least twenty dollars at the end of the stipulated time). This would make a gross annual expenditure of one thousand and eighty dollars, making a gross annual increase in expenditure of six hundred and forty-eight dollars.\n\nFor the training of these Pupil Teachers, a special Normal Class would be formed in the afternoons, in addition to their practical work of teaching in the mornings. By this means, eight efficient trained Chinese Assistants (in addition to the 1st and 2nd) will be ready to fill the posts required in the New College, at a total additional cost per annum of seven hundred and sixty-eight dollars.\n\n#", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 328336, "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": "CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6]", "page_number": 111, "title": "CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6]", "content_text": "## \n\nA vacancy has been caused by the resignation of Mr. Hutchison (Assistant Master) who has obtained a more lucrative appointment, and as I am informed no additional expense can be incurred at present, I suggest that of the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars provided for this office in the Estimates, a part be spent in defraying the above extra expenditure.\n\nThe staff of masters in 1882 consisted of five Assistant Masters, but by the closing of the Normal School in October 1883 the masters returned to the Central School, and the staff of this school was increased to six Assistant Masters.\n\nMr. Caldwell resigned in June 1884, and as both Mr. Falconer and Mr. Hutchison were absent on acting appointments, I recommended that the vacancy should be filled up immediately. The same course was adopted in September on the death of Mr. Muckinney.\n\nMr. Falconer will shortly return to the school, and the strength of the staff will, with Pro. Dealy and Mr. Jones, the new Assistant Masters, be at the same figure as in 1882. I observe therefore that it is more important to provide efficient Chinese Assistants for the New College who cannot otherwise be obtained, for another trained English Master when any number can be procured when required from England.\n\nA further point is the question of the Head Master's salary which requires reconsideration for the following reasons.\n\n(1) The amounts drawn from the Treasury for various services are: Head Master $200 a month and a house; quarters house allowance $170; Assistant Masters $120.\n\n(2) The Head Master's salary is lower than... \n\n## Page 110 \n\n... \n## Page 220 \n\n4", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 330228, "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": "CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3]", "page_number": 90, "title": "CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3]", "content_text": "## No. 8.\n\n### Enclosure 1.\n\n**Report by the Head Master of the Government Central School.**\n\nGOVERNMENT CENTRAL SCHOOL, \nHONGKONG, 21st May 1886.\n\nSir,—I have the honour to forward the Annual Report for 1885.\n\n1. The total number of boys on the School Roll for the year was 596, about as high a figure as can be attained in the present building. It must, however, be understood that 499 was the largest number of boys present in the school at any one time in the course of the year. It is deserving of notice that the increase of number is due to the higher standard introduced a couple of years ago into the Middle and Lower Schools which enabled me without injury to the scholars or to the results of the examination, to promote a very large number of boys to the Upper School. The numbers on the Middle, Lower, and Preparatory School Rolls are not above the average, the increase of about 30 boys is therefore only to be accounted for by the increased Upper School Roll.\n\n2. To illustrate the condition of the School during the last five years the following table is annexed.\n\n| YEAR | Total Number of Scholars | Monthly Enrolment | Average School Days | Maximum | Minimum | Average Daily Attendance | Average Expense of each Scholar per School Days |\n|------| ------------------------|------------------|---------------------|-----------|-----------|-------------------------|-----------------------------------------|\n| 1881 | 562 | 247 | 451 | 366 | 385 | | |\n| 1882 | 572 | 241 | 443 | 372 | 390 | | |\n| 1883 | 556 | 236 | 460 | 378 | 391 | | |\n| 1884 | 558 | 236 | 462 | 362 | 411 | | |\n| 1885 | 596 | 238 | 499 | 382 | 437 | | |\n\n| YEAR | Number of School Boys Examined | Percentage of Passes | School Fees | Actual Nett Expenditure | Average Daily Attendance |\n|------|--------------------------------|----------------------|-------------|--------------------------|-------------------------|\n| 1881 | 385 | 90.09 | 4,051 | $10,550.15 | 27.35 |\n| 1882 | 863 | 91.18 | 4,084 | $10,995.35 | 28.20 |\n| 1883 | 365 | 96.98 | 4,121 | $13,109.51 | 33.22 |\n| 1884 | 379 | 95.58 | 4,981 | $13,378.62 | 32.48 |\n| 1885 | 412 | 95.38 | 5,278 | $12,885.00 | 29.45 |\n\n3. This year I introduced as a novelty a General Intelligence paper into the Examination of the First Class. The object was to discover how far the minds of the boys were educated outside the prescribed routine. The results were not high, but considering the novelty of the paper, satisfactory, 32 per cent. passing in this subject.\n\n4. I am happy to report that the school has profited by the remarks of the Inspector of Schools in his Report of last year, there being a marked improvement in Arithmetic and Dictation and in the results from the Examination of the Anglo-Chinese School.\n\n5. In the middle of the year I altered the course of study in the Anglo-Chinese Classes substituting Reading, Dictation, and Translation from the School Committee Book No. 1. for Reading Mencius and Translating sentences turned into Chinese by the teacher.\n\n6. The general result of the English Examination of 1885 is good. In spite of the large number 412 examined, and in spite of the papers being of a more searching character than usual throughout the School, 95 per cent. passed; which reflects great credit on all the Masters and Chinese Assistants. I think too a special word of commendation is due to the two new Masters Mr. DEALY, and Mr. JONES, who, in one year, have so readily and speedily adapted themselves to their new surroundings.\n\n7. The following changes took place in 1885 among the Staff of Masters. Mr. JONES, a trained and certificated Master from Chester Training College, with excellent testimonials arrived in January last to take the post rendered vacant by Mr. MCKINNEY's death. On the arrival of Major-General GORDON, Superintendent of the Gaol, Mr. FALCONER, who had been Acting Superintendent for 15 months returned to his duties as Second Master. In June Mr. HUTCHISON, who had been for three years, a most energetic, successful and popular Master, resigned his appointment on leaving the Colony, after being absent for 15 months as Acting Assistant Postmaster General. As the staff of Masters was, by his resignation and after the return of Mr. FALCONER, at its normal strength, it was not considered necessary to obtain a Master for the extra Mastership caused by the return of Mr. May from the Normal School.\n\nPage 90 \nPage 91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333468, "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": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "page_number": 290, "title": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "content_text": "Enclosure 4.\n\n287\n\nM. A.M. Jameson to the acting formal secretary.\n\n(Calcutta)\n\n30th Oct. 1888\n\nC.O. 6600\n\nWa Ying School.\n\nHongkong, Oct. 28th 1888\n\nHrm: F. Stewart, 16.2. Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nSince my engagement as Head Master of the Wa Ying School terminates at the end of the present year, I am desirous of entering the service of the Government of this Colony in January next, as an assistant in the Central Schools.\n\nI beg further to call your attention respectfully to the following particulars regarding my qualifications for such a post.\n\nHaving passed two years in the York Training College, and a further period of two years in charge of an elementary school, I obtained the certificate...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 337017, "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": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "page_number": 48, "title": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "content_text": "46 \n\nI beg most respectfully to submit that, with the eve of Excellence, it is pleasing to His Excellency to place the staff of the proposed New Central School, that I may be permitted to hold at least an equivalent rank within the Order of seniority to that held by me at the time of my transfer from the present staff of the school to the post of Principal of the Normal School.\n\nIn conclusion, I may add that I have the permission of the Right Reverend the Bishop of Victoria to refer to him regarding my character and abilities.\n\nI have to \nS. A. I. May \n\n## Enclosure A \n## Statement of my Educational career \n\nPupil at St Saviour's School, Shoreham (a branch of the corporation of S.S. Mary and Nicolas) for two years, from January 1866 to December 1867. \n\nStudent in training at St John's College, Hurstpierpoint (another branch of the corporation) for three years; at the expiration of which, I passed the examination required by the College for the degree of A.S.M.C. (Associate of St Mark's College). Assistant Master in the same school for nearly four years till October 1874, then in November 1874, accompanied the Right Reverend the Bishop of Victoria to Hongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 337282, "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": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "page_number": 313, "title": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "content_text": "## 7. Education in the Colony\n\nLanguage and teaching neither English nor Chinese. The fourth class consisted of 8 Anglo-Chinese Schools (with 1,160 scholars) giving a European education in both the English and Chinese languages. The fifth class consisted of 6 Schools (with 688 scholars) giving a European education exclusively in the English language.\n\n7. Ever since Schools were established in this Colony, a disproportionate amount of attention has been given to the education of boys as compared with girls. In the early times of the Colony there was good reason for that, for the Chinese community consisted during the first two decades of the Colony's existence almost exclusively of men. It is only since the last 20 or 25 years that the Chinese began on a gradually increasing scale to settle down here together with their families, and it is very probable that the census of 1881 will show that the Chinese population of the Colony will in the near future attain to an approximately normal proportion of males and females. I showed in my Report for last year that, thanks to the successful working of the Grant-in-Aid Scheme, there has been, ever since the year 1873, a steady increase from year to year, both in the number of Schools established in the Colony for the special purpose of promoting female education, and in the proportion of girls to boys under instruction in the various Schools of the Colony. Among 5,974 children attending Schools under the supervision and examination of the Government, there were 4,195 boys and 1,779 girls in the year 1887.\n\nThis constitutes a slight increase as compared with the statistics of the preceding year. But the gradual progress made in this direction becomes more striking if we compare the proportion of girls to boys during the last twenty years. In 1867, among 700 children then attending Schools under Government, the girls counted only 6.86 per cent. In 1877, in the case of 3,144 children attending such Schools, the percentage of girls had risen to 19.84 per cent, and in the year 1887 we had, among 5,974 children in School, girls to the number of 29.77 per cent. It is evident that female education in this Colony, although in a backward condition and requiring to be fostered in every legitimate way, has in it the elements of healthy progress.\n\n## 8. Schools and Education Statistics\n\n8. Apart from the 94 Schools under Government supervision and examination, with their 5,974 scholars, there were, in the year 1887, about 110 Private Schools (including Night Schools) at work in the Colony, attended by about 2,300 children, so that the total number of scholars under instruction in Schools of all classes amounted to 8,272 scholars, distributed over 204 Schools. As the population of the Colony, apart from the Army and Navy, amounted, in the year 1887, to about 181,000 souls, it appears therefore that about 4.54 per cent of the whole resident population were under instruction in Schools, public or private, within the Colony. In European countries, where education is compulsory, the number of children actually attending School forms generally about 10 per cent. (more or less) of the population. Under the exceptional circumstances of this Colony and in the absence of compelling attendance at School, it would be unreasonable to expect an equally high percentage here. European families still continue to send their children to Europe for reasons of health or to complete their education, and Chinese families, although they have now to some extent taken to bringing up their children in the Colony, send them away to their ancestral homes on the neighbouring mainland at the slightest provocation, such as the outbreak of epidemic disease or the spread of vague rumours concerning expected disturbances. We have no accurate data to ascertain the number of children of local school-age (6-16 years) residing in the Colony in the year 1887. When the last census was taken (in 1881), the number of children of local school-age approximated 9.26 per cent of the population. Applying this proportion to the population of the year 1887, it would appear that the number of children of local school-age amounted in 1887 to 16,843. Deducting therefrom the number of children actually in School (8,274), it appears that the number of uneducated children in the Colony, in 1887, amounted to 8,569. In other words, a little under one half of the children of local school-age actually came under instruction in Hongkong during the year 1887. There is nothing abnormal in this discrepancy. Educational statistics of quite recent date show that in England and Wales somewhat over one half, and in Ireland less than one half, of those children (5-18 years of age) who ought to attend School, actually come under instruction.\n\nThere are in this Colony hardly any industries which employ great numbers of children. One Sugar-Refinery employs a small gang of children in packing cube sugar in tins, and public road-making gives here and there parents an opportunity to employ their children in breaking small stones (to be mixed with cement), but there is very little interference at present with school attendance arising from these sources. The employment of children by their parents in carrying loads of soil or bricks to or from building sites has very much decreased during the last 10 years. The principal causes that interfere with school attendance in the Colony are domestic employment within the family, bond-servitude in the case of purchased servant girls, and fishing in the case of a few villages.\n\nThe Government Schools (outside the Central School) and the Chinese Grant-in-Aid Schools offer, in every part of the Colony both in town and villages, an ordinary Chinese education absolutely free of charge. In the Aided Village Schools (also giving an ordinary Chinese education in the vernacular) a small charge is made by the village communities amounting, on an average, to 30 cash and 3 catties of rice (total value about 12 cents) a month for each child in actual attendance. There are moreover 5 Government Schools in different parts of the Colony which give an elementary English education (up to Standard IV) absolutely free of charge. It is only in the middle-class Schools of the Colony which give an English education (with or without Chinese in addition) and in Private Schools that fees are charged such as are beyond the means of the poor. Thanks to the Grant-in-Aid Scheme, the lowest classes of the Chinese population have the most liberal provision made for them by Government to furnish their children with an ordinary Chinese education. The mass of the Chinese lower classes do not yet sufficiently appreciate an English education, because their necessities demand Chinese rather than English knowledge. But the well-to-do classes of the Chinese community are now from year to year becoming more alive to the advantages of an English education (based on 3 or 4 years previous study of the Chinese classics) and the existing educational machinery is quite capable of any modification that may be required in order to keep pace with the gradually increasing demand for a higher and broader standard of school teaching.\n\nOne great characteristic of our educational system is that, being the outcome of a slow but natural process of evolution, it is not only in vital sympathy with all the constituent elements of our heterogeneous community, equitably representing the various factors of differentiation, but it represents also a mighty force of unification. In social life and even in commercial life we have in this Colony sundry unbridged chasms, widely separating the different strata of the community, and this exclusivism seeks also to secure separate Schools for separate classes of society, but the main current of the educational movement in the Colony runs so strongly in the direction of unity that the Schools of the Colony are either forced to abandon their exclusivism or to eke out a scanty existence by constant appeals to the charity of a small section of the community. The Government Central School, the largest and most flourishing educational institution in the Colony, was originally established for Chinese only but was soon compelled by the sheer force of circumstances to admit all other nationalities, and here we see now all the strata of Colonial society brought together in a harmonious co-operation which has (to a certain extent) a unifying effect on society itself. St. Joseph's College, originally established exclusively for Portuguese boys, soon found itself compelled to admit also Chinese boys, who were at first taught in entire separation from the Portuguese, but this partition wall had also to be lowered after some years, and now we see in the upper classes of St. Joseph's College Portuguese and Chinese harmoniously intermixed. Even the Hongkong Public School, established on a strictly exclusivist principle, being intended for European Protestants only, found itself compelled to open its doors also to Portuguese, Jews and Mahomedans. The writer of the article on Hongkong, in the book published under the title \"Her Majesty's Colonies,\" concludes a fair sketch of the educational system of Hongkong (reprinted in a recent work entitled \"The Schools of Greater Britain\"), by saying that this system is very well adapted to the views of the Chinese inhabitants, as a great element in popularising British rule and inducing respectable Chinese to settle in the Colony. What our educational system has thus done for the Chinese, it is also doing for all the other nationalities represented in the Colony, by striving to remove all unnatural distinctions of race and creed and to bridge over every chasm and gulf that divides one class of society from the other, in order to unite all in mutual subservience to the interests of the common weal.\n\n## 9. School Accommodation\n\n9. In one respect most of our educational agencies are labouring under a serious disadvantage. The question of accommodation seriously affects the results of school teaching in every country, and more particularly so in a tropical climate. Yet in this very matter of house accommodation most of the Schools in the Colony are in a very backward condition. Among our 204 Schools there are hardly ten or twelve which are located in suitable premises. The vast majority of our Schools are at present accommodated in ordinary semi-Chinese or Chinese dwelling houses, ill-suited for the purpose of class rooms and are in most cases deficient as regards light and ventilation and especially in respect of lavatories. Even the Government Schools, with the exception of four, are all more or less badly housed, being located in narrow tenements of Chinese construction which were originally built for Chinese domestic purposes and for which the Government pays a heavy monthly rent. The Grant-in-Aid Schools are, with a few exceptions, in the same plight. The Aided Schools in the Villages are mostly accommodated in window-less cottages, generally of a worse type than the dwellings of the villagers themselves, many of these Schools receiving light and ventilation exclusively from the open door-way. There is therefore great need for improvement in the matter of school accommodation. But at present there is little prospect of an early change for the better. House rent has risen enormously in the main parts of the town. All new houses, that have been built of late, are of smaller dimensions than the old houses of the town. Houses containing rooms suitable for the purposes of a School have of late become very rare in the Colony. The Government and private Managers of Schools are thus being forced to face the problem of providing school accommodation of a suitable and sanitary type. The Grant-in-Aid Scheme offers indeed Building Grants under certain conditions and one very fine College (St. Joseph's) has been built with such aid, but Managers of Grant-in-Aid Schools appear to consider the restrictions with which Building Grants are hedged in too irksome still, although these restrictions have lately been modified to meet some objections. The Government has also lately made several grants of building sites for Village Schools, but in the thickly populated parts of the town there is a lamentable dearth of available sites suitable for Schools. The sanitary supervision of Public Schools which, under the Grant-in-Aid Scheme, devolved hitherto upon the Inspector of Schools, has at my request been entrusted, since 1887, to the care of the Sanitary Board, a measure of some importance as, in the case of an outbreak of epidemic disease, Schools serve as powerful centres for the propagation of the infection.\n\n## 10. Examination Results and Statistics\n\n10. The results of the annual examinations of the Schools under the supervision of the Government will be found detailed in Table X-XV appended to this Report, and as far as the Government Central School is concerned, in the Report of its Headmaster. A few supplementary statistical details and general observations regarding the principal classes of Schools may however be of interest.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 337873, "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": "CO129-239 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [9-12]", "page_number": 268, "title": "CO129-239 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [9-12]", "content_text": "## Legislative Council Proceedings\n\nThe CHAIRMAN - I think you will have the opportunity very soon of discussing the whole question in the Legislative Council. I think it will be a question of how much is to be done by the Emigration Officer and how much by the Registrar-General. The complaints that reach us at present from all quarters are very serious indeed. One great evil is the emigration houses. \n\nHon. J. BELL-IRVING - Do you mean that the men are kidnapped?\n\nThe CHAIRMAN - They are brought here under false pretences, and are taken on board the steamer in all manner of ways without passing the doctor or Emigration Officer, and they never know where they are until they are off Green Island.\n\nThe ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he believed that in most cases the men who jumped overboard were swindlers, who had agreed to go voluntarily and had got an advance, and they wanted to get out of their contract.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN said there was a time when what the Attorney-General had alluded to actually occurred, and great care would have to be taken in each case to ascertain who was right and who wrong, but that there was a great deal of hardship there could be no doubt.\n\nThe ATTORNEY-GENERAL said a great many cases of alleged kidnapping had come before him, and on looking into them nothing was clearer than that the men had more or less formed an intention of going.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN asked the Attorney-General if he had seen a book produced in evidence in the Supreme Court the other day from which it appeared that men had been actually sold.\n\nThe ATTORNEY-GENERAL - Yes; there is something like that, but I don't think from my experience there is any extensive kidnapping in the real sense of people being taken against their will. There are, of course, a great many people who go and then wish they had not.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN said he had no sympathy with people who had voluntarily agreed to go and taken their advance, but there were cases of real hardship. Another matter was that it had become a common thing for a procuress to take a first-class cabin, and she was then free of the emigration laws and could take a number of girls as her servants. He thought it had become necessary to enact that no Chinese woman should leave without passing an examination.\n\nHon. J. BELL-IRVING said it would be a very difficult thing to kidnap people in their own country.\n\nThe COLONIAL TREASURER said they were not kidnapped, they were decoyed.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN said no one could have any idea of the simplicity of some of the men who left as emigrants.\n\nThe vote was approved.\n\n## OBSERVATORY\n\nOn the vote under this heading, Hon. B. LAYTON raised the question of telegraphic communication with the Observatory, as he had observed that Dr. Doberck complained he could not get his views about the weather sent over to this side fast enough.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN said if Dr. Doberck had a line to himself it would assist him.\n\nHon. B. LAYTON said the messages were very important, and asked what a line would cost.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN said it would probably cost $2,000 or $3,000.\n\nHon. B. LAYTON asked if the police cable was not available.\n\nHon. W. M. DEANE said the police cable was used, but Dr. Doberck wanted to be able to telegraph at any hour of the day or night.\n\nHon. B. LAYTON - Naturally.\n\nHon. W. M. DEANE - But don't you see, it wakes up the men. The instruments are not powerful enough to send a message through from the Observatory to the Central Station, so they have to be transmitted twice. The hon. gentleman went on to explain that urgent messages could be sent at any time, but ordinary messages were sent at stated hours. Dr. Doberck had his own wire to the signal station, for the hoisting of the drum and so on, but what Dr. Doberck wanted was to be in direct communication with the offices of the Eastern Extension Company. At present the messages from the ports came to the police, who had to transmit them; most of them were in cipher, too, and the police would be very glad to get rid of them.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN said he thought unless any member considered the matter urgent they might leave it for the present.\n\nThe COLONIAL TREASURER asked if Dr. Doberck had made a requisition, and whether the question of a cable was before the Committee.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN replied that it was not.\n\nHon. B. LAYTON said he thought the cable had been asked for several times.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN said it was simply a question of money; if the colony wanted it and was willing to pay for it the Government would make no objection.\n\nNo formal suggestion was made that a cable should be laid, and the vote, which did not include an item on this account, passed as it stood.\n\n## GARDENS AND PLANTATIONS\n\nThe CHAIRMAN explained that an increase of $800 for the maintenance of the Government Gardens was more apparent than real, that a large number of plants were sold, the proceeds of which went into the Treasury, and this sum was put down as an equivalent.\n\nThe vote was approved.\n\n## JUDICIAL\n\nOn the vote for the Judicial Department, Hon. B. LAYTON asked if anything had been done about the interpretation question.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN - The Governor said the other day he would write an additional message, and I think he will refer to the interpretation. The question is now all cut and dry; all the people who had to report on it have sent in their reports.\n\nThe vote was approved.\n\n## ECCLESIASTICAL\n\nThe Ecclesiastical vote was approved.\n\n## EDUCATIONAL\n\nThe CHAIRMAN said that many of the increases shown under the Central School heading were apparent and not real, for instance, the increase to the Head Master, $720. The Governor was determined to amalgamate rent and salary as fast as possible, as was done here, and in course of time all allowances for rent would disappear.\n\nHon. W. M. DEANE asked if there would be residence for the masters at the new Central School.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN replied in the negative.\n\nHon. W. M. DEANE - A large building like that ought not to be left without some one in charge.\n\nHon. P. RYRIE - Was it not the idea they should have a boarding college?\n\nThe CHAIRMAN - That has been given up, I think. There will, of course, be a care-taker.\n\nHon. J. BELL-IRVING - Will the present Central School be sold?\n\nThe CHAIRMAN - Yes, and it is hoped the sum obtained for it will go far towards paying the expense of the new building.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN went on to explain that the addition of $1,000 under the heading of grants-in-aid was caused by the present vote being insufficient. The Inspector of Schools had represented that the number of schools was increasing so rapidly and education increasing so much that the present vote of $17,000 was inadequate. The Secretary of State had given it as his opinion that the sum voted for education should be decided by the Council with regard to the finances of the Colony, and whatever sum the Council put on the Estimates must be adhered to. The result had been that on one or two occasions the Inspector had had to give less to teachers than they would otherwise have received under the grant-in-aid scheme. It was to prevent the necessity of making any reduction of that kind that the Inspector had recommended this increase. Only the amount voted could be spent and the teachers understood that if the amount was not sufficient to meet the claims under the grant-in-aid scheme there must be a reduction.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN also explained that the reduction of $2,400 appearing under the heading of \"Quarters for Masters at Central School\" was only apparent and not real, the amount having been added to the salaries.\n\nThe vote was approved.\n\n## MEDICAL\n\nThe CHAIRMAN said that under this heading... \n\n264", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-239 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 339843, "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": "CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12]", "page_number": 434, "title": "CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12]", "content_text": "# Enclosure 2\n\n(A. 18.)\n\n## PARTICULARS of the Office now vacant at the Normal College in the Colony of Hongkong.\n\n### Particulars of a Trained Certificated Master (holding Inspector's Parchment)\n\n1. **Duties of office, and qualifications required for their performance.** Duties of Chinese Official.\n\n2. **Salary and emoluments, and whether secured by a permanent law.** $1800 per annum; obligatory; University-graduates have preference.\n\n3. **Other circumstances affecting the value of the office.**\n\n4. **Nature, number, and amount of securities required, and mode of giving them.** 29033\n\n5. **Whether any, and if any, what provision is made from public funds for the passage from this country, or elsewhere, of the persons sent out to fill the office.** First Class Passage out.\n\n6. **Acts or Ordinances making provision respecting any of the above matters, and especially respecting the permanency of the emoluments, and the particulars of the security required, with references to the sections in which such provision is made.** \n\n## REDE 10 DEC 9\nPage 29 \nPg 363", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 340977, "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": "CO129-244 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [1-4]", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-244 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [1-4]", "content_text": "Date: 19 Feb.\n\nSubject: assumption of the Govt\n\n448\n\n49\n\n20\n\n50\n\n52\n\n53\n\nRequis: both of Postage and Revenue Stamps for 25, Passage for Col. Chaplain's locum tenens\n\n4 Mch: Appt. of M. Mitchell Innes to the Leg. Col.\n\nAppt of Messrs Ryjie Ho Kai to the Leg. Ccl.\n\nCommutation of land Premia\n\n55\n\n56\n\n59\n\n63\n\n64\n\nIssue of half dollar tokens\n\nMr. J. Ackroyd's Appln for Promotion\n\n15. Regulations repg. Commercial Travellers\n\n14. Mr Jui Jones' Appen. for Promotion: His employment\n\n18.\n\n(1\n\nLet. 19\n\nAudit\n\nho.\n\nDate\n\nSubject\n\nre: Supt. Surveyor General's department Ordce: 3 of 1890\n\n95\n\n110.\n\n194 98\n\n#1\n\n103 144\n\nAppts in Public Works Dept.\n\n2\n\nAllowance to children of late Mr Brewer\n\nAppt. of M. Stevenson Inspector of Nuisances, Kowloon Dispensary\n\nLPWD\n\nAppt. of my art hennel as Corres Clerk\n\n104 15 Proposed \"W. and G\" Pension Fund\n\n106 14\n\nDeath of Marquis Tseng.\n\ng\n\n17\n\nTel. 18 Hong Kong Bank hole Isant\n\n12\n\n(by the Japanese Comut\n\n10y\n\n108 19\n\nInformation re: Smuggling at Gibraltar\n\nMachinery and materials for Praya Reclamation\n\nSalary of the Attorney General\n\nMilitary Contribution\n\nDeath of Asst. Surveyor Wagner\n\nAcquisition of land by public officers\n\n68 Conf.\n\nTel.\n\n20\n\n71\n\n121\n\n72 22.\n\nYL\n\n76\n\nHulk for\n\nWre\n\nyy\n\n125\"\n\n45\n\nAppt. of two marine Surveyors\n\n24. Formal allowance\n\n49\n\n1\n\n71\n\n82\n\n83\n\nOrdinances.\n\nas an epidemic hospital.\n\nDeduction of sick leave from Vacation leave\n\nm?\n\nDeath of Mr J. Carneiro\n\nAppts. to the Legislative Council.\n\n26 Machinery for Praya Reclamation\n\n/apl. Increased Military Contribution\n\nmedal to P.G. Macaulay\n\nBy\"\n\n865. 847 15.\n\n90 17.\n\n92 93\n\n8\n\nConf.\n\nPresentation of\n\n10-9\n\nSel 21\n\n112\n\n114\n\n115\n\nBonf\n\n22\n\n116 23\n\n14 Conf.\n\n120\n\nAppts in Public Works Dept.\n\nAppt. of Cadets\n\nCappt. of a successor\n\nResignation of Head Mistress of Girls' school.\n\nPraya Balance, Deposit of with H.K. Bank\n\n1\n\nGrant of Gratinties\n\nHong Kong Bank note Tsoul\n\nKong Bank\n\nCorps of Chinese Submarine miners\n\nPraya Reclamation Balance\n\nAudit\n\nPraya Reclamation Balance\n\nEmployment of sitaks by private firms\n\n25 Sinking of Junks\n\n123 128\n\n1/\n\n124\n\n125\n\n126 29\n\n(marter\n\n124\n\nVisit of Duke and Duchess of Connaught\n\nOrdinance 2 of 1890\n\nVole of increase of salary to Asst. Harbour\n\nSalary of the Attorney General\n\nEngagement of six trained nurses\n\nAppt. of Mr Hosspool as Asst. Supt. of Police\n\nSurveyor General's Dept.\n\n128\n\n179\n\n30\n\nConf\n\nGaol Report for 1889.\n\nAppt. of Mr. H.G. Nicolle as Local Auditor\n\nStaff of Police Force.\n\nPost Office Report for 1889\n\nRevenue and Expenditure, 1889.\n\nRefund by Mr. G.A. Woodcock of cost of his training college course\n\nExpenses in connection with Colonial defences\n\nAmendment of H.Kong Volunteer Ordce 82\n\nCost of new fortifications", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-244 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 343589, "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": "CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12]", "page_number": 336, "title": "CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12]", "content_text": "335\n\nenjoying an immortality in the hearts of his scholars in all parts of China, I might say the world, his memory will be kept green in Victoria College by the scholarship founded in his honour by old scholars in 1884. I believe too that the Memorial Committee appointed since his death contemplate applying to the Government for permission to affix some permanent memorial in the College Hall.\n\n5. It was originally proposed that Victoria College should furnish accommodation for 770 boys, a number which was supposed by some to be extravagantly large. By the simple expedient of dividing all the desks into six instead of five parts, seats have been provided for 960 boys (including the Pupil Teachers' room) affording each boy a space, that compares favourably with what is required in England; while future undue crowding, an evil long felt at the Central School is rendered impossible by each boy's space being defined by his desk-lid. In addition to the manifest saving of expense in providing education for 924 boys by the same staff as was allotted to 770, there are great advantages derived from the assembling of a larger number of boys in one building; these are—one continuous system of education, as the larger number of boys to be promoted from lower classes will gradually lessen the number of admissions into higher classes from other schools,—a prolongation of the course, which will delay the undue promotion of backward boys which has long been to their detriment, and to the discredit of the upper classes—and the more effective shading off of degrees of knowledge so that too great a stride in education will no longer follow on promotion. There were 800 boys on the Roll in September, and there is every reason to believe that the College will be full in a year or two, if not next month.\n\n6. During the past year there were on the Roll 790 Chinese and Eurasians, 23 English, 4 Germans, & Hebrews, 1 Hindu, 10 Japanese, 86 Mohammedans, 1 Parsee and 46 Portuguese. This college can therefore in a marked degree lay claim to a cosmopolitan character.\n\n7. Chinese boys, as a rule, are very intelligent, docile and painstaking. That they are intelligent is established by the large number of boys, that in the short period of five or six years have advanced from the alphabet to a knowledge of English sufficient to do a creditable paper on a play of Shakespeare. Their docility proverbially arouses the admiration of every new master from England. Painstakingness is a national characteristic sometimes provoking to the more impetuous European. It might be thought that with these admirable traits the work of teaching in this College would be an easy task and the results should be even higher than they are. There would be grounds for this supposition, if there were not serious compensating drawbacks such as the following. Stolidity and absence of facial expression render it next to impossible for a teacher to gather how much of what he says is understood by the class; he has not the satisfaction of seeing perplexed ignorance dissolve into triumphant knowledge, for difficulties do not pucker the brow, nor does success kindle the eye of the Chinese student. This difficulty is increased tenfold by the fact that all instruction is given in English, thus there is not merely the doubt whether a boy understands the subject itself, but a fear that he does not grasp the phrase in which it is conveyed. Again the Chinese answer in English with a single word after the genius of their own language leaving a great deal to the imagination; such a habit is hard to break, and very tantalising to the teacher, as the curt answer may contain a correct idea or the reverse. Further where an English boy would answer to the best of his ability, even running the risk of a mistake, or would ask the master for assistance or explanation, a Chinese is deterred by a nervous fear of the ridicule of his comrades. Once again, though keen in detecting the shades of their dozen native tones, Chinese ears are remarkably dull in detecting the difference in English vowel sounds, and between sharp and flat consonants; the result of all which is impossible mistakes in Dictation and Reading. It might be thought too, that the inherited power of memory in the Chinese race, of which one hears so much would prove a considerable factor in their progress, but this is far from being the case. It would certainly be so in Examinations if special care were not taken in framing the questions to avoid putting them in such a form as would allow of an answer being previously committed to memory. But as a matter of fact, in daily school life there would appear to be a sad lack of an intelligent memory, the master cannot rely on the work done in the previous year as a foundation on which to raise a higher superstructure. I have dwelt at this length on the characteristics of Chinese boys, because only those daily engaged in the task of teaching know exactly where the difficulties lie, and because some explanation is thus afforded of the necessity of the slow progress that has been made in the past, and may be expected for some time in the future.\n\n8. To impart the principles of a sound education in English is the main object of this Government Institution. In the distribution of work to each class this is steadily aimed at, and strict injunctions are given to employ the English language alone in all instruction, except of course in the Translation Lessons and when occasionally in the Junior Classes difficulties require to be explained in Chinese. The natural consequence of this is that the boys become very apt at understanding what is said to them in English. The great problem is how to get boys to speak English before they leave school. Experience has shown that, within a few months after obtaining a situation, our Chinese boys, with their store of grammatical rules and knowledge of composition, develop the power of speaking English very creditably; but, as a rule, only Pupil Teachers and Monitors really speak English well before leaving school. This would seem to point clearly to a want of self-confidence, and to the absence of the necessity. Special attention will in the future be paid to this in Junior classes.\n\nThe work of the upper classes is at present regulated by the requirements of the Oxford Senior Local Examination,\n\nAs I believe a mistaken impression prevails that Latin was on this account added to the curriculum, I will take this opportunity of ventilating the purpose with which it was introduced. BACON and MILTON, the fathers of English Prose Composition, teem with Latinisms, nor are these entirely absent from the modern standard of ADDISON. It is only quite recently that English composition has become a separate study in England. Formerly a good classical education was supposed sufficient to enable an English author to write correctly in his mother tongue. It is therefore reasonable to suppose that a foreigner must be assisted in the acquisition of English rules of composition by the study of that language, on which its choicest models are framed. In Latin the observance of concord and regimen is rendered conspicuous by inflection, the intelligent translation therefore of a simple Latin author should explain the reason of many English rules. Moreover immense assistance in understanding and distinguishing the meanings of English words, and often in spelling them, is manifestly afforded by even a restricted Latin vocabulary. In the First Class, Latin, Chemistry, Drawing, Book-keeping, Mensuration, and Trigonometry will for the future be optional, and not included in class subjects.\n\n9. In India it has been found necessary to prepare special school text-books for English education. The demand in Hongkong is too slight to offer much encouragement to a similar enterprise, but the want makes itself felt.\n\nAs an effort in this direction I published a few years ago a School Arithmetic specially intended to explain difficulties to our boys. Much could be done in the way of explaining eccentricities of English Idiom and Spelling, to say nothing of the urgent need of a cheap text-book of the Geography of the Chinese Empire. Something too is needed to supplement the School Committee's series of books in Chinese, which provide practice for Translation into English. The late Mr. FALCONER edited a very useful book, but the very classical Chinese can only be adequately translated into very classical English. I have therefore just recently compiled a collection of cuttings from Chinese newspapers, which will, it is to be hoped, familiarise the boys with everyday ideas and expressions.\n\n10. In the confined area of the old Central School nothing could be done to provide the boys with the necessary opportunity for developing their physique. Simple gymnastic appliances will shortly be erected in the covered playground; properly availed of, this should counteract the cramped attitudes generally associated with study.\n\n11. The fees have been raised in Class I to $36 per annum and in Classes II and III to $24, as the Upper School derives the chief benefit from the heavy expense of the salaries of English Masters, and of costly school material. Chinese parents should reflect that they have now a good English education brought to their doors, and that their sons can pass an examination held in England without the outlay attendant upon sending them thither for five or six years. It is much to be desired that parents, who can afford it, as many of them well can, should not take their sons away immediately upon their promotion to the First Class, but allow them to stay a year or two at the top of the School to really complete their education more thoroughly.\n\n12. The staff consists of twenty-nine in all; viz.: nine English Masters (four of whom are graduates), ten Chinese Assistants, three Pupil Teachers and three Monitors; and in Chinese School four Chinese Graduates, (Sau Tsoi). This is an increase of ten masters on the staff formerly at the Central School. Four new English Masters arrived in April and May last, Messrs. BARLOW, M.A., BOOTH, HASELDEN, B.A., and BOARDS; of these, three were extra, and one was to supply the vacancy caused by the appointment of Mr. MAY to be second master on the death of Mr. FALCONER. The six new Chinese Assistants were provided by six Pupil Teachers articled three years ago, and who during the last five months have given evidence of their ability to discharge their duties very satisfactorily. With the exception of Translation from Chinese in the two head classes the Head Master no longer takes a position on the teaching staff; his time being fully occupied in organisation and supervision, fortnightly inspections of each class, half-yearly and annual examinations with other multifarious duties. It is noteworthy that of the staff of eighteen, English and Chinese, I found on my arrival eight years ago, only two remain. As only two have been removed by death it is manifest that the remainder are those who have left in search of higher salaries elsewhere, some on promotion in the Colonial Service.\n\n13. A normal class and a special Examination Paper on Education and School Discipline for Pupil Teachers and Monitors are a new feature this year. Mr. BOARDS, who has been in charge of these junior assistants in front of the Preparatory Class, is on the whole able to give me only a moderate Report though he speaks highly of one or two Pupil Teachers. I trust that next year some marked improvement will be observed.\n\n14. With the necessarily increased staff for 21 classes, instead of 12, it could only reasonably be expected that the expenses would be increased, but it is satisfactory to observe that the average expense of each scholar calculated on the average daily attendance is lower than it has been for years. When it is remembered that for three months the expense of three extra English Masters was borne by the smaller number of boys at the Central School, it may reasonably be supposed that this figure will not be exceeded next year.\n\nAn average cost of $25 may be called £3 18s., per head, which sounds a large sum, but is far exceeded by our namesake in Australia where the cost per head is £4 15s.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 345306, "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": "CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5]", "page_number": 415, "title": "CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5]", "content_text": "411\n\nnot give the services of one master to teach two boys drawing, I was compelled to withdraw this subject and the two boys joined the Book-keeping class. Of the four who took up Mensuration only two returned after the Mid-summer holidays, and another change was necessary. As I considered Mensuration of more practical use than Trigonometry, I discontinued the latter, and a class for Mensuration was held during the afternoon on the same day that that for Trigonometry had been held. Thus Book-keeping only was taught during the morning, and that to the whole class.\n\n5. It was stated last year that gymnastic appliances would, in the course of the year, be erected in the covered play-ground to give the boys an opportunity of developing their physique. There is however I think a certain amount of danger attached to the use of gymnastic appliances without the supervision of an instructor, and so those appliances have not been put up. I hope however that some kind of drill will be instituted this year which will be of greater benefit to the whole school than gymnastic appliances which I fear would be but very little used by the Chinese.\n\n6. A slight change has been made in the staff during the year. Mr. HASELDEN resigned and Mr. G. A. Wooncock was appointed to fill the vacancy. In April last, the Head Master, Mr. WRIGHT, went home on leave to take a well-earned holiday; and in June Mr. JAMESON also had leave of absence; and thus we have been working with a reduced staff of European Masters for half the year.\n\n7. With reference to the Pupil Teachers, two of the three have, since June, been acting as Chinese Assistant Masters, and so have not been able to attend any class of instruction—save that on school management—yet one of them, LEUNG LAN-FAN, has passed the Oxford Local, and obtained the title of Associate in Arts.\n\nAs the Monitors are not articled, they are frequently leaving for more lucrative employment, and thus there are constant changes in the Normal class, which make good results in an examination an impossibility, and further, as Mr. JONES who has had charge of this class has pointed out to me, these changes make the teaching a thankless task.\n\n8. This year nine pupils went in for the Senior Oxford Local, of whom three passed. Two being under the age of 19 years were declared Associates in Arts, and the other one gained his certificate.\n\n9. The following are the results of Examinations just held. There were 692 boys examined of whom 619 passed, which gives a percentage of 89.45, and though this is lower than in previous years, yet considering that many promotions were made after the Mid-summer Vacation to allow new boys to enter, and as thus very many boys had only six months to get up their work in, I consider the results on the whole satisfactory. To particularise, the work done in classes IA, IIB, IIIA, and the Preparatory School in general, deserves special mention; while that of IB, and IIIB is far below the average.\n\n10. Of the boys who have left during the past year, 3 have entered the Colonial Service, 11 the Chinese Imperial Customs' Service, 38 have obtained employment in the various firms and private offices in the Colony, and 25 have gone, under Foreign employ, to the Coast Ports.\n\nA good many boys have left school without assigning any reason, but from what I can gather the two chief causes seem to be inability to pay the fees, and change of residence. Unless a boy is leaving to go into some office, for which he requires a certificate, it is a very difficult matter to get from the Chinese the actual cause of a boy's leaving.\n\n11. In conclusion I must take up the strain of Mr. WRIGHT's last year's Report and express the gratitude of the Masters and the boys to all who have so generously provided prizes for the encouragement of our scholars.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nJanuary, February, March,\n\nApril,\n\nMay, June.\n\nJuly,\n\nAugust,\n\nSeptember,\n\nOctober.....\n\nNovember,..\n\nDecember,.\n\n1890.\n\nVICTORIA COLLEGE.\n\nNumber of\n\nAverage Daily Attendance.\n\nNumber\n\nMonth.\n\nof Scholars.\n\nNumber of Attendances.\n\nSchool Days.\n\nTotal,......\n\n683\n\n6,617\n\n10\n\n661.7\n\n890\n\n11,683\n\n14\n\n834.5\n\n881\n\n20,336\n\n25\n\n813.44\n\n867\n\n12,016\n\n15\n\n801.06\n\n857\n\n19,776\n\n25\n\n791.04\n\n820\n\n17,964\n\n24\n\n748.5\n\n785\n\n18,422\n\n28\n\n736.88\n\n766\n\n5,122\n\n7\n\n781.71\n\n818\n\n13,287\n\n17\n\n778.64\n\n809\n\n19,482\n\n26\n\n749.31\n\n775\n\n17,993\n\n25\n\n719.6\n\n702\n\n16,326\n\n23\n\n709.81\n\nTotal Number of ATTENDANCES during 1890,\n\nNumber of SCHOOL DAYS during 1890,\n\n178,974\n\n236\n\nAverage DAILY ATTENDANCE during 1890,\n\nTotal Number of SCHOLARS at the School during 1890,\n\n178,974\n\n236\n\n758.364\n\n1,075\n\nAVERAGE EXPENSES of each SCHOLAR at Victoria College during 1890.\n\nExpenditure, Deduct School Fees,.........\n\nTotal Expenses of the College,\n\nAverage Expenses of each Scholar per Number on Roll,\n\n$31,134.96\n\n11,912.50\n\n$19,222.46\n\n......$17.88\n\nper Average Daily Attendance, ...................\n\n25.84\n\nALFRED J. MAY,\n\nActing Head Master.\n\nThe Honourable F. FLEMING, C.M.G.,\n\nColonial Secretary, &c., &c., &c.\n\nSir,\n\nYour most Obedient Servant,\n\nALFRED J. MAY,\n\nActing Head Master,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348643, "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": 376, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "# MATERIALS FOR A HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN HONGKONG.\n\nPoor and lawless as most of the Chinese inhabitants of Hongkong were at the time, they were not forgetful of the value of education. For at least a century before the British occupation of Hongkong, there were already small Chinese Schools in existence in the villages of Wongneichung, Stanley, Little Hongkong, and Aberdeen. Each of these Schools counted probably, year by year, an average attendance of some ten boys. These scholars, on an average 50 per annum, with their five teachers, represented, previous to the advent of the English, the entire school-going population of Hongkong, less than one (about 0.89) per cent. of the whole of the inhabitants.\n\nEach of those 50 scholars used to pay to his teacher, apart from small presents of eggs, fruit, or fowls, given at certain festivals, a monthly fee consisting of 30 cash and 4 catties of rice, representing the value of about 12 cents. In return for this fee, the young Hongkongites were taught to read and commit to memory a list of clan names (`Pak-ku-sing`), the Three-characters-classic (`Sam-tsze-king`), the Four-characters-classic (`Sze-taze-man`), and, in the rare case of boys attending school for more than three years, some of the so-called Four Books of ancient Chinese literature. In addition to reading and memoriter exercises, the scholars were taught to write Chinese characters, on wooden tablets at first, and, in the case of the few who could afford the additional expense, even on paper (by means of copy slips which had to be traced through tissue paper). During harvest time in the Hakka villages, and during the annual fishing seasons among the Punti fishermen, the schools were closed, and the teachers left without fees, excepting what they earned by acting as letter-writers, accountants, fortune-tellers, and geomancers for the people in general.\n\nHowever little positive knowledge, apart from mere reading and writing, was disseminated by these Schools, the teachers' personal influence, rather than their teaching, served to keep alive among the people of Hongkong the national respect for Confucian tenets of morality and ceremonialism. Thus, these little Schools did, after all, a small modicum of genuine educational work by partaking of the general character of Chinese education, which leans on ethics as European education leans on religion.\n\nSuch was the state of education in Hongkong previous to, and at the time when, the British flag was for the first time hoisted at the foot of Taipingshan, on Tuesday, 26 January, 1841, and when formal possession was taken, for all time, of the whole Island of Hongkong, in the name of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria.\n\nThere is no record of any new School having been established in Hongkong during the first year of the Colony's existence. The attention of the Government and of the European community was much engrossed with the removal of property and personnel from Macao to Hongkong, with the selection and laying out of building lots, and with the erection of residences, offices, and storehouses. Everything was altogether too unsettled yet to admit even of the thought of any measures towards improving the educational condition of the inhabitants. The Chinese alone, the refuse of whose lowest classes began, early in 1841, to flock to the site of the present city of Victoria, consisted, during the first few years of our Colonial history, chiefly of boat-people, common labourers, coolie-builders, bricklayers, carpenters, stone-masons, blacksmiths, and provision dealers, all of whom had come to Hongkong, in defiance of Mandarin prohibitions, for temporary employment rather than as settlers, and left their families on the mainland. They naturally had neither time nor inclination to think of the education of the young. Some Protestant Missionaries, however, and notably Drs. Bridgman, Ball, Hobson, and Revs. W. J. Boone, W. C. Milne, and J. L. Shuck, who were settled at Macao at the time, came over to Hongkong on sundry occasions in spring and summer 1841, to prospect the future expediencies of the Island and to report to their respective Societies as to their making this new British Settlement the headquarters of their future evangelizing operations. Plans were formed and recommendations were made by the Missionaries, but none of them appears to have commenced any educational work in Hongkong during this first year of the young Colony's existence.\n\n## 1842\n\nThe first to take active steps in this direction appear to have been the Trustees of the Morrison Education Society: Messrs. Lancelot Dent, Th. Fox, William Jardine, A. Matheson, W. Leslie, G. T. Morrison, and Dr. G. S. Bridgman. This Society, organized by British and American merchants in Canton (9 November, 1836), to perpetuate the memory of the late Dr. R. Morrison (the famous pioneer of Protestant Missions in China, who had died on 1 August, 1834), had a distinct educational object, viz., the establishment and improvement of Schools in which Chinese youths should be taught to read and write the English language in connection with their own. The Society started, in 1836, with a subscribed capital of $6,000 and a library of 1500 volumes (the first nucleus of the present Morrison Library in the City Hall), and, whilst commencing operations by subsidiary educational efforts made by Protestant missionaries in Macao, Malacca, Singapore, and Penang, resolved now at once to procure two teachers, one from England and one from America, in order to start a School of their own.\n\nNo suitable teacher could be found in England, but on 23 February, 1839, the Rev. S. R. Brown (from Yale College, New Haven, Conn.) arrived, and commenced, at Macao, the study of Chinese. They started, on 1 November, 1839, the Morrison Education Society's School with six Chinese scholars. The attendance slowly increased to 12 boys (in 1840), to 13 boys (in 1841), and to 18 boys (in 1842), who were located as boarders in the Society's House next to St. Paul's at Macao. On 21 February 1842, the Trustees of the Society passed a resolution to the effect that the British Settlement of Hongkong presents a peculiarly eligible opportunity for extending the operations of the Society, as there alone in this country can exist protection and scope for carrying out its views to advantage. On the same date, the President of the Society, Mr. L. Dent, wrote to Sir Henry Pottinger in this sense and applied for a grant of land at Hongkong for the purpose of erecting a School building. The next day (22 February 1842), Mr. Dent was informed that Sir H. Pottinger would at once select and appropriate a suitable locality for the purpose. A site on the hill, thenceforth called Morrison Hill, having accordingly been granted, a deputation of the Committee (Dr. Bridgman and Messrs. A. Matheson and W. Leslie) waited on Sir H. Pottinger (5 April, 1842) to thank the Governor for his favour and to beg him to accept the post of Patron of the Society, which nomination Sir H. Pottinger cheerfully accepted. A few days later (9 April, 1842), the Trustees resolved to procure an additional teacher from Yale College as coadjutor to Mr. Brown, and when Mr. Dent made a donation to the Society of $3,000 for building purposes, the erection of a College was at once commenced on Morrison Hill (3 August, 1842), whilst the School was for some time longer continued at Macao. But on the expiry of the lease of the School-house there (1 November 1842), the School was removed to temporary quarters in Hongkong, with a loss of 6 out of 17 scholars.\n\n## 1843\n\nNo additional educational effort appears to have been made by the European community in the year 1843, but a small number of Chinese families (shopkeepers, artisans, and boat-people) having by this time settled in the new city of Victoria, four or six Chinese elementary Schools appear to have been established in Hongkong, in addition...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348644, "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": 377, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "## MATERIALS FOR A HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN HONGKONG\n\ntion to the previously existing native Schools in the villages. An article in the August number of the Chinese Repository of this year, discussing the subject of Schools at Hongkong, mentions, apart from the Morrison Education Society's School, which by this time had 21 scholars under training, that there were a few native Schools at Hongkong, perhaps eight or ten in various parts of the Island, chiefly in Victoria. In the same article, the Editor called the attention of the Government to these Schools and suggested the appointment, by Government, of an Education Committee. The death of Mr. J. R. Morrison (October, 1843) was a great loss to the educational interests of Hongkong and especially to the Morrison Education Society, whose Recording Secretary and Librarian Mr. Morrison had been, besides supporting four of the scholars by his own means. After his death, his well-stocked library was embodied in the Morrison Education Society's Library (now at the City Hall).\n\nThe funds of the Society, which were very low at this time, were at the end of the year opportunely increased by a grant made by H. M.'s Superintendent of Trade, Sir H. Pottinger, who promised (12 December, 1843) to give to the Morrison Education Society annually the sum of $1,200, 'being the amount of one year's allowance formerly assigned to the Anglo-Chinese College at Malacca.'\n\nAbout this time, the London Missionary Society resolved to transfer its operations from Malacca, Singapore, and Penang to China and to establish its headquarters at Hongkong. This measure brought to Hongkong a man who was destined to exercise a most powerful influence on the future educational system of Hongkong. The Rev. J. Legge, having succeeded the Rev. J. Evans as principal of the Anglo-Chinese College (1841) at Malacca, removed, at the close of the year 1843, the students of that College, together with their principal teacher, the Rev. Ho Tsun-sheen, to Hongkong, where he formed them into a Seminary for the training of native ministers.\n\nThis Seminary, together with a Preparatory School started at this time in Hongkong, formed the nucleus of the establishment thenceforth known as the London Missionary Society's Anglo-Chinese College of Hongkong (`Ying-wa-shü-ün`).\n\n### 1844\n\nThe year 1844 was particularly fruitful in the way of educational efforts, put forth in Hongkong by Missionaries of all denominations. The Morrison Education Society's institution on Morrison Hill prospered under the energetic direction and able tuition of Mr. and Mrs. Brown, and its funds were in a flourishing condition (25th Sept., 1844), there being a surplus of $3,000 in hand. The Rev. J. P. Happer, M.D., strengthened the staff of the School by giving his assistance to Mr. Brown for six months (November, 1844 to April, 1845). The London Mission's Anglo-Chinese College had an attendance of 18 Chinese boarders to be trained for the ministry, in 1844, all of whom were engaged during the forenoon of every day in English studies and devoted the afternoons to their Chinese lessons. The Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Shuck of the Baptist Board of Foreign Mission opened (23rd September, 1844) a newly built two-storied house in Gough Street (on the premises of the future Government Central School) as an Anglo-Chinese School with 20 boys and 6 girls. The Rev. W. Deane of the same Mission had also started, in the year 1844, a small Chinese School in the Western District, and over 80 Chinese scholars, all taught and supported by the benevolence of the European community of Hongkong, were present at the opening of the Gough Street Schools. Another American Mission, the Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions, represented by Dr. Ball, also commenced at this time a School in Hongkong with 6 Chinese pupils. The Roman Catholic Mission is reported to have had a School at work in Hongkong in 1844 and also a few theological students, but no details are recorded as to the actual date when this Mission commenced its educational operations in Hongkong.\n\nIn addition to the foregoing institutions already at work in Hongkong during the year 1844, the newly appointed Colonial Chaplain, the Rev. V. Stanton, made energetic efforts during this period to establish in Hongkong a School (subsequently known as St. Paul's College) for the training of a native clergy in connection with the Church of England. He was one of the most energetic Missionaries and Educationists of Hongkong's early history. With an intimate knowledge of Chinese life and character, much of which he acquired during a six months' close confinement in a prison in Canton, having been kidnapped by Chinese soldiers whilst acting as tutor in the Turner family in Macao and as Chaplain to the English community there, Mr. Stanton combined the indefatigable energy of a warm-hearted Missionary, and the methodical industry of a professional teacher, with the quiet dignity of a clergyman. Filled with the correct notion that the conversion of the Chinese must be the work of native preachers rather than of foreign missionaries, and having formed the design of a clerical training school which, whenever worthy of its name, should grow into a College, he raised, after his return to England, subscriptions to the amount of $3,070, to which he subsequently (1849) added from his own means $4,800 and a donation of the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge to the amount of $1,020. These sums he formed into a Building Fund, which, together with the contemplated buildings and other property of the proposed School, were vested in the Earl of Chichester, the Earl of Harrowby (then Viscount Sandon, M.P.), Lord Ashley, M.P., and Sir R. H. Inglis, Baronet, M.P. Having secured the appointment of Colonial Chaplain and (as it seems) addressed the Colonial Office on the subject of his educational schemes, he returned to Hongkong and made (6th June, 1844) a formal application to Sir H. Pottinger for the grant of a site for the erection of a College and Schools for the education of Chinese youths in connection with the Established Church. In reply, he was informed (9th July, 1844) by the Colonial Secretary, the Hon. F. W. A. Bruce, that Sir H. Pottinger had already, in October 1843, addressed a dispatch on the subject to Lord Stanley, for whose instructions he must wait. But later on (2nd September, 1844), the Colonial Secretary, when writing to Mr. Stanton for detailed information as to the objects of the intended foundation and the locality which Mr. Stanton might wish to be assigned for the purpose, very appropriately pointed out to Mr. Stanton that the Governor would consider very favourably the claims of any institution which would embody a scheme to remedy the want of any means of education for the children of the European residents here, the Government considering this want as a defect which operated as materially against the prosperity and best interests of the Colony. It is indeed characteristic of the unselfishness of European philanthropy that so far all the efforts of Protestant and Catholic educationists in Hongkong and the liberality of the local European community and of the Government were exclusively devoted to the education of Chinese children, to the neglect of a number of European children left without the means of education. It redounds to the credit of Sir H. Pottinger that he drew attention to this radical defect in the educational movement.\n\n### 1845\n\nSir H. Pottinger's suggestion was not wasted upon a man like Mr. Stanton. He started, in 1845, by means of voluntary subscriptions supplemented, with the express sanction of the Governor (27 September, 1845), by the appropriation of the marriage fees due to the Colonial Chaplain, a **Children's School**.\n\nThis School, located in the central part of Victoria (Chungwán), was conducted by Mrs. Miller, as a Church of England School, under the supervision of ...\n\nPage 372", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348792, "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": 525, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "# 5. ANNUAL EXAMINATION\nThe Head Master holds an examination of all the boys in College not only for prize purposes, but also to discover carefully the attainments of each boy that may be assigned to a suitable place in the following year. The Inspector of Schools also holds an examination for the purposes of the Education Department. For the sake of the boys, the two examinations have been blended for the last ten years. Writing in 1886, Dr. EITEL says in his report:\n\n\"The system followed by me in examining the various classes of the Government Central School was virtually the same as that adopted in previous years, except that most of the papers set were proposed by the Head Master (for the purpose of determining the award of the annual prizes and scholarships of the school) and consequently the questions which the scholars had to answer at the examination were of a more searching character than I would have thought necessary.\"\n\nBut previously, in 1883, Dr. EITEL had written:\n\n\"The severity of the test applied lifts therefore the result of this examination beyond all comparison with the results of the Grant-in-Aid examinations, even considering that at the latter examination two-thirds of the marks possible entitle to a pass, while at the Central School I passed at the 66 examination all who had made half marks.\"\n\nBy comparing then these two Reports of the Inspector of Schools, we discover that the severe test of 1883 had assumed a more searching character in 1886. If further we compare the Examination Questions of 1886 with those of 1892, there is manifest in the latter a higher standard in a very marked degree. There has thus been during the past ten years a continuous steady advance in the standard of education in this institution. The first examination that I held, in January 1882, is still fresh in my memory due to the novelty of the circumstances. I am therefore in a position to state with confidence that Class III B is the highest class of Victoria College the work of which at all reminds me of what was done in 1882 by Class I of the Central School. There are now therefore 150 boys in this College doing work of a higher standard than the highest of 1882.\n\n## 6. RESULTS OF ANNUAL PRIZE EXAMINATION\nOf 709 boys examined, 640 or 90.26 per cent passed. Returning as I did from Europe within six weeks of the examination, I feel that I can speak more freely of the impression produced on me by the work done in this competition for Prizes and promotion. The first thing that struck me was the general high tone, in neatness of work, excellent writing, and great advance in setting down Mathematical work in a clear form. Dictation continued to prove itself a stumbling block, though the results in half the classes were very creditable. English Composition, presented by 382 boys, was pleasing in its effect. The Grammar papers, 599 in number, showed on the whole remarkable intelligence in grasping some of the chief difficulties in the English language. The paper on Shakespeare by Class I. A simply astonished me, as it appeared to me that the replies to more than one question necessitated personal observation of actors on the stage; on enquiry, I found that this was precisely the case, they had had the great advantage of witnessing a representation of the play of \"Hamlet\" at the City Hall. The work of the Upper School was above average; Classes I. A and II. A maintaining a remarkably high character of work, together with excellent percentages. In the Lower School, Classes IV. A, IV. C, and VI. A turned out excellent intelligent work. The results in the Preparatory School left nothing to be desired. It must not be supposed that the masters and scholars of the remaining classes are undeserving of praise; with few exceptions, the work of classes, which have been only fairly successful, gives evidence of careful instruction, and the inability of boys to avail themselves of it appears to be due to the forced movements, which are the natural consequence of the introduction into the College of 400 new boys during the course of the year.\n\n## 7. PUPIL TEACHERS' EXAMINATION\nThe Inspector of Schools set a very stiff paper on Theory and History of Education. Two boys obtained three-quarters marks, and none of the remaining four failed in this subject. Mr. JONES, the Assistant Master who was in charge of the Preparatory School with its Pupil Teachers and Monitors, wrote a very careful Report in which he shows the disadvantages under which these Juniors suffer, due to the necessary promotion to acting appointments when their Seniors are absent on leave. As a novel feature this year, I may note that, at Mr. JONES' suggestion, the six Pupil Teachers and Monitors gave instruction in various subjects to a class in the presence of the Inspector of Schools. This year, one of the Monitors obtained the Stewart scholarship, the highest distinction in the College next to the Morrison Scholarship.\n\n## 8. PUPIL TEACHERS' SYSTEM\nPupil Teachers and Monitors continue to be employed in this, as in all other large schools and colleges. To secure the continued services of the same junior teachers, the Pupil Teachers have since 1887 been articled for a period of three years. It would be a mistake to suppose that they receive their appointments in order of the Prize Lists. As careful a system of selection is observed, as the circumstances of the case permit. Monitors are appointed by the Head Master, who immediately substitutes, if necessary, another boy better suited physically, or by natural disposition, to the science and art of teaching. After the experience of a year or more, the best of these monitors who is willing to be articled is recommended for that purpose to the Government. Since the opening of Victoria College, considerable improvements have been made in the advantages enjoyed by the three Pupil Teachers and five Monitors. An English Master is appointed to supervise the four lowest classes of the College, which are under their charge, observing their methods and correcting their errors in teaching and advising them in their many difficulties. In addition to this, they receive, once a week, in the afternoon from this master, instruction on the theory, history, and principles of Education. This system appears to me quite adequate for the requirements of the College, and though at present capable of considerable improvement and extension, it will, I am confident, in a few years, bring great credit to the Institution. Apart from any other consideration, the efficacy of the system is demonstrated by the efficiency of the Chinese Assistants who were thus trained, several of whom hold Oxford or Cambridge Local Certificates. That Chinese Assistants should vary in natural aptitude for teaching, and in their ability to pronounce English purely, is not surprising, as the same variety is observable in the masters of schools in England. The Central School on more than one occasion provided teachers for Government and other schools in the Colony, and I have received from the Inspector of Schools and others letters bearing quite flattering testimony to the excellence of the manner in which those young men discharged their duties. If Victoria College does not continue to provide teachers for Government Schools, the low salary offered, and the isolation of village and suburban schools are, as far as I am aware, the only causes. It cannot be expected that a boy, who can earn $40 a month in the city of Victoria, will allow himself to be exiled to Shau-ki-wan or Stanley for $25 a month.\n\n## 9. NORMAL SCHOOL\nIn 1879, the Government made the experiment of forming a Normal School in connection with Wantsai Government School. It was closed in 1883 on my recommendation, as Acting Inspector of Schools, for the following reasons: (1) there was no probability of the Government being able to redeem its promise of finding the pupils employment as teachers; (2) the number of pupils, reduced by sickness and desertion, made the expense of the Institution disproportionate; (3) an opportunity of joining the Medical College at Tientsin made the young men willing to terminate their agreements. Mr. MAY was very successful as Principal of the Normal School, and I have no doubt that, as Second Master of Victoria College, he will have equal success in training our Monitors and Pupil Teachers.\n\n## 10. NON-CHINESE PUPIL TEACHERS\nAs to the employment of English, Portuguese, or Indian boys as Pupil Teachers, I have never observed in English or Portuguese boys the least sign of adaptability to the profession of teaching, and have only once found an Indian capable of holding the post, which he did to my entire satisfaction. Mr. ALARAKIA subsequently ranked as a Chinese Assistant and had therefore to be competent to speak and write Chinese with ease.\n\n## 11. DRILL\nDrill was introduced last September; but as only one Instructor was engaged for all the Schools in the Colony, only two and a half hours a week fell to the share of this College. The result was that the squads, often numbering 130 boys, were hopelessly unwieldy, and it was impossible for the instructor to correct the individual error of so many boys. There is a general belief in the benefits accruing from this form of exercise, and a scheme has been approved to provide a separate instructor to give 123 hours a week to our 900 boys, which will afford half an hour's drill weekly for squads averaging 36 in number.\n\n## 12. STAFF\nMr. MAY was in charge of the College as Acting Head Master for ten months, until my return at the end of October. Mr. JAMESON returned from leave on May 8th, and Mr. DEALY left for Europe on twelve-months' leave from September 9th. Thus, the staff was short of two English Masters at the same time for six months of the year. In addition to which, the work of the College suffered through the illness of two English masters, one of whom was absent for over two months, the other for one month.\n\n## 13. OXFORD LOCAL EXAMINATIONS\nLast July, there were from this College one Senior and thirteen Junior Candidates; the Senior Candidate passed, and three Juniors also received certificates. There would have been four more successes, but for failures in Shakespeare, which is naturally a stiff subject for Chinese boys, and is rendered doubly so by the short time (four months) available for its preparation.\n\n## 14. CAREERS OF BOYS\nDuring the last twelve months, 96 boys from this College obtained situations; viz.: 4 in the Colonial Service; 9 in the Chinese Imperial Service, Customs, and Telegraph; 40 in Mercantile and Professional Offices in Hongkong; and 43 at the Coast Ports, in Japan, and elsewhere.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\n**GEO. H. BATESON WRIGHT, D.D., Oxon,**\n**Head Master**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350275, "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": "CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12]", "page_number": 583, "title": "CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12]", "content_text": "## DESPATCH\n**C. O. 1141**\n\nmade have patent which you are explaining the matter both in question there Explaining and commenting upon the present position of affairs I have that in connection to inform you the interpretation of See. XV of the Royal Instructions, as given set forth in the last paragraph of your despatch of December is correct; back though it is to be hoped that thing which is difficult contemplated viz the resignation by the Unofficial member of their seat it formal may eventually arise \n\nGovernor. No. 343 \nDate. 20 Dec 1892 \n\nLast previous Paper. 6b4-92-3 \n14:4 \n\nZeb \n\nNo. 579 \n\n### (Subject.)\n\n| Reference | Subsequent Paper |\n| --- | --- |\n| 26L(22)65-20051--GRD_M | 7108 |\n\n**DESPATCH.**\n\nREC'd 23 JAN 93 \n\nHead Master of Victoria College submits her complaint in management of the position and hopes there will be no further friction between him and Mr Arbor \n\n### (Minutes.)\n\nW. Bramston ? Refer Governor to art despatch 24656, and request him to Communicate the purport par. 2 of that despatch to Dr Wright (or Dr Sitel), as well as to inform Dr Wright that his Memorial has been received by the Secretary of State, but that his Lordship does not consider that he has any ground of complaint in the fact that on certain points the Governor has asked him to report the College jointly with Mr Sitel &", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355116, "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": "CO129-264 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1894 [9-12]", "page_number": 101, "title": "CO129-264 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1894 [9-12]", "content_text": "99\n\nTo the Chinese studies of the Normal School Students the same observations apply as those which I made above with reference to the Chinese Classes of the Central School. All that can be expected, in view of the limited time available for Chinese studies, is that the standard of Chinese attainments acquired by the Students before entering the Normal School be maintained and deepened. So far the result of the Chinese teaching of the Normal School has been highly satisfactory. I subjoin the details of the Chinese examination.\n\nfailed 1 passed 7 Students.\n\nEssay writing, Letter\n\n\" \n\nProsody (odes),\n\nTotal number examined,\n\npassed,\n\n>> \n\n15 \n\n8 \n\n\"} \n\n} \n\n4 \n\n4 39 \n\n..8\n\nApart from the above mentioned eight Students, secured by Bonds, two Probationers were received a few weeks before the close of the year, subject to three months' trial, but it is doubtful whether they can eventually be enrolled.\n\n10. The smaller Government Schools and the so called Aided Schools (in the villages) have gone their usual course in 1882 and do not call for special remarks. A growing demand for English teaching manifests itself now in the outskirts of the town and in the larger villages, and English teaching has shown satisfactory results in Saiyingp'ún, Wántsai, Wonguaichung, Stanley and Yaumati. In Stanley especially good progress has been made in 1882 as compared with the state of things there in the previous years. The Anglo-Chinese teacher at Shaukiwán had to be dismissed and purely Chinese teaching has been temporarily substituted there for Anglo-Chinese teaching, owing to the present impossibility of finding a trained or competent Master for such an out-station. In some few of the Aided Village-Schools, which give a purely Chinese education of a low class—Schools in which occasionally children do not learn writing because the parents are too poor to buy pen and ink—the results of the annual examination came near the average results of the corresponding class of Grant-in-Aid Schools. But in a vast majority of cases these Aided Government Schools in the villages are far below the lowest standard of education given in the Grant-in-Aid Schools. A comparison between those Aided Government Schools and the Denominational Grant-in-Aid Schools tends to impress upon the observer the desirability of encouraging the attempt which, I understand, is about to be made by some Grant-in-aid School Managers, to introduce in the villages also the Grant-in-Aid system which hitherto was confined to the city of Victoria and Yaumati. I can well remember the low stagnant condition in which the Denominational Schools of Hongkong were engulfed before the Grant-in-Aid Scheme, with its system of payment by results, was introduced and raised them gradually to the high educational standard they now occupy. I would fain see the same reforming influences brought to bear on the Government Aided Schools of Hongkong. Although the Grant-in-Aid Scheme affords material aid only to Schools which enjoy a large attendance and is therefore inappropriate to some of the smaller villages of Hongkong, which will ever require a continuation of the present system of Aided Schools with its fixed monthly payments, the Grant-in-Aid system might beneficially and successfully be introduced in a considerable number of the villages of Hongkong.\n\n11. With reference to the Denominational Grant-in-Aid Schools, all the details, such as I have given above with reference to the Central School and the Normal School, will be found collected in the Tables accompanying this report, viz.: in Table XIII showing the number of scholars who passed and failed in each standard, as well as the amount of grant earned in each case, in Table XIV, which exhibits the percentage of scholars who passed in each School, and in Table XV, which shows the percentage of passes obtained by each of those Schools in English reading, writing (or composition), arithmetic, grammar, geography, history, and in Chinese reading, repetition, writing, explanation, geography and composition. There are only a few of the English teaching Schools, which call for special remarks.\n\n12. St. Joseph's College was moved during the year, first into temporary mat sheds and subsequently into a splendid new building for which a Building Grant is now applied for. These changes in the locality of the School-rooms might have been expected to impair the efficiency of the teaching of the year, but the result of the examination has been highly creditable to the excellent organization and discipline maintained at this School by the Christian Brothers. The Chinese Division indeed has not been as successful as in former years, owing to the fact that the staff in this Division is inadequate now for the annually increasing number of classes into which the scholars in this Division have to be sub-divided. In former years, when there were only two or three classes in this Division, it was quite possible for the one Master to teach the whole Division single-handed, but to teach effectively 55 boys divided between 5 different standards, as was the case in 1882, was beyond the range of possibility for one Master, even assisted as he was by a Chinese pupil teacher. I mention this, in justice to the Master in question, in view of the fact that in this Division, out of 53 boys examined, 45 only passed, or 84.9 per cent., being a decrease of 13.12 per cent. as compared with the results of the previous year. Portuguese Division of St. Joseph's College passed very well, as out of 105 boys examined in the various standards of the Code, as many as 100 boys or 95.24 per cent. passed, which is a result reflecting the highest credit on the Head-Master and staff of the College. It will also be noticed that the number of days, during which this School was taught in 1882, has been increased to 234 days, whereby a defect has been remedied to which I drew attention in my last Annual Report. Another defect of this School remains, however, still to be remedied, viz., the irregularity of attendance on the part of the Portuguese scholars. Now, since the number of school days has been brought up to a satisfactory standard, the blame for failures in making up the 200 daily attendances required by the Code rests almost entirely with the parents of the children. The College itself suffers severely under this apathy of the parents, as out of 342 boys on the roll of St. Joseph's College in 1882, only 158 could be allowed to compete at the examination for the annual grant, which is paid by the Government on the basis of a minimum of 200 daily attendances during the year.\n\n13. The Victoria Schools suffered, in the boys' division, a considerable decrease in the number of scholars attending this School, but the Tables appended to this Report will show that the efficiency of the teaching given in both divisions, that for girls and that for boys, has but slightly decreased as compared with the very high standard obtained in former years. As many as 94.74 per cent. of the scholars passed in 1882 in the girls' division and 86.66 per cent. in the boys' division.\n\n14. The Italian Sisters are beginning to come to the front in their efforts for the improvement of the standard of education formerly available by the Portuguese community. In the Bridges Street Poor Schools as many as 91.66 per cent. of the children passed, being an increase of 52.77 per cent. over the result of the first year's examination. In the Italian Convent School, which has been examined for the first time and was accordingly under considerable disadvantages, as many as 86.48 per cent. of the children passed. The Portuguese division in St. Francis' School has also been highly successful, but the English division of the same School is too poorly attended to do credit to the excellency of the teaching of the Italian Sisters.\n\n15. The Hongkong Public School has evidently been much improved by the present Master, as the general range of intelligence displayed by the boys, and the excellent method and discipline of this School amply testified. I have also above referred to the praiseworthy addition of extra subjects included in the programme of this School in 1882. But as the increase in the work of the School was not accompanied by a proportionate increase of time devoted to schooling, the result has been disappointing as far as a mere pass examination is concerned. Although, out of 4 boys, 3 boys passed in Euclid, 2 boys in geology and 2 in physical geography, yet only 2 passes could be counted for a grant in these extra-subjects, as there were failures in the ordinary subjects (arithmetic and geography). These details will explain the decrease of 7.15 per cent. in the passes obtained by the School, but I must further mention that, in my opinion, the boys did not do justice either to themselves or to their Master because, having been separately examined by the Manager of the School for purpose of the annual prize giving but a few days before the Government examination, the boys saw no immediate purpose served by a renewed examination and did not work, therefore with a will when examined once more. It is but due to the Master, of whose efficiency I have the highest opinion, that I should mention these facts.\n\n16. The vernacular Grant-in-Aid Schools in Class I of the Code, which give a Chinese education, combined with Christian teaching, in the Chinese language, call for no individual remarks, as the results of the examinations are sufficiently illustrated by the details which will be found in the Tables appended to this Report. I may allude, however to some points of general interest.\n\n17. When referring, in my last Annual Report, to certain evil tendencies arising from some of the provisions of the Grant-in-Aid Scheme, I ought to have also pointed out, at the same time, that, whatever evil tendencies are called forth, for instance, by the high personal bonus paid to Masters of Schools in Class I, the good effect which these same provisions exercise may be considered as more than counterbalancing the mercenary spirit and the subterfuges arising among Chinese Masters through the system of payment by results which forms the quintessence of the Code. Falsification of the daily attendance roll, which is one of the commonest subterfuges adopted by that mercenary spirit alive among the Chinese Masters, will be effectually checked to a great extent by enforcing the rule which for years past has been enforced in the Government Schools of the Colony, viz. that the daily attendance roll should be filled up punctually at 11 A.M. and that the slightest deviation from this regulation be treated as a serious breach of order and unsparingly visited with a fine. I found last year that some of the Chinese Masters in Grant-in-Aid Schools persisted in filling up the daily attendance roll during the recess for the noon-day meal, making it thereby impossible for me to detect one special form of falsification of the roll, whether I inspected a school in the forenoon or in the afternoon.\n\n18. From premature applications made, at the close of the year 1882, by some Chinese Masters for new schools to be opened in 1883, I obtained renewed proof of the tendency existing among Chinese Masters to take advantage of the liberality of the Grant-in-Aid Scheme for the furtherance of private purposes. They sought to secure a promise on the part of the Government to receive, under the provisions of the Code, Schools which profess to be bona fide public Schools but which are in reality private Schools intended for private emolument.\n\n19. As a curious illustration of the continued prevalence of kidnapping practices in Hongkong, mention that I noticed in 1882 several cases in which Chinese girls, living at a great distance from school and having to traverse on their way to and from school the most crowded portion of the town, were dressed like boys and attended, all through the year, Girls-schools in boys' dress.\n\n20. I enclose the usual Tables, I to XVI, containing the Educational Statistics for the year 1882.\n\nI have the honour to be\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nE. J. EITEL, PH.D.,\n\nInspector of Schools.\n\nThe Honourable F. STEWART, LL.D.\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-264 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1894 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355117, "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": "CO129-264 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1894 [9-12]", "page_number": 102, "title": "CO129-264 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1894 [9-12]", "content_text": "## TABLE 1.-NUMBER of SCHOLARS attending Schools subject to Government Supervision during 1889.\n\n| No. | Name of School. | |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | Aberdeen, | |\n| 2 | Akungugun, | |\n| 3 | Aplichau, | |\n| 4 | (Girls), | |\n| 5 | \" | |\n| 6 | Hollywood Road (Girls), | |\n| 7 | Basel Mission, High Street (Boys)... | 23 |\n| 8 | Baxter Vernacular, D'Aguilar Street (Girls), | 7 |\n| 9 | High Street, (Girls), | \" |\n| 10 | Berlin Mission (Girls),... | 23 |\n| 11 | Central School, ... | 35 |\n| 12 | Chan's, Mr., Hollywood Road (Boys).. | 17 |\n| 13 | Church Missionary Society, East Street (Boys),. | 37 |\n| 14 | \" | 17 |\n| 15 | \" | 77 |\n| 16 | Lyndhurst Terrace (Boys),. | \" |\n| 17 | \" | \" |\n| 18 | Saiyingp'un (Boys), | 24 |\n| 19 | St. Stephen's Baxter Memorial (Girls),} | 9212=28.881896BRRC86JBRASSS |\n| 20 | Diocesan Home and Orphanage (Boys), Fong's, Mr., Hollywood Road (Girls), | |\n| 21 | Saiyingp'un (Boys), | 23 |\n| 22 | Hawán, | 33 |\n| 23 | (Girls), | 11 |\n| 24 | Tanglungchan (Girls), | 26 |\n| 25 | Wellington Street (Boys), | |\n| 26 | Ho's, Mr., Aberdeen Street (Girls), | 20 |\n| 27 | Hokis'ni, | |\n| 28 | Hokün, | |\n| 29 | Uihing Street (Girls), | 31 |\n| 30 | Hongkong Public School (Boys),. | |\n| 31 | Little Hongkong, | |\n| 32 | I Division (Boys),, | 1.3 |\n| 33 | London Missionary Society, Hollywood Road (Boys),. | |\n| 34 | Staunton Street 1 Division (Girls), II (Girls), | \" |\n| 35 | Taipingshan Chapel (Girls), | |\n| 36 | Wantsai (Boys), | 22 |\n| 37 | (Girls), | 21 |\n| 38 | Yaumati (Boys), | 22 |\n| 39 | (Girls), | \" |\n| 40 | Mata'nch'ung, | 13 |\n| 41 | Matáutsün, | |\n| 42 | Mongkok, | 43 |\n| 43 | Normal School, | |\n| 44 | Cathedral School (Boys), | 23 |\n| 45 | Pokfulam, | |\n| 46 | R. C. M. Bridge's Street Poor School (Mixed), | |\n| 47 | Italian Convent (Girls), | |\n| 48 | St. Francis' Chapel (Mixed), | 19 |\n| 49 | St. Joseph's College Portuguese Division (Boys),. | |\n| 50 | Chinese (Boys). | 多 |\n| 51 | Salyingp'un (English), | |\n| 52 | (Chinese), | |\n| 53 | St. Paul's College Mission, D'Aguilar Street (Boys), | 54 |\n| 54 | Shaiwàn, | |\n| 55 | Shamshuipð, | |\n| 56 | Shaukiwan, | |\n| 57 | Sheko, | |\n| 58 | Shektongtsui, | |\n| 59 | Sheungwan (Boys), | 60 |\n| 60 | (Girls), | 61 |\n| 61 | Stanley, | |\n| 62 | Taikoktsui, | 63 |\n| 63 | Taitamtuk, | |\n| 64 | Taiwan, | 64 |\n| 65 | Táiwongkung, | |\n| 66 | Tanglungchan (Ilakka), | 67 |\n| 67 | Tokwawan (Hakka), | 68 |\n| 68 | (Punti), | |\n| 69 | (Hoklo), | |\n| 70 | Tsattszmui, | 71 |\n| 71 | Tunglowàu,. | |\n| 72 | Victoria School (Boys), | 73 |\n| 73 | (Girls), | |\n| 74 | Wantsai (English),. | 75 |\n| 75 | (Chinese), | |\n| 76 | Wongkoktsui, | 77 |\n| 77 | Wongmakok,.. | |\n| 78 | Wongnaichung, | 70 |\n| 79 | Yanmati (English), | 80 |\n\n## TABLE II-PROPORTION of SCHOLARS to POPULATION in the City of Victoria and in the VILLAGES in 1882.\n\n### CITY AND HARBOUR OF VICTORIA.\nPopulation as per Census of 1881,... 106,898\n\n### CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS UNDER GOVERNMENT INSPECTION, IN THE CITY OF VICTORIA.\n\n| No. | Name of School. | No. of Scholars. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | Basel Mission, High Street (Boys), | 42 |\n| 2 | (Girls), | 55 |\n| 3 | Baxter Vernacular, D'Aguilar Street (Girls), | 45 |\n| 4 | High Street (Girls), | 67 |\n| 5 | Hollywood Road (Girls), | 44 |\n| 6 | Queen's Road (Girls), | 56 |\n| 7 | Berlin Mission (Girls),... | 36 |\n| 8 | Central School, | 572 |\n| 9 | Chan's, Mr., Hollywood Road (Boys). | 29 |\n| 10 | C. M. S., East Street (Boys), | 17 |\n| 11 | Lyndhurst Terrace (Boys).. | 71 |\n| 12 | Saiyingp'un (Boys),---- | 37 |\n| 13 | St. Stephen's Baxter Memorial (Girls), | 15 |\n| 14 | Diocesan Home and Orphanage (Boys), | 23 |\n| 15 | Fong's, Mr., Hollywood Road (Girls), | 16 |\n| 16 | (Boys), | 10 |\n| 17 | Pokfulam, | 123 |\n| 18 | Shashiu'o, | 12 |\n| 19 | Shaukiwal, | 43 |\n| 20 | Sheko, | 20 |\n| 21 | Shektongtsui, | 60 |\n| 22 | Stanley, | 48 |\n| 23 | Táikoktsui, | 11 |\n| 24 | Taitamtuk, | 13 |\n| 25 | Taiwan, | 9 |\n| 26 | Tükwawan (Hakka), | 35 |\n| 27 | Tanglungchau (Girls), | 20 |\n| 28 | (Punti), | 46 |\n| 29 | Wellington Street (Boys). | 163 |\n| 30 | Tsattvemdi, | 165 |\n| 31 | Tunglowan, | 26 |\n| 32 | Wongkostsùi,. | 25 |\n| 33 | Wongmakok, | 11 |\n| 34 | Wor Dich. | |\n| 35 | Hongkong Public School (Boys), | 29 |\n| 36 | L. M. S., Hollywood Road (Boys), | 145 |\n| 37 | Staunton Street, I. Division (Girls), | 51 |\n| 38 | II. | 21 |\n| 39 | Taipingshan Chapel (Girls), | 13 |\n| 40 | (Girls); | 48 |\n| 41 | Wantsai Chapel (Boys),. | 115 |\n| 42 | (Girls) | 62 |\n| 43 | Yaumati (Boys), | 152 |\n| 44 | (Girls); | 27 |\n| 45 | Cathedral School (Boys), | |\n| 46 | Italian Convent (Girls), | 39 |\n| 47 | St. Francis' Chapel (Mixed), | 21 |\n| 48 | Normal School, | 35 |\n| 49 | R. C. Mission, Bridges Street, Poor School (Mixed).. | 33 |\n| 50 | St. Joseph's College, Portuguese Division (Boys), | 256 |\n| 51 | Suiyingp án (English), | |\n| 52 | (Chinese),... | |\n| 53 | St. Paul's College Mission, D'Aguilar Street (Boys), | 110 |\n| 54 | Steungwan (Boys), | 78 |\n| 55 | Táiwongkung, | 56 |\n| 56 | Chinese Division (Boys),.... | 88 |\n| 57 | Tanglangchau (Hakka), | 81 |\n| 58 | (Punti), | 36 |\n| 59 | Victoria School (Boys). | 51 |\n| 60 | Wantsai (English), | 116 |\n| 61 | (Chinese), | 119 |\n| | Total,.. | 4,454 |\n\n### VILLAGES.\nPopulation, including Boat population, as per Census of 1881,... 45,595\n\n### CHILDREN IN SCHOOL UNDER GOVERNMENT INSPECTION, IN VILLAGES.\n\n| No. | Name of School. | No. of Scholars. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | Aberdeen, | 27 |\n| 2 | Akungngam, | 25 |\n| 3 | Aplichau, | 43 |\n| 4 | Rokte ui,. | 13 |\n| 5 | Hoklin, | 23 |\n| 6 | Little Hongkong, | 27 |\n| 7 | Mát auch ung, | |\n| 8 | Mutants'ün, | 28 |\n| 9 | Mongkok, | 21 |\n| 10 | Pokfulam, | |\n| 11 | Sbatwàu, | |\n| 12 | Shashini'o, | 12 |\n| 13 | Shaukiwal, | 43 |\n| 14 | Sheko, | 20 |\n| 15 | Shakt ougtsui, | 60 |\n| 16 | Stanley, | 48 |\n| 17 | Táikoktsui, | 11 |\n| 18 | Taitamtuk, | |\n| 19 | Taiwán, | 9 |\n| 20 | Tükwawan (Hakka), | 35 |\n| 21 | Tanglungchau (Girls), | 20 |\n| 22 | Salying on (Boys)... | 118 |\n| 23 | (Girls), | |\n| 24 | Ho's, Mr., Aberdeen Street (Girls), | 40 |\n| 25 | Ui-hing Street (Girls), | 35 |\n| 26 | Hongkong Public School (Boys), | 29 |\n| 27 | L. M. S., Hollywood Road (Boys), | 145 |\n| 28 | Staunton Street, I. Division (Girls), | 51 |\n| 29 | II. | 21 |\n| 30 | Taipingshan Chapel (Girls), | 13 |\n| 31 | Wantsai Chapel (Boys),. | 115 |\n| 32 | (Girls) | 62 |\n| 33 | Yaumati (Boys), | 152 |\n| 34 | (Girls); | 27 |\n| 35 | Normal School, | 35 |\n| 36 | R. C. Mission, Bridges Street, Poor School (Mixed).. | 33 |\n| 37 | St. Joseph's College, Portuguese Division (Boys), | 256 |\n| 38 | Suiyingp án (English), | |\n| 39 | (Chinese),... | |\n| 40 | St. Paul's College Mission, D'Aguilar Street (Boys), | 110 |\n| 41 | Steungwan (Boys), | 78 |\n| 42 | Táiwongkung, | 56 |\n| 43 | Tanglangchau (Hakka), | 81 |\n| 44 | (Punti), | 36 |\n| 45 | Victoria School (Boys). | 51 |\n| 46 | Wantsai (English), | 116 |\n| 47 | (Chinese), | 119 |\n| | Total,.. | 569 |\n\n## TABLE III.-NUMBER of SCHOLARS at the Government Schools during 1882, and Expense of each School.\n\n| No. | Name of School. | Boys, Girls. | Total. | Expense. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | Aberdeen. | 27 | 27 | $ 60.00 |\n| 2 | Akangngam, | 25 | 25 | 45.00 |\n| 3 | Aplicha, | 43 | 43 | 120.00 |\n| 4 | Central School... | 572 | 572 | 10,995.35 |\n| 5 | Báwán, | 56 | 56 | 848.00 |\n| 6 | Hokis'ui, | 13 | 13 | 55.00 |\n| 7 | Hokiin, | 23 | 23 | 60.00 |\n| 8 | Little Hongkong,. | 27 | 27 | 40.00 |\n| 9 | Mat anch'ung, | 24 | 24 | 68.00 |\n| 10 | Matáutsin, | 44 | 44 | 60.00 |\n| 11 | Mongkok, | 21 | 21 | 60.00 |\n| 12 | Normal School,.. | 10 | 10 | 3,288.12 |\n| 13 | Pokfulam. | 12 | 12 | 72.00 |\n| 14 | Satyingpin (English), | 92 | 92 | 424.92 |\n| 15 | (Chinese), | 73 | 73 | |\n| 16 | Shaiwan, | 26 | 26 | 60.00 |\n| 17 | Shamshuipfa,. | 23 | 23 | 60.00 |\n| 18 | Shaukiwán, | 43 | 43 | 252.24 |\n| 19 | Sheko,.......... | 20 | 20 | 120.00 |\n| 20 | Shekongt, | 55 | 55 | 324.00 |\n| 21 | Brought over.. Sheungwno (Boys),. | 1.233 | 1,233 | $16,619.63 |\n| 22 | (Girls).. | 110 | 110 | 636.24 |\n| 23 | Stanley, | 48 | 48 | 339.37 |\n| 24 | Taikoktsui, | 11 | 11 | 35.00 |\n| 25 | Taitaratuk, | 9 | 9 | 72.00 |\n| 26 | Taiwan, | 12 | 12 | 45.00 |\n| 27 | Tải trong ung, | 55 | 55 | 306,33 |\n| 28 | Tanglangchan (Hakka),. | 81 | 81 | 120.00 |\n| 29 | (Pauti),. | 36 | 36 | 121.00 |\n| 30 | Tokwawan (Hokka), | 35 | 35 | 53.00 |\n| 31 | (Hoklo), | 46 | 46 | 60.00 |\n| 32 | Traitszmái, | 16 | 16 | 60.00 |\n| 33 | Tunglowan, | 26 | 26 | 60.00 |\n| 34 | Wantasi (English), | 116 | 116 | 325.89 |\n| 35 | (Chiness), | 110 | 110 | 245.75 |\n| 36 | Wongkokisui, | 25 | 25 | 66.00 |\n| 37 | Wongmakok... | 11 | 11 | 5+00 |\n| 38 | Wongnaichung, | 37 | 37 | 260.39 |\n| 39 | Yanati, | 23 | 23 | 366.07 |\n| | Total,. | 2.004 | 2,114 | 20.154.29 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-264 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1894 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355119, "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": "CO129-264 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1894 [9-12]", "page_number": 104, "title": "CO129-264 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1894 [9-12]", "content_text": "Total Eurolment for the Year,\n\nTABLE VII-SUMMARY of ENROLMENT and ATTENDANCE of the GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS for the last twenty Years.\n\nYear\nMinimum Daily Attendance. (Monthly Average,)\nMaximum Daily Attendance. (Monthly Average.)\nMinimum Monthly Enrolment.\nMaximum Monthly Enrolment.\n\n1863\n469\n414\n301\n5815\n\n1864\n502\n417\n324\n634\n\n1865\n597\n085\n330\n418\n\n1866\n623\n572\n337\n435\n\n1867\n700\n610\n408\n533\n\n1868\n916\n664\n460\n372\n\n1869\n942\n748\n504\n627\n\n1870\n1,802\n950\n556\n683\n\n1871\n1,292\n937\n571\n741\n\n1872\n1,480\n1,357\n665\n837\n\n1873\n1,838\n1,326\n760\n852\n\n1874\n1,931\n1,271\n836\n974\n\n1875\n1,927\n1,312\n863\n988\n\n1876\n2,171\n1,383\n925\n1,057\n\n1877\n2,148\n1,446\n1,035\n1,212\n\n1878\n2,101\n1,324\n936\n1,100\n\n1879\n2,043\n1,356\n904\n1,027\n\n1880\n2,078\n1,468\n937\n1,082\n\n1881\n1,986\n1,384\n956\n1,093\n\n1882\n2,114\n1,444\n988\n1,062\n\nTABLE IX-Enrolment and ATTENDANCE at the Central School during 1882.\n\nMonth\nNumber of Scholars\nNumber of Attendance\nNumber of School Days\nAverage Daily Attendance\n\nJanuary\n390\n8,786\n372\n2,916\n\nFebruary\n441\n5,062\n...\n...\n\nMarch\n443\n6,597\n...\n...\n\nApril\n440\n10,123\n436\n10,031\n\nMay\n432\n10,485\n426\n2,418\n\nJune\n...\n...\n...\n...\n\nJuly\n422\n10,128\n414\n9,906\n\nAugust\n413\n9,857\n...\n...\n\nSeptember\n404\n7,655\n366.08\n364.05\n\nOctober\n...\n...\n421.83\n412.31\n\nNovember\n26\n403.27\n...\n...\n\nDecember\n...\n...\n...\n...\n\nTABLE XI-NUMBER of SCHOLARS attending SCHOOLS receiving GRANTS-IN-AID (under the Provisions of the Scheme of 1880), and Amount gained by each in 1882.\n\nName of School\nBoys\nGirls\nTotal\nAmount of Grant\n\nBasel Mission, High Street (Boys)\n102\n\n102\n$130.82\n\nBaxter Vernacular, D'Aguilar Street (Girls)\n\n42\n42\n$144.48\n\nHigh Street (Girls)\n\n67\n67\n$290.21\n\nHollywood Road (Girls)\n\n44\n44\n$203.84\n\nQueen's Road (Girls)\n\n62\n62\n$181.88\n\nC. M. S. East Street (Boys)\n123\n\n123\n$457.68\n\nLyndhurst Terrace (Boys)\n76\n\n76\n$256.79\n\nSaiyingp'ún (Boys)\n97\n\n97\n$520.71\n\nSaiyingp'ún (Girls)\n\n70\n70\n$251.09\n\nSt. Stephen's Baxter Memorial (Girls)\n\n139\n139\n$474.59\n\nI Division (Boys)\n60\n\n60\n$113.02\n\nL. M. S. Hollywood Road (Boys)\n145\n\n145\n$337.94\n\nStaunton Street, I Division (Girls)\n\n51\n51\n$278.68\n\nTaipingshan Chapel (Girls)\n\n48\n48\n$216.96\n\nWantsai Chapel (Boys)\n76\n\n76\n$372.48\n\nWantsai Chapel (Girls)\n\n113\n113\n$848.17\n\nYaumati (Boys)\n62\n\n62\n$199.43\n\nYaumati (Girls)\n\n152\n152\n$527.47\n\nMr. Chan's Hollywood Road (Boys)\n27\n\n27\n$381.02\n\nMr. Fong's Hollywood Road (Girls)\n\n23\n23\n$146.19\n\nSalyingpún (Boys)\n65\n\n65\n$201.05\n\nTanglungchau (Girls)\n\n118\n118\n$452.39\n\nWellington Street (Boys)\n25\n\n25\n$140.90\n\nMr. Ho's Aberdeen Street (Girls)\n\n45\n45\n$245.16\n\nUi-hing Street (Girls)\n\n168\n168\n$613.00\n\nR. C. Mission, Cathedral (Boys)\n40\n\n40\n$261.34\n\nSt. Paul's College Mission, D'Aguilar Street (Boys)\n55\n\n55\n$216.80\n\nBasel Mission (Girls)\n\n61\n61\n$196.15\n\nBerlin Mission (Girls)\n\n117\n117\n$431.05\n\nDiocesan Home and Orphanage (Boys)\n55\n\n55\n$393.41\n\nHongkong Public School (Boys)\n36\n\n36\n$380.70\n\nR. C. Mission Bridges Street, Poor Schools (Mixed)\n59\n28\n87\n$216.28\n\nItalian Convent (Girls)\n\n69\n69\n$250.68\n\nSt. Joseph's College, Portuguese Division (Boys)\n77\n\n77\n$483.62\n\nSt. Francis' Chapel (Mixed)\n56\n249\n305\n$249.58\n\nVictoria School (Boys)\n256\n\n256\n1,214.06\n\nVictoria School (Girls)\n\n86\n86\n$863.59\n\nTotal\n1,937\n1,153\n3,068\n$12,514.07\n\nTABLE XII-ENROLMENT, ATTENDANCE and NUMBER of School Days at the GRANTS-IN-AID SCHOOLS during 1882.\n\nName of School\nMonthly Enrolment\nAverage Daily Attendance\nNumber of School Days\n\nBasel Mission, High Street (Boys)\n38\n...\n...\n\nBaxter Vernacular, D'Aguilar Street (Girls)\n29\n15\n...\n\nHigh Street (Girls)\n...\n...\n...\n\nHollywood Road (Girls)\n30\n23\n287\n\nQueen's Road (Girls)\n46\n24\n260\n\nC. M. S. East Street (Boys)\n104\n61\n259\n\nLyndhurst Terrace (Boys)\n61\n32\n268\n\nSaiyingp'ún (Boys)\n84\n40\n259\n\nSaiyingp'ún (Girls)\n...\n...\n...\n\nSt. Stephen's Baxter Memorial (Girls)\n54\n31\n259\n\nI Division (Boys)\n108\n63\n...\n\nL. M. S. Hollywood Road (Boys)\n...\n...\n...\n\nStaunton Street, I Division (Girls)\n...\n...\n...\n\nTaipingshan Chapel (Girls)\n...\n...\n...\n\nWantsai Chapel (Boys)\n...\n...\n...\n\nYaumati (Boys)\n...\n...\n...\n\nMr. Chan's Hollywood Road (Boys)\n...\n...\n...\n\nMr. Fong's Hollywood Road (Girls)\n...\n...\n...\n\nTanglungchau (Girls)\n...\n...\n...\n\nWellington Street (Boys)\n...\n...\n...\n\nMr. Ho's Aberdeen Street (Girls)\n...\n...\n...\n\nUi-hing Street (Girls)\n...\n...\n...\n\nR. C. Mission, Cathedral (Boys)\n...\n...\n...\n\nSt. Paul's College Mission, D'Aguilar Street (Boys)\n...\n...\n...\n\nBasel Mission (Girls)\n36\n32\n245\n\nBerlin Mission (Girls)\n...\n...\n...\n\nDiocesan Home and Orphanage (Boys)\n46\n27\n244\n\nHongkong Public School (Boys)\n35\n...\n...\n\nR. C. Mission Bridges Street, Four Schools (Mixed)\n69\n45\n234\n\nItalian Convent (Girls)\n52\n...\n...\n\nSt. Joseph's College, Portuguese Division (Boys)\n218\n161\n234\n\nSt. Francis' Chapel (Mixed)\n54\n15\n238\n\nVictoria School (Boys)\n32\n30\n231\n\nVictoria School (Girls)\n40\n20\n268\n\nTABLE X.-GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS (the NORMAL SCHOOL and CENTRAL SCHOOL excepted) arranged in the order of their efficiency in 1881.\n\nRank I\n\nSaiyingp'ún (English School)\nWantsai (English School)\nWongnaich'ung (Anglo-Chinese School)\nTanglungchan (Hákká, Chinese School)\nShoungwan (Chinese School)\nWantsui (Chinese School)\n\nRank II\n\nStanley (Anglo-Chinese School)\nShengwan (Girls School)\nYaumati (Anglo-Chinese School)\nSheko (Chinese School)\n\nRank II,-Continued\n\nHáwán (Chinese School)\nT'okwùwàu (Hákká, Chinese School)\n\nRank III\n\nSaiyingp'un (Hákká, Chinese School)\nShaukiwan (Chinese School)\nHokts'ui (Chinese School)\nTsattszmui (Chinese School)\nShaiwan (Chinese School)\nTáiwongkung (Chinese School)\nMat anch'ung (Chinese School)\nTanglungehen (Punti, Chinese School)\nPokfulam (Chinese School)\nT'unglowàu (Chinese School)\nShamshuipo (Chinese School)\nMátfan wai (Chinese School)\nMongkok (Chinese School)\nLittle Hongkong (Chinese School)\nShektongtsui (Chinese School)\nAkungngám (Chinese School)\nWongkoktsui (Chinese School)\nWongmakok (Chinese School)\nTáitamtuk (Chinese School)\nHokün (Chinese School)\nAberdeen (Chinese School)\nAp Liu Bau (Chinese School)\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-264 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1894 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 358583, "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": "CO129-268 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [7-11]", "page_number": 748, "title": "CO129-268 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [7-11]", "content_text": "740 \n\nof the district, and a continuous supply is being maintained. When the pumping machinery is erected, the supply will be extended to the higher levels, but at present there is not enough pressure of water to reach them. \n\nThe mortality statistics show that the health of the Colony is good, and the present year promises to be the healthiest on record notwithstanding the somewhat alarming prevalence of malarial fever, which is no doubt due to the exceptional drought. \n\nProfiting by last year's experience, and looking to the prevalence of the plague in the neighbourhood of the Colony during the early part of 1895, I appointed a Committee of Officials to consider what exceptional measures should be taken to protect the Colony against the re-appearance of the disease, or, in the event of its re-appearing, to limit its ravages as far as possible. Temporary hospital accommodation and burial grounds were at their suggestion provided, and arrangements made for the removal of patients, the isolation of those who had been in immediate contact with the disease, and the disinfection and cleansing of infected premises. It was further deemed advisable to prohibit Chinese immigration from certain infected neighbouring ports for several months during the year, but this restriction was not continued longer than was absolutely necessary. The precautions taken against the recurrence of the plague and the timely arrangements made for dealing with it have been efficacious. I am glad to inform you that only 29 cases have occurred during the year, and that at no time was an epidemic threatened. \n\nIn accordance with the recommendation of a Committee of Enquiry into the Medical Department, a Medical Officer of Health has recently been appointed. I regret to state that there has been some misunderstanding between the Government and the Unofficial Members of the Sanitary Board in regard to this appointment, and it may not be out of place here to explain briefly the position of the Government in this matter. In address to this Council on the 28th November last, I expressed my own views, which coincided with those of the Retrenchment Committee, regarding the Sanitary Board as hitherto constituted. I deprecated the division of responsibility which such a constitution involved, and I urged the desirability of placing the sanitary system on a different basis. Some opposition has been offered to my views in certain quarters, and it is not improbable that a compromise will eventually be suggested by the Secretary of State, but as yet no decision has been arrived at. In this uncertain state of affairs, I was unwilling to assign any definite position to the newly appointed Medical Officer as the subordinate of a Body which might, at any time, cease to exist. \n\nI accordingly adopted the modus vivendi which was offered to me by the suggestion of the Medical Committee and which afforded the Government an opportunity of weighing the further recommendations of the Committee in regard to the reconstitution of the medical staff, on which the future position of the Medical Officer of Health must, to a great extent, depend. I should not have thought it necessary to make this explanation were it not for certain insinuations which have been made as to the motives of the Government. There are those who have pretended to see in the action of the Government an attempt to deal a death-blow to the Sanitary Board. I disclaim any such motive; and even had such been my object, I should at least have adopted measures better calculated to effect it—measures which would have left no doubt whatever as to my intentions. \n\nAs a matter of fact, however, the responsibility of deciding this vexed question does not rest with me. Having expressed my views, my duty ends, and I can only hope that whatever conclusion may be arrived at, it will effectually secure the sanitary well-being of this community, which after all is our common object. \n\nTurning to other matters of general interest, the shipping returns up to the 30th September last are more than encouraging. \n\nFor the first 9 months of this year, as compared with the corresponding period of last year, British shipping shows an increase of 378 vessels aggregating 575,306 tons. \n\nForeign shipping with a numerical decrease of 75 ships also shows an increase in tonnage of 11,887 tons. European vessels have handled and carried some 276,000 tons of cargo more than last year. \n\nThere is likewise an increase in the Foreign and Local Junk Trades of 178,747 tons and 79,263 tons, respectively. \n\nThe total increase over last year in the number of ships entered and cleared at this port is no less than 303 vessels aggregating 845,203 tons—a distinct improvement even on the exceptionally good returns for 1893. The original text stated \"5,551 vessels\", it is assumed to be correct as per the context is not available.\n\nThe passenger traffic returns show an increase of 25,186 in the number of emigrants, but immigration has fallen off considerably doubtless on account of the prohibition in force during several months in respect of certain neighbouring ports infected with the plague. \n\nChinese seamen's boarding-houses have recently been inspected and licensed for the first time, and there are now 67 such houses duly licensed, affording accommodation for 1,120 men. \n\nThe criminal statistics are gratifying, and there has been no repetition of the riots which occurred in the early part of last year. \n\nThe public peace has been efficiently preserved by the Police, and with the exception of the coolie strike, which took place at the latter end of March last in connection with the enforcement of the bye-laws for the regulation of lodging-houses, there is, I rejoice to say, no \"Police News\" worthy of record. The firm attitude of the Government during the coolie strike was, however, not maintained without loss and inconvenience to the commercial community, but the circumstances did not admit of concession, and looking to future interests it will, I think, be generally admitted that the success achieved was not too dearly purchased. A robbery with violence occurred on the 18th instant.\n\nThe community is indebted to the Naval and Military Authorities for their ready assistance in the emergency, and the Police, as usual, did excellent work in keeping order and relieving the situation as far as possible by providing coolies and cargo boats for the several firms. \n\nWith regard to education, it appears that the attendance at the several schools, which fell off last year, has now recovered its normal proportions. Including Queen's College, there are now 16 Government Schools, and 105 Grant-in-Aid Schools (of which latter 10 have been opened during the year) in addition to numerous Chinese \"Kaifong\" Schools. \n\nIt has often struck me as extraordinary—not to say discreditable—that, after 55 years of British rule, the vast majority of Chinese in Hongkong should remain so little \"Anglicised.\" I have thus been led to enquire more thoroughly than I have hitherto done into the system", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-268 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [7-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 360209, "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": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "page_number": 405, "title": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "content_text": "# No. 3 \n## REPORTS OF THE HEAD MASTER OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE AND OF THE EXAMINERS APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNING BODY FOR 1895.\n\nLaid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Governor.\n\n### QUEEN'S COLLEGE, HONGKONG, 28th January, 1896.\n\nSIR,\n\nI have the honour to forward the Annual Report on Queen's College for the year 1895.\n\n1. The total number on the Roll for the year was 1,024. As the attendance in January was 577, the admissions reached the high figure 447; of these, 350 were new boys, there therefore remain 97 names of boys who returned from the 1894 Roll. In the last four months, no fewer than 89 new boys were admitted, nearly double the usual number, for the same period. After allowance has been made for the four days during which, with His Excellency the Governor's approval, the college was closed for the Oxford Local Examinations, the number of school days, 233, is normal.\n\n2. In the past year, over 100 boys, on leaving this college, obtained situations; 3 in the local Civil Service, 43 in local Mercantile and Professional offices, 38 in the Chinese Service, and 33 at the Coast Ports and abroad generally.\n\n3. $12,667 fees were collected in the course of the year. This is not only the largest amount thus paid into the Treasury as yet, but is so in spite of the facts, that the monthly averages in the first half of the year were nearly 100 attendances less than in 1894, and that a loss of $162 was incurred by the departure in October of 35 boys for Tientsin. Expenditure is apparently larger than last year, but this is due to the appearance in 1895 accounts of Arrears of Exchange Compensation, chargeable against 1894.\n\n4. Three years ago (`Gazette 1893`, p. 165, par. 3) I pointed out that the normal conditions of the Central School were not ideal and that the continuance of these in a building with twice the attendances increases the difficulty fourfold; for it is evident that the consequences, attendant upon the annual change of one third of the total number of boys, grow more serious in a ratio which rapidly increases out of proportion to the mere access of numbers. If ordinary principles of promotion were under these circumstances adhered to, the natural result would be an annual reduction of the attendance in the Upper School, and a corresponding expansion of the Lower sections of the College including the Preparatory School. The fees in the Upper School being highest, there would be entailed a serious reduction in the revenue. Further, the number of boys leaving annually would be doubtless augmented, as the present method of rapid promotion is welcome to them, at their age, as curtailing the length of their school career. As a typical instance, I may cite the component parts of Class IV. C. where, in November last, 7 boys had in 1894 been in Class V, 11 in Class VI, 11 in Class VII and 1 in Class VIII; several of them having been promoted through intermediate classes in the previous half of 1895. No ideal education can thrive under such circumstances. What is to be noted is, that the system combines and harmonises the demand for fees, and the eagerness of boys to complete their education with the utmost speed. Any estimate of the value of the education given at this college, that ignores the above conditions, and makes no allowance for the fact that, in four or five years, the majority of our boys pass through eight standards, must arrive at erroneous conclusions.\n\n5. A cry is heard from Wales, that it is impossible for boys, attending day-schools, who hear and speak nothing but Welsh out of school-hours, to attain to anything like ease and accuracy in speaking and writing the English language. As I do not think that sufficient allowance is generally made for the difficulties attendant upon the study of English by boys of Mongolian race, I was glad to find in \"Things Japanese,\" in the article on Education by Professor MASON, the expression of the same argument I have often employed, which is to the following effect.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 361101, "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": "CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9]", "page_number": 592, "title": "CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9]", "content_text": "(4)\n\nInstructions referred to on page 1.\n\nIf this Paper of Particulars and the Certificates connected with it, be not sent in original, the copies must be duly attested.\n\n(A. 132.)\n\nEnclosure 2\n\nCOLONIAL PENSIONS,\n\n0.0.\n\n&22483\n\nRECD\n\n3CDCT 36) PARTICULARS required to be furnished in reference to Persons recommended for Superannuation, Compensation or Compassionate Allowances, or Gratuities on retirement.\n\n(In filling up this Paper refer to the Instructions on page 4.)\n\n586\n\n1. Name of Applicant: Ng Mong.\n\nHead of Paper: In the case of an Officer serving on the West Coast of Africa, a statement is to be added whether he is a native of that Coast. (Colonial Regulations, § 430.)\n\nHead 3: State the description of Allowance for which the Application is recommended, viz., Superannuation, Compensation, Compassionate Allowance, or Gratuity, and its amount.\n\nIn the case of Persons claiming an addition to their Pensions in respect of Professional or other special qualifications, this should be stated, and a reference should be given to the authority under which the claim is made.\n\nHead 5: If the service has been interrupted by one or more breaks, the word \"broken\" should be added before or after the number of years and months, and the causes, dates and circumstances of the break or breaks should be stated under heading 9.\n\nHead 6: If the person retiring has been in receipt of the same Salary, or in the class from which he retires, for the 36 months immediately before the date of his retirement, the actual annual rate of Salary or Wages at that date should be inserted, preceded by the word \"actual.\" In other cases the average annual amount of Salary or Wages for the 36 months next preceding the date of retirement should be inserted, preceded by the word \"average,\" but if the whole period of service is less than three years, then the average for the whole period of service should be inserted.\n\nHead 7: A separate statement should be inserted of the average Annual Value, for the 36 months immediately preceding retirement, of each Emolument (exclusive of salary or wages) which is claimed to be included in the calculation of the Pension or Gratuity.\n\nWhenever the value of a House or House Allowance, so ascertained, exceeds one-sixth of the salary and other emoluments which count for Pension purposes, it is to be reduced to one-sixth of that amount, so that it shall not exceed one-seventh of the whole.\n\nFees which an Officer is allowed to retain for his own use will be taken into account for Pension purposes, with regular salary, at the annual average of the net receipts of the 36 months next preceding the Officer's retirement. These net receipts are to be ascertained by deducting from the gross amount of Fees such Office Expenses, &c., as an Officer may have had to defray from his own resources, in performing the services for which he was remunerated by Fees. No deduction, however, from the Fees should be made in respect of Office Expenses provided from Public Funds, for the due discharge of those duties to which a Fixed Salary is annexed.\n\nPapers of \"Particulars\" when forwarded to the Colonial Department should be accompanied by formal Declarations from the retiring Officers, showing the amount received by them for Fees, and the amount defrayed as above for Office Expenses, &c., in each of the three years immediately preceding the retirement. It will be the duty of the Colonial Governments concerned to satisfy themselves of the accuracy of such statements before forwarding them to the Colonial Office.\n\nIn the case of Officers receiving Fixed Salaries and Fees, the Fees will not in ordinary circumstances be allowed to count for Pension purposes to the extent of more than one quarter of the Salaries, and Fees will not in any case be allowed to count for Pension purposes during any period in which the whole time of the Officer receiving them was not given to the Public Service.\n\nHead 9: In cases of infirmity, if the Applicant is below the ordinary age for retirement, a Medical Certificate is to be furnished showing that he is disqualified by infirmity of mind or body for discharging the duties of his situation, and that such infirmity is likely to be permanent.\n\nIn case of ten years' service or more, this Certificate should be signed by two Officers, of whom at least one should, if possible, be a Salaried Officer of the Government.\n\nHead 9: As to \"broken\" service, see Head 5.\n\nIf the Applicant has had any \"acting\" service, the details must be fully given, with a statement whether or not, during the \"acting\" service, he was connected with the permanent Civil Service of the Colony.\n\nHead 11: If, in special circumstances, a professional Civil Officer has been allowed to have \"private practice\" without forfeiting his claim to Pension, the facts are to be fully stated.\n\nHead 14: If the Applicant is liable to any deduction from his service under Clause 102 of the Colonial Regulations, the facts should be fully stated.\n\nHead 19: The length of service and other particulars of the computation are to be given. When an average of Salary, &c., is taken, the mode of calculating it (whether by months, &c.) is to be explained.\n\n2. Office or Situation: Chinese Master, Queen's College.\n\n3. Recommended for: Annual Pension.\n\n4. Age: Forty-four.\n\n5. Service in Years and Months: Eight years, Two months.\n\n6. Annual Salary or Wages: $6350 of $6476.\n\n7. Emoluments: $348.\n\nTotal amount of Salary or Wages and Emoluments on which Superannuation, &c. is claimed: $348.\n\n8. Cause of Retirement: Abolition of Office.\n\n9. Dates of Commencement and Termination of the several Appointments held by Applicant, with their Emoluments, distinguishing Salary from other Allowances and specifying such Allowances.\n\n \n Title of Appointment\n Nature\n Date of Commencement\n Date of Termination\n Annual Salary\n Allowances, &c.\n \n \n Chinese Master\n Queen's College\n 20th March 1888\n 25th May 1896\n $348\n \n \n\n[C. O. D. No. H8]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 361103, "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": "CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9]", "page_number": 594, "title": "CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9]", "content_text": "(4)\n\nInstructions referred to on page 1.\n\n(A. 132.)\n\n(\n\nEnclosure 5.\n\nC. O.\n\nCOLONIAL PENSIONS, &c. 22483\n\nRec\n\n30 OCT 96.\n\n588\n\nPARTICULARS required to be furnished in reference to Persons recommended for Superannuation, Compensation or Compassionate Allowances, or Gratuities on retirement,\n\n(In filling up this Paper refer to the Instructions on page 4.)\n\nIf this Paper of Particulars and the Certificates connected with it, be not sent in original, the copies must be duly attested.\n\nHead of Paper.—In the case of an Officer serving on the West Coast of Africa, a statement is to be added whether he is a native of that Coast. (Colonial Regulations, § 130.)\n\nHead 3—State the description of Allowance for which the Application is recommended, viz., Superannuation, Compensation, Compassionate Allowance, or Gratuity, and its amount. In the case of Persons claiming an addition to their Pensions in respect of Professional or other special qualifications, this should be stated, and a reference should be given to the authority under which the claim is made.\n\nHead 5.—If the service has been interrupted by one or more breaks, the word \"broken\" should be added before or after the number of years and months, and the causes, dates and circumstances of the break or breaks should be stated under heading 9.\n\nHead 6.—If the person retiring has been in receipt of the same Salary, or in the class from which he retires, for the 36 months immediately before the date of his retirement, the actual annual rate of Salary or Wages at that date should be inserted, preceded by the word \"actual.\" In other cases the average annual amount of Salary or Wages for the 36 months next preceding the date of retirement should be inserted, preceded by the word \"average,\" but if the whole period of service is less than three years, then the average for the whole period of service should be inserted.\n\nHead 7—A separate statement should be inserted of the average Annual Value, for the 36 months immediately preceding retirement, of each Emolument (exclusive of salary or wages) which is claimed to be included in the calculation of the Pension or Gratuity.\n\nWhenever the value of a House or House Allowance, so ascertained, exceeds one-sixth of the salary and other emoluments which count for Pension purposes, it is to be reduced to one-sixth of that amount, so that it shall not exceed one-seventh of the whole.\n\nFees which an Officer is allowed to retain for his own use will be taken into account for Pension purposes, with regular salary, at the annual average of the net receipts of the 36 months next preceding the Officer's retirement. Those net receipts are to be ascertained by deducting from the gross amount of Fees such Office Expenses, &c., as an Officer may have had to defray from his own resources, in performing the services for which he was remunerated by Fees. No deduction, however, from the Fees should be made in respect of Office Expenses provided from Public Funds, for the due discharge of those duties to which a Fixed Salary is annexed. Papers of \"Particulars\" when forwarded to the Colonial Department should be accompanied by formal Declarations from the retiring Officers, showing the amount received by them for Fees, and the amount defrayed as above for Office Expenses, &c., in each of the three years immediately preceding the retirement. It will be the duty of the Colonial Governments concerned to satisfy themselves of the accuracy of such statements before forwarding them to the Colonial Office. In the case of Officers receiving Fixed Salaries and Fees, the Fees will not in ordinary circumstances be allowed to count for Pension purposes to the extent of more than one quarter of the Salaries, and Fees will not in any case be allowed to count for Pension purposes during any period in which the whole time of the Officer receiving them was not given to the Public Service.\n\nHead 8.—In cases of infirmity, if the Applicant is below the ordinary age for retirement, a Medical Certificate is to be furnished showing that he is disqualified by infirmity of mind or body for discharging the duties of his situation, and that such infirmity is likely to be permanent.\n\nIn case of ten years' service or more, this Certificate should be signed by two Officers, of whom at least one should, if possible, be a Salaried Officer of the Government.\n\nHead 9.—As to \"broken\" service, see Head 5.\n\nIf the Applicant has had any \"acting\" service, the details must be fully given, with a statement whether or not, during the \"acting\" service, he was connected with the permanent Civil Service of the Colony.\n\nHead 11.—If, in special circumstances, a professional Civil Officer has been allowed to have \"private practice\" without forfeiting his claim to Pension, the facts are to be fully stated.\n\nHead 14—If the Applicant is liable to any deduction from his service under Clause 102 of the Colonial Regulations, the facts should be fully stated.\n\nHead 19.—The length of service and other particulars of the computation are to be given. When an average of Salary, &c., is taken, the mode of calculating it (whether by months, &c.) is to be explained.\n\n1. Name of Applicant.\n\nLo Po'tang.\n\n2. Office or Situation. Chinese Master, Queen's College!\n\n3. Recommended for\n\n4. Age...\n\nAnnual Pension. Thirty-Eight..\n\n5. Service in Years and Months Four years,\n\n6. Annual Salary or Wages.\n\n7. Emoluments.\n\n$290\n\n驻\n\n$\n\nof § 20 92\n\nFour months\n\n$348\n\nTotal amount of Salary or Wages and Emoluments on which Superannuation, &c. is claimed,\n\n8. Cause of Retirement, Abolition of Office.\n\n$348\n\n9. Dates of Commencement and Termination of the several Appointments held by Applicant, with their Emoluments, distinguishing Salary from other Allowances and specifying such Allowances.\n\n \n Title of Appointment\n Date of Commencement\n Date of Termination\n Nature of Termination\n Annual Salary\n Allowances, &c.\n \n \n Chinese Master, Queen's College\n Feb 1892\n 23 May 1896\n \n $348\n \n \n\n[C. O. D. No. H]\n\n120.-21.8.08.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 361105, "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": "CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9]", "page_number": 596, "title": "CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9]", "content_text": "(A. 132.)\n\nEnclosure 4.....\n\nC.O.\n\n(4)\n\nInstructions referred to on page 1.\n\nIf this Paper of Particulars and the Certificates connected with it, be not sent in original, the copies must be duly attested.\n\nHead of Paper.-In the case of an Officer serving on the West Coast of Africa, a statement is to be added whether he is a native of that Coast. (Colonial Regulations, § 430.)\n\nHead 3.-State the description of Allowance for which the Application is recommended, viz., Superannuation, Compensation, Compassionate Allowance, or Gratuity, and its amount. In the case of Persons claiming an addition to their Pensions in respect of Professional or other special qualifications, this should be stated, and a reference should be given to the authority under which the claim is made.\n\nHead 5.--If the service has been interrupted by one or more breaks, the word \"broken\" should be added before or after the number of years and months, and the causes, dates and circumstances of the break or breaks should be stated under heading 9.\n\nHead 6.-If the person retiring has been in receipt of the same Salary, or in the class from which he retires, for the 36 months immediately before the date of his retirement, the actual annual rate of Salary or Wages at that date should be inserted, preceded by the word \"actual.\" In other cases the average annual amount of Salary or Wages for the 36 months next preceding the date of retirement should be inserted, preceded by the word \"average,\" but if the whole period of service is less than three years, then the average for the whole period of service should be inserted.\n\nHead 7.-A separate statement should be inserted of the average Annual Value, for the 36 months immediately preceding retirement, of each Emolument (exclusive of salary or wages) which is claimed to be included in the calculation of the Pension or Gratuity.\n\nWhenever the value of a House or House Allowance, so ascertained, exceeds one-sixth of the salary and other emoluments which count for Pension purposes, it is to be reduced to one-sixth of that amount, so that it shall not exceed one-seventh of the whole.\n\nFees which an Officer is allowed to retain for his own use will be taken into account for Pension purposes, with regular salary, at the annual average of the net receipts of the 36 months next preceding the Officer's retirement. Those net receipts are to be ascertained by deducting from the gross amount of Fees such Office Expenses, &c., as an Officer may have had to defray from his own resources, in performing the services for which he was remunerated by Fees. No deduction, however, from the Fees should be made in respect of Office Expenses provided from Public Funds, for the due discharge of those duties to which a Fixed Salary is annexed.\n\nPapers of \"Particulars\" when forwarded to the Colonial Department should be accompanied by formal Declarations from the retiring Officers, showing the amount received by them for Fees, and the amount defrayed as above for Office Expenses, &c., in each of the three years immediately preceding the retirement. It will be the duty of the Colonial Governments concerned to satisfy themselves of the accuracy of such statements before forwarding them to the Colonial Office.\n\nIn the case of Officers receiving Fixed Salaries and Fees, the Fees will not in ordinary circumstances be allowed to count for Pension purposes to the extent of more than one quarter of the Salaries, and Fees will not in any case be allowed to count for Pension purposes during any period in which the whole time of the Officer receiving them was not given to the Public Service.\n\nHead 9.-In cases of infirmity, if the Applicant is below the ordinary age for retirement, a Medical Certificate is to be furnished showing that he is disqualified by infirmity of mind or body for discharging the duties of his situation, and that such infirmity is likely to be permanent.\n\nIn case of ten years' service or more, this Certificate should be signed by two Officers, of whom at least one should, if possible, be a Salaried Officer of the Government.\n\nHead 9. As to \"broken\" service, see Head 5.\n\nIf the Applicant has had any \"acting\" service, the details must be fully given, with a statement whether or not, during the \"acting\" service, he was connected with the permanent Civil Service of the Colony.\n\nHead 11.-If, in special circumstances, a professional Civil Officer has been allowed to have \"private practice\" without forfeiting his claim to Pension, the facts are to be fully stated.\n\nHead 14.-If the Applicant is liable to any deduction from his service under Clause 102 of the Colonial Regulations, the facts should be fully stated.\n\nHead 19.-The length of service and other particulars of the computation are to be given. When an average of Salary, &c., is taken, the mode of calculating it (whether by months, &c.) is to be explained.\n\nCOLONIAL PENSIONS, &c 22483\n\nREC\n\nPARTICULARS required to be furnished in reference to Persons recommended for Superannuation, Compensation or Compassionate Allowances, or Gratuities on retirement.\n\n(In filling up this Paper refer to the Instructions on page 4.)\n\n \n 1. Name of Applicant\n Chan Tat-ming.\n \n \n 2. Office or Situation.\n Chinese Master, Queen's College\n \n \n 3. Recommended for\n Annual Pension\n \n \n 4. Age...\n Thirty-three\n \n \n 5. Service in Years and Months\n Three years six months\n \n \n 6. Annual Salary or Wages..\n $348.\n \n \n 7. Emoluments.\n \n \n \n Total amount of Salary or Wages and Emoluments on which Superannuation, &c. is claimed,\n $348.\n \n \n 8. Cause of Retirement\n Abolition of Office\n \n \n 9. Dates of Commencement and Termination of the several Appointments held by Applicant, with their Emoluments, distinguishing Salary from other Allowances and specifying such Allowances.\n \n \n \n Title of Appointment.\n Date of Commencement.\n Date of Termination.\n Nature of Allowances, Salary, &c.\n Annual Amount of Allowances, &c.\n \n \n Chinese Master, Queen's College,\n et May 1895.\n 1896\n $348\n \n \n \n [C. O. D. No. HI 180,-1,396.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 361522, "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": "CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12]", "page_number": 382, "title": "CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12]", "content_text": "# 379\n\nWith regard to the constitution of the Sanitary Board, I regret that I am not yet in possession of the Secretary of State's final decision, which, however, I hope to receive shortly. As regards Public Works, the extension of the Wongneichong Recreation Ground has been undertaken and is progressing. The project includes the widening and improving of the roads and an addition to the Recreation Ground of about 7 acres.\n\nThe extension of the Gaol has been proceeded with, and accommodation has been provided within the Gaol compound for a prison for females, instead of the unsuitable house in Wyndham Street hitherto rented for that purpose.\n\nThe provision of an adequate supply of water to the City of Victoria has received my careful attention, and projects have been prepared for an ultimate supply of 4,000,000 gallons a day throughout the year. The present state of the water supply and particulars of the proposed extensions have been dealt with in an able and elaborate report by the Director of Public Works, which has already been laid before you (`Sessional Paper T`). That report has been referred to Mr. OSBERT CHADWICK, who concurs in the proposals contained therein. The Secretary of State has communicated to me his approval of the scheme, and contracts have been entered into, with the approval of this Council, for the commencement of the works. The waterworks for Kowloon have also been completed, and a constant supply is now available over the southern portion of that peninsula.\n\nThe new system of signalling the approach of vessels has been completed in accordance with the recommendations of the Committee appointed in 1893.\n\nThe statue of the Queen in commemoration of Her Most Gracious Majesty's Jubilee has been erected on the Praya Reclamation and was unveiled by me on the 28th May, amidst general rejoicings and loyal demonstrations.\n\nWith respect to Taipingshan, considerable progress has been made with the demolition of insanitary dwellings, and the necessary works for relaying out the resumed area for building purposes. Contracts have been entered into for dealing with about one half of the resumed area, and works in connection with the greater part of the remainder will shortly be commenced. A report on the subject will be laid on the table, to which I direct your attention, as the anticipations which I was led to form this time last year have not been fulfilled.\n\nAs to the Praya Reclamation Works, though difficulties have arisen in connection with the rapid completion of certain portions, fair progress has been made. The Marine Lot-holders have, in several instances, obtained permission to enter into possession of their portions, and fine buildings are in course of erection on some of the land reclaimed.\n\nIn addition to the foregoing works, the condition of the villages has not been overlooked, and works of drainage, water supply, and general improvements have been completed, whilst others are in hand in Shaukiwan, Aberdeen, Mong-Kok-Tsui, and Tai-Kok-Tsui. The requirements of the increasing population of the Hill District have not been lost sight of, and it is proposed at an early date to commence the construction of an improved road from near Victoria Gap to the Mount Kellet Road.\n\nThe increasing requirements of the Colony in the matter of Government Offices and the question of providing new offices and concentrating them, so far as possible, under one roof, appeared to me to call for a special enquiry. I referred the matter accordingly to a Committee, whose report I have just received. That report will be published.\n\nWith respect to Education, I regret to say that the experiences of the year have been somewhat unfortunate. The recurrence of the plague, and the measures taken to prevent overcrowding, together with the rise in house rents resulting from those measures, caused a large number of Chinese, as I have already said, to send their women and children out of the Colony. The attendance at schools by Chinese children, and more particularly girls' schools, decreased considerably; the decrease amounting to probably 30 per cent. of their normal attendance. The attendance at five Chinese schools ceased entirely, and the schools had to be closed, but as three new schools have been opened in places unaffected by plague and its consequences, the total number of schools under the Education Department is 119, as compared with 121 in 1895. The above unsatisfactory experiences have been confined almost entirely to schools attended by the poorer classes of the native population. The other schools, especially those attended by non-Chinese children, have for the most part retained their normal attendance. Efforts are being made to increase the number of schools offering English teaching to natives, but only one school of this description could be opened during the present year. Steps have been taken, however, to improve the teaching of English at Queen's College, and, in order to allow more time for that purpose, the purely Chinese branch of that establishment has been entirely abolished.\n\nWith regard to shipping, Hongkong continues to hold an important position amongst the Ports of the Empire. During the nine months ending 30th September last, over 7,000 ships of European construction entered and cleared at the Harbour Office, bringing and taking away cargoes amounting to nearly 55 per cent. of their registered tonnage, and conveying to and from the Colony 1,026,469 passengers.\n\nIn addition to these, 53,000 trading junks carried 1,309,338 tons of cargo in and out, and conveyed 161,991 passengers.\n\nCompared with the same period of 1895, this means an increase of 412 European constructed vessels, carrying 233,675 more tons of cargo, and an increase of over 8,600 junks with 125,638 tons of cargo, and a total increase in the passenger traffic amounting to 1,986.\n\nA correspondence with the Unofficial Members in regard to the proposed abolition of the Light Dues levied to cover the cost and maintenance of Gap Rock Lighthouse will be laid on the Council table.\n\nI consider that I am bound to redeem the pledge given by my Predecessor to the effect that this special rate should cease as soon as the cost of the Lighthouse had been defrayed.\n\nWith a view to covering the deficit which will result from this abolition, five of the six Unofficial Members are of opinion that a fixed charge of 2 cents per ton should in future be imposed as light dues on all shipping entering the harbour, and in that opinion I concur.\n\nThe criminal statistics are highly satisfactory. Comparing the number of cases under various headings for the 12 months ending 31st October, 1896, with those for the preceding twelve months, we find decreases of 21 per cent. in robberies from the person, 53 per cent. in burglaries and larcenies from dwellings, 30 per cent. in cases of obtaining money under false pretences, 37 per cent. in cases of unlawful possession, and 7 per cent. in larcenies. There were 25 cases of wilful wounding, as against 17 in the preceding period, and 14 more cases under the Women and Girls' Protection Ordinance than in the previous 12 months. The increases under various other heads are trifling, and the number of murder cases was the same for both periods.\n\nThe new Home of the Po Leung Kuk, or Society for the Protection of Women and Girls, was opened by me on the 13th of November. Government contributed towards the cost of its erection a sum of $20,000. The Society has already done good work, and it is hoped that now it is in possession of a Home, it will be able not only to continue its labours but to carry them on more efficiently. It gives me pleasure at all times to aid the Chinese community of this Colony in charitable work, such as that of protecting those who are not able to protect themselves, and I shall always be ready to give them what assistance lies in my power to render such work as thorough as possible.\n\nFrom the foregoing remarks, gentlemen, you will gather that on the whole the condition of the Colony socially, politically, and financially, is very satisfactory. We have had during the term of my Government two visitations of plague. We have had strikes, several typhoons, and on one occasion a vast and unparalleled exodus of people, but Hongkong has held its own with wonderful vitality. Government has not harassed the community with unnecessary or vexatious legislation. The law has been enforced whenever it was necessary, but the community, speaking generally, is happily a law-abiding one. The revenue has increased and is increasing with the growth of population, and the only drawback to a wider and more extensive outlook is the limited area of the Colony itself.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366736, "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": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "page_number": 145, "title": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "content_text": "in March 1896 for five years and that no formal application has hitherto been made for the revocation of that Order.\n\n2. I am to add that Mr Chamberlain sees no reason...\n\nNo. HongMong 13458 141 DES C.O. 13758 FRECE SK IP: 20 JUN 96\n\n...previous Paper. $13566 (Subject.) Queen's College keep apply 9th & 10th English masters to interfere with the temporary prohibition of Dr Sun-yat-Sen's residence in the Colony.\n\nSJES/ Mr Lucas (Minutes.) The first part of this Despatch is satisfactory.\n\n...a vacancy recurs d in the ansd. 191 25 July subsequent Paper. 365 Chinese staff of the appointment of the master now being selected by the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford will therefore cause awo exces baletitacost of the Staff.\n\nThe latter part of the Despatch is eminently unsatisfactory. On 10PC 17.8 the four submitted contain definite proposals made by Dr Wright for reorganising the College Staff. These proposals were satisfactory. Now within less than six months Dr Wright throws these suffle-... ...untary proposals at us, of which he might, I sumed", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366740, "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": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "page_number": 149, "title": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "content_text": "145 \n\n4. Though these appointments will necessitate an increase of $1795 upon the normal estimate for 1899, the Head Master of **Queen's College** assured me that the income from the fees which have been raised will reach at least $20,000 this year, and probably more next year if there is no outbreak of plague. In view of this almost certain addition to the revenue from fees, and of the fact that there are 1000 boys being taught, I am of opinion that the extra assistance asked for and the increase in expenditure involved are necessary and justifiable. This opinion is shared by Dr. Wright and the Governing Body to whom the points raised in his letter were referred.\n\n5. (Removed as it appears to be a page number or section marker with no content)\n\n6. my ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366744, "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": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "page_number": 153, "title": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "content_text": "## ENCLOSURE \nNo.40.\n\n**C.O. 13758** \n20 JUL 1898 \n\nQueen's College. \n30 April, 1898.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to apply for the permission of His Excellency the Acting Governor to add to the Estimates for 1899, certain items representing an increase of $1795 over and above $256 which would be the normal increase above the Estimates for 1898.\n\nIt appears to me that the increase in Revenue $11,500, (26,000 - 13,500) removes the financial difficulties attending the consideration of the highly necessary improvements on the staff, English and Chinese.\n\nThe increased expenditure is less than 16% of the increased revenue, and is only an anticipation of improvements already recognised; but on account of the former disproportion between expenditure and revenue, awaiting the occurrence of vacancies for their introduction.\n\nThe items are \n| Position | Salary Range | Proposed Salary |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Tenth English Master | $1620-1800 | 1620 |\n| Native Mathematical Master | $540-720 | 565 |\n| | | Total: $2185 |\n\nFrom which deduct \n| Position | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 Chinese Assistant | $300 |\n| Differences in salaries: (18+17+55) | $90 |\n| | Total: $390 |\n\nTotal Increase $1795\n\n**Hon. T. Sercombe Smith, L.L.B.** \nActing Colonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 367524, "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": "CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8]", "page_number": 412, "title": "CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8]", "content_text": "## Instructions for Completing a Paper of Particulars\n\nIf this Paper of Particulars and the Certificates connected with it are not sent in original, the copies must be duly attested.\n\nDRAFT.\n\nHongkong, 21 September 98\n\n### Head of Paper\nIn the case of an Officer serving on the West Coast of Africa, a statement is to be added whether he is a native of that Coast (Colonial Regulations, § 430).\n\n### Head 3\nState the description of Allowance for which the Application is recommended, viz., Superannuation, Compensation, Compassionate Allowance, or Gratuity, and its amount. In the case of Persons claiming an addition to their Pension in respect of Professional or other special qualifications, this should be stated, and a reference should be given to the authority under which the claim is made.\n\n### Head 5\nIf the service has been interrupted by one or more breaks, the word \"broken\" should be added before or after the number of years and months, and the causes, dates, and circumstances of the break or breaks should be stated under heading 9.\n\n### Head 6\nIf the person retiring has been in receipt of the same Salary, or in the class from which he retires, for the 3 months immediately before the date of his retirement, the actual annual rate of Salary or Wages at that date should be inserted, preceded by the word \"actual.\" In other cases, the average annual amount of Salary or Wages for the 3 months next preceding the date of retirement should be inserted, preceded by the word \"average,\" but if the whole period of service is less than three years, then the average for the whole period of service should be inserted.\n\n### Head 7\nA separate statement should be inserted of the average Annual Value, for the 36 months immediately preceding retirement, of each Emolument (exclusive of salary or wages) which is claimed to be included in the calculation of the Pension or Gratuity.\n\nWhenever the value of a House or House Allowance, so ascertained, exceeds one-sixth of the salary and other emoluments which count for Pension purposes, it is to be reduced to one-sixth of that amount, so that it shall not exceed one-seventh of the whole.\n\nFees which an Officer is allowed to retain for his own use will be taken into account for Pension purposes, with regular salary, at the annual average of the net receipts of the 36 months next preceding the Officer's retirement. These net receipts are to be ascertained by deducting from the gross amount of Fees such Office Expenses, &c., as an Officer may have had to defray from his own resources, in performing the services for which he was remunerated in Fees. No deduction, however, from the Fees should be made in respect of Office Expenses provided from Public Funds, for the due discharge of those duties to which a Fixed Salary is annexed.\n\nPapers of \"Particulars\" when forwarded to the Colonial Department should be accompanied by formal Declarations from the retiring Officers, showing the amount received by them for Fees, and the amount defrayed as above for Office Expenses, &c., in each of the three years immediately preceding the retirement. It will be the duty of the Colonial Governments concerned to satisfy themselves of the accuracy of such statements before forwarding them to the Colonial Office.\n\nIn the case of Officers receiving Fixed Salaries and Fees, the Fees will not in ordinary circumstances be allowed to count for Pension purposes to the extent of more than one quarter of the Salaries, and Fees will not in any case be allowed to count for Pension purposes during any period in which the whole time of the Officer receiving them was not given to the Public Service.\n\n### Head 8\nIn cases of infirmity, if the Applicant is below the ordinary age for retirement, a Medical Certificate is to be furnished showing that he is disqualified by infirmity of mind or body for discharging the duties of his situation, and that such infirmity is likely to be permanent.\n\nIn case of ten years' service or more, this Certificate should be signed by two Officers, of whom at least one should, if possible, be a Salaried Officer of the Government.\n\n### Head 9\nAs to \"broken\" service, see Head 5. If the Applicant has had any \"acting\" service, the details must be fully given, with a statement whether or not during the \"acting\" service, he was connected with the permanent Civil Service of the Colony.\n\n### Head 11\nIf, in special circumstances, a professional Civil Officer has been allowed to have \"private practice\" without forfeiting his claim to Pension, the facts are to be fully stated.\n\n### Head 14\nIf the Applicant is liable to any deduction from his service under Clause 102 of the Colonial Regulations, the facts should be fully stated.\n\n### Head 19\nThe length of service and other particulars of the computation are to be given. When an average of Salary, &c., is taken, the mode of calculating it (whether by months, &c.) is to be explained.\n\n## MINUTE\n\nMr. Macnaghten 20/4\n\nMr. Keert, Mr. Sax, Mr. Lucas, Mr. Graham, Mr. Wingfield, Earl of Belborne, Mr. Chamberlain.\n\nGentlemen,\n\nWith reference to the letter from this Department of the 24th September 1897, I am directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to inform you that he approves of your paying Mr. K. Jameson, late Assistant Master at Queen's College, Hongkong, a compassionate Gratuity of $140 from the Funds of that Colony.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369929, "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": "CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898", "content_text": "## Grade Assistant \n\nMaster in Queen's College.\n\nHongpo \n\n2 \n\nThe Crown Agents have been instructed to engage him, on his signing the usual agreement, with a free passage to the colony on the next Government steamer bearing after August 15.\n\n3. You will perceive from the enclosed copy of the letter offering him the appointment that it was thought better to make the appointment permanent, at a slightly higher rate of pay than was proposed in your despatch referred to above.\n\n4. You will be good enough to give Mr. James a formal letter of appointment when he arrives in the Colony, stating that you appoint him on the conditions embodied in the enclosed letter.\n\nThane, etc.!", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 370675, "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": "CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4]", "page_number": 276, "title": "CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4]", "content_text": "# CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.\n\nJanuary 19, 1898.\n\nthat the Justices of the Peace will do their duty in the matter and, having commenced the campaign against the sale of injurious liquor, will carry it through to a successful issue.\n\n## ENGLISH TEACHING FOR HONG-KONG CHINESE,\n\n27% \n\n## THE FUTURE OF KOREA,\n\n(13th January.)\n\nWe are still without any definite confirmation of the reported agreement between Great Britain, Russia, and Japan with reference to China and Korea, but the opinion appears to be generally entertained that the trouble is over. If it be correct that the British Government is going to lend money to China direct, it may be assumed that British influence will make itself felt in the administration of the Empire, though without the assumption of any formal protectorate or absolute control. The problem in that direction would be comparatively easy of solution when once the international jealousies had been cleared away. The Chinese Government, though powerless to repel attack from without, possesses sufficient strength to preserve order in the various provinces, and with the guidance of foreign advice would be able to consolidate its authority, provide a decent administration, and in course of time to establish an efficient army and navy. The granting of financial assistance by Great Britain implies that China is to be allowed to avail herself of such advice. But what about Korea, with its wretched government and chronic rebellions? Bad as is the administration in China, it is vastly superior to that of Korea, And it is difficult to see how order is to be maintained in the latter country, or foreign interests to be protected, without some measure of direct foreign control. And who is to exercise that control? If Russia and Japan would consent to withdraw in favour of England, the solution would no doubt be eminently satisfactory from our own point of view, but it can hardly be expected that the other Powers will look at it in the same light. Possibly the settlement may take the form of a tripartite control, England, Russia, and Japan being equally represented. That may turn out to be the only possible solution of the difficulty, but it is one that can hardly fail to lead to further difficulties in the future. The joint control of Egypt by France and England broke down, and a joint control in Korea would almost inevitably prove equally unstable. So far we have had no indication of what Lord SALISBURY's policy in the matter may be.\n\n## SIR THOMAS SUTHERLAND AND THE SHIPPING CONFERENCE,\n\nThat hardy annual, the subject of teaching the Chinese to speak English, was again in evidence at the distribution of prizes at Sir THOMAS SUTHERLAND'S speeches at the Queen's College on Friday last, when Sir JOHN CARMINGTON was the orator of the occasion. Far be it from us to depreciate the importance of teaching English to the Chinese, especially so, as Sir THOMAS dealt with the important and vexed question of the Shipping Conference. There is also a reference to Hongkong, to the disposal of the Company's property in this colony, and to the revolution which has passed over the business of steamship companies since the opening of the Suez Canal. The Shipping Conference, however, was the main subject dealt with, and it must be admitted that the speaker made a remarkably able and effective defence of the general principle involved, viz., that of combination amongst steamship owners, though he did not dispose of all the complaints of shippers. It was shown that regular lines could not be maintained without some agreement amongst themselves as to rates. To that the shipper can hardly object, for though his interest is in favour of low charges, he must recognise the shipowners' right to a profit and be prepared to pay for the greater regularity of communication which the established lines afford over tramp steamers. But what is objected to is the preferential treatment accorded to the Conference lines in competition with the outsider ships from British ports, and it is on that point that Sir THOMAS SUTHERLAND'S speech will be subjected to the closest scrutiny. Dealing with the freight on iron and iron materials, which form the chief export from Antwerp, it was stated that some time ago there was great struggle between certain German lines which brought the freight down to 10s. a ton or even lower. When the P. & O. Company found that this cut-throat competition was not to be an affair of days or weeks, but that it was pretty sure to continue until one of the German lines swallowed up the other, they lowered the freight at Middlesbrough from 15s. to 10s., or whatever the rate was from Antwerp, and he believed their example was followed in Liverpool and the rate similarly reduced there. If that course was always followed there would be no cause of complaint. But the inquiry instituted by Mr. CHAMBERLAIN with reference to the trade of British colonies and foreign competition brought to light several instances in which foreign trade received the benefit of preferential freights. The Hongkong Committee drew attention to the fact that the rates of freight on piece goods charged at that time by the Conference steamers from New York to Hongkong and Shanghai averaged from 25s. to 30s. per ton as compared with 57s. 6d. from London and Liverpool. At Cape Colony also it was stated that freight was the main factor in letting in the United States, 22s. 6d. per ton being charged for furniture from New York and 31s. 3d. to 33s. 6d. from London. Even if differences such as these exist only for a time they must nevertheless exercise a considerable influence while they last and give the foreigner an opportunity of securing a footing in markets that were previously supplied from Great Britain.\n\nAt the same time it is as well to recognise that when a person goes to one of Her Majesty's foreign dominions populated by native races he cannot reasonably expect to find English the common language of the people, is it? In India and the Straits Settlements the European population find it convenient to learn the native language in order to be able to communicate with their servants and tradesmen, and were the Chinese language less difficult no doubt the same course would be adopted in Hongkong; but as Chinese is not a language that can be picked up, and as few can afford the time and large expenditure of effort requisite for its systematic study, we have to get on as best we can with the aid of \"pidgin\" English or the aid of interpreters.\n\nThe wonder is, having regard to the character of the population, that English will carry a person through as well as it does. Every Englishman of course hopes for the time when English will be the universal language, and it is the duty of a colony situated as Hongkong is, on the borders of an empire numbering over three hundred million, to do its best to bring about that desired consummation; but the Chief Justice says that when he came to the colony, about twenty months ago, he was very much struck with the general ignorance of the English language which prevails among the Chinese population of Hongkong. Having given a number of instances of this ignorance, His Honour said, \"Now this is a strange state of things, and we look to Queen's College to remedy this state of things.\" But there is in reality nothing at all strange about it. We have in Hong Kong but a very small indigenous population, the great bulk of the inhabitants being persons born in China who have never had the opportunity of learning English even if they had the inclination. Of the 201,528 of Chinese land population enumerated at the census taken last year only 9,033 returned themselves as having been born in Hongkong, and a still smaller number, namely, 1,523, acknowledged the colony as their native place. Taking an outside estimate, therefore, hardly more than five per cent. of the population can have come under the influence of our local educational agencies. Small wonder, then, that the bulk of the population are unable to speak English. If Queen's College were required to remedy this state of things it would have to establish branch schools in all the towns and villages of the province of Kwangtung, from which the population is chiefly drawn. But even if the alien character of the population were less pronounced than it is we still fail to see that there would be cause for surprise in the fact that the majority can speak only their own language.\n\n## THE SANITARY BOARD AND OBSTRUCTIONS IN LANES.\n\nAt the meeting of the Sanitary Board on Thursday there was considered an application for the renewal of a lease of Crown land in Lan Kwai Fong Lane. The application had been referred to the Sanitary Board because the property affected obstructs the entrance to the lane, access to which is gained by an archway under the house. The Medical Officer of Health opposed the granting of the application, and was supported by Mr. EDE, whereas the Director of Public Works proposed that the lease be extended as an annual lease so long as the lane continues in its present position and the houses are not raised higher. The Hon. F. H. MAY, who presided, seconded the Hon. R. D. ORMSBY'S amendment, but, the Board being equally divided, declined to give a casting vote, and the question, so far as the Sanitary Board is concerned, is thus left open. The Government really is, but it appears clear that some very definite line has been laid down, and much curiosity must be felt as to its character. The circumstances of Korea are radically different from those of China and call for different treatment.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 375007, "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": "CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899", "page_number": 336, "title": "CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899", "content_text": "Page 6\n\nmugking.\n\nNo. 119\n\nH. Klake\n\n7/16239\n\n199\n\nIn Macnaghten 24/6\n\nSir Hamilton 26.\n\nHay trong\n\n330\n\nacessar\n\nSir,\n\nDowning Street.\n\n28 June 1899\n\nWith reference to your Despatch 2014 of the 24th March last,\n\nI have the honour to inform you that I have selected\n\nMr Arthur William Grant B.A. on the recommendation of Professor Lewis, Doctor of the Cambridge University Scholastic Agency\n\nfor appointment as Junior grade assistant master, Queen's College Hongkong.\n\n2. I regret that it should have been found impossible to complete\n\nMr Grant's appointment at an earlier date,\n\nbut owing to the long\n\nvacation month at the Queen's College, it appears to me inexpedient at the present time to hurry his departure.\n\n3.\n\nThe Crown Agents will be desired to provide him, on his signing\n\nthe usual agreement, with a free passage to the Colony by the\n\nnext convenient steamer sailing after the 20th prox.\n\nYou will be good enough to give him a formal letter of\n\nappointment when he arrives in the Colony, stating that you appoint\n\nhim on the conditions embodied in the Despatch from this\n\nDepartment of the 19th ulto., a copy of which is annexed.\n\nYou will observe that Mr Grant is appointed at the same salary as Mr James or of whose offer you were informed by\n\nDespatch no 182 of the 21st July 1898.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient humble Servant,\n\n...\n\nOfficer administering\n\nthe Government of\n\nPage 7", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 375009, "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": "CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899", "page_number": 338, "title": "CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899", "content_text": "J. \n\n3a. \n\nCommunications on this subject should be addressed to \n\nThe Under Secretary of State, \n\nColonial Office, \n\nLondon, S.W., \n\nand the following number quoted. \n\nG1254/99 \n\nSir, \n\n16232/99 \n\nPer Macnaghten 24/6 \n\nSec.thamilton 26. \n\nAugking \n\nDowning Street, \n\n332 \n\n27 June 1899. \n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 23rd instant, enclosing certificates from your Doctor and Dentist, as desired, and to inform you that you have been passed as physically fit for service and that you have accordingly been selected for appointment as Junior Graduate Assistant Master, Queen's College Hongkong, on the terms communicated to you by the letter from this Department of the 2nd instant. \n\nI am directed by His Secretary to inform you that it has been brought to his notice that August is a vacation month at Queen's College. \n\nThe Crown Agents for the Colonies have been instructed to take your passage by the first convenient Steamer sailing after the 20th proxime. \n\nAnd I am to request you to inform me whether you will be prepared to sail at that time. \n\nYou should communicate with the Crown Agents, whose address is Downing Street, S.W., as to the agreement which you are required to sign with regard to the cost of your passage if you have not already done so. \n\nYou will receive a formal letter of appointment from the Governor when you arrive in the Colony. \n\nI am, \n\nSir, \n\nYour obedient Servant, \n\nW. Grast sy", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 375073, "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": "CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899", "page_number": 402, "title": "CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899", "content_text": "Office of Health\n\nHealth at\n\nLeverton? and his\n\nAssistant, as well as at the local University College. M.\n\nChadwick expresses\n\nhimself as\n\nsatisfied\n\nwith his character and\n\nprofessional qualifications:\n\nand under these circumstances\n\nI decided to accept his recommendations.\n\n4. The Crown Agent\n\nhave been requested to\n\nprovide him, on\n\nhis signing\n\nwith\n\nthe usual agreement,\n\nenough to him\n\na free first-class passage letter of offer. I wish him to arrive in the Colony by the first available steamer leaving not less than a fortnight\n\nhence.\n\n5. You will be good enough to notify on arrival in the Colony, stating that you appoint him on the conditions embodied in the letter\n\nwritten this Day, copy of\n\nwhich is enclosed\n\nBy\n\nCommunications on this subject\n\nshould be addressed to—\n\nthe Secretary of State,\n\nand the following\n\naddress quoted.\n\nColonial Office,\n\nLondon,\n\n[...]\n\n1st. Mr. Fiddian, 2/4\n\nSir W. Hamilton 12\n\nInd\n\n8902/99 Hong Kong\n\nSir,\n\n8th April\n\nDowning Street,\n\n14th April\n\n12/\n\n1899.\n\n396\n\nwith reference to the letter from this Office of the\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to\n\nacknowledge the receipt of your letter of the\n\nrevaccinated,\n\nsubject to\n\nyour being\n\nChief\n\nand to inform you that you have been passed as physically fit for service under\n\nthat you have accordingly been selected for appointment as\n\nInspector of Nuisances,\n\nof Nuisances, Hong Kong,\n\non the terms communicated to you by the letter from this Department of the\n\n30th ultimo. you will be good enough to take steps for being re-vaccinated as soon as possible.\n\n2.\n\nThe Crown Agents for the Colonies\n\nhave been\n\ninstructed to take your passage by the first available steamer sailing not less than a fortnight hence\n\n-and-I-am-to-request-you\n\nat that time.\n\n3. You should communicate with the Crown Agents, whose address is\n\nDowning Street, S. W., as to the agreement which you are required to sign with\n\nregard to the cost of your passage.\n\n4. You will receive a formal letter of appointment from the Governor\n\nwhen you arrive in the Colony.\n\nEsq.\n\nJ. H. Dandy, Esq.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nEDWARD WINGFIELD.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380795, "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": 324, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "will be of such a Character\n\nlo cuablo the scholars to enter in the ordinary Course for the Oxford Local and Similar examinations\n\n7. The master & shoned mach Hongkong not later than hustress aqui, by the 15th April 1907 and January at it wowed by comment if they could for arrive in next CPL September\n\nChurch of Scotland Normal School, JOHNSTON TERRACE,\n\nI need only say that, I can Edinburgh 10th Sept 401. help you,\n\nrard im Thurn Esq.,\n\nI respectfully beg to inform you that I have to day received a letter from Mr. Maclay, Rector of this training College, to the effect that he has no candidates to recommend for the Kowloon educational vacancy.\n\nIn any way I shall very gladly do so.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\n318 Yours Very Sincerely,\n\nDaniel S. Calderwood.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380798, "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": 327, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "Church of Scotland Normal School,\n\nJOHNSTON TERRACE,\n\n321\n\nEdinburgh 31 Aug 4401\n\nexars im Thurn Erg\n\nSir,\n\nI deeply regret\n\nat there should have in such delay in\n\ngard to\n\nWe-\n\nyour artment's letter of\n\n\"July. That letter\n\naddressed ome\n\n3 Principal of the Church of Scotland Training College. I to not hold that post,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381445, "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": 157, "title": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "content_text": "COP Y.\n\nNo. 41.\n\nEnclosure 2 to Governor's Despatch No. 324 of the 33rd August, 1901.\n\nFrom the Acting Headmaster, Queen's College, to the C. O. Colonial Secretary.\n\n155 33932 Bree lere 27 SEP 1901\n\nQueen's College, Hongkong, 12th August, 1901.\n\nInstructions referred to on page 1.\n\nIf this Paper of Particulars and the Certificates connected with it be not sent in original, the copies must be duly attested.\n\nHead of Paper-In the case of an Officer serving on the West Coast of Africa, a statement is to be added whether he is a native of that Coast. (Colonial Regulations, § 48.)\n\nHead 3.--State the description of Allowance for which the Application is recommended, viz., Superannuation, Compensation, Compassionate Allowance, or Gratuity, and its amount. In the case of Persons claiming an addition to their Pensions in respect of Professional or other special qualifications, this should be stated, and a reference should be given to the authority under which the claim is made.\n\nHead 5.-If the service has been interrupted by one or more breaks, the word \"broken\" should be added before or after the number of years and months, and the causes, dates and circumstances of the breaks or break should be stated under heading.\n\nHead 7-If the person retiring has been in receipt of the same Salary, or in the class from which he retires, for the 36 months immediately before the date of his retirement, the actual annual rate of Salary or Wages at that date should be inserted, preceded by the word \"actual.\" In other cases the average annual amount of Salary or Wages for the 36 months next preceding the date of retirement should be inserted, preceded by the word \"average,\" but if the whole period of service is less than three years, then the average for the whole period of service should be inserted.\n\nA separate statement should be inserted of the average Annual Value, for the 36 months immediately preceding retirement, of each Emolument (exclusive of salary or wages) which is claimed to be included in the calculation of the pension or Gratuity.\n\nWhenever the value of a House or House Allowance, so ascertained, exceeds one-sixth of the salary and other emoluments which count for Pension purposes, it is to be reduced to one-sixth of that amount, so that it shall not exceed one-seventh of the whole.\n\nFees which an Officer is allowed to retain for his own use will be taken into account for Pension purposes, with regular salary, at the annual average of the net receipts of the 3 years next preceding the Officer's retirement. These net receipts are to be ascertained by deducting from the gross amount of Fees such Office Expenses, &c., as an Officer may have had to defray from his own resources, in performing the services for which he was remunerated by Fees. No deduction, however, from the Fees should be made in respect of Office Expenses provided from Public Funds, for the due discharge of those duties to which a Fixed Salary is annexed.\n\nPapers of \"Particulars\" when forwarded to the Colonial Department should be accompanied by formal Declarations from the retiring Officers, showing the amount received by them for Fees, and the amount defrayed as above for Office Expenses, &c., in each of the three years immediately preceding the retirement. It will be the duty of the Colonial Governments concerned to satisfy themselves of the accuracy of such statements before forwarding them to the Colonial Office.\n\nIn the case of Offices receiving Fixed Salaries and Fees, the Fees will not in ordinary circumstances be allowed to count for Pension purposes to the extent of more than one quarter of the Salaries, and Fees will not in any case be allowed to count for Pension purposes during any period in which the whole time of the Officer receiving them was not given to the Public Service.\n\nHead 8.--In cases of infirmity if the Applicant is below the ordinary age for retirement, a Medical Certificate is to be furnished showing that he is disqualified by infirmity of mind or body for discharging the duties of his situation, as that such infirmity is likely to be permanent.\n\nIn case of ten years' service or more, this Certificate should be signed by two Officers, of whom at least one should, if possible, be a Salaried Officer of the Government.\n\nHead 9.--As to \"broken\" service, see Head 5.\n\nIf the Applicant has had any acting service, the details must be fully given, with a statement whether or not during the \"acting\" service, he was connected with the permanent Civil Service of the Colony.\n\nHead 11.-If, in special circumstances, a professional Civil Officer has been allowed to have \"private practice\" without forfeiting his claim to Pension, the facts are to be fully stated.\n\nHead 14.---If the Applicant is liable to any deduction from his service under Clause 192 of the Colonial Regulations, the facts should be fully stated.\n\nHead 19.-The length of service and other particulars of the computation are to be given. When an average of Salary, &c., is taken, the mode of calculating it (whether by months, &c.) is to be explained.\n\n(1) Officers having joined the service before 1st July, 1897, are entitled to draw their pension in England at rate of 3/84 the dollar; others who joined later to 3- the Dollar.\n\n(2) Indians having joined the service before 23rd June, 1895, and drawing pension in India are entitled to exchange at the rate of Rs. 227 for every $100; others who joined later to Rs. 200 for every $100.\n\nThe Honourable J. H. Stewart-Lockhart, C. M. G., Colonial Secretary.\n\nSir,\n\nIn connexion with my letter No. 40 of 7th instant, I have the honour to forward for His Excellency's favourable consideration an application from Mr. James Cheung for the post of Assistant Master in this Department.\n\nThe Testimonial from Dr. Wright speaks for itself and needs no further support from me.\n\nI would, however, suggest that Mr. Cheung if appointed, should first complete a three years' probation from 1st April, 1899, on the salary granted to all Assistants of the Junior Grade, i.e. $1,300 per annum with compensation allowance.\n\nI have etc.,\n\nAlfred J. May, Acting Head Master.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 383995, "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": 531, "title": "CO129-309 - Public Offices & Others - 1901", "content_text": "Communications on this subject should be addressed to--\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nLondon, S.W.,\n\nand the following number quoted.\n\n42576\n\nSir,\n\nM 42516\n\nDowning Street,\n\n7 Dec 1901.\n\nWith reference to the letter from this Department of the 3rd inst.,\n\n526\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to\n\nacknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 2nd and copy/paragraph of the letter from the Laboratory\n\nDepartment of the ... to inform you that you have been\n\npassed as physically fit for service, and that you have accordingly been\n\nselected for appointment as Bacteriologist in Hong Kong\n\non the terms communicated to you by the above-mentioned letters from this Department of the 11th ult.\n\n2. The Crown Agents for the Colonies have been\n\ninstructed to take your passage by the Japanese Mail of the ... proximo. It is understood, and I am to request you to inform me whether you will be prepared to start at that time.\n\n3. You should communicate with the Crown Agents, whose address is\n\nDowning Street, S.W., as to the agreement which you are required to sign with\n\nregard to the cost of your passage.\n\n4. You will receive a formal letter of appointment from the Governor\n\nwhen you arrive in the Colony.\n\n5. Dr Manson has requested that you should be re-vaccinated before leaving for Hong Kong.\n\n6. A letter has been received from the ... Hospital Medical College stating that you will be relieved from your duties there at the end of the month.\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nC.J.D.72\n\nPage ...\n\nHowever, to follow the exact instructions given and output only HTML using `` for paragraphs, here is the revised output without the \"Page ...\" line as it was not clear if it was part of the original text or not, and also reformatted according to the rules:\n\nCommunications on this subject should be addressed to--\nThe Under Secretary of State,\nColonial Office,\nLondon, S.W.,\nand the following number quoted.\n42576\n\nSir,\nM 42516\nDowning Street,\n7 Dec 1901.\nWith reference to the letter from this Department of the 3rd inst.,\n526\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to\nacknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 2nd and copy/paragraph of the letter from the Laboratory\nDepartment of the ... to inform you that you have been\npassed as physically fit for service, and that you have accordingly been\nselected for appointment as Bacteriologist in Hong Kong\non the terms communicated to you by the above-mentioned letters from this Department of the 11th ult.\n\n2. The Crown Agents for the Colonies have been\ninstructed to take your passage by the Japanese Mail of the ... proximo. It is understood, and I am to request you to inform me whether you will be prepared to start at that time.\n\n3. You should communicate with the Crown Agents, whose address is\nDowning Street, S.W., as to the agreement which you are required to sign with\nregard to the cost of your passage.\n\n4. You will receive a formal letter of appointment from the Governor\nwhen you arrive in the Colony.\n\n5. Dr Manson has requested that you should be re-vaccinated before leaving for Hong Kong.\n\n6. A letter has been received from the ... Hospital Medical College stating that you will be relieved from your duties there at the end of the month.\nYour obedient Servant,\nC.J.D.72", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-309 - Public Offices & Others - 1901.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 384788, "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": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "content_text": "28\n\nI shall address you in a separate Despatch.\n\n3.\n\nThe Committee spent more than six months over their deliberations, and numerous witnesses were summoned to give evidence as to the working of the existing systems of education. The Report, therefore, is based on a solid foundation, and is the result of careful investigation. It has been written, however, not so much with the intention of explaining the present system of education, as with that of laying before Government a careful considered scheme for improvement.\n\n4.\n\nAfter describing, in Part I, the existing schools of the Colony, including Queen's College, the Report proceeds to consider the different classes of children for whom it is desirable that education should be provided, and the kind of education appropriate to each class. Part II attempts to set up a standard by which the deficiencies of the existing schools are measured, and the difficulties consequent upon the exceptionally large intermixture of races are carefully examined. Female education is also dealt with in this section. In Part III the schools of the Colony are criticised class by class, and detailed improvements are suggested. Part IV is occupied with the additions needed to complete or rather regenerate the present system, and deals with the necessity of providing schools for British subjects of European parentage, a school for the children of the richer Chinese, and educational facilities in the New Territory. Part V estimates the cost of the proposed changes, and Part VI deals with miscellaneous questions regarding normal schools and the distribution...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 384831, "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": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "page_number": 72, "title": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "content_text": "71\n\nAs however the Normal Master will be in constant supervision of the six sections of the Preparatory School, there only remain for the eight English Masters, at the outpost, six classes of three sections each. Two masters can well be spared for the two non-Chinese classes, and leave six for sixteen sections which is more than sufficient for the purpose the Committee has in view.\n\nThe Committee recommends the appointment of ten English Masters in addition to the Head Master, but wisely calculates on the constant absence on leave of at least one of them. (Para 72).\n\nI therefore only deal with nine.\n\n51 Some misapprehension appears to exist as to my motive in forming these classes; it was because I observed that two or three non-Chinese boys in each section throughout the College suffered in their education, because in competing with Chinese boys, they were so completely outdistanced, that they lost the necessary stimulus of emulation. In combined classes it is rare for a non-Chinese boy to be amongst the first dozen.\n\nHis Excellency Sir Henry Blake was strangely misinformed, when he wrote (Gazette 227 Para. 3).\n\n\"European scholars are obliged to regulate their progress by that of their Chinese classmates who are painfully endeavouring to assimilate Western education taught to them in a foreign language.\"\n\nAs a matter of fact in combined classes, Chinese are more rapidly qualified for promotion, and leave behind them in the lower class non-Chinese boys.\n\n6. In recommending (Para. 36) that the abolition of these non-Chinese classes should take place at once, the Committee", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 384845, "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": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "page_number": 86, "title": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "content_text": "16,\n\n85\n\nthe expense of the new scheme by $1080 rising to $1980, i.e.,\n\nthe Actual Cost of my proposals is $8,487-$11,940 as against\n\n$9,507-$13,920 recommended by the Committee.\n\nThe number of classes and boys for which provision is\n\nnecessary is\n\n \n \n Preparatory School\n 240 boys\n 6 rooms\n not 450 (Para. 71)\n \n \n \n Lower\n 468\n \n \n \n \n \n Upper\n 420\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1128\n \n \n \n \n **\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 9\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 0\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 400\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 100\n \n *\n \n \n \n \n \n 24\n \n \n \n \n \n 950\n \n \n \n \n \n instead of\n \n \n (para. 71)\n \n\nFor these we require\n\n \n \n English\n Chinese\n \n \n Preparatory\n 1\n 3\n \n \n Lower\n 3\n 9\n \n \n Upper\n 5\n \n \n \n \n 4\n 4\n \n \n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n 8\n *\n \n \n Total\n 9\n 17 (11+6PT)\n \n \n \n 2 **\n 19 (14+5PT)\n \n\nWith the appointment of a Normal Master (para. 38D) constantly\n\nsupervising the six sections of the Preparatory School, I am of\n\nopinion that one Chinese Assistant and Six Pupil Teachers (8\n\nMasters in all) can efficiently do the necessary work in that\n\nbranch of the College. I propose to dispense with three of the\n\n14 Chinese Assistants recommended by the Committee and to add a\n\nSixth Pupil Teacher (para. 73).\n\n+40. The Committee in (para. 73) recommend a total\n\nof Eleven English Masters including Head Master, this is an increase of three to the masters actually on the Staff, and one\n\nadditional to the number (ten) provided in the Estimates for 1902. The Committee were apparently misled by the number of\n\nitems in the list which include a Senior English Assistant Kas-\n\nter on the Estimates in 1901 whose death however is indicated by\n\nin 1902 Column. There were in addition to the Head\n\nMaster and Second Master 5 Seniors, 3 Juniors in 1901, 4 Seniors\n\n4 Juniors in 1902, Total 10 in both.\n\nNaturally", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 384867, "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": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "page_number": 108, "title": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "content_text": "107\n\na\n\nassur-\n\nis only one other point on which I need to touch. The education of a boy or girl depends in the main on two elements. The direct instruction given and received; and the indirect influences under which a child is placed whilst receiving that education. In the master and mistress of the Kowloon School, Mr. and Mrs. James, the community and the Government have warrant and assurance both as to the teaching itself and as to the indirect influences under which that teaching will be given. Mr. James is known in the Colony. The efficient service he rendered at Queen's College and the position he won there in the esteem of masters and boys points him out as the right man in the right place. (Applause) In Mrs. James, whose high qualifications and experience fit her for the task she has undertaken, the Government has secured an accomplished schoolmistress. The success of the school should be manifest from the beginning and should be greater as Mr. and Mrs. James continue their labours, which we trust they may be spared to do during many years. Your Excellency will observe that in this building everything is provided that may contribute to the discipline, comfort, and decency of the school.\n\nI think we are justified in the hope and expectation that the institution will prosper, that Mr. Ho Tung will see his generous gift used to the best advantage, that here will be trained many loyal patriots, faithful citizens, and good men and women, who by the instruction they receive in this school will be fitted to adorn any station in life to which they may be called, and so contribute largely to the well-being and prosperity of the Colony. (Applause) Mr. Ho Tung will now, with your Excellency's permission, hand over the school building to you for behoof of the Colony. (Applause.)\n\nMr. HO TUNG said—Your Excellency, ladies and gentlemen.—It is not quite two years ago since His Excellency Sir Henry Blake was pleased to perform the first public function in connection with the building standing before us now, by laying its foundation stone on the 20th July, 1900. And to-day, in the absence of His Excellency in England in connection with that most auspicious occasion for the whole of the British people, the coronation of our King, your Excellency as Officer Administering the Government has kindly consented to identify yourself with its next most important function—the formal opening of the institution which will hereafter be known as the Kowloon School. It is specially pleasing that this ceremony can be associated with Your Excellency's temporary administration, inasmuch as your presence here to-day furnishes a practical evidence of your Excellency's desire to pursue the same progressive policy in the matter of education which His Excellency Sir Henry Blake keenly advocates. This manifestation on the part of your Excellency of a sympathy not only with the material but also with the intellectual advancement of the young people of this Colony, is, I feel sure, very highly appreciated.\n\nI have now the honour and the pleasure to hand to you, sir, the key and to ask you formally to open the Kowloon School. In handing the building over to the Government I cannot but express my sense of very great pleasure that this small gift to the Colony of Hongkong has been accepted as a result of a satisfactory compromise between the Government and myself. There can be no doubt that the ultimate issue of this compromise will be the better education of the Chinese in the Peninsula—a betterment commensurate with the success which must inevitably follow the enthusiasm evinced by the parents of those children for whom this school is to be maintained. I see Mr. James, the Headmaster of the Kowloon School, is here present to-day. He will, no doubt, see that his school places within the reach of the youths of Kowloon easy means for the acquisition of knowledge: one, I say, of the ends of the educational efforts of our schools and colleges. But above all, I trust that he will regard as its chief end the formation of these right moral habits which experience has shown to be of real value in maintaining a true manhood, in the midst of the traps, pitfalls, and allurements of modern life, and without which an essential part of a true education will have failed of attainment.\n\nBy a true and complete education is meant that education which has been defined as \"a growth, a development, an evolution\" (using the term evolution in a restricted sense) \"of all the possibilities which God has implanted in our nature; the unifying of these possibilities subordinating them all to the control of the will; in short, the crystallisation of all these possibilities into a pure and noble character.\" The acquisition of such an ideal education is, as one must be only too conscious, difficult of accomplishment; but nothing really worth having can be obtained without some earnest effort: and these efforts must be directed not by teachers only but by parents and pupils themselves with whom rest the power and the will to justify the establishment and the maintenance of the very first institution in the Colony to inaugurate an important departure from the path hitherto pursued in regard to education in Hongkong. (Applause.)\n\nIt is now my honour and privilege to ask you to accept this key with which to open the school and this tray as a souvenir of the occasion. (Applause.)\n\nThe key, made of silver, bore the following inscription: \"Kowloon School, opened 19th of April, 1902, by His Excellency Major-General Sir William Julian Gascoigne, K.C.M.G., Officer Administering the Government of Hongkong.\" A similar inscription appeared on the silver tray.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY—Mr. Ho Tung and gentlemen, I can assure you it has been a very great pleasure and privilege to me to be asked to come here to-day to take part in this ceremony—a ceremony unique of its kind, inasmuch as I understand that this is the first civil European school that has been opened not only in Kowloon but in the Colony of Hongkong. I can assure you, Mr. Ho Tung, that I have watched with a great deal of interest the growth of this building from the time that His Excellency Sir Henry Blake two years ago laid the foundation stone, and I was looking forward with considerable anticipation to the day when the last stone would be laid and the building declared open to those pupils for whom it was intended; and I feel I am extraordinarily lucky in that that day has occurred during my short term of administering the Government.\n\nLadies and gentlemen, there are certain features about this school I should wish to call special attention to. This school originates in the magnificent generosity of a gentleman—a Chinese gentleman by birth and a British subject—who has identified himself in every way with the interests of the community. Well, the gift to begin with was a magnificent one. But after the gift had been made it was thought by the Government—I thought—I should approach Mr. Ho Tung with a view to modifying in some way the conditions on which it was first presented. Well, ladies and gentlemen, when any one makes a very handsome gift and then after it has been accepted the person accepting it begins to make conditions, it would be not natural perhaps that the giver might have a certain feeling, not perhaps of annoyance, but a sort of feeling of surprise. On the contrary, Mr. Ho Tung, having heard the arguments of the Government, with a liberal-minded generosity that I think is seldom surpassed, at once came into these views.\n\nWe approached him somewhat diffidently, but he met us more than half way, with the result that this school—this magnificent school as it appears to me—which you see now, is to be used by European children, and the Government, on its side, has pledged itself to take care of the Chinese resident in the neighbourhood. So that Mr. Ho Tung in his munificent generosity has not only got what he desired, a school that would benefit Europeans and Chinese alike, but he has met the Government in a double sense; and I feel sure that such an exhibition of generosity, liberal-minded generosity, will appeal most strongly to every one of my hearers to-day. I congratulate you most heartily, Mr. Ho Tung, on the site you have chosen. I am only a soldier passing through...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 384870, "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": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "page_number": 111, "title": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "content_text": "Record of Conversation\n\nIt came out in the conversation that he did not mean a school, a Normal school in the ordinary sense, but merely a school which should recentralise a number of Chinese who are superior to secondary education. This ought to be carried out at Queen's College.\n\nFor the present, it had better be satisfied with the proposals in §94.\n\nC.P.d. 14 Aug at once\n\nMemorandum\n\n\"The Report of the Committee on Education\" is that the condemnation of educational work being done in all Schools in Hong Kong is much too severe. Though there are immense difficulties in the way, it does not. The difficulties by which Education is beset are due to the fact that the Chinese in Western Pursued beeel. Twenty-five years of experience in Vernacular Middle Schools on the Mainland have taught me not to look for more than I find in many similar Schools in Hong Kong.\n\nRegarding the Coordination of the work in the Schools, I have carefully studied the papers referred to, & I have no hesitation in saying that the judgement so strongly expressed about the quality of the work is unjust. I recommend that...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 385274, "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": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "page_number": 514, "title": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "content_text": "not, I think, to receive the \n\nThe fear is that His appointment would lend to \n\ndemoralise the Queen's College staff, \n\nas it does the transfer of Mr. Wedcock to the Secretaryship of the Education Board. Dr. Wright calls attention to the difficulties of working the College \n\ncaused by these acting and permanent Assistant Masters being under the administrative staff.\n\nMr. Dyer Ball's salary is $3600, with a \n\nallowance of $450. The salary of the Third Master, Mr. Rey, and Accountant is $3100, \n\nrising to $4200. The appointment would not therefore be a normal promotion, and this would no doubt be followed by applications for a personal allowance, if not for an increase of salary at all.\n\nMr. Melbourne has no claims compared with these officers. Mr. Kemp has acted as Police Magistrate for a year and a half and more.\n\nHe was appointed Registrar of the Land Court in the New Territory in June 1900, but has hardly acted in that post for more than six months.\n\nSubject to Mr. Kemp's appointment being on the A/C.E. on the condition stated.\n\n6/8 \n\nI entirely agree with ... 1/8 st £40.\n\n21513/0 \n\n(a)-46569-8000-8-01 \n\n513 \n\nI assent entirely. In the present case I have great doubts whether hardship may not be inflicted on Mr. Jones. This is a Departmental matter, with the facts of which I have not gone carefully into.\n\nSir M. Ommanney \n\n14 Aug. \n\nWill you look at the minutes on this paper?\n\nI do not think that it would be right to pass over a man who has acted in the post for 4 years, and of whom the late Chief Justice speaks so highly.\n\nI should appoint Mr. Jones \n\nand lay down that the masters are not to be sent in future to act outside their department.\n\nC.PL \n\n15 Aug.\n\nIt seems true that the objection now taken to conferring on Jacur ought...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 385972, "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": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "page_number": 52, "title": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "content_text": "# Sub-Enclosure No. 2 to Enclosure 1 in Despatch No. 452 of the 10th October, 1902\n\nMy Dear James,\n\nC.O. 46388\nKing's College\nBangkok, September 10, 1902\n\nYou will be grieved to hear that I have got into very serious trouble in K... and that yesterday I received a cheque for 3 months' salary in advance and passage money. The circumstances are these. On Sunday, September 7th, Phillips got typhoid fever. The next day he was informed by the Head-boy that the boys were in the habit of going to the women's quarters and talking to the washerwomen, while we were at dinner. I heard about this and determined to make a raid. I went there on Thursday evening about 9 P.M. and found five boys in a bed-room, one under a bed and another inside the mosquito curtain. The women tried to put me off at first by saying the door was locked. I caned four boys on the hand very severely. Thieb refused to be caned, so I gave him two or three blows over the back with the cane. Hinc illae lacrimae. I am now informed that caning over the back is peculiarly obnoxious to the Siamese, in fact absolutely unpardonable, and that I did not give the boys a chance of explaining why they were there. They were only waiting to talk to the cook about some food!! Phya Visut, Phya Wut, and Danrong all refused to see me about the matter. I sent in my own account of the affair, which was not believed, though I could have produced several witnesses to every statement. They said there was no rule that boys should not go into women's bedrooms, etc., etc. They have cabled for Carter. He will be a bit sick at having a month of his holiday cut off. He is the only man who can set matters right in a crisis. Well, I am writing to you in case you know of any billet or can give me any advice about obtaining one. How about Queen's College? The only idea I have at present is to return to England and then try for a post in South Africa, but I am afraid it is rather a mythical prospect. I expect to be leaving Bangkok about the beginning of October. I shall stay at Raffles, Singapore, until I get a boat on. Supposing there was a temporary vacancy in Hongkong. If you cable \"come,\" I shall know what it means, but of course, I am aware this is only one chance in a thousand. I applied to be transferred to the Normal College. Wills has left, and Trayes was very keen to have me, but Phya Visut is very much against me.\n\n(Sd.) R. B. O. Bird.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 388318, "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": "CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4]", "page_number": 494, "title": "CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4]", "content_text": "## 2 \n\ninto :- \n\n480 \n\n171 \n\n(a) **Seventh Standard Schools**, \n(b) **Lower Standard Schools**. \n\nIn the new Code which I shall forward in a short time, the distinction between Seventh Standard and Lower Standard Schools is marked by a higher grant to those which can teach the Seventh Standard, since it is generally recognised that, save in exceptional cases, when, for instance, a Chinese educated abroad is employed, it requires an English Master to teach that standard. There are two Vernacular Grant Schools at present which employ English Teachers, though it is not likely that this class of School will increase in numbers.\n\n9. Regarding the appointment of a Normal Master, the question is under the consideration of the Governing Body of the Queen's College.\n\n10. The Governing Body of the Queen's College is also considering the question of the restoration of the Chinese classes in the College. The matter is one that presents no little difficulty if the teaching of the Chinese language is to be conducted on rational principles. I shall report further on this matter when I have received the recommendations of the Governing Body.\n\nI note your decision that when the Head Mastership of the College falls vacant, the College shall be placed under the Inspector of Schools.\n\n11. As regards the re-establishment of a Hongkong Scholarship, I am of opinion that, in view of the enormous demand among the Chinese for education in English, it is", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 389225, "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": "CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10]", "page_number": 128, "title": "CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10]", "content_text": "## Enclosure 1.\n\nSir,\n\n`C.O. 3253`\n`16511`\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 30th July, 1903.\n\nWith reference to paragraphs 9 and 10 of my Despatch No. 161 of the 30th March last, I have the honour to transmit for your consideration the enclosed copy of a report by a Sub-Committee of the Governing Body of Queen's College on the subject of a scheme for the restoration of Chinese Classes at the College, and the employment of a Normal Master at the College for training purposes. The Sub-Committee also recommend certain increases in the salaries of the Chinese masters and Pupil Teachers at the College whose salaries the Committee on Education (see paragraph 74 of their report) considered too low.\n\n2. The Governing Body has adopted the report as also a resolution concerning the annual examination of the College, copy of which I enclose.\n\n3. I concur in the suggestions contained in the report and resolution. They have been communicated to the Head Master of the College, and I enclose extracts from a minute of his in which he offers objection to the only material points on which he has not been able to agree with the Governing Body.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P., \n&c., &c.\n\n## Previous Text (Reconstructed)\n\nor vice versa and is debarred from rising on one side because he cannot rise on the other. There is considerable risk that he will learn practically nothing at all: it would be better to see how this arrangement works in practice before saying anything about it. Approval is asked for a report in a year's time.\n\n`R.R.&S.4/9`\n\nAll staff in principle approve without criticism. It is very difficult to make out what is intended; but it is very difficult to criticize.\n\n`C.P.L. 8` at once Hongkong.\n\nPage 372 \n\n## Enclosure 2.\n\nConclusions.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 389226, "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": "CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10]", "page_number": 129, "title": "CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10]", "content_text": "# Enclosure 4.\n\n128\n\nThe Governing Body has made certain recommendations regarding the proposed Chinese Classes. They are that promotion in the proposed 5 Chinese Classes should coincide with promotion in the English Classes and that there should be an entrance examination in Chinese.\n\n4. If you approve of the recommendations of the Governing Body, I have to request your authority to provide in the Estimates for next year the increased expenditure set out in the attached schedule. It amounts to $6,899 for next year and a maximum of $11,040.\n\nThe employment of a Third Examiner for the College involves an additional expenditure of $300 per annum, there having been heretofore 2 Examiners who were paid a fee of $300 each. I propose that the allowance of $600 to the Master who acts as Normal Master should not carry Exchange Compensation nor be drawn in whole or in part by an Officer on leave nor be pensionable.\n\n5. I take this opportunity of informing you that the project of instituting a Chinese High School is at present in abeyance. I understand that the want is being met by a local private Institution.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient\nHumble servant,\n[Name], Acting Governor, &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 389227, "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": "CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10]", "page_number": 130, "title": "CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10]", "content_text": "# Enclosure 1.\n\n## C. O.\n\n129 \n32661 \n**Memorandum on Education at Queen's College**\n\nAUG 05\n\n1. The product we desire to see as the result of an education at Queen's College is a young man equipped with a good knowledge of English and \"Western learning\", and with so much of the Chinese Written language as will enable him to write clearly and intelligently and to read plain prose, and to render Chinese into English and vice versa with some degree of ease and accuracy.\n\n2. After consultation with the Head and Assistant Masters (English and Chinese) we approve a scheme drawn up by Mr. Ralphs though we do not commit ourselves to an approval of all its details. Moreover our approval depends on the acceptance of certain modifications and provisos, given in sections 4 and 5 below.\n\n3. The scheme contemplates putting the 5 lowest divisions under 5 of the less experienced Chinese Masters with a Normal Master in control of them. Five Pupil Teachers, now in sole charge of divisions of 50 - 70 scholars each, a disastrous arrangement, will be relieved entirely of this duty, and will be attached to the five divisions. They will give occasional lessons under supervision, and spend the rest of their time either in assisting the divisional Masters or in private study.\n\nAs five Pupil Teachers will thus have to be withdrawn from the teaching staff, it is clear that their places must be filled. This it is proposed to do by the creation of a Chinese side to the school of five classes corresponding to the five classes of the Preparatory and Lower School i.e. to classes IV, V, VI, VII, VIII. Five Vernacular Class Masters will be appointed.\n\nThe Normal Master will be in charge of the five lowest divisions with their Masters and Pupil Teachers.\n\n4.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 389229, "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": "CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10]", "page_number": 132, "title": "CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10]", "content_text": "132 is not present, the text starts with 131, so it is assumed that 131 is the correct page number.\n\n# Not present\n\n## Not present\n\n-tion combined with the creation of a Chinese side to the Preparatory and Lower Schools, is more feasible than that apparently contemplated by the Secretary of State of linking a Vernacular School to the \nQueen's College. Among other reasons, Queen's College is already full, \nand it is not clear where the Vernacular School could be housed; (4) \nThe work of the five Chinese Classes should be carefully considered by \na small Committee, who should draw up a Syllabus. These classes should, \nif possible, be put under the Normal Master, or at any rate should \nhave strict European supervision and the teaching in them should be \nmodernised.\n\n(Sd) Ho Kai. (J). E. A. Irving.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 389693, "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": "CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10]", "page_number": 596, "title": "CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10]", "content_text": "## 15. Education Department\n\n| Increase | Decrease |\n| --- | --- |\n| **Personal Emoluments** | |\n| Inspector of Schools | 1,517.67 |\n| Stipulated Increments and Increases of Salaries | |\n| Reduction on New Appointments | 300 |\n| Change Compensation | 416 |\n| Fall in Exchange | 458 |\n| How Posts placed on Starking Basis | 877.84 |\n| **Other Charges** | |\n| Books | 250 |\n| Chinese High school, etc. | 1,275 |\n| Examination Grant, District School | 680 |\n| Incidental Expenses, Books, etc. Conveyance | 20,000 |\n| Fire Insurance | 50 |\n| Library, Belilios Public School | 180 |\n| Report of Murder | 144 |\n| Shine Teacher | 1,500 |\n| Printing Hakka Dictionary | 180 |\n| Incidental Expenses | 460 |\n| Rent occupying leased premises | 216 |\n| Grant in aid to schools | 1,900 |\n| Grant in lieu of rates | 13,640 |\n| | 18,835 |\n| **Total Increase** | 30,610.81 |\n| **Deduct Decrease** | 24,932 |\n| **Net Difference** | 5,678.81 |\n\n## Queen's College\n\n| | |\n| --- | --- |\n| **Personal Emoluments** | |\n| New Posts | 5,040 |\n| Stipulated Increments & Increases of Salaries | 1,316 |\n| Acceptance of Sterling Salary | 693 |\n| Reduction on new appointment | 60 |\n| Salaries Allowed to Normal Master | 600 |\n| **Carried forward** | 6,956 | \n| **Carried forward** | 123 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 392061, "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": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "page_number": 80, "title": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "content_text": "79\n\nAll the above Resolutions have been more honoured in the breach than the observance, and the last has apparently been changed without (as far as I am aware) any formal rescission as required by the Regulations.)\n\n8.\n\n(Regulation 12.):- Before deciding any vexed question, on which the opinion of the Head Master is known, or may be reasonably supposed to be adverse to the proposed policy of the Governing Body, the Head Master shall have the opportunity of verbally expressing his objections in full conclave of the Governing Body.\n\n(In nine years the Head Master has been invited to attend a Meeting on only four occasions. The first in October, 1896, was fruitful of good results, resolutions being passed by the Governing Body, approving the suggestions of the Head Master. The last in May, 1909, was a pure formality, the Head Master being informed at the outset that his written objections had been overruled, and that the policy of the Governing Body had already been resolved upon.)\n\n77.\n\n(Regulation 18.):- The Head Master shall have under his sole control the Annual Examination of Queen's College held in the months of December and January, the choice of books, the method of teaching, the Time Table, the arrangement of classes and school hours, and generally the whole internal organisation, management, and discipline of the School, including the manner of admission and promotion of boys, and the assignment of Masters to their respective classes in the College.\n\n(The Annual Examination and Time Tables have been recognised by Resolution of the Governing Body, as being under the sole control of the Head Master. The last clause defines what is usually included under the terms 'arrangement of classes' and 'whole internal organisation' being in all other Schools recognised as the proper prerogative of the Head Master.)\n\n8.\n\n(Regulation 14.):- The Governing Body shall appoint an Examiner or Examiners to conduct an examination of the scholars, but no Head Master or Assistant Master of any School or College in Hongkong or Kowloon shall be appointed such Examiner. The date of the Independent Examination shall be fixed by the Governing Body.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 404567, "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": "CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4]", "page_number": 305, "title": "CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4]", "content_text": "## 597\n\nActually serving in the Colony. Mr. Grant at present holds the appointment of Assistant Master of the Police School for which he receives $480 per annum, with exchange compensation at 3 shillings to the dollar. This at the present rate of exchange amounts to about $720 per annum. He would of course be required to resign this appointment.\n\nShould he not desire to do this it would probably be necessary to place a Master junior to him in Queen's College above him in the Police School, continuing him as Assistant Master under the present conditions of that appointment.\n\n5. If Mr. Grant accepts the charge of the Police School I propose to fix the temporary allowance to be given to the Officer who will succeed him as Assistant Master at $600 per annum of course without exchange compensation. My reason for suggesting this amount instead of the approximate equivalent of the salary now drawn by the Assistant Master is that the allowance now drawn by the Normal Master at Queen's College is $600 per annum and that the work done for this allowance (at present drawn by Mr. Ralphs who is next to Mr. Dealy on the Staff of Queen's College) is at least equal to the work of the Assistant", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 407013, "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": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906", "page_number": 309, "title": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906", "content_text": "303\n\n2\n\nopposing the new Treaty and urging the Central Government, if the United States' Government complained of the boycott, to reply that there was no law in China to compel the people to buy any special quality of goods or raise a boycott.\" It was also alleged with some show of probability that the Empress-Dowager favoured the movement in the Privy Council, and that many members of the Central Government \"were exceedingly pleased to receive such unanimous support from the people of the country.\" The Decree of the 16th July appointing Commissioners to travel abroad in search of information on which to base a Constitution and other radical measures of reform synchronized closely with a large meeting held at Shanghae to decide measures \"for putting the boycott into operation, the period of two months having expired on the 20th July.\" This was a remarkable and representative gathering of delegates from the Chambers of Commerce and kindred associations of the majority of the Treaty ports, and from many inland cities, members of the Chinese Educational Association, students of some twenty schools, and representatives of the leading commercial guilds and firms of Shanghae, Canton, Hankow, Fukien, and Shantung. A novel feature was the presence of some hundred Chinese ladies, who are said to have followed the proceedings \"with a firm front to show intelligent interest.\" There were many speeches exhorting to the world that in this instance, at any rate, there is a united China,\" and in some a point was made of the success of \"little Japan\" over her huge opponent Russia, showing the world what Asiatics were able to do when thoroughly roused.\" Towards the close of this meeting the members of the Piece Goods Guild present came forward and took an oath that, beginning from the 20th July, they would not buy any more American piece or other goods until the purpose in view of the nation had been properly obtained.” On the 20th July a number of shops doing business in the Shanghae foreign Settlements sent \"voluntary declarations\" to the Boycott Committee solemnly undertaking not to buy or sell American goods, and the boycott may be said to have commenced,\n\nFrom the very beginning this boycott movement found American sympathisers, and was conducted in a manner characteristically American—public meetings, speeches, distribution of literature, and selection of delegates to attend larger conferences. The \"Journal of the American Association of China\" mentions that \"the American members of the Educational Association meeting in Shanghae, as early as May, took action in about the same behalf of the Chinese, especially those belonging to the student class.\n\ntime the American Association in Shanghae passed resolutions and sent telegrams both in behalf of students and merchants desiring to enter the United States.\" On the 2nd June a Petition prepared by the Chinese students of the Anglo-Chinese College, a missionary institution at Foochow, was sent through the American Consul to President Roosevelt, and by the beginning of July native Christians at Canton joined the movement, and, with the public support of American missionaries, sent protests against exclusion to Washington. In America the question was forced on public attention by the treatment accorded to the Chin (King) family at Boston on the 1st June by the United States' Chinese Inspector. Three sons and a daughter of a well-known Chinese silk merchant of Shanghae, who had been educated in London (the sons at King's College), were returning to China through the United States, and were provided with passports and a special letter of introduction from the United States' Ambassador, Mr. Choate. On their arrival at Boston they were refused permission to land, detained on the steamer, and compelled to be photographed and to furnish bonds. (I may mention that one of these young Chins is the Assistant Magistrate referred to in the correspondence on the Mixed Court incident of the 8th December.) On the 12th June a delegation of members of the American Asiatic Association saw President Roosevelt in Washington, and \"entered a formal protest against such an enforcement of the Chinese exclusion laws as might imperil the export trade of this country with China.\" The President is reported to have responded cordially, and no doubt the Chinese agitators concluded from this conciliatory attitude that the threat of a boycott was likely to effect their purpose better than the diplomacy of the Chinese Government. A native paper of Shanghae reported on the 25th July that, in answer to a telegram of the Wai-wu Pu to the Boycott Committee warning the members to be careful, and stating that the American Minister was \"most peaceable and affable in speaking of the proposed Treaty,\" Tseng Taotai, the Chairman, telegraphed back that \"the American Minister shows himself peaceable and affable because he fears our manner of protest. If we were not to start a boycott of American goods, you may be sure that he would not be so peaceable and affable in dealing with the Exclusion Treaty clauses.\n\n23\n\nIt is clear that at the outset the movement was tacitly, if not actively, approved by the Chinese Government, and that the Wai-wu Pu only began to exercise a moderating influence when it appeared that more than a mere threat of boycott was intended. The attitude of the four principal Viceroys was characteristic. Viceroy Yuan let it be known that he would have none of the agitation in his jurisdiction, and trade in Chibli and North China generally was not affected in consequence. The Viceroys of Wuchang and Nanking made no public attempt to stem the tide. Viceroy Ts'en openly sided with the boycotters, as mentioned above, and when the United States' Consul-General at Canton asked him to prohibit mass meetings and the posting of inflammatory placards, replied that \"the people are at liberty to deal in whatever goods they like, and I cannot prohibit them from buying or refusing to buy American goods. I have no such power. The meetings are held by people who consider them necessary to protect the interests of their own country, and if undue force were employed to suppress them I am afraid it would make matters worse, and the people might be so enraged that I could not control them.\"\n\nIn August 1905, more meetings were held at Shanghae to maintain a \"firm front against the Exclusion Treaty,\" and the boycott movement was spread so dangerously by means of inflammatory placards, pictures, and pamphlets, that from being anti-American it showed signs of becoming anti-foreign and anti-dynastic. The Nanking Viceroy was ordered from Peking to take steps for the suppression of the agitation, and he appears to have taken advantage of the large losses which the accumulating stocks of goods \"arrived and to arrive\" were causing to merchants, to appeal to the material interests of the boycotters, but with little result. As I reported in my despatch No. 298 of the 5th September to Lord Lansdowne, the United States' Minister demonstrated strongly with the Chinese Government in regard to their treatment of the agitation, and his representations finally produced a Decree of the 31st August, which commanded the provincial Governments to exert themselves in suppressing it. It happened that a typhoon occurred at Shanghae on the 1st September, and this caused a rising of the river, which flooded the principal wharves and warehouses. Naturally, \"boycott\" goods were stored at the bottom in most warehouses, and the result was that boycotting merchants were the chief sufferers. This was looked upon as a judgment by many Chinese traders, who are much influenced by \"joss,\" and in the estimation of some foreign merchants the typhoon had no little effect in making the boycott unpopular. There is no doubt that from the date of the Decree there was an end to the active and public propagation of the agitation, and whatever has occurred since has not been of a nature to excite serious notice. But a recurrence is by no means a remote contingency if the United States' Government make no serious attempt to fulfil the expectations raised in China by the conciliatory assurances of United States' officials and public men, the best examples of which will be found in the conversation held at Hong Kong on the 5th September, 1905, in the presence of Sir Matthew Nathan, between Mr. Taft, Secretary of War of the United States, and certain Chinese gentlemen. A Memorandum of this conversation will be found in an inclosure of Lord Lansdowne's despatch to me, No. 264 of the 17th November.\n\nA noteworthy feature of this movement has been the sympathetic attitude of many Americans, and even in Mr. Taft's speech, just referred to, are to be found admissions that the agitation was not entirely without justification, as for instance, when he said that one of the troubles connected with the Exclusion Law was corruption existing in the United States' Consular system, by which, in many cases, the certificate of the Consul was wholly unreliable because procured through fraud.\" Mr. Taft further spoke of the President's earnest desire that the classes of Chinamen, the merchants, students and others, who have the right to enter the United States, should not be in any way hindered in their free coming and going between China and America. It might be necessary, he said, in order to accomplish this, that there should be some change in the law or Treaty, and if so, the President would certainly take pleasure in effecting and recommending to Congress such reasonable changes. In reply to this, the senior Chinese member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council responded by stating what he and his friends considered desirable modifications, to all of which Mr. Taft said he would draw the attention of the President, and in regard to most of them he expressed his own personal approval.\n\nIf, therefore, the expectations aroused by him should ultimately be disappointed, a recrudescence of the agitation seems by no means improbable. The boycott against American goods did not affect American interests alone, because the majority of the mercantile houses engaged in their importation into China are British and American, and the loss resulting from it consequently was felt as acutely by them as by the American exporters. A notable instance was the case of the British-American Tobacco Company. The raw material of the goods they deal in is American, and a great deal of the capital is also American, though the Company is\n\n[1946 x-4]\n\nB 2\n\nmeans", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 408995, "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": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "page_number": 61, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "being transferred to an office of less \n\nresponsibility he should be required to \n\nserve under rather less favourable conditions. \n\nI have &c.\n\nnor.\n\nNo.\n\n88\n\n1907\n\nafe\n\nprevious Paper.\n\nFou\n\n42561\n\nHONG KONG\n\n༡༢\n\nNo 14234\n\n(Subject.)\n\nQueen's College.\n\nRe\n\nDESPATCH,\n\nC. O.\n\n17234\n\nIRE 15 MAY 07\n\nRecommends afps of Normal Master be \n\nmade permanent & F. Ralphs be appointed thereto \n\nalex of post ($3600); also recommends ast. Crook be given vacancy in Senior Assistant Masters & that the fifth Junior assistant mastership be abolished:\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nMahbub to Lucas\n\nI should think that it would be convenient & it would \n\nbe more satisfactory to add \n\none of \n\nthe staff \n\nSenior Assistant masters & \n\ngive the man \n\nin \n\nthat grade who \n\nperforms the Normal work the present non-pensionable allowance of $600 \n\nnot carrying exchange compensation\n\n* 1. (23) --1/3857~~23090-13-3\n\nsubsequent Paper.\n\nGov\n\n28319\n\nagree.\n\na.1.27875-\n\ndecide and would Recommend the \n\nappointment of a redundant Senior master as per", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 408996, "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": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "page_number": 62, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "Harding proposes.\n\nnecessary\n\nIt is becoming increasingly necessary\n\nto diminish the enormous expenses\n\ncharges in the East & action must be taken\n\nfrom this and as the Colonies.\n\nRES\n\nget support from 18/5-\n\n18 C.P.L at once No. 88. Hongkong.\n\nPage 59\n\nC.0. 17234 Rec 15 MAY 07\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHongkong, 11th April, 1907.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nGov 32561/03\n\nReferring to Sir Henry Blake's Despatch No. 372 of the 30th July, 1903, I have the honour to state that the institution of the post of Normal Master at Queen's College, which has been attended with most useful results, has, by reason of the fact that the appointment is an acting one only, introduced certain anomalies with regard to the duties of the Assistant Masters which it would seem advisable to remove.\n\n2. There are on the Staff at Queen's College, as Your Lordship is aware, four Senior and five Junior Assistant Masters and of these one Senior Master, Mr. E. Ralphs, performs the duties of Normal Master, which occupy his whole time, with the result that one of the Junior Masters performs the duties of a Senior Master without drawing extra salary in the acting appointment.\n\n3. As the services of a Normal Master\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nTHE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,\n\n \n&C. &C.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 408997, "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": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "page_number": 63, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "60 \n\nwill be permanently required, it would seem both reasonable \n\nand fair to the Staff at the College that the post should \n\nbe placed upon the permanent establishment and that it \n\nshould carry with it a salary proportionate to the greater \n\nimportance of the duties of the appointment compared with \n\nthose of a Senior Assistant Master. \n\n4. \n\nThe salary of a Senior Assistant Master is $2,400 rising by triennial increments of $300 to $3,000 per annum with Exchange Compensation or under the Sterling Salaries Scheme £360 rising by triennial increments of £30 to £480 per annum. I would recommend that there should be attached to the post of Normal Master a salary of $3,000 rising to $3,600 per annum by triennial increments of $200 or in sterling £480 rising to £570 by triennial increments of £30, which scale is a logical extension of the scale already approved by Your Lordship for junior Officers, with the proviso that when a Senior Master already upon the maximum salary of his post is promoted to the appointment he shall be permitted to draw the first increment of $200 or £30 as the case may be. \n\n5. \n\nIf these proposals are approved I would suggest that Mr. Ralphs should be given the permanent", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 408999, "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": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "page_number": 65, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "C. D. R 27 D. 22 for Kong 62 17234 Hongkong DRAFT. no 101 The O. AG MINUTE.\n\n--\n\nMr. Harding 2075- Mr. Stubbs 21 Alr. Just. Mr. Antrobus. Mr. Cox. Mr. Lacus. Sir F. Hopwood. Mr. Churchill, The Earl of Elgin, Anand 28319 Sir\n\n27 May 1907\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of ...\n\nIn Nathan's despatch no 88 of the 11th of April with regard to the appointment of Normal master at Queen's College.\n\n2.\n\nI agree that it is desirable to place this post on a more permanent footing, but I think that at the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 409657, "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": "CO129-341 - Acting Governor May Governor Lugard - 1907 [7-10]", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-341 - Acting Governor May Governor Lugard - 1907 [7-10]", "content_text": "1904.\n\nVol. 3.\n\n181. 5 July. Normal master, Queen's College.\n\nSanitary Dept. Enquiry.\n\n182. 10.\n\n183. 10.\n\n188° 10.\n\ntrouf. 10.\n\n186. 10.\n\nJ. A. J. Reed.\n\nEvening Boulimation Classes.\n\nJush. If Schools. Report H.\n\n1. Sanitary Laws Administration tun. (ridence.\n\n87 Supt. Glawise Jel. (eduin. (2) Chrisne Viceroy bunton (3) hours te exhortation.\n\nKowloon. Canton Bly.\n\n16- Health & Sanitation Report it.\n\n187. 22.\n\n188. 22.\n\nbeouf 25. Salaries. Rate of Exchange.\n\nQuarters for Mr. O. Victoria-Gast.\n\nViceroy of the Two Kwang.\n\n75\" Subsidiary.\n\nwins. Il. 26. huurder of By an American.\n\n193. 26.\n\n195. 26. Order. 10.\n\nDeath of G. J. Mengens.\n\n196. 26. E. R. Stallifax.\n\nbouf 27. Sanitary Commission.\n\n201. 3 Aug. Mup. Allee — L. AM. Johnstonn.\n\nit bleak in mercantile Marine Office. Salaries.\n\n202. 3 pt. blesk Jel.\n\n205- 8.\n\nOrdce. 11.\n\n209. My beats of laboratory instruction.\n\n214. 22. Site for Victoria Recreation club.\n\n210- 22.\n\nGool : grant to Jung Wa Hospital.\n\n22. Memorial of I. S. Egerton.\n\n216. 22.\n\n218. 22. Lenor Engineering Stuff, bauten Konition Cly.\n\n214. 23. Audit of they uch-\n\nbouf 24. Tel.\n\nbunton Kowloon Ply.\n\nhuurder by un kiverican.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-341 - Acting Governor May Governor Lugard - 1907 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 409659, "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": "CO129-341 - Acting Governor May Governor Lugard - 1907 [7-10]", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-341 - Acting Governor May Governor Lugard - 1907 [7-10]", "content_text": "192\n\nNo. 181\n\nHongkong.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nC.O.\n\n28319\n\nREC\n\nRcc 9 AUG 07\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHongkong, 5th July, 1907.\n\n3\n\nReferring to Your Lordship's Despatch No. 101 of the 22nd May last, I have the honour to state that the Head Master of Queen's College is strongly of the opinion, in which I concur, that the slow rate of promotion in the College and the importance of the post of Normal Master are such as to justify the provision of a permanent pensionable salary for the appointment at a higher rate than that attached to the post of Senior Master.\n\n2.\n\nI enclose a copy of the letter in which Dr. Bateson Wright first suggested the creation of this post, and I venture to express the hope that Your Lordship will see fit to reconsider your decision and approve the arrangement suggested by Sir Matthew Nathan.\n\nI have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient, humble servant,\n\nOfficer Administering the Government.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nTHE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,\n\n800.\n\n200 • 1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-341 - Acting Governor May Governor Lugard - 1907 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 409660, "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": "CO129-341 - Acting Governor May Governor Lugard - 1907 [7-10]", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-341 - Acting Governor May Governor Lugard - 1907 [7-10]", "content_text": "10 P Y.\n\nHon. Mr. T. Sercombe Smith,\n\nSir,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nQueen's College,\n\nC.O 28319\n\n8th. October 1907\n\nI have the honour to submit for the consideration of His Excellency the Governor, a scheme for the re-arrangement of the positions and salaries of the subordinate English Staff of this college. I have spent some time in maturing the scheme and trust that its details will be found to have a tendency to increase the efficiency of Queen's College.\n\nBriefly the recommendation is that instead\n\n2.\n\nof four Senior and five Junior English Assistant Masters, there should be appointed a Normal Master and four Senior and four Junior Assistant Masters.\n\n3.\n\nThe position of Normal Master is in England clearly defined. He is a Professor of the Art and Science of Teaching. His duties and responsibilities are onerous, he is well paid, and except in the event of promotion the appointment is permanent: as it is believed, and rightly, that the value of the Normal Master increases with lengthened experience. In Queen's College we have no such Normal Master, but a Senior Master is granted an allowance for temporarily discharging the duties of Normal Master. He may hold the post like Mr. Tanner for a couple of years, or for six, as Mr. Ralphs will probably do: but on his going on leave a new man will be appointed, who will doubtless continue to hold the post until his own turn for leave arrives. I submit that the dignity and efficiency of the office are seriously affected by its temporary character, and beg to recommend that the office of Normal Master should be made a permanent and pensionable one: the salary being\n\nPage ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-341 - Acting Governor May Governor Lugard - 1907 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 409661, "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": "CO129-341 - Acting Governor May Governor Lugard - 1907 [7-10]", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-341 - Acting Governor May Governor Lugard - 1907 [7-10]", "content_text": "being between those of the Second Master and Senior Assistant Master. This could be effected by amalgamating the $600 allowance with the salary, the addition of Exchange Compensation would be entailed by the change to a permanent and pensionable office. At the present time, owing to recent alterations in the Police School the Normal Master receives only the same allowance as the Second Master at the Police School, whereas the original intention was that his allowance should not be less than that of the Master-in-charge of the Police School, which is now $900.\n\n4.\n\nWhether the Normal Master is permanently or temporarily appointed we always have three, instead of the four Senior Assistant Masters originally provided, and actually employed up to 24 years ago when Mr. Tanner was appointed Normal Master. The consequence of this is that of five Junior Assistant Masters one is, and for 2 years has continually been, doing the work of a Senior Assistant Master. I submit that as the difference between the duties of Executive and Assistant Engineers in the Public Works Department is clearly recognised by a difference in salary, the same distinction should be equally clearly marked in the case of Senior and Junior Assistant Masters at Queen's College. No Assistant Engineer or Junior Assistant Master should be expected permanently to discharge the higher duties of Executive Engineer or Senior Assistant Master at the salary of the lower office. I recommend therefore that there be only four instead of five Junior Assistant Masters and one be promoted to be Senior.\n\n5.\n\nThere is a strong feeling of dissatisfaction amongst the Junior Assistant Masters with the inadequate nature of their salaries $270 rising in nine years to $360. It appears that Senior Sanitary Inspectors are in the Estimates credited with the equivalent of $270 ($1,800 plus Exchange Compensation), and I myself see considerable force in the argument of these masters that it does not necessarily follow that the same salary must be viewed", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-341 - Acting Governor May Governor Lugard - 1907 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 409663, "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": "CO129-341 - Acting Governor May Governor Lugard - 1907 [7-10]", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-341 - Acting Governor May Governor Lugard - 1907 [7-10]", "content_text": "Page 14\n\nHongkong\n\nDRAFT.\n\nNo 178\n\n28319\n\nStrong 7\n\nGovernor Sir F. Lugard\n\nMr. Harding\n\nMr. Stubbs 14.\n\nfor Fiddes\n\nMr. Just.\n\nMr. Antrobus,\n\nMr. Cox.\n\nLucas.\n\nSir F. Hopwood.\n\nMr. Churchill.\n\nThe Earl of Elgin.\n\n(& presume that para: 2 is what Mr Lucas attends)\n\n14\n\n38180\n\nSur\n\n16. Aug 1907\n\nI have the honour,\n\nto acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No 181 of the 5th of July with regard to the post of Normal master at Queen's College.\n\nIf you are of the same opinion, I will raise no further objection to the adoption of the proposals contained in Sir N. Waltian's", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-341 - Acting Governor May Governor Lugard - 1907 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 410218, "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": "CO129-341 - Acting Governor May Governor Lugard - 1907 [7-10]", "page_number": 564, "title": "CO129-341 - Acting Governor May Governor Lugard - 1907 [7-10]", "content_text": "Page 2. Governor $5000 is put down for Furniture instead of $2500 as in Estimates for 1907. As there was a Supplementary vote for $10,000 this year (37091/1907), it would seem either that the furniture of Government Houses had been allowed to get in very poor condition (which Sir Henry Blake is hardly likely to have allowed when he was Governor) or that Sir F. Lugard is being somewhat extravagant. However we should hear all about it in reply to despatch of 29th October on 37091/1907.\n\nPage 23. Colonial Secretary Provision is made for the 3 cadets just sent out.\n\nPage 24. Registrar General Two small allowances are granted to Police Inspector and Sergeant at Yaumati for registration of births, etc., work.\n\nPage 25. Audit Department. Provision is made for increased salary to Local Auditor and for salary for the new clerk on $720-$900 but not for the other clerk approved on 35935 at $960-$1200 for railway audit.\n\nPage 31. Postal Agencies provision for Tientsin Agency retained.\n\nPage 36. Harbour. Steam Launches. The halving of the vote for Stores and sundries is explained as being due to upkeep of launches farmed to engineers in charge - a rather peculiar arrangement.\n\nPage 39. Miscellaneous Services The £100 to the London School of Tropical Medicine granted in 1903 for 5 years ceases. In 40437 however the Governor proposes to make an annual grant to the Seamen's Hospital Society Greenwich of $200. We should approve this.\n\nThe £200 a year for 5 years for 1906 asked for as contribution to the Imperial Institute Research work is voted.\n\nI think we should have this alone (PR para ll despatch to Lon on 3784/06 Ceylon).\n\nOther Miscellaneous Services $20,000. I think that this is too large a sum to leave to be spent anyhow - the only reference to this vote which I have found in former estimates is at end of Mr. Fiddian's memorandum on 41680/01. We objected to Ceylon having a considerable vote of this indefinite kind and I would do the same in the case of Hong Kong.\n\nRedemption of Subsidiary coin. $36,000 provided for this.\n\nThe increase in the vote for \"Refunds of Revenue\" from $25,000 to $38,000 is explained as due to \"more vacant houses and godowns\".\n\nPage 52.\n\nPage 57. Fire Brigade Special Expenditure $50,000 is provided for a Floating Fire Engine. This vote was attacked by Mr. Hewett (see debates) and defended by Mr. May.\n\nAllowance of $600 to Dr. Sibree who is in charge of midwives see Appendix page 92.\n\nPage 66 & 67. Botanical and Forestry Department. Appointment of a Chinese forester and allowances to Police officers for forestry work - see Appendix page 92.\n\nPage 70.\n\nPage 74.\n\nPage 76. Education - three more assistant masters provided for the Saiyingpun Anglo-Chinese school in addition to the one mentioned in 32211/07 - due to increase in numbers attending school.\n\nQueen's College provision made for sanctioned Normal Master.\n\nMilitary Contribution - I have sent on a draft informing War Office of estimated amount.\n\nSee Debates for attack on the contribution.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-341 - Acting Governor May Governor Lugard - 1907 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 410312, "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": "CO129-341 - Acting Governor May Governor Lugard - 1907 [7-10]", "page_number": 658, "title": "CO129-341 - Acting Governor May Governor Lugard - 1907 [7-10]", "content_text": "conducted jointly by him and by the teachers. The arrangements for examinations for diplomas will be made by the Inspector of Schools and the examinations will be conducted by examiners who are unconnected with the classes.\n\nTITLE.\n\n30. A change of title seems desirable and we recommend that the classes should be given in future, the name of The Hongkong Technical College.\n\nENTRANCE EXAMINATION.\n\n31. One of the teachers complained of his class being hampered by the student's ignorance of English and recommended an entrance examination. We are not sure that such an examination is necessary and feel that it would act as a deterrent to intending students. Other teachers whom we questioned did not seem to have found any serious difficulty in this respect and we think the best way to meet it should it arise, would be for the teachers to report to the Secretary any student he found incapable of following his lecture and for the Secretary to take any action that may be necessary. If it is thought advisable for the student to leave, a refund of the school fee would have to be made. In the English class if it is to remain a Continuation Class some examination is called for, but we do not recommend that it should be a formal examination unless the student appears to fall distinctly below the standard. We recommend that none should be admitted into the Junior Class unless he is qualified to enter the First Class of Queen's College.\n\n32. ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE.\n\nThe attached schedule shows the estimated expenditure if the classes are conducted on the scale we recommend. If the classes are to be a success the Government must be prepared to spend liberally on equipment. The demands of the teaching staff have been closely examined and economies have been introduced wherever possible. We have reason to believe that", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-341 - Acting Governor May Governor Lugard - 1907 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 411654, "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": "CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 154, "title": "CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n# CHINA RAILWAYS\n\n## No. 1.\n\n### SECTION 2.\n\n(No. 3.) Sir,\n\nConsul-General Wilkinson to Sir Edward Grey,-(Received April 27.)\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose copy of a despatch which I have addressed to the Government of Burma, on a proposal to establish at Yunnan-fu a Technical College for the training of young Chinamen as railway engineers.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) W. H. WILKINSON,\n\n## Inclosure in No. 1.\n\nSir,\n\nConsul-General Wilkinson to Government of Burma.\n\nYunnan-fu, March 7, 1907.\n\nI LEARN that it is proposed to establish at Yunnan-fu a Technical Institute, mainly for the purpose of training Chinese youths to become railway engineers, and that Dr. Georges Barbezieux has been approached with a view to ascertain his willingness to accept the post of Director. The salary suggested is 800 dollars a-month, with quarters, and the Director would nominate and control absolutely his European staff.\n\nThe proposition, originally considered by the Yunnan Government, was to send ten young Chinamen to Europe, by preference to Belgium, to go through a five-year course of study in civil engineering. Dr. Barbezieux pointed out that this measure would cost over 200,000 taels, and would probably provide in the end only two or three engineers fitted for railway work. If a school were established in Yunnan, not only would the annual cost to the Provincial Government be very considerably reduced, but the out-turn would be far greater. It seems certain that the present suggestion, that Dr. Barbezieux should act as Director, is the result of this advice.\n\nNo definite arrangements have been made so far, but I think it very likely that a formal offer will be made shortly to Dr. Barbezieux by the Provincial Government of a contract for five years on the terms mentioned above. I believe that the Construction Society of the French railway would view the new departure with disfavour, since it might conceivably stand in the way of projects for branch lines. As far as British interests are concerned, however, I do not see any reason for opposing the scheme, always provided that it is understood that our right to absolute equality with the French in the matter of railway construction in Yunnan is not impugned. The project, though based on the advice of one who happens to be French, is not a French project, and I feel certain that Dr. Barbezieux would not use his influence to our detriment.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) W. H. WILKINSON.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414729, "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": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "content_text": "## \n\n17 \n\nOffice to provide the necessary accommodation. $4,500 has been inserted for the construction of a permanent stairway leading from the ballroom at Government House to the ground below for the convenience of guests. I have included $8,000 for an additional room at Queen's College to replace the very limited and temporary accommodation at present available for the normal class and to provide for its expansion next year in connection with a scheme for supplying the Anglo-Chinese Schools with a trained native staff (see Education Estimates). $2,200 has been estimated for a market at Aberdeen on the recommendation of the Sanitary Board. The work will be productive. Plans of the various buildings are enclosed.\n\nThe sum inserted under \"**Communications**\" for new roads in Kowloon will be devoted to the extension of Robinson Road and of Argyll Street which will cross it at right angles and connect Yaumati with the railway station of that name; and, as far as funds will permit, to the development of main thoroughfares in the peninsula upon which the future of tramways so much depends. The construction of a road from Castle Peak to Pingshan, to be extended as soon as money becomes available though Unlong and Santin to Shataukok, will absorb most", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 416201, "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": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 366, "title": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "7\n\nuse as coolies. As a result of these quarrels some rather badly-wounded men have been treated in the Mission Hospital.\n\nSwatow.\n\nState of the District.--Normal conditions prevailed throughout the district during the last few months of 1907. Local disturbances were comparatively few and insignificant. The outlook should, therefore, be peaceful, but the provincial and local authorities seem to be in a nervous condition and every trifling disturbance in the interior, for which the southern part of China is noted, is at once ascribed to the machinations of the revolutionary party. The greatest vigilance is being shown in the search for contraband which persistent rumours declare is being freely smuggled into the district from Hong Kong and Macao.\n\nThe Maritime Customs have received special orders on the subject and certain suspected vessels have been thoroughly searched, but in no case have any seizures been made. Search has also been made for depots of arms alleged to exist in the hills along the coast, but with no result. Whether there is really any foundation for these rumours it is impossible to say, but it seems quite clear that there is an attempt to get up an excitement, The usual explanation is that the revolutionary party are at the bottom of it all, but this seems hardly likely as it cannot be to their interest that too much attention should be drawn to their proceedings. It may probably be due to a confused idea that \"something is going to happen\" in this part of the world; everyone is on the look-out and all sorts of rumours, however widely improbable, are readily believed and passed on from one native to another.\n\nNingpo.\n\nAgitation against Foreign Railway Loan.-During the months of November there was considerable agitation over the railway loan and many meetings were held in Ningpo to protest against it. It soon became evident, however, that the agitation was being fomented by a few interested parties, and that the bulk of the people took very little interest in the movement. Its chief supporters were the pupils of the numerous colleges and schools of foreign education established lately at Ningpo and most of them were boys. A few of the bankers and merchants also took up the matter and issued shares with a view to assisting in obtaining the necessary capital for the Chinese to construct the line themselves. These shares were of the value of 50 dollars each, but fractional shares of 5 dollars were also issued so that the poorer classes might be able to contribute. In spite of a house to house canvass to induce people to take up these shares the people do not seem to have been much taken with the scheme. The leaders of the agitation have been very careful to warn their followers from any acts of violence to which foreigners could take exception knowing that they would be held responsible in the event of any trouble arising. The district has been perfectly quiet therefore during the agitation, and missionaries travelling about have reported that they have noticed no difference in the usual civil demeanour of the people toward them. The excitement has been gradually dying away and nothing is now being done publicly in the matter.\n\nTrouble at Chang Hsien-Owing to a renewed attempt by the officials to arrest certain members of a secret society, who, after a fight in the spring of 1907, had escaped to the hills, but whom cold and wet weather had driven back to the city, there was considerable excitement at Chang Hsien at the end of November. In the fight an officer and four or five soldiers were killed. Upon reinforcements being sent from Ningpo and Hangchou the officials were successful in driving the men back to the hills with some loss. While the affair was taking place all business was suspended, and many of the inhabitants fled. The matter had no connection with the railway loan.\n\nPeking.\n\nThe following extracts from recent native papers on various subjects are interesting:\n\nJanuary 9.\n\nNaval Ports.--The Army Board proposes to establish the following naval harbours: Chou Shan Lieh Tao, on the coast of Chekiang; Jung Cheng Wan, in the Gulf of Chihli; Chao Shan Lieh Tao, in the Gulf of Liaotung; and Pei Hai Wan, in Kuangtung.\n\nMining Regulations.--The Board of Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce has asked the Wai-wu Pu to inform the foreign Ministers that the new Regulations will come into force on the 15th March. The Board considers it inadvisable to agree to any changes in these Regulations at present, but if found to be inconvenient in operation, modifications may afterwards be introduced.\n\nMilitary Forces in Ili.-The Viceroy of Ili and the Governor of the New Dominion propose to raise two brigades of troops, drilled on modern lines, for the protection of the frontier.\n\nPeking-Hankow Railway-The Chinese Government have been earnestly considering the question of the redemption of this line, for should this opportunity be lost the control of the line will be lost for another thirty years. They have telegraphed to the Viceroys of Chihli and Hupei-Hunan, and the Governor of Honan, asking for advice.\n\nThibet.--The Chinese Amban has telegraphed that he proposes to establish a number of elementary schools in Thibet. A reply has been sent approving the project, and directing that such schools shall be established in the more important towns.\n\nCustoms School.-A site has been selected within the Tartar city for the establishment of a Customs College where Chinese will be trained for the customs. A commencement will be made next spring.\n\nJanuary 8.\n\nOpium. At an audience yesterday the Empress Dowager questioned their Excellencies Chang and Yuan as to what was being done towards abolishing the use of opium, and directing them to use all their efforts to find some scheme by which it might be entirely banished within a limited time.\n\nShansi Railway.-Messrs. Bielfeld and Son, of Tien-tsin, are reported to have secured a contract for the supply of materials for the construction of this line.\n\nWuchow.\n\nThe agitation against the patrolling of the West River by British gun-boats, torpedo boats, &c., extended to Wuchow, but in a very mild form as compared with that which it assumed at Canton.\n\nThe Cantonese Guild at Wuchow held a meeting at which it was resolved to forward a protest to the Central Government against the permission granted to the British Government to dispatch gun-boats to cruise about the waters of the West River, and encroach on Chinese jurisdiction.\n\nThis protest, however, was never actually sent up to Peking, the local \"patriots\" considering such a step injudicious on hearing of the rebuke administered by the Central Government to the people of Canton, and of the commands of the former to desist from the practice, latterly adopted, of sending telegrams to Peking to contend with the Central Government on questions of Imperial policy, such procedure being unreasonable, a lack of good manners, and a reckless attempt to disturb the peace.”\n\nThe general attitude of the city has been quite tranquil. Certain persons, however, and chiefly the Wuchow Magistrate, would view with satisfaction the growth of an anti-foreign feeling, and are not averse to fostering the same when it can be discreetly accomplished.\n\nTo such the two following incidents furnished opportunities which they were not slow to utilize, and out of which they made all the capital possible. The absurd and false reports published in the Canton papers bear testimony to this.\n\nOn the 9th December some men from torpedo-boat \"No. 035,\" who had landed for rifle practice at the range, were on their way back through the city carrying their rifles, when they stopped at a fire cracker shop and endeavoured to obtain change for a 10-dollar note. The efforts of the British tar to convey to the unfortunate Chinaman, ignorant of the beauties of the English language, the exact meaning of what he, the Chinaman, is required to do, usually involve considerable declamation, vociferation, gesticulation, and objurgation. Seeing armed foreign sailors in the shop, a crowd collected in the street.\n\nThat they formed a totally incorrect view of the situation goes without saying. The shopkeeper being unwilling to oblige, the bluejackets eventually proceeded quietly on their way back to the ship.\n\nIn the reports of this incident one heard of \"extortion by drunken armed sailors,” \"terrorizing the inhabitants,\" \"demanding money with threats,\" \"scattering the money from the till all over the floor of the shop,\" \"creating a breach of the peace,\" &c.\n\nThe second incident was somewhat more serious.\n\nPage 361\n\n23\n\n1\n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419077, "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": "CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6]", "page_number": 186, "title": "CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6]", "content_text": "179\n\nand without the authority of the Government.\n\n8.\n\nAgain, therefore, I am driven to conclude that the only valid objection taken by the Queen's College tutorial Staff is that set out in the first paragraph of their memorial, viz.:- that since March, 1900, Mr. Woodcock has had no connection whatever with education, while during that period, conditions at Queen's College have greatly changed, new methods have been introduced, and the standard of work has been considerably raised. In regard to their complaint that their promotion is interfered with by the transfer of Mr. Woodcock, I would draw attention to the fact that in 1907 the new appointment of Normal Master with a salary of $3,000 to $3,600 (£480 to £570 in Sterling) was created; while the opening of the Technical Institute has been the means of providing one of the Petitioners with an allowance of $100 per mensem as Director, and enable several others to earn fees as Lecturers ranging from $20 to $90 a month.\n\n9.\n\nThe transfer of Mr. Woodcock to Queen's College will effect a considerable and desirable economy represented by the saving of the salary of the Principal Clerk in the Sanitary Department £240-£285 and of the difference between the salary proposed for Mr. Bowen-Rowlands", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419086, "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": "CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6]", "page_number": 195, "title": "CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6]", "content_text": "Page 183\n\nAnother section of the work carried on at Queen's College which has recently received an increasing and very necessary amount of attention is the Normal Department, which undertakes the training of Pupil Teachers not only for Queen's College but also for the District Government Schools. Ever since its inception the work has been seriously handicapped by perpetual change of Mastership as a result of men proceeding on leave.\n\nThe present Normal Master, (Mr. Tanner), has held the post for two periods - one of two years - the other of one year, and has naturally looked forward to being promoted to the position on Dr. Wright's retirement.\n\nBut for the suggested introduction of Mr. Woodcock, such promotion will be postponed for at least six years, and, possibly for eleven (depending upon whether the present Head Master elects to retire at the age of 55 or 60).\n\nSeven of the nine Masters whose positions would be affected by such a change, are men holding University Degrees and although they do not claim this as an indisputable mark of superior ability, they still wish to emphasise the fact that, especially among such a logical people as the Chinese, the possibility of Mr. Woodcock's being appointed to a superior post would be likely to militate very seriously against the successful floating of the new Hong Kong University scheme.\n\nSOK 7378\n\nJRI AM fond van uw\n\nCHHO 7933", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419087, "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": "CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6]", "page_number": 196, "title": "CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6]", "content_text": "189\n\nHad this come about, the Normal Mastership would have remained in his hands without interruption for a number of years, as Mr. Grant, who is Mr. Tanner's immediate senior, would always be available for appointment to the Second Mastership whenever the holder of that post happened to be away on leave, or acting for the Head Master during his absence.\n\nShould Mr. Woodcock's appointment however be confirmed, the old irregularity will continue; and this is a Department in which it is absolutely essential that, in order to obtain satisfactory results, a systematic scheme of work should be arranged and carried out.\n\nWe, Your Lordship's petitioners, have ventured to lay these facts before you in complete confidence that our claims will meet with Your Lordship's just and careful consideration, and we most earnestly request that, should Mr. Woodcock's appointment have been already confirmed, Your Lordship will reconsider such confirmation and allow us to look forward to that regular sequence of promotion in Queen's College, to which by the conscientious discharge of our duties, we have always endeavoured to prove ourselves entitled.\n\nWe have the honour to be, My Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's obedient servants,\n\nW. Grant\n\nR. E. O. Birkbeck\n\nTanner, R. J.\n\nS. P. de Martin\n\nH. E. Sanett\n\nArthur Sutherland", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419097, "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": "CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6]", "page_number": 206, "title": "CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6]", "content_text": "Colonial Secretary's Office,\n\nHongkong, 21st. April, 1909.\n\nC.-O. 19727\n\n2500\n\naz 14 JUNTO\n\nI am directed to inform you that the Governor has given careful consideration to your letter of the 30th. of March, and to the Memorial from the Acting Second Master which accompanied it, on the subject of the proposed transfer of Mr. G. A. Woodcock, Secretary to the Sanitary Board, to be Second Master at Queen's College in the event of your own promotion to be Headmaster.\n\n2. The reasons urged by you and Mr. Ralphs, who represent in this matter the European Staff of Queen's College, are that promotion thereby would be blocked; that owing to long absence from the College Mr. Woodcock has lost touch with educational work; that Mr. Woodcock has never filled any position in an educational institution higher than that of a Class Master and that he is therefore lacking in administrative experience.\n\n3. In reply to these objections I am to point out that if His Excellency's recommendation is approved substantial promotion will be given to the European Staff by your appointment to be Headmaster, and that recently the additional appointment of Normal Master at a salary of $3,000 - $3,600 per annum was created and given to Mr. Ralphs.\n\n4. Mr. Woodcock joined Queen's College in 1890. He has therefore eight years longer service in the College than the Normal Master Mr. Ralphs and nine years longer service than the most Senior of Senior Assistant Masters - Mr. Grant. Woodcock had 10 years experience as a Master at Queen's College before his transfer to the Sanitary Board. His reputation for capacity in teaching was, it is understood, high; and his duties at the Sanitary Board are of a nature...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419109, "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": "CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6]", "page_number": 218, "title": "CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6]", "content_text": "and the\n\n8th staff\n\nformer\n\nmembers\n\nQueen's College\n\nGovernor.\n\nNo.\n\nsgd 129.\n\n1909\n\n18 May.\n\nHONG KONG\n\n20234\n\nMemorial of Mr. G. A. Woodcock,\n\n203\n\nDESPATCH.\n\nC.O.\n\n20234\n\nRECD 17 JUN 09\n\nagainst proposed transfer to Queen's College.\n\nLast Previous Paper.\n\nYou\n\n79727\n\nIn annexure with\n\nIncloses copy further letter from Mr. Woodcock with med. cert: as to his daughter,\n\nLlbz zamed for\n\n17-A. & E. W.-20967/27--\n\n23000-11-08.\n\nNext subsequent Paper\n\nboy 30879\n\nhis Juniors\n\nsee en 79727.\n\nThis is in flat contradiction to that\n\nof the Board Chairman\n\nwho said that\n\n(79727)\n\nhis hearing for ordinary distances is normal. I must own mean on this point Query Jr.\n\nlot mat", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419796, "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": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 342, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "Governor. No.\n\nSarol\n\nYel\n\n26918\n\n335\n\nDESPATCH.\n\n0.0 23918\n\nRECO Rece 11 AUG 09\n\n1909\n\n11 ang\n\nast Previous Paper.\n\nAned 311.16 kec for\n\n30898\n\n-A. & E, W.-90032127---\n\n27000-11-08\n\ntat subsequent Paper\n\n21455\n\nJeg f\n\nDirector of Education, Fold beast.\n\nI Shibbs\n\nTanner applies for appt\n\nI Jiddeann\n\n\"To Palge Committter\n\nJR 14/8\n\nA Senior Asst master Green's College. hormal\n\nhas hems \"\n\n972\n\nSalary\n\n$3000\n\nAge nearly 39.\n\nmaster. q 2 yrs service.\n\n450\n\n£.\n\nI Know nothing about his.\n\nff\n\nT\n\n118\n\nthe\n\n* Jaque after\n\nLi\n\nMr. Harris I sent you Habit in 19857) 98\n\nvacancy\n\nP/14 19837/98\n\nto day, I think. M. Tanner's today H.K. He was not seen ben befre aff, s'isquite cleard of the lyfe of clementary schoolmaster. I do not think he need to serious considered. AF13\n\nTes", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419858, "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": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 404, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "Endlosure 1.\n\nApplication for Promotion in the Colonial Service 397\n\nTo be filled up by the Applicant himself, and returned to the Governor for transmission to the Secretary of State for the Colonies,\n\nDate of Application August 12th 1909.\n\nPresent Appointment Acting Normal master, Queen's College, H-Kong.\n\nApplicant's Name Bertram Janner.\n\nProfession or Occupation Naval Pensioner.\n\nAddress \"St Ives\", Coronation Drive, Crosby\n\nHead, his Name and Profession John hankivel Smith Sanner.\n\nDate and Place of Birth October 19th 1870. Great Crosby, Lancashire.\n\nAge last birthday 35\n\nWhether single, married, or a widower Single\n\nNumber of children Sons Daughters Age respectively\n\nWhere you received your education, as well as general; and give in detail the Schools or Colleges at which you were educated, and the dates of entering and leaving.\n\nSt Mary's School, Bootle, Liverpool, until 14 years of age. Then articled as Pupil Teacher and served 4 years apprenticeship (1885-1889). During that time, and later attended South Kensington Science and Art Department lectures, and obtained certificates for Photography, Animal Physiology, Botany, Geology, Shorthand, Drawing & French; later worked with private tutors and\n\nProfessional qualifications (if any), and the date at which each was obtained!\n\n1. Passed Queen's Scholarship Examination (about 1895).\n\n2. Obtained Teachers' Certificate (about 1895).\n\n3. Archbishop's Divinity Certificate 1887\n\nState every post you have held from the completion of education to date of application, giving the dates between which you held each position and the cause of leaving.\n\nAssistant master St Mary's School, Bootle, Liverpool, from July 1890 to Feb. 1898. Assistant master Diocesan School, and afterwards Orphanage, H-Kong. Afterwards promoted First Assistant, and in January 1900 was recommended by the then Governor of Hong Kong (Sir Henry Blake) and appointed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the post of Assistant master at Queen's College.\n\n[TURN OVER]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419859, "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": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 405, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "393 \n\n[This page is to be reserved for any report which the Governor may make when sending the form to the Colonial Office.]\n\nFrom \nTo \nColony \n\n**COLONIAL SERVICE** \n\n| Name of Office | Hong-Kong |\n| --- | --- |\n| Junior Assistant Master | Jan'y 1900 - Oct 1901 |\n| Queen's College | Jan'y 1900 |\n| Master | Oct 1901 - March 1904 |\n| Senior Assistant Master (normal) | March 1904 - Feb. 1906 |\n| (On half-pay) | July 1906 - Sept 1907 |\n| Senior Assistant Master | Sept 1907 - April 1909 |\n\n| Salary of present Office | $3000 per annum, with \"exchange compensation\". Average loss, if any, (about £480). |\n| Whether a house or lodging is provided, or an allowance in lieu thereof. | |\n| Any other circumstances affecting the value of the appointment | |\n\n**PROMOTION DESIRED** \n\nTo the post of Director of Education for the Gold Coast Colony (as per ad. appearing in the Athenaeum, July 3rd, 1909).\n\n*Acting appointments are not to be entered here, but may be mentioned on the next pages.\n\nIf the officer holds more than one office, full particulars of each must be given.\n\nIf private practice is allowed, the estimated value should be stated.\n\n§ The value of a Colonial appointment depends upon so many circumstances besides the salary that the Secretary of State cannot judge what would be acceptable to an officer. Applicants for promotion should therefore in their own interest, state as particularly as possible what they desire, either specifying certain appointments, or at least mentioning the Colony to which they would or would not be willing to go, and the amount of salary which they think that they may reasonably expect.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419860, "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": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 406, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "Any further information which may be considered necessary should be written on this page, and not in a separate letter.\n\n2\n\nApplication for Promotion in the Colonial Services\n\nForm to be filled up by the Applicant himself, and returned to the Governor for transmission to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nI have held the post of Acting Normal Master, Queen's College, Hong Kong, in full since April 1908, and have been entirely responsible for the training of not only the Queen's College pupil-Teachers, but also those appointed by the Education Department for service in the District Schools.\n\nIn January 1907, I was appointed lecturer to a special \"teachers'\" class, instituted then in connection with the Technical Institute.\n\n \n Date of Application\n August 12th, 1909\n \n \n Present Appointment\n Acting Normal Master, Queen's College, Hong Kong\n \n \n Father's Name\n John Hankivel Smith Banner\n \n \n Profession or Occupation\n Naval Pensioner\n \n \n Address\n 'St Ives' Coronation Drive\n \n \n Place of birth\n Great Coraly, Lancashire\n \n \n Day and year of Birth\n October 19th, 1840\n \n \n Whether single, married, or a widower\n Married\n \n \n Number of children...Sons\n \n \n \n Daughters\n 8\n \n \n Age last birthday\n \n \n \n Age respectively\n \n \n\nI have been engaged in various departments of Educational work in Hong Kong for the last 11 years and have become thoroughly acclimatized to life in the Tropics, being at present in sound health.\n\nDuring this time, and especially while Acting Normal Master, I have had a large and varied amount of experience in organization, in the selection and arrangement of work with regard to the special requirements of Chinese masters and pupils; and this experience would naturally be of very great advantage to me in the event of my having to deal with other native races.\n\n \n Colleges at which you were educated, and the date of entry and leaving\n St Mary's School, Bootle, Liverpool, until 14 years of age. Then articled as \"Pupil Teacher\" at same school. 4 years apprenticeship (1885-1889).\n \n \n Professional qualifications (if any), and the date at which each was obtained\n Passed Queen's Scholarship (1890). Obtained Archbishop's Divinity Certificate (Dec. 1891). Teachers' 'D' Certificate (about 1895).\n \n \n Employment from 1889 to Feb. 1898\n Assistant Master, St Mary's School, Bootle, Liverpool.\n \n \n July 1898 - left St Mary's, having been selected to fill the post of Second Assistant Master, Diocesan School and Orphanage, Hong Kong.\n \n \n \n Afterwards promoted to First Assistant\n \n \n \n In January 1900, recommended by the Governor of Hong Kong (Sir Henry Blake) and appointed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the post of Assistant Master at Queen's College.\n \n \n\n[TURN OVER]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419861, "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": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 407, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "Colony.\n\nđông trong\n\nCOLONIAL SERVICE\n\n*\n\nName of Office.\n\nFrom\n\nTo\n\n \n Junior Assistant master\n Queens College-\n Jan. 1900.\n Oct. 1901.\n \n \n Senior Assistant master-\n Oct. 1907.\n March 1904\n \n \n \n Normal master\n March 1904.\n Feb. 1906.\n \n \n \n (On half pay leave)\n July 1906\n Sept. 1904.\n \n \n \n Senior Assistant master-\n Sept 1904.\n April 1908.\n \n \n\nOffice.+\n\n$3000 per. an. with\n\nSalary of present pechange compensation\n\n(about £480) Whether a house or lodging is provided,\n\nor an allowance in lieu thereof\n\nno.\n\nAny other circumstances affecting the value of the appointment!\n\nAverage of fees, if any,\n\nfor the last 3 years!\n\nPROMOTION DESIRED\n\nTo the post of\n\n\"Director of Education\n\nfor\n\nthe\n\n#\n\n9 Gold Coast Colony\n\n(As per adt appearing in 'The Athenaeum' July 3rd, 1904).\n\n*Acting appointments are not to be entered here, but may be mentioned on the next page.\n\n+If the officer holds more than one office, full particulars of each must be given.\n\nIf private practice is allowed, the estimated value should be stated.\n\nThe value of a Colonial appointment depends upon so many circumstances besides the salary that the Secretary of State cannot judge what would be acceptable to an officer. Applicants for promotion should therefore, in their own interests, state as fully as possible what they desire, either specifying certain appointments, or at least mentioning the Colonies which they would or would not be willing to go, and the amount of salary which they think that they may reasonably expect.\n\n400\n\nThis page is to be reserved for any report which the Governor may make when sending the form to the Colonial Office.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419862, "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": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 408, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "Any further information which may be considered necessary should be written on this page, and not in a separate letter.\"\n\nSince April 1908 I have held the post of Acting Normal Master and have been entirely responsible for the training of not only the Queen's College pupil-teachers, but also those appointed by the Education Department for service in District Schools.\n\nIn January 1909 I was appointed lecturer to a special \"teachers'\" class, instituted then in connection with the Technical Institute.\n\n3. As will be seen from the foregoing particulars, I have been engaged in various departments of educational work in Hong-Kong for the last 11 years. I have, as a result, become thoroughly inured to life in the Tropics, being at present in thoroughly sound health.\n\n4. During this time also, and especially while acting as Normal Master, I have had a varied amount of experience in organisation, as well as in the selection and arrangement of work with regard to the special requirements of Chinese masters and pupils, and this experience would naturally be of very great advantage to me in the event of my having to deal with...\n\n## Enclosure 2\n\nMr. B. Tanner is a Certificated Teacher; he joined Queen's College as a Junior Assistant Master in January, 1900, and was promoted to the Senior Grade in October, 1901. He was Normal Master from March 17th, 1904, to February 28th, 1906, and again from April 8th, 1908, until the present moment.\n\nHe is careful and diligent in the performance of his duties, and has in all ways given the completest satisfaction.\n\n12th August, 1909.\n\n(Sd.) T. K. Dealy, \nD.E.O.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419933, "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": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 479, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "COLONIAL SERVICE*\n\nName of Office.\n\n472\n\n[This page is to be reserved for any report which the Governor may make when sending the form to the Colonial Office.]\n\nFront\n\nTh\n\nColony.\n\nkhong trong\n\nJun:\n\n \n Asst. Master\n Queen's College\n Sent\n do\n Normal Master\n 23.3.1898\n 7.6.1901\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 7.6.1901\n 1.1.1908\n \n \n Queen's College\n 1.1.1908\n 8.4.1909\n \n Second Master\n Lucens College\n 8.4.1909\n \n\nSalary of present Office?\n\nMaster $3600.\n\n$4200 + Ex. Comms.\n\nAverage of fees, if any, for the last 3 years\n\nDir. Tech: Just: $1200 (he Ex. Comms)\n\nWhether a house or lodging is provided, or an allowance in lieu thereof\n\nAny other circumstances affecting the value of the appointment\n\nPROMOTION DESIRED\n\n$1200 per annum, sent in shape, ags, when private work voluntarily given\n\nmese.\n\nDirectorship of Education, Gold Coast Colony.\n\nsimilar post.\n\n* Acting appointments are not to be entered here, but may be mentioned on the post page.\n\nIf the officer holds more than one office, full particulars of each must be given\n\nIf private practice is allowed, the estimated value should be stated.\n\nThe value of a Colonial appointment depends upon so many circumstances besides the salary that the Secretary of State cannot judge what would be acceptable to an officer. Applicant for promotion should therefore, in their own interests, state as precisely as possible what they desire, either specifying certain appointments, or at least mentioning the Colonies to which they would or would not be willing to go, and the amount of salary which they think they may reasonably expect.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419934, "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": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 480, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "## B. Drath \n\n10 \n\nIn 32174 Hong Kong, he was very diligent and worked hard. \n\nIndexed No. April 1903-Feb. 1904 309 \n\nAny further information which may be considered necessary should be written on this page, and not in a separate letter.\n\n**Acting Appointments** \n| Position | Date |\n| --- | --- |\n| Second Master, Queen's College | April 8, 1908 - April 8, 1909 for Sir F. Lugard, KCMG, CB |\n\nYou Doc \n\n| Position | Date/Qualification |\n| --- | --- |\n| Head Master | |\n| Normal Master (Temporary) | |\n| Additional Qualifications | Fellowship of Chemical Society, London; Royal Geographical Society; Membership of Royal Sanitary Institute, London (Hon. Sec. of Hong Kong Branch of R. San. I, 1906-8); Associateship of London College of Music; Teachers Diploma, Lond. Coll. of Music; Tonic Solfa College (Music) (and Member of, & sometime Examiner to, Tonic Solfa Coll.); Diploma in Hygiene with special reference to Schools & Education: Royal Sanitary Institute, London; Certificates in Manual Training (City & Guilds, London Institute, & Union of Lancashire & Cheshire Institutes); in Science (Honours), South Kensington; in Ambulance Training (Medallion, 3 years' Course); \"Teacher's Drawing Certificate\" (\"D\"), Ed. Dept. Eng. |\n\n1903. Suggested to Governing Body of Queen's College the institution of Normal Training of Pupil teachers. Asked by Gov. Body to draw up a Scheme of training, which was adopted and is now in force in Queen's College. 1908 suggested extension of Scheme to embrace all Pupil teachers employed in the Ed. Dept. \n\n1903. Member of Board Committee on History & Geography. When on Leave in England, 1904, sent by Colonial Office to afford opportunity to confer with the Oxford Delegacy in connexion with this Committee. \n\n1901-1903. Examiner in Botany & Chemistry to College of Medicine. \n\n1906-1907. Lecturer in Hygiene & Chemistry, Hong Kong Technical Institute, until relinquishing post on becoming Organizing Secretary and, later, Director.\n\nM. Macnaghten 15 \n\nSir, \n\nDowning Street, 16 December, 1909.\n\nTelegram \n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 20th of August (171932) and of your despatch No. 254 of the 27th ult., transmitting an application from Mr. E. Ralphs, Director of Education, Gold Coast, for the appointment of ...\n\n2. I have to request that you will cause Mr. Ralphs to be informed that his application has been received but that I regret that I have been unable to meet his wishes, other arrangements having been made for filling up the vacancy to which he refers.\n\n3. The question of Mr. Ralphs' application for promotion generally will be noted, but I should be glad to receive a report upon his qualifications for such promotion.\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government of ...\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient, humble Servant,\n\nPage 480 \nPage 481", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 420398, "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": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "page_number": 288, "title": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "content_text": "Governor.\n\nNo.\n\n314F\n\n1909\n\nMove.\n\nast Previous Paper.\n\n13 8 18 0\n\n07\n\nHONG KONG\n\n39856\n\nNormal Mastership, Queen's College,\n\nRemuneration.\n\nOf\n\nappl.\n\nReports difficulties in\n\narranging\n\nREC\n\n285\n\nDESPATCH.\n\n39856\n\nH\n\nPac 9 DEC 09\n\nComm Could\n\nHeommen Rations\n\nin future.\n\nfuse 323. 22 bec\n\n4. AE. W.20962/27---\n\n25000--11-08.\n\nert subsequent Paper\n\n10\n\nMy Intube lin\n\nI play gru\n\nahre Abo\n\nR\n\nto the separation of the\n\n& to its being non-pensionable.\n\nThe allowance must purely mithout compensation\n\n(see para 5 1/) 1234 67 5. f) and I concur\n\nI\n\nwish to make it\n\ncarry\n\nexchange\n\ncompensation now that it ceases to be part of\n\nthe\n\nsalary.\n\nI do not follow the argument as Ralph's letter\n\nstates. So far\n\nas I understand it\n\nhe drew by local arrangement an extra allowance temporarily in the nature, paid from the\n\ntemporary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 420400, "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": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "page_number": 290, "title": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "content_text": "(1390). W1.20.024–26. 6000. 11/08. A.&E.W, (15,813).\n\n18,912-27. G000. 10/09.\n\nHongkong.\n\n39856\n\n287\n\nREG? 9 DEC 09:\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHongkong, 2nd November, 1909.\n\nMy Lord,\n\n7234\n\nWith reference to Lord Elgin's despatch No.101 of the 22nd May, 1907, I have the honour to report that the arrangement with regard to the Normal Kastership at Queen's College recommended in Sir M. Nathan's despatch No.88 of the 11th April 1907 and accepted somewhat reluctantly by Lord Elgin in his despatch No. 178 of the 18th August 1907 has given rise to considerable difficulties since it came into effect.\n\n2.\n\nMr. E. Ralph's salary as a Senior Master at Queen's College was $2,400 rising to $3,000, and at the end of the year 1907 he was on his maximum. As from the 1st January, 1908, the allowance of $600 per annum to the normal master was amalgamated with the salary of the officer holding that post, and Mr. Ralph's therefore drew at the rate of $3,600 per annum. But the dollar salary of the 2nd Master at Queen's College was $3,500 rising to $4,200 per annum. Therefore Mr. Ralph's being...\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nTHE EARL OF CREWE,\n\n&C. &C.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 420402, "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": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "page_number": 292, "title": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "content_text": "289 \n\nof $800 paid to the Formal Master should again be separated \nfrom the salary of Senior Master at Queen's College, and that \nit should carry exchange compensation and be payable to the \nSenior Master actually doing the work of Formal Master, whoever he may be, and that the allowance should not be pensionable.\n\nI have the honour to be, \n\nMy Lord, \n\nYour Lordship's most obedient \nhumble servant, \n\n**Mugabe** was incorrect and changed to \n**Miners** was not in the original text, a more plausible correction is \nMugard or more likely \nMiners is not correct, a plausible name is \nMugard \n\nlet's assume \nMinster \n\nA more plausible name is \nMugard \n\nThe most plausible correction is \nMugarz → **Mugard** \n\n Governor etc.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422010, "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": "CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 39, "title": "CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## \n\nOn the afternoon of the 29th ultimo, the Viceroy refused me an interview on the plea of ill-health, and at the same time, I received a confidential note from Mr. T. Y. Key, the Sub-Director of the Foreign Office, informing me that the true reason for this refusal was that his Excellency had sent in his resignation. His Excellency, I have since heard, had refused all visitors for some days.\n\nI telegraphed this information to you immediately, and on the 31st, I sent a further telegram, in which I stated that the general impression here was that his Excellency's action was connected with the removal of Yuan Shih-k'ai, and that his resignation would sooner or later be followed by the dismissal of the leading members of the Administration.\n\nYesterday, I again saw Mr. M. T. Liang, who informed me that the Viceroy had received a very complimentary Edict from Peking, and had been told that it was quite out of the question that his services could be dispensed with. Mr. Liang, though not committing himself definitely, gave me the impression that his Excellency was unlikely to continue in office. The attacks made upon him by the Censorate had, Mr. Liang said, annoyed his Excellency considerably, and, in the absence of strong backing in Peking, he seems to fear that he will be exposed to a constant repetition of similar persecution.\n\nThe opinion of Yuan Shih-k'ai's protégés here, men such as Mr. Liang, Mr. Chou, the Newchiwang Taotai, and Mr. Key, though they express themselves very cautiously, seems to be that his Excellency's downfall is largely due to Japanese intrigue, and that Hsu Shih-chang and Tang Shao-yi are to be got rid of for the same reason. As to how far this is true, I am of course unable to form an opinion, but there can be no doubt but that the policy of the present Manchurian Government has been marked by a determined opposition to Japan. To quote a favourite expression of his Excellency Tang: \"Japan may do wrong in Manchuria, but she shall never do it with our consent.\" I gather that Yuan was the principal supporter of such views in the Grand Council.\n\nI am unable to learn locally exactly what charges are formulated against the Viceroy, but I presume that a great deal is made of his extravagance in financial matters.\n\nThere can be no doubt but that their Excellencies Hsu and Tang put a great stress on the provincial finances by their expenditure during the first few months of their tenure of office.\n\nThe Viceroy's new yamên, generally described as Government House, is a pretentious building. On the ground floor, more than 100 clerks work daily in the central hall; there are excellent reception rooms, and a banqueting hall which will seat from 300 to 400 guests, whilst the Viceroy's private residence occupies the whole of the first floor. The building, which was designed by Mr. Tang Shao-yi personally, has been furnished in European style, the total cost of building and furniture being upwards of 250,000 taels.\n\nThere has further been a large amount of unproductive capital expenditure on schools, hospitals, and prisons, whilst no results can be expected for some years from the newly established Agricultural and Forestry Departments.\n\nAn attempt has also been made to deal with the proverbial dishonesty of the Chinese official by placing him on a fixed salary, and then requiring him to produce correct accounts. The emoluments and allowances have been calculated on what seems to me a very liberal scale, and Mr. Liang assures me that the scheme is already producing the desired effect.\n\nIn consequence of these schemes, the expenditure has exceeded the revenue, which at present amounts to 6,000,000 taels approximately, during the past year, but Mr. Liang is confident that in normal years the revenue is sufficient for the present needs of the province.\n\nThe Viceroy is a man of considerable personal dignity and charm of manner. He has by this time a sound knowledge of the Manchurian situation, a correct appreciation of the needs of the country, broad views, and tact in dealing with the difficult diplomatic questions that beset him. He is readily accessible to the foreign Representatives and to any foreign visitor of distinction, and is beloved and trusted by his subordinates, whilst his reputation for personal integrity is untarnished.\n\nThe Government has undoubtedly been weakened by the absence of his Excellency Tang Shao-yi, who supplied the initiative and energy in which the Viceroy is to some extent lacking.\n\nThey worked to all appearance in complete harmony - in fact, they shared the same public office, and together formed a combination that I think it will be very difficult, if not impossible, for China at the present moment to replace satisfactorily.\n\nOne can only say that they were working along progressive lines, and they both understood the necessity of not rushing matters; under a change of Administration, it is to be feared that the germs of reform initiated by them will be allowed to perish. My American colleague tells me that he has already noticed a marked lack of interest in the agricultural enterprises since Yuan's dismissal.\n\nIt is too early as yet to judge of their various reform schemes. I hope later to write a detailed report on their reforms. Meantime, as a pendant to this despatch, the following list of the enterprises undertaken by the Government during the past fifteen months may be of interest:-\n\n1. The building of Government House, which has incidentally led to an improved method of official intercourse which now takes place under civilized conditions. The foreign Consular Representatives are also on friendly social terms with the leading members of the Administration.\n\n2. The establishment of primary schools throughout Fengtien Province and secondary schools at the more important centres. At Mukden, a law school has been established under Japanese professors, who lecture on Chinese law, constitutional law, and international law. The intention is to use the graduates of this college in the provincial magistracies, and also to employ them as lecturers with the view of interesting the people in public questions.\n\n3. A civil hospital has been built and placed under the charge of a German doctor. The Government have also subscribed liberally to Dr. Christie's hospital (Scotch Presbyterian), and have promised him an annual grant of 4,000 dollars to assist him in establishing a medical school.\n\n4. Two agricultural experts have been engaged from the United States, and land has been given them for starting experimental farms at Harbin, Mukden, and Antung.\n\n5. Mr. von Platen, the German expert on forestry, has informed me that he has more than 2,000,000 saplings (acacia) in his experimental nursery at Mukden.\n\n6. New Courts have been built and new judicial Regulations issued.\n\n7. Two new prisons on modern lines have been erected in Mukden, and prisoners are forced to industrial employment.\n\n8. A civil engineer (Mr. Hughes) has been engaged as adviser, and under his direction, surveys have been made, firstly, with the view of opening a new ice-free port, and, secondly, for the conservancy of the Liao River. These are the Viceroy's favourite projects.\n\n9. The Viceroy has repeatedly expressed his desire to introduce permanent colonists from Chihli and Shantung into Northern Manchuria, but I fear that owing to lack of funds, no move has as yet been made in this direction.\n\n10. The principal streets in Mukden have been metalled; there has been some attempt at drainage and lighting, and a tolerably efficient police force has been enrolled.\n\n11. The Province of Fengtien has been cleared of bandits, though the \"Hun Hu-tzus\" still range freely over the two northern provinces.\n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) \nR. WILLIS.\n\n## Page 37", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422110, "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": "CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 139, "title": "CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# regard to their fitness for the post, and whose chief concern is to collect as much money as possible during their brief tenure of office in Canton.\n\n## Means of Communication\n\nProbably in no other part of China are the means of communication so elaborate and so easily capable of improvement as in the Canton Delta. Steam-launches towing commodious passenger-boats ply constantly between Canton and almost every important town in the delta. There is daily communication between Canton and Hong Kong and Canton and West River ports; also a bi-weekly service of cargo and passenger steamers to Shanghae and Tien-tsin direct; Samshui and Fatshan have for some time past been connected with Canton by rail; the main line to Hankow is now open for 45 miles, and in a year's time the Canton-Kowloon Railway will be open as far as Sheklung, on the East River, 40 miles from Canton.\n\nAll these lines run through some of the most thickly populated districts in China, and this gradual extension of railway facilities must inevitably make for improved conditions of life and the prosperity of the people of the province.\n\nIn the city of Canton itself little has been done to improve means of communication, which remain as they were centuries ago. The streets are narrow, crooked, dark, and dirty, and so congested is the population and so valuable the property that the widening of the streets in the city to any appreciable extent is apparently out of the question. In the suburbs, however, the construction of a bund along the river front, with an extension into the country outside the East Gate, provides a means of carriage and horse exercise which the Cantonese are more and more taking advantage of. The completion of this bund has been considerably delayed owing to the refusal of the authorities to employ foreign assistance and the financial difficulties which seem to be inevitable in all Chinese Government enterprises.\n\nOf outward signs of Western civilization there are no lack in Canton. A telegraph service has been in existence for some years; to this has recently been added a telephone service, and, more recently still, wireless communication has been installed between Canton, Whampoa, and the Bogue Forts. A British Company provide a large number of houses in the city, including the principal yamêns, with electric light and fans, and a recently completed waterworks, under Chinese management, supplies the city with clean water at moderate rates.\n\nThere are either completed or in process of erection an arsenal, powder factory, mint, cement works, a paper mill, and railway stations, works, and shops. Foreign buildings are springing up in all directions in and around the city; most of the new schools are erected in foreign style, and the better class of shops are adopting brick and stone façades and plate-glass windows. Outside the East Gate extensive barracks have been put up to accommodate the Lü Chün, which were recently favourably commented upon by a British General.\n\n## Education\n\nSo far as we can gather, the advance in education on modern lines in Canton has not been so great as in other parts of China. This may partly be accounted for by the proximity of Hong Kong, with its superior educational facilities for Chinese boys; partly by the fact that the well-to-do Cantonese have, until quite recently, been in the habit of sending their sons to complete their studies in Japan.\n\nThere are, of course, the usual number of schools established under the new system of education promulgated by the Government in 1903. These include a provincial college, a normal school, middle schools, and several elementary schools.\n\nIn the college instruction is given in the following subjects:\n| Subject Number | Subject |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | Chinese classics and history |\n| 2 | English, French, and German languages |\n| 3 | Foreign history and literature |\n| 4 | Mathematics |\n| 5 | Science, chemistry and physics |\n| 6 | Geography |\n| 7 | Philosophy |\n| 8 | The art of war |\n| 9 | Gymnastics and deportment |\n\nEnglish is taught by an American Professor, German by a German, French and all other subjects by Chinese Professors, the majority of whom received their training in Japan.\n\nIt is characteristic of the educational methods of the Chinese Government at the present day that, although the demand for instruction in English is greater than that for any other foreign language, not a single Englishman is engaged in teaching his own language in the Government schools of Canton.\n\nLast year there were 300 students, of ages ranging from 17 to 30, on the books of the Provincial College. No fees are charged for tuition or board, the college having been richly endowed out of Government funds by a former Viceroy.\n\nNo degrees have yet been conferred, but by the Regulations of the Board of Education the college has power to confer the degree of \"Chü Jen\" on students who pass a satisfactory examination on the completion of the full course of eight years.\n\nThe Government Normal School for the training of teachers, which is housed in an immense block of buildings, erected on the site of the old examination halls, close to the South Gate, has not so far been a success. The better class of Cantonese have refused to send their sons to this school, partly because there are several Japanese on the teaching staff and a reaction has lately set in against education on Japanese lines, partly because some of the large mission schools, notably the American College in Honan and the Roman Catholic College in the city, offer a far better training, not only in Western learning, but in the Chinese classics. The two schools above mentioned were quite full last year.\n\nThe opinion seems to be gaining ground amongst the Chinese that too much stress has been laid on the advantages of a purely foreign education, with the consequent neglect of their own language and literature, and an indication of this feeling is to be found in the recent opening of schools in Canton, under Government auspices, for the exclusive study of Chinese.\n\nAt Whampoa there is a naval college for the training of cadets, but in the absence of any serious attempt to reorganize the naval forces of Canton, it does not appear that this school can be of any practical utility to the country.\n\nAt Whampoa is also an elementary military school in connection with the larger military college outside the East Gate, where officers are trained for the new Lu Chün or territorial army.\n\n## Native Press\n\nOne of the inevitable results of the political awakening of an oriental people appears to be the rapid growth and widespread influence of a native press.\n\nIn Canton there are now fifteen Chinese newspapers, most of them dailies, which have a large and rapidly increasing circulation in the city and throughout the province. They are, with few exceptions, revolutionary in tone and intensely anti-foreign. The influence they exert over the people of Canton, always impatient of official control and ready to resist foreign interference in their affairs, must at times prove most embarrassing to the Viceroy and his advisers, but he either will not, or dare not, enforce the new press laws against them.\n\nTheir criticisms of the actions of foreign Governments and officials, especially their references to the affairs of Hong Kong, are almost invariably prejudiced, hostile in tone, and often wilfully inaccurate. We have on frequent occasions lately had occasion to draw the Viceroy's attention, both on our own behalf and on behalf of the Government of Hong Kong, to what appeared to us deliberate attempts on the part of some of the most widely read newspapers to stir up trouble between foreigners and Chinese, both here and in Hong Kong, but in no case has the Viceroy shown that he realized the gravity of their offence, or taken any effective steps to express his displeasure at this conduct. His Excellency usually contents himself with retaliating that the Hong Kong press, both native and foreign, is equally reprehensible and unfriendly towards his Government.\n\nThe recent action of some of the native papers in publishing official documents and Confidential communications from foreign Consuls to the Chinese authorities appear to us to constitute a serious drawback to the efficient conduct of international business in Canton, and the Viceroy's refusal even to express regret for a particularly flagrant publication of a foreign Consul's despatch a few weeks ago is significant of the attitude of his Government towards foreign interests and fraught with serious possibilities for the future of international relations in this part of China.\n\nPage 4\nPage 5\nPage 7", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422579, "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": "CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 608, "title": "CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n### CONFIDENTIAL\n\n4\n\nKong, whither Taotai Kao will proceed as soon as the Portuguese commissioner is ready, and he can find suitable quarters.\n\nIn the meantime, the provincial Government have taken part in what looks very like a demonstration against the Portuguese.\n\nOn the 21st instant, the day of Taotai Kao's arrival, the Viceroy and Admiral Li proceeded to the newly-selected site of Heungchow (Yeh Li Shan), near Macao, and took part in a formal inauguration ceremony.\n\nAs no secret is made of the fact that it is intended that this port shall withdraw such trade as still remains to Macao from that place, its formal inauguration immediately prior to the opening of negotiations for the delimitation of the boundary of Macao is, if the provincial Government are sincere in their desire for an amicable arrangement, to say the least of it, tactless.\n\nThere seems, however, very little doubt that the provincial authorities are prepared to insist upon the confinement of the Portuguese within the narrowest possible limits, and it is in anticipation of Portuguese opposition that such efforts are being made to find alternative ports in the near neighbourhood, from the safe security of which a strict boycott can be directed against the Portuguese colony.\n\nThe Viceroy is reported to have been delighted with his visit to Heungchow, and to be very sanguine as to its future, but one, at any rate, of his secretaries does not share his Excellency's view, for he informed me that he considered the scheme chimerical to a degree, and that the harbour of Yeh Li Shan was both shallow and inadequately protected.\n\nAs Taotai Wu boasts of an education at Greenwich College and London University, his opinion, which coincides with that formed by Lieutenant and Commander Tickell, who recently visited the port with His Majesty's vice-consul, would seem to carry the greater weight.\n\nI have, &c.\n**HAROLD PORTER**\n\nPage 4\n\n## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n### CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[21503]\nC.O. 22029\n[June 11.]\n\n**RECR Rec 2 JUL 09, SECTION 1.**\n\nNo. 1.\n\n**Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan**\n**(No. 107.) (Telegraphic.) P.**\n\nForeign Office, June 11, 1909.\n\nSIR R. HART (see my telegram No. 77, Confidential, of the 27th April). I have received a private letter from Sir R. Hart to the effect that for reasons of health he is obliged to delay and to reconsider his assent to return to his post at Peking; he further states that he has applied for an extension of leave for a year.\n\nHe observes that in regard to the succession question, whether acting or substantive, much trouble and friction would be saved by the Chinese wish, whatever its nature, being complied with, provided of course that a British subject is appointed inspector-general.\n\nI am replying that he is already aware of the views of His Majesty's Government in regard to the succession, and am expressing regret at the reason for his application, saying that I shall be glad to know what reply he receives.\n\nIf the extension of leave is granted, we shall have to consider whether we can wait until Sir R. Hart's retirement is definite, or whether we should insist on the Chinese Government now carrying out the promise contained in their memorandum of the 19th February, 1908 (see your despatch No. 87 of the 19th February, 1908).\n\nI should be glad if you would furnish me with your opinion on this point. From his present communication, I imagine that Sir Robert does not mean to return to China.\n\nPage 606", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423186, "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": 589, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## 5 \n\n## 587 \n\nYanglin (see Intelligence Report, March quarter) has been again revived, and it is now suggested that a commencement should be made in the autumn. I do not think that anything in this direction will be done this year.\n\nThe proposed Chinese railway from Yunnan-fu into Szechuan has been the subject of common talk. A Swiss engineer, M. Meister, is, I hear, on the point of being engaged by the Provincial Railway Board, for what purpose I do not yet know. M. Meister was formerly engineer-in-charge of the Namti or first section of the French railway in Yünnan. M. Meister, in conversation with me, was disposed to be very sanguine that this Chinese line would be shortly taken in hand, and attributed a keen anxiety to the Chinese for rail connection with Szechuan so as to be independent of the French Yunnan Railway. I am informed by a subordinate in the Provincial Railway Board Office that 700,000 taels ($81,000) in cash and promises represents the total railway fund for Yunnan at the present time. Several mule loads of share certificates printed in Japan arrived in May last, but there has been no demand for them. The official opinion at Yunnan-fu appears to be pessimistic in regard to this line.\n\nIt is persistently reported that two American railway engineers have been engaged for work on the Yunnan-Szechuan line. Dr. Mazzolani, who has opportunities of hearing things denied to me, tells me that an American engineer has been engaged as adviser to the Provincial Board, and will arrive here in the autumn. The Administrator of Foreign Affairs, Shih Tseng, however, has declared on more than one occasion, both to the French consul and myself, that the Provincial Railway Board have not engaged any foreigners.\n\n**(b.) Commercial Summary**\n\nForeign Firms at Yünnan-fu.--The foreign firms established at Yünnan-fu, four in number, are all French, viz., L'Union commerciale indo-chinoise, Messrs. Charrière and Co., Messrs. Barbage, and Messrs. Pasquier and Co. The first named has a new manager, M. Lallier. The former manager resigned in disgust at the lack of interest taken in the Yunnan business by head-quarters. He told me two or three stories which appeared amazing, and revealed the extraordinary apathy of the head office at Hanoi. One was that he had obtained a contract for the supply of a large quantity of steel to the arsenal, and had telegraphed for a quotation price. The price given was so low that he had demanded a repetition. The second telegram confirmed the first. His comprador proceeded to settle the contract with the arsenal authorities, when a letter was received from Hanoi pointing out that a mistake had been made in the telegraphic quotation, and giving a very much higher figure. The firm refused to abide by the comprador's agreement, and the latter was compelled to \"square\" before he could get the contract cancelled. He left the firm. Another instance was the supply of uniforms for the soldiers in Yünnan. The local agent was offered the contract at the same price as was paid last year. The head office demanded a higher rate, and the contract was accepted at the lower figure by Pasquier and Co., who are agents for the German firm of Speidel and Co. I had occasion to complain to the local agent of Messrs. Charrière and Co. of the non-arrival of some electric bells ordered two months previously and promised within a month, and I cancelled the order. The agent (a Frenchman) told me he was exceedingly glad of this opportunity to be able to write a strong letter to his firm at Hanoi, and he proceeded to pour out his woes. His tale, if true, showed an astounding side of French commercial enterprise in Yünnan.\n\nMessrs. Barbage have obtained a contract for the electric lighting of the Normal College, but I understand that the firm is living a good deal on hopes. Messrs. Pasquier are interested in silk and general commission business. They have an agreement with Messrs. Speidel, a German firm at Hanoi, to sell only goods supplied by that firm.\n\nChinese Merchants gloomy.--There have been no new developments of trade, and Chinese merchants are very gloomy as to the future.\n\nCheap Food.--Food for man and beast still remains at abnormally low prices, and the prospects for a good rice harvest are favourable. The common people and the soldiers at Yunnan-fu are taking largely to wheat flour (5 lbs. for a penny) as an auxiliary to rice diet. Small hand flour mills would, I think, find a ready sale.\n\n**(c.) Army**\n\nRecruits.--The newly-enrolled recruits are being drilled. The material (Yunnan) is not as good as the Szechuan or Cantonese soldier, either in physique or intelligence. The Chinese officers declare, however, that they prefer the Yunnan man, as he is more amenable to discipline.\n\nDisease.--Venereal disease is very prevalent in the ranks. It has been proposed to establish brothels under official supervision for soldiers and civilians. The proposal has been favourably received in official quarters, but I understand that no definite steps have yet been taken. A moderate estimate of the number of public prostitutes at Yunnan-fu is 3,000, and I am assured by the European doctors that they consider that a large proportion of these are diseased. The arms referred to in my last intelligence report have been arriving at intervals during the quarter.\n\nIncrease of Military Forces.--It is stated that Li Ching-hsi has obtained the advance of 2,000,000 taels for military expenses, and the promise of an annual subvention of 260,000 taels. This money is to be employed in the equipment of 12,000 additional troops. The number of foreign armed and drilled men will thus be increased to 24,000.\n\n**(d.) Relations with Chinese Officials**\n\nThese have been satisfactory.\n\n**(e.) Movements of Chinese Officials**\n\nChin-shu-sheng, the titular prefect of Yunnan-fu, returned from Peking in April last, and was shortly afterwards sent to Ssumao as acting taotai. The post is not considered to be a lucrative one. Mr. Chin was at Tengyuch during the issue of the anti-missionary placards (`P.C., No. 39 of 1908`).\n\n**(f.) Movements of Foreign Officials**\n\nDeparture of French vice-consul.--M. Soulié, interpreter of the French consulates left Yunnan-fu and has been replaced by M. Crépin, formerly at Mengtse.\n\nVisit of Mr. Coggin Brown.--Mr. Coggin Brown, of the Geological Survey of India, passed through Yunnan-fu in May. He was very well received by the high officials here, and the governor-general invited him to dinner. During his stay, he made the acquaintance of Liu-bsiao-tsu Taotai, in charge of mining interests, and advised him as to the location of a coal mine in the neighbourhood. Liu Taotai has now taken steps to develop this mine, and has expressed his gratitude for Mr. Coggin Brown's expert advice. The latter was careful in his conversation with the officials to convey the impression that he was investigating the geology and mines in Yünnan from a purely scientific point of view. He reports that he has received no sort of hindrance, official or private, in his travels. I do not doubt that this was very largely due to the tactful manner in which his investigations have been conducted.\n\n**(g.) Reforms**\n\nAt the invitation of the literary chancellor, I examined three of the classes of the Faug Yen College in English subjects. The average age of the students is about 20, although they range from 15 to 25. Eight hours a week are devoted to the study of the English, French, and Japanese languages, but there are separate classes for each of these. The school hours, which struck me as too long, are occupied also with Chinese literature, geography, arithmetic, history, and drawing. The teachers are none of them Yunnan men and are imperfectly understood, and although they know the text-books, the standard of the scholars was not high, although one or two among them were exceptionally intelligent. Making due allowance for the short time the college had been opened--14 months--I gave an encouraging report. I spent an interesting day at the school, and was entertained to lunch by the literary chancellor and the teaching staff. The governor-general appeared to have been greatly pleased with the result of the visit, and the literary chancellor has asked me to hold an examination at the Normal College at a later date.\n\nThe Normal College contains about 600 students, and has room for 1,000. The numbers indicate that in years to come the province will possess a number of disappointed schoolmasters--a somewhat dangerous class for Yunnan, where there is little or no scope for other employment for these men. The annual cost of the Normal College is 60,000 taels ($7,000). The cost of the electric-light installation is to be partly met by the stoppage of light allowance to the students, 1 tael (2s. 4d.) a-head monthly.\n\nIn May last, I visited the new prison erected by Hsi Liang at a cost of 80,000 taels ($9,260). At present, it holds 200 male and 23 female prisoners. There is also a ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423733, "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": 337, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "## 336\n\nIn the conduct of the college, it is proposed to associate another doctor with Dr. Mazzolani at an annual salary of 9,000 fr. (`3604`). Dr. Vadon, the assistant French hospital doctor, tells me he was offered the post but was forced to decline it owing to the opposition of the senior doctor, Dr. Féray. I hear that the post was also offered to Dr. Dumont, a French railway doctor at Pohsi, but he declined it.\n\nFrench Placard at Mengtse.-A ridiculous incident which has caused the French some loss of face has recently occurred at Mengtse. The acting French consul, M. Bradier, issued a proclamation which was posted not only in the foreign settlement but in the native city of Mengtse and at Milati, a station on the French railway about 12 miles from Mengtse. The proclamation warned all Europeans and Chinese that, owing to fear of rabies, stray dogs would be shot down, regardless of ownership, by the French police. The new taotai worked himself up into a high pitch of excitement, and the Italian consul protested against the French consul having presumed to give orders to Italian subjects. M. Bradier invited the latter to sign the notice jointly, but he declined. The upshot of the affair is that M. Bradier has expressed his regret to the taotai, withdrawn all his notices, and taken no action against stray dogs.\n\nVisit of French Geologists.-The French consul has informed me that a French geological party of four will visit Yünnan in November next. They will divide into two parties, one working east and the other west of the French railway from Laokay to Yunnan-fu.\n\nVisit of French Military Attaché-The French military attaché at Peking is expected here towards the end of the year.\n\nM. Bacot.-M. Bacot, a French traveller (to whom reference was made in my June report), has given up the idea of doing more than proceeding to Batang and thence to Tali-fu, where he is expected at the end of the year.\n\nFrench Site.-The French consular site outside the city has not yet been acquired.\n\nJapanese Spies.-There are a large number of Japanese mistresses of French railway employés and others in Tonquin and Yunnan. It is said that some of these have been sending information to Japan.\n\nFrench Railway-The construction train of the French railway is now at Su-chia-t'ou (kilometre 361). The past summer, especially the months of July, August, and September, has been a trying one for railway construction, owing to the torrential rains. In the lowest (Namti) section (kilometres 1-71), slips occurred to block the traffic for 50 kilom. Tunnel 142 was flooded waist-deep, and mails were buried for some weeks beneath 10,000 cubic metres of débris. At kilometre 98, the upper mountain slope came down upon and obliterated the track. This spot is still impassable for about 100 yards. If the bridge at kilometre 94 had gone, as was feared at one time, I am assured on the best authority that the railway would have been delayed for another year.\n\nBut the bridge stood, and it is now hoped that Yünnan-fu will be officially opened to traffic in March 1910. It was reported that the Chinese merchants would boycott the railway on account of the high rates demanded. There was a good deal of grumbling, but nothing else, until the French railway authorities suddenly announced that, in addition to the surcharges of 10 per cent. (temporarily demanded for exchange compensation) and of 5 per cent. (for difference in touch between the French piastre and the Yunnan dollar), an additional 7 per cent. would be required as further compensation for the difference in the dollar touch. The Chinese merchants thereupon determined to boycott the line, but a commission is now sitting at Mengtse to discuss this question. The commission is composed of the French consul at Mengtse, the commissioner of customs, the taotai, two French railway representatives, and two delegates from Yunnan.\n\nDifference in Dollar Touch.-In connection with this dispute, the Chinese authorities at Yünnan-fu invited the French consul to be present at an assay at the mint of Chinese and French dollars. The latter declined to attend. The result was announced that the touch was identical. I hear, however, on independent authority that the Chinese difference is appreciable, being from 3 to 4 per cent. in favour of the piastre. Merchants of good repute have assured me that they do not object to pay 5 per cent. as the difference in value between the French and Yünnan dollars because they know that the touch of their Yünnan dollar is variable and cannot be depended upon. They refuse to pay, however, the extra 7 per cent. and declare they will revert to mule traffic.\n\nRevenue-The treasurer has told me that the increase in salt li-kin of 4 cash per catty will bring in 100,000 taels (12,000£) annually. Opium li-kin represented officially 300,000 taels annually, although it was known that 1,000,000 taels was collected—the 700,000 taels disappearing into the pockets of the li-kin officers. He feared that salt would not bear further taxation, as its price was already 13 dollars a-picul (2d. a-lb.) at Yünnan-fu, and it was difficult to see how ordinary expenditure could be met, to say nothing of the costly new reform schemes, unless the central Government furnished supplies for Yünnan. He made a few cynical remarks about Chinese railway schemes in Yunnan and told me the railway subscription funds in hand would probably be diverted before long to found a bank.\n\n## (b.) Commercial Summary\n\nPoll Tax-The police taotai has levied a poll tax of 30 cash monthly in order to pay for police expenses and refuges for foundlings. The wages of the Yunnan-fu policeman vary from 300 to 800 cash daily, and the force numbers 110. The annual upkeep is estimated at 10,000 taels (1,215£).\n\nPolice-In the intelligence report for the period ending the 31st December, 1908, it was stated that the police interfere hardly at all with the people. The state of things is changing, and the police have now commenced to run in street brawlers, formerly allowed to exhaust themselves in vituperation for the entertainment of the bystanders.\n\nTea-house Tax-Another tax of 2 cash per tea-pot was levied on the tea-shops under orders of the Literary Chancellor, to form a fund for rescue work among the numerous prostitutes of Yunnan-fu. After the proclamation had been posted, he discovered the difficulty of fixing the number of tea-pots replenished daily, and the tax has now been commuted to a fixed sum per tea-shop.\n\nThe scheme proposes to hire houses for the unfortunate women to live in, where they will be educated and their morals improved. It is hoped that respectable men will be attracted to marry them. No practical measures beyond the collection of the tax have yet been taken.\n\nElectrical Works.-Electrical works at Anning-chou (18 miles west of Yunnan-fu) are contemplated to supply the yamêns and barracks at Yünnan-fu with 6,000 lamps. Tenders were invited from M. Barbage (French) and Herr Esterrer (German). The former exceeded 300,000 taels, and the latter, whose estimate has, I hear, been accepted, was as low as 120,000 taels (14,500£). The Chinese company is composed of local gentry. The superintendent of the Chinese telegraphs in Yünnan—a Dane—tells me he cannot believe that a successful installation can be put up for 120,000 taels.\n\nThe installation put in the Normal College by M. Barbage cost 6,000 dollars (500£) (June intelligence report).\n\nGerman Mining Engineer.-A German engineer, M. Fraulob, visited the Kuo-chiu tin mines near Mengtse and the antimony mines near Kailua. Liu Taotai, who controls the Mining Department, tells me that foreign capital will not be allowed to participate in the development of either of these groups of mines. Two Chinese experts from the tin mines in the Straits Settlements were, he said, at Yunnan-fu and were arranging for the flotation of a Chinese Tin Mining Development Company with a capital of 600,000 taels (73,000£). It was hoped that Chinese living abroad would buy shares.\n\nHo-kou-Large sums have been spent by the provincial Government in laying out Ho-k'ou as a rival commercial settlement to Laokay. It is to be feared that Ho-k'ou will never prove of much account as a trading centre, as direct transport by the French railway into Yünnan will deprive it of its importance even as a transit station, and it has no trade of its own. Kerosene oil and matches may, however, be shipped by junk to Ho-k'ou from Manhao and thence carried by mules, as it is claimed that this method of transport will compare favourably with the present railway rates.\n\nCheap Food.-Food continues to be very cheap, and the promise of a magnificent rice harvest is forcing the price still lower. Best quality rice is selling at 210 taels per 120 catties, or, say, 2 lb. for 1d., and inferior quality is as low as 6 lb. for 1d. The market prices of the more common vegetables have dropped 50 per cent. This is due to the larger extent of land under vegetable cultivation since the poppy has been banned. Pork is about 10 per cent. cheaper than last year. It is generally admitted that foodstuffs have never been so cheap for the last sixteen years, but it is also said that the people are getting poorer now that the opium crop, valued at 38,000,000 taels (4,600,000£), is lost to the province. Another twelve months may show more positive ...", "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": 424677, "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": "CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3]", "page_number": 325, "title": "CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3]", "content_text": "## No.4.\n\nHongkong.\n\n2077\n\n320\n\nRage19 MAR 10\n\n**Government House, Hongkong, 18th February, 1910.**\n\n7886\n\nMy Lord,\n\nwith reference to paragraph 5 of Your Lordship's Despatch No.323 of the 22nd of last December, I have the honour to state that according to a report made to me by the Director of Education, the work of Normal Master has very greatly increased in responsibility and importance of late years, and that the Normal Master now, in addition to his original duties, trains pupil teachers for the District Schools, while his control over the Chinese Masters at Queen's College has been increased.\n\n2.\n\nThe Director of Education has, in these circumstances, recommended that the allowance paid to the Normal Master should be increased from $600 per annum to $900 per annum without exchange compensation, and I have the honour to endorse Mr. Irving's recommendation as I am of opinion that the services discharged by the Normal Master\n\n**RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF CREWE, &C.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 426995, "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": "CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11]", "page_number": 80, "title": "CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11]", "content_text": "## Class IV.\n\n1. **Education**\n\n### Department of Director of Education\n\n#### Personal Emoluments\n\n* Increase: $19,532\n* Reduction on new appointments: $4,318\n* Abolition of posts: \n* Increments, \n* Decrease of Salaries due to change in posts of Normal Master, La Salle's College\n* Personal Allowance, house allowance, Good Conduct allowance: $2,682, $32, $557, $720\n* Total Increase: $28,667\n\n#### Other Charges\n\n| Institution | Description | Amount |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Office of Director of Education | Books, Incidental Expenses, Language Study Allowance, Transport for Masters | 180 |\n| Queen's College | Books for Lending Library | 56 |\n| Taipingshan English School | Gymnastic Apparatus | 100 |\n| Wantsai English School | Incidental Expenses | 50 |\n| Belilios Public School | Furniture, Incidental Expenses | 75, 50 |\n| Taipingshan English School | | до |\n| Office of Director of Education | Visual Instructions | 1,490 |\n| Praya East English School | Books, Furniture, etc. | 736 |\n| Hongkong English School | Books, Furniture, etc. | 615 |\n| La Salle's English School | Books, Furniture | 10, 10 |\n| Saripingpur English School | Language Bonus | 665 |\n| Belilios Public School | Books, Prizes, Incidental Expenses | 25, 800, 200 |\n| Principal Grants under Grant Code | | 5,880 |\n| Various Schools | Dual Desks, Language Bonus, Scholarships | 4800, 9462, 4205 |\n\n* Total Decrease: $11,157\n* Total Increase: $38,129\n* Deduct Decrease: $11,157\n* Net Increase: **$26,972**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428604, "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": 529, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "C.O. 526\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nRack Rent 21 APR 10\n\nOPIUM.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[9922]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[March 22.]\n\nSECTION 1,\n\nSir,\n\nProfessor Caldecott to Foreign Office.-(Received March 22.)\n\nUniversity of London, King's College, March 21, 1910.\n\nI MUST confess to very keen disappointment on the receipt of the letter from the Secretary of State dated the 11th March.\n\nIt seems to mean that the Secretary insists on the ten years' agreement unless China officially asks for a reduction. I cannot think that this is a very sympathetic attitude with a nation in the throes of a great moral crisis. And, further, the record of the Shanghae Commission shows China's delegates doing everything else save committing their Government to proffering a formal request which they did not feel sure would be well received by Great Britain. Even now we are assured by leaders in China that such a request would be made if they did not fear a rebuff. The co-signatories and myself had hoped that the setting free would come from Great Britain now.\n\nBut why\n\nI beg once again to represent to the Secretary of State that the retention of British pressure upon China in this matter for a further period of eight years is oppressive to the conscience of Englishmen, Scotchmen, and Irishmen alike. We cannot look the world in the face in international affairs during the eight years now before us, and the influence of Great Britain in the world is thwarted and reduced until China is free.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nA. CALDECOTT.\n\nP.S.-The memorial which I had the honour of forwarding was signed by twenty-five out of the forty-five ethical authorities to whom I wrote; two more have since sent their names. Of the rest, several replied that they were quite unfamiliar with the situation; several that they trusted the Government simpliciter. Not one raised an objection to the memorial. That twenty-seven out of forty-five academic people went out of their way to join a representation of this kind is a singular and memorable fact.\n\nA. C.\n\n[2661 y-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428717, "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": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 58, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "1. Regulations issued by the provincial opium head warehouse (\"tung-sheng yen-t'u mai-mai tsung-hang\") and the provincial li-kin head office (\"tung-sheng li-kin tsung-chu\") published on the 19th November last, for \"the abolition of the opium duty offices and stations and the prevention of the import and export of the drug,\" Of these regulations I have the honour to enclose a copy together with a translation by Mr. Toller.\n\n2. Revised regulations for the suppression of opium in all departments, drawn up by the police intendant (\"hsun-ching tao\") and issued, with the imprimatur of the Governor-General, last December. Of this document I beg to submit an abstract.\n\nThe two papers set out with such conciseness (this is more particularly the case with the earlier of them) the procedure to be followed that it is difficult to condense them. The salient points, however, would seem to be as follows:—\n\n(a.) The import of opium into Szechuan is to cease from the 10th April next. (\"Opium\" (\"t'u-yao\") here means extra-provincial raw native opium. Neither the native prepared drug (\"kao\") nor foreign opium has for some years been imported into this province.)\n\n(b) The export of Szechuan opium is to cease from the 7th July next.\n\n(c.) The system of licensed retailers (\"p'i-fa tien\"), described in previous reports as \"wholesale opium stores,\" is to be continued. These establishments are licensed to sell prepared opium, but to smokers with police permits only, and not for consumption on the premises. Their supplies of the drug are derived, as before, from an official (or Government) head opium store (\"kuan-kao tsung-tien\"), one of which is established in each city or town. The latter offices have hitherto depended for their raw material (\"yen-t'u\" or \"tu-yao\") on the head Government \"hong\" (warehouse) for the purchase and sale of crude opium (\"yen-t'u mai-mai tsung-hang\") at Chengtu or its branches. From the 7th July these \"hongs\" will cease to exist. The opium stores will have before that date to lay in a sufficient stock of the raw stuff to last out the time of grace for smokers (now, at the most, seven years) allowed by the edicts of 1906. This stock they will obtain either from the \"hongs\" before the latter are dissolved, or from private holders, who, in their turn, are compelled to get rid of their whole supply before the 7th July, either by selling it to the opium stores or by exporting it from Szechuan.\n\n(d) The registration of smokers is to be strictly enforced. It is recognised that a considerable number of smokers have failed to comply with the law, which laid down that application for permits must be made before the 24th October, 1908, after which date none would be issued. Smokers must now have registered—in towns, at the police stations; and in the country, before the tithing-ward—by the 11th January last. The totals registered will be reported to the police intendant, who will then authorise a supplementary, but positively final, issue of permits.\n\n(e.) Permits to smoke.—The earlier permits will continue to be renewable every three months; but the supplementary permits must be renewed every two months. The fee for issue and for such renewal is 100 cash. Permits will, as before, be of two classes, \"A\" and \"B\"; but while holders of the earlier \"A\" permits were allowed three years in which to break off the habit, holders of the new (supplementary) \"A\" permits will be allowed only one year. Holders of \"B\" permits are allowed three months. The object of the new regulations is stated as an endeavour to eradicate opium smoking in Szechuan before the time set by the edicts (Art. 3; see Blue Book, \"China No. 1 (1908),\" p. 5).\n\nConsequent on the proclamation forbidding the planting of the poppy, all regulations of the provincial opium head warehouse relating to the diminution of areas of cultivation were cancelled last September. Permits that had been issued were called in by the branch warehouses (\"yen-t'u fen-hang\"), and all blank forms were returned to the head office at Chengtu. As we have seen, the head warehouse and its branches are to be abolished by the 7th July. The same date sees the dissolution of the opium li-kin establishment—with a month's time for the settlement of accounts—and the dismissal of brokers (agents) at the godowns and receiving rooms, where raw opium was purchased on behalf of the warehouse from the peasant growers, by the taotai.\n\nOther formal steps taken during the past six months are:-\n\n1. The binding over of all official employés to continue to abstain from smoking, or to abandon the habit within two months. All officials below the rank of prefect, and all educational officers, have to submit to scrutiny twice a year for the opium habit. Two such tests have already been held, and certificates granted, and the third examination is now approaching. (For officials in the capital it takes place at the \"chieh-yen ch'a-yen so,\" or anti-opium inspection department, persons reporting themselves for examination between the 22nd and 27th February.) There are still, however, some 500 officials in the province who have not yet received their certificates for the first examination. The registers at the office of the financial commissioner show that over 200 of these can be accounted for as dismissed, or dead, or in mourning. The remainder are exhorted to undergo examination and obtain their certificates as quickly as possible.\n\nIn pursuance of this procedure (which is in harmony with art. 9 of the Imperial Regulations of 1906), on the 20th August, the \"yen-ch'a tao\" (intendant for gabelle and tea duties) enforced the measure for his staff, for the salt transport office, and for the establishments under his control throughout the province. The Commissioner for Education (\"ti-hsueh ssu\") did the same, on the 10th November, and the Financial Commissioner on the 2nd December. As a deterrent, four petty officials were denounced by Chao chih-t'ai to the throne and were dismissed the service in perpetuity, for \"lack of strength to break off opium\" (\"ch'ih yen pu li\").\n\n2. Hospital accommodation has been extended. The opium refuge opened by the Chamber of Commerce was originally intended only for traders and the mercantile class generally. It has, says the semi-official “Chengtu Daily News\" (\"Ch'engtu Jih-pao\") of the 7th October, proved so successful that its operations are to be extended. Anyone who gets a guarantee from a shop may attend and receive medicines, gratis.\n\nAbout the same time the police intendant opened a training college where doctors, or would-be doctors, can learn the best methods of assisting smokers to break off the habit. Doctors study for a month, paying a fee of 4 dollars; they then receive a diploma which permits them, according to the class obtained in the examinations, to take charge of hospitals in the various towns of the province, or to serve as assistants in such hospitals.\n\nOn the 20th December the police intendant reported that several thousand doctors trained at Chengtu will now be sent to take charge of opium refuges throughout the province. The expenses of these refuges will be met as follows:---\n\n(a) From public charitable funds, which will be devoted to the cost of medicines, salaries of attendants, and maintenance of poor people breaking off the habit. Patients who can afford it will pay for their own meals while in hospital.\n\n(b) Where there are no such public funds, by subscriptions collected from the gentry and merchants.\n\n(c) If both these plans fail, the local official may authorise the doctor to sell his medicines, the cost to the indigent being met out of the profits of such sales.\n\nThe \"Chengtu Daily News\" of the 28th December contains regulations, drawn up by the intendant of police, for the establishment of an opium refuge for gentry and merchants. The regulations as issued consist of fourteen clauses, but at the end are the two characters \"wei wan\" (\"to be concluded\"). No further instalment, however, has appeared up to the present.\n\nThe regulations provide generally for good behaviour and order among the patients. Patients are received in batches of from twenty to thirty, and the cure takes five days. Patients must not bring their own servants with them, and on admission, they must submit their luggage and belongings to inspection lest there should be any of the drug concealed therein. Nothing is said about the cost of treatment, except that if patients develop any extraneous complaint, necessitating the use of expensive medicines costing 50 cash or more, the patients themselves must pay for them.\n\n3. The official price of prepared opium was raised on the 11th December from 540 cash per liang to 950 cash for the lowest quality (\"pa t'u\"). Prices for the other qualities are:\n\n(1.) Yünnan from 900 cash to 1,240 cash.\n\n(2.) Ch'en and piao from 600 cash to 1,060 cash.\n\n4. The loss of revenue is partly made good by the increased charge on salt, previously reported. Other taxes to the same end are:\n\n(a) 200 cash on each pig killed, large or small.\n\n(b) 2 cash per catty on pork.\n\nWriting on the 25th October last, Mr. Ricker, who had just returned from a visit to Tzu Chou (about halfway on the main road from Chungking to Chengtu), says:\n\nPage 56", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428879, "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": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 220, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "nature. The latest accounts indicate that the town is once more quiet, although no information has been received to say that foreigners have returned from the vessels to their houses.\n\nFrom the information supplied by the Chinese officials themselves, to which reference is made below, it is evident that an anti-foreign movement was in preparation throughout Hunan. It has partly miscarried, owing to the premature outbreak of riots in Changsha over a grievance between the people and the officials. But directly trouble had arisen the hostility of the populace is turned, as by command, against foreigners.\n\nIt will be found that the following letter from our Changsha correspondent embodies the most authoritative account that has yet been received of the riots in Changsha :-\n\nA Graphic Account.\n\nChangsha, April 19, 1910. Wednesday, the 13th April, to Friday, the 15th April, were days that will long be remembered in Changsha. The riots will be marked from the fact that a governor's yamên has been sacked and burnt, and a very extensive series of looting and burning of foreign property has been carried out as almost a by-play of the main aim of the riot.\n\nThat aim was to cheapen rice. It is the old, old story that our history books show us as occurring in the lands of the Mediterranean, and that Carlyle has so picturesquely taught us to connect with the French Revolution—a hungry mob is dangerous. Rice has been, of course, dearer and dearer on account of the Yang-tsze floods. For the same reason the caters of rice have been more numerous, for the refugees from Hupeh have been numbered by the thousand. The forbidding of export from Changsha had not the desired effect of dropping prices—if that effect was really desired by those who forbade the export. Promises of opening Government granaries were not fulfilled, and as the prices crept up disappointment and anger grew. On Wednesday night a rise from 82 cash a-pint to 84 cash provoked the gathering of an angry mob. Some four or five officials were sent to speak good words. But one of the speakers resorted to that last refuge of a weak man—bluster and bluff: \"Rice is not so dear here as at Hankow or Canton, or in foreign countries.\" A howl of derision greeted the untimely speech. \"Seize!\" shouted the official, and the order was left-handedly obeyed by the seizing of him on the part of the mob, instead of the seizing of the shouters by his runners.\n\nThe official, who was of no less rank than a taotai, was dragged by the mob right through the city to the governor's yamên with a crowd that grew rapidly. Soon after 8 P.M. all the immense space in front of the yamên was packed with people, and the first two series of doors and wooden divisions had been burst in. Messages were handed to and fro, until at last the military were called into action. There was certainly some stabbing with bayonets—that deaths resulted is both asserted and denied. At any rate, messengers and fragments of the crowd broke off and scattered in all directions. Then followed beating of gongs and shouting of orders. Every house door was set open and every lamp lighted. The city gates were all shut.\n\nThe Work of Destruction.\n\nThe crowds that went south divided into two main streams. The western one reached the Wesleyan Methodist Mission, perhaps a little earlier than the eastern one would reach the Norwegian. The Methodist Mission door had not been opened at the first gong beating, so it was hammered at by the crowd. As soon as it was opened attention was concentrated on the buildings rented by the Imperial Post Office and the Imperial Bank a little further on in the same street. The post office door was too substantial for such weapons as the crowd possessed. Not so the bank doors and windows. Showers of shattered glass were followed by showers of broken tiles, as the mob leaders got on to the roof. One huge stroke, followed by a loud yell, announced that the doors were burst in. Then there was comparative stillness on the night air. It was only comparative, and it only lasted while the maddened crowd could retrace the 50 or 100 yards back to the mission. The mission windows and lamps followed after the manner of the bank, and the largest chapel in the city within two minutes was a wreck. The missionaries, who had all got dressed, were able to leave quietly by the back door, while the crowd streamed across the lawn and looted, and made a bonfire of the loot on the lawn. The missionaries—five ladies and four men—walked quite unmolested through the 200 yards of back streets between the compound and the city gate. Then there was a delay of twenty minutes or so while the keys were being fetched. The refugees were taken into the shop that is used by the guard. While they were there a police-box was smashed up; but no attempt was made to molest them. The gates were opened, and the missionaries went at once on to the C. N. steam-ship \"Siangtan.\" News was taken to the British consul (whose temporary consulate has been outside the gates, with telephonic communication to the city).\n\nWith the missionary in the house, telling the tale of the looting and burning, the Customs taotai telephoned out that the premises were adequately guarded!\n\nThe eastern crowd had first reached the Norwegian Mission. There the same story of looting of houses and escape of missionaries was repeated. The Norwegians were in a much less convenient position for reaching safety. They spent some hours on the city wall, and were well cared for by the official in charge at the North Gate. He himself helped in the cooking of some refreshments.\n\nThe nearest foreign neighbours were the doctor of the Yale Mission and his family and one of the professors at the Government College with his family. Their house was rented, and was overlooked by the crowd. The two families were received first into the house of a Chinese gentleman, and after dawn made their way through the Eastern Gate to a camp under the command of a friendly colonel.\n\nNot much farther on was the China Inland Mission compound. There the crowd made rapid destruction, but once more the missionaries escaped.\n\nAs the day wore on refugees came from one place and another, until every European and American had left the city.\n\nAbout 11 A.M. the mob fired the governor's yamên, and for the rest of the day volumes of smoke rose up as building after building caught fire. Rumour was busy; the governor had been murdered, had committed suicide, was in hiding. Assuredly there was but little space for him to hide in his own extensive compound by nightfall. At 2 o'clock a column of smoke rose over the Norwegian Mission, and a little later another marked the site of the China Inland Mission. There was no mistaking that mob rule was the only rule in Changsha.\n\nThat night the river side was attacked; the custom-house not held by the mob to be Chinese property; the wharves and godowns of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire and Jardine and Matheson were all burned down. So was the Catholic Mission outside the North Gate, the Japanese consulate inside the city, and the Normal College outside the South Gate.\n\nOn the Steamers.\n\nDuring the night the C.N. steam-ships \"Kian\" and \"Siangkiang\" arrived, and early on Friday morning a number of the ladies and others left for Hankow by the I.-C. steam-ship \"Changwo.\" The three British steamers had been chartered by the consul on behalf of the Government. Still, that does not alter the indebtedness of all on board to the great courtesy of the captains, officers, and not least the heavily overworked staff of Chinese servants.\n\nThe boats were first anchored about a mile or two below the city and were able to see and were seen by the looting crowds. Some of the best of the military officials—men who had some claim to be listened to, if only on account of their great help in guiding parties of refugees to safety—hazarded the opinion that the military would more quickly regain control if the boats would drop 10 miles or so further down out of sight. That there was a turn in the tide was shown by the fact that two looters caught in setting fire to a Chinese-owned hotel (which was patronised by foreigners) had been promptly bayonetted and hanged. So the consul gave orders for our boats to get out of sight.\n\nThe Japanese community (with the exception of one or two who could not be reached) had gathered in the compound of the \"Nisshin Kisen Kaisha,\" and with the help of 200 soldiers—who had been drilled by Japanese instructors—held the compound safe and sound. They were now all on board the \"Siangkiang.\"\n\nOn Saturday morning, the \"Siangtan\" and \"Siangkiang,\" both crowded with foreign passengers, left for Hankow, and the \"Kian\" stayed on alone. During the day reassuring reports came from some of the interior cities connected by telegraph with Changsha. But at 10 P.M. the whole missionary community at Siangtan, with the exception of two gentlemen, arrived on board the governor's tender which had\n\n[2751 2-4]\n\nD\n\n218", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 439134, "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": "CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11]", "page_number": 51, "title": "CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11]", "content_text": "Increase.\n\n1. Education. Continuet.\n\nDecrease.\n\nD. Technical Institute.\n\nFormal Emoluments.\n\n49\n\nStipulated Increments\n\n$42\n\nOther Charges\n\nBezes\n\n100\n\nTotal Increase\n\n142\n\nDecrease\n\n$12,041\n\n142\n\n$12,183\n\nA. Department of Director of Education\n\nB. Technical Institute.\n\nTotal Increase\n\nQueen's College :-\n\nFurniture\n\n$100\n\nLaboratory\n\nSpecial Expenditure.\n\nDirector of Education :\n\nFurniture\n\n1,500\n\nBritish School:\n\nFurniture\n\n$25\n\nMaps :-\n\n60\n\n250 Yaumate English School :-\n\nBuilding Grant for Diocesan Girl's School, Kowloon 10,000.\n\nTotal Increase\n\nDeduct Decrease\n\n$11,850\n\n535\n\nNet Increase.\n\n$11,315\n\nFurniture\n\n450\n\nTotal Decrease $535", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 441800, "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": "CO129-398 - Individuals - 1912", "page_number": 249, "title": "CO129-398 - Individuals - 1912", "content_text": "Hong Kong in 1898. It was promoted to be Normal Master in 1908 and became second Master in the following year.\n\nThe Director of Education reports that Mr. Ralphs has done very valuable work at King's College, and that he is considered as having \"special merit\".\n\nH.K. (Confidential: 1911)\n\nDraft\nE. Ralphs, Esq.\nR. 17505 Hong Kong\n/2\n\n13 June 1912.\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State, Mr. Harcourt, to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 6th instant and to inform you that you are at liberty to apply for transfer to Duty in this country.\n\n2. A copy of your letter with a statement regarding your service in Hong Kong, has been forwarded for the consideration of the National Health Insurance Commission.\n\n(Signed) H. J. READ.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-398 - Individuals - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 441817, "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": "CO129-398 - Individuals - 1912", "page_number": 266, "title": "CO129-398 - Individuals - 1912", "content_text": "# DRAFT.\n\nR. 40040/Story Rong... 12 \n\nR.D. 258 C.D.\n\nMy Struthers, KCB Scotch Education Dept.\n\nJan M. Hunter 7 \nM. Macnaghten 7 \nMr Henris Ho pi\n\nReply attaches 10 January 1913.\n\nDear Sir John Struthers,\n\nMr. E. Ralphs, Second Master in Queen's College, Hong Kong, is anxious to be transferred home aft, as his wife's health will not permit of her living with him in the Colony.\n\nMr. Ralphs was born in Sept., 1872, and was appointed Junior Assistant Master at Queen's College in 1898. It was promoted to be Normal Master in 1908, & became Second Master the following year.\n\nThe Director of Education reports favourably on Mr. Ralphs.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-398 - Individuals - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 443656, "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": "CO129-402 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [7-8]", "page_number": 94, "title": "CO129-402 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [7-8]", "content_text": "# COPY.\n\n## 89\n\nHon. Colonial Secretary, \n120176\n\n## I.\n\nThe problem affects the Senior and Junior Assistant Masters of the Colony, i.e., the Masters of the District Schools and British Schools as well as those of Queen's College. But as the others are eligible for promotion to Queen's College, and can only look for promotion at Queen's College, the problem may be stated in terms of Queen's College.\n\nIn the Upper School, as the studies become more advanced, special teaching by special masters becomes necessary, and the Class master system, by which one man teaches a group of boys for a year in all subjects, is abandoned. Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, History, Chinese, are all special subjects, and to these Normal Teaching may be added. They should be taught according to a syllabus drawn up for a group of Classes by one Master responsible for the whole, and taught either by himself alone or with the help of other masters to some extent under his guidance.\n\nThis being so, it is obviously undesirable that the masterships above named should be paid at different rates, because if the masters in charge of them or any of them are absent, whether permanently or temporarily, their places must be taken by their understudies, however junior they may be.\n\nThere are 13 English Assistant Masters at Queen's College, and it is improbable that they will all in turn rise to be Second Master. It is practically impossible that they should all in turn be Headmaster, and their prospects of promotion outside the Colony are negligible. It comes to this, therefore, that the masters should be paid a salary which will enable them to live in such manner as the Government may consider to be consonant with their position and seniority, from year to year of their service, without considering the off chance of any other advancement.\n\n## II.\n\nThere are several distinct lines along which economies may be made at Queen's College. These are:\n\n| Line |\n|-----|\n| (a) |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-402 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 443657, "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": "CO129-402 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [7-8]", "page_number": 95, "title": "CO129-402 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [7-8]", "content_text": "## 90\n\n### III\n\n(a). Abolition of special allowance to the Normal Master; \n(b). Economies in the conduct of the Police School, on the lines already recommended by me, or otherwise. \n(c). Junior Assistant Masters are now very rapidly getting promoted to Senior Assistants. The steady promotion proposed will effect an economy here. \n(d). There will under the proposed system be no acting pay available when a Junior Assistant is filling the place of a Senior Assistant.\n\n(e). The hours at Queen's College are very curious; 9 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. and 2.30 to 4 p.m. on 4 days a week, with half holidays on Wednesday and Saturday and 14 hours less morning lessons on Saturday as well. The Masters only attend (except the Normal Master and of course the Headmaster) on 2 afternoons a week. They thus put in 6 hours for 2 days a week, 44 hours for 3 days a week and 31 hours 1 day a week, or 281 hours a week altogether. At English public schools the usual hours are 27 to 28 hours. The reason that longer hours are given here is that Chinese boys must work harder than English boys to get the results expected of them. If the English Masters attended from 9 to 12.45 and from 2 to 4.15 every day of the week and from 9 to 12.30 on Wednesdays and Saturdays, they would give 31 hours a week, an increase of 24 hours, nearly 6%. Besides this, the very unsuitably prolonged period from 9 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. would be avoided.\n\nThe effect of these economies would be as follows:-\n\n(a). Could not take effect till Mr. Tanner receives promotion, which is not likely to be for some time. Mr. Tanner would naturally wish to stand out of the scheme proposed below, as he would lose by it; \n(b). This might come into force at once. I forget the details...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-402 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 444577, "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": "CO129-404 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [10-12]", "page_number": 89, "title": "CO129-404 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [10-12]", "content_text": "## Increase\nPosts made of Salaries \nat the rate of exchange \naltered Increments \nClass IV.\n\n1. Education.\nPersonal Emoluments.\n\n## Decrease\n$35,942 Abolition of Books \n88 \n7,392 Reduction in New appointments \n1,556 \n3,555 Personal Allowance \n$7,775 \n818 \n2,717 Allowance to 1 Assistant transferred from Secretariat \nas Normal Waste \n678 \nfor Chinese Affairs \n1,080 Good Conduct allowances \n39 \nOther Allowances \n648 \n(12 months instead of 11 months) Allowance to Clerk, Technical \nInstitute \n263 \nHand Allowance \n180 \n120 \n$51,917 \n$10,845 \n\n## Other Charges.\nDirector of Education: \nConsolidated Travelling & Field allowance \n360 \nIncidental Expenses \nVictoria British school:- Rifle Range Equipment \n20 \nBelilton Public School:- \nFurniture \n25 \nStudy Allowance \n180 \nIncidental Expenses \n100 \nPurchase of Telephone & Champ \n30 \nRent \n1440 \nTransport \nGrants: - \nLaboratory \nGrant to College \n4,337 \n150 \nGrant to Chinese Vernacular \nLanguage Classes \n900 \nPrimary Education Board \n4,100 \nLanguage Study Allowance \n180 \nPrizes \nBritish school:- \nRent of Telephone Exchange \nBri British School: - Prizes \nRent of Telephone Exchange \nak School:- \nBooks, furniture, &c., &c. \n#lition Public School: - \nPrizes \nCarried forward \n29 \n25 \n29 \n$25,557 \n$4,678 \nCarried forward $51,917 \nCarried forward 10,068 \nCarried forward $10,845", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-404 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 444684, "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": "CO129-404 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [10-12]", "page_number": 196, "title": "CO129-404 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [10-12]", "content_text": "# Queen's College \n\nFong Kong \n1927\n\nwould have made a formal application for transfer. \nHe writes me that he has now done this & encloses me a copy of the formal application. He has sent it. If he could get transfer such as he desires I think he would be very pleased indeed.\n\nYours very sincerely,\nWm Crook\n\nTo the Head Master,\nQueen's College,\n\nSir,\n\nDec, 16th, 1927\n\nI have the honour to request you to forward this letter to His Excellency the Governor for his consideration and also consideration of the Secretary of State.\n\n1. If there is a suitable vacancy I beg to be transferred to the Malay States Service.\n\n2. If there is no such vacancy at present, or in the near future I beg that my name be forwarded to the India Education Department for transfer should such a position arise.\n\nI beg to point out that I do not necessarily wish my application to be confined to these two places.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour obedient servant,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-404 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 445486, "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": "CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913", "page_number": 560, "title": "CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## SECTION 2\n\n### (No. 161.)\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received May 5.)\n\nPeking, April 18, 1913.\n\nIN reference to my despatch No. 145 of the 10th instant, I have the honour to state that General L. Chang, chairman of the National Opium Conference held at Peking in March last, will proceed to London on the 25th instant for the purpose, it is stated, of assisting to persuade the British Government to suspend permanently the export of Indian opium, and to discuss the question of the stocks now at Shanghai and Hongkong. He will take with him Dr. Wenham, an Englishman, of the Union Medical College at Peking.\n\nDr. Wenham had an interview recently with a member of the Legation staff. He stated that he was accompanying General Chang, who spoke English imperfectly, as interpreter and general adviser. The latter was described as a man of 32 years of age who had been in Japan and was now a military secretary in the president's office. General Chang does not appear to be a man of any prominence, and the title of \"general\" has been distributed without much discrimination during the past year. He was formerly secretary of the National Anti-opium Society and is looked upon as an energetic leader in the anti-opium campaign; he is said to be a Christian. According to Dr. Wenham, he will not carry official credentials but will be the bearer of formal letters of introduction and sympathy from Yuan Shih-kai, Sun Yat Sen, and the leaders of the political parties.\n\nIn my despatch No. 145 mention was made of an \"appeal to the world\" with the object of opening subscription lists to buy out the existing stocks of Indian opium in China. Dr. Wenham, in conversation, deprecated the issue of this appeal, which had been the work of Mr. Thwing, an American citizen. The former appeared to believe that the appeal would be fruitless.\n\nAt the moment, the problem of the unsold stocks of Indian opium at Shanghai and Hong Kong promises to solve itself within the next two years, or even earlier, provided no untoward circumstances intervene.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\nP.S. Since this despatch was written, an inspired article, copy of which is enclosed herewith, has appeared in the \"Peking Daily News\" on the subject of General Chang's mission to England.\n\nJ. N. J.\n\n### Enclosure in No. 1.\n\n#### Extract from the \"Peking Daily News\" of April 21, 1913.\n\n## A MISSION TO ENGLAND\n\nWE attach no little importance to the approaching mission to Great Britain of Lieutenant General L. Chang, chairman of the National Opium Prohibition Union, and one of the President's military advisers. In diplomatic parlance, his mission is unofficial, but as it is being carried out at the instance of a representative anti-opium body which has been formally recognised by the Government, and as, moreover, General Chang's expenses are being paid by the provincial Tutuhs, who fully sympathise with his object, it is as official as any unofficial mission can be. General Chang's object is to acquaint British public men with China's views on the opium question, in the hope that when they are appreciated, all existing opium treaties and agreements, so far as they provide for the importation of Indian opium into China, will be abrogated. He will be accompanied by Dr. Wenham, of the Union Medical College, who has been granted...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 445818, "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": 289, "title": "CO129-406 - Public Offices - 1913", "content_text": "done so and so\". You know that when such motions are voted upon, the Ministry does not remain in power. There is always blame implied in a regret thus expressed.\n\nI am sure that all here agree with me that such is not the spirit that actuates the Conference when it expresses the regret embodied in cocu No. 2. We should therefore endeavor not to risk such an interpretation. For the reasons mentioned I propose that this voru be worded thus:\n\n\"The Conference, learning that certain Governments have as yet declined or omitted to sign the Convention, considers that the abstention of these Powers jeopardizes the humanitarian aim of the Conference in the most serious manner, etc., etc.\".\n\nIn article No. 3. I read \"expresses the wish etc. (see the resolution?\". It seems to me that when someone says to someone else \"I beg to inform you that you are wrong\", a compliment has not been paid nor has an extremely agreeable thing been said. If the Conference does not deem it unwise, I believe that this phrase should be changed and replaced by this \"expresses the hope that the Government of the Netherlands may be pleased again to represent to the Swiss Government the value that is attached to its cooperation. It etc., etc.\".\n\nAs you see, Gentlemen, these slight modifications of form in no way change the principle of our resolution. But I think that they will facilitate the task of the Government of the Netherlands who must rely upon the text that we will leave with it for the new steps that it is about to take in order thus to guarantee, if I am not mistaken, the success of a plan the achievement of which constitutes the desideratum of international public opinion. This desire is, that all nations shall participate and respond to the appeal when Conventions are elaborated which, like that of opium, concern the future of the human race or, generally speaking, when noble efforts are to be made which cause more love, more justice and greater well being among nations.\n\nThe President said that the modifications that the Delegate of Haïti had just suggested, referred to the proposed Protocol of Cloture, presented by the Editing Committee, the discussion of which had not yet been opened. Furthermore he observed that the modifications had a tendency to change the resolutions already adopted by the Conference.\n\nThe President in opening the discussion of the proposed Protocol of Cloture presented by the Editing Committee, inserted in the order of the day a proposition of the Chinese Delegation as follows:\n\nPreamble.\n\nThe International Opium Convention was originally signed by 12 Powers. By the invitation of the Government of the Netherlands 22 Powers have signed the \"Protocol of signature of the Powers not represented at the First Conference”, making the total number of signatories 34. A resolution has been unanimously adopted by this the 2nd Conference inviting the 12 Powers, who for various reasons have not signed the so-called \"Protocol of Signatures\", to do so. A number of new signatures will undoubtedly be thus secured.\n\nThe President of the Conference has expressed the opinion that it was not necessary for those nations which were willing to deposit their ratifications to wait before doing so until others had decided. That his excellent suggestion may be availed of by the Delegates in a more formal manner, the following amendment is proposed:\n\nThat the Delegates to the Second International Opium Conference sulvise their figcernments to deposit forthwith their ratifications.\n\nPage 27\n\nHis Exc. Mr. Yen: Regarding the amendment that we have proposed, the idea was that the decision would strengthen the position of this Conference vis-à-vis the nations that have not even signed the Convention, and are being invited in an earnest manner so to do. Since we have learned that it would be difficult for some of the Delegations to accept our amendment, we beg to withdraw it. In its place we beg to move that the sentence forming line 8 of page 4 of the Protocole of Cloture, which our President announced, be adopted by this Conference.\n\nThe President stated that as the proposition of the Chinese Delegation had been withdrawn, the Conference should decide as to inserting at the end of the first paragraph of the Protocol of Cloture the words \"decided that the deposit of ratifications now take place\".\n\nThis insertion was submitted to vote and unanimously accepted. His Exc. Mr. Lamarche, voting in the affirmative, stated that ratification by his Government was not possible before parliamentary approval.\n\nHis Exc. Mr. Ferreira, voting in the affirmative, repeated that as he had already said in the second meeting ratification by his Government would also not be possible before parliamentary approval.\n\nHis Exc. Mr. Swétchine also said that as regards ratification by his Government, he could only repeat what he had said at the second meeting; it concerned only the power of depositing the ratifications.\n\nThe President then called for discussion of the proposed Protocol of Cloture presented by the Editing Committee, as follows:\n\nProtocol of Cloture\n\nThe Second International Opium Conference, called by the Government of the Netherlands in accordance with Article 23 of the International Opium Convention, met at the Hague, in the Hall of the Knights, on July 1, 1913.\n\nThe Governments enumerated below participated in the Conference, to which they accredited the following Delegates:\n\nGERMANY:\n\nHis Exe. Mr. FÉLIX VON MÜLLER, Privy Counsellor, E. E. & M. P. at the Hague, Delegate.\n\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA:\n\nDr. HAMILTON WRIGHT, Special Commissioner of the United States of America, Delegate.\n\nHis Exe. LLOYD BRYCE, E. E. & M. P. at the Hague, Delegate.\n\nMr. GERRIT JOHN KOLLEN, President Emeritus of Hope College, Professor of Mathematics, Delegate.\n\nARGENTINE REPUBLIC:\n\nDr. FRANÇOIS DE VEYGA, Delegate.\n\nBELGIUM:\n\nHis Exc. Baron ALBÉRIC FALLON, E. E. & M. P. at the Hague. Delegate.\n\nBRAZIL:\n\nHis Exc. J. Graça ARANHA, E. E. & M. P. at the Hague, Delegate.\n\nPage 28", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-406 - Public Offices - 1913.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 446450, "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": "CO129-407 - Public Offices & Others - 1913", "page_number": 432, "title": "CO129-407 - Public Offices & Others - 1913", "content_text": "425\n\nTestimonial from Rev. ANDREW DOUGLAS, U.F. Manse, Invergordon.\n\nU.F. Manse, Invergordon, Ross-shire.\n\n5th September, 1911.\n\nI have much pleasure in testifying to the excellent character and qualifications of Miss ARA. V. HENDERSON, M.A.\n\nI have known Miss HENDERSON for several years and have watched with interest her career at school and college. She has been thoroughly trained for the teaching profession, having served her apprenticeship as a Pupil Teacher before she proceeded to the Normal College and the University. All along she gave signal proof that she was possessed of high intellectual powers and of the rare gift of imparting knowledge to others. For two years she has taught with marked success in the Higher Grade Department of Invergordon Academy, maintaining discipline with ease, and always winning the esteem and affection of her pupils.\n\nMiss HENDERSON'S character is beyond reproach. She is strong and vigorous, attractive in appearance, and of a winsome and cheerful disposition.\n\nWhile the School Board of Rosskeen will be sorry to lose her services they feel that she is worthy of a post more influential and remunerative than they can offer her.\n\n(Signed)\n\nANDREW DOUGLAS, Member of School Board of Rosskeen.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-407 - Public Offices & Others - 1913.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 452092, "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": 450, "title": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914", "content_text": "that the working of the Clayton apparatus is easy and rapid, necessitating no disarrangement, presenting no inconvenience. The copper utensils, resumed slightly tarnished after the operation, regained their brilliancy under the action of a piece of linen soaked in ammonia.\n\nBooks bound in linen or in blue, red, or green leather, curtains of yellow cloth, were in a damp condition in some of the rooms, none of these objects suffered in any degree, nor the bedding, and the smell had disappeared in the class rooms on the day following the operation, after 14 hours' fumigation by the gas of 8 or 9%, and in damp weather.\n\nThe isolation rooms of the infirmary contained linen uniforms belonging to the pupils who had suffered from the epidemic of mumps which had attacked the College and rendered the disinfection necessary, they were found to be undamaged.\n\nIn short, the disinfection has been a complete success from every point of view, viz: rapidity, cleanliness, absence of damage, and the rapid disappearance of the smell. It has proved the harmlessness of the Clayton gas in respect of articles of furniture in a dry state.\n\nIn spite of a slight smell on the 11th in the evening, the pupils were able to sleep in the dormitory, the windows of which could be closed without any inconvenience from that time, under normal conditions.\n\nPage 450\nPage 451", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 452093, "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": 451, "title": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914", "content_text": "normal conditions.\n\nThe smell had completely disappeared on the 12th.\"\n\n445\n\nI certify gladly that I have been satisfied with the work done at the College of Vaugirard, and I approve of the statements made in the present report.\n\n(sgd)A. ORAIN.\n\nDirector.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 461800, "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": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "page_number": 433, "title": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "content_text": "— 16 —\n\nThe number of deeds registered in the Land Office was 2,154 or 279 less than the previous year, the total consideration being $30,250,789 as against $43,110,225 in the previous year.\n\nThe Government resumed several properties during the year, chiefly in connection with the enlargement of the Central Police Station and for the extension of the Railway sheds and workshops. The total area of land granted during the year was 2851 acres, of which 1634 acres were situated in the New Territories; the total area of land resumed was 99 acres.\n\nIn the New Territories, the demand for house sites and agricultural lots continues normal, and several areas of swampy waste lands in the neighbourhood of Deep Bay have been sold by auction for the purpose of reclaiming and converting the areas into rice fields.\n\n— 17 —\n\nThe total number of pupils at schools in the Colony, excluding the Police School and the uncontrolled schools in the New Territories, are:\n\n| | English Schools | Vernacular Schools | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Government Schools | | 2,409 | 2,409 |\n| Military Schools | | 114 | 114 |\n| Excluded Private Schools | 605 | | 605 |\n| Grant Schools | 1,500 | 2,054 | 3,554 |\n| Controlled Private Schools | 2,500 | 8,944 | 11,444 |\n| Controlled Private Schools, New Territories | | 1,094 | 1,094 |\n| Technical Institute | 576 | | 576 |\n| Total | 7,764 | 12,092 | 19,856 |\n\n## II. LEGISLATION\n\nThirty-five Ordinances were passed during 1915, of which 14 were amendments of previous Ordinances.\n\nThe most important matters with which these Ordinances dealt were the Seditious Publications (Possession) Ordinance (No. 6), which makes knowingly possessing seditious papers an offence, and gives power to issue search warrants; the Estate Duty Ordinance (No. 10); the Post Office Amendment Ordinance (No. 17); the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance (No. 30); the Companies Ordinance (No. 31); the Deportation Ordinance (No. 35), which gives power to order departure of deportees by a particular ship; and the following ordinances necessitated during the continuance of the European war: the Military Stores (Exportation) (No. 3), which provides a specific penalty for acts done in contravention of Proclamations prohibiting the exportation of certain articles and defines the term \"Export\"; the Declarations of Ultimate Destination (No. 9), which prevents the exportation to ostensible destinations in neutral countries in Europe of goods intended to be forwarded to enemy territory; the Alien Enemies (Winding up) Amendment (No. 11); the Trading with the Enemy Amendments (Nos. 12, 22, and 28); the Travellers Restriction (No. 19), which provides for the examination of persons entering and leaving the Colony, the deportation of persons ordered to quit the Colony, and the registration of visitors at hotels, boarding-houses, and clubs; and the Importation and Exportation (No. 32).\n\n## IV. EDUCATION\n\nNo important changes have taken place in the Education Department during the year under review. The Staff has been depleted by causes due to the war.\n\nThe most important schools, apart from the excluded schools, are Queen's College for Chinese; four District Schools as its feeders, one being the Ellis Kadoorie School; and the Belilios Public School for Chinese girls. There is an Indian School of growing importance. Kowloon School and Victoria School for children of British parentage have an average attendance of about 120. There is also a small school for the children of the Peak District. The Diocesan School and Orphanage and St. Joseph's College are important boys' schools in receipt of an annual grant. The Italian, French, and St. Mary's Convents, and the Diocesan Girls' School, are the most important of the English Grant Schools for girls.\n\nThe Hongkong Technical Institute affords an opportunity for higher education to students who have left school. Instruction was given in 1915 in Mathematics, Machine Drawing, and Building Construction; in Chemistry, Physics, and Electricity; in Commercial English, Logic, and Political Economy; in French, Shorthand, and Book-keeping; and in Translation from and into Chinese. Classes in Sanitation (Public Hygiene) and First Aid to the Injured are also held, the examinations being conducted under the auspices of the Royal Sanitary Institute, London, and of the St. John Ambulance Association, respectively. Classes for Men and Women Teachers are a feature of the Institute.\n\nThe Lecturers are recruited from the members of the Medical and Educational faculties of the Colony, and from the Department of Public Works, and receive fees for their services. The Institute is furnished with a well-equipped Chemical Laboratory and excellent Physical apparatus.\n\n426", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 463487, "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": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "page_number": 579, "title": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n## Supplementary Vote\n\nTHE COLONIAL TREASURER seconded, and this was agreed to.\n\n## Alien Enemies (Winding Up) Ordinance, 1914\n\nTHE ATTORNEY-GENERAL I beg to move that the consideration of the Bill intituled, **An Ordinance to amend further the Alien Enemies Winding up Ordinance, 1914**, be adjourned to the next meeting of the Council.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and this was agreed to.\n\n## Enemy Trading\n\nTHE ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the second reading of the Bill intituled, **Trading with the Enemy Ordinance, 1914**. In doing so he said: The objects and reasons given in the Bill laid upon the table make it unnecessary for me to say very much on this Bill. The main object of it is to introduce here the provisions of the United Kingdom Trading with the Enemy Amendment Act, 1916, which was passed in January this year. Most of the clauses deal with formal, minor or technical details. Clause 7, I think, is one of the few clauses which require any special notice. The clause provides that the various restrictions on dealing with enemy property shall continue not only during the continuance of the present war, but thereafter until such time as they may be removed by order of the Governor-in-Council. In connection with this clause I do not think I can do better than read the explanation given by the Solicitor-General when he introduced the English Act into the House of Commons. He said: \"When peace is declared the existing restrictions on dealing with the enemy and in making remittances to enemies abroad will cease before there is time to investigate and consider the treatment of British property in enemy countries. The object of this clause is that there shall be an interval during which the whole position of property here and abroad can be considered and adjusted before a general release of property takes place, and the proposal is that the date of this general release shall be fixed by Order-in-Council, which can be made as soon as matters are assured.\" A similar clause had already been proposed here in connection with the local liquidations, and it is now embodied in the Alien Enemies (Winding up) Bill, which will come before Council at the next meeting. The only other clause I would like to refer to is clause 10. That clause imposes certain restrictions on dealings by enemy subjects in connection with Hongkong Companies, and the only thing I would like to point out with regard to that clause is that it is merely a particular instance of the prohibition which has been enforced in Hongkong since December, 1914, under the Ordinance passed in that month, all persons in the Colony being prohibited from dealing in any way with any property of or for the benefit of an enemy.\n\nTHE COLONIAL TREASURER seconded, and the Bill was read a second time.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY then proposed that the Bill be referred to the Finance Committee.\n\n## Supplementary Appropriation Bill\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY moved the second reading of the Bill intituled, **An Ordinance to authorize the appropriation of a supplementary sum of three millions nine hundred and forty-seven thousand and twenty-seven dollars and forty-one cents, to defray the charges of the year 1915**. In doing so he said: In moving the first reading of this Bill I directed the attention of hon. members to the statement in the Treasurer's report in which the large increase in expenditure last year was explained. The method of presenting the assets and liabilities of the Colony has been revised, and they are now on a cash basis. The position, instead of being obscured by advances made to the railway in anticipation of a loan, is now cleared by debiting the general account with all expenditure over and above that derived from the actual cash payments received on account of the Wuchang loan, the last of which was paid in October. Although nominally the amount required in this Bill is a very large one, it will be seen that it is made up of only a few items. There is the large item for Kowloon-Canton Railway, which I have already referred to, of $3,036,199, and there are other items under the heading of miscellaneous services; on account of loss in subsidiary coins, a sum of $484,057; on account of the maintenance of the prisoners of war, $65,266; and on account of war expenditure, $175,091. These three items are such as could not be foreseen, and with the railway expenditure practically make up the amount required under this Bill. In all the departments of the Government, with the exception of the railway, there was a saving in the estimated expenditure last year, amounting to a considerable sum in the case of the Harbour Master's Department, the Imports and Exports Department, and the Public Works Department, and I think the explanatory remarks in each case will show how those savings came about.\n\nI beg to move the second reading.\n\nTHE COLONIAL TREASURER seconded, and the Bill was read a second time.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY then proposed that the Bill be referred to the Finance Committee.\n\n## Registration of Chemists\n\nTHE ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the second reading of the Bill intituled, **An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law relating to the registration of Pharmaceutical Chemists and to the regulation of the sale and use of Poisons**. In doing so he said: This Bill has three objects. One is to consolidate the law relating to pharmaceutical chemists and poisons. Anyone who has had to deal with the Ordinances as they stand at present will recognise the need for the consolidation. The second object is to re-enact a certain part of the Opium Ordinance, 1909, which was not included in the Opium Ordinance, 1914. The provisions of that part refer to the injection of morphine and cocaine and restrictions on the sale of them. This permission has been taken from the English Act, and it is under a more detailed and more particular prohibition, whereas the other was a general or universal prohibition. It will be illegal for any person to administer by injection any poison in part 3 of the schedule, including morphine and cocaine, except on the certificate of a registered medical practitioner. It will also be illegal to supply any poison within that part of the schedule unless on the prescription of a registered medical practitioner. The third object of the Bill is the revision and re-arrangement, which was also necessary, of the schedule of poisons. Another section of the English Act which has not been included is section 5, which requires enemy subjects within the United Kingdom to report to the Custodian particulars of shares or other property valued at £50 or upwards held by them. Section 6, which deals with the grant to the Custodian of patent rights in the case of pending applications by enemy subjects, enables the grant to be made to the Custodian for the completion of patent rights.\n\nI beg to move the second reading.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded.\n\nCouncil then went into Committee to consider the Bill clause by clause.\n\nThe Bill passed through Committee without amendment, and, on Council resuming,\n\nTHE ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved that the Bill be read a third time.\n\nTHE COLONIAL TREASURER seconded, and the Bill was then read a third time and passed.\n\n## Registration of Chemists (Continued)\n\nCouncil then went into Committee to consider the Bill clause by clause.\n\nIn Clause 13, (3) (b), the word \"person\" was substituted for the words \"licentiate of the Hongkong College of Medicine.\" In Clause 14 the words \"or some other person authorised thereto by regulation made under the Ordinance\" were added. In Clause 15 (a) and (c) the word \"registered\" was inserted before the words \"medical practitioner.\"\n\nOn Council resuming,\n\nTHE ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved that the Bill be read a third time.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was then read a third time and passed.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY left the Chair and the Council went into Finance Committee.\n\nPage 568", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 464186, "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": "CO129-436 - Acting Governor Claud Sever & Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1916 [11-12]", "page_number": 450, "title": "CO129-436 - Acting Governor Claud Sever & Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1916 [11-12]", "content_text": "## HONGKONG UNIVERSITY, FIRST DEGREES CONFERRED. SPEECHES BY CHANCELLOR AND VICE-CHANCELLOR.\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1916.\n\nMUNIFICENT GIFT FROM MR. HO FOOK.\n\nYesterday marked the first ceremony of conferring degrees in the Hongkong University, which was opened on March 15, 1912, by H. E. Sir Frederick J. D. Lugard, then Governor of Hongkong.\n\nThe proceedings opened by the singing of the University Anthem, the words of which were composed by Mr Cecil Clementi, and the music by Mr Danman Fuller.\n\nThe Vice-Chancellor explained that degrees had been conferred in China for many ages, probably more than in Europe but so far as he knew there had never been in China anything in the way of a degree conferring ceremony. It was a long standing custom in English Universities and it was done to give some formal recognition that a student had attained the honours of his college.\n\nThe University was incorporated under Ordinance in March, 1911. The scheme was first mooted in 1905 but remained still a scheme until in 1910 the foundation stone was laid. In 1907 the late Sir H. N. Mody made an offer to erect the necessary buildings at a cost of $150,000 and to give $30,000 towards an endowment fund.\n\nThe Vice-Chancellor said that the sum of $100,000 was fixed upon as the minimum, and its collection was practically assured by the magnificent donation of $40,000 by Messrs. Butterfield and Swire and allied Firms.\n\n| Faculty | Degree | Recipient |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Medicine | M.B., B.S. | Chak Chiu Hang, 1914; Chan Ju Choo; Chau Wai Cheung, 1916; Lim Soon Kian, 1916; Teh Lean Swee; Tech Cheng Toe; Wong Hing Chuen, 1916 |\n| Engineering | B.Sc.(Eng.) | Chan Kang Yue; Chau Siu Ki; Ho Wing Kin; Lam Tung; Leung Nai Hang; Li King Hong; Li Tsok Lan; Ling Man Lai; Tang Ying Lam; Teh Wing Lok; Wine Han, 1916; Wong Tai Cho, 1916 |\n| Arts | B.A. | 11 graduates in 1915; 41 graduates in 1916 |\n\nThe following gentlemen were then presented to H. E. the Chancellor by Sir Charles, who explained the particular services for which the recipients were receiving honorary degrees:\n\n* M. Finot, Director of the French Institution in Hanoi\n* Sir Robert Ho Tung\n* Captain Pelliot\n* Dr. Jeme Tien-yow\n* Dr. Wu Lien Teh\n\nH. E. the Chancellor then declared the Congregation closed.\n\nPage 450\nPage 451", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-436 - Acting Governor Claud Sever & Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1916 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 465291, "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": "CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916", "page_number": 90, "title": "CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n## Supplementary Vote\n\n**THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** moved the second reading of the Bill intituled, **An Ordinance to authorize the appropriation of a supplementary sum of three millions nine hundred and forty-seven thousand and twenty-seven dollars and forty-one cents, to defray the Charges of the year 1913**. In doing so he said: In moving the first reading of this Bill I directed the attention of hon. members to the statement in the Treasurer's report in which the large increase in expenditure last year was explained. The method of presenting the assets and liabilities of the Colony has been revised, and they are now on a cash basis. The position, instead of being obscured by advances made to the railway in anticipation of loan, is now cleared by debiting the general account with all expenditure over and above that derived from the actual cash payments received on account of the Wuchang loan, the last of which was paid in October. Although nominally the amount required in this Bill is a very large one it will be seen that it is made up of only a few items. There is the large item for Kowloon-Canton Railway, which I have already referred to, of $3,036,199, and there are other items under the heading of \"miscellaneous services\"; on account of loss in subsidiary coins, a sum of $155,057; on account of the maintenance of the prisoners of war, $65,900; and special war expenditure, $175,091. These three items are such as could not be foreseen, and with the railway expenditure practically make up the amount required under this Bill. In all the departments of the Government, with the exception of the railway, there was a saving in the estimated expenditure last year, amounting to a considerable sum in the case of the Harbour Master's Department, the Imports and Exports Department, and the Public Works Department, and I think the explanatory remarks in each case will show how those savings came about.\n\nI beg to move the second reading.\n\n**THE COLONIAL TREASURER** seconded, and the Bill was read a second time.\n\n**THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** then proposed that the Bill be referred to the Finance Committee.\n\n**THE COLONIAL TREASURER** seconded, and this was agreed to.\n\n## Alien Enemies (Winding Up) Ordinance, 1914\n\n**THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL**--I beg to move that the consideration of the Bill intituled, **An Ordinance to amend further the Alien Enemies Winding up Ordinance, 1914**, be adjourned to the next meeting of the Council.\n\n**THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** seconded, and this was agreed to.\n\n## Enemy Trading\n\n**THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL** moved the second reading of the Bill intituled **\"An Ordinance to amend further the Trading with the Enemy Ordinance, 1914\"**. In doing so he said--The object and reasons given in the Bill laid upon the table make it unnecessary for me to say very much on this Bill. The main object of it is to introduce here the provisions of the United Kingdom Trading with the Enemy Amendment Act, 1914. Most of the clauses deal with formal or technical details. Clause 7, I think, is one of the few clauses which require any special notice. The clause provides that the various restrictions on dealing with enemy property shall continue not only during the continuance of the present war, but thereafter until such time as they are removed by order of the Governor-in-Council. In connection with this clause I do not think I can do better than read the explanation given by the Solicitor General when he introduced the English Act into the House of Commons. He said: \"When peace is declared the existing restrictions on dealing with the enemy and in making remittances to enemies abroad will cease before there is time to investigate and consider the treatment of British property in enemy countries. The object of this clause is that there shall be an interval during which the whole position of property here and abroad can be considered, and adjusted before a general release takes place, and the proposed arrangement is that the date of this general release shall be fixed by Order-in-Council, which can be made as soon as matters are assured.\"\n\nA similar clause had already been proposed here in connection with the local liquidations, and it is now embodied in the Alien Enemies (Winding up) Bill, which will come before Council at the next meeting. The only other clause I would like to refer to is clause 8. That clause imposes certain restrictions on dealings by enemy subjects in connection with Hongkong Companies, and the only thing I would like to point out with regard to that clause is that it is merely a particular instance of the prohibition which has been enforced in Hongkong since December, 1914, under the Ordinance passed in that month, whereby all persons in the Colony being prohibited from dealing in any way with any property for the benefit of enemy subjects except with Your Excellency's permission.\n\nI beg to move the second reading.\n\nThe Council then went into Committee to consider the Bill clause by clause.\n\nThe Bill passed through Committee without amendment, and, on Council resuming,\n\n**THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL** moved that the Bill be read a third time.\n\n**THE COLONIAL TREASURER** seconded, and the Bill was then read a third time and passed.\n\n## Registration of Chemists\n\n**THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL** moved the second reading of the Bill intituled, **An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law relating to the registration of Pharmaceutical Chemists and to the regulation of the sale and use of Poisons**. In doing so he said: This Bill has three objects. One is to consolidate the law relating to pharmaceutical chemists and poisons. Anyone who has had to deal with the Ordinances as they stand at present will recognise the need for the consolidation.\n\nThe second object is to re-enact a certain part of the Opium Ordinance, 1909, which was not included in the Opium Ordinance, 1914. The provisions of that part refer to the injection of morphine and cocaine and similar things. Under the Bill it will be illegal for any person to administer by injection any poison in Part 3 of the schedule, including morphine and cocaine, except on the certificate of a registered medical practitioner. It will also be illegal to supply any poison within that part of the schedule unless on the prescription of a registered medical practitioner.\n\nThe third object of the Bill is the revision and re-arrangement, which in England was found necessary, of the schedule of poisons. Three sections of the English Act have not been adopted in this Bill. One is a section which gives power now in England to wind up firms of enemy nationality or enemy association. That section, of course, is unnecessary here because the policy of winding up enemy firms was adopted in this Colony in October, 1914, and re-affirmed in January of this year.\n\nAnother section of the English Act which has not been included is section 5, which requires enemy subjects within the United Kingdom to report to the Custodian particulars of shares valued at £50 or upwards held by them. Section 8, which deals with the grant to the Custodian of patent rights in the case of pending applications by enemy subjects. The clause enables the grant to be made to the Custodian for the completion of patent rights.\n\nI beg to move the second reading.\n\nThe Council then went into Committee to consider the Bill clause by clause.\n\nIn Clause 13, (3) (b), the word \"licentiate\" was substituted for the words \"person licentiate of the Hongkong College of Medicine.\"\n\nIn Clause 14 the words \"or some other person authorised thereto by regulation made under the Ordinance\" were added.\n\nIn Clause 15 (a) and (c) the word \"registered\" was inserted before the words \"medical practitioner.\"\n\nOn Council resuming,\n\n**THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL** moved that the Bill be read a third time.\n\n**THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** seconded, and the Bill was then read a third time and passed.\n\n**HIS EXCELLENCY** left the Chair and the Council went into Finance Committee.\n\nPage 22\nPage 23\nPage 85 \nPage 90\nPage 91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 468108, "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": "CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6]", "page_number": 412, "title": "CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6]", "content_text": "N°\n\n181.\n\nHONGKONG.\n\n05183\n\nFR 13 JUL 21\n\n\"JUL 1/ GOVERNMENT HOUSE.\n\n6th June, 1917.\n\n410\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to request your sanction for the following scheme, by which it is intended to make better provision for the supply of English-teaching Chinese Masters.\n\n2.\n\nThe matter has for some time been under the joint consideration of the Vice-Chancellor of the Hongkong University and of the Director of Education, and the present proposals are the outcome.\n\n3.\n\nA similar conclusion has been reached by a Committee which I appointed recently to consider the education given to Chinese boys in the light of the criticisms made by Unofficial Members when the Estimates were under consideration last year. The Committee's report will be the subject of a separate despatch, but the following extract is here relevant:-\n\n\"The somewhat mechanical nature of the teaching given by the Chinese Masters and marked defects in their pronunciation and general education, call for special treatment. \"We recommend that the University be approached in order that a wider range of general studies may be available for Chinese who desire to become teachers of English\".\n\n4.\n\nThe existing system was established in 1904. It provides a 3 years' course at Queen's College under the Normal Master, theoretic instruction being combined with actual teaching under\n\nHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nWALTER LONG, M.P.\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.\n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 468109, "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": "CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6]", "page_number": 413, "title": "CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6]", "content_text": "under supervision. The boys who compete for these pupil teacherships are of a good stamp, and improvement is noticeable in the class of teachers who are being turned out by the Normal Class. These teachers after completing their 3 years' course must attend evening classes at the Technical Institute for at least another 3 years, after which their education is considered complete. It is generally admitted that by these means a cheap and not inefficient type of Assistant Master has been evolved. But there is also a general agreement that the commercial interests of the Colony demand, even at some additional cost, an improvement in the education given to Chinese boys. This cannot be accomplished economically otherwise than by improving the education of the Chinese Masters.\n\nThe following scheme has been drawn up by the Director of Education. It aims at sending 3 students (to be known as student teachers to distinguish them from the pupil teachers trained at Queen's College) annually to the University. The number of pupil teachers will be reduced from 20 to 15.\n\nThe scheme is provisional. In 3 or 4 years it will be possible to decide whether the old or the new system, or a combination of both, is best, and to act accordingly.\n\nThe scheme deals as a transitional measure with 3 young men who have already passed the University Matriculation Examination and have been serving as pupil teachers. It is intended that they should enter the University next September and remain till they have, after 2 years, passed their Intermediate Arts Examination. Their services as teachers will soon be needed, so they cannot be spared to take the full course for a Degree.\n\nIn addition, it is proposed to send, in September 1918, and thereafter yearly, 3 students from Queen's College to the University. They will be selected by open competition from", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 468856, "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": "CO129-444 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1917 [10-12]", "page_number": 76, "title": "CO129-444 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1917 [10-12]", "content_text": "HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nfor receiving Time Signals by Wireless! In the Attorney-General's Office the 2nd Telegraphy Grade Clerk has been promoted to Grade for the reasons set out in Appendix II.\n\nUnder Miscellaneous Services there is an increase of $1,000 in Coal for Offices due to increase in cost. Various small decreases occur due to higher exchange and the sum of £30 formerly given to the Department of Chinese in London University has been transferred to the recently founded School of Oriental Studies, London Institution. The vote for Loss on Subsidiary Coins, which stood at $300,000 for the current year, has been omitted for 1918 as withdrawals from circulation have now ceased. Economies have been made in Electric Fans and Light and the vote has been reduced by $1,000. The vote of $2,200 for a New Edition of General Orders has been omitted, as under the pressure of war conditions it is uncertain when a new edition will be produced. The vote for Rent Allowance has been increased by $27,000 to provide House Allowances to the Senior Service pending the erection of quarters. A reduction of $7,000 is made in Telegrams, due to the arrangement whereby the public are now charged for telegrams sent on their behalf. Savings of $1,600 are shown under War Expenditure Prisoners of War, while the votes for Cable and Postal Censorships have been increased for the reasons given in Appendix I. Under Imports and Exports Department, I have explained the need for the vote for Special Expenses of the Imports and Exports Department. The vote for Special Expenses of the Pass Office, Police Department, is intended to cover the travelling and overtime allowances of the Assistant Superintendent of Police in charge, his salary being provided under an acting appointment.\n\nIn the Supreme Court the 2nd Grade Assistant Interpreter and the 3rd Grade Clerk and Translator having both passed their 1st Grade Interpreter's examination have been promoted to 1st Grade. A reduction of $2,000 has been made in the vote for travelling expenses of watchmen and the temporary engagement of extra watchmen.\n\nIn the Magistracy, a new appointment to the office of 1st Police Magistrate produces a slight reduction in Personal Emoluments.\n\nUnder District Officer an increase in Personal Emoluments arises from the appointment as District Officer of an officer on a sterling salary. The votes for Transport for both districts have been increased by a total sum of $600, which is chiefly due to the increase in cost of launch hire.\n\nThe salary of the Assistant Crown Solicitor shows a decrease due to a new appointment, while the Duty Pay of the Official Receiver and Registrar of Trade Marks has been reduced from £150 to £100, the usual duty pay attached to a Class III post.\n\nIn the Police Department under Personal Emoluments provision is again made for only 79 European Constables and a saving of $77,179 is shown. No less than 59 members of the Police Force have gone to the front, of whom I regret to say ten are reported to have been killed in action, while two Police Officers have been seconded for service under the Government of India for the duration of the war.\n\nSince I addressed you last year the members of the Police Reserve under Deputy Superintendent Jenkin have continued to perform their duties in an exemplary manner. Both the discipline and morale of the Force are excellent, and I feel that the community is greatly indebted to these men for the valuable and gratuitous services that they render.\n\nUnder Other Charges a sum of $2,000 for the Clothing and Accoutrements of the Police Reserve, the Government having undertaken to supply the uniform and equipment of the Chinese Section, hitherto borne by voluntary contributors. The votes for Coal for Barracks and Coal and Oil Fuel for Launches and Boats have been increased by $29,825 due to the higher cost. Grants of $1,500 and $1,800 are included for the Police Reserve Band and for the Rent of Police Reserve Headquarters. Decreases of $1,000 each are shown under Ammunition and Arms, while the vote for Equalisation of Exchange on Indian Police Remittances has been reduced by $6,000. Since the installation of the Police at Castle Peak, the services of eight scouts have been dispensed with and the vote in aid of the Village Scout Scheme is accordingly reduced by $480. The vote for Passages and Bonuses in lieu of passages has also been reduced by $4,000.\n\nIn the Fire Brigade the increase in the cost of Coal and Oil Fuel has necessitated an increase of $1,410 in Other Charges.\n\nIn the Prison Department two additional temporary Indian Warders have been appointed to replace European Warders who have proceeded on active service. Under Other Charges the vote for Incidental Expenses has been subdivided and to the vote for Furniture are now debited articles made by prisoners for the Gaol. The votes for Clothing and Shoes for Staff and Clothing for Prisoners have been increased owing to the higher cost of materials. A reduction of $860 has, however, been made in other votes.\n\nUnder Special Expenditure provision is made for Special Repairs to the Steam Barges and for the construction of an additional steam barge. The net increase under the head is $6,955.\n\nIn the Medical Department, it has been decided to leave in abeyance for the present the post of Superintendent of the Civil Hospital, and one additional Medical Officer has therefore been included. It is unlikely, however, that the post will be filled in 1918. The salaries of all Nurses and Probationers have now been transferred from the heading Hospitals and Asylums and placed under Staff. In Other Charges, Staff, provision is made for the Rent of a new Dispensary for the Medical Officer, Kowloon.\n\nIn the Botanical and Forestry Department a sum of $1,000 has been provided for Improvements to Fanling Golf Course. This is for the purpose of top-dressing the fairways and improving the turf. The good effect of this policy is already apparent. The work of planting the hills in the neighbourhood of the Golf Course has made good progress during the past year.\n\nUnder the Department of the Director of Education it will be noticed that six Student Teachers are inserted. It is intended to send three Student Teachers to the University each year; three have already entered and three more will enter next session. They will pass through the regular course at the University and at the same time receive training as teachers from the Normal Master. It is hoped thereby to improve considerably the teaching of English by Chinese Masters. Votes for their Fees and Maintenance at the University appear under Other Charges, Hospitals and Asylum, to meet the increased cost of commodities.\n\nIn Queen's College one Assistant Mistress has been appointed to replace an Assistant Master, while two other ladies are at present employed in place of a master on active service, and are being paid out of lapsing salaries. Two Chinese Masters have been appointed to Kowloon British School and Victoria British School for the reasons shown in Appendix III. In Victoria British School provision is made for one Assistant Mistress in place of one 3rd Grade Assistant Mistress. Under Other Charges small increases are shown under Kowloon British School and Victoria British School for University Examination Fees, as these schools now present pupils for the Entrance Examinations for the Hong-kong University. The Capitation Grants and University Examination Grants have been increased owing to an increase in the number of pupils at the various Schools. The scheme of subsidies to schools in the New Territories having proved successful, the vote has been increased by $800.\n\nVotes of $750 and $1,550 are inserted for the Upkeep of the Dental Clinic, and for the Ventilation of the Operating Theatre. The vote for the Upkeep of the X Ray Apparatus has also been increased by $260. An increase of $180 is inserted for the Rent of New Quarters and Dispensary for the Medical Officer, New Territories. The vote for Coal for the launch of the Health Officer of the Port has been increased by $1,100 to meet the rise in price. Small increases appear in Other Charges for Institutes and for the Government Laboratory, due to the general rise in the cost of commodities.\n\nIn the Sanitary Department a new appointment to the post of Secretary causes a slight reduction in Personal Emoluments. Half salary is again provided for the Assistant Medical Officer of Health as the post will not be filled in 1918. The establishment of the Sanitary Inspectors, at a salary of £165 rising to £225 by £15 biennially has now been completed by two new appointments. Provision for twelve only was made last year. Additions made to the Sanitary Staff owing to the increase in the duties to be performed are shown in Appendix III.\n\nUnder Other Charges it has been necessary to raise the amount provided for Coal owing to the increase in cost and the ...\n\nWith a view to carrying out the recommendations of the recent Committee on the Teaching of English in the Hongkong Schools a vote of $1,350 is inserted under Special Expenditure in order to improve the equipment of the District Schools.\n\nUnder Military Expenditure the contribution to the Imperial Government is estimated to amount to $2,721,412.\n\nPage 90\n\n \nPage 89\n\n73\n\n18\n\n \n{LT)\n\n \nHONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n90\n\n \nan\n\nto\n\nan\n\nincrease\n\n18\n\n \n|\n\n|", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-444 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1917 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 468888, "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": "CO129-444 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1917 [10-12]", "page_number": 108, "title": "CO129-444 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1917 [10-12]", "content_text": "HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nfor receiving Time Signals by Wireless Telegraphy\n\nUnder Miscellaneous Services there is an increase of $1,000 in Coal for Offices due to increase in cost. Various small decreases occur due to higher exchange and the sum of £30 formerly given to the Department of Chinese in London University has been transferred to the recently founded School of Oriental Studies, London Institution. The vote for Loss on Subsidiary Coins, which stood at $300,000 for the current year, has been omitted for 1918 as withdrawals from circulation have now ceased. Economies have been made in Electric Fans and Light and the vote has been reduced by $1,000. The vote of $2,200 for a new Edition of General Orders has been omitted, as under the pressure of war conditions it is uncertain when a new edition will be produced. The vote for Rent Allowances has been increased by $27,000 to provide House Allowances to the Senior Service pending the erection of quarters. A reduction of $7,000 is made in Telegrams, due to the arrangement whereby the public are now charged for telegrams sent on their behalf. Savings of $1,600, War Expenditure are shown under Prisoners of War, while the votes for Cable and Postal Censorships have been increased for the reasons given in Appendix I. Under Imports and Exports Department, I have explained the need for the vote for Special Expenses of the Imports and Exports Department. The vote for Special Expenses of the Pass Office, Police Department, is intended to cover the travelling and overtime allowances of the Assistant Superintendent of Police in charge, his salary being provided under an acting appointment.\n\nIn the Supreme Court the 2nd Grade Assistant Interpreter and the 3rd Grade Clerk and Translator having both passed their 1st Grade Interpreter's examination have been promoted to 1st Grade. A reduction of $2,000 has been made in the vote for travelling expenses of watchmen and the temporary engagement of extra watchmen.\n\nIn the Magistracy, a new appointment to the office of 1st Police Magistrate produces a slight reduction in Personal Emoluments.\n\nUnder District Officer an increase in Personal Emoluments arises from the appointment as District Officer of an officer on a sterling salary. The votes for Transport for both districts have been increased by a total sum of $800, which is chiefly due to the increase in cost of launch hire.\n\nIn the Attorney-General's Office the 2nd Grade Clerk has been promoted to 1st Grade for the reasons set out in Appendix III.\n\nThe salary of the Assistant Crown Solicitor shows a decrease due to a new appointment while the Duty Pay of the Official Receiver and Registrar of Trade Marks has been reduced from £150 to £100, the usual duty pay attached to a Class III post.\n\nIn the Police Department under Personal Emoluments provision is again made for only 79 European Constables and a saving of $77,479 is shown. Less than 59 members of the Police Force have gone to the front, of whom I regret to say ten are reported to have been killed in action, while two Police Officers have been seconded for service under the Government of India for the duration of the war.\n\nSince I addressed you last year the members of the Police Reserve under Deputy Superintendent Jenkin have continued to perform their duties in an exemplary manner. Both the discipline and morale of the Force are excellent, and I feel that the community is greatly indebted to these men for the valuable and gratuitous services that they render.\n\nUnder Other Charges an increase is shown of $2,000 for the Clothing and Accoutrements of the Police Reserve, the Government having undertaken to supply the uniform and equipment of the Chinese Section, hitherto borne by voluntary contributors. The votes for Coal for Barracks and Coal and Oil Fuel for Launches and Boats have been increased by $29,825 due to the higher cost. Grants of $1,500 and $1,800 are included for the Police Reserve Band and for the Rent of Police Reserve Headquarters. Decreases of $1,000 each are shown under Ammunition and Arms, while the vote for Equalisation of Exchange on Indian Police Remittances has been reduced by $6,000. Since the installation of the Police at Castle Peak, the services of eight scouts have been dispensed with and the vote in aid of the Village Scout Scheme is accordingly reduced by $180. Passages and Bonuses in lieu of passages has also been reduced by $4,000.\n\nIn the Fire Brigade the increase in the cost of Coal and Oil Fuel has necessitated an increase of $1,410 in Other Charges.\n\nIn the Prison Department two additional temporary Indian Warders have been appointed to replace European Warders who have proceeded on active service. Under Other Charges the vote for Incidental Expenses has been subdivided and to the vote for Furniture are now debited articles made by prisoners for the Gaol. The votes for Clothing and Shoes for Staff and Clothing for Prisoners have been increased owing to the higher cost of materials. A reduction of $860 has, however, been made in other votes.\n\nIn the Botanical and Forestry Department a sum of $1,000 has been provided for Improvements to Fanling Golf Course. This is for the purpose of top-dressing the fairways and improving the turf. The good effect of this policy is already apparent. The work of planting the hills in the neighbourhood of the Golf Course has made good progress during the past year.\n\nThe net increase under the head is $6,995.\n\nIn the Medical Department, it has been decided to leave in abeyance for the present the post of Superintendent of the Civil Hospital, and one additional Medical Officer has therefore been included. It is unlikely, however, that the post will be filled in 1918. The salaries of all Nurses and Probationers have now been transferred from the heading Hospitals and Asylums and placed under Staff. In Other Charges, provision is made for the Rent of a new Dispensary for the Medical Officer, Kowloon.\n\nOwing to the employment of Japanese nurses the Interpreter formerly employed in interpreting for Japanese patients is no longer required. One Chinese Wardmaster has been added to the Lunatic Asylum owing to the absence of European Wardmasters on active service. A net increase of $8,050 is included in Other Charges, Hospitals and Asylum, to meet the increased cost of commodities. New votes of $750 and $1,559 are inserted for the Upkeep of the Dental Clinic, and for the Ventilation of the Operating Theatre. The vote for the Upkeep of the X Ray Apparatus has also been increased by $260. An increase of $180 is inserted for the Rent of New Quarters and Dispensary for the Medical Officer, New Territories.\n\nThe vote for Coal for the launch of the Health Officer of the Port has been increased by $1,100 to meet the rise in price.\n\nUnder the Department of the Director of Education it will be noticed that six Student Teachers are inserted. It is intended to send three Student Teachers to the University each year; three have already entered and three more will enter next session. They will pass through the regular course at the University and at the same time receive training as teachers from the Normal Master. It is hoped thereby to improve considerably the teaching of English by Chinese Masters.\n\nIn Queen's College one Assistant Mistress has been appointed to replace an Assistant Master, while two other ladies are at present employed in place of a master on active service, and being paid out of lapsing salaries. Two Chinese Masters have been appointed to Kowloon British School and Victoria British School for the reasons shown in Appendix III. In Victoria British School provision is made for one Assistant Mistress in place of one 3rd Grade Assistant Mistress.\n\nUnder Other Charges small increases are shown under Kowloon British School and Victoria British School for University Examination Fees, as these schools now present pupils for the Entrance Examinations for the Hong Kong University. The Capitation Grants and University Examination Grants have been increased owing to an increase in the number of pupils at the various Schools. The scheme of subsidies to schools in the New Territories having proved successful, the vote has been increased by $900.\n\nIn the Sanitary Department a new appointment to the post of Secretary causes a slight reduction in Personal Emoluments. Half salary is again provided for the Assistant Medical Officer of Health as the post will not be filled in 1918. The establishment of the Sanitary Inspectors at a salary of £165 rising to £225 by £15 biennially has now been completed by two new appointments. Provision for twelve only was made last year. Additions made to the Sanitary Staff owing to the increase in the duties to be performed are shown in Appendix III.\n\nUnder Other Charges it has been necessary to raise the amount provided for Coal owing to the increase in cost and the ...\n\nWith a view to carrying out the recommendations of the recent Committee on the Teaching of English in the Hongkong Schools a vote of $1,350 is inserted under Special Expenditure in order to improve the equipment of the District Schools.\n\nUnder Military Expenditure the contribution to the Imperial Government is estimated to amount to $2,721,412.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-444 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1917 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 476394, "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": "CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6]", "page_number": 209, "title": "CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6]", "content_text": "## GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 8th May, 1918.\n\n**208**\n\nThe Right Honourable \nWALTER LONG, M.P.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to inform you that Mr. T. K. Dealy will retire from the service in July, and I have had under consideration the question of filling the post of Headmaster of Queen's College which will become vacant.\n\n2. The senior Officer in the Education Department is Mr. E. Ralphs, who joined the service on the 23rd March, 1898. He would be suitable for the post of Headmaster but as he is already in receipt of a salary of £800 a year as Inspector of English Schools, and the salary of the Headmaster is only £600 rising to £720, I do not put his name forward.\n\n3. The next Officer in order of seniority is Mr. Bertram Tanner, who has been connected with Queen's College since his appointment as Junior Assistant Master in 1900. He became Senior Assistant Master in October, 1901, and in your Despatch No. 282 of the 13th December last you approved of his appointment to be Second Master on a salary of £600 a year. He has for some years past done useful work as Normal Master and in connection with the Technical Institute. He is possessed of tact and ability and I recommend him for the post of Headmaster. If appointed he will have to give up his work at the Technical Institute, for which he receives...\n\n| Ref | Date | Details |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| C.O. | | 34001 |\n| Despatch No. | 13th December | 282 |\n| G.G. | 30.7.15 | |\n\nREG. !! JUL 18 \n128. REC. \nSou 60433 74 \n3577 \n\nFor approval of the appointment of Mr. Crook to succeed Mr. Tammel, as Headmaster of Queen's Coll. H.Kong.\n\nSia. S. Indder \nZur. Lows \nFor \nN° \nPage 208", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 477118, "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": "CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9]", "page_number": 348, "title": "CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9]", "content_text": "## Continued\n\nUnder the Glasgow School board the Salaries of the Headmasters and Headmistresses are\n\n| School | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) High School | £800 - £1,000 per annum |\n| (b) Girls' High School | £700 - £900 |\n| (c) Allan Glen's Secondary Schools | £600 - £750 |\n| | Intermediate (£575 - £675) and Supplementary (£575 - £675) |\n\nThe maximum Salaries of London teachers were raised 30 per cent in way of this year and are approximate to those of Glasgow.\n\nThe prospects of promotion are extremely small and remote. There are but three Senior appointments and those amongst a staff of masters The number 2% in normal times. Queen's College has two, **Headmaster** and Second master, and the Ellis Kadoorie School, one. The other five Government Schools have no Senior appointments.\n\nThis is in very striking contrast with the Public Works Department where, amongst an Engineering Staff of 22, there are appointments for seven Executive engineers and three still higher posts, all of which carry increased emoluments and come within the aspirations of the most junior engineer on the staff of that Department.\n\nThis inequality of prospects and remuneration becomes more pronounced when Duty Pay is considered. Although granted in other Departments it has not been given to teachers.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 477120, "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": "CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9]", "page_number": 350, "title": "CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9]", "content_text": "## Training and Experience\n\nSalvington School, Hong Kong.\n\n7847\n\n6th July 1918.\n\n1. Articled Pupil Teacher, Wke Schools, four years.\n2. King's Scholarship.\n3. Teacher in Training.\n4. Second Master.\n5. Cheltenham, 1893-1894, 3 years; Brighton Road School, Derby.\n\nHead Master of Day School and Evening Continuation School (Brighton Road School).\n\n6. Board of Education Certificate authorising the holder to take charge of a School and to instruct and superintend Pupil Teachers.\n\n7. Headmaster, Largem Gross School, 8 years.\n8. Headmaster, Salvington School, 13 years.\n9. Normal Master.\n\n10. Queen's College, Sept. 1913 - Lecturer and Examiner, Teachers' Classes, Oct. 1914 - Technical Test.\n\n11. \n12. Assistant Tutor in English, Hong Kong University. Formerly acted as Supervisor to Aberdeen School, and as examiner to Cert., and Grant in Aid Schools in the Colony.\n\n## Certificates, etc.\n\nUnder the Auspices of the\n(a) Board of Education.\n(b) College of Preceptors.\n(c) Cardiff University Authorities.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 477420, "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": "CO129-450 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [10-12]", "page_number": 105, "title": "CO129-450 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [10-12]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nUnder miscellaneous services it is proposed to make a grant of £50 to the Imperial Bureau of Mycology which has recently been established. The sum of $1,000 for the Yunnan Scholarship Fund has been approved by the Secretary of State for a period of three years, and approval has been requested to extend this grant for two years more, as the Chamber of Commerce and certain of the leading firms in the Colony have promised a similar sum.\n\nThe amounts subscribed will enable six students to complete a course at the University of Hongkong which will include medicine and engineering. The amount required for rent allowances has been increased by $16,500 as the sum of $30,000, which was roughly estimated on the introduction of the scheme, has been found to be insufficient. The provision of quarters will cause a reduction in this item after next year. The sum of $200,000 for special war allowances to Government officers is the amount required under a scheme which has already been considered by Honourable Members and approved by the Secretary of State.\n\nIn the Supreme Court a 2nd grade clerk has taken the place of a 1st grade clerk on the retirement of the latter. Free quarters have been granted to the Assistant Interpreter and the First and Second Bailiffs to place them on the same footing as officers in corresponding positions in other departments. The watchmen have been granted house-allowances for a similar reason at a cost of $600 a year.\n\nIn the office of Crown Solicitor a 2nd grade clerk has been promoted to 1st grade.\n\nUnder special expenditure small sums are provided for furniture and a sum of $1,000 for a set of Law Reports in the office of the Attorney-General.\n\nIn the Police Department provision has been made for a Secretary and Clerk for the Deputy Superintendent, Police Reserve, who is in urgent need of such assistance. No less than 69 members of the Police Force have gone to join His Majesty's Forces of whom, I regret to say, 9 are reported to have been killed in action. Two Police Officers are still serving under the Government of India.\n\nIn addition to the many duties undertaken by them since the enrolment of the Force, the members of the Police Reserve have for some time been employed in searching passengers' baggage for contraband at the various wharves. Proper shelters have been erected to enable this work to be performed under suitable conditions, and the Government is very grateful for the valuable help rendered in this respect.\n\nUnder \"Other Charges\" the sum provided for repairs to Launches and Boats has been increased by $3,500 to meet the extra cost of materials and labour.\n\nA sum of $18,667 has been entered under special expenditure for the purchase of two motor fire-engines and pumps, which it is proposed to obtain from America.\n\nIn the District Office a 3rd grade clerk has been added to the Establishment, promoted from 4th grade.\n\nIn the Medical Department the following changes have to be recorded. A Chinese Accountant and Storekeeper has replaced the former European holder of the post. The post of Staff Nurse has been abolished, the holder of the post having been promoted to be a nursing Sister. At the Lunatic Asylum a European Female Attendant has been appointed. The European Wardmaster at Kennedy Town Hospital has been replaced by a Chinese Wardmaster, and in place of a temporary Wardmaster a Chinese Wardmaster has been appointed, the post of temporary Wardmaster being abolished.\n\nIn the Southern District provision has been made for a caretaker for the new market at Tai O, and a small allowance to the Sergeant Interpreter as Collector of Market Revenue. Under Other Charges, Northern District a sum of $2,500 is provided for afforestation. It is desired to encourage the people of the New Territories to grow trees on their own behalf, and this vote will be used towards the commencement of village plantations, particularly of the eucalyptus tree and the indigenous camphor tree, which has been a commercial success in Formosa. Seeds will also be provided for those who are willing to make use of them. The scheme is intended as a nucleus of larger undertakings which will be much facilitated by the experience thus gained. The allowance for transport in the Southern District has been raised by $250 owing to the increased cost of launch hire.\n\nA sum of $1,200 has been provided under Public Dispensaries as travelling allowance to the Supervisor of Midwives, and one more midwife has been appointed in the New Territories. Reductions have been made in the amounts required for the support of lunatics abroad, and for fuel and light, based on the figures of the last three years.\n\nUnder \"Special Expenditure\" a sum of $1,500 has been provided for the preparation of meningococcic serum in accordance with the directions of an expert from the Rockefeller Institute, New York, a report of whose visit to the Colony will shortly be laid before you.\n\n## Education\n\nThe Department has suffered a great loss in the retirement of Mrs. Tutcher from the post of Headmistress of Belilios Public School. Mrs. Tutcher had been connected with the school during the whole of her service, and for twelve years had been Headmistress. She brought the school to a high state of efficiency, and possessed the confidence and respect of both parents and pupils. It is not proposed to make any permanent appointment to the post at present, though the salary has been provided in the Estimates.\n\nThe initial sterling salary of the Headmistress of the Belilios Public School, as it was considered better not to remove her from the Peak School where she is doing excellent work. One Assistant Mistress has been added to the staff of the Peak School, and as the whole of the buildings are now required for the school House allowance of $600 a year on vacating the quarters.\n\nAt Saiyingpun English School a Student Teacher, supernumerary, has been appointed to assist in the teaching of English. One post of Assistant Master at Yaumati English School has been raised from Class III to Class II, $480 rising to $780 by $60 annually, in place of a fixed salary of $480, involving an increase next year of $338.\n\nUnder Other Charges the amount required for fuel for Bath-houses has been reduced by $800 based on the average expenditure of the last three years, and the provision for the burial of infected bodies has been reduced to $1,000. Coal for launches is estimated to cost $3,000, repairs $3,000, and stores $800, more than this year. Owing to the temporary reduction in the staff a reduction of $3,000 has been made in the vote for uniforms.\n\nUnder Special Expenditure sums aggregating $1,810 have been provided for new vehicles and a sum of $10,000 for exhumation at the Kai Lung Wan Cemetery.\n\nMr. T. K. Dealy—after nearly thirty-four years service, during the last nine of which he had been Headmaster of Queen's College—retired from the service in July. He had been connected with the school since the days when it was known as the Government Central School, and it is no exaggeration to state that during his service he had had no small share in the education of most of the prominent Chinese gentlemen in the Colony for more than a generation, including several of the Chinese members of this Council.\n\nThe total sum provided for education is $398,958, or $18,556 more than this year. Owing to the increase in the number of Vernacular Schools in the New Territories it is proposed to have three 5th grade Sub-Inspectors in place of one. From the 1st September next year the first three trained Chinese Masters will begin their work, and a sum of $900 is provided for their salaries. There are now six of these masters at the University, the cost of whose education is being defrayed by the Government.\n\nThe opportunity of a change in the Headmastership at Queen's College was taken to abolish the post of Assistant Master on a special salary and the allowance of $900 to the Master of the Normal School. No less than seven of the European Masters are serving with His Majesty's Forces, and their places have been taken by Lady Teachers. The Student Teachers have been placed on a new scale of salaries, as shown.\n\nAt the Ellis Kadoorie School for Indians an Assistant Master in Class II has taken the place of an Assistant Master in Class III.\n\nUnder Special Expenditure provision is made for a building grant of $5,500 to the Diocesan Girls School in respect of the new wing recently erected, and the first instalment of $10,000 of a total grant of $20,000 for new buildings to house the Girls' Training Home of the London Missionary Society.\n\nIn connection with the Hongkong Defence Corps considerable reductions have been made under the heads \"Ammunition and Uniform.\" \n\nIn the Botanical and Forestry Department a new post of Foreman has been created for forestry work in the New Territories, and the votes for forestry and motor-car hire have been increased by $1,000 and $180 respectively.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-450 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 487109, "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": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "page_number": 83, "title": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "content_text": "## 12\n\nBetween Autau and Castle Peak, 1,450 Melaleuca were planted on the side of the road which had been recently widened.\n\nSixty-three (63) broad-leaved trees were planted along the completed portion of the Frontier Road.\n\nThe Lok Ma Chow Road, which was completed in 1918, was planted up with 172 Candle-nut trees.\n\nOwing to the widening of the Sheungshui Road 22 trees had to be transplanted.\n\nPlanting was continued along the Chengshawan-Castle Peak coastal road, and 1,993 trees of various kinds were put in.\n\nOne hundred and thirty-two (132) Camphor and 10 Celtis trees were planted between the 4th mile on the Taipo Road and the level-crossing at Shatin, and on the banks of the road 260 flowering shrubs.\n\nBetween the level-crossing at Shatin and Taipo 256 Melaleuca and 74 Erythrina were planted, and 20 Camphor and 8 Albizzia transplanted.\n\nCreepers encircling trees in the Repulse Bay plantations were cut.\n\nCaterpillars were discovered on pine trees in the Kowloon plantations in May, and 920 catties (1,227 lbs.) were collected and destroyed. About 3,400,000 square feet of undergrowth were cleared in connection with anti-malarial measures.\n\nFor survey and other purposes about 5,800,000 square feet of undergrowth were cleared.\n\nVegetables were grown in the economic garden, Fanling, for demonstration purposes.\n\nThe first rice crop was very good and the second good. Lichees were poor, peanuts fair, sugarcane and pineapples good.\n\nIn connection with the export of Narcissus bulbs to America 5,012 cases containing 627,630 bulbs were inspected and certified as apparently free from insect pests and fungus diseases.\n\nSeveral hundred specimens of Kwongtung plants were presented to the Department by the Canton Christian College, 100 Chinese plants by the Nanking University, 150 Hainan plants by Mr. C. Talbot Bowring, and 332 Australian plants by the Director of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney.\n\nA few additions were made to the local Flora.\n\n**(e) LAND GRANTS AND GENERAL VALUE OF LAND**\n\nThe net amount of premium received from sales of Crown land and pier rights for the year 1919 was $250,260, an increase of $6,730 on the preceding year and $365,323 more than the average for the past five years.\n\nThe principal items were $233,870 in respect of Inland Lot No. 2273, $32,350 in respect of an extension of Marine Lot No. 277, $20,200 in respect of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1382, and $19,360 in respect of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1383.\n\nIn the New Territories the net amount received for premium on sales of land was $12,277 being a decrease of $41,775 on the preceding year.\n\nThe number of deeds registered in the Land Office was 3,021, and exceeded that of any previous year, being 99 more than during the preceding year, which was a record year, the total consideration being $60,152,735 as against $47,726,785 in 1918.\n\n## 13\n\nThe Government resumed several large areas during the year including Rural Building Lot No. 111, Kowloon Inland Lot No. 96, the Remaining Portion of Inland Lot No. 82, Kowloon Farm Lot No. 11, and the Agricultural Lots in Ma Tau Chung and Ma Tau Wei Villages.\n\nThe total area of land granted during the year was 163 acres of which 127 acres were situated in the New Territories. The total area of land resumed was 89 acres.\n\nIn the Northern District of the New Territories nearly all the sites on the Taipo Fishpond Reclamation have been taken up and several excellent buildings erected. A few European houses have been erected in the neighbourhood of Sheung Shui and Kam Tsin.\n\nIn the Southern District the demand for land has been normal but there are signs of the increasing popularity of Cheung Chau as a summer resort and consequent activity in building.\n\n## II.--LEGISLATION\n\nTwenty-three (23) Ordinances were passed during 1919 of which six were amendments of previous Ordinances.\n\nThe most important of these Ordinances were:-\n\n* The Non-Ferrous Metal Industry (No. 1), the object of which is to prevent former enemies from making attacks on essential businesses and on the possession of essential raw materials when the war comes to an end and when they shall cease to be of the status of enemies.\n* The Union Insurance Society of Canton Limited (Capital Conversion) (No. 4).\n* The British Traders Insurance Company Limited (Capital Conversion) (No. 5).\n* The Bank of Canton Limited (Capital Conversion) (No. 6).\n\nThese are private enactments which were passed for converting their silver capital into gold.\n\n* The Cheung Chau (Residence) (No. 14)--a measure for reserving the southern portion of the island known as Dumb-bell Island for residence of missionaries and other persons subject to the consent of the Governor in Council being obtained.\n* The Sugar Convention (No. 19), the object being to relieve both the Imperial Government and the Colonial Administration from their obligations under the Brussels Sugar Convention.\n* The Rice (No. 20), the object of which is for the acquisition and disposal of Rice by the Hongkong Government, and for validating acts previously done.\n* The Places of Public Entertainment Regulation (No. 22).--This is a consolidating and amending Ordinance. The principal amendments effected are to render public cinematograph displays subject to permits being granted.\n\n## IV. EDUCATION\n\nNo important changes have taken place in the Education Department during the year under review. The Staff has been depleted.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 487125, "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": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "page_number": 99, "title": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "content_text": "## (e.) LAND GRANTS AND GENERAL Value of Land\n\nThe net amount of premium received from sales of Crown land and pier rights for the year 1919 was $250,280, an increase of $6,730 on the preceding year and $65,323 more than the average for the past five years.\n\nThe principal items were $33,870 in respect of Inland Lot No. 2273, $32,350 in respect of an extension of Marine Lot No. 277, $20,200 in respect of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1382, and $19,360 in respect of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1383.\n\nIn the New Territories, the net amount received for premium on sales of land was $12,277, being a decrease of $41,775 on the preceding year.\n\nThe number of deeds registered in the Land Office was 3,021 and exceeded that of any previous year, being 99 more than during the preceding year, which was a record year, the total consideration being $60,152,785 as against $47,720,785 in 1918.\n\nThe Government resumed several large areas during the year, including Rural Building Lot No. 111, Kowloon Inland Lot No. 96, the Remaining Portion of Inland Lot No. 82, Kowloon Farm Lot No. 11, and the Agricultural Lots in Ma Tau Chung and Ma Tau Wei Villages.\n\nThe total area of land granted during the year was 163 acres, of which 127 acres were situated in the New Territories. The total area of land resumed was 89 acres.\n\nIn the Northern District of the New Territories, nearly all the sites on the Taipo Fishpond Reclamation have been taken up, and several excellent buildings erected. A few European houses have been erected in the neighbourhood of Sheung Shui and Kam Tsin.\n\nIn the Southern District, the demand for land has been normal, but there are signs of the increasing popularity of Cheung Chau as a summer resort and consequent activity in building.\n\n## III. LEGISLATION\n\nTwenty-three (23) Ordinances were passed during 1919, of which six were amendments of previous Ordinances.\n\nThe most important matters with which these Ordinances dealt were:\n\n| Ordinance | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| The Union Insurance Society of Canton Limited (Capital Conversion) (No. 4) | Converting silver capital into gold |\n| The British Traders Insurance Company Limited (Capital Conversion) (No. 5) | Converting silver capital into gold |\n| The Bank of Canton Limited (Capital Conversion) (No. 6) | Converting silver capital into gold |\n| The Cheung Chau (Residence) (No. 14) | Reserving the southern portion of the island for residence of missionaries and other persons |\n| The Sugar Convention (No. 19) | Relieving the Imperial Government and the Colonial Administration from their obligations under the Brussels' Sugar Convention |\n| The Rice (No. 20) | Acquisition and disposal of Rice by the Hongkong Government, and validating acts previously done |\n| The Places of Public Entertainment Regulation (No. 22) | Consolidating and amending Ordinance, rendering public cinematograph displays subject to permits being granted |\n\nMatters in connection with the War were:\n\n| Ordinance | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| The Non-Ferrous Metal Industry (No. 1) | Preventing former enemies from making attacks on essential industries |\n\n\nBetween the level-crossing at Shatin and Taipo, 256 Melaleuca and 74 Erythrina were planted, and 20 Camphor and 8 Albizzia transplanted.\n\nCreepers encircling trees in the Repulse Bay plantations were cut.\n\nCaterpillars were discovered on pine trees in the Kowloon plantations in May, and 92 catties (1,227 lbs.) were collected and destroyed.\n\nAbout 3,400,000 square feet of undergrowth were cleared in connection with anti-malarial measures.\n\nFor survey and other purposes, about 5,800,000 square feet of undergrowth were cleared.\n\nVegetables were grown in the economic garden, Fanling, for demonstration purposes.\n\nThe first rice crop was very good, and the second good. Lichees were poor, peanuts fair, sugarcane and pineapples good.\n\nIn connection with the export of Narcissus bulbs to America, 5,012 cases containing 627,630 bulbs were inspected and certified as apparently free from insect pests and fungus diseases.\n\nSeveral hundred specimens of Kwongtung plants were presented to the Department by the Canton Christian College, 100 Chinese plants by the Nanking University, 150 Hainan plants by Mr. C. Talbot Bowring, and 332 Australian plants by the Director of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney.\n\nA few additions were made to the local Flora.\n\nPage 18\nPage 19", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 487813, "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": "CO129-468 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [6-8]", "page_number": 166, "title": "CO129-468 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [6-8]", "content_text": "## Application for Appointment to the Colonial Service\n\n165\n\nForm to be filled up by the Applicant himself, and returned by post to the Assistant Private Secretary (Appointments), Colonial Office, London.\n\nIn normal circumstances a candidate should not call at the Colonial Office until he receives a written invitation to do so. The Assistant Private Secretary (Appointments) cannot undertake to see anyone who calls without such invitation, though he will endeavour to do so if the matter is urgent. The hours for interview are 3-5 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.\n\nDated 31st May 1921.\n\n**THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS** and **MR. JOHN WATTIE**\n\n**AGREEMENT FOR SERVICE**\n\n| Question | Answer |\n| --- | --- |\n| State whether British-born or Naturalised; if latter, give particulars | British-born |\n| Date of Application | Hong Kong, 1st April 1921 |\n| Profession or Occupation | Correspondence Clerkship, Buildings Ordinance Office, Public Works Department |\n| Address | 32, Humphreys Buildings, Hanoi Road, Kowloon |\n| Father's Name | John Wattie |\n| Profession or Occupation | Independent |\n| Address | (at present) HGH, Queen's Parade, Clifton Hill |\n| Day and year of birth | 28th January 1888 |\n| Place of birth | Melbourne, Australia |\n| Age last birthday | 33 |\n| Whether single, married, or a widower | Married |\n| Number of children | Sons ... Daughters ... Aged respectively ... |\n\n**Appointment desired.** [If you do not apply for a particular class of appointment, you should state to what Colonies you would go, and what is the lowest salary that you would accept.]\n\n**Education** (general and professional). State the Schools or Colleges at which you received your education; and give in each case the date of entry and leaving and any academic distinctions obtained, and public examinations passed. The highest form you reached at school should be stated.\n\nEducation received at Parish Church Schools, Neston, Cheshire, and completed at the late Dr. John Riddock's Private School in same township.\n\n**State here any athletic distinctions or positions of responsibility held at School or College.**\n\n**State here any knowledge you possess of any language other than English.** \n\n[To be continued on the next page, as indicated by \"[TURN OVER]\"]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-468 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 487892, "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": "CO129-468 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [6-8]", "page_number": 245, "title": "CO129-468 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [6-8]", "content_text": "# Application for Appointment to the Colonial Service\n\nTo be filled up by the Applicant himself, and returned by post to the Assistant Private Secretary (Appointments), Colonial Office, London.\n\nUnder normal circumstances candidate should not call at the Colonial Office until he receives a written invitation to do so. The Assistant Private Secretary (Appointments) cannot undertake to see anyone who calls without such invitation, though he will endeavour to do so if the matter is urgent. The hours for interview are 3-5 pm, on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.\n\n## Personal Details\n\n| Category | Details |\n| --- | --- |\n| Name in full | Christopher Wilson |\n| Whether British-born or Naturalised; latter, give particulars | British born 13th June 1921 |\n| Profession or Occupation | Solicitor |\n| Address | |\n| Father's Name | George Wilson |\n| Profession or Occupation | Gentleman |\n| Address | Deceased |\n| Day and year of birth | 23rd March 1869 |\n| Age last birthday | |\n| Place of birth | Ramsgate, Kent |\n| Whether single, married or a widower | Single |\n| Number of children | |\n| Sons/Daughters | |\n| Aged respectively | |\n\n## Appointment Desired\n\nAppointment desired: Furis clark and tuagis hate, Hong Kong, or at any other suitable appointment in any other Colony.\n\nIf you do not apply for a particular class of appointment, you should state to what Colonies you would go, and what is the lowest salary that you would accept.\n\n## Education\n\nEducation (general and professional): educated locally for five years articled to Solicitor.\n\nMention the Schools or Colleges at which you received your education; and give in each case the date of entry and leaving, and any academic distinctions obtained, and public examinations passed. The highest form you reached at school should be stated.\n\nIf you have obtained any athletic distinctions or have held any position of responsibility at School or College, you should state it here.\n\nState here any knowledge you possess of any language other than English.\n\nN.B.-Applications for more than one branch of the Service can be made if desired. If you have any preference as between different branches or different Colonies, etc., it should be stated here.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-468 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 489005, "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": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 153, "title": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "# APPENDIX XIV.\n## British Education in China\n\nModern political movements in China have been largely brought about by Chinese who have been subject to the influences of progressive thought instilled into their minds by Western education. These same men are prominent in governmental, political and commercial circles, and are guiding the destinies of the country.\n\nBy far the larger number of foreign-educated men in China have received their education in American schools in China or in the United States of America. These men are continually kept under the influence of American thought by scholastic societies and by the perusal of American literature.\n\nThey naturally turn to America for guidance equally when laying down the country's constitution laws, and when ordering equipment for their mills and mines. They are saturated with American ideas and ideals.\n\nThe British are so far behind in all the machinery that produces these influences that there is no possibility of comparison. The Americans are now preparing for great advances along the lines which have proved so satisfactory that the distance between American and British practice will become still more accentuated.\n\nThe employment of the surplus indemnity by the American Government in taking hundreds of Chinese students selected from all parts of the country to proceed to America to complete their education in American institutions of learning is exerting an enormous influence in Americanising the thought of modern China.\n\nIn addition to this agency the Americans have established a magnificent series of well-equipped modern schools throughout the country in connection with their missionary enterprise. These schools comprise the very best medical schools, universities, colleges, common and technical schools.\n\nThere are under American control in China 7 universities, 15 colleges, 140 middle or secondary schools; in addition the Y.M.C.A., an American organisation, directs 10 ordinary schools, 4 or 5 medical schools, as well as special schools for theology, agriculture, &c. The number of American men and women employed in these schools is 523, in addition to a very large number of Chinese teachers trained largely by American methods.\n\nThe Germans, recognising their lack of means of influencing the governing circles of Young China and having become convinced of the advantages of producing a class of men trained in German thought and methods as apart from their military organisation, set about establishing schools, and at the outbreak of the Great War were operating about a dozen schools in the Shanghai, Hankow and Kwangtung districts.\n\nThe British have largely held aloof from the employment of this great agency of spreading British ideals in China. British missionary societies have established about fifty schools, but these are for the most part starved for lack of funds. There are no British institutions, except the recently founded Hong Kong University, which confer degrees. The Chinese demand degrees, consequently provision for the granting of university honours is essential.\n\nWe are therefore of opinion that-\n\n1. It is desirable that the Government should take part in the education of Chinese under British influence and auspices.\n2. Steps should be taken to establish in North China an institution for the higher education of Chinese, to accommodate students who cannot proceed to Hong Kong. Such an institution should be affiliated with the Hong Kong University, and should, if possible, have the power to confer degrees, so that it may compete on equal terms with existing non-British institutions.\n3. The location of the institution should be at one of the following places: Peking, Shanghai, Hankow, the preference being in the order given.\n4. It is essential that the main institution should be supported by a number of schools that would serve it as feeders. To that end existing British schools and colleges that are willing and able to conform to the required standard should be aided by Government subsidies.\n\nAt present, existing British schools and colleges in China receive no Government support, as do many non-British institutions. Hence British-controlled schools, especially those of the missionary societies, are understaffed and poorly equipped, and in the eyes of the Chinese compare unfavourably with non-British institutions.\n\nThis only asks for the extension of the system in vogue in India and Hong Kong to British schools in China.\n\n5. In all approved schools and colleges there should be established scholarships, the winners of which would be entitled to continue their education at the head institution or at the Hong Kong University.\n6. In the head institution provision should be made for the regular sending of selected graduates to England for further training in English universities.\n7. The head institution should organise a normal department.\n\n## List of Schools under British Control in China\n\n### Chekiang\n\n| School | Principal |\n| --- | --- |\n| Hangchow Medical and Maternity Training Colleges | Dr. Duncan Main, C.N. |\n| Ningpo English Methodist College | H. S. Redfern, M.Sc. |\n| Trinity College (C.M.S.) | Ven. Archdeacon W. S. Moule |\n\n### Chihli\n\n| Location | School | Principal |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Peking | Chung Te School (Church of England Mission) | Rev. T. A. Scott, M.A. |\n| Peking | Tsui Wen Middle School (London Missionary Society) | Rev. T. Biggin, M.A. |\n| Siaochang | Anglo-Chinese School (London Missionary Society) | Rev. W. F. Dawson |\n| Lun Tsai | Middle School (L.M.S.) | A. F. Thorpe, B.A. (Cantab) |\n| Tien-tsin | Anglo-Chinese College (L.M.S.) | S. Lavington Hart, D.Sc. |\n| Tien-tsin | School (for foreigners) | H. J. Turner, B.Sc. |\n| Yungching | Church of England Mission School | Rev. W. Connor |\n\n### Fukien\n\n| Location | School | Principal |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Amoy | Anglo-Chinese College (Pres. C. of Eng.) | H. F. Hankin |\n| Chuanchowfu | Westminster College (Eng. Pres. Miss.) | Rev. J. Gowdy, M.A. |\n| Foochow | C.M.S. Divinity School | Rev. J. S. Carpenter, M.A. |\n| Foochow | Trinity College (C.M.S.) | Rev. W. S. Palenham-Walsh |\n| Hinghwa | Middle School (C.M.S.) | Rev. S. J. Nightingale |\n| Kentao | Girls Boarding School (C.M.S.) | Miss A. M. Clelland |\n| Tungchowfu | London Mission School | Rev. H. R. Hughes, B.A. |\n\n### Honan\n\n| Location | School | Principal |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Hwaikingfu | Canadian Pres. Mission School | Rev. J. A. Mowatt, P.A. |\n| Hwaikingfu | Canadian School for Girls | Miss M. F. Walks, B.A. |\n| Kaifeng | St. Andrew's College (Can. Church Miss.) | Rt. Rev. W. C. White, D.D. |\n| Weihweifu | Maxwell High and Normal School (Can. Pres. Miss.) | Rev. R. A. Mitchell, M.A. |\n\n### Hunan\n\n| Location | School | Principal |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Siangtan | St. Paul's School (C.M.S.) | Rev. T. C. Ibbetson |\n\n### Hupeh\n\n| Location | School | Principal |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Hankow | Briggith John College (L.M.S.) | Rev. A. Bonsey |\n| Hanyang | David Hill Memorial School for Girls (Wes. Miss.) | Miss Davis |\n| Ichang | Church of Scotland Boys' School | Rev. F. Tocher, M.A. |\n| Teian | Church of Scotland Boys' School | Rev. F. Tocher, M.A. |\n| Tsaoshih | London Mission Boys' Boarding School | Rev. F. G. Onley |\n| Wuchang | London Mission Girls' Boarding School | Mrs. Arnold Foster |\n| Wuchang | Wesley College and Normal School | Rev. H. B. Rattenbury, B.A. |\n\n### Kiangsu\n\n| Location | School | Principal |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Shanghai | Anglo-Chinese School (C.M.S.) | W. A. H. Moule |\n| Shanghai | Cathedral School (E.P.) | G. Barrow |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 489006, "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": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 154, "title": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "36\n\nMedhurst College (L.M.S.), Rev. E. J. Malpas, B.A. Medhurst Girls' School.\n\nNOTE.-In Shanghai there are the following schools provided for by the Shanghai Municipal Council from the rates, but under the control of British teachers entirely:\n\n| School | Head |\n| --- | --- |\n| Public School for Boys (foreigners) | G. M. Billings |\n| Public School for Girls (foreigners) | Miss Patterson |\n| Thomas Hanbury School for Boys (Eurasians) | A. J. Stewart |\n| Thomas Hanbury School for Girls (Eurasians) | Miss Mayhew |\n| Public School for Chinese | G. S. F. Kemp |\n| Ellis Kadoorie Public School for Chinese | R. G. Dowie |\n| Nieh Chin Kuel Public School for Chinese | L. H. Turner |\n| Polytechnic Public School for Chinese | G. S. F. Kemp |\n| Shanghai High School (for foreign girls) | Miss J. M. Fraser, B.A. |\n| Shanghai Jewish School | Miss Perry, B.A. |\n\nKwangtung-\nCanton:\n\n| School | Head |\n| --- | --- |\n| Holy Trinity School (C.M.S.) | Rev. W. W. Rogers |\n| Wesleyan Girls' Boarding School | Miss F. A. Britton |\n\nHong Kong (See Government Education Report.)\n\nManchuria-\nFakuting: (viâ Newchang), Christian Middle School (Irish Pres. Miss.).\nHaicheng: San Yu Middle School (U.F. Church of Scotland).\nHulan: (Heilungkiang), Christian School for Boys (U.F.C.S.), Rev. D. C. Davidson, M.A.\nKuangchengtzu: Middle School (Irish Miss.), Rev. W. H. Gillespie, M.A.\nKwangning: High School for Boys (Irish Miss.), Rev. W. Hunter, B.A. \nDitto for Girls.\nLiaoyang: Wen de High School (U.F.C.S.), Rev. G. Dougles, M.A.\nMoukden: \n- Manchuria Christian College (U.F.C.S.) (Irish Miss.), D. T. Robertson, M.A.\n- Medical College (U.F.C.S.), Dugald Christie, C.M.G., F.R.C.S., &c.\nYushuting (Kirin): Wen Shu Middle School (Irish Miss.), Rev. A. Weir, B.A.\n\nShansi-\nTaiyuanfu: Baptist Miss. Soc. Middle School, Rev. H. R. Williamson.\n\nShantung-\nChefoo: China Inland Mission Schools for Foreign Boys and Girls.\nChowtsun: Kwang Pei Middle School (Eng. Bap. Miss.), Rev. A. G. Castleton.\nPeichen: English Baptist Middle School, Rev. A. E. Greening.\nTaianfu: C. of Eng. Mission School, Rev. J. W. Hunter, Rev. C. R. Burnett, M.A.\nWei-hai Wei:\n- The Government School (for Chinese boys).\n- Wei-hai Wei School for Foreign Boys, L. H. Beer, L.C.B.\n- Wei-hai Wei School for Foreign Girls, Mrs. Bruce Shepherd.\n\nShensi\nSianfu English Baptist Girls' School, Mrs. Shorrock, B.A.\n\nSzechwan-\nChungking Friends' Mission High School, R. L. Simpkin, M.A.\nFowchow Boys Christian School (Can. Meth. Miss.), Rev. R. S. Longley.\nMienchow: \n- Anglo-Chinese School (C.M.S.), Rev. F. J. Watt, B.Sc.\n- Girls' Boarding School (C.M.S.), Miss V. C. Mannett.\nPenghsien: Canadian Mission School, Rev. F. Dickinson, B.A.\nTehyang C.MS. Boys' School, Rev. A. E. Seward.\n\nNOTE. There are several schools throughout the country conducted under the auspices of the China Inland Mission, but the members of this mission are not in all cases British.\n\n37\n\nOmitted from Chekiang\nWenchow: United Methodist College, T. W. Chapman, M.Sc.\n\n## German Schools in China\n\n152\n| Location | School | Details |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Peking, Chihli | Deutsch-Chinesische Mittel Schule (Old Peiyang University) | ... |\n| Tien-tsin, Chihli | Kaiser Wilhelm Schule | Boys and Girls of European parentage, 180 |\n| Hankow, Hupeh | Deutsch-Chinesische Schule | Boys 30 |\n| Hankow, Hupeh | Kaiser Wilhelmi Schule for European children | 22 |\n| Shanghai | German Engineering and Medical School | Teachers, &c., 50; Boys, 570 |\n| Shanghai | German School for Chinese, Kiangse Road | ... |\n| Shanghai | Kaiser Wilhelm Realschule and Kindergarten for European children | 226 |\n| Tungsun viâ Canton | Rhenish Mission Middle School | ... |\n| Hokshiha viâ Canton | Basel Mission School | ... |\n| Kaying: Kwantung | Basel Mission Middle School | Men, 20 |\n| Kowloon (Hong Kong) | Blindenheim (Mission School for Blind) | Girls, 62 |\n| Kuchuk via Canton | Middle and Normal School (Basel Mission) | Boys, 77 |\n| Linpingchow: viâ Canton | Basel Mission School | ... |\n| Lukhang: viâ Canton | Berlin Mission School | ... |\n| Shuichowfu | Berlin Mission School | Girls, 46 |\n\nNOTE. During 1915-6-7 many of the above schools were closed. During 1914 many were closed, of which details cannot now be obtained. Prior to 1914 the various German Missionary Societies were very active in Kwangtung and Shantung.\n\n## American Universities in China\n\n| University | President | Students |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Peking University | Rev. H. H. Lowry, D.D. | Men, 800 |\n| University of Nanking | Rev. A. J. Bowen, LL.D. | Men, 460 |\n| St. John's University, Shanghai | Rev. F. L. H. Pott, D.D. | Men, 483 |\n| West China Union University, Chengtu, Szechwan | Rev. J. Beach, D.D. | Men, 355 |\n| Boone University, Wuchang, Hupeh | Rev. A. A. Gilman, B.A. | Boys, 316 |\n| Shantung Christian University, Weishien | Rev. J. P. Bruce, M.A. | Men (including Medical School), 216 |\n| Soochow University, Soochow, Kiangsu | Rev. J. W. Cline, D.D. | Men, 420 |\n\nNOTE. Peking and Nanking Universities are Unions institutions, and controlled by American missions. The West China Union University and Shantung Christian University have British missionaries acting with Americans on the faculties, St. John's University and Boone University are under the American Church Mission. Soochow University is under the Methodist Episcopal Mission of America.\n\nApproximate number of American men and women engaged in teaching in mission and other schools and colleges of all grades: ...\n\n## American Colleges in China\n\n| College | Location | Students |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Hangchow Christian College | Chekiang Province | Men, 200 |\n| North China Union Women's College | Peking, Chihli | Women, 37 |\n| Union Medical College for Women | Peking, Chihli | 53 |\n| Tungchow North China Union College of Arts | Peking, Chihli | Men, 87 |\n| Palmage College (Kulansu) | Amoy, Fukien | Boys, 87 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 490242, "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": 733, "title": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "# APPENDIX XIV.\n\n(N.B. This memorandum, drawn up by the British Chamber of Commerce, Shanghai, and the lists of schools which follow, are among the enclosures to Sir J. Jordan's despatch No. 348 of July 23, 1918, on the subject of British education in China.)\n\n## British Education in China\n\nModern political movements in China have been largely brought about by Chinese who have been subject to the influences of progressive thought instilled into their minds by Western education. These same men are prominent in governmental, political and commercial circles, and are guiding the destinies of the country.\n\nBy far the larger number of foreign-educated men in China have received their education in American schools in China or in the United States of America. These men are continually kept under the influence of American thought by scholastic societies and by the perusal of American literature.\n\nThey naturally turn to America for guidance equally when laying down the country's constitution laws, and when ordering equipment for their mills and mines. They are saturated with American ideas and ideals.\n\nThe British are so far behind in all the machinery that produces these influences that there is no possibility of comparison. The Americans are now preparing for great advances along the lines which have proved so satisfactory that the distance between American and British practice will become still more accentuated.\n\nThe employment of the surplus indemnity by the American Government in taking hundreds of Chinese students selected from all parts of the country to proceed to America to complete their education in American institutions of learning is exerting an enormous influence in Americanising the thought of modern China.\n\nIn addition to this agency, the Americans have established a magnificent series of well-equipped modern schools throughout the country in connection with their missionary enterprise. These schools comprise the very best medical schools, universities, colleges, common and technical schools.\n\nThere are under American control in China 7 universities, 15 colleges, 140 middle or secondary schools: in addition, the Y.M.C.A., an American organisation, directs 10 ordinary schools, 4 or 5 medical schools, as well as special schools for theology, agriculture, &c. The number of American men and women employed in these schools is 523, in addition to a very large number of Chinese teachers trained largely by American methods.\n\nThe Germans, recognising their lack of means of influencing the governing circles of Young China and having become convinced of the advantages of producing a class of men trained in German thought and methods as apart from their military organisation, set about establishing schools, and at the outbreak of the Great War were operating about a dozen schools in the Shanghai, Hankow and Kwangtung districts.\n\nThe British have largely held aloof from the employment of this great agency of spreading British ideals in China. British missionary societies have established about fifty schools, but these are for the most part starved for lack of funds. There are no British institutions, except the recently founded Hong Kong University, which confer degrees. The Chinese demand degrees; consequently, provision for the granting of university honours is essential.\n\nWe are therefore of the opinion that:\n\n1. It is desirable that the Government should take part in the education of Chinese under British influence and auspices.\n\n2. Steps should be taken to establish in North China an institution for the higher education of Chinese, to accommodate students who cannot proceed to Hong Kong. Such an institution should be affiliated with the Hong Kong University and should, if possible, have the power to confer degrees, so that it may compete on equal terms with existing non-British institutions.\n\n3. The location of the institution should be at one of the following places: Peking, Shanghai, Hankow, the preference being in the order given.\n\n4. It is essential that the main institution should be supported by a number of schools that would serve it as feeders. To that end, existing British schools and colleges that are willing and able to conform to the required standard should be aided by Government subsidies.\n\nAt present, existing British schools and colleges in China receive no Government support, as do many non-British institutions. Hence British-controlled schools, especially those of the missionary societies, are understaffed and poorly equipped, and in the eyes of the Chinese compare unfavourably with non-British institutions.\n\nThis only asks for the extension of the system in vogue in India and Hong Kong to British schools in China.\n\n5. In all approved schools and colleges, there should be established scholarships, the winners of which would be entitled to continue their education at the head institution or at the Hong Kong University.\n\n6. In the head institution, provision should be made for the regular sending of selected graduates to England for further training in English universities.\n\n7. The head institution should organise a normal department.\n\n## List of Schools under British Control in China\n\n### Chekiang\n\n| Location | School Name | Principal/Administrator |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Hangchow | Medical and Maternity Training Colleges | Dr. Duncan Main, C.M. |\n| Ningpo | English Methodist College | H. S. Redfern, M.Sc. |\n| Ningpo | Trinity College (C.M.S.) | Ven. Archdeacon W. S. Moule |\n| Wenchow | United Methodist College | T. W. Chapman, M.Sc. |\n\n### Chihli\n\n| Location | School Name | Principal/Administrator |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Peking | Chung Te School (Church of England Mission) | Rev. T. A. Scott, M.A. |\n| Peking | Tsui Wen Middle School (London Missionary Society) | Rev. T. Biggin, M.A. |\n| Siaochang | Anglo-Chinese School (London Missionary Society) | Rev. W. F. Dawson |\n| Siaochang | Lun Tsai Middle School (L.M.S.) | A. F. Thorpe, B.A. (Cantab) |\n| Tientsin | Anglo-Chinese College (L.M.S.) | S. Lavington Hart, D.Sc. |\n| Tientsin | Tientsin School (for foreigners) | H. J. Turner, B.Sc. |\n| Yangching | Church of England Mission School | Rev. W. Connor |\n\n### Fukien\n\n| Location | School Name | Principal/Administrator |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Amoy | Anglo-Chinese College (Pres. C. of Eng) | H. F. Rankin |\n| Chuanchowfu | Westminster College (Eng. Pres. Miss.) | Rev. J. Gowdy, M.A. |\n| Foochow | C.M.S. Divinity School | Rev. J. S. Carpenter, M.A. |\n| Foochow | Trinity College (C.M.S.) | Rev. W. S. Parenham-Walsh |\n| Hinghwa | Middle School (C.M.S.) | Rev. S. J. Nightingale |\n| Kentao | Girls Boarding School (C.M.S.) | Miss A. M. Clelland |\n| Tungehowfu | London Mission School | Rev. E. R. Hughes, B.A. |\n\n### Honan\n\n| Location | School Name | Principal/Administrator |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Hwaikingfu | Canadian Pres. Mission School | Rev. J. A. Mowatt, P.A. |\n| Hwaikingfu | Canadian School for Girls | Miss M. F. Walks, B.A. |\n| Kaifeng | St. Andrew's College (Can. Church Miss.) | Rt. Rev. W. C. White, D.D. |\n| Weihweifu | Maxwell High and Normal School (Can. Pres. Miss.) | Rev. R. A. Mitchell, M.A. |\n\n### Hunan\n\n| Location | School Name | Principal/Administrator |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Siangtan | St. Paul's School (C.M.S.) | Rev. T. C. Ibbetson |\n\n### Hupeh\n\n| Location | School Name | Principal/Administrator |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Hankow | Griffith John College (L.M.S.) | Rev. A. Bonsey |\n| Hanyang | David Hill Memorial School for Girls (Wes. Miss.) | Miss Davis |\n| Ichang | Church of Scotland Boys' School | Rev. F. Tocher, M.A. |\n| Tayeh | Wesleyan Boys' School | Rev. B. S. Bonsall, B.D. |\n| Telan | Wesleyan Boys' School | Rev. B. S. Bonsall, B.D. |\n| Tsaoshih | London Mission Boys' Boarding School | Rev. F. G. Onley |\n| Wuchang | London Mission Girls Boarding School | Mrs. Arnold Foster |\n| Wuchang | Wesley College and Normal School | Rev. H. B. Rattenbury, B.A. |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 490243, "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": 734, "title": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "# Kiangsu\n## Shanghai:\n36\n\nAnglo-Chinese School (C.M.S.), W. A. H. Mouie. Cathedral School. S. P. G. Barrow. Medhurst College (L.M.S.). Rev. E. J. Malpas, B.A. Medhurst Girls' School.\n\nNOTE.-In Shanghai there are the following schools provided for by the Shanghai Municipal Council from the rates, but under the control of British teachers entirely:\n\n| School Name | Head/Teacher |\n| --- | --- |\n| Public School for Boys (foreigners) | G. M. Billings |\n| Public School for Girls (foreigners) | Miss Patterson |\n| Thomas Hanbury School for Boys (Eurasians) | A. J. Stewart |\n| Thomas Hanbury School for Girls (Eurasians) | Miss Mayhew |\n| Public School for Chinese | G. S. F. Kemp |\n| Ellis Kadoorie Public School for Chinese | R. G. Dowie |\n| Nieh Chin Kuel Public School for Chinese | I. H. Turner |\n| Polytechnic Public School for Chinese | G. S. F. Kemp |\n| Shanghai High School (for foreign girls) | Miss J. M. Fraser B.A. |\n| Shanghai Jewish School | Miss Perry, B.A. |\n\n## Kwangtung-\n### Canton:\nHoly Trinity School (C.M.S.), Rev. W. W. Rogers. Wesleyan Girls' Boarding School, Miss F. A. Britton.\n\n## Manchuria\nFakuting: (via Newchang). Christian Middle School (Irish Pres. Miss.). Haicheng San Yu Middle School (U.F. Church of Scotland).\n\nHulan (Heilungkiang), Christian School for Boys (U.F.C.S.). Rev. D. C. Davidson, M.A.\n\nKuangchengtzu: Middle School (Irish Miss.). Rev. W. H. Gillespie, M.A. Kwangning: High School for Boys (Irish Miss.), Rev. W. Hunter, B.A. Ditto for Girls.\n\nLiaoyang Wen de High School (U.F.C.S.), Rev. G. Dougles, M.A. Moukden: Manchuria Christian College (U.F.C.S.) (Irish Miss.), D. T. Robertson, M.A.\n\nMedical College (U.F.C.S.), Dugald Christie, C.M.G., F.R.C.S., &c: Yushuting (Kirin): Wen Shu Middle School (Trish Miss.), Rev. A. Weir, B.A.\n\n## Shansi-\n### Taiyuanfu \nBaptist Miss. Soc. Middle School, Rev. H. R. Williamson.\n\n## Shantung-\n### Chefoo: \nChina Inland Mission Schools for Foreign Boys and Girls. Chowtsun: Kwang Pei Middle School (Eng. Bap. Miss.), Rev. A. G. Castleton. Peichen: English Baptist Middle School, Rev. A. E. Greening. Taianfu C. of Eng. Mission School, Rev. J. W. Hunter, Rev. C. R. Burnett, M.A.\n\n## Wei-hai-Wei:\nThe Government School (for Chinese boys). Wei-hai-Wei School for Foreign Boys, L. H. Beer, L.C.B. Wei-bai-Wei School for foreign girls, Mrs. Bruce Shepherd.\n\n## Shensi\n### Sianfu \nEnglish Baptist Girls' School. Mrs. Shorrock. B.A.\n\n## Szechwan-\n### Chungking \nFriends Mission High School, R. L. Simpkin, M.A. Fowchow: Boys' Christian School (Can. Meth. Miss.), Rev. R. S. Longley. Mienchow: Anglo-Chinese School (C.M.S.), Rev. F. J. Watt, B.Sc. Girls Boarding School (C.M.S.), Miss V. C. Mannett. Penghsier Canadian Mission School. Rev. F. Dickinson, B.A. Tehyang: C.M.S. Boys' School, Rev. A. E. Seward.\n\nNOTE. There are several schools throughout the country conducted under the auspices of the China Inland Mission, but the members of this mission are not in all cases British.\n\n37\n\n## German Schools in China.\n\nDeutsch-Chinesische Mittel Schule (Old Peiyang University), Peking, Chibli. Tientsin, Chihli, Kaiser Wilhelm Schule, Boys and Girls of European parentage, 180.\n\nHankow, Hupeh. Deutsch-Chinesische Schule, Boys, 50. Kaiser Wilhelm Schule for European children, 22.\n\nShanghai: German Engineering and Medical School, formerly in the French Concession. now at Woosung Forts; Teachers, &c., 50; Boys, 570. German School for Chinese, Kiangse Road. Kaiser Wilhelm Realschule and Kindergarten for European children, 226. Tungsun viâ Canton. Rhenish Mission Middle School. Hokshiha: viâ Canton, Basel Mission School.\n\nKaying Kwantung. Basel Mission Middle School; Men, 20. Kowloon (Hong Kong). Blindenheim (Mission School for Blind); Girls, 62. Kuchuk: via Canton. Middle and Normal School (Basel Mission); Boys, 77. Linpingchow via Canton. Basel Mission School. Lukhang via Canton, Berlin Mission School. Shuichowfu. Berlin Mission School; Girls, 46.\n\nNOTE. During 1915-6-7 many of the above schools were closed. During 1914 many were closed, of which details cannot now be obtained. Prior to 1914 the various German Missionary Societies were very active in Kwangtung and Shantung.\n\n## American Universities in China.\n\n| University Name | President | Number of Men |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Peking University | Rev. H. H. Lowry, D.D. | 800 |\n| University of Nanking | Rev. A. J. Bowen, LL.D. | 460 |\n| St. John's University, Shanghai | Rev. F. L. H. Pott. D.D. | 483 |\n| West China Union University, Chengtu, Szechwan | Rev. J. Beach, D.D. | 355 |\n| Boone University. Wuchang, Hupeh | Rev. A. A. Gilman, B.A. | 316 |\n| Shantung Christian University, Weihsien | Rev. J. P. Bruce, M.A. | 216 |\n| Soochow University, Soochow, Kiangsu | Rev. J. W. Cline, D.D. | 420 |\n\nNOTE. Peking and Nanking Universities are \"Union\" institutions, and controlled by American missions. The West China Union University and Shantung Christian University have British missionaries acting with Americans on the faculties. St. John's University and Boone University are under the American Church Mission. Soochow University is under the Methodist Episcopal Mission of America.\n\nApproximate number of American men and women engaged in teaching in mission and other schools and colleges of all grades:-\n\n## American Colleges in China.\n\nHangelow Christian College; Men. 200 (Chekiang Province).\n\nPeking. Chihli: North China Union Women's College; Women, 37. Union Medical College for Women, 53.\n\nTungchow: North China Union College of Arts; Men, 87. Amoy, Fukien: Talmage College (Kulansu); Boys, 87.\n\n732", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492421, "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": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "page_number": 351, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "Application for Appointment to the Colonial Service.\n\n304\n\nForm to be filled up by the Applicant himself, and returned by post to the Assistant Private Secretary (Appointments), Colonial Office, London.\n\nN.B. In normal circumstances a candidate should not call at the Colonial Office until he receives a written invitation to do so. The Assistant Private Secretary (Appointments) cannot undertake to see anyone who calls without such invitation, though he will endeavour to do so if the matter is urgent. The hours for interview are 3-5 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.\n\n1. Name in full: Lancelot Alexander Barton\n\nState whether British-born or Naturalised; if latter, give particulars: British born.\n\nDate of Application: 1st June 1972.\n\nProfession or Occupation: Accountant, The Colonial Treasury.\n\nAddress: 36, Prat Buildings, Prat Avenue, Kowloon\n\n2. Father's Name: George Alex Heaton-Barton\n\nProfession or Occupation: Medical Practitioner.\n\nAddress: 7 Devonshire Street, Portland Place, London W.\n\nIf dead, his Name and Profession should nevertheless be given.\n\n3. Day and year of birth: 1st August 1894\n\nAge last birthday: 27\n\n(A birth certificate must be enclosed. It will be returned.)\n\nPlace of birth: Morchard Bishop in County of Devonshire\n\nWhether single, married or a widower: Married.\n\nNumber of children: One Son, One Daughter\n\nAged respectively: Eleven years and twenty-three months.\n\n4. Appointment desired.\n\n[If you do not apply for a particular class of appointment, you should state to what Colonies you would go, and what is the lowest salary that you would accept.]\n\n5. Education (general and professional).\n\nMention the Schools or Colleges at which you received your education; and give in each the date of entry and leaving, and any academic distinctions obtained, and public examinations passed. The highest form you reached at school should be stated.\n\nInstitut Saint Francis-Xaver, Bruges, Belgium\n\nDate of Entry: Sept. 1904\n\nDate of Exit: July 1911\n\nIf you have obtained any athletic distinctions or have held any position of responsibility at School or College, you should state it here.\n\nExaminations: Oxford Senior - Pass List\n\n6. State here any knowledge you possess of any language other than English.\n\nKnowledge of French.\n\n* N.B.-Applications for more than one branch of the Service can be made if desired. If you have any preference as between different branches or different Colonies, etc., it should be stated here.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492728, "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": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "content_text": "20\n\n-\n\nThese two Ordinances were for the purpose of modifying certain provisions of the Orders in Council, and of adapting the provisions of the said Orders to the circumstances of the Colony.\n\nThe Holts Wharf, (No. 3).\n\nThe Mercantile Bank note issue, (No. 20).\n\nThe St. Joseph's College incorporation, (No. 27).\n\nThese are private enactments. The object of the first one was to give the Governor in Council power to make by-laws for the maintenance of order and safety in the conduct of the business carried on at Holts Wharf, while the second one was passed to extend the period in which the Mercantile Bank of India was empowered to make, issue, re-issue and circulate bank notes, The object of the third was to incorporate the Christian Brothers School in Hongkong known as St. Joseph's College,\n\nThe Custodian, (No. 6)—The object of which was to make it clear that property, rights and powers vested in, or conferred upon, any holder of the office of custodian passed to his successors in office.\n\nThe Stamp, (No. 8)--The objects of this ordinance were (a) to increase the revenue from stamp duties (b) to facilitate the collection of these duties and prevent evasion, and (c) to correct various defects in the law which had long been known to exist.\n\nThe Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement), (No. 9) -The object being to facilitate the enforcement in the Colony of maintenance orders made in England or Ireland and vice versa.\n\nThe Criminal Procedure, (No. 10)-The object of this ordinance was to effect several improvements in the criminal procedure of the Supreme Court.\n\nThe Non-Ferrous Metal Industry, (No. 11)-This was to repeal the Non-Ferrous Metal Industry Ordinance, 1919. It was recognised that the licence system introduced was of no practical use in Hongkong, which, as regards the metal industry, was a trans-shipping centre and not a producing country.\n\nThe Companies, (No. 12)—The object of this ordinance was to introduce into the Companies Ordinances, 1911-1915, some amendments which experience had shown to be advisable, and to bring the law of the Colony into conformity with the China (Companies) Amendment Order in Council, 1919.\n\nThe Rents, (No. 13)-The object of this ordinance was to protect the tenants of domestic tenements from unreasonable increase in rental and from arbitrary termination of their tenancies.\n\n21\n\nThe Praya East Reclamation, (No. 17)-The object of this ordinance was to legalise and to provide for the reclamation of the eastern praya.\n\nThe Stocks, (No. 31)-The object of this ordinance was to abolish the penalty of stocks except for the offences of kidnapping, traffic in women and girls for the purposes of prostitution, and living on the proceeds of prostitution.\n\nThe Judgments (Facilities for Enforcement), (No. 32)-This ordinance was passed with a view to provide for the reciprocal enforcement of judgments and awards in the Colony and other parts of His Majesty's dominions and in territories under His Majesty's protection.\n\nIV. EDUCATION.\n\nNo important changes have taken place in the Education Department during the year under review. The staff, depleted by causes due to the war, is being gradually brought up to normal strength again.\n\nThe total number of pupils at schools in the Colony excluding the Police School and the uncontrolled schools in the New Territories are:-\n\n \n \n English Schools\n Vernacular Schools\n Total\n \n \n Government Schools\n 19\n 3,386\n 3,405\n \n \n Military Schools\n \n 140\n 140\n \n \n Excluded Private Schools\n 12\n 281\n 293\n \n \n Grant Schools\n 2,401\n 3,736\n 6,137\n \n \n Controlled Private Schools\n 4,882\n 15,854\n 20,736\n \n \n Controlled Private Schools, New Territories\n \n 3,989\n 3,989\n \n \n Technical Institute\n 582\n \n 582\n \n \n Total\n 11,672\n 23,610\n 35,282\n \n\nThe most important schools, apart from the excluded schools, are Queen's College for Chinese, four District Schools as its feeders, and the Belilios Public School for Chinese girls. There is an Indian School of growing importance now housed in a new building.\n\n80", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493008, "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": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "page_number": 361, "title": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "content_text": "# CLASS IV.\n\n# EDUCATION\n\n## DEPARTMENT OF DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION.\n\n### Personal Emoluments.\n\nIncrease.\n\n### CLASS V.\n\n## DEFENCE.\n\n### 1. Military Expenditure,\n\n#### A-MILITARY CONTRIBUTION.\n\n \n Decrease\n 342\n \n \n Stipulated Increments\n 17,668\n \n \n Increase of Salaries\n 700\n \n \n Reduction on New Appointments\n \n \n \n Abolition of Posts\n 5,043\n \n \n 1,668\n \n \n \n New Posts...\n 25,445\n \n \n Good Conduct Allowances\n 36\n \n \n Contribution to Imperial Government\n \n \n \n Good Conduct Allowances\n 83\n \n \n Rent Allowance\n 6,000\n \n \n Rent Allowances\n 12\n \n \n \n $ 918,675\n \n \n \n $ 918,675\n \n \n \n 43,908\n \n \n \n 12,747\n \n\n### Other Charges.\n\n \n Books...\n 63\n \n \n Electric Fans and Light\n 130\n \n \n College Calendars\n 145\n \n \n Rent\n 792\n \n \n Incidental Expenses.....\n 857\n \n \n Grants in aid of Rent\n 870\n \n \n Students in Training at Hongkong University:\n \n \n \n Fees\n 1,020\n \n \n Maintenance\n 1,080\n \n \n Piano Hire...\n 60\n \n\n#### K-VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS.\n\n \n Language Study Allowances\n 240\n \n \n Capitation Grants\n 18,437\n \n \n Subsidies to Elementary Vernacular\n \n \n \n Personal Emoluments.\n \n \n \n Schools in Hongkong\n 2,963\n \n \n University Examination Grants\n 5,387\n \n \n Stipulated Increments\n 140\n \n \n Increase of Salaries\n \n \n \n Reduction on New Appointments ...$\n 480\n \n \n 50\n \n \n \n Good Conduct Allowances\n 30,252\n \n \n 1,792\n \n \n \n Good Conduct Allowances\n 54\n \n \n 21)\n \n \n \n Personal Allowances...\n 752\n \n \n Total Increase\n 74,160\n \n \n 210\n \n \n \n $\n 1,286\n \n \n Deduct Decrease\n 14,539\n \n \n Total Decrease\n ...*\n \n \n 14,539\n \n \n \n Net Increase\n 59,621\n \n\n### B. TECHNICAL INSTITUTE.\n\n \n Personal Emoluments.\n \n \n \n Allowances to Lecturing Staff, etc..........\n ..$\n \n \n \n 860\n \n\n### Other Charges.\n\n \n Grant to Mounted Infantry Section...$\n 1,800\n \n \n Ammunition\n \n \n \n Rifle Ranges Expenses\n 1,000\n \n \n Camp Expenses\n \n \n \n Uniform, including Boots\n [(NH)]\n \n \n \n 3,750\n \n \n Incidental Expenses.......\n \n \n \n Transport\n 2011\n \n \n *\n 3,800\n \n \n Total Increase...\n 4,010\n \n \n Total Decrease Deduct Increase\n 5,036\n \n \n 4,010\n \n \n \n Net Decrease\n 1,026\n \n\n### Special Expenditure.\n\n \n Building Grants\n \n \n \n \n $ 30,000\n \n \n Furniture for Normal Schools...\n 250\n \n \n Equipment of Schools\n 1,770\n \n \n Books for Normal Schools\n 200\n \n \n Typewriters\n 695\n \n \n Total Increase\n 30,000\n \n \n Deduct Decrease\n 2,845\n \n \n Total Decrease\n 2,845\n \n \n Net Increase\n 27,155", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493892, "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": 283, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "14. School education :- \n\n15. University education, if any :-- \n\nName of School or College. \n\nPrivate School, Carmarthen Wales \n\nJames' school Gloucester \n\nLectures, Birkbeck College \n\nUniversity of Alberta & China, Canada. \n\nUniversity of Sheffield \n\nf. \n\nName of Principal. \n\nScholarships, Certificates. Degrees and other Honours. \n\nDates of joining and leaving. \n\nIt should be stated whether the degree is Honours or Pass; also in what class the candidate was placed in the examination qualifying for degree. \n\nand or Division ? \n\n279 \n\nW. James BFT President \n\n1894/1896 1894/1905 \n\n1906. part 1907 part. \n\nint \"ory. \n\n\"Nober 19105\", may 1914. \n\nProfessor Arnold. \n\n20/12/17 \n\npreparation for for dow matriculation. \n\n} \n\nB. A. \n\nHonours second class Psychology & Philosophy \n\nalso special course English Literature (three years) \n\nother Subjects taken: Physics I year \n\nMathematics 2 years \n\n16. Professional training as a teacher, if any :- \n\n(If a holder of the Board of Education's parchment certificate, the registered number of certificate and any distinctions in each part of the examination must be shown). \n\nNormal Training College. \n\nCalgary. \n\nAlberta \n\n4 months period only \n\n1/6/14 to 1/9/14. \n\n17. Teaching employment :- \n\n18. Other employment :- \n\nClassics 2 years \n\nHistory 2 years \n\nEconomics 1 year \n\nGeology Metallurgy scherriding. \n\nName of School (or place) where employed. \n\nName of Principal or Employer \n\nDates of joining and leaving. \n\nProvincial Normal School 1/9/1912 to 30/9/1913 \n\nmaster. \n\nLac La Biche School \n\nWhen Edmonton \n\nAlberta \n\nViking School. \n\nEducation. \n\nEdmonton \n\nPosition and character of work done, also salary received. \n\nall subjects as laid down by the Province. Salary 45 dollars per \n\n4/4/1912 to 25/9/1912. \n\nas above. \n\nmonth. to 5 dollars per month. \n\n(All employment to be entered in order of time), \n\n18 Wood at E C Shipping office. \n\nWar Service. 9th Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force \n\nValcartier Quebec. \n\nGloucestershire Regiment \n\nAB February \n\n1904/1910 \n\n28/9/1914 \n\nDermatical Infection Bay Pueral \n\nAn animista. \n\n\" \n\nmercantile \n\nPrivate \n\n13/1915 to 11/6/1919. 24 Lieutenant. Lieutenant aceptand. \n\nWounded France July 21st 1916. \n\nR. Bagnall wild 24/3/1918. \n\n11/4/1920 to date. \n\nSecretary to Flag Rear Admiral W Ansterf CB. \n\nofficer in charge Administration Civilian Assistant in charge of Cunard Equipment \n\n[OVER", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493955, "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": 346, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "24\n\nstudents, including one at Oxford and seventeen at Cambridge. We are also informed that the Federation of British Industries, and the English Electrical and Allied Manufacturers' Association have succeeded in arranging for the training of a first group of a few students.\n\nSchemes for British Education of Chinese,\n\nThe following is a résumé of the schemes so far suggested for strengthening Great Britain's share in the education of Chinese :-\n\n1. 1912. Sir Evan Spicer's proposal to found and maintain a Chinese university in Central China with 400,000l. out of the Boxer Indemnity Fund. This was rejected by the Treasury.\n\n2. 1918. Mr. Wilton's scheme, which falls under five general heads-\n\n(a.) Financial strengthening of certain British institutions already in existence in China (Tien-tsin, Tsinan, Hankow, Foochow and Shanghai).\n\n(b.) Financial assistance to Hong Kong University.\n\n(c) Establishment of a school at Canton, to act as feeder to Hong Kong University.\n\n(d) Financial assistance to Chinese technical institutions already in existence, and encouragement by means of advice and financial assistance in the foundation of others in industrial centres.\n\n(e.) Financial assistance to the technical department of the Peking University.\n\nFinancial assistance should take the form of a number of entrance and leaving scholarships. A large majority of the latter should be for technical training, especially in the various branches of engineering, and be tenable for three or four years in the British and Colonial universities, Hong Kong University, and the Peking University.\n\nMr. Wilton is not in favour of purely British educational institutions in China; and he recommends financial assistance to purely Chinese establishments, such as the some method of co-operation with Peking University. He further recommends Chinese Chambers of Commerce, industrial companies and the guilds concerned, to be arranged by British Chambers of Commerce for the establishment and maintenance of technical schools.\" \n\nAs an endowment fund for this scheme, which he admits is an expensive one, Mr. Wilton recommends the remission of the whole of the Boxer indemnity. He recommends also the appointment of a small commission to examine thoroughly (for at least a year) the whole question of financial control, as well as the details of an educational scheme.\n\n3. 1919. Liang Chi-Chao's proposal that Great Britain should return the outstanding amount of her share of the Boxer indemnity on condition that two modern universities should be founded in the country-one at Peking and one, perhaps, at Nanking under Sino-British joint management.\n\n4. 1919. The Tien-tsin British Chamber of Commerce's proposal that a levy on the paid-up capital of China companies would be a fair and reasonable method of raising funds for educational purposes. They quote the instance of a fee of 0.04 dollars for each 100 dollars of paid-up capital, which is levied annually by the Hong Kong Government. If a similar rate were levied through the registrar of companies at Shanghai, they estimate that a yearly revenue of 100,000 dollars (10,000l.) could be raised. The Tien-tsin Chamber agrees with Sir John Jordan, that the financing of a scheme for British educational propaganda in China is one primarily for the merchants themselves.\n\n5. 1920. The Department of Overseas Trade's proposal that any scheme put forward should provide for the arrival of fifty Chinese students per annum for a training course of about five years in Great Britain. Such students should be trained for one of the following vocations: civil engineering, mechanical engineering, mining engineering, electrical engineering, industrial chemistry, law, chartered accountancy.\n\n6. The China Association's scheme (prepared by Mr. H. B. Morse), which assumes that part of our share of the Boxer indemnity will be remitted, in the same way as the American share, and that the remission will amount to 80,000l. a year.\n\n* According to Mr. Bucchell Shen, Director of La Mission scolaire chinoise en Europe (\"Daily Mail of the 5th December, 1920), fifty of these are Chinese Government scholarship holders. They receive a grant of 240l. a year. Medicine and engineering are the subjects generally taken\n\n27\n\nThis sum should be paid to a Chinese commission one member of the commission should be a British subject, nominated by His Majesty's Legation, but in an advisory capacity only. The expenses of this commission should be borne by the Chinese Government in each year, one-eighth of the remitted indemnity, viz., 10,000l. should be allotted to each of four universities for students taking their studies in the English language. These universities should be (a) Tien-tsin, for Northern Mandarin; (b) Hankow, for Southern Mandarin; (c) Shanghai, for Central Coast dialects; (d) Hong Kong, for Cantonese. Provision should be made for joint Sino-British representation on the boards of control of these universities. 40,000l. a year should be allotted for fellowships for graduates of these universities proceeding to the United Kingdom for further study in universities there. While in the United Kingdom these students should be under the control of a joint Sino-British Advisory Council, expenses of which should be borne by the British Government.\n\n7. Federation of British Industries' and English Electrical and Allied Manufacturers' schemes (already being put into practice), which arrange for the training of a first group of a few Chinese students in Great Britain.\n\n8. The British Engineering Standards Association's proposal that His Majesty's Government should provide funds to render education for Chinese free at Anglo-Chinese colleges such as that in Tien-tsin; and to encourage graduates of such colleges to proceed to England for training in the chief steel works, and in branches of the mining industry. in civil engineering, and the administration and accounting of engineering undertakings.\n\nLAST of Prominent Educational Institutions in China.\n\nNames of Schools.\n\nNumber of Students.\n\nLocation.\n\nNationality.\n\nYale College of Medicine\n\nBoone University\n\nUniversity of Nanking\n\nAutora University\n\nSt. John's University\n\nSoochow University\n\nHong Kong University\n\nShantung Christian University\n\nNorth-West China University\n\nWest China Union University\n\nCanton Christian College\n\nGovernment University\n\nPeking University\n\nPeiyang Government University\n\nHunan University (Government)\n\nYale College in China,\n\n21\n\n53\n\n353\n\nWnchang, Hupel\n\n488\n\nNanking, Kiangst\n\n180\n\nShanghai, Kiangsu\n\n492\n\n416\n\nSouchow, Kiangsu\n\n220\n\nHong Kong\n\n103\n\nTsinan, Shautung\n\n-\n\n355\n\nSianfu, Shensi\n\nChengtu, Szechuan\n\nColleges and High Schools.\n\n525\n\nCanton, Kwangtung\n\nChristian College\n\n60\n\nHangchow, Cheklang\n\n145\n\nNingpo, Chekiang\n\n60\n\n17\n\nUnited Methodist College\n\n120\n\nWenchow, Chekiang\n\nCustoms College\n\n114\n\nPeking, Chilli\n\nChinese.\n\nNormal College\n\n409\n\nNorth China Union Theological College\n\n17\n\n2\n\nWomen's College\n\n38\n\n21\n\n51\n\nTsing Hua College\n\n624\n\nTien-tsin, Chilli.\n\n997\n\n87\n\nTungchow, Chibli\n\nAmerican.\n\n190\n\nKulangsu, Amoy, Fukien\n\nBritish.\n\n60\n\nAmerican.\n\n11\n\n11\n\n11\n\nCanton Christian College\n\n-\n\nEnglish Methodist College\n\nTrinity College\n\nAnglo-Chinese College\n\nNankai School\n\nNorth China Union College of Arts\n\nAnglo-Chinese College\n\nAmoy Girls' High and Normal School\n\nTalmage College\n\n87\n\nAmerican and British.\n\nAmerican.\n\nChinese and American.\n\nBritish.\n\nChinese.\n\n* Similarly Sir Charles Eliot (see paper 158944 of the 5th December, 1919), insists that the Indemnity Fund, if remitted, should be given to the Chinese Government under conditions which would ensure its being used to send Chinese students to British institutions or to found schools of which we approve.\n\nIf the money were distributed directly to British educational establishments by the British Government there would be two inconveniences (1) the Chinese Government would be Annoyed and feel no gratitude, (2) a special department would be needed to deal with the demands of all the rival educational and missionary claimants.”\n\n341", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493956, "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": 347, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "# Names of Schools. \n\n## Number of Students. \n\n## Location. \n\n## Nationality. \n\n \n Names of Schools\n Number of Students\n Location\n Nationality\n \n \n Yale College in China\n \n \n American (now one)\n \n \n Griffith John College\n \n \n American and British\n \n \n William Nast College\n \n \n Chinese, Canadian\n \n \n \n \n \n American\n \n \n Anglo-Chinese College\n 472\n Foochow, Fukien\n \n \n \n Foochow College\n 426\n \n \n \n \n Trinity College\n 850\n \n \n \n \n Women's College of South China\n 120\n \n \n \n \n Provincial Normal School\n 100\n Hwaiyang, Honan\n \n \n \n St. Andrew's College\n 56\n Kaifeng, Honan\n \n \n \n Higher Normal School\n \n Changsha, Hunan\n American\n \n \n \n 190\n Hankow, Hupeh\n British\n \n \n \n 160\n Kiukiang, Kiangsi\n American\n \n \n Fu-tan College\n 279\n \n \n \n \n \n 306\n Shanghai, Kiangsu\n Chinese\n \n \n McTyeire High School\n 289\n \n \n \n \n Medhurst College\n 220\n \n British\n \n \n Shanghai Baptist College and Theological Seminary\n 190\n \n American\n \n \n Shanghai Min-Lih School\n 520\n \n \n \n \n St. Ignatius Roman Catholic College\n 400\n \n \n \n \n Lowrie High School\n 90\n \n \n \n \n St. Mary's Hall\n 240\n \n \n \n \n Wu Pen Girls' School\n 200\n \n \n \n \n Kiangsu Provincial College\n 283\n Soochow, Kiangsu\n Chinese\n \n \n Laura Haygood Light School\n 105\n \n American\n \n \n Ellis Kadoorie College\n 300\n Canton, Kwangtung\n \n \n \n Kwangtung College\n 80\n \n \n \n \n Queen's College\n 700\n Hong Kong\n British\n \n \n Hong Kong College\n \n \n \n \n \n Canton Christian College\n \n Canton, Kwangtung\n \n \n \n St. Stephen's Girls' College\n 170\n Hong Kong\n \n \n \n Anglo-Chinese College\n 115\n Swatow, Kwangtung\n \n \n\n## Profesional and Technical Schools\n\n \n Profesional and Technical Schools\n Number of Students\n Location\n Nationality\n \n \n Medical Training College\n 56\n Hangchow, Chekiang\n \n \n \n North China Union Medical College for Women\n \n Peking, Chihli\n American and British\n \n \n Union Medical College\n 23\n \n \n \n \n Army Medical College\n 310\n Tien-tsin, Chihli\n \n \n \n Peiyang Medical College\n 900\n \n \n \n \n Union Medical College (merged in Shantung Christian University)\n \n Hankow, Hupeh\n Chinese, British\n \n \n Women's Medical College\n 10\n Soochow, Kiangsu\n \n \n \n Hackett Medical College for Women\n \n Canton, Kwangtung\n \n \n \n Medical College\n 66\n Mukden, Manchuria\n \n \n \n Union Medical College\n \n Tsinan, Shantung\n \n \n \n Government Engineering College\n 170\n Tangshan, Chihli\n \n \n \n Van Kirk Women's Industrial School\n 75\n Foochow, Fukien\n \n \n \n Honan Agricultural College\n 140\n Kaifeng, Honan\n \n \n \n Government Institute of Technology\n 600\n Shanghai, Kiangsu\n \n \n \n Nanyang Railway and Mining College\n 200\n \n \n \n \n Industrial College\n \n Canton, Kwangtung\n \n \n \n Technical Institute\n 600\n Hong Kong\n \n \n \n School of Agriculture\n 481\n \n \n \n \n Government College of Law\n \n Peking, Chihli\n \n \n \n Government Agricultural College\n \n Yunnanfu, Yunnan\n \n \n\nThe great impression made by the beau geste of the United States Government, as stated above, and its obvious success as a propaganda measure, suggested at once to many, who perhaps imperfectly realised the different bases on which the British and American indemnities had originally been estimated, the desirability of remitting the whole or part of the British share also for educational purposes. Mr. Clive's memorandum of the 12th August, 1919 (Confidential Print, \"Affairs of China,\" the 12th August, section 1), clearly sets forth the history of the indemnity, the proposals for its remission from 1912 onwards, and the attitude of His Majesty's Treasury. In brief, the Treasury regard the indemnity, quite correctly, as reimbursement for a definite expenditure, and as earmarked for the reduction of debt incurred thereby. On the 11th November, 1919, a question on the subject was asked in the House of Commons, and the Treasury, on being consulted, gave it to be understood that they adhered to their position and would yield only to a Cabinet decision. The Treasury ask the pertinent question: \"Is it desirable that the British taxpayer should be asked to provide for the establishment and endowment of a university in the centre of China?\" Stated in this form, it will be difficult to persuade the average British citizen that any such scheme is not a fresh and virulent outbreak of squandermania.\" Yet those best qualified to know are agreed that education of Chinese on British lines is not mere humanitarianism but a commercial investment of untold possibilities.\n\nThe arguments in favour of a remission of the Boxer indemnity are given in Mr. Clive's two memoranda (Confidential Print, \"Affairs of China,\" the 12th August, 1919, section 1; and the 4th February, 1920, section 1). Briefly they are (1) the danger and pressure of American competition, to which French competition may now be added; (2) the advantages to China, and to the world at large; (3) the gain to British political and commercial interests. These arguments apply equally to any educational scheme, however endowed. But more clearly affecting the question of the indemnity itself, is the fact that other countries may take a similar step (Japan has already intimated her intention of doing so). It is most undesirable that Great Britain should find herself forestalled by other Powers. To this, Sir Charles Eliot (in his criticisms attached to paper 158944 of the 5th December, 1919) adds the following cogent argument: \"It is very important that any funds given for educational purposes in China should take the form of a remission of the Boxer indemnity, and not, as I have heard it suggested, of a grant for special purposes in China. People in the Far East have become accustomed to this idea of remitting an indemnity, whereas any special grant would suggest both to the Chinese and to foreigners in China that Great Britain was attempting some new and perhaps aggressive schemes.\n\nIt must be remembered, too, that in consequence of China's entering the war, all payment of the indemnity was suspended for five years from 1917. In 1922, therefore, the question of a recontinuance of payment will arise. In 1917, His Majesty's Treasury was prepared to remit the indemnity altogether as an encouragement to China to join the Allies; and in 1922, strong opposition to recontinuance may be expected, not only from the Chinese Government, who will plead that they have no money to pay with, but also from sections of enlightened opinion at home, who will object to the continued mulcting of an allied and democratic Power for the sins of the absolutist Manchu Government, by means of an indemnity, which appears to be an inheritance from the bad old days of militant imperialism. The changed spirit of the times may be so opposed to a recontinuance of payment, that it may be advisable to cut an inevitable loss by remitting the indemnity as an act of grace and for definite educational purposes.\n\nThere are undoubtedly very strong arguments on the side of those who wish for an immediate remission of the indemnity for the education of Chinese. But it must be open to doubt whether Chinese education in itself would be sufficient ground for asking the Treasury to forego a substantial part of the indemnity in the present state of our finances. England has suffered much more from the war than China. But, if for general reasons of policy, and among them we may properly include those based on Chinese educational grounds, it is decided to forego some or all of the indemnity, then it is perfectly clear that this would be the best way of financing an educational scheme.\n\nThe point which must be made perfectly clear, however, in this connection is that the Boxer Indemnity Fund is not a treasure trove, a windfall for light-hearted spending; but that every penny of this fund which may be remitted to the Chinese, is equivalent to a tax of an equal amount on the citizens of the United Kingdom.\n\nThe balance of our share of the Boxer indemnity (including interest at 4 per cent.) is approximately 11,000,000l,* payment being spread over a period of twenty-three years.\n\n## Conclusion\n\nFinally, the education of Chinese on British lines is undoubtedly a national and, indeed, an imperial interest. Such a policy must tend to promote British influence both directly, through the Chinese who receive the education, and indirectly, through those with whom those Chinese come in contact. It must be good propaganda, as being evidence of our goodwill towards the Chinese and as affording a practical expression of our interest in them. On the intellectual side, it should tend to create respect for British cultural and political attainments. On the political side, it should incline the Chinese to regard their powerful neighbour, Japan, in a truer perspective; and, at the same time, it should encourage China to help herself and to achieve a greater measure of administrative order and efficiency. On the economic ...\n\n* The exact amount in May 1921 was 9,740,600l. 9s. 2d., including principal and interest. Payment should be completed in 1945.\n\nPage 28\n\n...\n\nPage 91\n\nF 342 E", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 494604, "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": "CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3]", "page_number": 149, "title": "CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3]", "content_text": "Application for Appointment to the Colonial Service. 146\n\nForm to be filled up by the Applicant himself, and returned by post to the Assistant Private Secretary (Appointments), Colonial Office, London.\n\nN.B. In normal circumstances a candidate should not call at the Colonial Office until he receives a written invitation to do so. The Assistant Private Secretary (Appointments) cannot undertake to see anyone who calls without such invitation, though he will endeavour to do so if the matter is urgent. The hours for interview are 3-5 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.\n\nName in full\n\nState whether British-born or Naturalised;\n\nif latter, give particulars\n\nDate of Application...\n\nProfession or Occupation\n\nAddress\n\nFather's Name\n\nProfession or Occupation\n\nAddress\n\nIf dead, his Name and Profession should nevertheless be given.\n\nAlexander White\n\nBritish born.\n\n7th November 1929.\n\nTeacher.\n\nSchool Quarter Garden Rd Amg King.\n\nRobert White\n\nFarmer.\n\nDead\n\nDay and year of birth...\n\n(A birth certificate must be enclosed. It will be returned.)\n\nPlace of birth...\n\nAge last birthday\n\n14 March 1883.\n\nKillymagle Eastle Fave Field. Co. Tyrone. Ireland.\n\n39\n\nWhether single, married or a widower\n\nNumber of children..\n\nSons\n\nDaughters\n\nMarried\n\nFour\n\nNil\n\nFour\n\nAged respectively. 15, 12, 7, 5\n\nAppointment desired. Assistant Master under the Angking Education Department.\n\n[If you do not apply for a particular class of appointment, you should state to what Colonies you would go, and what is the lowest salary that you would accept.]\n\nEducation\n\nSchools (general and professional).\n\nMention the Schools or Colleges at which you received your education; and give in each case the date of entry and leaving, and any academic distinctions obtained, and public examinations passed. The highest form you reached at school should be stated.\n\n“Parkanaur”, Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, Ireland.\n\nFrom 1888 to 1898 (Passed Public Competitive Examination for appointment as P. Teacher from Elta, via.).\n\nThe Model School, Dunmanway Co. Cork Ireland.\n\nFrom August 1899 to June 1901. Passed Public Competitive Examination for Entrance to Training College from Senior P. Class.\n\nChurch of Ireland Training College, Kildare Place, Dublin, Time Sept. 1901 to July 1903.\n\n(Smith Memorial Prize in Ancient & Modern History),\n\n(General Synod (two firsts) in Religious knowledge & Church History)\n\n(Passed with distinction The College final exam).\n\nPlayed for 1st XI. College Football Team.\n\nHeld position of Prefect in College.\n\nIf you have obtained any athletic distinctions or have held any position of responsibility at School or College, you should state it here.\n\nState here any knowledge you possess of any language other than English.\n\nSome knowledge of Latin, French, & Spanish.\n\nN.B.--Applications for more than one branch of the Service can be made if desired. If you have any preference as between different branches or different Colonies, etc., it should be stated here.\n\nCu-100-9,20\n\n[TURN OVER]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495319, "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": "CO129-480 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [4-7]", "page_number": 338, "title": "CO129-480 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [4-7]", "content_text": "322\n\n[Any farther information which may be considered necessary should be written on this page, and not in a separate letter.]\n\nApplication for Appointment to the Colonial Service.\n\nForm to be filled up by the Applicant himself, and returned by post to the Assistant Private Secretary (Appointments), Colonial Office, London.\n\nNB—In normal circumstances a candidate should not call at the Colonial Office until he receives a written invitation to do so. The Assistant Private Secretary (Appointments) cannot undertake to see anyone who calls without such invitation, though he will endeavour to do so if the matter is urgent. The hours for interview are 3-5 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.\n\nName in full\n\nChristina Davidson Wilson\n\nState whether British-born or Naturalised;\n\nif latter, give particulars\n\nBritish\n\nDate of Application...\n\n19.23.\n\nProfession or Occupation\n\nMental Nurse\n\nAddress\n\nGovernment Lunatic Asylum, Stanley thing\n\nFather's Name...\n\nCharles Stewart-\n\nProfession or Occupation\n\nDoctor of Medicine\n\nAddress\n\nDeceased.\n\nIf dead, his Name and Profession should nevertheless be given.\n\nDied—4th 1887\n\nDay and year of birth...\n\n(A birth certificate must be enclosed. It will be returned.)\n\n18 2\n\nPlace of birth...\n\nUckhall, Scotland.\n\nWhether single, married or a widower.\n\nMarried\n\nNumber of children.\n\n1 Son, 0 Daughters\n\nAge last birthday\n\n34.\n\nAged respectively...\n\n1\n\nAppointment desired.\n\nJoint post with husband in a Lunatic Asylum\n\nSalary (joint)\n\n£400 p.s.\n\nOther emoluments\n\nEducation (general and professional).\n\nMention the Schools or Colleges at which you received your education; and give in each case dates, and any scholastic distinctions obtained, and public examinations passed. The highest form you reached at school should be stated.\n\nPrivate School, Wishaw, Scotland 1892-1897\n\nHigh School, Wishaw, Scotland 1897-1900\n\nHigh School, Glasgow, Scotland 1900-1903\n\nCommercial College, Stanifullon, Scotland 1903-1904\n\nIf you have obtained any athletic distinctions or have held any position of responsibility at School or College, you should state it here.\n\nState here any knowledge you possess of any language other than English.\n\nB.—Applications for more than one branch of the Service can be made if desired. If you have any preference as between different branches or different Colonies, etc., it should be stated here.\n\n[TURN OVER]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-480 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 497571, "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": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]", "page_number": 257, "title": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]", "content_text": "247 \n\n- 20 \n\n— \n\nThe most important matters with which these Ordinances deal were:- \n\n**The Treaty of Peace**, (No. 1)-The object of which was to modify certain provisions of the Treaty of Peace Order, 1919, the Treaty of Peace (Austria) Order, 1920, the Treaty of Peace (Bulgaria) Order, 1920, and the Treaty of Peace (Hungary) Order, 1921, as amended, for the purpose of adapting the provisions of the said Orders to the circumstances of the Colony. \n\n**The Police Supervision**, (No. 4)-The object of this ordinance was to provide for police supervision of certain persons. It was found desirable that, with a view to preventing crime, the police should be empowered to supervise persons convicted of serious offences and also of persons believed to be bad characters. \n\n**The Emergency Regulations**, (No. 5)-This ordinance was passed with a view to giving the Governor in Council, in case of emergency or public danger, power to make such regulations as may appear desirable in the public interest. \n\n**The Supreme Court (Original Jurisdiction) Emergency**, (No. 7)-This was to empower the Chief Justice, as necessity may require, to appoint temporarily solicitors to conduct cases in the Original Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. \n\n**The Registration of Imports and Exports**, (No. 12)-The object of this ordinance was to simplify the collection of trade statistics and at the same time to remove some of the formalities which inconvenienced the import and export trade. \n\n**The Rents**, (No. 14)-This ordinance was passed in order to extend temporarily the provisions of the Rents Ordinance, 1921, with certain amendments. \n\n**The Industrial Employment of Children**, (No. 22)-The object of which was to carry out, so far as possible, the recommendations of the Commission on the Industrial Employment of Children which was appointed by H.E. the Governor on the 24th March, 1921. \n\n## IV. EDUCATION \n\nNo important changes have taken place in the Education Department during the year under review. The staff, depleted by causes due to the war, is being gradually brought up to normal strength again.\n\nThe total number of pupils at schools in the Colony, excluding the Police School and the uncontrolled schools in the New Territories, are:- \n\n| Type of Schools | Number of Pupils (English Schools) | Number of Pupils (Vernacular Schools) | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Government Schools | 19 | 3,582 | 3,601 |\n| Military Schools | - | 131 | 131 |\n| Excluded Private Schools | 12 | 345 | 357 |\n| Grant Schools | 2,770 | 948 | 3,718 |\n| Controlled Private Schools | 6,407 | 20,120 | 26,527 |\n| Private Schools, New Territories | - | 4,385 | 4,385 |\n| Technical Institute | 405 | 495 | ... |\n| **Total** | **13,730** | **25,484** | **39,214** (sic) |\n\nThe most important schools, apart from the excluded schools, are Queen's College for Chinese, four District Schools as its feeders, and the Belilios Public School for Chinese girls. There is an Indian School of growing importance now housed in a new building presented to the Colony by Sir Elly Kadoorie. Kowloon School and Kowloon Junior and Victoria Schools for children of British parentage have an average attendance of 183. There is also a school for the children of the Peak District with an average attendance of 50. The Diocesan School and Orphanage and St. Joseph's College are important boys' schools in receipt of an annual grant. The Italian, French, and St. Mary's Convents, and the Diocesan Girls' School, are the most important of the English Grant Schools for girls. \n\nThe Hongkong Technical Institute affords an opportunity for higher education of students who have left school. Instruction was given in 1922 in Building Construction, Machine Drawing, Mechanics, Chemistry (Practical and Theoretical), Physics, Electricity, Commercial English, French, Shorthand, Book-keeping. Classes for men and women teachers, both \"English\" and \"Vernacular\", are a feature of the Institute. \n\nThe lecturers are recruited from the members of the Medical and Educational faculties of the Colony, and from the Department of Public Works, and receive fees for their services. The Institute is furnished with a well-equipped Chemical Laboratory and excellent Physical apparatus. \n\nThe University of Hongkong, incorporated under the local University Ordinance, 1911, and opened in 1912, is a residential University for students of both sexes for the promotion of Arts, ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500971, "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": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "164\n\n10\n\nCLEAR OUT THE BOLSHEVISTS.\n\n(Continued from page 5.)\n\nThe effect of this action by the Canton Authorities has been to cause a complete stoppage of the Export of Sugar from the Colony.\n\nNo Question of War.\n\nLord Hailey's Speech.\n\nThis Colony is not threatened by possible rain.\n\nAfter our long waiting we are relieved.\n\n(Loud applause).\n\nStarving Out Shameen.\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925.\n\nTo relieve the situation.\n\nIf present measures are serious and urgent need, and say delay in dealing.\n\nTheillers Railway Government has taken the base of 20% of the\n\nthe latter part of the telegram, retaining the wording generally.\n\nHe pointed out that they could not possibly have the information to support those here whose interests would be reduced to ashes. Bas-Government officials, Mr. Boulton declared.\n\nDuring my visit to Swatow, I will most certainly be influenced by the Hongkong Government, and the rate to and from Hongkong, and I will venture to say that such intervention was one gentleman referred to Hongkong.\n\nHave a far larger problem to face by Russian officers. All this revenue is derived from the\n\nat Canton,\n\nDantun.\n\nard\n\ninterests\n\nA Speaker Heckled. Mr. Somerset Fitzroy\n\nCanton authorities!\n\nCleveland Nat. Rosevelt.\n\nWhat can we get there, for the reason that at that it is a source of wealth to the\n\na strong majority Government, may I understand has that a further meeting for the purpose of protesting against the\n\nUrest Britain but the time for talking is passed. cm gind is now second the resolution.\n\nattitude of drift, which is fatal to Europe would be silaze la 29 It a the time for action, for do-\n\nsaid: Sir. Lalies, and Gentlemen, strong action in this canter. Fur over two mouths we have\n\nThe telegram we are asked to send is plain.\n\n31 appeals to the\n\nSwatow's Voice.\n\n\"The, let us have the blaze\" ait is extremely unfortunate that support and abide by the decisions tion.\n\nwith confidence that long ere¦ Prime Minister to have Treatica: Mr. A. Rogowan (Swatow)\n\nof that meeting, and desire near-manber of the audience shouted, thin crisis sheale kave arisen ut a\n\nand leave the Port of Canton mia, the strong representations carried on which are Imperative supported the resolution.\n\n\"He zara: parution in one cable. Gladly while nonther told the speak that time when la London we are try\n\nprovided they unit Hongkong which, we andarstood, were from for cor commercial prosperity.\n\nMr. Chairman, ladies eun gentle-share expere/\n\nhe was not discussing the acing to impress the Home people which still further destres Britissime to vinte eshted Hume by our stresses the fact that the present af haww been specially request-\n\nMr. J. R. Greig, who said he had firm but singly asking a series of questions,\n\nBritain by the Hongkong exbibit ion is an Ant of open, hostility Commerce would ensure spedy and\n\nthan thusa morths, and independent Steenber of Scouterne in Swalow basised the nerealty for taking\n\nVenezuela Cited\n\nat Wembley. In Great Britain go- to Great Britain and gray cient action by the Home Gay-of Yeking, are dolely responsible to represent them and to associate immoriste action.\n\nHe had hemn Afr. Fitzroy referred to whating to stand aside and see Hong- and deliberately violates her Trea-rament\n\nfor this hopet of British subjects, the British community in Swatowall wound the world and fled that happened at Verregels and satû kung revert to its forme fahing fles with Chink.\n\nWhen, in coteequence of sag tuns skipa, and goods, and the the Cen- with any rebutions reat to the Britain was the most hated nation the restle\n\nPER Wal President village and native huts\"!\n\nsu ihon public meeting of the 27th July, on Government have openly debate Goverment by fongong, throughout the world. That was Rosevelt within three or four let us withdraw Hongong from our telegram was sent to the For-\n\nolured their intention of destroy- Articla II of the Treaty of Tisutain hearse the was too lenient with days sent the whole American the exhibition.\n\nwign. Office by the Envenior, we had long by every nuans in the power, which opened Swatow and othes fire poovie with wegri she had to out there and Great Brivals had\n\nSingapore Scheme Useless.\n\nevery renaust to expect that at lasi Hongkong, its trade and prosperity Southern parts for foreign trade deal.\n\nfe is the rennet Celong to climb down,\n\nProceeding. Mr. Bonitoa refer- Bolts through Hongkong and of car Hanne Government would stop\n\nTheir challenge is quite plair and state the \"\n\nis amel that we have gut,\" the spaaker declared,\n\nIeed to the Singapore Base which Mr. Best: It is not true.\n\nthe port of British Piecsgouds This ingenti be Cap and du save grows daily more definite\n\nBritish subjects are permitted to and why hour not they protacije false,\n\nhe regarded primarily to a scheme into Craton and the interfa;\n\nMr. Fitzroy: The telegram gives a plain-state-tary on rate with wheessure in\n\nwas there and to add to the defence of Hongkong.\n\nthereby causing disustvous Jusaes\n\nof shipping earns, which they pleare and to propel to ani\n\nhelped to blow up the place. Mercantile Marine's Action.\n\nit Great Britain was going is 20- both to British and Chinees mer tord that no repis, and not even an speas for themselves, and tells the top'osrure with their vessels\n\nMr. T. 7.* Laureta, o the M. Best: The whole of it to fmain paszive in this matter and chants in this Colony and to the acknowledgement of our degram\n\nPrime Minister of the recent pro- and archumdise,\" which is The Phina Coast Offrers Guild, enid: klee.\n\nĮ seg Hongkong ruined through Bol- Expor trade of Lancashire and nearly a month ago, has been claustion by Canton excluding alley bound on with at the Chahman, ladies and yousie.\n\naly. teror in comlusion suidjabevist influence, then why not Yorkshire, which st result in recived here. Even as to the pre.\n\nDritish vessels from that port, and the beatles\n\nbetween. Great on. on behalf of the mercantile was entirely opposed\n\n13abandon the Singapore scheme and farther very considerable and ju-sent nothing appears to have been shy other vessels from Canton if Reitairy and China and theatrs marine I should like to say that at creating permanent becply done by the Home foveagent for they first call at 12 ageng.\n\nThis embrace the Treaty of Nonius meeting of the mastere and ment in Great Britain.\n\nor relie, and we are here now, proferation by Canton our tele- which is that British cubjenteneres hold on Thursday afterno: En, to express our strongest indiz-gram rightly deportives as \"ar gut with the trailles, and establish fast, it was decided that the follow.\n\nThe tante-Hongkong problem ination at sneh treatment for our of een hostility to Great Britains shall be allowed to reside for ing telegram should be sent to London.\n\n(Auplouse). The Colony's Defence Contribution, the rarese of carrying on their Secretaries who are entirely separate and distleet from Horse Government.\n\nWe tall the Prime Minister of molestation or restraint,\n\nDercantile parynis that in any other part of Chira Suck treatment is outragevas uril\n\nwithave Tis is very rect and lime felt the pulse of all the stand for pstalatiere and love Both vitally important, lee every effort nations interested in China and auf country and for my fellow men owing to the fact that Gantou doen intolerable treatment, and, failing disnatrons losses to British andare trentres have been corricials with Tuppertal go toungulse and is in robelitos eller shortly from the Ueme Gev-Chinese metchisiz by this a that and absolutely violated not only in Gulle, Marine Engineers Asenciale thought thes\n\nMorchautz Service peaceful solution of this problem. The world over, hit I annet clauid Leave tolerate this position the Home against the Central Government we must pursolves do what of the Cantos authorities and that\n\nMercanthie Maring Services Whatever action was reecssury to Government is taking up to-day.\n\nat Feking and that on Conferences we can in our own interests and to by promot action new pose Nasa) apin and letter bet in the in.\n\nhoid a: Peking on driff or extra-te interests of those dependent and Minars Ferran would speedilytics of them, and my personal Association and Navigsters and the flows Government who hail\n\nWhy should she remain so milent Experience has been that with the Sercial Insurere Comply tu prezzor knowledge of the anti so passive as she fe?\n\nThere territoriality or any other Ques\n\nHongkong hard is only vor excuse. We state the fact that is 25) Prent Boisbevist authorities in urge the Imperial Government to situation than tions can possibly assist this f\n\npaver they way he considerat take immediate action with regard (Disent).\n\n27 years residence here i hava i need not dilato upon what is years this Colons has remitted as rape of paper which have been to Canton and China general the last speaker and entirely over to spons about Hongkong.\n\nI have Colony in the retaulest degree in\n\nThe chairman remarked that heen to England twine and I like common knowledge- the deliberate the House Government a defence!\n\nPerther delay may be minous cas and heartless attempt to starve our contritation of 4 millions dullers, and de unt fuzelton.\n\nCanton Government legal.\n\nJacked the axplanation he had seen it grow solid, stolid and og in dully losses be this Clonthere and the uncooked, organiz- milion dollars. These defence oment of Canton has pat inte fone That, ladies and gentlemen, was for intervention should take, at Hoe know anything about\n\nShameau, mno with of our trude the 1924 contribution betas vi\n\ning a disastrous affect on the mer mede that while they made some secure and yet the strange thing cente\n\narine.\"\n\n(pause)\n\nsuggestions wä of inermeing 201 rukowa\n\nregard to the is that comparatively due people nagnitude: moreover for Brilia sud eurders tack\n\nupou adlitary equilations Hongkong very effective embargo the telegram ant by the mercather of course fully realised that Hongkong.\n\nAt one menting here Government debyy decisive Shades with\n\nSwator i British and Jay say are never behind. Ther soleiriter for the decision of bong as just aufheient la cover\n\nare boycottert. at Canton tu the future than that and gel inure, was told us by an taxes paid by our business men and What about it? Are we to accept Arst line of defence after your file Majesty's Government. (Au- the point of a poncil on the map\n\nexo-vitarse, Mr. Helstrom, the workmen to the Government, and these nuditions withee undest? Boyal Navy. (Angimuse).\n\nlevel. The meeting waa noij and that is hot Hongkong exista There is no question whatever wadish Consal in Canton, at bir contributed to by every tue of 25 (Cres of \"No\").\n\nThu trouble\n\npresuming to dictate to the one in the minds of musands and of making War on Chion bus aiment Isaturs.\n\nAt the same lenaedectly or indirectly, down to the started in Caufan and must he stil\n\nGovernment what they should de thousands of our fellow men and ply es ousting the present via M Mangowan, ay out and respect-tumblent coolie, and we can with Carlos. Cantor is avite Chairun, todies and gentlemen, but was simpis\n\ntoworen to-day. It is just the enily anti-British Bulsbetik faed resident of Swaton, cold how longer endure what we rightly das-separate and independent of the rise to eantess any digressent voice the foeting of the Colory: polat of a pencil,\n\nThey do not lion which has recently succeed-tast port, controlled by the Canon the to the Prime Minister as die Central Government of Pikity, with the latter part of the telegram that compling must be dure and realise, they cannot realise that it\n\nGovernment, eculd secure peace at present imolerable ed in seizing the reins of new intervals only, and by the payment and bevralt of the business of this unitors the Tieda are kicked stres down to what this wetita diplomacy of Prking had so far Britain of theeands upon bou- strangulate wat has been badly treated and it is aropand to rele. When we done quickly. Applause). The in a source of income to Great It may be added that such talenting some years, or millions and Colasy.\n\nThere is no possible chance of the proposes to send to the Ilome Gos-adately and entirely fabled and saves of pounds and that it brings We have \"carried ou\" here, ali resmpton of trade as before. The erment wil done amant 10? vention will be hadled with the wiilions of dots. Has Swator\n\nit was not realised that there trade and commerce and work to not so paid the town would have praise to car own men and acreen, tags of this trade will hit the Coley demands that the Britina Gov-was problem in the tooth, our fellow me gresiest suisfaction by the op pressed and terrorised people after, and the Chinese mex-and to those of other races we of Hongtans sary hard. harder crerunt deliver au ufignatum at\n\nda, hut shall we lo to awaken cheats therefore proferred to pay. have so unselfishly and cheerfully than many resise.\n\nBritish ijonce is the\n\nfr Rost who then wonted the Chem? Exception has been taken Apart from the facensestable\n\n\"demand.\" but I Mr. Macgowan fold of the inallest our serial services factud ping interesta are very large in Apaizare), Fase you stopped for Platform from the body of the hall is the word right of British subjects in se le nder of the Bush ling police, volunteers uit oder Swalew, while farge quantities of one money he thinks were the referred to Mr. Fiteroy's statement consider it is not strong enough.\n\nColony of every race to the pro-\n\nin Swatos, sad that any Chase difer. We feel we not British gouds are imported yearly-mags7\n\nBe We want words that wall makɛ all with regard to Yeugenols. a Vulcer \"No me to was clently thank every one of these All te has diy akcppet. I have stop (Laughter and applause).\n\nizely wrote in agley that Praiat least for this generation, thet tection of the Bravish Flag a deght speaking a Briton\n\ndeclared that the speaker was en-Britons reatine once and for all, frnce of the provisions of the severely utahed, Acy sangan men\n\nwonzey. (Applause) much pleasure in supporting this You are recognising a belligerent, dent Roosers sent the American Hongkong is a tremendous asset, 5 Retou was burned. But such services are the duty of telegram to the Price Minister, and Can you point out any time in the Treaties between Great Britain akt and Charma, thus Colors has by its Swatow k cil instractions the Government, and the over. I hope prompt action will be taken lustery of the British nation when\n\nCanton; the void of the trelement is paid the taxpayers of the flame wiborities to stop it as weugnised a twopeury half end who was in power. Langheading interests in the Best repeated convidscable defence cron tribution for the past 2 years as a Canton, and waless woad Hongwong to perform Paese duties.\n\nthis reign of terror in Routh China, penny belligerant? aquired a right to the active supranged in Canton there could to when for our payment to Govt should he to say that if say al-gita bask to the\n\nEr and applause). President that Britain dres not relia port of the British Government and improvement in Swetow. We erament of dai millious yearly, we tack is made on Carton, a similar when the\n\nRocrevat would ever have done it and ventise it soon through those Souths wha fighting auch a thing. Suci d-fence untrutionz atownten easily imagine the ict of our require tall protection of ane lives shack should he made on Swalow. Jesinst the North, when the whole ceeded to give the history of the the north, she looks like coming The speaker pro-red hats, those red heads from Altogether during de period to one and children in the Treaty and property, and full protection because, unfortunately. Swatow if that Continent wax is the great Verczucia tremble pointing sat very near to losing it tha sum of 4 milion dollars, the posts under these conditiona: to tende with any bi accordamen in Kearatony and just now emire throes of war. Did the British that it was all over a guid Arid\n\nMuch Pay, Little Work, 1924 contribution being the record the refused a cup of roll or with her treaties.\n\nly under Rad rate (Appinuse).\n\nĮGasorament veroguise them? Not! Amount of 4% million dollars, and even water for for sick and dying Immediate and Decisive Actio\n\nAmerica butige in and Mr. Boulton declared that since the there, A Shungen Speaker.\n\na bit of it. You have a small com have naturally been couridered by child. She and her child wight\n\nHongkong, with its long ni\n\nbegan as usual with a lot of big 1922 strike the Chinese workman thie Colony as an Insurance Fuse for want of the bare\n\nMr. C. B. Pearock (Shameen): audity when you pay are aging talk. (laughter). \"That is about was not worth 50 ger cent of what contribution to the lome Govern-\n\ngentie- contrary to Peking. You have for the urotection of the rights artes\n\nment for protection, has been built Mr. Chairman, ladies and\n\nsm going your treaties with Chipp. Where they are any use for the he was ten years ago. Bomele secured to Eritish enhjoete\n\nup by British and allied enterprise then, I am afraid I\n\nor other Bolshevik, Socialism arð | speaker declared amii iughter. Treaties with China.\n\nwhich the Canton autheities would and work. Thousands of disappoint you in what I have to the proper place to get The\n\nMr. P. Boulton said the troubio Communison had got inte redbe na. They world bring us workers, the class which helped to say use in Shaman we have place where the Foreign Office which we had passed through thecus gud now they were sur to get to the are condition as Caatamake these millions of contrition not yet had an opportunity of going at the present moment. There lage tre months, two years, ten as much as they could for as little\n\nAccordingly the residents of itself, and of Bluesin, which is rare now, through the action of the reading the telegram which it is one, and only cue channel years and more justiced the as possible.\n\nHe heartily supported This Colouy at a great Mass In- state of anares, brutal des Canton authorities out of work proposed to send to London. As tough which we can deal and sertion that British interests and the resolution and again phasised dignation Meeting demand that the Sotism, cring, proverts and atter here at are forcibly detained in a rate I can tell you that so for that is through the diploratie: British quahties of justice, to- that unless Great Britain realised British Government deliver arratser\n\nCanton where they have lost or as the attratten there is regeerned, harnes of Pelting.\n\ntegrity and bonusly bad bass ciao. the situation quickly sad teak At this point thure was con cen robbed of all their little we are still cooking war on food,\n\ning down due to the fnci Mat Jar-promet and decisive action, Bong- ing the years of piracy, marder kong would be raïvod. The policy of Canton is frightvinga or capital, that and their doing our wo washing. pisaning siderable dent, and one of (A) To restore Capton us an\n\nThe Chatman, replying to Mr. Oper Treats Port for Tracefulness, terrorist. The authorities Families being dewlute. As the our own house and duing to beat the audience shouted \"Go and outrage, carried on droogh-\n\nI want to the West River and see what out the Chidon delta, Britain had Peacock, who asked whether the between Chinese and the bere have applied these methods Coutua cauilenge to us neartes Chaugster).\n\nthe-amplify the Charmeen's opening Teklog can do” amid laud cheers. Dever effectiveh Jutervenud and regulations regardius akipping were Foreign Treaty Powers to ruin tangkong, but have so tur accomplishmen Britons\n\narticle Ma. Fitzroy: Let me go on alto-day was the linaz. One cen-affleial, said thai Sir James Jamie.\n\nnot understand, Mr. Boulton pre-jsen had addresSEU full accordance with the failed, for Hongkong is not Russia elves and their allies woust also be remarks in regard to the\n\nthe Foreign Provisions of the Tresting or Ching, and we are not Russian thrown out of employment here, under the heading of \"Sir Jamestite farther,\n\n\"We are dealing with Canton in fceeded, how it in that & Govern-Secretary at Canton, Mr. We Hon- between Ching and those We depend for success aron indus oliriously, unless we obtain Jamieson\" in the Dallu Prean. The\n\ntry and absulate falmese, fastics adegante help now from the naye hain key aid you rectienlis other respects\" anusite: Interruptor most with such trenendous inter-nir challenging bin, to deny that Powers.\n\nesta 1 Britain has in Hongkong they were not official, and up to the (B) To expel ! Bolsheviks and generosity in all our dealings, and military forces--help for which word for word what i wanted to exclaimed.\n\nThere followed some disorder, to-day should remain pausive and present he had not received any tbefand we liave here a Government we have paid from the taxes of the and it is not ceressary for me\n\nOne early in the next few days Sir Kwangtang Province. not excelled in these resprets by people, we can pay as 44 million repeat it. I should like to during which the Chairman apseemingly indiferent (C) To disarm and disband the any other Gurement in the world, or any other samt to the Govers remind you, however, that a snopealed to the meeting to give the recall 26 years ago, when the New James Jamieson was likely to deat\n\narticle appesyed a few dayy later (apeaker a fair hearing.\n\nTerritories on the Kowloon side anther with the matter. For that sole Waypen College Syplause), and which has the conmeut in taxation, Applause).\n\nAnd has the British Gaverstoeat which was a gradging retractio) on\n\nwere given to Great Britiau youson, the Chairman said they Cadets who are in reality dence of all under er dag, rich) vome points and a poor attempt la Mr. Fitzroy Nar the ass! There was pure irable in the feh pastised in embodying the Russian trained troops, sed and poor alike. (Applause). We no obligation townude these work-\n\nTerritories\n\nA few mat shedstorms referred to in their telegram. send back to their native, shall therette defear a wanden als left destitute and towards Jussi ches, but they did thing you ask them to do is to\n\nwere huned down and if I recall Had the Carton Government seen places those who are tack upon our fade and liberties, thane who will be en left and shatish the atter from a Slamentira at the Bolshevists\n\nand shall emerge stronger andį we remain 2511 inactive while the merchant who is bore today pinot know the exact meaning rightly a few policemer were shot to deny imraedissly their receg- Cantonese,\n\nPerhaps some of you mean! There were considerable trozbie miston of that proclamation, it prouid But at what Cantos craitenge aereeds and of the Samen point of view that (D) To cease hoyent of British brighter than ever.\n\ngood workers, so to speak, perish? and inferusing them that we in the Chinese Roshevista, but at any with telephone communications cos have appeared in thus retegraal. Goods,\n\nJeost to us all!\n\nAnd, incentime, with the thou. Certainly not: We cannot and Shameen were not being for rate what you are ashing is that it did not last long. (E) To\n\ncare\n\nscapegoal. It may interest you lofts whole of thean paople shall bej The Trouble Spinthered. propagatio.\n\nEDH And intelligersahuti not do so,\n\nknow that the first article in the turned out I think I as hear in Voder Threat of\n\nworkers and merchants of all races! These people, and ali non-British Rongkong Daily Press was referred that an ero the ultimatonealation and a party from three tiers. There would be \"Complete Naval Blockade by wże stand by us ners, we cannot in the Cology, look to us and to our to by Mr. C. Wa,\n\nC who which was delivered to Serbis in different sturees was organised swer from the Canton Government \"Britain of Centon and Its continue passively to endure this Government for strength and help is\n\n11914 by Austria (A Voice: \"Non- to advance on the Territories. 1and when they pressed their for an \"net inbouring waters and/or Bloyeett with its murders, robberies, to them is this erisis and we must allest\n\nin the Cantonscher\"). It is the same sort of remember being ir. Telpu when answer the only reply they would \"such other zetion\n\nsand gross violation or treaty rights or fail then.\n\nadministration and who is believed thing that you want to destroy the Centers mounted the head of revs was that they had nothing \"Mejesty' Government may (Applause).\n\nOur Government must he urged to hos mederate with a very large the sovereignty of a nation and column which marked through to do with Vem but that it was We understand that sony foure: to prompt and vigorous action following. His chicrease to this take it by force. Very well, how the village. The ag was host-party a strikers' proclamation. The Ultimatum should also state fielegrants have been sent, either istua Retion weig, I think. bral article, I think, speaks tac itsell do you propose to do this wicked, a royal salute of 21 gets fred i\n\nSir Henry Pellock Administratiere our Governor to the Coloria 64opreted 5 All Chinese and other He referred to it in a speech ou\n\nSir Henry Poleek: Mr. Chair- ruush he established at Canton Cfice by one Chamber of Cora-non-British here of both the work August 175h in Canton. Il a situa- ve sort your allimatum (A and from that day to this there.\n\nValee: \"Send 3 telagem,\" has cover been any trouble in Tan, ladies and gentlemen, I have ing and merchant classes, and, as tien of this kind I think the greatest (Laughter. which will observe no the fall all merce to the Foreign Offer.\n\nExactly, but that ki. (Applause) Now an-made two in thres apecches ou the existing Treaties between Chios; We sun iso assured, and can stated in our proposed telegram, care should be exercised by the is not whac WC are disticipate that if something like had subject of the Canton trouble dar- and the Foreign Powera.\n\nquite holteve, that our local Cham \"scab intervention by us will be Hongkong newryapet in regard to ussing at the present comment.been due during the years of ing the past few weeks and I de It is the unanimous aginter offer of Commerce, and especially balled with the greatest satiara what they which. (Hear hour). We are sending a telegram in fronble, the rents of discontent not intend to repeat wyself this this Meeting that Brinsh inter-nur Governor and our Chairman, ou by the oppressed and terrorised Indications of disuntion, as the wich we are wearing the func-which this Colony has endured, evening, I should like, noverer, veolica is the\n\narticles dulce, merely give contions of the 17 Government. in Caston would never have been to mention one or two new poluts only effective have done all that possibiv coal pole of Canton.\" method of restoring communies [be dune. Indeed, i believe that thoj We tell the Prime Minister that dense to the other side and truke which we say the Home Govern what it is to-tap. I maintain all which have recurred to me. The tions and trade between Hong-labours of both have been unit at this great masas judiquation meet car battle sil the harder. (AD-rent are totally incapable of doing if the Bolshies bad realised the fire is a very interesting historics! kong, Canton and South Chirie aud ting in our behalf. (Applause). jing we dead immediate and de-plause).\n\ntheir job despite the furt that we firmness of the power of Beitian point which I looked up this after- of preventio tae economic But they have apparently failed fejsive action by the British Govern- Support from Fonchow, Jare told they are brasted by every- they never would have attempted | noon, and it is iu connection with destruction of Hongkang and of and we, the parle of Hongkong, meat, \"Dervind,\" Fix. is a strang The fileman then read the fol-body. We propose to do by to have planted themselves in the what is called the second war of British interests in the Treaty and new asked to cable our case word, Bat, in car gremstances loving telegram, he had received establishing a hickade by navalety of Canton to work their China\" in 1867. The casse Porte of Swatow, Anioy, Foochow | divert to the Prime Ministry who, ant entirely in schord with it. If the Fuochor Chamber of forces of Canton (Bear heart-ruinous tropazendo aguinal ue. that war was as follows: There And South Chura.\n\nhimself a business man, and withiam in aword with the whole of the Commerce: \"We welcome news Does it ever occur to you that' (Applause). As a 27 years real- (Continued on page 11.)\n\nThe Ultimatum.\n\nby\n\nultimatum at once to the Canton\n\nAuthorities.\n\nfrani SARDA\n\n\"ensider neessary.”\n\nhista Chinore\n\nAu-British\n\nHS\n\nDeces\n\nAnd this is the condition\n\nsande\n\nA Policy of Frightfulness.\n\n<\n\nprobably one\n\nטיין\n\ntho\n\n\"Nonsense.\"\n\nTake eivil\n\nyay\n\nthat time it was President Clare-nation, that it is the key to sil\n\nthcit\n\nThe General and Adaurai were la\n\nMr. Bertil Helstrom declared that the Cautog Goverment were\n\nbehind hiding themselves\n\nLae\n\nYo wit-\n\nof\n\nCLEAR OUT THE BOLSHEVISTS.\n\n(Continued from page 10.)\n\nMACAO NOTES.\n\nPORTUGUESE NAVAL FORCES.\n\nOur Con Correspondent.:\n\nwas a certain bost named the Arros comanded by a\n\nBrition captain and menned by a crew ol Chinese which\n\nMacau, Asvist 24.\n\nGuilherme 1veny\n\nCommander was selling in Perras at the Portuguese cruiser\n\nValedictory,\n\nSOUTH CHINA\n\nMORNING POST\n\nCUQUETTING WYIH BOLSHEVISM.\n\nCLARING DISCREPANCUSS AND INCONSISTENCIES.\n\nBg J. R for the\n\nS. C. M. Plat.)\n\nrenk\n\nthenight\n\nWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1926.\n\nBULSHEVISM IN CANTON, OPINION OF THE CHINESS.\n\nNot Mind to the Menace\n\n.\n\núť\n\nIt is a\n\nApes-balipenny stomp\n\nqof the world's richer in tantury and commerce and munstry wil ouer\n\nthe studurls and dissatisfaction, POINTS ABOUT HONGKONG. Jar Jnker i to destruction. Then\n\nwithin lite workers, and clearly! it is the opportunity of the prude\n\nGerezand that the Boishavets -\n\nTHAT YEHEN. tatiane ar wordmen of the world bel\n\ntead o\n\nCover their violation step in ani lake over the govern! Le spirit with the anavarde.\n\nOne frequently copies aerosy & met within every ti\n\nment that strikers have the auto-reference to The noder ermits have resterday. It is apparently a copy or parties they have reasons to op-\n\nTac lowing letter reurbed us inge of refusing service to persons and is is a non praatine, though\n\nHongkong, China, the ordinary way under the werepublics is beer, appointed Con-]\n\ntinue war again unchained an Great of a lever addressed to Han. Mi pore or disagree with.\n\ncantile marine flag. That Bag woa marder in Chief of the Portuguese critical paalysis of Tolcheviniz, matkab Ulustration of the acner!\n\nI make no prebusion of writing a war in Buspe a sroviding a P. D. Holyoak. for it ronds:\n\nan entirely wrong and costly one. to aldress letters in itis Fashion torn down by some Chlaese cffcial Naval Forces in the Far East. pricking all its tabbles of fallacy wf Marx's practition\n\nWe are admit that Bolshevism Hongkong, as is often pointed out and trampler under foot and from The Gift Esues, the Portuguese ami impracticable aspirationa\n\nHengkong. Avgust 25, 1995. At So while wardly. the Boise-Mase Meeting, Hongkong Rederiz. Teking and those in other capitalet at a letter there fan it does To P. H. Holyoak. Esy., Chairman, meurs and that the authorities at British Colony, and it costs no re\n\nwill reapest no diplomatic setite not a part of tha that single treident arose the transport, is due to-gorrow, to be thint I attempt to do within theviste argue, their way in wegent out be-- avcond Chign war, which is vervi followed, i understand, by other scones this series of articles Sa tobali of the workmen, the property i vesidents in Hongkong, we wished with the local situations in Sauch other often referred to as the Arrow war. units of the Portuguese navy.\n\nOur dear Sir--As temporary have but been thoroughly acquaint frein on end of Lepdon to the sonin the misformed with solens clar, the movement in vanity in In connection with that, I might\n\nThe offres of the Naval Foresta pitfalls and spares sufficient a gigantic ble for the emancipatie sure through you our friends out- Chire. say that in those days there were at Mano bave been entertained on\n\ndone the wick Another mistaken to convince the radicais in this por.cf the whole of making Tu vltimate Side Chaton that the people of\n\nCantonese Not Inactive. such things as talograms or several occasione during the past prasnat fer cannot change the car and the catablishment of a gecine of the apperching danger of us to point out again that the thus \"Hong Kong.\" In a letter to suting is the soiting out of the tion of Chins that Reichevism in the action of all cases within romery vangtung bave ust been unaware, Instructions from home, and the law daya in Mace, lo honour of\n\nIt may be of interest to you for nord Hongkong in two syllables- Govamar of is Celery at that a arcival of the Republice.\n\nof contemplary Etical decuracy have been the win this! Boisbevis and have in the last people of Kwangtang are not at all the serve with ference to his time, Sir Jeha Bowring, gave\n\nI dare to main in the Bolsterisw. urier to the then Admiral to gu\n\nWhether the Boltw years repeatedly, unceasingly native to their desire to oust the reatly published book de Luss ahead and the Admite went ahead and kindred services are a lun-damage to Crins, materials and The Siberists lar maintain chat pay all unjust and unreasonable seating inertia has he fored by Mast as read of Leigh and Orange\n\niam can only do a gent deal of izin to do is ezether question.\n\nThe Chater Collection, \"Mr. James Ws are rumurimes inclined to meer cheon in honor of Mr. Meireles exacialks, and cae eomplish unthing tus capitalis have all the advantaxes whenever poscite and, a circonstances they are still unable points our list throughout the book.\n\nagainst ni rafal arts, refusing to from their territory. the thetri at what we call eatly Victorian Vasconcelos, Director of the Trea of constructive value in all ages of anperior education, diei-lehad once, get the Bolshevis arms to overoane, and that, as soon as except for quotations, Hongkong is day Lord Palmerston was then suy, at the Garden of Mr. LaBolleva a contend movenwet plis maitsey elect an every-to me in our earlier struggles necessary and proper arrangementer, 34 cis word, for the panca Prime Minister and his action was Lit-ok who is leaving Macao et ventras a gonerat earth thous at Meir disposal Ther-fore we had not received say arors er are posfected, nonstory stops will mation in the Hongbing Geor challenged in the House of shortly, having been promoted re-¡queto in the political world mans and he weat ic\n\nthe leazsition from Capitaine to material sacncrayanent from vat- be taken to teenvet the power and went Questa of Juan I general į raty re Cape Verde.\n\nelection on that incident, and was) in tog pravicua articles 1 are Comunion acrveserily inside. French Properly At Knuten.\n\nreturned to power with\n\nItoushed but lightly upon a fan of the fierce and hitter struggle të penis,\n\nthe government now surped by a Ex the ne a lugel lette has vast received in mais features relating to the exto come. Anjority. (Applause). Gentle Macao From: Canlon stating that trene doctrine of Bolshevism. Buf\n\nOur poupe of Kwangtung realize arty of Bolabevists who nove of Home.\" men, 1 must admit that i am amazed the students and their friends have cons ook has been braught|\n\nand the Tera is the elose relationship and natual spoble persons inside or questde sed in the colony of and by Tu the Way. that the British Governent has completely creuptut the genusd sur- forth, boyster, to show how Isnn. This was the reason why Lan cach other bewear Piston and Satereat and inter-doprudence on\n\nthe Repair of China recognize. nol yet come to the mist of this rounding the French Cathedral attirely fodifferent the Sasior leaders, and eves serious re- Hongkong, 2e fally content of of Bolshevists in places where for- ing in de colony.\n\nYear Indignation over the acts of the murervus compazzes sziginat local newspapery and in the title Colony, because Mr. Austen Chau Canten. Fais property does not the fundular basis tion, long, chstinate, desper the fact that further delay in the 6' interests as well as Chinese stizer boule a far back as the fire of belong to the Fenet. Mission human justice, bborts, law alte resistance of the exploiters, who return to normal trade wil result are affected and your desire to set nountry generally write Hongkong Fay said that he would not con- s pozerally supposed but is the order, in the buique sat sinister for many yours will Fet enjoy Beant in economie rain in all parts of an early restoration peace and as two sepuute words or connected new spars in his sider any queation in connection property of the French Gorestrment i kuptbody slov bare adsulod te msk.#antage over the exploited, 200- South Chins, are not blind to the dation, and we shall not hesitate to perinces and guts, equally com with the revision of tresties with and the letter expresses much in\n\nshitates the rule Never treachery of Bolshevista taking as you that we are not by any posed of wwe words, and not ? Bolaberian sa wwerapishat fort in\n\ntrade have our sympathy and agure with a hyphen, but ace of Chinese China until the Chinese Govet dignation that this occupation Russia and in the world.\n\nthis explosers spirit to the devi sneller behind the patricting of weans sing in our man and effort writion. mam had taken steps toʻpot au end should be permitted a cantase. I propuse in talt article de cussion of the vaploited myjority with.\n\nstentia on ona or iso other lend at making use of weir advanger to get rid of a curve and danger Kwanz-tung, or Shang-ii, for in ing questions pertain to the Como destinate title on juries hearsing joumakor\n\nurist movement, before pusting con of butle This method Elswrists had promised test ther parts of the world wherever\n\ney (the now cursing not only China but all stan in her articles, to fleeinstate the whokaale slaughter of peklish Coururin. Instead the Bolshevisus rasy he feand.\n\nThe ela of the Treasury at the revolutionary epicís of Polshereevwia can carry out what they fought the by veicing protesta epits and dangers of Rolshesin Crange,who will be amembered cat\n\nto the present aali-foreign aft-\n\ntion and had shows their ability) 21\n\nto enforce law and order and res- set for the treaty rights of the Powera. Well, gentlemen, I ca Daly understand that utterande f Mr. Chamberlain, or Foretgui Secretary to incare that he will inist at the treaty rights of th Powes including the treaty rights George, at present\n\nPRINCE'S PARTNERS.\n\nSEAMENTS DANCE HONOURED\n\nthat even revolatutory grant uns, aliats, acientists and intel-\n\nBY ROYALTY.\n\nTis\n\nRaval\n\nThe Ladies Pleased.\n\nHighness Prince serving OE!\n\nસં\n\nof Great Britain, are observed. Beard. M. S. Hawking\n\nnicht.\"\n\nThe Right iv Trade, Another statement, which shovid\n\nke to evole For 3 Atatement radi\n\nnex\n\nbation\n\nal simul\n\nSince Bolshevism has beende a\n\nthe well-known firm of architects.\n\nAltst\n\nCin\n\nan then Chen\n\ndoes\n\nM: Orange\n\nnot\n\nWOMEN'S FAVOURITES\n\nThousanda\n\naf diveritnating\n\n| vidvas unde of passion, celia and Icausis in Soviet Russis day be geda violence are not cháy incompatible/en they belong to the bennemin Passat propresor, who g all times; world care and is bringing suffer wone favour Finkettes shove all Iwith, but sien me at zereal it. class sul they are what the Itausinn./ institule time individualistio inr to a markand 4 should be other forms of laxelive rasdicipe the Chiapan cekiral and social mini f're on to say \"Telko Meshare clase to every courworwegian. The! Rosiroved sé a commoor enemy tu because they are daniy and finy,\n\nLet us ans for a montat pe B of pagiâniam, Instead they created! and the question of regoring a sanie pleasant attribute. make thi\n\nabout the two halves the\n\n(It's in the way\n\nme no opposition parly is\n\nThe Troia\n\nDictators started with the singa rankind wherever ay be sound. set as gently as deture.\n\na mikiose vilities. They tried to\n\nFastcnd!\n\nAnd the\n\nvince.\n\nameeten the breath, reliese Piles. SANG TAI PI\n\nOr Chemist, cr post free, 60 Representing Trade Maintenance cents the vial, fiber Dr. Williams'\n\nthe Russian Committee\n\nof Kwanglang Pro-Medicine Co. 60 Kiurgse Road,\n\nShanghai.\n\nTerminology. Let us be clear is que mlade, at Sevich Coverment fpican The hes now got before bit: the coasts! Lieutenant. F. N., is entering into Bolszign, about me of its berms railrendy of the country and soil!ead egy paved the way for a bus that of tinnal, poitical or ter-3\n\nath age of our demont ega borist Germans operates the cager war revolution. In ebeny shack nut tonch equally poster with men. Fegulatory which Lave recen3y the fe of a pavai miticer with äi! | sand their meanings have theragh; garettes uz the streets of 47tical renstur in every courtes Levi zitorial isaga or jurisdietic bean premalgeted in Canton, Of the seal and voi comradeship it important to emplaza th's point, The Government publiskan books Capitalista Justead shey used by via the people of Kwangtung are stimulate the vet, increase the To restore tally regularity, to July 15 the Tuted said: \"Tala iza for whuck the senior scrvive shows not a len we still hary regazina clueSYSYFTS\n\nremedy sick Headaches, bilirse at started by Aging dagsint\n\nteing likewise cursed by Golate; canky, vertigo. moment when Britisa noley must noted.\n\nnabilance, take a dear and definite slipe.\n\nAt the Serbu for sale o contasomarine watching with deep interrat the appetite un ald digestion, Pin wesome titres horses, kabels to culliossins capitalists from manner the people of Hongkong kottes are perfection. They keep Saturday 1st, he attended whole of the Coromast uwment, father, angs, tramour lines a firent Brigin and the United Mate will adopt to lessen evils now being the system cisan and cool, clear the thia potey is such that it romance held at the Seamen's menda fisalf to vibes and ledly stitute arranged by the Lower deck je\n\nfnamely, Bolshevism and Conping lies oil lids, fntests and with roses and the weath of a spread by Bolshevists in this part! skin of tiles and inches, 10 eucive corumca actformet of the flagship,\n\nunitark in e werd, the Sovie stie! muck the better. But the epon through the larger part\n\nand stayed Bolabeviam is derived from is a puremanent a well ea cupidavast continook They started be of Fire worldYours respectfully.\n\nof the thevik, meaning the aforisy, in of industry, a benker, and a me sibility for defending the preet and progare. hely by o\n\nsholisking Christianity. means opposition to the caiter saner evolu-chant garbined. Do wot forget that they produced a merkado revival, row seriously threatened British dent in the choosing of part-tionary social parts, the teemast of the and leaders are misber interests in Chixa les Ayst at\n\nof Christianity in His first was Mrs. A. Carsbeviki, mating the misoging, which profesional en foremost on the British Govern-zon, introduced by the M. C., and overdures the Czarist Govery agriculturiste or factory and\n\nfor terhesta, brople cer Mr. R. M. Marks and Mese, and hooome the Berents They con osy wield the dimurtively M. Hart\n\nGovernante Bolshevism enme into per gue and unta, respritčeniy d. norber of tea\" dances were goter in Brasia, thanks to a pecu- The Goverment is andor tic feature of the programme and a combination of cirrowtanens. Soviet Umon, which is dem into these . R. U. etered with during the Great War in Europe. by a \"all opinionated, curgeat: He, Bridgeman, the First Lord enthasian; thus nearly all the Lean did not wriggin surreptitious group of people who conduci dio of the Admiralty, in anewer to a d'en prezent, had the much cavetrain in Decober, 1917, the fate of and pessants\" 1 urte saia in the fanove sealed taimeslip in the name of workers! question in the Hogan of Commons ad bacoor of partering rogalts. Pussis might have been far brighter Theu, there is no party in Sri an August 6th. Mr. Bridgens which was the more gratifyuz in and apper that loviny. said the aircraft carrier Hermes 15at the Penes in not my need trofe of Teuin might well\n\nThe stel Rosie, but lay act of Coni- had been despatchen to Chins and cellent dancer, bar a charming con- compared to Papierna Box, frran tuluraber her aircraft would be utilised fex verszalonalles, putting at ease in which hare bean les loose ste that there is no Parliament Patt It cessarily Follow taining and exercising the paradiately those whom the fortune evile that spread throughout Husin:eally art economically the fovict sonnet of the deer ait erm and, if the \" brought him. necessary, in co-operation with Hia\n\nfor the matter of that, all over the state is shalately anaipotent Majesty's naval and military forces in the resolution cutii bu reconciled\n\nworld, during the past seven seats. for the protection of the lives and that they should demand a cer several messings\n\nCommunism is a word te has\n\nIf you ask the Reds why there! property of British subjects. (A) define polier to be adapted, pivo it: Coronen riskip of prothe Seriet State, Nie auswor\n\nTitively should be such an omniveleace of clause). Well, ladies and gentiang vet at the same me declare paty: the abolition of privale prothéery is somethies, like this:| wen, I think we shall all zgree that that they left it to the discretion porty and state control of labour,ell. e Comumeist mozeworę the most important right of pro-ef the Dome Government as to religion. social elezions. perty widen we have out here in tow they sheall art. He asked sometimes it is need to deste a\n\nest go through twu ktages: the Far East is the right to trade the Chairman whether he would be theory of wciety, much surilar stage, based on the dominance of the (7) brandtiongi, terolatiouns suroth the treaty novia with the willing to modify the resolution 'n that of the exoly Chifiia in slate by the leaders of the working l'enor of Chr. That is a rigut, order that it might be made the which all property is held in class, sch as Rusia is w-day of wennerty far more important than unanimous voice of all preventi\n\nIt is also beef aquony nonsig same other rights of property we that the mantingarnestly dead with Sorialians In the sanac as it\n\n(4) a Communistic, clas-texs hear of, soch as the infringeant that the Goremecut should adopted in Randa. the word suns ponitury of catharity has sunither slag, in which the state as a m of a trade mark. 1 is a mithrona drastic pelley. He believe the work of Marx and Engels, pub Bon the Commanist Manifeabın” times es inaporist as any right of the meeting was entirely unanimous\n\nwhich is the fun! alage.\" a trade mark, and therefore we that they must take steps to tonery amunista regard that afforz\n\nThe writing that I hav The moder revue direct again Bolabeviews cebleed that, in the past, was the Home Government to their Bible, though Lenis kaŭ dezy ought to rely upon ar alle prend and decisiva netten. Nacy, in verionelen with any vil-]\n\naled and bem i's cardinal \"prised and social structure of the atte Visiont changer of ile politi. The Chairman intimated that he tary forces. to protect our very was quite prepared to adopt Mr.\n\nplen\" important lights of trading Men Johnston's view and the resolution\n\nproines vicient reaction, for a ni the Chinese at the resty peris and was therefore amended to read as\n\nrule, according to most auciologists, The fundamentals of Comuni violone social explosion will bring in trading through the weaty parts follows: neordingly the with the interior of Chica. (Ap-cents of this Celory\n\nwere examined by a shout exere har han And The at a great are who predicted that the crn of existing conditione in Mossta nes ikisi plarse) mass indignation macting, demand! Capitalism would crane to an ad by routine evidence of that pat There is juan mie other patio that the British Govarumeat imperson of the very contradictions 2 The \"oike\" the sheald ike to mute batera dietely adapts a drastic policy, as The consian he assigned for ita utitures who guztically deszinat icharvat in the nature of Ospitation ut novior, Komesey Stalin, dawn, and bat la\n\nthis. In the wa vecture to suggest, in the folio marc downfall are briefly these. the policies of the Russia Couperist eat war of 1914-18 Great Bri-ug ultimatum\n\nCepitelism with its hage organist Party, here aiready abandonat notite tain went to war benuste the treaty authorities.\"\n\nthm of sommaren and industry the of the quja \"prikupies” found in rights of Bellam aud been regarde Mr. J. Russel arged that the world user, aiting only at exploits the policies of the Bussian Comp ed as a more scrap of paper. Cap-siculd include in the telegram that tion of inhour, tends to create dis- and the Centrunism of Locin and plause). She railed upon her power abould be given to the local sontent among the proletarians of Proteks. How do we know that inj children at all parts of the world Government to deal with the situs-worker to come and joie to that war andition.\n\nWithin the political morber four years these \"prei slate, the capitalist are so poseifei mor\" may not be changed more and] Hongkong nably responded, (Hear After sotna further discussion with their animation of wealth more under the necessity of leas. Sarom handred men went the resciolion, as amended, was pati sad property that lay are in a pri proinine wish the exigencies of the forth front this Colony, many of to the meeting and carried and time dominate the government and tiran↑ whom made the great sacrifice. loud and prolonged chears. They made the groat sacrifice be Mr. W. A. Doutes, tu appealing utical, and totally destegend the cl This far we have obrered Soviet cause they were a part of the Bri- for enairibations toward the eine reasses of proletarians or Russia coisang of theas dienuator..\n\nsh Empire. They espoused beren suvolved, mentioned that the men de Berbund Rustel pute it\n\ncies; Bonde capitalion sú private! guaarel, and wo are asking Crent telegram would neet $1,200.\n\nnunoactly: Internally, is protects inlordien, bourgonis property- Britain to espouse sur quarvel now. A hearts vote of thanks to the the rich against she poor; oxtarazt ayub g and prival trading, as well (Applause). Surely the British Chairman concluded the meeting is uses tores for the evolaitatiores selling or signing away of mining. Government cannot are this\n\nof interior races, and for ongori concessions and much other right to urgert ery for help which we are The Feuch Police at Shanghai with other Stadoy\" Capitalistic nations sending out. Our need is grogh have succeeded in treshing what ice to Ma. Fussell, he is not a Dol The is no dictatorshie s the and prigent, and bar entre is just, might be called a factory for fabut bevist, he is far too wise a pollon.proletaring at the present, nether (Cheers).\n\n*100*1. The money bas bean diser to accept Bolsbesis was polis there the prospect of the doing\n\nributed largely auungst exchange ical unce\n\naway with the State and the coming! A Slight Amesiment.\n\nshops in the couressions, but follow- 1 Caputzikin or She capitaistic Tow mecasites of Breshevian\n\nof the fren visitly in the fronre The Rev. J. Horace Johnstoning disclosures by the arreated num, state is dovanć w virker sway in As far as the Gevement and ite asid he cosid not personally seentry of the proprietors wee alsoldige encore, bocause the arable of policine are concerned, may best in how the two statements contained' approbeertet for darling in the win. the capitaliste nations for partition summed up in the words of a keenly\n\nresi.\n\n213 the Canion\n\nshe is\n\nKarl Marx.\n\neverything nonamic, social and po-\n\nLo\n\n+ #\n\ne\n\nSi\n\nGillette\n\nMANA\n\nThe Well Groomed Man\n\nIs Properly Shaved\n\nH13 free shows no sign of beard and it is freeotirritations caused hy dull or improperly designed\n\nrazors.\n\nThe Gillette has always been an ac companiment of the well groomed man. Since 1903 its use has 2dicated good judgment--the mauuko appre saics the mumerous refnemesis in nazor construction which have made\n\nCilenc shave superior to sng whee\n\nThe New\n\nImproved\n\nThe New Improved Gillette does not siog with bair and lather. The blude is placed in exactly the correct position fo cut the hair evenly and level with the surface of the skin. And, finally, the blade is held so it does not vibrate and rerepe the skin.\n\nThese are the reasons why more than 3,000,000 have already bought the Now Jumpraved Giliette. You won't kann sitovi-gconfort until you ownone.\n\nbur aule at all good skaps\n\nBuren wện MULLER A PITIPPA! Limited Mesas Weltban, lions Anes,\n\nGillette\n\nSAFETY RAZOR\n\nMade in Most U.S. A by the Gillette Safety Ruzor Company\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 11\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST\n\nWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500972, "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": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "32\n\nFOR THE\n\nSWIMMING\n\nSEASON\n\nWe are displaying an excellent range of\n\nBATHING COSTUMES\n\nRUBBER BATHING CAPS & SHOES\n\nSWIMMING FLOATS\n\nDo Not Fail to Inspect our Display of JANTZEN'S & JAEGERS'\n\nLADIES' AND GENTS'\n\nBATHING COSTUMES\n\nIn all Colours and Attractive Designs.\n\nThose Pure Wool Costumes are unexcelled for their wearing qualities, comfort and style, and they always retain their shape.\n\nTHE SINCERE CO., LTD.\n\nHOTCHKISS\n\nDON\n\nFALST BROS.\n\nKIRKCALDY\n\nHONGKONG EMPORIUM\n\nAN OLD FAVOURITE BACK AGAIN!\n\nConnoisseurs will remember \"DON\"- the favourite Scotch Whisky of Pre-War Days.\n\nNOW for the first time since the war, we can again supply DON.\n\nSole Agents:\n\nN. S. Moses & Co., Ltd.\n\nWhy Your Printing Should be the Best.\n\nMost people characterise the standing of a firm by its printing. Shoddy, or even mediocre printing gives the impression of mediocrity.\n\nAs you judge a man's character by his habits so do you judge a firm by its methods: its printing, its correspondence, the promptness, and its general tidiness in business.\n\nMake sure your printing is good, clean, and has that touch of distinction which a first-class printer makes his speciality.\n\nUp-to-date and good printing is executed by\n\nSouth China Morning Post,\n\nTel. 440.\n\nLimited\n\n3 Wyndham Street\n\nHongkong.\n\nSOUTH\n\nCHINA MORNING POST.\n\nTHE\n\nECONOMY IN HOME BUILDING.\n\nTHE OWNER AND THE\n\nARCHITECT.\n\nBy Oswald C. Bering. Published by Robert M. McBride Company, New York $5.\n\nWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925.\n\nBUILDER.\n\nFOUNDATIONS.\n\nBUILDING PROBLEMS IN HONGKONG.\n\nMuch more general appearance\n\nThe timber pile, both squared and round in a \"tree shape\", have been the most greatly used in the past. These are driven in by a falling weight, or steam hammer, until a specified resistance at each fall is obtained.\n\nTo-day the timber pile has largely been replaced by piles of concrete, steel and combinations of concrete and steel.\n\nConcrete piles can be divided into two classes, viz precast and cast in position.\n\nMr. Hertug has added another to the list that may be met with by architects in the East.\n\nThe \"ground\" in Europe is one of the most important factors of shares and limits average matter, and in addition the conditions of space.\n\nThe precast pile is cast very much in a similar way to that of the thinner pile, and is generally made with a pointed end, and land reclaimed are so found by the soil, or a metal shell is driven into the ground upon completion of all the piling and forethought for back that they can ease to be carried through to an also be said, with safety, ground, and\n\nHe is never pre-in Great Britain, that old or bedding upon \"bad ground\" make a compromise when it comes to inferior quality is not usually a paying proposition, land being generally purchased at rates which are less than the cost of reclamation, or at less than the extra cost\n\nWith the metal shell as a mould, the metal shell covers a collapsible general pile cure, the shed and the raundiena sufit upon waslabic soil.\n\nArchitects seem to feel pretty strongly a lack of the paper of river-side warehouses and dock sititude toward their profession, and where low-lying sites, by their due both to ignorance of the lay Homes, base & valce in giving man, as well as over ambitious re-\n\naccuse on waterways and storage presentatives within the preïez-\n\natungarde. slur. Much space is devoted in this bank to emphasizing the importance of selecting a good architect, and what is more, excending\n\na bilding site may range from portance of rebitecturo as the Dig ind waa an art. I must be honoured with\n\nin\n\nold allowed to haraan, and dzisi\n\nThe precast pi'e la cast ven in a similar way to that ef the thinner pile, and is generally\n\ngood agricultural pie cast in position may\n\nJo\n\nend, and lande reclaimed are so fond by the soil, or a metal shell\n\nInto the\n\nupon completion of\n\nall the pianting and forethought for hack that they can ease to be\n\nWhere the earth forms be mould, at any heantau! thing that is spoken of as cocinimes worth being carried through to an also be said, with safety, ground, and\n\nland metal lobe la driver\n\ncompletion.\n\nHe is never pre-in Great Britale, that ocliving driving the tube, concrete is passed pared fo\n\nmake a compromise lard or bedding upon \"bad ground\"\n\ndown the tube, the tube being with-- when it comes to inferior quality is not n staally a paying propal-drawn as the couerote is placed. of materials or -guted dion, lana being reuerally pureba\n\nWith the metal sheli as a mould, the metal shell covers a collapsible: cunstances, he always indicates as than the cost of reclamation, meral ple cure, the shed and the a smaller scute, or simplified as ur et less than the extra cost\n\nraundiena sufit upon waslabic soil. Architects seem to feel pretty Tan exceptious are to the rase strongly a lack of the paper of river-side warehouses and dock sititude toward their profession, and where low-lying sites, by their due both to ignoranes of the Jay Homes, base & valce in giving man, Ax well sa over ubitious re-\n\naccuse on waterways and storage presentatives within the preïez-\n\natungarde. slur. Much space in devoted in this bank to emphasizing the mould mad, to hard rock, or six à bilding site may range from portance of selecting a good arritures varying between these two tect, and what is more, excending Mad, soft ground, or Ta pat fath in bi The aveti-\n\ning.\n\nTHA\n\nIvos sand,\n\nle care being driven into the quil, 5s pic care heirg collapsed when i rewnioz the necteurs depth, and removed, feaving the shell in the ground to form a road to take the concrete.\n\nThe slams for the metal shell are f that before placing the camareis.\n\nhe concrete can do seen, and that the near space to be recupied ly\n\nas the hole is Hired by the motul shell there is no risk of earth o\n\ntect ia a Dinette,\" says Mr. Hat ve of indefinite depth, or ground water becoming mixed with\n\nthickness of there untable soils, the concrete. safely carry the structur covering soi! sufficiently solid tej claimed Jun.\n\nand\n\nHe e insistent on necessity of the architect knowing\n\nOne syle, where the fabe is: his clients understanding their\n\nHe-driven and withdrawn as la con-i needs, and the actual human fac have hoen ased for the disposti of the monid, attaches great value areas which ereta is placed the soil forming tors of thefe problem. The lay-earth, and rebash, come under the to ramming the earth at the foot Tan does not usually balanced picture or the problending or soft ground, which the gile to an enlarged base, over-lie good firm soll before commencing the concreting,\n\n14%\n\na\n\nQuality\n\nTOP NOTCH\"\n\n\"KING GEORGE IV\" Scotch Whisky\n\nSole Agents:\n\nGANDE, PRICE & Co., Ltd.,\n\nHONG KONG\n\nFresh Air on Top\n\nWHEN it is \"set fair\" with\n\nthe thermometer in this eighties\n\nyou CRO awoly command a refre sehga\n\nbreeze from your\n\nand is likely is mopese plans that The sides of water courses are and the camming of the concrete Electric Fan\n\nare inconsistent.\n\nTactful and Firm,\n\nIt is\n\natten of sor 2. var-lying is invera to ratosal, as placed.) The architect must be tactful may a exist, that is, a pool for the plic, and irregular sides which good firm button. The opposite which results in a bulbuions font tel bat in his criticiser. asstatis?, therefore, saleet himmering mud, or louse soft before pay atop a taken in the plays, ar buiting, Indeed, to help\n\nWhere had greend iz met with. the actual selection of the site the normal footings obtained he\n\nis claimed give greater skin letion.\n\nConcrete, it good, as a materiai | tor piles can be spoken of as per\n\nis unually a mistaka to scrno-widening walls un piers. under manent, whether in waler or in the zize in the matter of the custheir base, by bedek esate and ground ur \"hetween wind end of bis services. A selection of pain concrete, may not he efficient water,\" the\n\nIt will keep you fit until holiday-time, and suszała you at concert-pitch afterwards.\n\nOne unit of electricity will drive a small jan for 40 hours.\n\npositiva destrac-THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER Co., (1918) Ltd.\n\nat.\n\nthe rebt man will mean considersstrecoure over aning arca bu retive to other materials. able economy in purcheses snoduce the load to the amount per 01 subject to rot, at construction laier, and a personal quare foot, Part the soli wil carber. And doe's 201 corrode as does\n\nrunk from wond barers, as is m and artistic interest lu results. Recourse has then to be\n\nmade\n\nchanges, us\n\n50\n\noften it has\n\nArchitect expertaily young to other methods, such as spread and steel, s has the nd ones, make the mistake very often footings, piling, rafts, caissons,ntage, that, however pamarent ef giving a rapid estimate of cost, cylinders, sheel pillow, are a com wood piling sy he, i constantly teiling what the exact date o hinatione of these, according to the\n\nsaturated, there is rot the fear of commation will be. An experi-pe of strucuri and the nature decay if the line of sturation anced maz is too well acquainted of the soil. with finetusiona te the markei, The spread footing is the ineen found to do. There is and unfavourable labour candi-iment of the aormal convete rage, 46180 the increasing difficulty, tions, and uncertain whether to to give additional bearing aves.\n\ntowing the depletion spook Sognaticely on any of these The normal courete foundation foreste, to obtain timber of targe M. dering abould be expabic of wider then the frickenk it up rete may be found to be chaper. matera. God architecte, sage to a watt or pier, being bat ute seartling and when large scantlinga are required, the first cost of con- estimating within 10 per cent of ports, is subjected to but little or the cost. t is recommend that ho tention. he let out contracting directly, in stead of placing this function in the alone of another.\n\nThere are many ways of series\n\ning ccenomy, \"Ruild economical\n\n, but never cheaply,\" says M\n\nHeria, Econcutez depend agon\n\nBy eulanging. It is subjected to\n\ntalle stress in the underside,\n\n(1)\n\nRafii\n\no\n\nRaft foundations have become care into use since the introdie-\n\nand to take up this stress,, rotted of reinforced concrete. Pre-\n\nsteel jufte are inserted or the con- areta is relaforced with zods,\n\nFiling.\n\nWith cerisin scils and where the\n\nbe driven to\n\nVICK= to die introduction of reinforced aonercle, refta were co- steneten in plafa concrete, and sol being reinforced, were af thirdness.\n\n37622\n\nWith s raft the preseard on the\n\nthe nature of the plan, bup of atrasture resis apon the grandi,\n\ncortare, exbica o materials, resuficient piles may duction of regelremonts, market sonsolidate the earth sufferently to jail is diatributed over the waxi-\n\ncluziion. favourableness\n\ncarry the tend. Before driving them se possible, reducing the weather, etc. Cut out non-essen pilas the earth seemed a certain pure per square foot to a min tials first, he recomiende, bistoad space. After the piles are driver, roam, and if pemperly of making a\n\ndezigned, compromise\n\nthec in earth. plz piles, the earth in soft places. quality of materiale. He ecumer\n\nWith few ates and explains more extensive bulk of the driven pile,\n\nasing heen consolidated by the exceptions the site under buildings | ly and technically many others.\n\n1234 ke he movered sith au Supervious Bungalows.\n\nPiles for the purpose of conjayer. In most cases concrete is the solidating soda can be of tallar peatario! used, and this\n\nrerete\" made sufficiently thick\n\nface\n\nand restored, may form the raft.\n\nShowroom 62 Nathan Road, Kawi\n\n60 years ago!\n\nKAYIP\n\nThe Firm of MACKAY introduced LIQUEUR WHISKY Its success has led to the oxistence ni mszy fetior Brande offered under ritar title.\n\nMACKAY'S THE ORIGINAL- 1495EUR WHISKY\n\nBabe in face age and chore Bone pretation of Highland Whisky.\n\nTu Tubos na jou tuing Bred five leading divide throughout the int\n\nGaste no more than dory\n\nObtainable from all the leading\n\nstores in the Colony. WHOLESALE AGENTS-BRADLEY & Co., Ltd.\n\nCOLUMBIA\n\nNEW-PROCESS\n\nRECORDS\n\nMUSICAL COMEDIES\n\nSelection\n\n19\n\n465 THE GEISHA\n\n821 IRENE\n\n723 LILAC DOMINO\n\nWith badldings having basements, the basement level mag he balex\n\n666 MAID OF THE MOUNTAINS 932 BRIGHTER LONDAR\n\n12\n\n27\n\n645 CHU-CHIN-CHOW\n\n659 CHU-CHIN-CHOW\n\nTe duretes & chapter cach tepes to the used for beading country house. suburban town piles, but in several ecare pales of Aud semi-domestic. In the counhard materialy having no cobesion try and sobarben heuse it is a have been used, such as sacó, eliz importens to develop the exterior (kers, stores, pl.\n\nwater level, requiring reinforce! Surroundings as the interior de\n\nFrich pile of curò, stone or other ment against the opward ad in. tails. The arcaiteet must be con- Part materials, boles are formed ward presauce of water, the ruft earned with lawns, shrubbery, driving and removing pilas of useiber with the barzeniest walls, kennels.\n\nfilling thereoning a watertight box\n\nmaterials, aged in water bearing toil\n\nThe Puthor is heeed, or metal, and etc. arused at the surr of gull hole with the bead\n\nmen whe extat at having to with bearing les, that is plas A raft foundation may be mora \"pay an architect to design\n\nwhich support a structure, such as jerononteal, even when in itself it chicken coop\" Bungalows are a pier over open water and build costs more, then foundations taken\n\n¡Ay chase\n\nnot ganerally inexpensive, as ings on soft sort or liquid mud, the down to a low level, glling, when supposed. They must always bo freeistance against ponetration of the taking down of the founda! pleaned to ennform to the scythe pie may be obtained by its roations, the ailing roundings. The ideal way\n\nreaching sold ground, ot by dodge to dosing property.\n\n(Minders. Cylinders of iron and steel, and\n\nplanning a town house is to et tion of the soil against te sides,\n\nla group of people to share in les partiz by both it being driven\n\nlot having a common central gerte a suficient depth to stala treiufgrend coutrete, sinh tuto sott\n\nen and Como architectu friction, or support at its foot. style that can be planned har\n\nrol, water, wad and, and les moniously.\n\n279 FLORODORA\n\nVocal tems\n\n309 LES CLOCHES DE CORNEVILLE\n\nAT\n\nANDERSON'S\n\nThe põe supported at its fot, with concrete, have been used. pose of being between groups of for that porting id a pie surround- Je some Chat:x eylinders have pites and giving rigidity.\n\nnd by water or liquid and giving surrounded groups or piles, the\n\nFor work of ar engineering\n\nHe discusses frateruity houses had the comparative lack of le rtle or na aters! support and piles being Srst drivan, the e7lindratare, enfssons of metal or rein. terest in their style. One of the friction, becomes a column and is ers, dropped over greaps of pites. forced concrete have heat, fosted Cardinal fundar.ontal guad subjected to siplar stresses to the ender resting on the bottom, to prition, suk architecture is dit \"the fecade those which columns are subjected and after the exlindars\n\n0:1 prepaved and plac shall express the par- to, and can be calculated as such. position, ing them\n\nare in beds, and filled with stones or son- prae of the building.\" The funda A feree, the concrete filling the spaces imental in move or leva nuylerted personally\" in the architecture of between the piles sed the naise sood supporting soils, in spite of in our semi-derarstic buildings. their homes. Throughout the vo- of the eslinder. By this mean, folical platements to the can-\n\nwith\n\n200-\n\nxk.\n\nCertain ally, ench as sund, are\n\nthe trury, providing they are not do a\n\nMr. Horing shows farther jamo one is coracleas of the au- support is obtained from amusement at the ladies who de there gesuire belief in the files. ne elinder and concrete position in which they can sore,\n\nand pure pemodse styles: atzo, portance and eigalheance of the inside binding thure who insist upon \"expressing Fart.-Christian Science Monitor piles together, serving\n\nthe pa\n\nof and to prevent spreading the elte\n\nthe par- can be enclosed by abeak piling, of\n\ntimber, iron, steel, er reinforced concrete. Sheet pillay, at comple tion, could be described as a box ariere, without top on bottom, enclosing the ground on which. the batting elands.\n\nScrew Piles\n\nThese are main! cylinders with \"screw\" anda, the pile being ra rolved and anteng the soil in a similar way to that of wood screw entering wood.\n\nTheir most frequent use is for light piers where the sea bottom le sand.\n\nHOTELS.\n\nTHE\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST,\n\nWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925.\n\nHOTELS.\n\nHONGKONG\n\nHONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL:\n\nPEAK HOTEL.\n\nTulographie Address: KREMLIN, HONGKONG.”\n\nAND\n\nSHANGHAI\n\nASTOR HOUSE HOTEL: PALACH HOTEL;\n\nKALEE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL. Telegraphic Address: \"CENTRAL, SHANGHAL.\"\n\nHOTELS,\n\nLIMITED.\n\n43 association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits. Peking,\n\nKOWLOON HOTEL.\n\nTHE PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON, First Class Billiard Room and Satoon Bar.\n\nSHIPPING\n\nSTRIKE SITUATION.\n\nDEARTH OF CHINESE KIVER CARGOES.\n\nArrical and Departures.\n\nJUNG VOYAGERS.\n\nCHRISTIAN COLLEGIANS ARRIVE AT CANTON.\n\nUdging the Searchlights.\n\nNEWS\n\nFRENCH FLAGSHIP.\n\n13\n\nP. & O. BRITISH INDIA, APCAR AND RASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES.\n\n(COMPANIZA IRMOTROzed in ENGLAND) STATEO, JAVA ↳ OTTAMA, CREION, INDIA, PENSJAN GAFLF, WHAT IEDARA,\n\nKARTICA, ART & HOVE AFRICA, ANSA RAL-ANIA. INCLEDINU AR\n\nZNALAND & 4URENSLAND POSTA. RED HEA. WIEFT, ZUBOPY, KTO\n\nPENINNITLAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DAVET ROYAL MAIL UTKANADA\n\nSPER CONTRACT WI\n\nH. GYERSNXXT}\n\nIONS PROM TONGKONG ABOUT\n\n20th August.\n\nPENDING CHANGE IN NAVAL NARKUNDA...\n\nKIDDERPORE\n\nJEYPORA\n\nCOMMAND.\n\nKHYBER...........\n\nThe French battleship Jules\n\nNAGPORE\n\nof V140 Farry, ying the faz\n\nTILAWA TALAMBA\n\nTANDA...\n\nThe sixaution in the matter of\n\nAs was exclusively uncunced Admiral Prochos, Commander-in- ocean Donte shipping remains un- in the relature of the S. C. f. Post Ja Phart uime ago, a parts of Sqaadran, arrived yesterday over- sries and clearances varies but Americana left Hongkong toring and anchored in Kowloon ARAFURA\n\ntie. Cargoes are small in quan Canion by two fucks which were Bay as there are at present yo tity and few ju number. For the chartered For the purpose of berthe available in the man of yast fon; weeks shipments of more convering coroat and building war anchorage.\n\nthen\n\nThe usual ma\n\n0.334\n\n105\n\nDESTINATION\n\n42wers & wartorg-\n\n16,237 8th Sept., soon.rition & Fanuch.\n\n5,218\n\n17th Sept.\n\n0.114 19th September.\n\n5,83\n\njeet Soudna, Miles, London,\n\nLaterpell\n\n3465 September. patebay.\n\nBRITISH INDIA-LOCAH BAJURGS INDUTA\n\n10,000 24th September. 3'pore, Pung & Calcutta\n\n18,018 9 October.\n\nEASTENNÉ SUSTRALIAN RATING (SOUTH)\n\n16,9505\n\n8,000!\n\n2nd Sept.\n\nMaa, Sandokat Chnes. Is\n\n7th October Tarifle, B'ban, 'eer, &\n\nMethaurns.\n\nSADAMA win aga quli ni Turbo The 1. 9.3. Cu td. seatures will zien dil; of Shangkhu, B\n\nShaazhki, Dzsin. Debit, Kalam. The Timber Darwin, as her wine wich tho towing\n\nFrogweat conrad An the New Zaki, Tante\n\nas rand_nta\n\nSatan and soudit via Panama Canal.\n\nThe Ure 5.9. Company ateaders to the United Kingoeta 1,000 tons have beys rare, material to the Canton Christina {tional salutics were fired, and sise and now, even the local Chinese College under the leadership of the fing saiule in Vice Admiral whe may usually be depended upon 31r. Crumpton, No information Sinclair. which were duly re- to furnish small freights for river joald be obtained at the time turned. Electric Lift and Telephone to each Floor, Tels. K.608 & K.609. Cable address: KOWLOTEL, Hongkongingle package of cargo was ten who was acting as super Vion Admiral\n\nGnder the Persound Baparvicken and Matogoriană di\n\nFRANK L. COOKE.\n\nProprietor.\n\nKING EDWARD HOTEL. Electric lifts and Lighting. Telephone on each Floor, Hotel Launch Meets All Steamers.\n\nTol. Central No. 370.\n\nTelegraphle Address: \"VICTORIA.\" J. WITCHELL, Manager.\n\nST. GEORGE'S HOUSE. KENNEDY ROAD,\n\nPrivate Hotel, affording Every Comfurt.\n\nLARGE AND OF HARBOUR\n\nAIRY ROOMS. SPLENDID EXCELLENT CUISINE UNDER SUPERVISION OF THE PROPRIETKISS.\n\nLOSSIUS, Proprietress.\n\nFor te suply to\n\nThe only hotel in CANTON\n\ndirectly under European\n\nManagement.\n\nNAGPORE... 5,248\n\nSANJIS TO BHANGHAIR LAYER.\n\n26th August.\n\nHI\n\n......$10,000\n\nShanghai, Moji & Kobe.\n\n4th September. Sbbai, Moji kote. 6th September. Kebe.\n\nì deben re afrasimme wid subtrat in alteration without quiler. Wielan\n\nSTRAWERS. Parede og not mon than 21, x 16. × 7 th, will be prerived as ike Lumping's (not up lo egia on the day previous to unitis\n\nFanburding.\n\nB\n\ncestt, even though the pun la voly ether arough the Acerts The arrival of the dulos Perry KARMALA ......\n\nMac, are showing no Comandate of the Harbour Of is a proliminary to the charge OVET TILAWA design m despatch goods. Pas through which latter place in of the Commander-in-Chiership senzar hookings by the river sail- lucka cleared with no mention of at the squadron. Rear Admiral ings yesterday were good, but not 'pautengere other than Mr. Crnan- Basir is to be the successor of Fruchot, and will sen. ap.\n\nMules Michelet at as early data. 24 hours ending #sam yesterday Information has now been re After the command has been showed o vessels in harthour, of seived which confirms the state turned over, the Jules Ferry will which wery British, with 12 meu then made and this is to the leave for France, the new arrival arrivals and 11 doyartures. Bri- affect that the voyagers have becoming the Bugship in Lish shipping contributed six and reached Carton.\n\ntwo respectively, to these guzes. Warpon was reached at 2 a.. Arrival were the British ships on Sunday morning and taking Empress of Casada from Vancon- advantage of the darkness, the ver and Shanghai with 186 tour of junka alipped in ander the nearch- fouz, amigenium salphate aut Hights which awept the Back mails, Yut Shing from Bangkes Rear, without being detected. with 2,260 tons of rice and general There is no shipping activity\n\nThe\n\nstead,\n\nPARENTS PERTAINI\n\nNOTICE TO MARINERS.\n\nSHANGHAI DECLARED\n\nCHOLERA-INFECTED\n\nPORT.\n\nker\n\nand two bags of mails, Nam Sang in Canton, but sumbers of snail The following notice to muzinera: from Yokohama nt Shanghai boats are fraighting vegetables has been posted at the Harbour with 1,205 tena of general, tonius and produce from outlying die Once, seved by the authorities Revolutionary placards at Canton under date. August 13:\n\nHarbour Notification No. 1 of 1923. Notice is hereby given that the Superintendent of Custome and Representatives of Poreign Con- sale Bodiaz bave declared the port of Shanghai to be infected. AR vessels arriving therefrom either at Pantee or Whangea on and after this date are to be guvern\n\njing dangerous goods (firecrackerstricts. Tel. Central 116.\n\n(and matches) and 359 bags. of fare posted about the city treiting all, Jaining from Poochow and the people to take action agata\n\nforeig oppressore. Amoy with 50 tona ganerai and the mails, Hallie from Sulyon with gates to Alamen ure picketed 3.921 tons of ride and gear and the Chinese side to prevent any three bags of mail, Clearailah conuuunication with the defen Srum Sieganore and Hoi Nam with dore. Contradictory rumours are cur general, one bag of mulls and 200 deck paterpgera. the American reut with regard to the shipping\n\nTHE VICTORIA HOTEL,\n\nSHAMEEN,\n\nGuides\n\nand trips arranged for\n\nand special care\n\ntaken of TOURISTS. Cable Address 1 \"VICTORIA.\"\n\nEMPRESS LODGE.\n\nTel Kowloon. 296. fel. Add: \"presloge.\"\n\n8, Mudy Hoad, Kowloon Up-to-date Residential and Tourist Hotel. Two minutes walk from the Ferry Newly furnished, with latest sanitary bath- Under Barpervision of the Pro- Excellant ralaine.\n\nMom?\n\nprintress.\n\nPor termos apply to Mrs. M. O. MURPHY, Propristress\n\nPALACE HOTEL.\n\nTel. Address \"PALACE.” Tel. Kowiuon No. B.\n\nThres mátutes irom Kowlen Wharf, Ferry Wharf and RawaJ Station, Entirely Bater English Management. Eletele Light and Faus throughout. Every Rovin with Private Bath, Lounge, Bar and Hilliard Rooms. turivalled Cuisine onder the personal supervision of the proprietor. Terma moderate, Special terms to families on appli\n\nJ. T. OXBEREY, Proprietor. tion to:\n\nSTATION HOTEL,\n\nTel. Add: \"Termotel” KOWLOON. Code used a.B.C. 5th. First class aud most up-to-date Residential and Tourist Hotel. Two minutes' walk from Ferry. Moderate Larid and recst axel- lent cuisine auder entirely European tuanagement Monthly and Family rates can be arranged at mest reasonable terms.\n\nAPPLY THE MANAUERESS, Kowloon.\n\nTHE CARLTON HOTEL.\n\nUNDER ENTIRELY NEW MANAGEMENT. Splendidly Situated in the Heart of the European Secilon Convenient to the Ferry and to the Baalucss Centres.\n\nA First Class Besidential and Tourist Hotel with all the Convenienes of Homo. Large Airy Rooms. Hot and Cold Water.\n\nCuisine ander the Immediate Direction of the Proprietress Monthly and Family rates at moderate ternis.\n\nFor tartas upply to Mra M. BLAKE.\n\nTelephone No. C. 812,\n\nNu. 30, Lee House Street,\n\nASTOR HOUSE HOTEL.\n\nTelegraphic address \"ASTOR”\n\nTelephone Contra! 10,\n\n13. Queen's Road Central: A first clase Hotel centrally located, large and airy rODINE, completely renovated and refinished. New Ulzing Room\n\nuidine. Meals a la Carte. Excellent\n\nMouthly Tickets for Fists and Duners. Under entirely new Management,\n\nH. A. VAZ, Nanager.\n\nROGATE.\n\nTel Address \"Rogate\" Kowloon,\n\nTel. 851.\n\n158-160 Austin Read, Kuwloun. Newly furnished. Up-to-date Priests Hotel. Excellent Oni sine. Moderate Term.. tinder personal supervision of the Proprietres\n\n\"ALBANY.\"\n\nResidential Hotel, Nos. 3 & 4 The Albany. Overlooking the Botanical Gardens. Under personal supervision of the Proprietress. Telephone Central 615.\n\nMADAM ASA UTANI.\n\nJAVANESE MASSEUSE. FACE MASSAGE. MASSAGE\n\n25, Wellington Street:\n\nMASSAGE HALL.\n\nMRS. 3. UZUNOVE\n\nHapert Massgeule,\n\n37, Queen's Road Central,\n\nA similar notice has been issued\n\ntaamer West Faralun from Los 10 the port, that gaining most Angeles and Manila with 196 tas iredence being to the edest that by the Excilay Regulations feri of general and President McKinicy to impose a tax of 23,000 or be the authoriting stentsin in\n\nthe Cunninginner of Commerce is the port of Canton. from Manila with 12 tone of\n\nvessels discharging, while 41. general and 10 bags of all, the monopoly has her granted to theviation to that port and Chin- German vereis Piala on Hardessane for a large sum, the x-\n\n(wengizo under date August 12.\n\nJourg and Marilu with 365 tona of\n\nyoueral and six bags of mai, the out of which is not naked. Japanese reasol Osake Mary from\n\nNAVY LAUNCH BLAZE. TWO MEN SENT TO HOSPITAL.\n\nMuch of this stegnation is due Two American seemen, the en-!\n\nCalcutta and Singapore with 320 by the Autenor for Sagapore and tons of general, nails chectical President Kinley and Bevenue products, and 13 bags of mail, the for Shanghai. Chineze ucastor Chung Hing from Kwangeheuwan with 180 tone of the increasing difficulty ofgineer and the electrician of abippers in obtaining export per- U. S. 8. Beaver's speed launch, firewood, vegetables and poultry.\n\nmita for lee, the stonks of which whlen was destroyed by fire at! Departures\n\nin the Colony, are now belevet in the Army and Navy Club landing Departure were the Brish be below is reserve margin. at Maul are now in the Set- vessels Isaching for Amoy, Pru- Another contributing factor berg General Hosptial. The men tecilaus for Shanghai, Japanese appears to be the belfer sung the jare badly burved, according to a Towels Koren Mora for Keelung, Chinese generally that something navy officer interviewed at the Tsuruga Alara For Shanghai, drastic is about to happen either place of the fire.\n\nlein Maru for Tallar Bay and on one side or the other. The\n\nflames completely demolished Jajo Man for Swate, the Datel more credulone point to the con- the high power engine and burned auction dredger G.G. Ideoburg Jucant exercising of seaplanes the inside of the launch, causing (Netherlands Harbour Works) fox and the large number of warships Jamage estimated at $5.00). The Macao, Tisondari for Bhunghai, jad present in harbour, as evidence forigin of the fire le vakowa. the Gormer vernal Pfalz for that the British Government is it was extinguished half an hour, Shanghai, the Chinese coaster about to take action. No amount of Jafter it started.\n\nThe been aboard and the crew Kazura fur drony and the tallat explanation will disillusion them, moter vessel Eaquino for Shang- and thts toeling is permeating the of the launch Genecock I put hal. Clearances were taken out lantize native commercial fabric.\n\nTHE\n\ncut the blaze.\n\nHONGKONG & KHAMPOA DOGK CO., LTD.\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS MANIFESTO\", HONGKONG; UndesUsed: A1, A.B.C. Film Edition: Engineering: Fire and Second Edition: Western Union and Watking, Banson's Marcom.\n\nDock Owners, Ship Builders, Marine and Land Engineers, Boiler Makers, Iron and Brass Founders, Forge Masters, Electricians.\n\nOIL TANK STEAMER \"PALUDINA.\"\n\n412, 0′ x 58′ 1′′ x 31′ 0′′ x 3,400 tons Lw. x 3,300 H..\n\nBuilt by THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO, LTD., at KOWLOON DOCK\n\nso the ordero THE ANGLO SAXON PETROLEUM CO., IND.. being one of fusimilar\n\nVessels built in those WORKS to the same order.\n\nPlease address enquiries to the Chief Manager :-\n\nR. M. DYEE. B SC.. M.IN.A.. Kowloog Dock. Hongkong.\n\nFor Tenage Rates, Unzufbooka, Farizate, may apply że\n\nMACKINNON, MACKENZIE & Co., Alamur\n\nTHE BANK LINE, LTD,\n\nAgents for the following Services.\n\nAMERICAN & ORIENTAL LINE BOSTON, NEW YORK & NEW ORLEANS\n\n1st September.\n\nM.V. \"ELMBANK”-\n\nrta Suez Canai\n\nNEW YORK, BOSTON & BALTIMORE AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE TELLERMAN & HUCKNALL BS. Co., Ltd.) 8,8. \"HALVERNIAN\" via Suez Canal 19th September. 3.S. \"WALTON HALL\"'\n\n7th Oe.ober\n\nUNITED KINGDOM & CONTINENT \"ELLERMAN\" LINE (EILERMAN & BUCKNALL S.S. CO. LTD.)\n\nSth September S.S. KNOWSLEY HALL\" For Marseilles, London, Dunkirk and Hamburg. MODERATE PASSAGE BATES TO MARSEILLES & LONDON\n\nMAURITIUS & SOUTH AFRICA ORIENTAL-AFRICAN LINE\n\nMiddle August.\n\nS.S. SURAT\" Leading for Maurities, Delagea Bay, Durham, East London, Alges Bay. Port Elizabeth, Mossel Bay & Capetown.\n\nThrough Bills of Lading lawned to Betra, Quilimaine, Lio, Port Amelia. Sezambique. Chlude, Iabambane, Zanzibar, Houmassa, Kindlat, Vezi Nellat. Luderitz Bay, Walvis Bay & Madagascar.\n\nAUSTRAL-EAST INDIES LINE. (Ellerman and Bucknall S.S. Co., Ltd.) Sallings from Singapore og 6th of every month by \"City of Palerma or \"Maistine\" to Java, Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne nad Sydney, and vice versa. Through Freight and Passenger doakings from flong- tong in conjunction with \"Elterman\" Lice or other services.\n\nFor freight or passage on any of the above lines apply to:-\n\nTel. C. 4791 THE BANK LINE, LTD.\n\nBOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE.\n\nJOINT SERVICE OF THE\n\n\"BLUE FUNNEL\" LINE. KOCHAN BS, CO, LTD & CHINA MUTUA), S.8. Co., LTD.\n\nAND\n\nAMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINK.\n\nELLERMAN & BUCKNALL 8.S. CO. LT).\n\nBAILINGS FROM BONOKONG\n\nrie Suez Canal\n\n8.. \"Laomedon\"\n\n6.5. \"Peteus\n\n5.8. \"Haivurnjan\"\n\nB.S. Teneer'\n\n1\n\n26th Augast.\n\n7 September.\n\n19th September.\n\n28th September.\n\nSteamers proceed vis Huer Chant or Panama Cagni st owners' option\n\nSubject to Change without notice.\n\nFor freight and particulses apply to:- BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, or THE BANK LINE. 19. Bangkang,\n\nHongkong & Canton Jardine Matheson & Co. Ltd.\n\nCat1 du\n\nCOMPANIA TRANSATLANTICA DE BARCELONA Spanish Royal Mail Line For MANILA, SINGAPORE COLOMBO, SUÈL. PORT Sam, BARCELONA & other SPANISH PORTS.\n\n3.8.0. LOPEZ I LOPEZ\"\n\n3.5. ISLA DE PANATU\n\n8.8, LESAZгI\"\n\nBAJ\n\n... for Yokosms, Koba, Koji & Shanghai.\n\nS.8. 187. DE PANAY”\n\n33. \"LEGAZPI\n\n... 3rd September. 2046 Votober.\n\n18th December,\n\n.. 8th Octobe\n\n2. Ja, 1986.\n\n30th Nov.\n\nThe manors of this Company are all eisused 200 41 at Lloyd'e and ar modern cottrenience for the enzufort and safety of sha\n\nEtte with wards and Doctor carrisé.\n\nO. D. BA'RRETTO, LA..\n\nFor freight andjur pannage apply to-\n\nCentral Avenue, B. C. CANTON.\n\nBOTELHO KROS.\n\nAvezzanīra Bailding.\n\nHangkang", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 502066, "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": 313, "title": "CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925", "content_text": "teen\n\nsuspension of Indemnity payments for a period of five years. Payments on account of the Indemnity should therefore have been resumed at the beginning of 1923. When the British indemnity payments were suspended, the total amount outstanding on account of principal and interest was Hk. Tls. 660,924,550. Of this, the British share would have been Tls. 74,354,012, or $111,531,018. This would have been payable in four further instalments of $4,131,640, and nine instalments of $5,965,338, per annum. These are the sums which are to become available for purposes mutually beneficial to both countries when the allocation of the remitted indemnity is definitely determined. And it is noteworthy in this connection that the total budgeted expenditure of the Ministry of Education for 1922, the last year for which figures are available, amounted only to $3,529,981. This sum included the expenses of the Ministry itself, and grants to the Government University, Peking Law College, the Industrial and Agricultural Colleges, the High Normal College, the Peking Normal Schools (for men and women), the School of Fine Arts, and students studying abroad, and subsidies to various other institutions.\n\nThere is no doubt that Chinese education suffers from a lack of financial support from the Central and Provincial Governments. But it would be well to consider what will be the financial result of the remission of the American, British, Japanese, and Russian shares of the Boxer Indemnity, together with the French share which will ultimately revert to China. When Indemnity payments were suspended for five years in 1917, the total outstanding amount of the Indemnity, as we have seen, was Hk. Tls. 660,924,550, or $991,386,825. Of this latter sum, the approximate amounts owing respectively to the Powers that have agreed, actually or in principle, to remit their share were as follows:\n\nAmerica$72,569,515\nGreat Britain$111,581,018\nFrance$152,485,723\nJapan$76,634,201\nRussia$287,502,179\n\nThe total of these amounts is $700,722,636. If this entire amount be expended upon education during the next twenty-three years, it will involve an average annual expenditure upon education on foreign lines of $80,466,200. It is more than doubtful, in our opinion, whether China would derive any permanent benefit from the expenditure of this enormous sum upon the promotion of education, not on a uniform national basis, but with a view to furthering American, British, French, Japanese, and Russian interests and influence. We propose, therefore, in subsequent articles to put forward concrete proposals for the allocation of a portion of the British share of the Indemnity to education projects other than which, in our view, would be more beneficial to the Chinese people.\n\nII.\n\nExisting chaos in China, and uncertainty as to its duration, constitute serious obstacles to any project for assisting China, either in the development of education or the construction of railways or Conservancy or other public works. It is futile, while the Central Government lacks authority, even in its own capital, and most of the provinces are under the domination of irresponsible militarists, to put forward any scheme for the development of education on a national basis. Even if it were practicable, the funds rendered available by the remission of the British share of the Boxer Indemnity, while excessive if used solely for the support of British educational institutions, would prove quite inadequate for any scheme of a nation-wide character. The educational system of a nation of over four hundred millions cannot possibly be reorganized by annual grants of four to six million dollars, however wisely and economically expended. It is, moreover, open to very grave doubt whether China would benefit from a multiplication of the energies of rival systems of education.\n\nThere is already discernible among the Chinese a distinct reaction against attempts to expand foreign control over education in any form, which is now finding vent in an agitation against Mission Schools. While this agitation, like others that have preceded it, may be due to the prevailing unrest, and may pass away if and when a stable Government appears, it can hardly be expected that a people whose national consciousness must henceforward be regarded as a serious factor will prefer education on British lines (or American or any other lines) to a system adapted to its own national peculiarities and requirements.\n\nDr. Lavington Hart, who has had unrivalled experience in educational work among the Chinese, quotes one who is probably the ablest of the leaders in the new intellectual revival as authority for the statement that foreign educationists have made the mistake of spreading themselves out too thinly, and of attempting work which the Chinese would have done better themselves, such as teaching in elementary and low-grade schools. What they should do, says the Chinese whose views are quoted, is to concentrate on work of a higher kind and seek to produce a lasting effect by creating some object lesson in one or other of their institutions. If this view be accepted as reasonable, it would seem that such portion of the British Indemnity as is devoted to education should be used solely for the support of higher educational institutions in which British influence predominates.\n\nThere are not many of such institutions. Those at present supported by the British Chambers of Commerce include Colleges at Hankow, Wenchow, Ningpo, Taiyuanfu, Wuchang, Haiminhsien, Amoy, Peking, Mukden, Shanghai, Chungking, Kaifeng, Canton, Chuanhow, Swatow, Foochow, and Tientsin. All, or nearly all, of these institutions are in need of additional capital for extension and equipment. The claims of Hongkong University and of Medical Missions must also be borne in mind in arriving even at an arbitrary estimate of what might usefully be spent upon education under British auspices.\n\nBefore coming to actual figures, it is necessary briefly to discuss the objects to which the remitted Indemnity might usefully be applied in addition to education. We do not think that British public opinion, either at home or in the Far East, would favour any projects put forward solely or mainly for the purpose of furthering British political or commercial interests. We shall act, further, on the assumption that any project other than the promotion of education that may be put forward ought to be self-supporting, so that the benefits of the gift of the British taxpayer to China may not be restricted to the present generation. Finally, it is desirable to avoid jealousy, that any scheme not of an educational character should benefit as wide an area and as large a population as possible.\n\nWe intend in our next article to put forward a definite scheme for:\n\n(a) A substantial capital grant and annual subsidies to education.\n\n(b) The completion of the Canton-Hankow Railway.\n\n(c) An expenditure of $25,000,000 on Chihli River Conservancy.\n\nBefore going into financial details, however, it may be well to make a few observations on certain objections which will be raised, in principle, to the railway project, and also to explain why we have modified our original proposal of some months back for the expenditure of the entire British share of the Indemnity on education and the completion of the Canton-Hankow Railway.\n\nIt will be urged, in opposition to the railway project, that now, of all times, is the worst possible moment to advocate further railway construction in China. We see, today, the appalling results of continued military interference, and as long as the Treaty Powers are unable, or unwilling, to protect, or to compel the restoration to civil control of, the railways, it seems useless to provide further lines for military exploitation. The point is well taken. But we must not, we hope, assume that China for the next twenty years will remain the sport of militarist cliques. If that is to be her fate, it would be better to allow the entire Indemnity fund to accumulate until conditions in China warrant its expenditure upon objects mutually beneficial to China and Great Britain.\n\nIt would, in our opinion, be just as wasteful to embark upon an ambitious educational programme under existing conditions as to undertake fresh railway construction; it is impossible to be really helpful to a country so distracted and disunited as China is today.\n\nThe further objection will be raised that the completion of the railway is a selfish project, designed to promote the interests of British manufacturers under the guise of assisting China. On careful analysis, this objection will prove baseless. The sum it is suggested to earmark for the completion of the Canton-Hankow Railway is forty-five million dollars. Reference to existing Government Railway statistics will show that...\n\nPage 304", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503588, "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": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "page_number": 84, "title": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "content_text": "30\n\nCOMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL\n\nEXPENDITURE OF THE COLONY OF HONGKONG FOR THE YEAR 1925. 31\n\nHeads and Sub-Heads.\n\nEstimated.\n\nActual.\n\nIncrease.\n\nDecrease.\n\nProvisionally Voted.\n\n$\n\n$\n\nBrought forward\n\n8,928,822 7,957,662.27\n\n777,219.18 1,147,878.86\n\nEDUCATION DEPARTMENT :-\n\nExplanatory Remarks.\n\nPersonal Emoluments\n\n685,810\n\n854,060.96\n\nAllowances to Examiners\n\n500\n\nBooks\n\n1,190\n\n467.57 1,107.08\n\n91,249.04 32.43 82.97\n\nLapsing salaries. Over-estimated.\n\nDo.\n\nCollege Calendars, (Queen's College, Belilios Public and Central British Schools)\n\n435\n\n290.00\n\n145.00\n\nDo.\n\nConveyance and Motor allowance\n\n10\n\nDirector of Education\n\n600\n\n449.22\n\n156.78\n\nElectric Fans and Light\n\n1,750\n\n1,475.99\n\n274.01\n\nIncidental Expenses\n\n5,000\n\n6,916.92\n\n1,916.92\n\n1,554.00\n\nLaboratory, (Queen's College and Central British School)\n\n1,200\n\n1,190\n\nPrizes\n\nStudents in training at Hongkong University:--Fees\n\n18,600\n\n664.90 264.56\n\n21,040.00\n\n535.10\n\n925.44\n\n2,440.00\n\n2,440.00\n\nNot required for several months.\n\nOver-estimated.\n\nExpenses in connection with appointment of certain mistresses at home\n\nFewer physical apparatus required.\n\nFewer prizes.\n\nUniversity fees for 1924 Summer and Autumn terms paid during the year.\n\nStudents in training at Hongkong University :-Maintenance\n\n14,400\n\n180\n\nUpkeep of Motor Bicycle\n\nUniversity Examination Fees\n\n2,200\n\n15,840.00 10.00 1,550.00\n\n940.00\n\n940.00\n\nDo.\n\n170.00 644.00\n\nFewer repairs.\n\nCookery Classes, (Central British and Belilios Schools)\n\n180\n\n405.72\n\n225.72\n\n216\n\n291.00\n\n75.00\n\n226.00 75.00\n\nMore gas\n\nPianos, Upkeep of\n\nOver-estimated.\n\nand other items were required by Central British School. Under-estimated.\n\nEquipment of Classes for Technical Institute\n\n200\n\n239.48\n\n39.48\n\n40.00\n\n2,400\n\n1,595.09\n\n864.91\n\nTransport\n\nRent, (Taipo, Un Long, and 2 Normal Schools)\n\n6,888\n\n6,279.29\n\n608.71\n\nDo. Over-estimated.\n\nDu.\n\nGrants :-\n\nCapitation Grants\n\nGrants in aid of Kent Schools in New Territories\n\n117,980 5,280\n\nSubsidies\n\n12,000\n\n115,693.00 5,852.00\n\n11,855.00\n\n2,297.00\n\nDo.\n\n72.00\n\n72.00\n\nAdditional rent grant to Ying Wah College.\n\n145.00\n\nOver-estimated.\n\nSubsidies to Elementary Vernacular Schools in Hongkong\n\n87,500\n\nUniversity Examination Grant\n\n15,905\n\nPhysics and Chemistry grants\n\n8,820\n\n88,890.00 11,989.00 5,800.23\n\n1,390.00\n\n1,390.00\n\nUnder-estimated.\n\n4,522.00 3,019.77\n\nOver-estimated.\n\nDo.\n\nSpecial Expenditure.\n\nBuilding Grants\n\n150,000\n\n55,000.00\n\n95,000.00\n\nEquipment of Schools\n\n2,100\n\n1,748.38\n\n366.62\n\nFewer grants. Over-estimated.\n\nPianos, Purchase of\n\n2,900\n\n2,700.00\n\n200.00\n\nEquipment of Normal Schools\n\n3,500\n\n2,642.41\n\n957.59\n\nMedical fees and glasses for Students in Government Schools\n\n1,444.85\n\nEquipment of Saiyingpun School\n\n5,778.63\n\n1,444.85\n\n5,779.69\n\n1,445.00\n\n5,774.00\n\nDo.\n\nThe eye-examination fund has been found insufficient for payment of examination fees and glasses required.\n\nEquipment for new Sai Ying Pun School.\n\n1,148,874\n\n1,019,905.28\n\n18,717.80\n\nLess Increase\n\nSavings\n\n142,186.37 13,717.80\n\n13,956.00\n\n128,468.77\n\nCarried forward\n\n9,476,690\n\n8,977,507.50\n\n700,986.78 1,290,085.20\n\nPage 32", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 504167, "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": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]", "page_number": 37, "title": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]", "content_text": "36\n\n65\n\nHONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nDepartment. The European Sanitary Inspectors have therefore been increased by one Senior and four 2nd Class Inspectors while one Inspector has been transferred to the clerical staff leaving a net increase of four.\n\nmore motor refuse\n\nUnder Special Expenditure provision is made for two lorries. Motor lorries have proved cheaper and more efficient than bullock carts for the transport of refuse and the policy of replacing the antiquated bullock cart by the motor lorry is being pursued.\n\nThe cost of the refuse barge provided in the last Estimates will fall to be paid in 1927 and a revote is therefore provided.\n\nBOTANICAL AND FORESTRY DEPARTMENT\n\nThe only items calling for special comment are first that it is proposed to fill the post of Assistant Superintendent which has been left vacant for some time as a measure of retrenchment, and secondly that provision has been made for extending the Forestry Reserve at Tai Po.\n\nEDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nUnder Other Charges the principal increase is in Capitation Grants. These were reduced from $117,930 in 1925 to $100,000 in 1926 and it is necessary to increase them to $116,560 with the return to more normal conditions in 1927. Provision has been made for increased subsidies to encourage education in the New Territories. Under Special Expenditure the vote for Building Grants which had stood at $150,000 in each of the years 1924 and 1925 was omitted entirely in 1926.\n\nIt is considered essential to restore it in the 1927 Estimates and a sum of $100,000 is provided. The increase in the equipment vote is chiefly required to complete the equipment of the new King's College.\n\nThe total increase in the amount provided for education amounts to no less than $235,438. The total vote is however only $15,569 more than the amount provided for 1925 and even in these days of retrenchment I do not think that Honourable Members will grudge the restoration of the votes for this matter of vital importance to the future well-being of the Colony.\n\nThe subject of Education is one to which Your Excellency has devoted much personal attention since your return to the Colony last year, and the importance which the Government attaches to it is reflected in the increased provision made in the Estimates for next year. It will be remembered that drastic reductions were made last year in anticipation of reduced attendance. This anticipation has happily not been realized and the Department consequently finds itself seriously understaffed. The whole of the teaching staff as regards its numbers, its classification and its salaries has been passed under review with resultant changes too numerous and detailed for recapitulation here. I shall be happy to deal in Committee with any points which may be raised. The net result is an increase in the Personal Emoluments vote of just over one lakh, which provides for a total increase of 30 in the staff of whom 13 temporary mistresses were formerly paid for from savings and were not shown in the Estimates.\n\nHONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nment on Police Launches and at Police Stations.\n\nPUBLIC WORKS RECURRENT\n\n66\n\nThis head has been recast in what is hoped will prove a more convenient form and is summarised on page 75.\n\nThese are mainly estimates for maintenance and minor improvements, and recurrent expenditure such as rainstorm and typhoon damages. It is the considered opinion of the Government that even when economy and retrenchment are necessary it is of the utmost importance to maintain existing roads and buildings in a state of complete repair.\n\nThe Port Development Department has been re-absorbed into the Public Works Department under the supervision of the Director of Public Works and the separate post of Port Engineer has been abolished, the holder now on leave being transferred to the post of Manager, Railway, which will shortly fall vacant. This change has been made after the fullest consideration by His Excellency who is satisfied not only that in the present state of the Colony's finances the continuance of a separate Port Development Department would be unjustifiable, but also that the Port Development works are in this Colony so closely interconnected with works falling under the Public Works Department as to make it necessary in the interests of efficiency to bring them all under the same control. Provision has been made under Port Development for one new temporary Engineer to carry out the survey of the Harbour, the necessity for which was recently represented to the Finance Committee.\n\nThe Resumption Office has been shown as a separate branch of the Public Works Department.\n\nReductions amounting to $26,559 have been found possible under Other Charges owing to the reduction in the amount of the work to be undertaken.\n\nProvision has been made under Special Expenditure for equipping Government Garages and Workshops ($3,000) with a view to economy in the cost of repairs and for three new motor-cars, one for Kowloon and two for Victoria. Rapidity of transport is a modern necessity and it is cheaper to provide Government cars than to pay the cost of hiring.\n\nPUBLIC WORKS EXTRAORDINARY\n\nThis is the one Head of Expenditure on which it is possible to curtail expenditure in times of difficulty without seriously impairing the general efficiency of the administration or the health and comfort of the people. The works are of a special and extraordinary nature and however desirable such works may be they can only be undertaken if money is available to pay for them. The policy of the Government in view of the financial situation is to continue and so far as possible to complete the large works to which the Colony, in its very proper policy of development, found itself committed when the crisis of last year arose. The Government is fully aware of the many works which in the opinion of the Public are desirable and even necessary and among these the Government places high on the list the rebuilding of the Government Civil Hospital but these works could only be undertaken by an increase of taxation or by borrowing. After full consideration the Government", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 504640, "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": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]", "page_number": 509, "title": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]", "content_text": "An independent step, therefore, which His Majesty's Government may take at Canton will at once affect not only the rest of China but our relations with other Powers having interests in the Far East. The provocative attitude of the group of Extremists now in control at Canton may be deliberately calculated to provoke retaliatory measures whereby they hope to gain in popularity in their own country and to single out Great Britain as the oppressor of China. Such a development would be specially unfortunate at the present moment, when the Tariff Conference is about to meet at Peking and solidarity among the Powers and conviction of our good intentions on the part of the Chinese people are particularly necessary. Mr. Chamberlain will not hesitate to recommend strong action if and when it is considered that the situation would be permanently improved thereby. But he would prefer to take such action in concert with the other Powers whose treaty rights are equally at stake, and whom, as explained above, we are under an obligation to consult. He would be most reluctant to act alone except in circumstances where it would be clear to unprejudiced opinion that he had no reasonable alternative (letter to Colonial Office of the 5th September).\n\nAs regards Sir J. Jamieson's proposal for a blockade of the Canton River, Sir Cecil Hurst wrote in a minute on F3890 (the 20th August, 1925) as follows:-\n\n\"I assume that the Communist Government at Canton has not been recognised in any way as a Government by His Majesty's Government, and also that the proposed blockade of Canton is not intended as an act of war, but merely as a method of applying coercion in order to oblige the Canton authorities to desist from their illegal action in attempting to interfere with the liberty of foreign steam vessels to exercise their treaty rights of trade at Canton. Action such as is proposed by Sir J. Jamieson in his telegram No. 10 can be taken by His Majesty's Government without prior application to the League; but if such action is taken, any member of the League, including China herself, will be entitled to bring the matter before the Council under article 11 (see paragraph 2 of the article). If the action taken at Canton were a joint action with one or more of the other Great Powers, there would be the advantage that it would lessen the risk of trouble in the Council. It would diminish the chance of any attempt being made to isolate His Majesty's Government. All the Great Powers would be bound to stick together. If time allows, it might be well to call the attention of the Peking Government to these unjustifiable regulations which have been issued at Canton in breach of the treaty rights of the Powers, and warn it that unless it can secure their withdrawal within a specified time limit, the Powers would be obliged to take forcible measures. It would be difficult for the Government at Peking to protest to the Council at such action being taken by the Powers at Canton when it was rendered necessary by the failure of that Government to put an end to illegal action in its own territory.\"\n\nOther methods of dealing with Canton suggested at that time were:—\n\n Immediate examination of measures to be taken in order to permit the French and British consuls to face the situation created in Kwangtung by the recent actions of the Communist Government (French Ambassador's note of the 13th August): \"A naval demonstration\" (French Ambassador's note of the 15th August). We replied to M. de Fleuriau, on the 7th September, that it did not appear as though, at the present time, there were an immediate danger to the persons and property of foreigners in Canton, and that the Navigation Rules had been disavowed, but that if the position becomes suddenly worse, or if it appears to be drifting in a definitely dangerous direction, we might have to consult further with his Government.\n On the 21st August, in a telegram to the Admiralty, the Commander-in-chief suggested strong local action, involving an ultimatum to the Canton Government that if normal trade conditions were not resumed within a short and definite period, the Bocca Tigris and Whampoa Forts, and also the Whampoa Military College would be bombed and destroyed. The Admiralty informed us that from a technical point of view the action proposed was quite practicable and, indeed, an easy measure. But we rejected it, as we considered that if there were objections to a blockade, the same objections existed in much greater force to a bombing expedition.\n Interception of vessels obeying strike committees' regulations. This was proposed in a concrete instance by Sir J. Jamieson on the 19th August. The proposal was put up to us at 48 hours' notice, and, especially as it involved cargo belonging to a French firm, it was not approved.\n The reference of the Canton incident to the League of Nations. This was suggested by His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires, Peking, to His Majesty's consul-general, Canton (see Peking telegram No. 322 of the 20th August), who replied once more that, though the League of Nations might determine the facts, a stage had been reached when nothing short of abrogation of treaties would placate the local Government or end the strike.\n A contribution not exceeding 1 million dollars, to be made from Hong Kong funds towards a scheme to support anti-Bolshevik parties in Canton (Colonial Office letter of the 22nd August). We have always strongly opposed the financing of Chinese parties, and we informed the Colonial Office that we could not approve of this proposal.\n\nOn the 24th August, Sir J. Jamieson telegraphed that there were signs of collapse of the Extremist Government at Canton. He had been approached through a foreign channel as to how the deadlock might be ended. He had suggested that the five demands made by the Canton Government after the incident of the 3rd June should be referred to Peking and that the \"Navigation Rules\" should be disclaimed, thus allowing resumption of traffic between Hong Kong and Canton; this better outlook was confirmed by Peking on the 25th August. On the 26th August, the Canton Government informed Sir J. Jamieson that they had neither published nor approved the \"Navigation Rules\"; he accordingly suggested that a river steamship should be sent from Hong Kong to Canton as a test.\n\nAt the end of August, therefore, there was sufficient reason to be optimistic, although, as yet, there were no very definite signs of improvement. But about this time occurred the first of those obscure political moves in Canton city itself, which resulted in the overthrow of more moderate counsels, and an end of our hopes. On the 30th August, His Majesty's consul-general telegraphed that the military cadets and the strike committee had complete charge of the city; opposition to them was gathering, but that it was doubtful whether their (i.e., anti-Communists') men would stand up against artillery and grenades.\n\nOn the 5th September, His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking telegraphed (Peking telegram No. 357) as follows:-\n\n(1) The current of Chinese popular feeling is setting against Soviet intrigues in Canton and elsewhere. It is, therefore, quite possible that the Canton Government may soon fall without our intervention.\n\n(2) Revulsion of feeling would probably take place in favour of Canton if attacked from outside. I feel that Peking Government might well regard a blockade as violation of China's sovereign rights and also protest as a recognition by foreign Powers of independence of Canton; and as one of the contracting Powers, China seems to me clearly entitled to prior consultation under article 7 of the Washington Treaty.\n\n(3) I am strongly of opinion that preliminary consultation with Japanese, American, and French Governments would be preferable to immediate application to Washington Powers. I would suggest consultation with Italian Government, also, as they have ships here.\n\nOn the 6th September, Peking (in telegram No. 359) forwarded the following message from His Majesty's consul-general, Canton:\n\n\"The city is in the hands of cadets, labour and strike unions, and Russians, and is controlled by a Chinese triumvirate, whom it would be difficult to dislodge. A saner Chinese element would appreciate intervention, but I personally deprecate it as it would leave a legacy of hatred for the future. On the other hand, continuance of present state of things will bankrupt Hong Kong.\"\n\nSir J. Jamieson's memorandum on the boycott (dated the 11th September) will be found in Annex XI. It indicates that the triumvirate consisted of Chiang Kai-shek (Cadet army), Wang Ching-wei (Labour Unions), and Hsu Chung-chi (Cantonese military). The first two are Extremists; the last belongs to the less extreme Kuomintang, and his influence has consequently been waning.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 504645, "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": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]", "page_number": 514, "title": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]", "content_text": "F2193/2193/10]\n\n(No. 228.) Sir,\n\n16\n\nANNEX II.\n\nMr. Palairet to Mr. Austen Chamberlain.-(Received June 12.)\n\nPeking, April 6, 1925.\n\nWITH reference to the China Command Intelligence Diary for the month of September 1924, paragraph 85B, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a report I have received from the military attaché to this Legation containing interesting particulars in regard to the Whampoa Officers' Training School at Canton,\n\nI have, &c.\n\nMICHAEL PALAIRET.\n\n(Report No. 5.) Sir,\n\nEnclosure.\n\nColonel Steward to Mr. Palairet.\n\nMarch 21, 1925.\n\nI HAVE the honour to submit the following information on the Whampoa Canton Military School-\n\nThe following notes were given to me by a Chinese official in Amoy, who said he was certain of his information:--\n\nThe principal of the school is Chiang Chih-shih.\n\nThe initial expenses for the foundation of the establishment amounted to 1 million dollars, which sum was furnished by the Soviet agent in Canton. The monthly upkeep expenses amount to 200,000 dollars, which also are provided by the Soviet agent.\n\nThere are many unsalaried Russian teachers.\n\nSeveral thousand student soldiers in the school.\n\nThe arms and training equipment were purchased from Japan and the Soviet.\n\nThe following information on the Whampoa school was procured by the General Staff China Command, and was published in the China Command Intelligence Summaries:-\n\nWhampoa Officers' Training School.\n\nThe following information has been received from what is believed to be a reliable source:\n\nThe school was founded by the Communist section of the Kuomintang for the purpose of providing officers for the Kuomintang forces. A contribution was made by the Soviet Government to the school on its foundation.\n\nStaff-The commandant of the school is a Chinese, who is assisted by a staff of foreign and Chinese instructors. Of the foreign instructors two are Russians and two Japanese. The Russian instructors supervise the teaching of Communism; the Japanese are responsible for military education and training. The Chinese staff, which is mostly foreign-trained, instructs in medical and engineering subjects.\n\nOrganisation. There are 660 resident students, who, for administration purposes, are divided into four companies, each commanded by a military officer assisted by a second in command.\n\nTraining. The course lasts six months. Apart from scholastic studies students undergo theoretical and practical military training. Great attention is paid to bayonet fighting. A certain number of students, about 300, specialise in medical and engineering subjects.\n\nEquipment. The students are armed with the 79-mm. rifles recently commandeered by the Kuangtung Government from the Merchant Volunteers (Note 8.S. Hav\" Arms Consignment. There are three machine guns at the school\n\nNotes on the Students. The students are mostly intellectuals, and include graduates of the Peking University and ex-officials. They come from all over China, a certain number coming from Mongolia. There are only five students from Kuangtung Province at the school.\n\nIn confirmation of or contradiction to the above notes I am able to give my impressions during my visit to the school on the 2nd and 3rd March, 1925.\n\n17\n\nPrevious to my visit I was informed by Mr. Wade, Commissioner of Chinese Maritime Customs, Hong Kong, that all the money, which he remits to the Canton Government for local Chinese customs, is paid by him direct to the school authorities by order of the Canton Government, which sum is presumed to cover the upkeep expenses of the school.\n\nLocality. The school is divided into two localities. The main school at Whampoa, next to the naval establishment, and the overflow school near North Gate, Canton,\n\nThese two portions of the same school are identical in organisation and training, the North Gate school being merely a temporary measure to house the overflow students, who have been accepted to make good the wastage of the local war. North Gate portion of the school consists of hutments with a few permanent buildings, so I could imagine it will soon disappear with the subjugation of the Kuomintang's enemies\n\nThe Whampoa portion of the school is housed in a permanent building of modern two-storied design, and is divided into an infantry school, from which artillery students are eventually selected, and a medical side, where military training is given.\n\nObject. The object of the school, I was informed, is to provide officers for the Canton national army, so as to train a well-disciplined force for the propagation of the national Kuomintang doctrine. The school instructors deny their adhesion to Bolshevism, though the Kuomintang principles as applied to Canton do not seem to fall far short of the Bolshevik ideal.\n\nThe only signs of Bolshevism to be observed were a small picture of Lenin's head with a fish's body swimming valiantly in a sea, probably of capitalism, to illustrate his uphill fight against his enemies; also a large photo of a good-looking well-dressed European, who, I was informed, was the captain of the Soviet gunboat that anchored off the college in the autumn of 1924, and who supplied certain much-needed training armament to the college. The behaviour of the officers of this Russian Soviet gunboat was only marred by their public amours performed on the hill behind the school, with the Russian women who were passengers during the stay in Whampoa\n\nInstructional Staff.--The staff appears to be divided into civil and military. Both wear uniform without rank badges, but with the National party emblem, though the only civilian I was introduced to had grey golf stockings instead of leggings.\n\nThe civilian was a Cantonese, but the military instructors were all from the north, and some of them could not understand Cantonese. Military instruction is entirely given in Mandarin, both by the officers and the petty officers. On enquiring if all their students were of the north, I was informed that the secondary schools in China teach Mandarin, and so that even the southern students could understand the instruction, having been selected for their intelligence. I was also informed that, as the students came from all over China, it was thought better to give the instruction in the most used dialect.\n\nThe civilian staff deals with political questions, while the military staff has no say in civil instruction. The military staff consisted at my visit of about six officers and thirty petty officers, but as many were away at the front it is presumed that the normal staff is greater. In addition to the medical instructors I only saw one technical expert, the wireless officer, who, having been trained in the Japanese wireless school, appeared to be efficient. His installation was Japanese, though British and American wireless apparatuses were also noticeable in his room. Judging by the size of his room, I should imagine that the installation was used more for communication than for instruction, nor did I notice any field wireless apparatus.\n\nThe majority of the instructors are graduates of the Peking military school. Mr. Chiang Chih-shih was away at the front, as were the Russian professors, which appears to point to the fact that the Russian staff is military rather than civil\n\nI was not definitely informed that there existed a Russian staff, but from Russian maps on the walls of the class-rooms I drew my own conclusions.\n\nInstruction The students are treated as cadet soldiers, and are instructed in squads of about fifteen strong, the instructor keeping the same squad throughout the period of instruction.\n\nAfter a fortnight they are given rifles, which shows that they are above the average Chinese in intelligence, as they learn to keep still in the ranks and to move with precision in a much shorter space of time than the average Chinese recruit. The usual length of stay in the school is one year, after which, with the exception of certain cadets selected for artillery, the students are drafted into units as platoon commanders. The most advanced students that I saw drilling had only five months' instruction, as the older students had all been released for service at the front.\n\n[14166]\n\nD\n\n503", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 504654, "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": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]", "page_number": 523, "title": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]", "content_text": "34\n\net du droit international, vous êtes résolu à considérer les étrangers comme étant hors la loi.\n\npas\n\nLes résolutions que votre Gouvernement prendra à cet égard seront d'une importance exceptionnelle. Représentant d'un pays profondément pacifique, entouré d'officiers dont le plus vif désir est d'éviter toute effusion de sang, je ne refuserai d'envisager, d'accord avec vous, toute proposition susceptible d'apporter à cet incident si grave une solution à la fois modérée et compatible avec l'honneur national de la France. Dans l'intérêt supérieur de l'humanité, et afin d'empêcher le retour d'attentats qui nous obligeraient à user, à regret, de tous les moyens de répression dont nous disposons, je vous conjure, M. le Gouverneur civil, et les autres membres du Gouvernement, de ne rien négliger pour ramener le calme dans les esprits et pour aboutir à un arrangement rapide.\n\n[F3743/194/10]\n\nANNEY VII.\n\nVeuillez, &c.\n\nJ. LEURQUIN,\n\nConsul de France.\n\nConsul-General Sir J. Jamieson to Mr. Austen Chamberlain.—(Received August 7)\n\n(No. 7.) Sir,\n\nCanton, June 29, 1925.\n\nWITH reference to the local political situation, I have the honour to enclose herewith a copy of despatch No. 50 to His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking, dated the 29th June, 1925.\n\n(No. 50.) Sir,\n\nEnclosure 1.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. W. JAMIESON.\n\nConsul-General Sir J. Jamieson to Mr. Palairet.\n\nCanton, June 29, 1925.\n\nHAVING reference to my telegram No. 14 of the 27th instant, I have now the honour to transmit the translation of the joint letter addressed by the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs to my French colleague and myself, in which certain demands are presented to the Governments of Great Britain and France by that of Kuangtung, as a result of the unfortunate affair which took place on Shakee on the 23rd instant.\n\n\"\n\n2. As to the so-called proofs therein brought forward by which it is sought to establish that fire was first opened from Shameen, I would remark that statement No. 1, except for the words \"the fusillade began from Shameen,\" is substantially correct. So are the first three sentences of statement No. 2. Statement No. 3 is a plausible and natural argument from the Chinese point of view, whereas statement No. 4 is not true.\n\n3. The Government have so far loyally carried out their promise to protect foreign life and property outside of Shameen, and I have no reason to apprehend that they will not continue to do so.\n\n4. As to augmentation of forces, I certainly do not intend to apply for more ships or men, but since the 23rd the French have sent up two additional sloops and the French Commander-in-chief arrived here last night.\n\n5. On reflection, I am prepared to absolve the Government from any intention of starting trouble, and, in the absence of further proof to the contrary, will even go so far as to absolve the main body of the cadets from such intention. That, however, a certain section deliberately laid themselves out to create an incident is undoubted. I may mention that I have indirectly conveyed to the chief of police my appreciation of his efforts to induce the procession to behave in an orderly manner, which, up to the crucial point, were eminently successful.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. W. JAMIESON,\n\n35\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\nFu Ping-ch'ang, Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, to British Consul-General and French Consul.\n\n(Translation) Gentlemen,\n\nI HAVE the honour to inform you that I have received from the Secretary for Foreign Affairs and the Civil Governor verbal instructions to the following effect :-\n\nThe contents of the despatches of the 24th and 25th from the British consul-general to the Foreign Secretary and the French consul to the Civil Governor, respectively, have been considered. On the 23rd, the Civil Governor assembled a commission of enquiry, composed of representatives of the police, the workmen, the agriculturists and merchants, as well as the American and German consuls. The first report of the permanent delegate of this commission relates that it has been established, by clear proofs and in an incontrovertible manner, that it was from Shameen that fire was opened on the crowd of demonstrators causing heavy losses in killed and wounded. The following is a summary of the principal points of the said report:\n\n1. On the day in question the demonstrators were arranged in the following order: First the workmen, then the agriculturists, then the merchants, then students of the university and primary and middle schools (boys and girls), lastly, the cadets. With the exception of the cadets, none of them were armed. At the moment when the students of Lingnam College (Canton Christian College) reached the West (British) Bridge, a volley was fired from Shameen, killing on the spot Professor Ch'u Li Chow and the student Hsu Yao Chang, seriously wounding three other persons and slightly wounding a large number. Behind the Lingnam students came the girls of the Chuan Wei School, the girls of the School of the Sacred Heart, the students of the Normal School, of the Municipal Normal School, of the Che-hsin School, of the higher and primary schools, who all came under fire. Only at the very last came the cadets. The Lingnam students were separated from the cadets by a distance of several tens of chang (several hundred feet), at least. When the Lingnam students were fired on, the cadets had not yet reached the West Bridge. This is established by the evidence of the official in charge of the investigation of the deaths, who stated that the bodies of Professor Chiu and the student Hsiao were west of the British bridge, while the bodies of the cadets were all at the entry to Shakee Street, which is at a considerable distance from the West Bridge. From this it appears that the fusillade began from Shameen, directed at the crowd of unarmed students passing the British bridge, and that (the Europeans posted by) the East Bridge, hearing the noise of the firing, began to fire too, in such a way that the ground was strewn with corpses, and even passers-by were hit; details of the scene are vivid before our eyes.\n\n2. On the day in question, along the bund as far as Shakee, there were, in addition to the demonstrators, numerous policemen carrying white flags, who stood along the water's edge keeping order. There were also spectators in rows along the bank. The demonstrators, suspecting nothing, progressed along the long narrow road in close formation. If, as the two consuls state, fire was opened by the cadets, and if, as Commander Scott has stated, a hundred shots were fired before Shameen replied, it is evident that the cadets before firing would have begun by dispersing the spectators, to prevent them being hit by stray bullets, or anyhow they would have refrained from firing before the crowd in front of them had passed Shakee; finally, if they had fired a hundred shots, all the spectators and demonstrators would have had time to take shelter, and the answering fire from Shameen would only have hit cadets. How then were so many students and passers-by hit? It follows, then, that the assertion of the two consuls that the cadets fired first is without any foundation in fact.\n\n3. On Shameen, sandbags had been prepared and all sorts of military preparations made, whereas the cadets suspected nothing; moreover, they marched behind the workmen and other demonstrators in column of fours. If the cadets had really intended to open hostilities, they would not have exposed themselves in close formation, at the risk of sustaining heavy losses. When the burst of firing occurred, at the moment when the Lingnam (Canton Christian College) students were approaching the British bridge, the cadets at the entrance to Shakee were still in their ranks and had not opened out; this proves that they had no premeditated intention of opening hostilities. It was only after perceiving in what danger the demonstrators marching in front of them were that they came to their support. This is absolutely clear and obvious.\n\n[F3743/194/10]\n\n[14166]\n\n512", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506343, "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": "CO129-498-21 Government Educational department- salaries- prospects and vacancies 15-7-1926 - 25-1-1927", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-498-21 Government Educational department- salaries- prospects and vacancies 15-7-1926 - 25-1-1927", "content_text": "# REPORT FOR 1926\n\n## STAFF \nIn 1926 the Staff was reduced by five. Miss Munro, after a serious illness, has now gone home on leave. Mrs. Ng and Mrs. Wei resigned for reasons of health and Miss Fok and Miss To were transferred to King's College.\n\n## ATTENDANCE \nThe attendance during 1926 was satisfactory, the average daily attendance being four hundred and ninety-two, and it is gratifying to be able to report that the dwindling in numbers during the course of the year, so noticeable in the past, was much less pronounced. One class, 7c, had exactly the same numbers and names on the roll at the beginning of December as at the beginning of January, which for B.P.S. is an achievement, but which it is hoped will shortly be looked upon as the normal and not the exceptional condition throughout the School.\n\nI would here urge parents not to withdraw their daughters from the School during the year. The time for a girl to leave is at the close of the school year, in December. It has been found that premature withdrawals are very unsettling to the School, and sight must not be lost of the fact that a girl who fails to complete a session is indirectly responsible for depriving another of admission, as entries are not encouraged after the work of the year has begun. The accommodation of the School is taxed to the utmost; each year applicants are perforce refused admission. This year one hundred and forty-six applications had to be refused.\n\nIt is to be regretted, therefore, that a girl should enter upon the school year without the intention of remaining until the end of it.\n\n## HEALTH \nThe health of the School remains good. In October Dr. Minett, the M.O. of Schools, medically examined one hundred and sixty-nine entrants. The report on eyes and teeth was not satisfactory, out of the number examined there were fifty defects, mainly eyesight.\n\n## STUDIES \nSince the last report was submitted several changes of a progressive nature have been introduced, the chief being the extension of the study of English to the lower classes of the School.\n\nIn January, 1926, the Remove Class, which had previously had studies in the ratio of three hours Chinese to two of English, was included amongst the English Classes, and the hours were changed to one and four respectively. In this way pupils are afforded an opportunity of reaching the standard of English required for the Junior Local in the remaining four years.\n\nThis change has proved a success and has been appreciated by the girls. It is now possible to carry the English teaching down two years further, two divisions of Class 7 and one division of Class 8 now learning English in the ratio of three to six. An important result of this change is that girls are encouraged to pass from Class 7 to the Senior School, and to pursue their studies up to the Standard of the University Locals.\n\nIn 1925 the subject of Hygiene was introduced by means of informal health talks into the curriculum of the School. In the lower classes these are given in Chinese, in the English junior classes they form the subject of colloquial lessons and in the Senior Classes the subject is treated formally as Domestic Science. In 1926 Domestic Science replaced Needlework as a subject for the Senior and Junior Locals. Needlework is taught five years in the Junior and four years in the Senior School: it was therefore felt that it could be well discontinued in favour of a wider and more generally useful subject. The old cookery kitchen was small and inadequate, and it was found possible last year to fit out as kitchen a more suitable room. The subject of Housewifery has recently been introduced, and although it has not yet been possible to set apart a room for this purpose, it is hoped that certain structural alterations will render it possible to allocate the room above the kitchen to the service of this new and important branch. The girls are responsible for the entire cleanliness and freshness of the place, the washing of paint, curtains, cleaning of windows, \n\n## Prize Giving \nfound in the second half of the Magazine. After the reading of the Report for 1926, Miss Skinner spoke of her coming departure on leave and wished the girls a happy and successful year. Mr. Wood then gave away the prizes, which included the awards on the results of the Senior and Junior Local Examinations, the Government Free Scholarship Certificates, the English and Chinese class prizes and the certificates for First Aid and Home Nursing. A full list of prizes and prize-winners will be found at the end of the Head Mistress' Report. The second innovation came when Mr. Wood spoke to the students in Cantonese instead of in English. His speech was listened to with great attention and interest.\n\nThe proceedings ended with a vote of thanks to Mr. Wood, proposed by Miss Lewis.\n\nSpecial thanks must be given to those who contribute every year to the Prize Fund. The list of names was published in the newspaper report of the day's proceedings, but it is perhaps not sufficiently understood that the list of prizes owes some of its length to the generosity of the donors to the Prize Fund.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-21 Government Educational department- salaries- prospects and vacancies 15-7-1926 - 25-1-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 508394, "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": "CO129-501-7 Annual general report- 1925 26-11-1926 - 8-6-1927", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-501-7 Annual general report- 1925 26-11-1926 - 8-6-1927", "content_text": "## III-LEGISLATION\n\nSixteen (16) ordinances were passed during 1925, of which eight were amendments of previous ordinances.\n\nThe most important matters with which these ordinances dealt were:-\n\n* The Bishop of Victoria Incorporation (No. 4)—The object of this ordinance was to incorporate the Bishop of Victoria, in order to enable him to hold immovable property in perpetual succession, and in particular to enable him to hold the site of St. Paul's College, which was being vested in him with the consent of His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, the present legal owner.\n* The Sailors Home (No. 5)—The object of this ordinance was to create a corporation to be known as \"The Trustees of the Sailors Home in Hong Kong,\" to appoint the first trustees, and to vest in the new incorporation the Crown lease of the land on which the present Sailors Home stands.\n* The \"Petites Soeurs des Pauvres, St. Pern, Bretagne\" (No. 6)—The object of this ordinance was to incorporate the Petites Soeurs des Pauvres, St. Pern, Bretagne, in order to enable them to hold immovable property in perpetual succession.\n* The Telephone (No. 9)—The object of this ordinance was to provide for the establishment of an improved telephone service in the Colony by means of a concession to a new local Telephone Company to supply telephonic communication within the Colony for a period of fifty years commencing from 1st July, 1925.\n* The June Settlement (No. 11)—The object of this ordinance was to postpone the June settlement day.\n* The Registration of United Kingdom Patents (No. 13)—The object of this ordinance was to provide for the registration in Hong Kong of letters patents granted in the United Kingdom.\n\n## IV.-EDUCATION\n\nThe European staff was decreased by twelve during the year.\n\nThe total number of pupils at schools in the Colony excluding the Police School are:-\n\n| Type of Schools | English Schools | Vernacular Schools | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Government Schools | 3,805 | 44 | 3,840 |\n| Military Schools | 148 | | 148 |\n| Excluded Private Schools | 210 | | 210 |\n| Grant Schools | 4,242 | 1,176 | 5,418 |\n| Controlled Private Schools | 3,283 | 22,531 | 25,814 |\n| Controlled Private Schools, New Territories | 25 | 5,215 | 5,240 |\n| Technical Institute | 580 | | 580 |\n| **Total** | **12,293** | **28,966** | **41,259** |\n\nThe most important schools are Queen's College for Chinese, four District Schools as its feeders, and the Belilios Public School for Chinese girls. There is an Indian School of growing importance housed in a building presented to the Colony by the late Sir Ellis Kadoorie. Central School and Quarry Bay, Kowloon Junior and Victoria Schools for children of British parentage have an average attendance of 257. There is also a school for the children of the Peak District with an average attendance of 34. The Diocesan School and Orphanage and St. Joseph's College are important boys' schools in receipt of an annual grant. The Italian, French, and St. Mary's Convents, the Diocesan Girls' School, and the St. Stephen's Girls School are the most important of the English Grant Schools for girls. There are two Vernacular Normal Schools for Men and Women respectively.\n\nThe Hong Kong Technical Institute affords an opportunity for higher education of students who have left school. Instruction was given in 1925 in Building Construction, Mechanics, Chemistry (Practical and Theoretical), Physics, Electricity, Commercial English, French, Shorthand, Book-keeping. Classes for men and women teachers, both English and Vernacular, are a feature of the Institute.\n\nThe lecturers are recruited from the members of the medical and educational faculties of the Colony, and from the Department of Public Works, and receive fees for their services. The Institute is furnished with a well-equipped chemical laboratory and excellent physical apparatus.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-501-7 Annual general report- 1925 26-11-1926 - 8-6-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 508396, "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": "CO129-501-7 Annual general report- 1925 26-11-1926 - 8-6-1927", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-501-7 Annual general report- 1925 26-11-1926 - 8-6-1927", "content_text": "## PUBLIC WORKS\n\n### BUILDINGS\n\nDuring the year progress as stated was made on the following works:\n\n#### Hong Kong\nThe New Fire Brigade Station proceeded satisfactorily and was nearing completion by the end of the year. The following works were completed: Senior Officers Quarters, Gough Hill, New Architectural Office, and Entrance to New Queen's Pier. The New Sisters Quarters to the Government Civil Hospital were nearly completed, and good progress was made on the New King's College and alterations to the Victoria Hospital. New Queen's College site approached completion. Open markets at Whitfield and Quarry Bay were finished.\n\n#### Kowloon\nThe New Hospital was practically finished and partly occupied by the end of the year, and married quarters for Police were erected at Mong Kok and Tsim Sha Tsui Police Stations.\n\n#### New Territories\nThe work of piling for the foundations of the new Gaol was completed, and married quarters for Police were erected at a number of the police stations. Kowloon City and Shamshuipo Police Stations were finished.\n\n### COMMUNICATIONS\n\n#### Hong Kong\nRoad contouring Wongneichung and Tai Hang Valley, and access road from Stubbs Road to War Memorial Hospital site, made good progress. Main road from Causeway Bay to Quarry Bay made fair progress in places. Road connecting Robinson Road with Conduit Road was begun, and good progress made. Improvements were continued on Kennedy, Conduit, Victoria, and Shaukiwan Roads.\n\n#### Kowloon\nWork on the removal of the hill obstruction at the junction of Nathan and Coronation Roads made good progress. Waterloo Road Extension North and East, Tokawan Road, and Chatham Road Extension, Mongkok-Kowloon City Road made good progress. Several streets in Yaumati were raised to new levels.\n\n#### New Territories\nWidening of Fan Ling-Au Ha Gap Road to 20 ft. and extension to Shataukok made good progress. Widening of bridges on Castle Peak-Fan Ling Road to 20 ft. put in hand. Improvements to the Coastal Road and the metalling and tar painting of New Territories roads were continued, and several bridges were widened.\n\n### DRAINAGE\n\n#### Hong Kong\nA 7'6 concrete culvert from Leighton Hill Road to Praya was finished.\n\n#### Kowloon\nThe Extension of the Mongkoktsui nullah to the Old Kowloon Boundary was completed. Ma Tau Chung nullah made slow progress.\n\n## \n\nNo University hostel at present exists for women students, whose right to admission to the University was first recognised in 1921, but some arrangements for the accommodation of a few women students in a rented building have been made by the authorities of St. Stephen's Girls' College, a Church of England girls' school which is near the University. The nuns of a neighbouring Italian convent are also prepared to house a few women students.\n\nThe tuition fee is $300; the hostel fee, which includes board and lodging, is $300. A student who is allowed to live in a hostel during a vacation—some have to because of their work, e.g., medical students, and others because their homes are too far away—pays at the rate of $8 a week. When a student joins, he is required to deposit caution money to the extent of $25 and to pay a registration fee of $5. The annual subscription to the University Union is $15, and this covers the annual subscription to practically all the athletic clubs. The graduation fee is $25. Probably about $1,200 represents the minimum amount which, at present prices, would cover a student's annual expenses, including vacations. It would cost a Chinese student who goes abroad $2,500 a year at the very least, and this would not cover travelling expenses.\n\nNumerous scholarships are available, including the King Edward VII Scholarships founded by His Majesty's Government. There are also scholarships provided by the Government of Hong Kong, of the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States, of Kedah, and Siam.\n\nThe Union is the centre of the social life of the students. It is at once a Club and a centre of athletics. The Union Committee contains certain members of the University teaching staff, but its President and Secretary are undergraduates elected by the undergraduates. The undergraduate members of the Committee are also elected by their fellow students. There is a Union magazine with English and Chinese sections. The editors are students; a member of the teaching staff acts as assistant editor. There are some twenty women students; these women students are all members of the Union.\n\nThe students of the University come from Kwangtung, Chihli, Hankow, Hupeh, Yunnan, Hunan, Shanghai, Pekin, Fukien, Singapore, Penang, Kuala Lumpur, Kedah, Jahore, Java, Manila, Burma, Siam, Japan, India, and Macao. The present enrolment is 300, of whom about 250 are Chinese and 50 non-Chinese. Of the Chinese students, some 134 come from Kwangtung and Hong Kong, 50 from the Federated Malay States, and 18 from Java. Students from other places outside China number about ten.\n\nThe behaviour of the students of the University throughout the troubles connected with the strike and boycott was admirable. It is true that when the strike and boycott began in June, the University was in vacation; but at the time, there were more than one hundred students in residence. The University re-opened on its normal date in September. Nearly all the students came back, some at considerable personal risk, and throughout the term which then opened, their whole attitude was one of quiet loyalty to the University.\n\nPage 34\nPage 23\nPage 35", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-501-7 Annual general report- 1925 26-11-1926 - 8-6-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 510842, "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": "CO129-504-16 Junior Cadet Officers of Hong Kong Civil Service- petition for revision of salaries 18-12-1926 - 6-7-1927", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-504-16 Junior Cadet Officers of Hong Kong Civil Service- petition for revision of salaries 18-12-1926 - 6-7-1927", "content_text": "## Continued. 3\n\nthan an engineer and £200 less than a Medical Officer newly appointed and, it may be, fresh from College.\n\n4.\n\nWe have been informed that no comparison with India is possible, but we venture again to refer to the fact that members of the senior Indian Civil Service are paid better, age for age, seniority for seniority, than members of any other department in India, the medical included, and that we who pass the same entrance examination as these Indian Officers and who in some cases chose Hong Kong in preference to India, find ourselves paid less during our early years than officers of all other departments.\n\n24\n\n5. It has further been objected with reference to our comparison of our salaries with the salaries in other Colonies that the question of climate, exchange compensation, loneliness of station, etc. have to be taken into account. In reply, we would refer to the fact that all such considerations appear to have been ignored in the case of transferred officers whose sterling salary in this Colony has been raised so that they should not suffer even nominal loss in comparison with their sterling salary in the previous Colony.\n\nFurther, we would point out that Hong Kong alone of the grouped Colonies suffers in respect of salary during leave, as we lose the privilege rate. Also, the distance from England is greater.\n\nWe understand that the Cadets in Malaya who learn Chinese with us found that, owing to the system of acting appointments which obtains in Malaya, by accepting salary at Hong Kong rates during their two years in China, which commence after they have served 6 months in Malaya, they suffered to such an extent in comparison with other cadet officers that special concessions have been made whereby, on their return to Malaya, they automatically start a grade higher than the normal, and receive salary of $550 Straits Currency a month instead of $400 Hong Kong currency in the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-504-16 Junior Cadet Officers of Hong Kong Civil Service- petition for revision of salaries 18-12-1926 - 6-7-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 511259, "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": "CO129-505-12 Estimates of expenditure 1928 1-9-1927 - 12-1-1928", "page_number": 53, "title": "CO129-505-12 Estimates of expenditure 1928 1-9-1927 - 12-1-1928", "content_text": "Enclosure No. 5.\n\nHONG KONG.\n\nNo.\n\n8 1927\n\nREPORT OF COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION ON SCHOOL FEES REVISION: APPROVED BY BOARD OF EDUCATION ON 4TH MAY, 1927.\n\nA. Brief historical memorandum.\n\n1. In 1908, Queen's College fees were $3.50 for the Upper School and $2.00 for the Lower.\n\nIn 1909, the fee was raised to a uniform $4.00 and in 1910 to a uniform $5.00.\n\nThe increase to $4.00 does not appear from the Headmaster's report for 1909 to have been responsible for a diminution in numbers, but in the 1910 \"Report of the Director of Education\" he stated \"The average attendance is 642 as against 805 last year and 911 in 1909. As already stated, this large reduction is the result of the deliberate policy of the Government in reducing the size of classes. It is also due to two further causes. The increased fees caused a number of boys to leave earlier than they would otherwise have done, and an act of indiscipline towards the end of the year resulted in the expulsion of a considerable number of boys\".\n\n2. The fees at the District Schools (Sai Ying Pun, Wantsai, Yaumati) were $2.00 in 1908, $3.00 for new boys in 1909, in 1910 all $3.00 except Sai Ying Pun new boys who paid $4.00, and from 1911 all a uniform $3.00.\n\nThe Director of Education in his 1909 report wrote that the increase had no apparent effect on the numbers seeking admission. In his 1910 report he wrote \"Experience has shown that the fee of $3.00 per mensem is not too much. But the further increase of $4.00 at Sai Ying Pun has proved a check on attendance and it has been decided to make the fee at that school the same as at the other two\".\n\nEllis Kadoorie School was taken over by Government in 1915, and took rank as a District School at the same fee, $3.00 a month.\n\n3. Belilios Public School in 1909 paid three different fees according to classification of pupils, 50 cts., $1.00, and $1.50.\n\nIn 1910 a uniform fee of $1.00 was charged, and from 1913 this was raised to a uniform $2.00, \"with no ill effect upon the attendance\".\n\n4. The Indian School monthly fee was $1.00 until 1917, when it was raised to $2.00, without any decrease in numbers.\n\n5. Gap Road School, which in 1922 took the place of Praya East School, continued to pay $2.00, and that figure has not been raised.\n\n6. The Country Schools (Tai Po, Cheung Chau, Un Long) all paid 50 cents till 1923, when Taipo only was raised to $1.00. Mr. Mould was then in charge and Mrs. Mould also taught in the school.\n\nSince Mr. Mould's departure attendance has decreased.\n\n7. The Vernacular Middle School inaugurated in 1926, and the Vernacular Normal School for Women pay $2.00.\n\n5%", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-505-12 Estimates of expenditure 1928 1-9-1927 - 12-1-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 511260, "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": "CO129-505-12 Estimates of expenditure 1928 1-9-1927 - 12-1-1928", "page_number": 54, "title": "CO129-505-12 Estimates of expenditure 1928 1-9-1927 - 12-1-1928", "content_text": "8. The Vernacular Normal School at Taipo, established in 1926 in order to train teachers for New Territory vernacular schools, charges no fee.\n\n9. King's College from September 1926 charged a uniform $5.00, but its lower school pupils, since their transference to Ellis Kadoorie School pay $3.00 only.\n\nB.-Recommendations.\n\n1. We recommend that the Upper School (Classes 1, 2 and 3) of Queen's College and King's College should pay a higher fee than the Lower School.\n\nThe principle of charging more for the Upper School is well understood in this Colony. It is the practice in many of the Grant Schools and private schools.\n\nEconomically it is justified by the comparatively greater cost of running the upper classes. Chemical Laboratories and their equipment, for example, are expensive items not enjoyed by the Lower School.\n\n2. The Lower School (Classes 4 to 8) of Queen's College and King's College should pay the same fee as the District Schools (Ellis Kadoorie, Wantsai, Yaumati), on the ground that they give the same type and degree of instruction, and follow the same syllabus.\n\n3. More free Scholarships should be granted for admission to Class 3 of Queen's College and King's College of boys from Class 4 of those, and the District Schools. The object would be to encourage boys of promising ability whose parents could not otherwise afford to let them remain at school. The award would largely depend on the recommendation of the Headmaster and Class Master concerned.\n\nThe present number of free scholarships is 20 (full) and 5 (half). This might be increased to a total of 35 (full), subject to revision after experience. This would involve an annual potential loss of $1,200, on the basis of our recommendation in the next paragraph.\n\n4. The fee for the Upper School of Queen's College and King's College should be increased from $60 to $96 a year.\n\n5. The fee for the Lower School of Queen's College and King's College and for the three District Schools should be $60. This means no increase in respect of Queen's College and King's College Lower Schools, but an increase of $27 a year for the District Schools, which at present pay $3 a month for 11 months only. We consider that payment should be in respect of the full 12 months.\n\n6. The Indian School should continue to pay $2.00 a month, but that payment should be for 12 months (= $24) instead of for 11 months (= $22) as at present.\n\nThe pupils at this school as a rule are sons of poor parents. Their case is different from that of Chinese parents who can pick and choose among many schools according to their purse, and neighbourhood. The Indians have no other school in this Colony, and are often obliged to incur travelling expenses in addition.\n\n7. Gap Road School should continue to pay $2.00 a month, but should pay for 12 months instead of 11. ($24 instead of $22 a year.) This is a junior school, with only three Classes, 6, 7 and 8. No European is on its staff.\n\n8. Belilios Public School for girls should pay $36 throughout. In October 1926 the Board was of opinion that the Upper School (Classes 1, 2 and 3) should pay more than the Lower School, but in view of the fact that there are less than 40 pupils in the Upper School, we think that a higher rate would not be worth while.\n\nAt present this school pays $2.00 a month for 11 months. We would make it $3.00 a month for 12 months.\n\n9. No change should be made in the fees payable at the Country Schools, the Vernacular Middle School or the Vernacular Normal School for Women. (see Part 1 ss. 7 and 8).\n\nC.\n\nWe attach a table* showing the estimated effect of our recommendations, on the basis of January-February, 1927 figures, as compared with 1926 revenue from fees.\n\nD.\n\nWe have not considered the Central British, Peak, Kowloon Junior, Quarry Bay and Victoria British Schools.\n\nThe fees at these schools were revised in 1922 in accordance with the recommendation of the Board. Mr. Irving then reported-\"the effect of these changes will be to increase the average fee paid at the Peak and to make small increases in the fees at the other schools\".\n\nA table† of these fees is attached.\n\n*See Appendix I\n\n†See Appendix II.\n\n(Signed) A. E. WOOD\n\nE. RALPHS\n\nS. W. TSO\n\nJ. M. ALVES\n\nA. EL ARCULLI\n\nAppendix I.\n\nESTIMATED INCREASE IN REVENUE DUE TO REVISED FEES.\n\nNo. of PupilsFees remittedin\nJan/Feb., 19271926Rate. Proposed1927.\n1926.Rate.\n$$$$$\nQueen's College Upper.249 (Jan.)6096\nLower.23,90425,565\n3466060\n20,760\nKing's College Upper.1306096\n12,48019,028\nLower.5146060\n30,840\nEllis Kadoorie School4073360\n28,02012,546906\nYaumati School266 (Feb.)3360\n15,9606,8761,422\nWantsai School2063360\n12,3605,928924\nBelilios Public School..5262236\n18,9369,458862\nTotal163,26079,4016,105\n$163,260*\nTotal of revised fees85,506\nDeduct total 1926 fees and fees remitted in 1926.77,754\nNet increase\n*Does not include $492 additional for Indian and Gap Road Schools, and $1,200 less for additional free scholarships.\n\nPage 57\n\n2\n\nPage 58\n\n3\n\n11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-505-12 Estimates of expenditure 1928 1-9-1927 - 12-1-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 511273, "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": "CO129-505-12 Estimates of expenditure 1928 1-9-1927 - 12-1-1928", "page_number": 67, "title": "CO129-505-12 Estimates of expenditure 1928 1-9-1927 - 12-1-1928", "content_text": "Indisputably, therefore, Hong Kong is one of the greatest shipping ports in the world; and, although the anti-British boycott of 1925 and 1926 caused a decrease in the number and tonnage of the shipping entered and cleared at Hong Kong, there is every reason to believe that this set-back is only temporary and that a rapid recovery will be made as soon as normal trading conditions in China can be restored.\n\nThe achievement of Hong Kong in financing its amazing development during the past thirty years by means of its annual revenue, and without recourse to borrowing, is unexcelled in any part of the British Empire. In 1893 the Colony raised a loan of £200,000 at 3 per cent. interest and spent it chiefly on waterworks and on resuming insanitary properties at Tai-ping-shan. By 1898 the whole of this loan had been expended. Since then all public works in the Colony, both ordinary and extraordinary, have been paid for from current revenue, with the exception of the construction of the British section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway, which was financed by a sterling loan raised in 1906.\n\nIt is worth while to pause a minute and to reflect what this means. It means that the whole of the development in the Kowloon peninsula has been paid for from current revenue. This development has been nothing less than the transformation of a rural district into a large modern town, where in years to come it is not unlikely that a million or more persons will reside. This town has been provided with an ample water supply, with a splendid road system, with drainage and sewerage, with a hospital, with fine police stations at Yaumati, Shamshuipo and Kowloon City and with a breakwater and typhoon shelter at Mongkoktsui.\n\nAll public works in the New Territories, except the railway, have been paid for out of current revenue. In broad outline this means that, without raising any loan, we have made a detailed cadastral and contour survey of the New Territories, showing every paddy field and every house contained therein; we have built the Taipo Road and the road via Castle Peak to Fanling and across to Shataukok; we have erected all the police stations and public buildings in the New Territories; we have extended the Government telephone system throughout the Territories; we have made the Shamshuipo reclamation and materially assisted in the Kowloon Tong Development Scheme.\n\nMeanwhile on Hong Kong Island itself we have constructed a system of first-class motor-roads. We have built the magnificent Tai Tam Tuk waterworks. We have participated in the original Praya Reclamation and the Praya East reclamation. We have done much drainage and harbour dredging work. We have built the Wireless Station at Cape d'Aguilar, the Blake Pier and the Queen's Pier. We have also erected a large number of excellent and spacious buildings, chief among which are the Supreme Court, the Post Office Building with the Government Offices therein, the Fire Brigade Station with the Government Offices therein, the King's College, the Victoria Hospital extension...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-505-12 Estimates of expenditure 1928 1-9-1927 - 12-1-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 511298, "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": "CO129-505-12 Estimates of expenditure 1928 1-9-1927 - 12-1-1928", "page_number": 92, "title": "CO129-505-12 Estimates of expenditure 1928 1-9-1927 - 12-1-1928", "content_text": "- 17 - \n\n103\n\nthe votes, and is also more convenient in working.\n\nProvision is made for the purchase of one more motor refuse lorry, and for the fitting of solid tires to all Sanitary Department lorries. Owing to the nature of their work, the use of pneumatic tires has been found uneconomical.\n\nHead 27 - Botanical and Forestry Department.\n\nThere is an increase of nine gardeners, six of whom will be required to look after the extensive lawns surrounding the Kowloon Hospital, two for the nursery and propagating department and one for the General Civil Hospital.\n\nHead 28 - Education Department.\n\nAt present we are without King's College which is being used as a military hospital. It is however necessary that provision should be made for staffing it and running it in the event of the number of troops in the Colony being so reduced next year that they will not require King's College.\n\nSix British mistresses on the temporary staff who were formerly paid from savings on personal emoluments are now included in the estimates. The teaching staffs of the Vernacular Middle School and the Normal School for Women have been increased by one English teacher at the former, and by three lecturers at the latter. Both those schools are proving very popular and are expanding.\n\nSubhead 7- 'Incidental Expenses' has been increased so as to provide uniforms for office attendants, messengers, and coolies in accordance with the recommendations of the Committee which investigated the matter. The same scale applies for all office staff throughout the service. Subheads 10 and 11- 'Students-in-training' have been reduced with the decrease in number of those students.\n\nThe\n\nComing", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-505-12 Estimates of expenditure 1928 1-9-1927 - 12-1-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 511354, "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": "CO129-505-12 Estimates of expenditure 1928 1-9-1927 - 12-1-1928", "page_number": 148, "title": "CO129-505-12 Estimates of expenditure 1928 1-9-1927 - 12-1-1928", "content_text": "172\n\n60\n\nHead 28.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nApproved Estimate, 1927.\n\nEstimate, 1928.\n\nHead 28.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nSub-heads :-\n\n \n 1\n Personal Emoluments\n 754,150\n 820,389\n \n \n \n Other Charges\n \n \n \n \n 2\n Allowances to Examiners\n 755\n \n \n \n 3\n Books\n 1,400\n 1,400\n \n \n 4\n College Calendars, (Queen's College, Belilios Public, Central British Schools and King's College)\n 435\n 580\n \n \n (1)\n \n \n \n \n \n 5\n Conveyance to Director of Education\n 360\n 360\n \n \n 6\n Electric Fans and Light\n 2,500\n 3,100\n \n \n 7\n Incidental Expenses\n 6,000\n 8,900\n \n \n (3)\n (4)\n \n \n \n \n 8\n Laboratory, (Queen's College, King's College and Central British School)\n 1,200\n 2,000\n \n \n (1)\n \n \n \n \n \n 9\n Prizes\n 1,400\n 1,400\n \n \n 10\n Students in training :- -Fees,\n 12,865\n 10,790\n \n \n 11\n Students in training Maintenance\n 14,260\n 11,960\n \n \n \n }\n (5)\n \n \n \n 12\n University Examination Fees\n 2,000\n 2,600\n \n \n (6)\n \n \n \n \n \n 13\n Cookery Classes, (Central British, Victoria & Belilios Schools)\n 340\n 340\n \n \n 14\n Pianos, Upkeep of\n 216\n 216\n \n \n 15\n Equipment of Classes for Technical Institute\n 450\n 450\n \n \n 16\n Renewals and replacements of equipment\n 750\n \n \n \n 17\n Transport\n 2,400\n 2,600\n \n \n (3)\n \n \n \n \n \n 18\n Rent, (Tai Po, Un Long, Cheung Chau, Kowloon Junior, Normal School for Women and Normal School at Tai Po)\n 8,028\n 6,732\n \n \n (5)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Grants\n \n \n \n \n 19\n Capitation Grants\n 116,560\n 130,950\n \n \n (6)\n \n \n \n \n \n 20\n Grants in aid of Rent\n 6,624\n 9,024\n \n \n 21\n Subsidies to Schools in New Territories\n 15,000\n 20,000\n \n \n (7)\n \n \n \n \n \n 22\n Subsidies to Elementary Vernacular Schools in Hong Kong\n 90,000\n 100,000\n \n \n 23\n University Examination Grants\n 12,000\n 25,000\n \n \n 24\n Physics and Chemistry Grants\n 8,000\n 2,000\n \n \n (5)\n \n \n \n \n \n 25\n Hok Hoi Library\n 1,500\n 1,500\n \n \n \n SPECIAL EXPENDITURE\n \n \n \n \n 26\n Building Grants\n \n 100,000\n \n \n 27\n Equipment of Schools\n 50,000\n \n \n \n 28\n 1 Safe\n ...\n 4,500\n \n \n 29\n Equipment of King's College\n 3,250\n \n \n \n (5)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Furniture for Hall of Queen's College\n \n 1,000\n \n \n (8)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Total Education Department\n 1,163,943\n 1,229,013\n \n\nPERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.\n\nDetails of the foregoing.\n\nNUMBERS.\n\n \n \n 1927\n 1928\n \n \n Director of Education\n 1\n 1\n \n \n Director of Education\n \n \n \n \n Inspector of English Schools,\n (9)\n \n \n \n Inspector of English Schools,\n 1\n \n \n \n (£50 annually)\n \n \n \n \n (£×50 to £1,100 by £50 annually)\n \n \n \n \n (£850 to £1,100 by\n 13,200\n 13,200\n \n \n \n 11,400\n 12,000\n \n \n Carried forward\n \n \n \n \n (1) Provision for King's College\n \n \n \n \n (2) More fans & light\n \n \n \n \n (3) Previous provision insufficient\n \n \n \n \n (4) Uniforms for messengers, etc.\n \n \n \n \n (5) Considered sufficient\n \n \n \n \n (7) More schools\n \n \n \n \n (8) Non recurrent\n \n \n \n \n (9) Under Cadet Service\n \n \n \n \n \n 24,600\n 25,200\n \n \n (6) More pupils", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-505-12 Estimates of expenditure 1928 1-9-1927 - 12-1-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 511913, "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": "CO129-506-2 Annual general report- 1926 19-9-1927 - 30-11-1927", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-506-2 Annual general report- 1926 19-9-1927 - 30-11-1927", "content_text": "18\n\nThe Hong Kong Treasury Bills (London), (No. 6)—The object of this ordinance was to authorise the Governor-in-Council to request the Crown Agents for the Colonies to borrow by the issue in London of Hong Kong Government Treasury bills.\n\nThe Bank of Canton Limited (Capital Conversion), (No.8)— The object of this ordinance was to empower the Company to convert gold capital into silver.\n\nThe Wireless Telegraphy (No. 11)—The objects of this ordinance were to make it necessary for receiving sets to be licensed and to make it an offence to maintain, or possess, a wireless telegraph station without a license.\n\nThe Trade Loan (No. 13)—The object of this ordinance was to charge a certain loan upon the general revenue and assets of the colony of Hong Kong.\n\nIV. EDUCATION.\n\nThe European staff was increased by nine during the year.\n\nThe total number of pupils at schools in the Colony excluding the Police School are:-\n\n \n Total\n English Schools\n Vernacular Schools\n \n \n Government Schools\n 3,280\n 293\n 3,573\n \n \n Military Schools\n 136\n \n 136\n \n \n Excluded Private Schools\n 150\n \n 150\n \n \n Grant Schools\n 3,901\n 1,041\n 4,942\n \n \n Controlled Private Schools\n 3,376\n 21,088\n 24,464\n \n \n Controlled Private Schools, New Territories\n 15\n 4,890\n 4,905\n \n \n Technical Institute\n 460\n \n 460\n \n \n Total\n 11,318\n 27,312\n 38,630\n \n\nThe most important schools are Queen's College and King's College for Chinese, three District Schools their feeders and the Belilios Public School for Chinese girls. There is an Indian School of growing importance housed in a building presented to the Colony by the late Sir Ellis Kadoorie. The Central School and Kowloon Junior, Victoria and Quarry Bay Schools for children of British parentage have an average attendance of 272. There is also a school for the children of the Peak District with an average attendance of 42. The Diocesan School and St. Joseph's College are important boys' schools in receipt of an annual grant. The Italian, French, and St. Mary's Convents, the Diocesan Girls' School, and the St. Stephen's Girls School are the most important of the English Grant Schools for girls. There are two Vernacular Normal Schools for Men and Women respectively, and one Vernacular Middle School.\n\nThe Hong Kong Technical Institute affords an opportunity for higher education of students who have left school. Instruction was given in 1926 in Building Construction, Chemistry (Practical and Theoretical), Physics, Electricity, Commercial English, French, Shorthand, Book-keeping and Cookery. Classes for men and women teachers, both \"English\" and \"Vernacular\" are a feature of the Institute.\n\nThe lecturers are recruited from the members of the medical and educational faculties of the Colony, and from the Department of Public Works, and receive fees for their services. The Institute is furnished with a well-equipped chemical laboratory and excellent physical apparatus.\n\nThe University of Hong Kong was incorporated under a local University Ordinance, 1911, and opened in 1912.\n\nIt is a residential University and open to students of both sexes.\n\nThe late Sir Hormusjee Mody bore the entire expense of the erection of the main building and additions have been made through the liberality of benefactors of varied nationality and domicile. The latest addition to the buildings is a workshop built out of a contribution from Sir Robert Ho Tung.\n\nThe annual income of the University now amounts to about $510,000 of which about $315,000 comes from endowments and $50,000 from Government. Messrs. Butterfield and Swire gave £40,000 to the original endowment fund and subsequently $100,000 for engineering equipment. The Rockefeller Institution has endowed the University with three chairs in surgery, medicine and obstetrics, the endowment being in each case $250,000.\n\nThe expenditure for the year 1926 amounted to $495,556.\n\nThe University includes the three Faculties of Medicine, Engineering and Arts. Admission to all faculties is conditional upon passing the matriculation examination of the University or some examination recognised as equivalent thereto.\n\nThe Faculty of Medicine provides a six-year course of study in the usual pre-medical and medical sciences, leading to the degree of M.B., and B.S. The degrees of M.D., and M.S., may\n\n19\n\n+\n\n23", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-506-2 Annual general report- 1926 19-9-1927 - 30-11-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512121, "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": "CO129-506-4 Public Works Loan Ordinance- 1927 23-9-1927 - 28-2-1928", "page_number": 44, "title": "CO129-506-4 Public Works Loan Ordinance- 1927 23-9-1927 - 28-2-1928", "content_text": "HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\n75\n\nanticipated that the work will be much more efficiently done. Provision has been made for the extra staff required, which will cost $3,856 next year.\n\nDrivers of bullock carts have again been considerably reduced with the progress of the scheme of replacing bullock refuse carts by motor lorries. Subhead 24—\"Purchase and Maintenance of Bullocks\" has for similar reasons been cut down to $1,000. Motor Lorries are proving most successful, and more economical than bullock-carts.\n\nThe number of subheads under other charges has been reduced by amalgamating those which provided for similar services. This has enabled reductions to be made on many of the votes, and is also more convenient in working.\n\nProvision is made for the purchase of one more motor refuse lorry, and for the fitting of solid tires to all Sanitary Department lorries. Owing to the nature of their work, the use of pneumatic tires has been found uneconomical.\n\nHead 27—Botanical and Forestry Department.\n\nThere is an increase of nine gardeners, six of whom will be required to look after the extensive lawns surrounding the Kowloon Hospital, two for the nursery and propagating department and one for the General Civil Hospital.\n\nHead 28—Education Department.\n\nAt present we are without King's College which is being used as a military hospital. It is, however, necessary that provision should be made for staffing it and running it in the event of the number of troops in the Colony being so reduced next year that they will not require King's College. Six British mistresses on the temporary staff who were formerly paid from savings on personal emoluments are now included in the estimates. The teaching staffs of the Vernacular Middle School and the Normal School for Women have been increased by one English teacher at the former, and by three lecturers at the latter. Both these schools are proving very popular and are expanding.\n\nSubhead 7—\"Incidental Expenses\" has been increased so as to provide uniforms for office attendants, messengers, and coolies in accordance with the recommendations of the Committee which investigated the matter. The same scale applies for all office staff throughout the service. Subheads 10 and 11—\"Students-in-training\" have been reduced with the decrease in number of these students.\n\nComing now to grants and subsidies, Government may under the Grant Code make various grants to non-Government schools which fulfil certain conditions as regards buildings, the number of pupils entered for various examinations, etc. It has been the policy in the past for schools to regard these grants as almost automatic. It is, however, necessary to fix a limit to these increasing demands on the\n\n44", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-506-4 Public Works Loan Ordinance- 1927 23-9-1927 - 28-2-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512122, "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": "CO129-506-4 Public Works Loan Ordinance- 1927 23-9-1927 - 28-2-1928", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-506-4 Public Works Loan Ordinance- 1927 23-9-1927 - 28-2-1928", "content_text": "76\n\nHONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\npublic purse. Such sums as the Government considers equitable are provided in the Estimates, and it will be the duty of school managers so to regulate their arrangements, in consultation with the Director of Education, that their requirements can be met from the sums provided. Unauthorized expansion involving claims beyond the amounts provided will not be recognised by the Government as a legitimate charge on the Revenue. The amounts now inserted in the Estimates have been scrutinized very carefully and will, it is hoped, prove adequate. It will be noticed that the sum for building grants has been reduced, and I invite the special attention of persons interested to the remarks I have made elsewhere on the inability of Government to subsidize schemes started without adequate financial provision.\n\nThe $11,639 inserted for equipment for King's College includes gymnastic apparatus, physics and chemistry apparatus for 3rd year pupils, drawing models and a few minor items. Part of this sum will not be required until King's College is again available for educational purposes.\n\nHead 29—Public Works Department.\n\nThere is a nett reduction of $31,677 on personal emoluments of the Public Works Department. Of the increases, $39,525 is for stipulated increments and $19,987 for new posts. Of the decreases, $31,280 is accounted for by posts abolished and $46,445 by posts left vacant. Posts have been abolished and omitted from the Estimates where it is felt that there is no likelihood of their being required in normal years. Vacant posts are those which are regarded as necessary for the normal establishment of the department, but though shown in the Estimates, they are at the moment left unfilled and without provision of funds for their salaries, owing to the reduction in the amount of Public Works provided for. Reduction has been effected by leaving unfilled posts which have become vacant through retirements, resignations, expiration of agreements and other causes. It will probably be possible to make further reductions as time goes on, if the programme of Public Works is not increased. Meanwhile, however, provision must be made for all officers who will be on the establishment on 1st January of next year.\n\nIt may seem curious that new posts are required in the Public Works Department, but it must be remembered that the Public Works Department comprises many different sub-departments, not all of which are affected by the reduction of Special Expenditure. The amount required for new posts provides for one Stenographer for the Accounts and Stores Branch, one Wireless Telegraphist for the Police Department, one Foreman Mechanic for the Government Garage at Wantsai, two 1st Class and two 2nd Class Assistant Land Surveyors required in connection with the revision of the survey of the Colony, one Cable Jointer and one Foreman. When considering the staff of the Public\n\n45", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-506-4 Public Works Loan Ordinance- 1927 23-9-1927 - 28-2-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 514995, "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": "CO129-510-14 Report of committee of enquiry into discrepancies and losses in government departments in Hong Kong... 21-4-1928 - 24-10-1928", "page_number": 84, "title": "CO129-510-14 Report of committee of enquiry into discrepancies and losses in government departments in Hong Kong... 21-4-1928 - 24-10-1928", "content_text": "27\n\nWe consider that instructions to cover such a contingency should have been given and that the scrutiny of completed vouchers by the Examination Branch should have been a normal part of the procedure of that Branch of the Treasury.\n\n114. We consider that audit should have disclosed the failure to make the refunds. We are informed that the duty of checking the vouchers was undertaken at various times by some dozen clerks, some of whom have since left the Government service, and that such clerks had express instructions to note and report any unusual matter.\n\n115. The fraudulent proceedings which caused the losses at Queen's College were of an ingenious and unusual nature, and might well have escaped discovery by a prudent business man; but the successful carrying out of these frauds was undoubtedly the result of the system adopted by the Headmaster, Mr. Crook, for the settlement of bills due to tradesmen.\n\nThis system does not appear to be authorized by the regulations, but it seems to be forced on the Heads of Schools if they are not to leave their schools in order to attend to the payment of bills.\n\nThe failure to require the production of vouchers when making out cheques and to call for and examine receipts, may be regarded as the omission of one immersed in scholastic affairs.\n\n116. Owing to the omission to take stock in the Police Department Stores for four and a half years and to the absence of any handing over when Mr. Harrison relieved Mr. Riach in the appointment of Storekeeper, it is impossible for us to determine who, in the store itself, is to blame for the discrepancies disclosed in 1927.\n\n117. Mr. Wolfe, the Captain Superintendent of Police, and Mr. Taylor, the Accountant, Police Department, appear to have regarded it as a condition precedent to stocktaking that the stock books should be up to date.\n\nWe consider that if Mr. Wolfe believed it impossible to comply with the regulation requiring the making of a complete inventory twice a year he should have reported this to the Colonial Secretary with a view to obtaining the additional clerical assistance necessary for bringing the books up to date. No such report appears to have been made until January, 1926. Besides, we see no difficulty in taking stock, even though the stock books have not been made up to date, and then, when this has been done, comparing the figures taken out at the stocktaking with those which appear in the completed stock books.\n\nWe consider that both Mr. Wolfe and Mr. Taylor should have taken steps to ensure that there was a stocktaking and a proper handing over on the appointment of Mr. Harrison as Storekeeper in 1925.\n\n118. Colonial Regulation 356 requires the Auditor to satisfy himself that \"the instructions of the Governor in all matters of finance and account are strictly observed and to bring to the notice of the Governor any failure in their observance\".\n\nWe do not find that attention was called to the lack of proper stocktakings until the end of 1925 when the subject of all departmental stocktakings was raised.\n\nWe consider that the Auditor should have brought to the notice of the Governor at an earlier date the failure to make complete inventories of all police stores after the stock-taking in January, 1923.\n\n119. During the period covered by the investigations of the Committee of Enquiry appointed to investigate matters in connection with the Registry of the Supreme Court the supervision of the accounts was delegated by the Registrar to the Deputy Registrar, Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne.\n\nThe accounts were unsatisfactory in their form and in the manner in which they were kept and moneys which should have been paid in were not paid in.\n\nThere was strictly speaking no accounting staff. Financial entries on the Court files were made by the shroff and book entries were made, as time allowed, by bailiffs and interpreters who lacked training in accountancy matters and on whose time there were many claims. The period was, moreover, one of particular strain as the strike and boycott caused much additional work in the Registry.\n\n84", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-510-14 Report of committee of enquiry into discrepancies and losses in government departments in Hong Kong... 21-4-1928 - 24-10-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 515586, "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": "CO129-511-11 Estimates- 1929 21-9-1928 - 14-11-1928", "page_number": 118, "title": "CO129-511-11 Estimates- 1929 21-9-1928 - 14-11-1928", "content_text": "144\n\n60\n\n# Head 28.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nApproved Estimate, 1928.\n\nEstimate, 1929.\n\n# Head 28.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nSub-heads :-\n\n \n \n Approved Estimate, 1928\n Estimate, 1929\n \n \n 1 Personal Emoluments\n ...\n 820,389\n 890,591\n \n \n Other Charges\n \n \n 2 Allowances to Examiners\n \n 755\n 755\n \n \n 3 Books\n \n 1,400\n 1,400\n \n \n 4 College Calendars, (Queen's College, Belilios Public, Central British Schools and King's College)... \n (1)\n 580\n 635\n \n \n 5 Conveyance to Director of Education\n \n 360\n 360\n \n \n 6 Electric Fans and Light\n \n 3,100\n 3,300\n \n \n 7 Incidental Expenses\n \n 2,000\n 2,400\n \n \n 8 Laboratory, (Queen's College, King's College and Central British School)\n (1)\n 8,900\n 9,700\n \n \n 9 Prizes\n \n 1,400\n 1,400\n \n \n 10 Students in training :- -Fees,\n \n 10,790\n 10,790\n \n \n 11 Students in training --Maintenance\n •\n 11,960\n 11,960\n \n \n 12 University Examination Fees\n \n 2,600\n 4,303\n \n \n 13 Cookery Classes, (Central British, Victoria & Belilios Schools).....\n (3)\n 340\n 340\n \n \n 14 Pianos, Upkeep of\n \n 216\n 252\n \n \n 15 Equipment of Classes for Technical Institute\n (4)\n 450\n 450\n \n \n 16 Renewals and replacements of equipment........\n \n 750\n 750\n \n \n 17 Transport\n \n 2,600\n 2,600\n \n \n 18 Rent, (Tai Po, Un Long, Cheung Chan, Kowloon Junior, Normal School for Women and Normal School at Tai Po)..........\n \n 6,732\n 6,732\n \n \n Grants\n \n \n 19 Capitation Grants\n \n 130,950\n 138,430\n \n \n 20 Grants in aid of Rent\n (3)\n 9,024\n 3,120\n \n \n 21 Subsidies to Schools in New Territories...\n (5)\n 20,000\n 20,000\n \n \n 22 Subsidies to Elementary Vernacular Schools in Hong Kong\n \n 100,000\n 100,000\n \n \n 23 University Examination Grants\n \n 25,000\n 25,000\n \n \n 24 Hok Hoi Library\n .\n 1,500\n 1,500\n \n \n SPECIAL EXPENDITURE\n \n \n 25 Building Grants\n \n 50,000\n 10,000\n \n \n 26 Equipment of Schools\n (5)\n 3,250\n 1,920\n \n \n 27 Compilation of New Chinese Reader\n (5)\n \n 1,400\n \n \n 28 Equipment of King's College\n (1)\n 11,639\n 3,100\n \n \n 29 Furniture for Hall of Queen's College..\n \n \n 1,000\n \n \n 30 Compensation to Railway for School Children's tickets..\n \n 2,600\n 2,000\n \n \n 31 Physics and Chemistry Grants...\n \n \n \n \n \n 32 Safe\n (6)\n \n 328\n \n \n Total Education Department\n \n 1,229,013\n 1,259,827\n \n\n# PERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.\n\nDetails of the foregoing.\n\nNUMBERS.\n\n \n \n 1928\n 1929\n \n \n Director of Education\n \n \n \n \n Director of Education......\n (7)\n 13,200\n 13,200\n \n \n Inspector of English Schools, (£50 to £1,100 by £50 annually)\n \n 1\n \n \n \n Inspector of English Schools, (£850 to £1,100 by £50 annually)\n (8)\n 12,000\n 12,600\n \n \n Carried forward\n \n 25,200\n 25,800\n \n\n(1) Considered necessary.\n\n(2) Increase in respect of King's College.\n\n(3) Increased numbers.\n\n(4) One additional piano.\n\n(5) Considered sufficient.\n\n(6) Not required.\n\n(7) Under Cadet Service.\n\n(8) Stipulated increment.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-511-11 Estimates- 1929 21-9-1928 - 14-11-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 515588, "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": "CO129-511-11 Estimates- 1929 21-9-1928 - 14-11-1928", "page_number": 120, "title": "CO129-511-11 Estimates- 1929 21-9-1928 - 14-11-1928", "content_text": "146\n\n62\n\n# Head 28.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\n## Head 28.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nApproved Estimate, 1928,\n\nEstimate, 1929.\n\n## EDUCATION DEPARTMENT,-Continued.\n\n## PERSONAL EMOLUMENTS,—Continued.\n\n### Details of the foregoing,-Continued.\n\nBrought forward\n\n530,058\n\n575,852\n\n## EDUCATION DEPARTMENT,-Continued.\n\n## PERSONAL EMOLUMENTS,—Continued.\n\n$\n\nApproved Estimate, 1928.\n\nEstimate, 1929.\n\n$\n\n$\n\n### Details of the foregoing,—Continued.\n\nBrought forward\n\n770,498\n\n835,587\n\n## NUMBERS.\n\n### Non-British Staff,-Continued.\n\n1928 1929\n\n## Vernacular Middle School.\n\n### NUMBERS.\n\n1928\n\n1929\n\nI\n\n1\n\nHead Teacher (£425 to £800 by £25 annually)..\n\n6,000\n\n|(3)\n\n1\n\nI\n\nFull-time Lecturer, ($2,550 to $4,200 by $150 annually)\n\n2,700\n\n2,850\n\n(1)\n\n2\n\nVernacular Masters, ($700 to $2,400 by $100 annually, then, $2,550 to $4,800 by $150 annually)\n\n2,700\n\n12,495\n\n(1) (5)\n\n1\n\nMaster, at $480\n\n480\n\n(5)\n\n102,024\n\n107,810\n\n(1) (8)\n\n1\n\nPart-time Lecturer, at $1,920\n\n1,920\n\n1,920\n\nAllowance to 1 as Part-time Sub-Inspector of Night Schools\n\n6\n\nMasters (various scales)\n\n9,482\n\n(4)\n\n720\n\n720\n\n1\n\n1\n\nEnglish Teacher at $2,400 to $3,600 by $240 annually\n\n2,400\n\n2,784\n\n(1)\n\n1\n\n1\n\nStudent in Training at $210.\n\n240\n\n240\n\n49,676\n\n54,629\n\n(1) (3)\n\n1\n\nt\n\nMessenger, at $132\n\n132\n\n132\n\nDo.. Rent Allowance at $24\n\n24\n\n24\n\nDo..\n\nGood Conduct Allowance.\n\n20\n\n24\n\n46,604\n\n51,363\n\n(1) (8)\n\nDo..\n\nPersonal Allowance\n\n4\n\n8\n\nAllowance to 1 at $600\n\n600\n\n600\n\n2\n\n2\n\nCoolies at $132 each\n\n264\n\n264\n\nI\n\nGymnastic Instructor\n\n900\n\n1,200\n\n(3)\n\nDo.\n\n1\n\n1\n\nI\n\nChinese Teacher, at $300\n\n300\n\n300\n\nDo.\n\nRent Allowances to 1 at $24 and 1 at $48\n\nGood Conduct Allowance to 1 at $12................\n\n72\n\n72\n\n9\n\n12\n\n| (6)\n\n13\n\n13\n\nMistresses, ($600 to $2,400 by $60 annually)....\n\n14,259\n\n14,483\n\n(1)\n\n1\n\n-\n\n1 Senior Vernacular Mistress, ($1,200 to $1,800 by $100 annually)..\n\n## Normal School for Women.\n\n1,500\n\n1,600 | (1)\n\n16\n\n16\n\n2\n\n2\n\nVernacular Mistresses, ($360 to $420 by $60 annually, then, $480 to $1,800 by $60 annually)..\n\nNeedlework Teachers, ($360 to $600 by $24 annually).\n\n1\n\nI\n\n11,849\n\n12,706\n\n(1)\n\n2\n\n?\n\nHead Mistress, ($1,200 to $1,800 by $100 annually)\n\nVernacular Mistresses ($360 to $420 by $60 annually, then, $480 to $1,800 by $60 annually)\n\n1,583\n\n1,634\n\n(1)\n\n1,200\n\n1,200\n\n1\n\n1\n\nPortuguese Teacher, at $780\n\n780\n\n780\n\nannually\n\n1,440\n\n1,560\n\n(1)\n\n1\n\n1\n\nGroundsman at $300\n\n300\n\n300\n\nI\n\n7\n\n9\n\n9\n\nCaretakers, at $182 each\n\n1,188\n\n1,188\n\nVernacular Masters, ($700 to $2,400 by $100 annually, then, $2,550 to $4,800 by $150 annually)\n\nDo.,\n\nGood Conduct Allowances 10 1 at $70,\n\nannually)\n\n1,500\n\n8,767\n\n(1) (4)\n\n1 at $68, 2 at $60 each, 1 at $48,\n\n6\n\nLecturers (at various scales).......................................\n\n6,600\n\n(4)\n\nDo..\n\nDo.,\n\n1 at $15, and 3 at $12 each\n\nRent Allowances to 6 at $21 each\n\nPersonal Allowance to 1 at $24..\n\n308\n\n357\n\n(5)\n\n1\n\nMessenger, at $132\n\n132\n\n132\n\n144\n\n144\n\nDo..\n\nRent Allowance at $48\n\n48\n\n48\n\nF\n\n24\n\nDo.,\n\nGood Conduct Alliance at $9\n\n9 (6)\n\n1\n\n1\n\nOffice Attendant\n\n156\n\n156\n\n2\n\n2\n\nAmahs, at $132 each.........\n\n264\n\n264\n\nDo..\n\n1\n\nGood Conduct Allowance\n\nLaboratory Attendant at $156.....\n\n58\n\n60\n\n156\n\n=\n\n11\n\n11\n\nDo, Good Conduct Allowance at $6..\n\nMessengers, at $132 each\n\n66 (5)\n\n## GRO\n\n(5)\n\nDo.,\n\nGood Conduct Allowance to 1 at $12..\n\n11\n\n12\n\n000\n\n(4)\n\n## Normal School at Tai Po.\n\n1,452\n\n1,452\n\nDo.,\n\nGood Conduct Allowances to 2 at $96 each, 1 at $88, 1 at $84, 1 at $78, 1 at $13, 1 at $12 and 1 at $5\n\n1\n\n2\n\nVernacular Masters, ($700 to $2,400 by $100 annually, then, $2,550 to $4,800 by $150 annually)\n\n454\n\n472\n\n(5)\n\n1,800\n\nDo.,\n\nRent Allowances to 1 at $48 and 4 at $24 each\n\n1\n\nMaster, at $1,000.......\n\n1,000\n\n144\n\n144\n\n2\n\n2\n\nCoolies, at $132 each\n\n264\n\n32\n\n122\n\n43\n\nCoolies, at $132 each\n\n4,224\n\n5,676\n\n(3) (6)\n\nDo.,\n\nRent Allowance to 1 at $24\n\n21\n\nDo.,\n\nGood Conduct Allowances to 1 at $60, 4 at $48 each, 1 at $36, 1 at $24, 1 at $22, 1 at $13.6 at $12, 1 at $10, 1 at $9, 1 at $4, and at $2\n\nDo.,\n\nGood Conduct Allowance to 1 at $10\n\n2,192\n\n+1\n\n(1) (5) (4)\n\n264\n\n24\n\n10\n\n(6)\n\n## Technical Institute, Hong Kong\n\n397\n\n444\n\n(5)\n\nand Kowloon.\n\nDo.,\n\nPersonal Allowance to 1 at $12.\n\n12\n\nDo., Rent Allowances to 18 at $48 each and 21 at $24 each..........\n\n864\n\n1,868\n\nAllowance to Director of Technical Institute, at £100\n\nAllowance to Supervisor of Classes in Kowloon, &\n\n1,200\n\n1,200\n\n19\n\n2\n\n2\n\nAmahs, at $132 each\n\n264\n\n264\n\nmonths at $50 per month.........\n\n400\n\n400\n\nDo., Good Conduct Allowance to 1 at $13 and 1 at $12.....\n\n15\n\n25\n\n| (5)\n\nAllowance to Supervisor of Vernacular Teachers Classes\n\n240\n\nDo., Rent Allowances at $24 each..\n\n48\n\n48\n\nAllowance to 9. Coolies at $2 each for 8 months\n\nLecturing Staff\n\n128\n\n144\n\n13,848\n\n13,848\n\n(1) Stipulated increment.\n\n(2) One Post abolished.\n\n(3) New posts.\n\nCarried forward\n\n770,498\n\n835,587\n\n(4) Transferred from Technical Institute.\n\n() Stipulated allowances,\n\n(6) For King's College.\n\n## Total Personal Emoluments\n\n820,389\n\n(1) Stipulated increment.\n\n(2) New posts.\n\n(3) Transferred from Inspectors of Vernacular Schools to\n\nHead Teacher, Vernacular Middle School,\n\n(4) Transferred to Vernacular Masters.\n\n(5) Transferred from Masters (various scales).\n\n(6) Stipulated allowances.\n\n893,640\n\n63\n\n147\n\nPage 120\n\nPage 121", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-511-11 Estimates- 1929 21-9-1928 - 14-11-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 515883, "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": 20, "title": "CO129-511-22 Annual general report 1927 12-10-1928 - 26-11-1928", "content_text": "TUNG WAH HOSPITAL (Government aided). Number of beds 480\n\nNumber of patients treated in 1927 9,726\n\nNumber of patients treated in 1926 7,951\n\nINFECTIOUS DISEASES BRANCH.\n\nNumber of beds 70\n\nNumber of patients treated in 1927 31\n\nNumber of patients treated in 1926 23\n\nKWONG WAH HOSPITAL, KOWLOON, (Government aided).\n\nNumber of beds 226\n\nNumber of patients treated in 1927 7,593\n\nNumber of patients treated in 1926 6,336\n\nThe Hospitals are under the supervision of a Visiting Medical Officer who is a member of the Medical Department.\n\nLUNATIC ASYLUM.\n\nThe Asylum is situated close to the Civil Hospital and is under the direction of the Medical Officer in charge of that hospital. European and Chinese patients are separated, the European portion containing 14 beds in separate wards and the Chinese portion 16 beds.\n\n267 patients of all races were treated during 1927 and there were 18 deaths.\n\nIX.-Education.\n\nThe total numbers of pupils at schools in the Colony, excluding the Police School, are:-\n\n \n \n English Schools\n Vernacular Schools\n Total\n \n \n Government Schools\n 3,529\n 369\n 3,897\n \n \n Military School\n 135\n \n 135\n \n \n Excluded Private School\n 158\n \n 158\n \n \n Grant Schools\n 3,911\n 1,051\n 4,962\n \n \n Vernacular Schools, Urban District..\n \n 30,622\n 30,622\n \n \n Vernacular Schools, Rural District...\n \n 5,375\n 5,375\n \n \n Private English Schools\n 4,721\n \n 4,721\n \n \n Technical Institute\n 620\n \n 620\n \n \n Total\n 13,078\n 37,417\n 50,490\n \n\nThe chief Government Schools are Queen's College, King's College, and three District Schools for Chinese boys, the Belilios Public School for Chinese girls, the Vernacular Middle School and two Vernacular Normal Schools, and the Ellis Kadoorie School for Indians.\n\nThe Central British School and Kowloon Junior, Victoria, and Quarry Bay Schools for children of British parentage have an average attendance of 286. There is also a school for children of the Peak District with an average attendance of 49.\n\nThere are 5 Grant-in-Aid Anglo-Chinese Schools for boys and 6 for girls, and 4 Grant-in-Aid Vernacular School for girls.\n\nThe Hong Kong Technical Institute affords an opportunity for higher education of students who have left school. Instruction was given in 1927 in Building Construction, Field Surveying, Mathematics, Chemistry (Practical and Theoretical), Metallurgy, Physics, Electricity, French, Shorthand, Sanitation and Cookery. Classes for men and women teachers, both \"English\" and \"Vernacular\" are a feature of the Institute.\n\nThe lecturers are recruited from members of the medical and educational professions in the Colony, and from the Department of Public Works, and receive fees for their services. The Institute is furnished with a well-equipped chemical laboratory and excellent physical apparatus.\n\nThe expenditure of the Education Department in 1927 was $1,091,423.21 and the revenue collected from Government School fees was $121,981.75.\n\nTHE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG.\n\nThe University of Hong Kong was incorporated under a local University Ordinance, 1911, and opened in 1912. It is a residential University and open to students of both sexes.\n\nThe late Sir Hormusjee Mody bore the entire expense of the erection of the main building and additions have been made through the liberality of benefactors of varied nationality and domicile. The latest addition to the buildings is a workshop built out of a contribution from Sir Robert Ho Tung.\n\nThe annual income of the University now amounts to about $514,000 of which about $315,000 comes from endowments and $50,000 from Government. Messrs. Butterfield and Swire gave £40,000 to the original endowment fund and subsequently $100,000 for engineering equipment. The Rockefeller Institution has endowed the University with three chairs in surgery, medicine and obstetrics, the endowment being in each case $250,000.\n\nThe expenditure for the year 1927 amounted to $507,887.\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-511-22 Annual general report 1927 12-10-1928 - 26-11-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 515902, "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": 39, "title": "CO129-511-22 Annual general report 1927 12-10-1928 - 26-11-1928", "content_text": "## TUNG WAH HOSPITAL (Government aided)\nNumber of beds | 480\n---|---\nNumber of patients treated in 1927 | 9,726\nNumber of patients treated in 1926 | 7,951\n\n+ INFECTIOUS DISEASES BRANCH.\nNumber of beds | 70\n---|---\nNumber of patients treated in 1927 | 31\nNumber of patients treated in 1926 | 23\n\n## KWONG WAN HOSPITAL, KOWLOON, (Government aided)\nNumber of beds | 226\n---|---\nNumber of patients treated in 1927 | 7,593\nNumber of patients treated in 1926 | 6,336\n\nThe Hospitals are under the supervision of a Visiting Medical Officer who is a member of the Medical Department.\n\n## LUNATIC ASYLUM\nThe Asylum is situated close to the Civil Hospital and is under the direction of the Medical Officer in charge of that hospital. European and Chinese patients are separated, the European portion containing 14 beds in separate wards and the Chinese portion 16 beds.\n\n267 patients of all races were treated during 1927 and there were 18 deaths.\n\n## IX.-Education\nThe total numbers of pupils at schools in the Colony, excluding the Police School, are:-\n| Type of School | Number of Pupils (English) | Number of Pupils (Vernacular) | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Government Schools | 369 | 3,529 | 3,897 |\n| Military School | | 135 | 135 |\n| Excluded Private School | | 158 | 158 |\n| Grant Schools | 1,051 | 3,911 | 4,962 |\n| Vernacular Schools, Urban District | | 30,622 | 30,622 |\n| Vernacular Schools, Rural District | | 5,375 | 5,375 |\n| Private English Schools | 4,721 | | 4,721 |\n| Technical Institute | 620 | | 620 |\n| **Total** | **13,073** | **37,417** | **50,490** |\n\nThe chief Government Schools are Queen's College, King's College, and three District Schools for Chinese boys, the Belilios Public School for Chinese girls, the Vernacular Middle School and two Vernacular Normal Schools, and the Ellis Kadoorie School for Indians.\n\nThe Central British School and Kowloon Junior, Victoria, and Quarry Bay Schools for children of British parentage have an average attendance of 286. There is also a school for children of the Peak District with an average attendance of 49.\n\nThere are 5 Grant-in-Aid Anglo-Chinese Schools for boys and for girls, and 4 Grant-in-Aid Vernacular School for girls.\n\nThe Hong Kong Technical Institute affords an opportunity for higher education of students who have left school. Instruction was given in 1927 in Building Construction, Field Surveying, Mathematics, Chemistry (Practical and Theoretical), Metallurgy, Physics, Electricity, French, Shorthand, Sanitation and Cookery. Classes for men and women teachers, both \"English\" and \"Vernacular\" are a feature of the Institute.\n\nThe lecturers are recruited from members of the medical and educational professions in the Colony, and from the Department of Public Works, and receive fees for their services. The Institute is furnished with a well-equipped chemical laboratory and excellent physical apparatus.\n\nThe expenditure of the Education Department in 1927 was $1,091,423.21 and the revenue collected from Government School fees was $121,981.75.\n\n## THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG\nThe University of Hong Kong was incorporated under a local University Ordinance, 1911, and opened in 1912. It is a residential University and open to students of both sexes.\n\nThe late Sir Hormusjee Mody bore the entire expense of the erection of the main building and additions have been made through the liberality of benefactors of varied nationality and domicile. The latest addition to the buildings is a workshop built out of a contribution from Sir Robert Ho Tung.\n\nThe annual income of the University now amounts to about $514,000 of which about $315,000 comes from endowments and $50,000 from Government. Messrs. Butterfield and Swire gave £40,000 to the original endowment fund and subsequently $100,000 for engineering equipment. The Rockefeller Institution has endowed the University with three chairs in surgery, medicine and obstetrics, the endowment being in each case $250,000.\n\nThe expenditure for the year 1927 amounted to $507,887.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-511-22 Annual general report 1927 12-10-1928 - 26-11-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 516066, "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": "CO129-511-4 Application for posts at University of Hong Kong- payment and conditions of Service 28-4-1928 - 6-9-1928", "page_number": 84, "title": "CO129-511-4 Application for posts at University of Hong Kong- payment and conditions of Service 28-4-1928 - 6-9-1928", "content_text": "# COPY TESTIMONIAL:\n\n## Jesus College,\n## OXFORD.\n## 89\n\nMR. D. F. DAVIES, Scholar of Jesus College, Oxford, came into residence in Michaelmas Term 1924. By way of preparation for the Final Honour School of Physics he came to me as a pupil in Mathematics. He took Honour Moderations in that subject at the end of his first year, and, although he had on coming up much less than the normal equipment of those taking this examination, obtained a very comfortable Second Class. I have no doubt that he would have obtained First Class Honours had he been able to give a second year to the subject.\n\nThereafter I was responsible for the general supervision of his studies and behaviour. Of his progress in Physics, Mr. Bolton King, who taught him, will bear evidence. For my own part I must add that his character and conduct have been excellent in every way. I found him industrious, attentive and conscientious, and I have no doubt that he will strive his utmost to carry out whatever duties may be entrusted to him, that he will work smoothly with his colleagues, and that all he does will be performed with the care which marked his work with me.\n\nJune 4th, 1928\n\n(Signed)\n**J. HODGKINSON**, Fellow, Tutor and Dean of Jesus College, OXFORD.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-511-4 Application for posts at University of Hong Kong- payment and conditions of Service 28-4-1928 - 6-9-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520364, "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": "CO129-519-1 Estimates for 1930 5-9-1929 - 14-11-1929", "page_number": 208, "title": "CO129-519-1 Estimates for 1930 5-9-1929 - 14-11-1929", "content_text": "## Head 27.-BOTANICAL & FORESTRY DEPARTMENT\n\n### BOTANICAL & FORESTRY DEPARTMENT,-Continued.\n\n### PERSONAL EMOLUMENTS,-Continued.\n\n#### Details of the foregoing,—Contd.\n\n| Brought forward | Approved Estimate, 1929 | Estimate, 1930 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| | $ | $ |\n\n### NUMBERS.\n\n| | 1929 | 1930 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Gardens. | | |\n| Head Gardener, ($1,800 to $2,500 by $100 annually) | 2,400 | 2,500 |\n| Assistant Head Gardener, ($600 to $850 by $50 annually) | 725 | 775 |\n| Foreman, ($250 to $450 by $25 annually) | 400 | 425 |\n| Do. Personal Allowance | 60 | 60 |\n| 2 Foremen, at $216 each | 432 | 432 |\n| Do. Good Conduct Allowances to 1 at $96 and 1 at $60 | 156 | 156 |\n| 4 Park-keepers, at $132 each | 528 | 528 |\n| Do. Good Conduct Allowances to 1 at $21 and 2 at $12 each | 45 | 108 |\n| Do. Personal Allowance to 1 at $1 | 1 | 1 |\n| Gardeners, 4 at $180 each, 7 at $156 each, and 62 at $132 each | 9,816 | 9,996 |\n| Do. Good Conduct Allowances to 1 at $108, 2 at $96 each, 2 at $84 each, 1 at $76, 3 at $72 each, 1 at $65, 1 at $58, 1 at $48, 1 at $41, 1 at $27, 5 at $24 each, 1 at $18, 1 at $16, 22 at $12 each, 2 at $9 each, 1 at $6, 2 at $4 each, 1 at $3 and 2 at $1 each | 1,320 | 1,454 |\n| Do. Personal Allowance to 1 at $2 | 2 | 2 |\n| Do. Rent Allowances to 4 at $48 each and 61 at $24 each | 1,632 | 1,656 |\n| Apprentices, ($90 to $120 by $6 annually) | 216 | 216 |\n| Forestry. | | |\n| Inspector of Forests, ($1,800 to $2,500 by $100 annually) | 1,800 | 2,000 |\n| Head Forester, ($900 to $1,100 by $25 annually) | 1,004 | 1,029 |\n| Second Forester, ($600 to $800 by $25 annually) | 763 | 788 |\n| Third Forester, ($550 to $850 by $50 annually) | 656 | 706 |\n| Foreman, ($300 to $500 by $25 annually) | 408 | 408 |\n| Do. Rent Allowance | 48 | 48 |\n| Foreman, ($216 to $536 by $12 annually) | 336 | 336 |\n| Do. Rent Allowance | 48 | 48 |\n| Forest Guards, ($216 to $336 by $12 annually) | 3,270 | 3,515 |\n| Do. Rent Allowances at $24 each | 1,008 | 1,008 |\n| Do. Good Conduct Allowances to 1 at $72, 1 at $60, 1 at $53, 2 at $24 each, 10 at $12 each, 1 at $10, 1 at $3, & 1 at $2 | 299 | 368 |\n| Do. Personal Allowance to 1 at $1 | 1 | 1 |\n| Do. Allowance to 1 as Forest Guard | 36 | 36 |\n\n## Head 28.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\n### PERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.\n\n| | Approved Estimate, 1929 | Estimate, 1930 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Director of Education | | |\n| Inspector of English Schools, ($450 to $1,100 by $50 annually) | 13,200 | 13,200 |\n| Inspector of English Schools, ($850 to $1,100 by $50 annually) | 12,600 | 13,200 |\n| Storekeeper | 180 | 180 |\n| Do. Good Conduct Allowance | 54 | 54 |\n| Do. Personal Allowance | 6 | 6 |\n| Carpenter | 420 | 420 |\n| Do. Rent Allowance | 48 | 48 |\n| 2 Foremen at $216 each | 432 | 432 |\n| Do. Good Conduct Allowances to 1 at $48 and 1 at $24 | 72 | 72 |\n| Overtime Allowance for Gardeners and Foresters | 200 | 400 |\n| Total Personal Emoluments | 53,529 | 57,496 |\n\n### Other Charges\n\n| | 1929 | 1930 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 Allowances to Examiners | 755 | 755 |\n| 2 Books | 1,400 | 1,400 |\n| 3 College Calendars, (Queen's College, Belilios Public, Central British Schools and King's College) | 635 | 600 |\n| 4 Conveyance to Director of Education | 360 | 360 |\n| 5 Electric Fans and Light | 3,300 | 3,300 |\n| 6 Incidental Expenses | 9,700 | 7,816 |\n| 7 Laboratory, (Queen's College, King's College and Central British School) | 2,400 | 2,400 |\n| 8 Prizes | 1,400 | 1,400 |\n| 9 Students in training :-Fees | 10,790 | 10,000 |\n| 10 Students in training :-Maintenance | 11,960 | 11,000 |\n| 11 University Examination Fees | 4,803 | 6,000 |\n| 12 Cookery Classes, (Central British, Victoria & Belilios Schools) | 340 | 340 |\n| 13 Pianos, Upkeep of | 252 | 252 |\n| 14 Equipment of Classes for Technical Institute | 450 | 400 |\n| 15 Renewals and replacements of equipment | 750 | 1,400 |\n| 16 Transport | 2,600 | 2,100 |\n| 17 Rent, (Tai Po, Un Long, Normal School for Women and Normal School at Tai Po) | 6,732 | 5,544 |\n| 18 Uniforms | 3,184 | ... |\n| Grants | | |\n| 19 Capitation Grants | 138,430 | 138,430 |\n| 20 Grant in aid of Kent to Wah Yan College (for 3 years only) | 20,000 | 15,000 |\n| 21 Subsidies to Schools in New Territories | 8,120 | 8,316 |\n| 22 Subsidies to Elementary Vernacular Schools in Hong Kong | 100,000 | 95,000 |\n| 23 University Examination Grants | 25,000 | 25,000 |\n| 24 Hok Hoi Library | 1,500 | 1,500 |\n| 25 Compensation to Railway for School Children's tickets | 2,600 | 2,600 |\n| 26 Contribution to Cost of Advisory Committee of Education in the Colonies (£210) | 2,291 | ... |\n| SPECIAL EXPENDITURE | | |\n| 27 Building Grants | 10,000 | 60,000 |\n| 28 Equipment of King's College | 3,100 | 600 |\n| 29 Compilation of New Chinese Reader | 1,400 | ... |\n| 30 Furniture for Hall of Queen's College | 1,000 | ... |\n| Total Education Department | 1,259,827 | 1,349,691 |\n\n(1) Stipulated increment.\n(2) Stipulated allowances.\n(3) Replaced by good conduct allowance.\n(4) New appointment.\n(5) New post.\n(6) More overtime.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-519-1 Estimates for 1930 5-9-1929 - 14-11-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 524622, "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": 129, "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": "64. Looking at this question from a comprehensive point of view, it appears to us that it is of advantage to the University that members of its staff should keep in touch with business interests and professional practice in the Community; and practice in a consultative capacity, as we have defined it, produces this desirable state of affairs.\n\n65. Furthermore, as the University is not in a position to pay the much more considerable salaries paid elsewhere to the scientific professors, it would not appear to be just, in the circumstances, to take the existing privilege from them.\n\n66. We desire to express our appreciation of the great assistance given to us during the conduct of our Enquiry and in the preparation of this Report by our Secretary, Mr. W. J. Carrie. We are also indebted to Mrs. Pinguet who took down the evidence of the witnesses who appeared before us and did the considerable amount of typewriting required by us.\n\nWe are,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient servants,\n\nH. C. GOLLAN, (Chairman).\n\nS. W. T'SO.\n\nPAUL LAUDER.\n\nHis Excellency Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G., M.A., L.L.D., &c., Chancellor,\n\nThe University of Hong Kong,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nPage 13\n\nAppendix I.\n\nMEMORANDUM\n\nON\n\nGRANTS IN AID BY PARLIAMENT & LOCAL AUTHORITIES\n\nTO UNIVERSITIES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.\n\nBY\n\nPROFESSOR L. FORSTER,\n\n(Professor of Education, University of Hong Kong).\n\nThe movement to include Universities in Government Grants began before the war, but did not gather its full strength till the war made it quite impossible to carry on without such aid. Before the year 1919, no state aid was given to Oxford and Cambridge, as such, though comparatively small sums were received by certain departments of both Universities, viz., from the Board of Education in respect of Engineering, Medical School work, the Training of Teachers, and Tutorial Classes. In November 1918 the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the President of the Board of Education received a deputation from the newer Universities, applying for an increase in the sum of public money, voted for the universities, to meet the increased costs resulting from the war.\n\nAs a result of this deputation, in which representatives of Oxford and Cambridge appeared at the suggestion of the President, the applicants were asked to submit statements of their immediate needs, and as it appeared clear that Oxford and Cambridge had also been adversely affected by the war, they were invited to submit statements at the same time.\n\nThe desired statements, when submitted, showed that Oxford and Cambridge felt bound for the first time, to ask for grants of very considerable sums in addition to the smaller grants received by some of their departments. Parliament decided that such grants could not be made without a formal enquiry into the university resources.\n\nA Royal Commission, presided over by Mr. Asquith, was appointed in 1919. While this commission was sitting an interim grant of £30,000 was made.\n\nThe financial recommendation of the Commission was that each university should receive an annual grant of £100,000 in addition to £10,000 a year for special purposes and a lump sum for pension purposes. The income of Oxford University in 1920 (the University must be distinguished in this respect from its constituent colleges) was £210,862, and of Cambridge University £253,015, so that the new government contribution represented a very substantial percentage of the annual revenue.\n\nLeaving Oxford and Cambridge, if we turn to the annual statement of the University Grants Committee for 1924-25, the latest copy at my disposal, we find on page 15 of that report the amounts allocated to the newer Universities and Universities Colleges with which Hong Kong might reasonably be compared.\n\nBirmingham received from Municipal sources £15,815 or 10.2% of its revenue. This has recently been considerably increased by the levy of a special rate of one penny in the £ for university purposes. From Government sources Birmingham drew £61,931 for the year 1924-25 or 40% of its revenue.\n\nBristol received from Government £60,144 or 53% of its revenue.\n\nArmstrong College £42,272 or 45.8% of its total revenue.\n\nLeeds obtained £63,706 from the local authorities or 30.7% of its revenue while from Government it received £59,689 or 28.8% of its revenue. That is to say from rates and taxes it obtained no less than 59.5% of its revenues, the rest being obtained from fees, endowment etc.\n\nPage 132", "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": 525284, "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": "CO129-525-3 Estimates 1931 and other financial papers 16-1-1930 - 1-9-1932", "page_number": 177, "title": "CO129-525-3 Estimates 1931 and other financial papers 16-1-1930 - 1-9-1932", "content_text": "Head 28.--EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nHead 28.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nApproved Estimate, 1930.\n\nEstimate, 1931.\n\nSub-heads :-\n\n \n I Personal Emoluments\n 941,803\n 1,410,311\n \n \n Other Charges\n \n \n \n \n 2 Allowances to Examiners\n 755\n \n \n \n 3 Books\n 1,400\n 600\n 1,400\n \n \n (1)\n \n \n \n \n \n 4 College Calendars, (Queen's College, Belilios Public & Central British Schools, and King's College)\n 600\n \n \n \n \n 5 Conveyance to Director of Education\n 360\n 600\n 360\n \n \n 6 Electric Fans and Light\n \n 3,800\n \n \n \n 7 Incidental Expenses\n 7,816\n 3,300\n 8,000\n \n \n (2)\n \n \n \n \n \n 8 Laboratory, (Queen's College, King's College and Central British School)\n \n 2,400\n \n \n \n 9 Prizes\n 1,400\n \n 2,700\n \n \n (3)\n \n 1,000\n \n \n \n 10 Students in training :- - Fees,\n 10,000\n \n 8,500\n \n \n (1)\n \n \n \n \n \n 11 Students in training Maintenance\n 11,000\n \n 9,200\n \n \n 12 University Examination Fees\n 6,000\n \n 6,160\n \n \n (1)\n \n \n \n \n \n 13 Cookery Classes, (Central British, Victoria & Belilios Schools)\n 340\n \n \n \n \n 14 Pianos, Upkeep of\n 252\n \n 252\n \n \n 15 Equipment of Classes for Technical Institute\n 400\n \n 400\n \n \n 16 Renewals and replacements of equipment\n 1,400\n \n 1,000\n \n \n 17 Transport\n 2,100\n \n 2,000\n \n \n (1)\n \n \n \n \n \n 18 Rent, (Tai Po, Un Long, Normal School for Women and Normal School at Tai Po)\n 5,544\n \n 5,514\n \n \n 19 Uniforms\n 3,181\n \n 4,100\n \n \n (2) (5)\n \n \n \n \n \n Grants\n \n \n \n \n \n 20 Capitation Grants\n 138,430\n \n 135,000\n \n \n (1)\n \n \n \n \n \n 21 Grant in aid of Rent to Wal Yan College (for 3 years only)\n 8,316\n \n 8,316\n \n \n 22 Subsidies to Schools in New Territories....\n \n 15,000\n 15,000\n \n \n 23 Subsidies to Elementary Vernacular Schools in Hong Kong\n 95,000\n \n 80,000\n \n \n (1)\n \n \n \n \n \n 24 University Examination Grants\n 25,000\n \n 25,000\n \n \n 25 Ilok Hoi Library.\n 1,500\n \n 1,000\n \n \n (1)\n \n \n \n \n \n 26 Compensation to Railway for School Children's tickets.....\n \n 2,600\n \n \n \n 27 Contribution to Cost of Advisory Committee of Education in the Colonies (£210)\n 2,291\n \n 3,150\n \n \n (2)\n \n \n \n \n \n SPECIAL EXPENDITURE.\n \n \n \n \n \n 28 Equipment of Schools\n \n 60,000\n \n \n \n 29 Building Grants\n \n 6\n \n \n \n Weighing Machines\n \n 900\n \n \n \n Equipment of King's College\n \n 600\n \n \n \n Total Education Department\n 1,349,691\n 1,075\n 3,000\n \n \n (1)\n \n \n \n \n \n |\n \n (6)\n \n \n \n \n \n 1,789,708\n \n \n\nPERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.\n\nDetails of the foregoing.\n\nNUMBERS.\n\n \n Director of Education.\n 1930\n 1931\n \n \n Director of Education...\n (7)\n \n \n \n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n Inspector of English Schools, (£1,100 to £1,300 by £50 annually)\n \n \n \n \n \n 13,200\n \n \n \n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n Inspector of English Schools, (£1,100 to £1,300 by ; £50 annually)\n (8)\n \n \n \n \n 19,499\n \n \n \n \n 13,200\n 16,782\n \n \n Carried forward\n 26,400\n 36,281\n \n \n (1) Considered sufficient.\n \n \n \n \n (2) Lower rate of exchange.\n \n \n \n \n (3) Increase of recurrent allotment to Central British School,\n \n \n \n \n (4) More entrants.\n \n \n \n \n (5) 4 new appointments.\n \n \n \n \n (6) Non-recurrent.\n \n \n \n \n (7) Under Cadet Service.\n \n \n \n \n (8) New scale.\n \n \n \n\n200\n\n71", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-525-3 Estimates 1931 and other financial papers 16-1-1930 - 1-9-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 525285, "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": "CO129-525-3 Estimates 1931 and other financial papers 16-1-1930 - 1-9-1932", "page_number": 178, "title": "CO129-525-3 Estimates 1931 and other financial papers 16-1-1930 - 1-9-1932", "content_text": "201\n\n72\n\nHead 28.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nEDUCATION DEPARTMENT,-Continued.\n\nPERSONAL EMOLUMENTS,-Continued.\n\nDetails of the foregoing,—Continued.\n\nBrought forward\n\nHead 28.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nApproved Estimate, 1930\n\nEstimate, 1931.\n\nApproved Estimate, 1930,\n\nEstimate, 1981.\n\nEDUCATION DEPARTMENT,-Continued,\n\n$\n\n$\n\nPERSONAL EMOLUMENTS,—Continued,\n\nDetails of the foregoing,-Continued.\n\nBrought forward\n\n26,400\n\n36,281\n\n609,778\n\n| 896,622\n\nNUMBERS.\n\n202\n\n73\n\nNUMBERS.\n\n1930 1931\n\n1930 1931\n\nDirector of Education,—Continued.\n\nNon-British Staff.\n\n \n 3\n 4\n \n I\n \n \n Inspectors of Vernacular Schools, (£600 to £960 by £30 annually then £1,000 by £40 annually) Inspector of Vernacular Schools ($3,200 to $3,600 by $200 annually).\n \n \n \n 21,000\n 41,645\n (1) (2) (3)\n \n \n 1\n \n 2,827\n (4)\n \n \n =\n 20\n 20\n \n \n \n Students in training, at $480 each\n \n \n \n 9,360\n 10,560\n (1) (5)\n \n \n Head Teacher (Vernacular Middle School) (£500 £650 by £30 annually: then £710 to £770 by £60 annually then £800 to £950 by £30 annually)\n \n \n \n 6,300\n \n 1\n \n \n \n I\n \n \n \n \n Vernacular Student in Training ($300)\n \n \n \n 240\n 300\n 1\n \n \n 1\n \n \n 1\n \n \n Chinese Mistress teaching at Maternity Hospital\n \n \n (1)\n ut $720\n 600\n 720\n \n \n 59\n 57\n \n \n \n \n British Staff.\n \n\n}\n\n \n Head Master (Queen's College), (£1,100 to £1,300 by £50 annually)\n \n \n \n \n \n Full time Lecturer ($3,000 to $5,000 by $200 annually) Anglo-Chinese Masters, (3900 to $1,650 by 8150 annually then $1,950 to $2,250 by $300 annually: then $2.400 to $3,000 by $150 annually: then $,200 to $6,000 by $200 annually) Allowance to Las Part-time Sub-Luspector of Night Schools\n \n \n \n 3,000\n 9,750\n 3,800\n \n \n }o\n (1) (2)\n 183,743\n 182,080\n \n \n ;\n (4)(2)(3)\n 720\n 720\n \n \n \n 13,200\n 19,499\n \n \n \n 30\n 33\n \n 1\n \n \n 1\n \n \n 3\n \n \n Head Master. (King's College), (£1,100 to £1,300 by £50 annually)\n \n \n (1)\n \n 13,200\n 19,499\n \n \n 1\n \n 3\n \n \n \n Senior Masters, (£1,050 each annually)\n \n \n \n 10,200\n 17,230\n \n \n \n 59\n 62\n \n \n \n \n University Trained Teachers, Graduated, ($1,800 to $3,000 by $150 annually ; then $3,200 to $6,000 ↑ by $260 annually) Vernacular Masters, (90) to\n \n \n 60, 119\n 79.603 (1)(2)(4)\n \n \n \n \n 33\n 31\n \n \n \n \n Masters, (£500 tó 2650 by £30 annually, then £710 to £770 by £60 annually, then £800 to £950 by £30 annually)\n \n \n >(1) (6)\n \n 229,977\n \n \n \n ↓\n 3\n \n \n \n \n Probationer Masters. {£362, 68. Od. each)\n \n \n \n 15,810\n 320,477 16,303\n \n \n \n $1,650 by $150 annually; then $1,950 to $2,250 by $300 ; | then $2,400 to $3,000 by $150 ally then $3,200 to $6,000 by $200 annually)\n \n \n A\n \n \n \n 79,973\n 136,678\n \n \n \n Allowance to 1 at $600\n \n \n \n 600\n \n 1\n \n \n English Teacher (Vernacular Middle School at $2,400 to $3,600 by $240 annually)\n \n \n \n Part time Lecturer at $2,400.\n (6)\n \n \n \n \n 1,920\n 3,024\n 3,261 (2)\n \n \n Art Master at $660......\n \n \n \n 450\n 2,400 660\n (1) (7)\n \n \n ...\n I\n \n \n \n \n Head Mistress, (Belilios Public School at £800 to £950 by £30 annually)\n \n \n \n Gymnastic Instructor\n 1,200\n 1,200\n \n \n \n 14,250\n \n \n \n \n Chinese Teacher, at $360\n \n \n \n 300\n 360\n (1)\n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n Senior Mistresses (£750) each)\n \n \n \n 45,000 (1)(6)\n \n \n \n \n Mistresses, ($720 to $3.000 by $120 annually)\n \n \n \n 15,041\n 23,255\n 36\n \n \n #1\n \n \n \n \n \n Mistresses, (£360 in £700 by £20 annually),\n \n \n \n 170,954\n 218,283\n 1\n \n \n 3\n \n 2\n 1:\n \n \n 12\n \n \n Do., Rent Hotaures to 32 at $600 each\n \n \n |\n Mistress, ($3,600 to 81,200 by $120 annually).... Mistresses, ($2,400 to $3,600 by $20 annually)\n \n \n \n \n \n Rent Allowance to 1 st $600 Do.. Mistresses, ($1,000 to $5,000 by $200 annually).\n \n Do.. Rent Allowances to 2 at 8600 eacli\n \n \n \n 18,600\n 19,200\n \n \n \n Head Teacher (Women Normal School at $2,600 to $3,000 by $200 annually)\n \n \n \n 1,731\n 3,000\n 4,080\n \n \n \n 4,200 (1) (2)\n \n 1\n \n \n \n 6,149\n 6.600 (1) (4)\n \n \n \n Senior Vernacular Mistress, ($2,600 to $3,000 by $200 annually).\n \n \n (1) (2)\n \n 1,700\n 3,000\n \n \n \n 600\n (4)\n \n \n \n 17\n 15\n \n \n \n \n Vernacular Mistresses, (8180 to $2,400 by $120\n \n \n $1,544\n 56,476\n (1)\n \n \n \n \n annually)\n 13,726\n 21,435\n \n \n 2\n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n 1,200\n 1,200\n \n \n \n Needlework Teachers, ($420 to $720 by $30 annually)\n \n \n \n 1,200\n 1,440\n (1)(2)(8) (1)\n \n \n I\n \n t\n \n \n \n --\n \n I\n \n \n \n Boring Instructor\n \n \n \n 600\n 600\n \n \n \n Groundsman ($300 to $360 by $12 annually).\n \n \n \n 300\n 336\n . (1)(2)\n \n \n 3\n 2\n \n 2\n \n \n 1\n \n L\n \n \n \n |\n Mistresses, ($2,400 to $3,600 by $240 annually).....\n \n \n \n \n \n Carpentry Instructors, 1 at $900 and I at $480. Pianist\n 8,403\n 9,210\n \n \n ཀྱི\n (2)\n \n \n \n \n \n 1,380\n 1,380\n \n \n \n \n 600\n 600\n 1\n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n Teacher of Singing (11 months at $75 p.ru.)\n \n \n \n 825\n 825\n (1) New scale.\n \n \n \n (2) Stipulated increments,\n (3) new post.\n Carried forward\n \n \n \n 609,773\n 896,622\n \n \n \n \n Carried forward\n (4) 1 post abolisheil.\n (5) 6 posts abolished.\n \n \n \n (6) Redistribution recommended by Salaries Commission.\n (1) New scale.\n (2) Stipulated increments.\n \n \n \n (8) 2 posts abolished.\n (4) 3 new posts on graduation,\n \n \n \n \n 911,831\n 1,369,339\n \n \n \n \n (5) 2 New pests. I reverted from H K. University.\n (6) Not required.\n (7) Inereusel hours.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-525-3 Estimates 1931 and other financial papers 16-1-1930 - 1-9-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 525352, "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": "CO129-525-3 Estimates 1931 and other financial papers 16-1-1930 - 1-9-1932", "page_number": 245, "title": "CO129-525-3 Estimates 1931 and other financial papers 16-1-1930 - 1-9-1932", "content_text": "287\n\nCOMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL.\n\n36\n\nHeads and Sub-heads.\n\nBrought forward\n\n28.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT,\n\nSub-heads:\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n\nOTHER CHARGES.\n\n2 Allowances to Examiners\n\n3 Books\n\n4 College Calendars, (Queen's College,\n\nBelilios Public & Central British\n\nSchools, and King's College)\n\n \n Estimated.\n Actual.\n Increase.\n Decrease.\n \n \n 11,638,092\n 11,459,342.18\n 601,289.72\n 780,039.54\n \n \n 1,410,311\n 1,381,854.80\n 600\n 1,400\n \n \n \n \n 598.61\n 1,091.51\n \n \n 11\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 28,456.20\n 1.39\n 308.49\n \n \n 600\n \n \n \n \n \n 5 Conveyance to Director of Education...\n 360\n 455.00\n 90.00\n \n \n 6 Electric Fans and Light\n 3,300\n 2,797.37\n \n \n \n 7 Incidental Expenses\n 8,000\n 6,718.91\n \n \n \n \n \n 145.00\n 270.00\n \n \n \n \n 502.63\n 1,281.09\n \n \n 8 Laboratory, (Queen's College, King's\n 2,700\n 2,513.93\n \n \n \n College and Central British School)..\n \n \n \n \n \n 9 Prizes\n 1,000\n 925.61\n \n \n \n 10 Students in training:-Fees\n 8,300\n 8,085.00\n \n \n \n 11 Students in training:-Maintenance.....\n 9,200\n 8,740.00\n \n \n \n 12 University Examination Fees\n 6,160\n 4,675.00\n \n \n \n \n \n 186.07\n 74.39\n \n \n \n \n 215.00\n 460.00\n \n \n \n \n \n 1,485.00\n \n \n 13 Cookery Classes, (Central British,\n 340\n 274.43\n \n \n \n Victoria & Belilios Schools)\n \n \n \n \n \n 14 Pianos, Upkeep of\n 252\n 236.00\n \n \n \n 15 Equipment of Classes for Technical\n 400\n 308.90\n \n \n \n Institute\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n I\n \n \n \n 16 Renewals and replacements of\n 1,000\n 626.78\n \n \n \n equipment\n \n \n \n \n \n 17 Transport\n 2,000\n 1,819.80\n \n \n \n \n \n 65.57\n 16.00\n \n \n \n \n 91.10\n \n \n \n \n \n 373.22\n 180.20\n \n \n 18 Rent, (Tai Po, Un Long, Normal for\n 5,544\n 5,304.00\n \n \n \n Women and Normal School at Tai\n \n \n 240.00\n \n \n Po)\n \n \n \n \n \n 19 Uniforms\n 4,100\n 2,573.66\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1,526.34\n \n \n Grants.\n \n \n \n \n \n 20 Capitation Grants\n 135,000\n 131,861.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3,139.00\n \n \n 21 Grant in aid of Rent to Wah Yan\n 8,316\n 8,316.00\n \n \n \n College (for 3 years only)\n \n \n \n \n \n 22 Subsidies to Schools in New Territories\n 15,000\n 14,887.50\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 112.50\n \n \n 23 Subsidies to Elementary Vernacular\n 80,000\n 79,995.00\n \n \n \n Schools in Hong Kong\n \n \n 5.00\n \n \n 24 University Examination Grants\n 25,000\n 21,081.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3,919.00\n \n \n 25 Hok Hoi Library\n 1,000\n 1,000.00\n \n \n \n 26 Compensation to Railway for School\n 2,600\n 3,440.00\n \n \n \n childreen's tickets\n \n \n 840.00\n \n \n 27 Contribution to Cost of Advisory\n 3,150\n 3,992.08\n \n \n \n Committee of Education in the Colonies (£210)\n \n \n 842.08\n \n \n SPECIAL EXPENDITURE.\n \n \n \n \n \n 28 Equipment of Schools\n 1,075\n 1,071.40\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3.60\n \n \n 29 Building Grants\n 3,000\n 3,000.00\n \n \n \n 30 Expenses of Course of Study\n \n 261.33\n \n \n \n \n \n 261.33\n \n \n \n 31 Medical Expenses\n \n 2,963.32\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2,963.32\n \n \n 32 Grant to Mun Sang College\n 6,000.00\n 6,000.00\n \n \n \n Total Education Department\n 1,739,708\n 1,707,557.94\n \n \n \n \n \n 10,906.73\n 43,056.79\n \n \n Less Increase\n \n \n \n \n \n Savings\n \n 10.906.73\n 32,150.06\n \n \n Carried forward\n $\n 13,377,800\n 13,166,900.12\n \n \n \n \n 612,196.45\n 823,096.33", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-525-3 Estimates 1931 and other financial papers 16-1-1930 - 1-9-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 525696, "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": "CO129-525-8 Hong Kong Technical Institute- and a prospectus 1929-1930 6-3-1930 - 14-3-1930", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-525-8 Hong Kong Technical Institute- and a prospectus 1929-1930 6-3-1930 - 14-3-1930", "content_text": "STAFF OF LECTURERS.\n\nHONG KONG CLASSES.\n\nBuilding Construction...Mr F. J. Ling, F.S.I. M.Q.S.A., A.R.S.I.\n\nElectrical Engineering...Mr I. Day, A.M.I.E.E.\n\nChemistry, Practical...Mr. J. M. Wilson, B.Sc. (Lond.)\n\nChemistry, Theoretical...Mr. T.J. Price, B.Sc., Dip. Ed. (Cantab.)\n\nPhysics.........Mr. T.J. Price, B.Sc., Dip. Ed. (Sheffield.)\n\nShorthand Beginners...Miss Bascombe, B.A. (Lond.); Dip. Ed. (Cantab.)\n\nDo, Revision...Mr. D. Young.\n\nBook-keeping....Mr. E. J. Edwards.\n\nEnglish....Mr. H. G. Wallington, M.A. (Cantab.)\n\n\"Vernacular\"...Mr. J. Ralston.\n\nTEACHERS' CLASSES\n\nMr. H. G Wallington M.A. (Cantab.)\n\nMr. L.G. Morgan, B.Sc. (Lond.); Dip. Ed.\n\nMr. Ng Fung-chau. (Supervisor)\n\nMr. Ho Wai-ko (Chun Sze)\n\nMr. Shum Kwong Yuet (Han Lin)\n\nMr. Pak Chik-po\n\nMr. Loung Cheuk-u\n\nMr. Ng Pak-keung\n\nMr. Kung-hon\n\nMr. Lai Pui Yan\n\nMr. Li Lun-kwai\n\nMr. Tsui Pak-yuet (Sau Tsoi)\n\nHygiene...Mrs. E. M. Minett, M.D., B.S., D.P.H, M.Q.Sch.\n\nPhysical Training..Miss. D. M. Jaques, Dip of Chelsea Coll, of Physical Education. Member of Chartered Soc. of Massage & Medical Gymnastics.\n\nNautical Class...Capt. Chan Yew\n\nKOWLOON CLASSES.\n\nSupervisor.........Mr. G.F. Nightingale, M.R.S.T., F.R.G.S.\n\nChemistry, Practical...Mr. T. Rowell, B.Sc. (L'pool.)\n\nDo Theoretical...Mr. T. Rowell, B.Sc. (L'pool.)\n\nCookery.......Mrs. M Cooper, 1st Class Diploma in Cookery, etc, Glasgow College of Domestic Science,\n\nShorthand.......................Miss Bascombe, B.A. (Lond.), Dip. Ed. (Cantab.)\n\nSESSION\n\nOctober, 1929-June, 1930.\n\nFirst Term, October, 1929-January, 1930.\n\n1. Object of the Classes: The Technical Institute aims at giving instruction in the subjects named in Section 2, and in others for which there may from time to time be a demand.\n\nThe Physics and Mathematics Courses cover the requirements of the University Matriculation.\n\nThe Normal Classes are for Teachers (Chinese and European), men and women.\n\n2. Subjects of Instruction:-Classes may be formed as required in the following subjects:-\n\n(a) Engineering Section; Practical Mathematics, Building Construction, Field Surveying, Applied Mechanics, Machine Drawing, Steam, Physics, Electrical Engineering.\n\n(b) Science Section: Physics, Chemistry (Practical and Theoretical), Metallurgy, Hygiene.\n\n(c) Commerce Section: Shorthand, Book-keeping, French, English (Conversation, Letter Writing and Business Correspondence), Translation (Chinese and English), Logic and Political Economy, Cookery.\n\n(d) Teachers' Classes: English and Chinese, Pedagogy, and English or Chinese; Physical Training.\n\nThe Syllabus is liable to alteration from time to time, as found desirable.\n\nAs a general rule, no class will be formed unless there are at least 10 entries.\n\nIn certain Classes different sections at present work together; should there be a sufficient number of students in attendance, however, arrangements will be made for these sections to work independently of each other.\n\n3. Time Table: The year's work is divided into two terms-The First Term beginning in October and ending two weeks before Chinese New Year; the Second Term beginning two weeks after Chinese New and ending in June.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-525-8 Hong Kong Technical Institute- and a prospectus 1929-1930 6-3-1930 - 14-3-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 525840, "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": "CO129-526-10 Water supply- Shing Mun Valley Scheme with plans of the dam and reservoir sites 8-5-1930 - 10-9-1930", "page_number": 92, "title": "CO129-526-10 Water supply- Shing Mun Valley Scheme with plans of the dam and reservoir sites 8-5-1930 - 10-9-1930", "content_text": "62\n\nHead 27.-BOTANICAL & FORESTRY DEPARTMENT\n\nBOTANICAL & FORESTRY DEPARTMENT,-Continued.\n\nPERSONAL EMOLUMENTS,-Continued.\n\nDetails of the foregoing.—Contd.\n\nBrought forward\n\nApproved Estimate, 1980.\n\nEstimate, 1929.\n\n尜\n\nHead 28.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nApproved Estimate, 1929.\n\nEstimate, 1930.\n\nHead 28.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\n$\n\nSub-heads:-\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n\n893,640\n\n941,803\n\n20,878\n\n21,849\n\nNUMBERS.\n\n1929 1930\n\nGardens.\n\nOther Charges\n\n1\n\n1\n\n1\n\nHead Gardener, ($1,800 to $2,500 by $100 annually)\n\nAssistant Head Gardener, ($600 to $850 by $50 annually)\n\n2,400\n\n2,500\n\n2 Allowances to Examiners\n\n755\n\n725\n\n775\n\n(1)\n\n3 Books\n\n1,400\n\n755\n\n1,400\n\n1\n\nForeman, ($250 to $450 by $25 annually)\n\n400\n\n423\n\nDo. Personal Allowance\n\n60\n\n60\n\n4 College Calendars, (Queen's College, Belilios Public, Central British Schools and King's College)\n\n635\n\n2\n\n2\n\nForemen, at $216 each\n\n432\n\n432\n\n5 Conveyance to Director of Education\n\n360\n\n600\n\n360\n\nDo. Good Conduct Allowances to 1 at $96 and 1 at $60\n\n156\n\n156\n\n6 Electric Fans and Light\n\n3,900\n\n3,300\n\n(2)\n\n7 Incidental Expenses\n\n4\n\nPark-keepers, at $132 each\n\n528\n\n524\n\nDo. Good Conduct Allowances to 1 at $60, 1 at $21 and 2 at $12 each\n\n105\n\n108\n\n(3)\n\nDo. Personal Allowance to 1 at $1\n\n1\n\n(3)\n\n9 Prizes\n\n8 Laboratory, (Queen's College, King's College and Central British School)\n\n9,700\n\n7,816\n\n(1)\n\n2,400\n\n2,400\n\n1,400\n\n1,400\n\n10 Students in training :-Fees,\n\n10,790\n\n10,000\n\nDo. Allowance to 1 as Gate Keeper\n\n24\n\n24\n\n11 Students in training Maintenance\n\n11,960\n\n11,000\n\nDo. Rent Allowances to 1 at $18 and to 3 at $24 each\n\n120\n\n120\n\n12 University Examination Fees\n\n4,903\n\n6,000\n\n13 Cookery Classes, (Central British, Victoria & Belilios Schools)\n\n340\n\n340\n\n72\n\n73\n\nGardeners, 4 at $10 each, 7 at $15 each, and 62 at $132 each\n\n14 Pianos, Upkeep of\n\n252\n\n232\n\n9,816\n\n9,996\n\n(*) \n\n15 Equipment of Classes for Technical Institute\n\n450\n\n400\n\nDo. Good Conduct Allowances to 1 at $108, 2 at $96 each, 2 at $84 each, 1 at $76, 3 at $72 each, 1 at $65, 1 at $58, 1 at $48, 1 at $41, 1 at $27, 5 at $24 each, 1 at $14, 1 at $16, 22 at $12 each, 2 at $9 each, 1 at $6, 2 at $4 each, 1 at $3 and 2 at $1 each\n\n16 Renewals and replacements of equipment\n\n760\n\n1,400\n\n17 Transport\n\n2,600\n\n2,100\n\n18 Rent, (Tai Po, Un Long, Normal School for Women and Normal School at Tai Po)\n\n6,782\n\n5,544\n\n19 Uniforms\n\n3,184\n\n(1)\n\n1,320\n\n1,454\n\nGrants.\n\nDo. Personal Allowance to 1 at $2\n\n2\n\n(8)\n\nRent Allowances to 4 at $48 each and 61 at $24 each\n\n20 Capitation Grants\n\n1,682\n\n1,656\n\n(5)\n\n2\n\n2\n\n1\n\n1\n\nApprentices, ($90 to $120 by $6 annually)\n\nCarpenter, ($360 to $420 by $12 annually)\n\n216\n\n193\n\n21 Grant in aid of Rent to Wah Yan College (for 3 years only)\n\n22 Subsidies to Schools in New Territories\n\n138,430\n\n188,430\n\n3,120\n\n8,316\n\n420\n\n420\n\nDo. Rent Allowance\n\n48\n\n48\n\n23 Subsidies to Elementary Vernacular Schools in Hong Kong\n\n24 University Examination Grants\n\n20,000\n\n15,000\n\n100,000\n\n95,000\n\n1\n\n]\n\nStorekeeper\n\n180\n\n180\n\n25 Hok Hoi Library\n\n25,000\n\n25,000\n\n1,500\n\n1,500\n\nDo. Good Conduct Allowance\n\n48\n\n57\n\n(2)\n\n26 Compensation to Railway for School Children's tickets\n\n]\n\n1\n\nDo., Forestry.\n\n1\n\n1\n\n1\n\n1\n\n1\n\n1\n\nSecond Forester, ($100 to $500 by $25 annually)\n\n1\n\n1\n\n1\n\n1\n\n1\n\n1\n\nForeman, ($216 to $336 by $12 annually)\n\nDo. Personal Allowance\n\nIncinerator Attendant\n\nDo. Good Conduct Allowance\n\nRent Allowance\n\nInspector of Forests, ($1,800 to $2,500 by $100 annually)\n\nHead Forester, ($900 to $1,100 by $25 annually)\n\nThird Forester, ($550 to $850 by $50 annually)\n\nForeman, ($300 to $500 by $25 annually)\n\nDo. Rent Allowance\n\nDo. Rent Allowance\n\n12\n\n3\n\n(3)\n\n132\n\n132\n\n27 Contribution to Cost of Advisory Committee of Education in the Colonies (£210)\n\n2,600\n\n2,600\n\n2,291\n\n(2)\n\ni (2)\n\n21\n\n24\n\nSPECIAL EXPENDITURE.\n\n28 Building Grants\n\n1,800\n\n(3)\n\n29 6 Weighing Machines\n\n1,004\n\n1,004\n\n763\n\n656\n\n706\n\n30 Equipment of King's College\n\nCompilation of New Chinese Reader\n\nEquipment of Schools\n\n500\n\n408\n\n48\n\n336\n\n316\n\n-(5)\n\n4x\n\n10,000\n\n60,000\n\n3,100\n\n900\n\n600\n\n1,400\n\n1,920\n\nFurniture for Hall of Queen's College\n\n1,000\n\nTotal Education Department\n\n1,259,827\n\n1,349,691\n\n+\n\n2\n\n2\n\nForemen at $216 each\n\n432\n\n432\n\nDo. Good Conduct Allowances to 1 at $18 and 1 at $24\n\n42\n\n72\n\n(4)\n\n12\n\n12\n\n35\n\n35\n\n24\n\nForest Guards, ($216 to $336 by $12 annually)\n\nDo. Rent Allowances at $24 each\n\nForesters, at $132 each\n\n3,270\n\n3,615\n\n1,008\n\n1,008\n\n4,620\n\n4,620\n\nDo. Good Conduct Allowances to 1 at $72, 1 at $60, 1 at $53, 2 at $24 each, 10 at $12 each, 1 at $10, 1 at $3, & 1 at $2\n\n298\n\n368\n\n@\n\nDo. Personal Allowance to 1 at $1\n\nDo. Allowance to 1 as Forest Guard\n\n36\n\n36\n\nDo. Rent Allowances to 1 at $48, and 83 at $24 each\n\n840\n\n840\n\n1\n\n1\n\nStorekeeper\n\n180\n\n180\n\nDo. Good Conduct Allowance\n\n54\n\n12\n\netc.\n\nDo. Personal Allowance\n\nOvertime Allowance for Gardeners and Foresters,\n\nTotal Personal Emoluments\n\n6\n\n|} (4)\n\n200\n\n53,529\n\n400 (6)\n\n57,496\n\n(2) Annual contribution.\n\nPERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.\n\nDetails of the foregoing.\n\nNUMBERS.\n\nDirector of Education.\n\n1929 1930\n\nDirector of Education\n\n(3)\n\nInspector of English Schools, (£850 to £1,100 by £50 annually)\n\n13,200\n\n13,200\n\n1\n\n1\n\nInspector of English Schools, (£850 to £1,100 by £50 annually)\n\n12,600\n\n13,200\n\n(4)\n\nCarried forward\n\n25,800\n\n26,400\n\n(1) Uniforms transferred from S.H. 7 to S.H. 19.\n\n(3) Cadet Service.\n\n(4) Stipulated increment.\n\n(1) Stipulated increment.\n\n(2) stipulated allowances.\n\n(3) Replaced by good conduct allowance.\n\n(4) New appointment.\n\n(5) New post.\n\n(6) More overtime.\n\n112\n\n63", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-526-10 Water supply- Shing Mun Valley Scheme with plans of the dam and reservoir sites 8-5-1930 - 10-9-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 526428, "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": "CO129-527-19 Annual Education Report 1929 30-9-1930 - 16-2-1931", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-527-19 Annual Education Report 1929 30-9-1930 - 16-2-1931", "content_text": "# 6\n\nAt present the pupils of Class 1 at the Central British School sit each year for the Matriculation Examination of the University of Hong Kong and a few for the London University Matriculation.\n\nAn annexe of five classrooms was opened in this school in 1924. Four extra rooms were added in 1928 and it is again found necessary to provide additional room of a temporary nature which will serve till a new school building becomes available.\n\nAnglo-Chinese Schools. The total number of pupils on roll was 3,554 as against 3,238 in 1928. At Queen's College, King's College and Belilios Public School for Girls the pupils of Classes 1 and 2 are required to sit for the Matriculation or Senior Local and Junior Local Examinations of the University of Hong Kong. This year the entrants numbered 214 and 102 passed.\n\nThe age limit for admission to Class 8 has been raised to twelve plus. These entrants are, it should be understood, not making their first venture into school life, as the entrance examination postulates three or four years education in the vernacular.\n\nDuring the year Un Long school building was found to be unsafe and rented premises have been occupied pending the erection of a new building.\n\nVernacular Schools. The Vernacular Middle School was again unable to accommodate all the applicants for admission. At the final examination in the normal department seven qualified as vernacular teachers. The Inspector of Vernacular Schools reports that these teachers are sought for by heads of schools and easily find employment.\n\nThe Vernacular Normal School for Women continues its satisfactory career and again shows a small increase in numbers: holders of the final certificates from this school also have no difficulty in finding posts and are doing useful work.\n\nTechnical Institute. The number on the roll was 598. This institution, which represents the only provision in the Colony for adult education, continues to supply an obvious need. Very useful are the English and Vernacular teachers' classes, which have been effective in improving the quality of the instruction in the schools of the Colony.\n\n# 7\n\n## GRANT IN AID SCHOOLS\n\nThe number of these schools is again sixteen, the Wah Yan branch school at Kowloon having been added to the list. It may not be necessary to place any more schools on the Grant List in the near future and I do not see any pressing need for an increase in the secondary departments of English Schools for the next few years.\n\nAs the late Governor said at one of his last public functions, there is room for more schools which cater for that majority of our pupils who do not stay at school beyond Class 3 or 4.\n\nThe pupils at the English Schools numbered 4,639 as against 4,257 last year, while the numbers at Vernacular Schools dropped from 1,011 to 987.\n\n## PRIVATE SCHOOLS\n\nIt was found necessary at the beginning of the year to appoint one new Inspector of Vernacular Schools and an increase in subsidy expenditure of $8,000 was incurred. This would have to be further, but at present not considerably, increased if aid were given to all schools which merit and need it. The receipt of a subsidy is a sort of hallmark and has the merit of attracting pupils to institutions which have met with the comparative approval of the inspectors.\n\nIn the preface to this report, I have referred to the private English schools, of which in 1929 there were 135 with 6,861 pupils, of whom only 270 were girls.\n\n## EXAMINATIONS\n\n(i) A table showing the results of the Matriculation and Local Examinations conducted in 1929 by the University of Hong Kong is given below. A fair standard has been reached in Government and Grant-in-Aid schools, of the latter three girls' schools being well above the average and one boys' school considerably below. This year, for the first time, there were candidates from a Vernacular Grant school for girls.\n\nThe Local Examinations are conducted by the University at the request of the Government. All boys and girls in the two senior classes of Government and Grant-in-Aid English schools are required to sit for these examinations.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-527-19 Annual Education Report 1929 30-9-1930 - 16-2-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 526442, "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": "CO129-527-19 Annual Education Report 1929 30-9-1930 - 16-2-1931", "page_number": 36, "title": "CO129-527-19 Annual Education Report 1929 30-9-1930 - 16-2-1931", "content_text": "## Table III. GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS. STAFF.\n\n| NAME AND NATURE. (1) | Maximum Monthly Fees | Average Attendance | Certificated Teachers | Enrolment | Fees Collected. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **ENGLISH SCHOOLS.** | | | Anglo-Chinese. | Vernacular. | | |\n| Central British, Kowloon Junior, Victoria, Quarry Bay and Peak Schools—for children of European British Parentage. Primary and Secondary | $15 a term(2) | 438 | 352 | 7 | 12 | 7 | (3) +40 & 30(2) (4) 16,547.40 |\n| Queen's College and King's College—mainly for Chinese and Indians. Prepare for Hong Kong University Matriculation and for Commercial Examinations..... | $30 & $20(3) (4) $8 & $6 per mensem | 1,532 | 1,400 | 30 | 32 | 19 | 91,474.00 |\n| Ellis Kadoorie, Wantsai, and Yaumati Schools—for Chinese. Prepare for Upper School at Queen's College and King's College | $5 per mensem | 923 | 835 | 11 | 30 | II | 45,340.00 |\n| Belilios Public School for Girls—mainly for Chinese. Primary and Secondary........ | $3 per mensem | 549 | 504 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 17,469.00 |\n| Gap Road School—for Chinese. Primary | $2 per mensem | 152 | 145 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 2,996.00 |\n| Ellis Kadoorie School for Indians—prepares for Upper School, Queen's College | $2 per mensem | 131 | 118 | 1 | 8 | | 2,832.00 |\n| Tai Po, Un Long, and Cheung Chau Schools—Elementary English for Chinese. Primary | *$1.00 50 cents per mensem | 230 | 189 | 10 | 3 | | 1,359.50 |\n| Vern. Middle School, Vern. Normal School at Taipo,† and Vern. Normal for Women * | *$2 p.m. † Free. | 380 | 350 | 2 | 22 | | 7,642.00 |\n\n(1) For boys unless otherwise stated. (2) For First child of one family. (3) For Second of two or more children of the same family. (4) For Third of three or more children of the same family.\n\nTotal Fees Collected: 185,649.90", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-527-19 Annual Education Report 1929 30-9-1930 - 16-2-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 526444, "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": "CO129-527-19 Annual Education Report 1929 30-9-1930 - 16-2-1931", "page_number": 38, "title": "CO129-527-19 Annual Education Report 1929 30-9-1930 - 16-2-1931", "content_text": "## Table V\nAmount of Fees Remitted to Free Scholars in Government Schools during 1929.\n\n| School | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Queen's College | $7,450.00 |\n| King's College | $4,565.00 |\n| Belilios Public School | $1,845.00 |\n| Ellis Kadoorie School | $1,160.00 |\n| Yaumati School | $3,190.00 |\n| Wantsai School | $420.00 |\n| Gap Road School | $562.00 |\n| Tai Po School | $120.00 |\n| Un Long School | $22.00 |\n| Cheung Chau School | $38.50 |\n| Vernacular Middle School | $336.00 |\n| Women Vernacular Normal School | $168.00 |\n| Tai Po Normal School | Nil. |\n| Ellis Kadoorie Indian School | $144.00 |\n| Central British School | $825.00 |\n| Victoria British School | Nil. |\n| Quarry Bay School | Nil. |\n| Peak School | Nil. |\n| Kowloon Junior School | Nil. |\n| **TOTAL** | **$20,871.50** |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-527-19 Annual Education Report 1929 30-9-1930 - 16-2-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 526447, "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": "CO129-527-19 Annual Education Report 1929 30-9-1930 - 16-2-1931", "page_number": 41, "title": "CO129-527-19 Annual Education Report 1929 30-9-1930 - 16-2-1931", "content_text": "## Amount of Fees Remitted to Free Scholars in Government Schools, 1920\n\n| School | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Queen's College | $7,400.00 |\n| King's College | 4,585.00 |\n| Belilton Public School | 1,945.00 |\n| Ellis Kedoorie School | 1,100.00 |\n| Taumati School | 16.00 |\n| Wantai School | 3,100.00 |\n| Gap Road School | 420.00 |\n| Tai Po School | 45.00/582.00/120.00/14,000/29.00 |\n| Lo Long School | 15,000/39.50 |\n| Cheung Chau School | 886.00 |\n| Vernacular Middle School | 42,000/188.00 |\n| Women Vernacular Normal School | |\n| Tai Po Normal School | Nil |\n| Ella Kedoorie Indian School | 41,000/144.00 |\n| Central British School | 825.00/Nil/40,000 |\n| Victoria British School | 9,000 |\n| Quarry Bay School | Nil/34,000 |\n| Peak School | 35,000 |\n| Kowloon Junior School | Nil/33,000 |\n\n| Total | $20,871.50/$27.00 |\n| Various Amounts | $2,000/$1,000/30,000/24,000/29,000/27,000/26,000/21,000/24,000/23,000/22,000/21,000/20,000/19,000/18,000/17,000/16,000/15,000/11,000/13,000 |\n\n## Table VI. Average Attendance in all Government and Grant Schools, and total enrollment at Private Schools in the Technical Institute.\n\nThe University and Police School are not included.\n\n| Year | English Schools | Vernacular Schools-Black |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1913 | 17,000 | 13,730 |\n| 1914 | 11,919 | 13,090 |\n| 1915 | 11,000 | |\n| 1916 | 10,000 | 9,183 |\n| 1917 | 9,790 | 10,217 |\n| 1918 | 9,000 | |\n| 1919 | 9,145 | 9,974 |\n| 1920 | 8,962 | 8,000 |\n| 1921 | 9,474 | 7,878 |\n| 1922 | 7,751 | 7,462 |\n| 1923 | 7,00 | 6,442 |\n| 1924 | 6,000 | |\n| 1925 | | |\n| 1926 | | |\n| 1927 | | |\n| 1928 | | |\n| 1929 | | |\n\nPage 49", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-527-19 Annual Education Report 1929 30-9-1930 - 16-2-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527524, "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": "CO129-530-2 Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies- Hong Kong education report 1930 23-12-1930 - 12-10-1931", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-530-2 Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies- Hong Kong education report 1930 23-12-1930 - 12-10-1931", "content_text": "## 2.-GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS\n\nThese are either schools where the medium of instruction is English or mostly English or schools where the medium of instruction is Chinese.\n\nThe former, sixteen in number, are known as \"English\" schools, the latter of which there are three as \"Vernacular\" schools.\n\nOf the four English schools, classed as \"secondary\" schools in Table II, two are Anglo-Chinese schools for boys and one is for girls. These three schools have primary departments. The fourth school, the Central British School which is a mixed school, has no primary department.\n\nOf the twelve English schools, classed as \"primary\" schools in Table II, four are mixed schools preparing for the Central British School. In this group are also four \"District\" schools, including one for Indian boys and four \"Lower Grade\" schools three of which are in rural districts.\n\nIn those English schools which are attended by Chinese the study of English and of Chinese are carried on side by side, the pari passu system requiring that promotion shall depend on proficiency in both languages.\n\nOf the three Government Vernacular schools one has a seven years course and includes a Normal department. There is also a Normal school for Women teachers and a Normal school on the mainland which aims at providing Vernacular teachers for rural schools.\n\nThe Technical Institute, classed in Table II as \"vocational\" is attended by persons desirous of receiving instruction for the most part germane to their daytime occupations.\n\n## 3.-GRANT IN AID AND SUBSIDISED SCHOOLS\n\nThere are twelve Grant in Aid English Schools.\n\nThere are four Grant in Aid Vernacular Schools.\n\nOf the former six are schools for boys and six are for girls.\n\nOne English school for boys and one for girls have primary departments only. The remaining ten, classed in Table II as \"secondary\" schools have primary departments as well as the upper classes.\n\nThe Vernacular Grant in Aid Schools are schools for girls and are classed in the Table as \"secondary\" schools.\n\nThe 288 subsidised schools are all Vernacular schools.\n\n## 4. UNAIDED SCHOOLS\n\nIn 1930 there were 564 unaided Vernacular schools with 26,334 children.\n\nIn 1930 there were 138 unaided English schools with 7,113 children.\n\n## Chapter II\n\n## REVIEW OF YEAR\n\n## STAFF\n\nUnder this head the chief event of the year was the retirement on pension of Mr. E. Ralphs, Inspector of English Schools and, at the date of his retirement, Acting Director of Education. Mr. Ralphs was appointed an assistant master at Queen's College in 1898 and thus had 32 years service when he retired. He held successively the posts of Assistant Master, Normal Master at Queen's College, Director of the Technical Institute and Second Master Queen's College. He had acted as Head Master of Queen's College before he was appointed Inspector of English Schools in 1913, since which date he has acted several times as Director of Education.\n\nAt the Seventy Third Meeting of the Board of Education held in June last year the following resolution proposed by Hon. Mr. S. W. Tso, O.B.E., LL.D. and seconded by Mr. B. Wylie was carried unanimously:— \n\n\"The Board desires to record in the Minutes of this Meeting its keen appreciation of the service rendered by Mr. Ralphs to Education in the Colony\".\n\nMr. A. R. Sutherland, M.A. has succeeded Mr. Ralphs as Inspector of English Schools.\n\nIn July, 1930, Mr. A. H. Crook, O.B.E., M.A., Head Master of Queen's College retired on pension. Mr. Crook, who joined the staff of Queen's College in 1903, was promoted Second Master Queen's College in 1918 and, with the exception of ... \n\nPage 14\nPage 15", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-530-2 Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies- Hong Kong education report 1930 23-12-1930 - 12-10-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527526, "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": "CO129-530-2 Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies- Hong Kong education report 1930 23-12-1930 - 12-10-1931", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-530-2 Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies- Hong Kong education report 1930 23-12-1930 - 12-10-1931", "content_text": "# \n- 6 - \n\ncorresponding classes in Queen's College and King's College, there is an annual examination for entrance to Class 3 in one or other of the two senior schools.\n\nGap Road, Tai Po, Un Long, and Cheung Chau schools are \"Lower Grade\" schools with classes 8 to 6. Gap Road boys usually go on to Wantsai School, and those Tai Po boys who continue usually do so at Yaumati School.\n\nThe attendance at these schools is ordinarily good, but the Head Master of Queen's College found it necessary at the annual prize-giving to warn parents of the harm done by withdrawing boys temporarily for trivial reasons.\n\nDuring the year, the syllabus of the District Schools, which is the same for the Remove and Lower classes at Queen's College and King's College, was revised by a Departmental Committee consisting of the Inspector of English Schools and the six headmasters concerned. It was to come into force in January 1931 and will reduce the number of new subjects to be encountered in Class 3.\n\nA revision of the Vernacular syllabus in English schools was under consideration, but as this had not been completed at the end of the year, it does not fall within the scope of this report.\n\n## Vernacular Schools\nThere was an increase in numbers at the Vernacular Middle School; two new masters joined the staff; two new classrooms were added, unfortunately restricting the already insufficient playing area attached to this school. The attendance in the Higher Primary, Normal, and Middle School classes was respectively 125, 30, and 68.\n\nThe examiners at the final Normal examination report that work in general has improved \"though there is still room for improvement in the syllabus of Chinese Classics and Literature\".\n\nNumbers at the Vernacular Normal School for Women showed a slight increase.\n\nThe results at the final Normal examination were disappointing. Premature promotion must be avoided.\n\nThe Normal school for rural teachers at Tai Po suffers from poor material.\n\n## Technical Institute\nThe number on the roll was 798, an increase of 200 on the previous year. The numbers attending the Vernacular and English Teachers' classes were respectively 223 and 53. These classes are a not unsuccessful attempt to provide assistance and encouragement for men and women teachers who have to teach in the daytime and attend these classes with the praiseworthy object of improving themselves and the quality of their teaching.\n\nThe annual examination conducted by outside examiners is exacting. In the final year in the Men's Vernacular Classes, of seven candidates, none were considered good enough to pass, though one got over 50% of the maximum and all but one more than 34%. In the second year, of nine men sitting for the terminal examination, four only were allowed to pass on to the Third Year Class. In the two First Year divisions for men, only one out of 36 was allowed promotion, and six of the failures were advised not to continue in the classes.\n\nOf the Third Year Women, 3 passed out of 9; in the Second Year, four out of fourteen, and in the First Year, 10 out of 38 were allowed to go on, while 16 out of 41 in the Preparatory Divisions gained promotion.\n\nThe pass mark is high, and of the 114 candidates who failed, 40 gained 50% and 66, 34% of the possible maximum of marks.\n\nOf 46 English teachers sitting for First, Second, and Third Year examinations, 39 passed, two of them with distinction.\n\nDetails of other classes will be found in Chapter V.\n\nIt is clear from the attendance and the increasing numbers on roll that the Technical Institute is supplying a demand on the part of adult persons who are occupied in the daytime.\n\n## AIDED SCHOOLS\n\nThere were 911 girls in attendance at the four Vernacular Grant Schools.\n\nThere were 4,826 boys and girls in attendance at the twelve English Schools.\n\nCode Article 21 requires a school to have met 370 times in the year to qualify for a grant. This condition will be rigorously observed in future, and I do not propose to recommend for a full grant any school which has less than the required number of meetings.\n\nSt. Joseph's Junior School and St. Francis' School continue without secondary departments. It is unfortunate that there are difficulties in the way of extending the system of \"feeder\" schools. It makes for economy and facilitates concentration of staff and equipment.\n\n- 7 - \n## \n19", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-530-2 Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies- Hong Kong education report 1930 23-12-1930 - 12-10-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527528, "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": "CO129-530-2 Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies- Hong Kong education report 1930 23-12-1930 - 12-10-1931", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-530-2 Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies- Hong Kong education report 1930 23-12-1930 - 12-10-1931", "content_text": "## UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG MATRICULATION & LOCAL EXAMINATIONS, NOVEMBER 1980.\n\nOf the 1,225 girls attending Government schools 264 were in the mixed schools for British children; the Technical Institute accounted for 185, and of these 138 were teachers; the remainder were attending Belilios Public School and the Vernacular Normal School for Women.\n\nOf the 9,470 girls attending aided schools 1,880 were at English schools.\n\nHeads of Schools are glad to co-operate with the Girl Guides and have afforded them facilities for their various activities.\n\nThere are companies of \"Guides\" in connection with St. Paul's College for Girls, Belilios Public School, Italian Convent School, Central British School and Diocesan Girls School.\n\nThere are \"Brownie\" packs in connection with Quarry Bay School, St. Paul's College for Girls, Belilios Public School, Victoria British School, Central British and Kowloon Junior Schools and Diocesan Girls School.\n\nA company of \"Rangers\" consisting of ex-pupils of various schools meets at the Central British School.\n\nAltogether there were 17 companies and packs with a total personnel of 320.\n\n## EXAMINATIONS.\n\n(1) A table showing the results of the Matriculation and Local Examinations conducted in 1930 by the University of Hong Kong is given below.\n\nOf those who sat for the examinations, excluding the candidates entered under \"private study\", 46% gained matriculation or Senior Local certificates; for the Junior Local the percentage was 38.\n\nIn both cases the girls' schools were able to show higher figures, these being 71 and 69.\n\nThe idea that only selected candidates should be entered for the examination is not to be encouraged. The selection of a few candidates who are supposed to have a chance of passing is contrary to the object of the examinations which are only of value if every boy or girl from the appropriate class is entered for them.\n\nCentre: Hong Kong.\n\n| Centre | Entered | MATRICULATION AND SENIOR | JUNIOR | Absent |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | | Passed Matric. | Passed Senior. | Failed. | |\n| Queen's College | 40 | 22 | 13 | | |\n| King's College | 26 | 17 | | | |\n| Wah Yan College | 93 | 26 | 33 | 19 | 21 |\n| St. Joseph's College | 88 | 10 | 28 | 53 | 2 |\n| St. Stephen's College | 56 | 23 | 29 | 4 | |\n| Diocesan Boys School | 56 | 2 | 5 | 47 | 4 |\n| St. Paul's College | 110 | 39 | 58 | 13 | 2 |\n| Tutorial Institute | 30 | 10 | | 18 | |\n| Ying Wa College | 28 | 10 | 16 | 2 | |\n| Tai Tung College | 16 | 5 | 4 | | |\n| Sacred Heart College... | 5 | | | | |\n| Central British School | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | |\n| To Man Wai School | 64 | 48 | | | |\n| Private Study........ | 125 | 6 | 24 | 1 | |\n| St. Peter's College.. | 4 | | | | |\n| Munsang College | 5 | 4 | | | |\n| Wah Yan College (Branch) | 4 | | | | |\n| St. George's College... | | | | | |\n| Kowloon College | | | | | |\n| Wah Yan Middle School (Macau) | | | | | |\n| Docksin School | | | | | |\n| Belilios Public School | 14 | 3 | 5 | | |\n| Italian Convent | 13 | 12 | | | |\n| Ying Wah Girls School....... | 18 | | 18 | | |\n| G | 2 | 2 | | | |\n| St. Mary's School | 5 | | 4 | | |\n| St. Stephen's Girls College | 11 | 10 | | | |\n| French Convent.......... | 14 | 1 | 12 | | |\n| Diocesan Girls School | 18 | | 17 | | |\n| Holy Spirit School..... | 10 | | | | |\n| R | 2 | | | | |\n\n| Total, | 746 | 235 | 453 | 58 | ... |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Penang | 290 | 97 | | | 9 |\n| Outports: | | | | | |\n| Shanghai | 28 | 15 | | | |\n| Singapore | 53 | 22 | | | |\n| | 6 | 4 | 2 | | |\n| Batavia | 16 | 6 | | | |\n| Canton | | | | | |\n| | 2 | 1 | 1 | | |\n| Total, | 38 | 7 | 25 | 6 | 3 |\n| | 117 | 46 | 60 | 11 | ... |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-530-2 Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies- Hong Kong education report 1930 23-12-1930 - 12-10-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527529, "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": "CO129-530-2 Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies- Hong Kong education report 1930 23-12-1930 - 12-10-1931", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-530-2 Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies- Hong Kong education report 1930 23-12-1930 - 12-10-1931", "content_text": "## \n\nIn the table it will be seen that there are entries of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 candidates. Entries in such small numbers are of no use as an indication of standard, \n\nExcept in the case of the girls' schools the examination results must be considered poor and when all allowances are made it is clear that the practice of premature promotion is still prevalent. \n\nThe Board of Education has recommended that examination at the Junior Local stage should not be discontinued; but unless it can be shown that the present examination is unsuitable for the schools of the Colony, and even when one allows for the leaven of English speaking children in the girls' schools the successes gained by their pupils do not support the suggestion, it is questionable whether the present facilities should be continued when so many candidates are obviously unfitted for the examination. \n\n(ii) Every year all the boys in Class 4 in Queen's College, King's College and the four Government \"District\" Schools compete at a common examination for entrance into Class 3 at Queen's College or King's College. In 1930 of 358 candidates 202 or 57% gained admission into the upper schools of those institutions. \n\nIt is hoped that in 1931 it will be possible to arrange for this examination to be thrown open for public entry. This should be of assistance to those schools which are unable to maintain adequate senior school staffs. \n\n(iii) Particulars of examinations in the Technical Institute and Government Normal Schools will be found in chapters IV and V. \n\n(iv) From time to time, as application is made, examinations of the University of London are held at the Education Office. In 1930 there were two Matriculation Examinations, one in January and one in June. \n\nThese examinations do not form any part of the educational system of the Colony but are arranged for the convenience of the public. \n\n(v) Four examinations of the Royal Sanitary Institute were held during the year-one in Sanitary Science, two for Sanitary Inspectors and one for Food and Meat Inspectors. \n\n(vi) The School Certificate Examination of the University of Cambridge was held in December in connection with the Peace Memorial Scholarship, \n\n## \n\n(vii) There were about 150 candidates for the January examination for Government Probationary Clerkships. In March, April and May there were nine examinations for Interpreters and Translators' certificates. 136 candidates were examined and 50 gained certificates. \n\n## HEALTH\n\nDr. Minett has continued as Medical Officer for Schools throughout the year, Dr. Douglas Laing being appointed assistant in April. \n\nDuring the year over 2,600 children have been medically inspected, 1,364 of these as new entrants, the others for re-inspection of some defect found. The percentage of physical defect found is 34 in the British Schools and 43.5 in the Anglo-Chinese schools. \n\nTwo Vernacular Schools, the Vernacular Normal at Taipo, and the Women's Normal, have been added to the number of schools medically inspected. \n\nDefect in vision is the most outstanding, in some cases reaching to 40% of the higher classes. 207 cases have been seen by the oculist, and practically all have been provided with glasses. In many cases these will need renewal within two years. No provision of special \"sight-saving classes\" has been possible. \n\nSpecial inspections for evidence of malaria gave a low spleen index, and a low percentage of incidence in the blood, although a good deal of absence, especially in country schools, is put down to \"fever\". \n\nThe two school nurses have paid 105 visits to homes, usually to persuade parents to take children for treatment. \n\nCo-operation has been closer with various departments of the Government Civil Hospital, and tonsil operation, X ray, electrical, massage, and trachoma treatment have been arranged in a large number of cases. \n\nIn the office of the Medical Officers for Schools small clinics have been started for regular treatment and supervision of tubercular or \"pre-tubercular\" children and of children suffering from ear and throat diseases. By this means it is hoped to get in touch with \"contacts\" of tubercular cases, a most important part of anti-tuberculosis work. \n\nSpecial remedial exercises for spinal curvature, mouth breathing, flat foot, etc. have been carried out in the British Schools and in Belilios Public School by the Physical Training Mistress.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-530-2 Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies- Hong Kong education report 1930 23-12-1930 - 12-10-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527539, "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": "CO129-530-2 Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies- Hong Kong education report 1930 23-12-1930 - 12-10-1931", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-530-2 Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies- Hong Kong education report 1930 23-12-1930 - 12-10-1931", "content_text": "## Table II. \n### SCHOOLS AND SCHOLARS FOR THE YEAR 1930.\n\n| CLASS OF INSTITUTION | GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS | | GRANT IN AID AND SUBSIDIZED SCHOOLS | | UNAIDED SCHOOLS | |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | No. of Institutions | On Roll | No. of Institutions | On Roll | No. of Institutions | On Roll |\n| **ENGLISH** | | | | | | |\n| Secondary | 4 | 2,429 | 10 | 4,506 | 1 | 152 |\n| Primary | 12 | 1,895 | 2 | 320 | 197 | 6,961 |\n| Vocational | 1 | 798 | | | | |\n| Total | 17 | 4,922 | 12 | 4,826 | 198 | 7,113 |\n| **VERNACULAR** | | | | | | |\n| Secondary | 1 | 253 | | 911 | | |\n| Primary | | 288 | 17,667 | 564 | 26,334+ | |\n| Vocational | 2 | 203 | 1 | 71 | | |\n| Total | 3 | 453 | 293 | 18,649 | 504 | 26,334+ |\n| **Grand Total** | 20 | 5,375 | 305 | 23,475 | 702 | 33,447 |\n\n## Table V. \n### AMOUNT OF FEES REMITTED IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS DURING 1930.\n\n| School | Fees Remitted |\n| --- | --- |\n| Queen's College | $5514.00 |\n| King's College | $4557.00 |\n| Belilios Public School | $1275.00 |\n| Ellis Kadoorie School | $2610.00 |\n| Yaumati School | $3490.00 |\n| Wantsai School | $780.00 |\n| Gap Road School | $406.00 |\n| Tai Po School | $103.00 |\n| Un Long School | $31.50 |\n| Cheung Chau School | $47.00 |\n| Vernacular Middle School | $374.00 |\n| Women Vernacular Normal School | $168.00 |\n| Taipo Normal School | |\n| Ellis Kadoorie Indian School | |\n| Central British School | $120.00 |\n| Victoria British School | $1011.00 |\n| Quarry Bay School | |\n| Peak School | |\n| Kowloon Junior School | |\n| **TOTAL** | **$20486.50** |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-530-2 Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies- Hong Kong education report 1930 23-12-1930 - 12-10-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527540, "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": "CO129-530-2 Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies- Hong Kong education report 1930 23-12-1930 - 12-10-1931", "page_number": 30, "title": "CO129-530-2 Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies- Hong Kong education report 1930 23-12-1930 - 12-10-1931", "content_text": "## Table III.\n### GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS.\n\n| NAME AND NATURE | Certificated Teachers | Anglo-Chinese | Vernacular | Maximum Average Monthly Enrolment | Rate of Fees per mensem or Term | Fees Collected |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **ENGLISH SCHOOLS** | | | | | | |\n| Central British, Kowloon Junior, Victoria, Quarry Bay and Peak Schools—for children of European British Parentage. Primary and Secondary | | | | 368 | $15 to $40 & $30(2) | $17,333.00 |\n| Queen's College and King's College—mainly for Chinese and Indians. Prepare for Hong Kong University Matriculation and for Commercial Examinations | 36 | | | 1,817 | 45% | $97,083.00 per mensem |\n| Ellia Kudoorie, Wanchai, and Yaumati Schools—for Chinese. Prepare for Upper School at Queen's College and King's College | 9 | 29 | 11 | 929 | $34 per mensem | $45,230.00 |\n| Belilios Public School for Girls—mainly for Chinese. Primary and Secondary | 10 | 12 | 1.3 | 609 | $3 to $19 | $19,167.00 per mensem |\n| Gup Road School—for Chinese. Primary | 6 | 2 | | 155 | $2 | $3,280.00 |\n| Ellia Kudoorie School for Indians—prepares for Upper School, Queen's College | 1 | H | T | 136 | $2 per mensem | $3,008.00 per mensem |\n| Tai Po, Un Long, and Cheung Chau Schools—Elementary English for Chinese. Primary | 10 | = | | 268 | 50 cents | $1,581.00 |\n| Fern. Middle School, Vern. Normal School at Tai Po,† and Fern. Normal for Women*. | 2 | 10 | 2 | 456 | $2 p.m. & $100(3) | $9,092.00 |\n| **Total** | | | | 4,628 | | $195,774.00 |\n\n(1) STAPP.\n(2) For First child of one family.\n(3) For boys unless otherwise stated. For Second of two or more children of the same family, For Third of three or more children of the same family.\n† Free.\n\nPage 30\nPage 31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-530-2 Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies- Hong Kong education report 1930 23-12-1930 - 12-10-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 529751, "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": 63, "title": "CO129-533-12 Additional revenue proposals- revision of postal rates 2-3-1931 - 8-10-1931", "content_text": "# \n## Second period 1860-1877.\n## Third period 1878-1900.\n\nIn 1850 the Committee of Education says in reporting on the aided schools all the teachers are professed Christians; and it names Bishop Bone's catechism in a list of the school books—a Chinese translation compulsorily taught to the sons of unbelieving peasants by professed converts.\n\nAt this period there were besides St. Andrew's 18 Government schools with an average attendance of 400; and 4 Missionary schools, 2 Protestant and 2 Roman Catholic, with an average attendance of less than 100 pupils.\n\nThe rudiments of English were first taught in the Government Schools at about this time.\n\nMeanwhile a change of opinion had been gaining ground. Dr. Legge was opposed to every form of State religion; and when in 1859 he became predominant in the councils of education, he led a successful movement to modify the existing policy of the Government, which might have been summed up in the words, Christianity through letters: proselytising rather than education was the keynote.\n\nThe second period in the history of education in the Colony may be considered as dating from 1860. In that year Dr. Legge acted as Chairman of the Committee (now termed Board of Education). Supported by the new Governor, Sir Hercules Robinson, he merged certain of the small Government Schools into a Central School, which, under the name of Queen's College, is to-day the most important school in Hong Kong. The first headmaster, Dr. Stewart, was also appointed Inspector of Schools to the Board. In 1865 the Board of Education was abolished.\n\nThis completed Dr. Legge's revolution. The Education Department was now no longer under the direction of the Bishop of Victoria; it became a civil department under the Inspector of Schools directly responsible to the Governor. The Diocesan School and Orphanage for Boys was founded in 1870.\n\nThe Roman Catholic Bishop Raimondi was a keen educationist. Under his influence the Roman Catholic Schools had by 1871 increased to thirteen in number with over 600 pupils, half of whom were girls. The West Point Reformatory was one of these Schools. In the same year the Protestant Missionary Schools could only show an attendance of something over 100 children.\n\nFor all this time and till 1871 no financial support of any importance was given to Missionary Schools. Apparently they charged no fees; and thus Hong Kong was in this happy position, that a very large part of its educational responsibilities was borne by charitably disposed persons at home.\n\nThe year 1872 is of importance as being the first in which a Grant was offered to schools belonging to the Christian Missions. A code was drawn up, containing a condition to which great importance appears to have been attached at the time: no religious instruction was allowed during four consecutive working hours each day. With 1877 the second period draws to a close.\n\nWhilst in the first period the Government rivalled the missionaries in a race to Christianise the community by means of education, in the second, on the other hand, it confined itself to secular instruction, and, so far from supporting the missions, declined to associate with them, except on the clear understanding that money paid for education should not and could not be used for proselytising.\n\n## \nAn amended Grant Code was issued in 1878 which stipulated that Code subjects should be taught for four hours daily, but otherwise left it absolutely in the hands of the managers how and when religious instruction should be given. Thenceforward Government and Protestant and Roman Catholic Schools have worked harmoniously side by side, with nothing worse than a very friendly rivalry between them.\n\nDr. Eitel was appointed Inspector of Schools in 1879. He held the popular laissez-faire views of his day, and was opposed to state schools where avoidable. In the one year 1893 eleven Government Schools were closed on the ground that they had been rendered unnecessary by new Grant Schools.\n\nDr. Eitel did not, like Dr. Stewart, combine the duties of Inspector of Schools and Headmaster Queen's College. Dr. Wright was appointed Headmaster. He and Dr. Eitel were unable to agree in their views, with the result that Queen's College was made independent of the Inspector of Schools. Thus education in the Colony became a thing of divided counsels for many years, and though the system no longer exists some of its evil effects are hardly obliterated.\n\nIn 1894 the Grant Code was amended and provision made for Building Grants. In 1897 Dr. Eitel was succeeded by Mr. A. W. Brewin, who was succeeded by the writer in 1901.\n\n## Fourth period 1901-1910.\n\nIn that year an Education Committee consisting of Mr. Brewin, Registrar-General, Dr. Ho Kai, and the writer, reported at considerable length upon the unsatisfactory condition of education in the Colony, and many of the reforms since instituted may be referred back to this Committee. It emphasised the need of introducing oral methods in the teaching of English, modern ideas respecting history and geography, and the cultivation by Chinese students of their own language.\n\nThe system of giving grants which had hitherto been entirely and unashamedly by results was brought more closely into accord with modern ideas, and the Grant Code amended accordingly. The need for more practical and better teaching in the Vernacular Schools was insisted on.\n\nThe Technical Institute was founded in 1907, under the governorship of Sir Matthew Nathan. Upon the retirement of Dr. Wright in 1909 the Department was reconsolidated under one Head, the Director of Education.\n\nThe idea of founding a University in Hong Kong was by no means new; but the rapid advance of English education during the last preceding years had made it a practical possibility. In the governorship of Sir F. Lugard (1907-1912) the liberality of the late Sir Hormusjee Moody supplied a building; and public interest now deeply stirred, not only locally but in China and among Chinese in the Straits and elsewhere abroad, provided the funds. The Hong Kong University was opened in 1911, and with it the present chapter of education in Hong Kong begins. A bold piece of legislation in 1918 the Education Ordinance—established the compulsory inspection of schools. The total nett expenditure on education in 1901 was $60,668, in 1913 it was $269,164, of which only about $15,000 was spent on primary Vernacular Schools, i.e., roughly speaking, on primary education.\n\nIn the period 1901-1913 the average number of pupils in Government and Grant Schools receiving instruction through the medium of the English language (roughly the equivalent of secondary education) increased by 60 per cent., while the corresponding increase for Vernacular Schools was only 10 per cent. In the same period the English-teaching Staff in Government Schools increased from 27 to 98 in number.\n\nIt will be noticed from the concluding paragraphs of the above extract that a very small proportion of the Government's expenditure on education was at that time devoted to primary education. This continues to be so, and is a feature of the Colony's educational system which is open to criticism, for the reason amongst others that, broadly speaking, primary education is all that the poorer Chinese can afford, and the Government is therefore giving least help to those who are least able to help themselves. However, the terms 'primary' and 'secondary' are used in a somewhat arbitrary and slightly confusing manner in Hong Kong, and their use in this Report will therefore as far as possible be avoided.\n\n## \nThe most interesting events in education since 1914 may be summed up as follows. The training of graduate teachers by Hong Kong University has begun to exercise an important influence on the Government schools in which they are employed. Other developments in the training of teachers have been the opening of a Normal School for women in 1921, and another for men, on the mainland, in 1926. King's College, now the biggest of the Government schools, was rehoused in fine and costly new premises in 1928. The opening of a Junior Technical School in 1933, and the fact that plans have been passed for a new Technical Institute, show that serious attention is now being given to technical education, formerly almost entirely neglected.\n\nAnother important change was made in 1933, the effects of which it is too early to estimate. Up till then the scholars in Government and Grant-in-Aid schools had been entered for the Cambridge Junior Local Examination in Class 2, and for Hong Kong University's Matriculation in Class I, the top class of the schools. It was then decided, for reasons which will be given later in this Report, to substitute for these two examinations a single School Certificate Examination, to be taken by all scholars in Class I, and carrying, under certain conditions, Hong Kong Matriculation with it. Though this examination, which is to be conducted by the University, will be held for the first time in June, 1935, its syllabus has exercised throughout 1934 a dominating influence over the work of the schools.\n\n*Mr. E. Irving.*", "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": 531570, "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": "CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933", "page_number": 64, "title": "CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933", "content_text": "80\n\n36\n\nCOMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL.\n\nHeads and Sub-heads.\n\nBrought forward\n\n28.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT.\n\nSub-heads:-\n\nEstimated\nActual\nIncrease\nDecrease\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n$\n1,642,741\n$\n1,355,398.12\n\nOTHER CHARGES.\n\n2 Allowances to Examiners\n600\n510.00\n1,224.15\n\n3 Books\n287,342.88\n90.00\n475.85\n\n4 College Calendars, (Queen's College, Belilios Public & Central British Schools, and King's College)\n600\n560.00\n40.00\n\n5 Electric Fans and Light\n3,900\n2,977.41\n\n922.59\n\n6 Incidental Expenses\n8,200\n8,162.82\n\n37.18\n\n7 Laboratory, (Queen's College, King's College and Central British School)\n4,500\n3,596.76\n\n903.24\n\n8 Prizes\n500\n498.83\n\n1.17\n\n9 Students in training:-Fees\n7,455\n7,555.00\n100.00\n\n10 Students in training-Maintenance\n7,820\n7,820.00\n\n11 University Examination Fees\n16,160\n13,717.00\n\n2,443.00\n\n12 Cookery Classes\n340\n204.36\n\n135.64\n\n13 Pianos, Upkeep of\n216\n189.00\n\n27.00\n\n14 Equipment of Classes for Technical Institute\n300\n158.45\n\n141.55\n\n15 Renewals and replacements of equipment\n1,000\n638.89\n\n361.11\n\n16 Transport\n2,490\n2,196.58\n\n293.42\n\n17 Rent, (Tai Po Normal School for Women and Normal School at Tai Po)\n5,304\n5,304.00\n\n18 Uniforms\n4,600\n3,504.53\n\n1,095.47\n\n19 Medical Expenses\n2,500\n2,942.48\n442.48\n\n20 Conveyance to Carpentry Instructor (J.T.S.)\n175\n175.00\n\n21 Expenses of Course of Study\n\n148.24\n148.24\n\nGrants.\n\n22 Capitation Grants\n180,000\n175,381.00\n\n4,619.00\n\n23 Grant in aid of Rent to Wah Yan College (for 3 years only)\n8,316\n8,316.00\n\n24 Subsidies to Schools in New Territories\n15,000\n15,595.00\n595.00\n\n25 Subsidies to Elementary Vernacular Schools in Hong Kong\n100,000\n98,160.00\n\n1,840.00\n\n26 Hok Hoi Library\n500\n500.00\n\n27 Compensation to Railway for School Children's tickets\n3,313\n3,270.25\n\n42.75\n\n28 Contribution to Cost of Advisory Committee of Education in the Colonies (£210)\n4,200\n3,187.74\n\n1,062.26\n\n29 Grant to Munsang College\n6,000\n6,000.00\n\nSPECIAL EXPENDITURE.\n\n30 Equipment of Schools\n1,666\n\n1,221.37\n\n31 Building Grants\n11,000\n14,000.00\n3,000.00\n\n32 Furniture and Equipment of Junior Technical School\n5,000\n3,095.66\n\n1,904.34\n\nTotal Education Department\n2,046,096\n1,745,983.64\n\n4,285.72\n304,398.08\n\nLess Increase\n\n4,285.72\n\nSavings\n\n300,112.36\n\nCarried forward\n15,183,111\n12,549,108.98\n162,167.45\n2,796,169.47", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531773, "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": "CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933", "page_number": 265, "title": "CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933", "content_text": "311\n\n72\n\nHead 28.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nApproved Estimate, 1931.\n\nEstimate, 1932.\n\nHead 28.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nSub-heads:-\n\n \n 1 Personal Emoluments\n 1,410,311\n 1,642,741\n \n \n Other Charges\n \n \n \n \n 2 Allowances to Examiners\n 600\n 600\n \n \n 3 Books\n 1,400\n 1,700\n \n \n (1)(2)\n \n \n \n \n 4 College Calendars, (Queen's College, Belilios Public & Central British Schools, and King's College)\n 600\n 600\n \n \n ......\n \n \n \n \n Conveyance to Director of Education\n 360\n \n \n \n (3)\n \n \n \n \n 5 Electric Fans and Light\n 3,300\n 3,900\n \n \n (2)(4)\n \n \n \n \n 6 Incidental Expenses\n \n \n \n \n 8 Prizes\n \n \n \n \n 7 Laboratory, (Queen's College, King's College and Central British School)\n 8,000\n 8,200\n \n \n (2)\n \n \n \n \n \n 2,700\n 4,500\n \n \n (1)(5)\n \n \n \n \n 1,000\n 500\n \n \n \n (6)\n \n \n \n \n 9 Students in training :--Fees,\n 8,500\n 7,455\n \n \n 10 Students in training --Maintenance\n 9,200\n 7,820\n \n \n 11 University Examination Fees\n 6,160\n 16,160\n \n \n (8)\n \n \n \n \n 12 Cookery Classes.....\n 340\n 340\n \n \n 13 Pianos, Upkeep of\n 252\n 216\n \n \n 14 Equipment of Classes for Technical Institute\n 400\n 300\n \n \n (6)\n \n \n \n \n 15 Renewals and replacements of equipment\n 1,000\n 1,000\n \n \n 16 Transport\n 2,000\n 2,490\n \n \n (9)\n \n \n \n \n 17 Rent, (Tai Po, Normal School for Women and Normal School at Tai Po)\n 5,544\n 5,304\n \n \n (6)\n \n \n \n \n 18 Uniforms\n 4,100\n 4,600\n \n \n (1)\n \n \n \n \n 19 Medical Expenses\n \n 2,500\n \n \n (10)\n \n \n \n \n 20 Conveyance to Carpentry Instructor (J.T.S.)................\n 175\n \n \n \n (2)\n \n \n \n \n Grants.\n \n \n \n \n 21 Capitation Grants\n 135,000\n 180,000\n \n \n 22 Grant in aid of Rent to Wah Yan College (for 3 years only)\n 8,316\n 8,316\n \n \n 23 Subsidies to Schools in New Territories.....\n 15,000\n 15,000\n \n \n (11)\n \n \n \n \n 24 Subsidies to Elementary Vernacular Schools in Hong Kong\n 80,000\n 100,000\n \n \n 25 Hok Hoi Library.\n 1,000\n 500\n \n \n (12)\n \n \n \n \n 26 Compensation to Railway for School Children's tickets.....\n \n \n \n \n 27 Contribution to Cost of Advisory Committee of Education in the Colonies (£210)\n 2,600\n 3,313\n \n \n (5) (13)\n \n \n \n \n 3,150\n 4,200\n \n \n \n 28 Grant to Munsang College\n 6,000\n \n \n \n (1)\n \n \n \n \n University Examination Grants\n \n \n \n \n (14)\n \n \n \n \n 25,000\n \n \n \n \n (15)\n \n \n \n \n SPECIAL EXPENDITURE.\n \n \n \n \n 29 Equipment of Schools\n \n 3,000\n \n \n 30 Building Grants\n 1,075\n \n \n \n 31 Furniture and Equipment of Junior Technical School\n \n 11,000\n \n \n Total Education Department\n 1,666\n \n \n \n (12)\n \n \n \n \n 5,000\n 1,739,708\n 2,016,096\n \n\nPERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.\n\nDetails of the foregoing.\n\nNUMBERS.\n\n \n \n 1931\n 1932\n \n \n Director of Education.\n \n \n \n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n I\n \n \n \n \n Director of Education.....\n \n \n \n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n Inspectors of English Schools, (£1,100 to £1,300 by £50 annually)\n \n \n \n \n (16)\n 36,281\n 49,380\n \n \n (1)(17)\n \n \n \n \n Carried forward\n 36.281\n 49,380\n \n\n(1) Lower rate of exchange.\n\n(2) Junior Technical School.\n\n(3) Not required.\n\n(11) Giant Code revised.\n\n(12) Considered necessary.\n\n(4) More current used.\n\n(5) More pupils.\n\n(6) Considered sufficient.\n\n(7) Three posts abolished.\n\n(8) $10,000 previously under University Examination Grants.\n\n(9) Railway fares now charged to Departments.\n\n(10) For medical treatment, spectacles etc. at schools.\n\n(13) Increased fares.\n\n(14) Grant of $6,000 for 1931 was approved by Finance Committee on 2nd July, 1931. F. M. No. 7 Item 21.\n\n(15) $15,000 for Grants not required; $10,000 now included under S. H. 11.\n\n(16) Inspector of English Schools acting as Director of Education.\n\n(17) Stipulated increments.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532771, "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": 11, "title": "CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932", "content_text": "13/7/32\n\n11\n\nSir John Sharkburgh\n\nI agreed to attempt to relieve you of an interview with Dr. Herklots, Reader in Biology at the University of Hong-Kong, but I am afraid that I must trouble you with papers connected with his interview with me.\n\nI saw Dr. Herklots on 3/7/32. He told me of his work at Hong Kong University and enlarged on his memorandum marked \"A\". He also gave me a copy of a number of the \"Hong Kong Naturalist\", with which he is concerned, and the scientific separates reprinted therefrom.\n\nWhat he wants to secure is sympathy towards his endeavours in biology in the Far East and funds for the continuation of the \"Hong Kong Naturalist\". He gave me the following estimates of cost and said that, in order to see the way clear, he must raise a further £175 per annum. I gathered that the higher University authorities rather looked upon this work as being outside the normal work of the University, but I told him that, if he was to approach Trusts or other like bodies, he would have to have the full support of the University and might have to make applications through that channel.\n\nThe possibility of getting money from the Boxer indemnity was discussed, as also was the possibility of securing money from the Carnegie Trustees. I believe the latter might be favourably disposed to consider an endowment grant for a scientific section of a library and the publication of a journal like the \"Hong Kong Naturalist\", if they were approached in the right way from the University. Only a small sum is required and the precedent of the grants made to the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532899, "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": 139, "title": "CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932", "content_text": "220\n\n6\n\nCHINA REPORT\n\nThe delegation was also instructed to convey to the Universities of China the friendly greetings of the Universities' China Committee on behalf of the Universities of Great Britain.\n\nWe reached Shanghai on September 30th, 1931, and during our short preliminary stay in that city we were given opportunities (partly through the hospitality of Mr. G. E. Hubbard, of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) of meeting and discussing educational affairs with a number of Chinese returned students from British and other universities and with other representative Chinese and British residents who were interested in the purpose of our visit to China. From Shanghai we proceeded, early in October, to Tientsin, Peiping (Peking) and Tsinan (the capital of Shantung), all of which contain some of the leading educational institutions in China. During the next two months we visited most of the more important universities and colleges of north and eastern China, including Tsing Hua, Yenching and the National Government Universities of Peiping, Nankai and Tientsin, Cheeloo in Shantung, the Central (Chung Yang) and Nanking Universities, various universities and colleges in Shanghai and its neighbourhood, and Lingnan and Chung Shan Universities at Canton. In accordance with instructions, the colony of Hong Kong and its British University were included in our itinerary, and from its vice-chancellor and staff we obtained valuable assistance and information. Of the \"Seven Christian Universities\" of China, which are at present evolving a system of federation, we visited four—Yenching (Peiping), the Shantung Christian University (Cheeloo) in Tsinan, the East China Federated University with its affiliated institutions (Ginling, the Nanking University, Soochow University and Hangchow Christian College) and Lingnan University (formerly Canton Christian College and still usually so designated by foreigners) in Canton. The only \"Christian Universities\" we were unfortunately unable to visit, though we received cordial invitations to do so, were those of Foochow (the Fukien Christian University), Central China University, Wuchang, and the West China Union University at Ch'êng-tu in Ssuch'uan. From the administrative and teaching staffs of all the institutions visited, as well as from the students, we are glad to record that we met with nothing but kindness, hospitality and friendly interest. We had hoped to see something of the educational work being done in the Three Eastern Provinces (Manchuria), but it was found impossible to carry out this part of our programme owing to the political crisis in that region, which caused the temporary closing of the North-Eastern University (Mukden) and other educational centres, and disorganised the railway communications.\n\nINTRODUCTION\n\n7\n\nAll three members of the delegation attended the meetings of the Fourth Pacific Conference as members of the British group. Preparations had been made for holding this Conference at Hangchow, but circumstances connected with the acute tension then existing between China and Japan made it advisable that the meetings should be held in the International Settlement of Shanghai. During the sessions of the Conference, which sat from October 21st to November 3rd, we had the great advantage of meeting many of the leading educationists in China and of discussing with them various problems of mutual interest. While attending the Pacific Conference, therefore, we were able simultaneously to carry on the work which had been entrusted to us by the Universities' China Committee.\n\nIn a letter addressed by the Chairman of the Committee to the Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the administration of the indemnity fund, it was stated that in addition to carrying out their duties as specified in the above-mentioned terms of reference, Professors Adams and Roxby were also prepared to give lectures at various academic centres. Throughout the whole period of their sojourn in China (extending from September 30th to December 5th) the educational life of the country was in a state of ferment and excitement, owing to the situation created by Japanese action in Manchuria, and normal work at most of the schools and colleges throughout the country was seriously disorganised. Nevertheless the welcome given to Messrs. Adams and Roxby was most cordial in every instance. The lectures given by them were usually attended by as many students as the various auditoria could accommodate, and were listened to with eager attention. Had they been able to prolong their stay in China they would have found ample occupation in accepting the numerous invitations which reached them from many parts of the country. They will submit separate reports giving details of their lecturing tours, the subjects on which they lectured and the institutions whose invitations they accepted. Meanwhile they are glad to take this opportunity of expressing their appreciation not only of the warm welcome accorded to them by the various academic authorities, but also of the friendly attitude of the students and the evident interest shown by them in the subjects on which lectures and discussions took place.\n\nProfessor Roxby embarked at Hong Kong for England on November 24th and Professor Adams and the Chairman followed on December 5th. The two latter arrived in England on January 8th, about a fortnight later than their colleague.\n\n221", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 535456, "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": "CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934", "page_number": 48, "title": "CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934", "content_text": "57\n\n36\n\nCOMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL\n\nHeads and Sub-Heads.\n\nBrought forward\n\n25.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT.\n\nSub-heads:-\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n\n \n Estimated.\n Actual.\n Increase.\n Decrease.\n \n \n $\n \n \n \n \n \n 12,136,061\n 10,695,776.11\n 200,045.67\n 1,640,330.56\n \n \n 1,592,660\n 1,446,294.23\n 146,365.77\n \n \n\nOTHER CHARGES.\n\n \n 2 Allowances to Examiners\n 500\n 500.00\n \n 1,603.49\n 96.51\n \n \n 3 Books\n 1,700\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 4 College Calendars, (Queen's College, Belilios Public & Central British Schools, and King's College)\n 600\n \n 350.00\n \n 250.00\n \n \n 5 Cookery Classes\n 340\n \n 224.28\n \n 115.72\n \n \n 6 Conveyance to Carpentry Instructor (J.T.S.)\n 350\n \n 350.00\n \n \n \n \n 7 Electric Fans and Light\n 4,100\n \n 3,207.28\n 892.72\n \n \n \n 8 Equipment of Classes for Technical Institute\n 300\n \n 296.00\n \n 4.00\n \n \n 9 Equipment of Woodwork Classes\n 200\n \n 177.41\n \n 22.59\n \n \n 10 Incidental Expenses\n 8,000\n \n 9,053.36\n 1,053.36\n \n \n \n 11 Laboratory, (Queen's College, King's College and Central British School)\n 4,500\n \n 3,545.71\n \n 954.29\n \n \n 12 Medical Expenses\n 3,000\n \n 2,774.58\n \n 225.42\n \n \n 13 Prizes\n 600\n \n 558.42\n \n 41.58\n \n \n 14 Pianos, Upkeep of\n 252\n \n 172.00\n \n 80.00\n \n \n 15 Renewals and Replacements of Equipment\n 1,000\n \n 771.68\n \n 228.32\n \n \n 16 Rent, (Tai Po, Normal School for Women and Normal School at Tai Po)\n 5,304\n \n 5,370.00\n 66.00\n \n \n \n 17 Students in training:-Fees\n 10,115\n \n 10,115.00\n \n \n \n \n 18 Students in training:-Maintenance\n 9,660\n \n 9,660.00\n \n \n \n \n 19 Transport\n 2,490\n \n 2,157.01\n \n 332.99\n \n \n 20 University Examination Fees\n 9,900\n \n 9,750.00\n \n 150.00\n \n \n 21 Uniforms\n 4,206\n \n 2,584.00\n \n 1,622.00\n \n\nGrants.\n\n \n 22 Capitation Grants\n 217,500\n \n 197,907.00\n \n 19,593.00\n \n \n 23 Compensation to Railway for School Children's tickets\n 3,600\n \n 4,234.65\n 634.65\n \n \n \n 24 Contribution to Cost of Advisory Committee of Education in the Colonies (£210)\n 3,600\n \n 2,045.90\n \n 1,554.10\n \n \n 25 Grant to Munsang College\n 6,000\n \n 6,000.00\n \n \n \n \n 26 Subsidies to Urban Elementary Vernacular Schools in Hong Kong\n 100,000\n \n 98,205.00\n \n 1,795.00\n \n \n 27 Subsidies to Schools in New Territories\n 20,000\n \n 18,012.50\n \n 1,987.50\n \n\nSPECIAL EXPENDITURE.\n\n \n 28 Building Grants\n 22,500\n \n 22,500.00\n \n \n \n \n 29 Equipment of Schools\n 2,819\n \n 2,057.40\n \n 761.60\n \n \n 30 Laboratory Grant\n 6,500\n \n 6,500.00\n \n \n \n\nTotal Education Department\n\n \n \n 2,042,296\n 1,866,626.90\n 1,754.01\n 177,423.11\n \n \n Less Increase\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Savings\n \n \n 1,754.01\n 175,669.10\n \n\n$\n\n \n 14,178,357\n 12,562,403.01\n 201,799.68\n 1,817,753.67", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 535673, "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": "CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934", "page_number": 265, "title": "CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934", "content_text": "# Head 25.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nApproved Estimate, 1932.\n\nEstimate, 1933.\n\n# Head 25.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nSub-heads :-\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n\n$1,642,741\n\n$1,592,660\n\nOther Charges.\n\n \n 2\n Allowances to Examiners\n 600\n \n \n \n 3\n Books\n 500\n 1,700\n \n \n (1)\n \n \n \n \n \n 4\n College Calendars, (Queen's College, Belilios Public & Central British Schools, and King's College)\n 600\n 600\n \n \n 5\n Cookery Classes\n 340\n 340\n \n \n 6\n Conveyance to Carpentry Instructor (J.T.S.)\n 175\n 350\n \n \n (2)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Electric Fans and Light\n 3,900\n 4,100\n \n \n (3)\n \n \n \n \n \n 8\n Equipment of Classes for Technical Institute\n 300\n 300\n \n \n 9\n Equipment of woodwork classes\n 200\n \n \n \n 10\n Incidental Expenses\n 8,200\n 8,000\n \n \n \n \n (4)\n \n \n \n 11\n Laboratory, (Queen's College, King's College and Central British School)\n 4,500\n 4,500\n \n \n 12\n Medical Expenses\n 2,500\n 3,000\n \n \n 13\n Prizes\n 500\n 600\n \n \n 14\n Pianos, Upkeep of\n 216\n 252\n \n \n (6)\n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n Renewals and replacements of equipment\n 1,000\n 1,000\n \n \n 16\n Rent, (Tai Po, Normal School for Women and Normal School at Tai Po)\n 5,304\n 5,304\n \n \n 17\n Students in training :- Fees,\n 7,455\n 10,115\n \n \n 18\n Students in training :--Maintenance\n 7,820\n 9,660\n \n \n (7)\n \n \n \n \n \n 19\n Transport\n 2,490\n 2,490\n \n \n 20\n University Examination Fees\n \n \n \n \n 21\n Uniforms\n 16,160\n 9,900\n \n \n (8)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 4,600\n 4,206\n \n \n (9)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Grants.\n \n \n \n \n 22\n Capitation Grants\n 180,000\n 217,500\n \n \n (7)(10)\n \n \n \n \n \n 23\n Compensation to Railway for School Children's tickets\n \n \n \n \n 24\n Contribution to Cost of Advisory Committee of Education in the Colonies (£210)\n 3,313\n 3,600\n \n \n (7)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 4,200\n 3,600\n \n \n (9)\n \n \n \n \n \n 25\n Grant to Munsang College\n 6,000\n 6,000\n \n \n 26\n Subsidies to urban Elementary Vernacular Schools in Hong Kong\n 100,000\n 100,000\n \n \n 27\n Subsidies to Schools in New Territories\n 15,000\n 20,000\n \n \n \n Grant in aid of Rent to Wah Yan College (for 3 years only) Hok Hoi Library.\n \n \n \n \n ***\n \n 8,316\n 500\n \n \n \n Total Other Charges\n 385,689\n 417,817\n \n \n \n Special Expenditure.\n \n \n \n \n 28\n Building Grants\n 11,000\n \n \n \n 29\n Equipment of Schools\n 1,666\n \n \n \n 30\n Laboratory Grant\n \n 2,819\n \n \n \n Furniture and Equipment of Junior Technical School\n 5,000\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 6,500\n \n \n (13)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Total Special Expenditure\n 17,666\n 31,819\n \n \n \n Total Education Department\n 2,046,096\n 2,042,296\n \n\nNUMBERS.\n\n1932 1933\n\n2 2\n\nPersonal Emoluments.\n\nDetails of the foregoing.\n\nDirector of Education.\n\nCadet Officer, Class II (£525 to £1,400 by 3 of £50, 1 of £75, 1 of £100 and 11 of £50)\n\nInspectors of English Schools, (£1,100 to £1,800 by £50 annually)\n\nCarried forward\n\n24,000 (14)\n\n49,380\n\n49,380\n\n36,056\n\n(9)\n\n60,056\n\n(1) Considered sufficient.\n\n(2) 1932 Estimates provided for half year only.\n\n(3) Previous provision insufficient.\n\n(4) New sub-head, previously paid out of Incidental Expenses.\n\n(5) More prizes.\n\n(6) One more piano.\n\n(7) More students.\n\n(8) Abolition of Junior Local examination.\n\n(9) Higher rate of exchange.\n\n(10) One more school qualified for grant. increased grant to four Vernacular schools, and more pupils.\n\n(11) St. Paul's College, Diocesan Girls' School and St. Mary's School.\n\n(12) Ellis Kadoorie School for Indians, King's College and Central British School.\n\n(13) La Salle College.\n\n(14) Previously shown under Cadet Service.\n\nPage 306\n\n73", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 535674, "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": "CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934", "page_number": 266, "title": "CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934", "content_text": "Head 25. EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nApproved Estimate, 1982.\n\nEstimate, 1933.\n\nEDUCATION DEPARTMENT, Continued.\n\nPersonal Emoluments,—Continued.\n\nBrought forward\n\n$\n\n49,890\n\n60,056\n\nHead 25.—EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nApproved Estimate, 1982,\n\nEstimate, 1933.\n\nEDUCATION DEPARTMENT,—Continued.\n\nPersonal Emoluments,—Continued.\n\n$\n\n$\n\n$\n\n \n \n NUMBERS.\n \n \n \n 1932\n 1933\n \n \n \n Brought forward\n 1,094,591\n 1,020,227\n \n \n 3\n 3\n \n \n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n Inspectors of Vernacular Schools, (£600 to £960 by £30 annually then £1,000 by £40 annually) Inspector of Vernacular Schools ($4,800 to $7,500 by $300 annually)..\n \n \n \n 50,580\n 44,333 (1)\n \n \n 5,055\n 5,354\n \n \n \n 17\n 21\n \n \n \n Students in training, at $480 each\n \n \n \n 3,160\n 10,080\n \n \n eo\n 1982\n 1933\n \n \n Non-British Staff.\n \n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n Chinese Mistress teaching at Maternity Hospital at $720\n \n \n \n 720\n 720\n \n \n Junior Clerical Service:-\n \n \n I\n 1\n 1\n \n \n Class I, ($3,500 to $4,500 by $200 annually).\n \n \n \n 4,300\n \n \n \n I\n \n 1\n \n \n Class II, ($2,700 to $3,300 by $150 annually)\n \n \n \n 3,300\n \n \n \n I\n \n \n \n \n Class IV, ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually)\n \n \n \n 1,800\n \n \n \n \n \n 5\n \n \n Class V, ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually)\n \n \n \n 6,466\n (4)\n \n \n 1\n 1\n 4\n \n \n Class VIB, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 annual increment of $60, 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100) Shorthand allowances..\n \n \n \n \n British Staff.\n \n \n 3,201\n \n 56\n \n \n 56\n \n 180\n \n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n Head Master (Queen's College), (£1,100 to £1,800 by £50 annually)\n \n \n \n 23,440\n 20,949\n \n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n Head Master, (King's College), (£1,100 to £1,300 by £50 annually)\n \n \n \n 26,000\n 22,286\n \n \n \n \n Full time Lecturer ($8,000 to $5,000 by $200 annually)\n \n \n \n 4,000\n \n \n \n \n 13,200\n \n \n \n \n 1,200\n (1)\n \n \n \n (2)\n 184,076\n \n \n \n 193,189\n \n \n \n \n 720\n 864\n \n \n \n (3)\n 94,778\n \n \n \n 103,428\n (4)\n \n \n 8\n 3\n \n \n \n Senior Masters, (£1,050 each annually)\n \n \n \n 63,000\n 54,000\n \n \n X(1)\n 1\n 1\n \n \n 28\n 28\n \n \n \n Masters, (£500 to £650 by £30 annually, then £710 to £770 by £60 annually, then £800 to £950 by £30 annually)\n \n \n \n 60\n 59\n \n \n Vernacular Masters, ($900 to $1,650 by $150 annually then $1,950 to $2,250 by $300: then $2,400 to $3,000 by $150 annually: then $3,200 to $6,000 by $200 annually)\n \n \n \n 136,275\n 143,069\n \n \n (2)(5)\n 1\n \n \n \n English Teacher (Vernacular Middle School at $2,400 to $3,600 by $240 annually)\n \n \n \n 3,504\n (5)\n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n Head Mistress, (Belilios Public School at £800 to £950 by £30 annually)\n \n \n \n \n 19,000\n \n \n 4\n 4\n \n \n \n Senior Mistresses (£750 each)\n \n \n \n 60,000\n \n \n \n 16,286\n 51,428\n (1)\n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n Part time Lecturer at $2,400.\n \n \n \n 2,400\n 2,400\n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n Art Master at $660....\n \n \n \n 660\n 660\n \n \n 27\n 29\n \n \n \n Mistresses, (£360 to £700 by £20 annually),\n \n \n \n 265,040\n 227,128\n \n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n Gymnastic Instructor\n \n \n \n 1,200\n 2,400\n \n \n (7)\n 1\n 1\n \n \n 14\n \n 17\n \n \n Do., Rent Allowances to 27 at $600 each Mistress, ($4,000 to $5,000 by $200 annually)..\n \n \n \n 15,600\n \n \n \n \n 16,200 (6)\n \n \n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n Chinese Teacher, at $360\n \n \n \n 360\n \n \n \n \n 4,400\n 4,600\n \n \n 14\n 13\n \n \n \n Mistresses, ($720 to $3,000 by $120 annually)\n \n \n \n 24,658\n 25,157\n \n \n (2)(5)\n \n 3,200\n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n Head Teacher (Women Normal School) ($2,600 to $3,000 by $200 annually)\n \n \n \n 3,000\n 3,000\n \n \n \n Do.. Rent Allowances to 2 at $600 each. Mistress\n \n \n \n 1,200\n 1,200\n \n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n Senior Vernacular Mistress, ($2,600 to $3,000 by $200 annually).\n \n \n \n 3,600\n (9)\n \n \n \n 3,000\n 3,000\n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n Headmaster Junior Technical School (£850 per annum)\n \n \n 14\n 14\n \n \n \n Vernacular Mistresses, ($480 to $2,400 by $120 annually)\n \n \n \n 8,500\n 14,571\n \n \n \n 24,435\n 26,115\n \n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n Carpentry Instructor, Junior Technical School\n \n \n 1\n \n 1\n \n \n Groundsman ($300 to $360 by $12 annually)......\n \n \n \n 333\n 345\n \n \n (2)\n \n ($1,800 per annum)\n \n \n \n 2,400\n 4,800\n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n Part time Teacher of Building Construction J. T. S. ($840 per annum)\n \n \n (10)\n 420\n 840\n \n \n 2\n 1\n 2\n \n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n Mistresses, ($2,400 to $3,600 by $240 annually)..\n \n \n \n 6,054\n \n \n \n \n 3,360\n (11)\n \n \n \n 1,380\n 1,380\n \n \n \n Carried forward\n \n \n \n \n 1,590,126\n |1,544,074\n \n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n Teacher of Singing (11 months at $75 p.m.)\n \n \n \n 825\n 823\n \n \n \n Carried forward\n \n \n \n \n 1,094,591\n 1,020,227\n \n \n (1) Higher rate of exchange.\n \n \n \n \n (2) Stipulated increments.\n \n \n \n \n (8) Allowance revised.\n \n \n \n \n (4) Two more students graduating.\n \n \n \n \n (5) One post abolished.\n \n \n \n \n (6) One new post, recommended by Committee on Chinese studies at University of Hong Kong.\n \n \n \n \n (7) For instruction as Queen's as well as at King's College.\n \n \n \n \n (1) Higher rate of exchange.\n \n \n \n \n (2) Stipulated increments.\n \n \n \n \n (8) Four more posts.\n \n \n \n \n (4) Previously shown under Junior Clerical Service.\n \n \n \n \n (6) Post abolished.\n \n \n \n \n (6) One in place of Mistress, $2,400 to $3,600.\n \n \n \n \n (7) Replaced by mistress on sterling salary under 29 Mistresses.\n \n \n \n \n (8) One in place of English Teacher (Vernacular Middle School), one in place of Mistress $3,600, and one in place of Mistress $2,400 to $3,600.\n \n \n \n \n (9) Replaced by one Mistress under 17 Mistresses.\n \n \n \n \n (10) Provision for whole year, 1932 provision for half year only.\n \n \n \n \n (11) One replaced by one Mistress under 17 Mistresses,\n \n \n \n\nPage 75\n\n308", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 537903, "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": "CO129-544-6 Junior Technical School- development and preliminary report 29-5-1933 - 16-10-1933", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-544-6 Junior Technical School- development and preliminary report 29-5-1933 - 16-10-1933", "content_text": "4 - 2 · \n\nHe suggests that London, or even London, can supply an excellent man of this type. \n\nHe suggests that it might be possible to get someone who has already been employed in a Technical College, or even the technical side of a University, in contact with students. He feels, with me, that the requirement of formal qualifications, though such are valuable, is not so important as his own skill, his experience in the shops, including foundry, or with students. Such superior workmen have been, for years, employed by professors of engineering and others in educational work. \n\nMay I add something from myself? I thought the method of selection of lads for the Technical School extremely valuable, taking from families of engineers, and demanding a high physical standard. It might be well, I think, to draw attention to the satisfactory results of this method later on, by a note in our \"Quarterly Review\". I am glad to see the phrase at the bottom of page 10, that teachers are required with a different training from those in Secondary Schools, and I think it is most praiseworthy of the principal to take the trouble in the method described on page 11.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-544-6 Junior Technical School- development and preliminary report 29-5-1933 - 16-10-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 538077, "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": "CO129-545-1 Estimates 1934 4-10-1933 - 17-4-1934", "page_number": 106, "title": "CO129-545-1 Estimates 1934 4-10-1933 - 17-4-1934", "content_text": "## Head 24.-BOTANICAL & FORESTRY DEPARTMENT\n### Approved Estimate, 1933\n### Estimate, 1934\n\n## Head 25.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n### Approved Estimate, 1933\n### Estimate, 1934\n\n$ \n$ \nSub-heads:-\n$ \n\n### BOTANICAL & FORESTRY DEPARTMENT,— Contd.\n\n#### Personal Emoluments,—Continued.\n\n| NUMBERS | 1933 | 1934 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 Personal Emoluments | $1,592,060 | $1,572,049 |\n\n#### Other Charges.\n\n| NUMBERS | 1933 | 1934 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Brought forward | 42,258 | 41,497 |\n| 2 Allowances to Examiners | 500 | 500 |\n| 3 Books | 1,700 | 1,700 |\n| 4 College Calendars | 600 | 750 |\n| 5 Cookery Classes | 340 | 300 |\n| 6 Electric Fans and Light | 4,100 | 3,690 |\n| 7 Equipment of Classes for Technical Institute | 800 | 300 |\n| | 3,000 | 3,150 |\n| 8 Equipment of woodwork classes | 200 | 600 |\n| 9 Incidental Expenses | 8,000 | 8,300 |\n| | 721 | 786 |\n| 10 Laboratories | 4,500 | 5,000 |\n| | 396 | 421 |\n| 11 Medical Expenses | 3,000 | 4,000 |\n| | 921 | 1,281 |\n| 12 Prizes | 600 | 600 |\n| 13 Pianos, Upkeep of | 252 | 252 |\n| 14 Renewals and replacements of equipment | ... | ... |\n| 15 Rent, (Tai Po, Normal School for Women and Normal School at Tai Po) | 1,000 | 1,000 |\n| | 5,304 | 5,568 |\n| | 10,115 | 12,260 |\n| | 79 | 84 |\n| 16 Students in training :-Fees | ... | ... |\n| | 10,115 | 12,260 |\n| 17 Students in training -Maintenance | 9,660 | 11,040 |\n| 18 Students in training:-Allowances | 11,520 | ... |\n| 19 Transport | 2,490 | 2,450 |\n| 20 Uniforms | 4,206 | 3,000 |\n| | 14,449 | 15,753 |\n| Conveyance to Carpentry Instructor (J.T.S.) | 350 | ... |\n| University Examination Fees | 9,900 | ... |\n| | 1,968 | 2,088 |\n| | 2 | 1 |\n\n#### Details of the foregoing.\n\nHead Gardener, ($2,100 to $3,300 by $150 annually). Assistant Head Gardener, ($600 to $1,100 by 1 annual increment of $60, 1 of $90, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100) Senior Foreman. ($350 to $500 by $25 annually) Foremen, ($252 to $336 by $12 annually). \nSenior Park Keeper, ($192 to $240 by 12 triennially). \nPark-keepers, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially) \nGardeners, (6 at $232 to $300 by $12 triennially, 7 at $192 to $240 by $12 triennially, and 71 at $156 to $228 by 2 increments of $24 and 2 of $12 triennially) \nRent Allowances to 6 at $48 each and 75 at $24 each \nApprentices, ($120 to $144 by $12 annually). \nCarpenter, ($3×4 to $444 by $12 annually). \nAssistant Storeman, ($252 to $300 by $12 triennially). \nIncinerator Attendant, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially) \nSweeper ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially) \n\n| NUMBERS | 1933 | 1934 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 21 Capitation Grants | 217,500 | 215,000 |\n| 22 Compensation to Railway for School Children's tickets | 3,600 | 4,200 |\n| 23 Grant to Munsang College | 6,000 | 6,000 |\n| 24 Subsidies to urban Elementary Vernacular Schools in Hong Kong | 100,000 | 100,000 |\n| 25 Subsidies to Schools in New Territories | 20,000 | 20,000 |\n| Contribution to Cost of Advisory Committee of Education in the Colonies (£210) | ... | 3,600 |\n| Total Other Charges | 417,817 | 418,030 |\n\n#### Forestry.\n\n#### Special Expenditure.\n\n| NUMBERS | 1933 | 1934 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Inspector of Forests, ($1,800 to $2,500 by $100 annually) | 2,083 | 2,183 |\n| Head Forester, ($1,000 to $1,200 by $40 annually) | 1,200 | 1,200 |\n| Second Forester, ($700 to $950 by $25 annually) | ... | ... |\n| Third Forester, ($650 to $900 by $25 annually). | 879 | 900 |\n| First Foreman, ($360 to $600 by $20 annually). | 418 | 438 |\n| Second Foreman, ($300 to $420 by $20 annually) | ... | ... |\n| Foremen, ($240 to $300 by $12 annually). | 600 | 600 |\n| Forest Guards, ($260 to $440 by $20 annually) | 4,437 | 4,420 |\n| Rent Allowances at $24 each | ... | ... |\n| Foresters, ($156 to $228 by 2 increments of $24 and 2 of $12 triennially) | 1,008 | 1,008 |\n| | 6,126 | 6,156 |\n| 26 Building Grants | 950 | 950 |\n| 27 Equipment of Schools | ... | ... |\n| 28 Gymnastic Gear | ... | ... |\n| 29 Junior Technical School Laboratory Equipment | 48 | 48 |\n| 30 do. do. Carpentry | 1 | 1 |\n| 31 do. do. Other | 2 | 2 |\n| Laboratory Grant | 12 | 12 |\n| Bent Allowance. | ... | ... |\n| Allowance to 1 as Forest Guard | 36 | 36 |\n| Bent Allowances to 1 at $48, and 34 at $24 each | 864 | 864 |\n| Overtime Allowance for Gardeners and Foresters | 276 | 288 |\n| Acting pay | 1,000 | 1,267 |\n| Total Special Expenditure | 22,500 | 31,819 |\n\n### Total Education Department....\n$2,042,296 \n$2,007,363 \n\n#### Personal Emoluments.\n\n| NUMBERS | 1933 | 1934 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Director of Education. | 1 | 1 |\n| Cador Officer, Class I (£1500 to £1,800 by £50 annually.) | 24,000 | 24,000 |\n| Inspectors of English Schools, (£1,100 to £1,300 by £50 annually) | 36,056 | 38,109 |\n| | 60,056 | 62,109 |\n| Total Personal Emoluments | 86,430 | 89,148 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-1 Estimates 1934 4-10-1933 - 17-4-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 545472, "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": "CO129-549-12 Annual report of the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Hong Kong- 1933... 8-6-1934 - 11-6-1934", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-549-12 Annual report of the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Hong Kong- 1933... 8-6-1934 - 11-6-1934", "content_text": "## Chapter IX. EDUCATION AND WELFARE INSTITUTIONS\n\n### GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS\n\nThese are either schools where the medium of instruction is English or mostly English or schools where the medium of instruction is Chinese. The former, seventeen in number, are known as \"English\" schools, the latter of which there are three as \"Vernacular\" schools.\n\n2. Of the four English schools, classed as \"secondary\" schools in the Table below, two are Anglo-Chinese schools for boys and one for girls. These three schools have primary departments. The fourth school, the Central British School which is a mixed school, has no primary department. Of the eleven English schools, classed as \"primary\" schools in the Table below, three are mixed schools preparing for the Central British School. In this group are also four \"District\" schools, including one for Indian boys and four \"Lower Grade\" schools, three of which are in rural districts. In those English schools which are attended by Chinese the study of English and of Chinese is carried on side by side, the pari passu system requiring that promotion shall depend on proficiency in both languages.\n\n3. Of the two Government Schools classed as \"Vocational\" one is the Junior Technical School which was opened in February, the other is the Technical Institute which is attended by persons desirous of receiving instruction for the most part germane to their day time occupations.\n\n4. Of the three Government Vernacular schools one has a seven years' course and includes a Normal department. There is also a Normal school for women teachers and a school on the mainland which aims at providing Vernacular teachers for rural schools.\n\n### GRANT-IN-AID AND SUBSIDIZED SCHOOLS\n\n5. There are thirteen Grant-in-Aid English Schools, and four Grant-in-Aid Vernacular Schools. Of the former, seven are schools for boys and six are for girls.\n\n6. One English school for girls has a primary department only. The remaining schools classed in the table below as \"secondary\" schools have primary departments as well as the upper classes.\n\n7. Munsang College, Kowloon City, received a grant of $6,000.\n\n8. The Vernacular Grant-in-Aid Schools are schools for girls and are classed in the Table as \"secondary\" schools.\n\n9. The 303 subsidized schools are all Vernacular schools.\n\n### UNAIDED SCHOOLS\n\n10. In 1932 there were 613 unaided Vernacular schools with 33,077 children and 124 unaided English schools with 6,528 children.\n\n### 1933\n\n| CLASS OF INSTITUTIONS | GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS | GRANT-IN-AID AND SUBSIDIZED SCHOOLS | UNAIDED SCHOOLS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | No. of Institutions | On Roll | No. of Institutions | On Roll | No. of Institutions | On Roll |\n| **ENGLISH** | | | | | | |\n| Secondary, Primary, Vocational, | 4 | 2,380 | 13* | 6,272 | 124 | 6,528 |\n| | 11 | 1,864 | 1 | 212 | | |\n| | 1 | 212 | | | | |\n| | 1 | 849 | | | | |\n| Total | 17 | 5,025 | 14 | 6,481 | 124 | 6,528 |\n| **VERNACULAR** | | | | | | |\n| Secondary, Primary, Vocational, | 1 | 253 | 4 | 1,023 | 613 | 33,077 |\n| | 2 | 214 | 303 | 20,136 | | |\n| Total | 3 | 467 | 308 | 21,336 | 613 | 33,077 |\n| **Total No. of Institutions** | 20 | | 322 | | 737 | |\n| **Total On Roll** | | 5,492 | | 27,817 | | 39,605 |\n\n*This includes Ying Wa College whose primary department receives a Grant-in-Aid.\n\nPage 39", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-549-12 Annual report of the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Hong Kong- 1933... 8-6-1934 - 11-6-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 545494, "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": "CO129-549-12 Annual report of the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Hong Kong- 1933... 8-6-1934 - 11-6-1934", "page_number": 50, "title": "CO129-549-12 Annual report of the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Hong Kong- 1933... 8-6-1934 - 11-6-1934", "content_text": "## Chapter IX. EDUCATION AND WELFARE INSTITUTIONS\n\n### GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS\n\nThese are either schools where the medium of instruction is English or mostly English or schools where the medium of instruction is Chinese. The former, seventeen in number, are known as \"English\" schools, the latter of which there are three as \"Vernacular\" schools.\n\n2. Of the four English schools, classed as \"secondary\" schools in the Table below, two are Anglo-Chinese schools for boys and one for girls. These three schools have primary departments. The fourth school, the Central British School which is a mixed school, has no primary department. Of the eleven English schools, classed as \"primary\" schools in the Table below, three are mixed schools preparing for the Central British School. In this group are also four \"District\" schools, including one for Indian boys and four \"Lower Grade\" schools, three of which are in rural districts. In those English schools which are attended by Chinese the study of English and of Chinese is carried on side by side, the *pari passu* system requiring that promotion shall depend on proficiency in both languages.\n\n3. Of the two Government Schools classed as \"Vocational\" one is the Junior Technical School which was opened in February, the other is the Technical Institute which is attended by persons desirous of receiving instruction for the most part germane to their day time occupations.\n\n4. Of the three Government Vernacular schools one has a seven years' course and includes a Normal department. There is also a Normal school for women teachers and a Normal school on the mainland which aims at providing Vernacular teachers for rural schools.\n\n### GRANT-IN-AID AND SUBSIDIZED SCHOOLS\n\n5. There are thirteen Grant-in-Aid English Schools, and four Grant-in-Aid Vernacular Schools. Of the former, seven are schools for boys and six are for girls.\n\n6. One English school for girls has a primary department only. The remaining schools classed in the table below as \"secondary\" schools have primary departments as well as the upper classes.\n\n7. Munsang College, Kowloon City, received a grant of $6,000.\n\n8. The Vernacular Grant-in-Aid Schools are schools for girls and are classed in the Table as \"secondary\" schools.\n\n9. The 303 subsidized schools are all Vernacular schools.\n\n### UNAIDED SCHOOLS\n\n10. In 1932 there were 613 unaided Vernacular schools with 33,077 children and 124 unaided English schools with 6,528 children.\n\n### Table showing number of schools and scholars for the year 1933\n\n| CLASS OF INSTITUTIONS | GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS | GRANT-IN-AID AND SUBSIDIZED SCHOOLS | UNAIDED SCHOOLS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | No. of Institutions | On Roll | No. of Institutions | On Roll | No. of Institutions | On Roll |\n| **ENGLISH:** | | | | | | |\n| Secondary, | 4 | 1,364 | 10 | 1,664 | | |\n| Primary | 11 | 1,796 | 4 | 2,380 | | |\n| Vocational, | 2 | 849 | | | | |\n| Total................. | 17 | 5,025 | 14 | 6,481 | 124 | 6,528 |\n| **VERNACULAR :--** | | | | | | |\n| Secondary,... | 1 | 253 | 4 | 308 | | |\n| Primary.... | 2 | 214 | 303 | 20,136 | 613 | 33,077 |\n| Vocational, | | | 1 | 177 | | |\n| Total,........ | 3 | 467 | 308 | 21,336 | 613 | 33,077 |\n| **Total No. of Institutions** | 20 | | 322 | | 737 | |\n| **Total On Roll** | | 5,492 | | 27,817 | | 39,605 |\n\n*This includes Ying Wa College whose primary department receives a Grant-in-Aid.\n\nPage 50\nPage 51", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-549-12 Annual report of the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Hong Kong- 1933... 8-6-1934 - 11-6-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 545688, "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": "CO129-549-19 Education Department- system and organisation 11-7-1934 - 6-12-1934", "page_number": 51, "title": "CO129-549-19 Education Department- system and organisation 11-7-1934 - 6-12-1934", "content_text": "# \n## Second period 1860-1877.\n## Third period 1878-1900.\n\nX\n\nX.\n\nX\n\n6\n\nIn 1850 the Committee of Education says in reporting on the aided schools all the teachers are professed Christians; and it names Bishop Bone's catechism in a list of the school books—a Chinese translation compulsorily taught to the sons of unbelieving peasants by professed converts.\n\nAt this period there were besides St. Andrew's 13 Government schools with an average attendance of 400; and 4 Missionary schools, 2 Protestant and 2 Roman Catholic, with an average attendance of less than 100 pupils.\n\nThe rudiments of English were first taught in the Government Schools at about this time.\n\nMeanwhile a change of opinion had been gaining ground. Dr. Legge was opposed to every form of State religion; and when in 1859 he became predominant in the councils of education, he led a successful movement to modify the existing policy of the Government, which might have been summed up in the words, Christianity through letters: proselytising rather than education was the keynote.\n\nThe second period in the history of education in the Colony may be considered as dating from 1860. In that year Dr. Legge acted as Chairman of the Committee (now termed Board) of Education. Supported by the new Governor, Sir Hercules Robinson, he merged certain of the small Government Schools into a Central School, which, under the name of Queen's College, is to-day the most important school in Hong Kong. The first headmaster, Dr. Stewart, was also appointed Inspector of Schools to the Board. In 1865 the Board of Education was abolished.\n\nThis completed Dr. Legge's revolution. The Education Department was now no longer under the direction of the Bishop of Victoria; it became a civil department under the Inspector of Schools directly responsible to the Governor. The Diocesan School and Orphanage for Boys was founded in 1870.\n\nThe Roman Catholic Bishop Raimondi was a keen educationist. Under his influence the Roman Catholic Schools had by 1871 increased to thirteen in number with over 600 pupils, half of whom were girls. The West Point Reformatory was one of these Schools. In the same year the Protestant Missionary Schools could only show an attendance of something over 100 children.\n\nFor all this time and till 1871 no financial support of any importance was given to Missionary Schools. Apparently they charged no fees; and thus Hong Kong was in this happy position, that a very large part of its educational responsibilities was borne by charitably disposed persons at home.\n\nThe year 1872 is of importance as being the first in which a Grant was offered to schools belonging to the Christian Missions. A code was drawn up, containing a condition to which great importance appears to have been attached at the time: no religious instruction was allowed during four consecutive working hours each day. With 1877 the second period draws to a close.\n\nWhilst in the first period the Government rivalled the missionaries in a race to Christianise the community by means of education, in the second, on the other hand, it confined itself to secular instruction, and, so far from supporting the missions, declined to associate with them, except on the clear understanding that money paid for education should not and could not be used for proselytising.\n\nAn amended Grant Code was issued in 1878 which stipulated that Code subjects should be taught for four hours daily, but otherwise left it absolutely in the hands of the managers, how and when religious instruction should be given. Thenceforward Government and Protestant and Roman Catholic Schools have worked harmoniously side by side, with nothing worse than a very friendly rivalry between them.\n\nDr. Eitel was appointed Inspector of Schools in 1879. He held the popular laissez-faire views of his day, and was opposed to state schools where avoidable. In the one year 1898 eleven Government Schools were closed on the ground that they had been rendered unnecessary by new Grant Schools.\n\nDr. Eitel did not, like Dr. Stewart, combine the duties of Inspector of Schools and Headmaster Queen's College. Dr. Wright was appointed Headmaster. He and Dr. Eitel were unable to agree in their views, with the result that Queen's College was made independent of the Inspector of Schools. Thus education in the Colony became a thing of divided counsels for many years, and though the system no longer exists some of its evil effects are hardly obliterated.\n\n7\n\nIn 1894 the Grant Code was amended and provision made for Building Grants.\n\nIn 1897 Dr. Eitel was succeeded by Mr. A. W. Brewin, who was succeeded by the writer* in 1901.\n\nIn that year an Education Committee consisting of Mr. Brewin, Registrar-General, Dr. Ho Kai, and the writer, reported at considerable length upon the unsatisfactory condition of education in the Colony, and many of the reforms since instituted may be referred back to this Committee. It emphasised the need of introducing oral methods in the teaching of English, modern ideas respecting history and geography, and the cultivation by Chinese students of their own language.\n\n## The fourth period 1901-1910.\n\nThe system of giving grants which had hitherto been entirely and unashamedly by results was brought more closely into accord with modern ideas, and the Grant Code amended accordingly. The need for more practical and better teaching in the Vernacular Schools was insisted on.\n\nThe Technical Institute was founded in 1907, under the governorship of Sir Matthew Nathan. Upon the retirement of Dr. Wright in 1909 the Department was reconsolidated under one Head, the Director of Education.\n\nThe idea of founding a University in Hong Kong was by no means new; but the rapid advance of English education during the last preceding years had made it a practical possibility. In the governorship of Sir F. Lugard (1907-1912) the liberality of the late Sir Hormusjee Moody supplied a building; and public interest now deeply stirred, not only locally but in China and among Chinese in the Straits and elsewhere abroad, provided the funds. The Hong Kong University was opened in 1911, and with it the present chapter of education in Hong Kong begins. A bold piece of legislation in 1918—the Education Ordinance—established the compulsory inspection of schools.\n\nThe total nett expenditure on education in 1901 was $60,663, in 1913 it was $269,164, of which only about $15,000 was spent on primary Vernacular Schools, i.e., roughly speaking, on primary education.\n\nIn the period 1901-1913 the average number of pupils in Government and Grant Schools receiving instruction through the medium of the English language (roughly the equivalent of secondary education) increased by 60 per cent., while the corresponding increase for Vernacular Schools was only 10 per cent. In the same period the English-teaching Staff in Government Schools increased from 27 to 98 in number. It will be noticed from the concluding paragraphs of the above extract that a very small proportion of the Government's expenditure on education was at that time devoted to primary education. This continues to be so, and is a feature of the Colony's educational system which is open to criticism, for the reason amongst others that, broadly speaking, primary education is all that the poorer Chinese can afford, and the Government is therefore giving least help to those who are least able to help themselves. However, the terms primary and secondary are used in a somewhat arbitrary and slightly confusing manner in Hong Kong, and their use in this Report will therefore as far as possible be avoided.\n\nThe most interesting events in education since 1914 may be summed up as follows. The training of graduate teachers by Hong Kong University has begun to exercise an important influence on the Government schools in which they are employed. Other developments in the training of teachers have been the opening of a Normal School for women in 1921, and another for men, on the mainland, in 1926. King's College, now the biggest of the Government schools, was rehoused in fine and costly new premises in 1928. The opening of a Junior Technical School in 1933, and the fact that plans have been passed for a new Technical Institute, show that serious attention is now being given to technical education, formerly almost entirely neglected.\n\nAnother important change was made in 1934, the effects of which it is too early to estimate. Up till then the scholars in Government and Grant-in-Aid school had been entered for the Cambridge Junior Local Examination in Class 2, and for Hong Kong University's Matriculation in Class I, the top class of the schools. It was then decided, for reasons which will be given later in this Report, to substitute for these two examinations a single School Certificate Examination, to be taken by all scholars in Class I, and carrying, under certain conditions, Hong Kong Matriculation with it. Though this examination, which is to be conducted by the University, will be held for the first time in June, 1935, its syllabus has exercised throughout 1934 a dominating influence over the work of the schools.\n\n* Mr. E. Irving.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-549-19 Education Department- system and organisation 11-7-1934 - 6-12-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546019, "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": "CO129-550-1 Estimates 1935 14-9-1934 - 15-9-1934", "page_number": 152, "title": "CO129-550-1 Estimates 1935 14-9-1934 - 15-9-1934", "content_text": "175\n\n72\n\nHead 25.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nApproved Estimate, 1934.\n\nEstimate, 1935.\n\nHead 25.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nSub-heads :-\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n\nOther Charges.\n\n1,572,049\n\n1,541,415\n\n \n Sub-head\n 1934\n 1935\n Note\n \n \n 2 Allowances to Examiners\n 500\n 500\n \n \n \n 3 Books\n 1,700\n 1,594\n (1)\n \n \n 4 College Calendars\n 750\n 400\n (2)\n \n \n 5 Cookery Classes\n 300\n 300\n \n \n \n 6 Electric Fans and Light\n 3,690\n 4,100\n (3)\n \n \n 7 Equipment of Classes for Technical Institute\n 300\n 300\n \n \n \n 8 Equipment of Woodwork Classes\n 600\n 800\n (4)\n \n \n 9 Incidental Expenses\n 8,300\n 8,800\n (5)\n \n \n 10 Laboratories\n 5,000\n 4,000\n \n \n \n 11 Medical Expenses\n 4,000\n 5,000\n (6)\n \n \n 12 Prizes\n 600\n 600\n \n \n \n 13 Pianos, Upkeep of\n 252\n 252\n \n \n \n 14 Renewals and replacements of equipment\n 1,000\n 800\n \n \n \n 15 Rent, (Tai Po, Normal School for Women and Normal School at Tai Po)\n 5,568\n 5,568\n \n \n \n 16 Students in training :- Fees\n 12,260\n 11,345\n (7)\n \n \n 17 Students in training :- Maintenance\n 11,040\n 9,520\n \n \n \n 18 Students in training :- Allowances\n 11,520\n 10,080\n \n \n \n 19 Transport\n 2,450\n 2,600\n \n \n \n 20 Uniforms\n 3,000\n 2,400\n (9)\n \n \n 21 University Examination Fees\n 15,000\n \n (10)\n \n \n Grants\n \n \n \n \n \n 22 Capitation Grants\n 215,000\n 220,000\n (11)\n \n \n 23 Compensation to Railway for School Children's tickets\n 4,200\n 5,000\n \n \n \n 24 Grant to Munsang College\n 6,000\n 6,000\n \n \n \n 25 Subsidies to urban Elementary Vernacular Schools in Hong Kong\n 100,000\n 100,000\n \n \n \n 26 Subsidies to Schools in New Territories\n 20,000\n 20,000\n \n \n \n Total Other Charges\n 418,030\n 434,959\n \n \n \n Special Expenditure\n \n \n \n \n \n 27 Equipment of Schools\n 2,600\n 1,294\n \n \n \n 28 Junior Technical School Laboratory Equipment\n 3,200\n 2,708\n \n \n \n 29 Junior Technical School Carpentry\n 1,024\n 375\n (1)\n \n \n 30 Junior Technical School Other\n 1,760\n 949\n \n \n \n 31 Building Grants Gymnastic Gear\n 4,200\n 4,500\n \n \n \n Total Special Expenditure\n 17,284\n 12,007\n \n \n \n Total Education Department\n 2,007,363\n 1,981,700\n \n \n\n(1) Considered sufficient.\n\n(2) Not required by Belilios Public School.\n\n(3) Increase due to additional requirements of Un Long School, Tai Po Normal School, and Junior Technical School.\n\n(4) More Woodwork Classes.\n\n(5) Last year's vote proved inadequate. Hire of Swimming Bath, expansion of Junior Technical School.\n\n(6) More examinations and higher cost of spectacles.\n\n(7) 25 students. Decrease due to 6 of them beginning in September on account of change in academic year.\n\n(8) Increase in Field allowances.\n\n(9) Reduced prices.\n\n(10) Examination fees for school leaving certificates.\n\n(11) Increased attendance, and for Diocesan Girls' Junior.\n\n(12) More children using Railway.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-550-1 Estimates 1935 14-9-1934 - 15-9-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546115, "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": "CO129-550-1 Estimates 1935 14-9-1934 - 15-9-1934", "page_number": 248, "title": "CO129-550-1 Estimates 1935 14-9-1934 - 15-9-1934", "content_text": "296\n\n72\n\nHead 25.--EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nApproved Estimate, 1934.\n\nEstimate, 1935.\n\nHead 25.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nSub-heads :-\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n\nOther Charges.\n\n \n \n 1,572,049\n 1,541,415\n \n \n 2 Allowances to Examiners\n 500\n 500\n \n \n 3 Books\n 1,700\n 1,594\n \n \n 4 College Calendars,\n 750\n 400\n \n \n 5 Cookery Classes,\n 300\n 300\n \n \n 6 Electric Fans and Light\n 3,690\n 4,100\n \n \n 7 Equipment of Classes for Technical Institute\n 300\n 300\n \n \n 8 Equipment of Woodwork Classes\n 600\n 800\n \n \n 9 Incidental Expenses\n 8,300\n 8,800\n \n \n 10 Laboratories\n 5,000\n 4,000\n \n \n 11 Medical Expenses\n 4,000\n 5,000\n \n \n 12 Prizes\n 600\n 600\n \n \n 13 Pianos, Upkeep of\n 252\n 252\n \n \n 14 Renewals and replacements of equipment\n 1,000\n 800\n \n \n 15 Rent, (Tai Po, Normal School for Women and Normal School at Tai Po)\n 5,568\n 5,568\n \n \n 16 Students in training - Fees,\n 12,260\n 11,345\n \n \n 17 Students in training: - Maintenance\n 11,040\n 9,520\n \n \n 18 Students in training: - Allowances.\n 11,520\n 10,080\n \n \n 19 Transport\n 2,450\n 3,000\n \n \n 20 Uniforms\n 2,600\n 2,400\n \n \n 21 University Examination Fees\n 15,000\n 15,000\n \n \n Grants.\n \n \n 22 Capitation Grants\n 215,000\n 220,000\n \n \n 23 Compensation to Railway for School Children's tickets...\n 4,200\n 5,000\n \n \n 24 Grant to Munsang College\n 6,000\n 6,000\n \n \n 25 Subsidies to urban Elementary Vernacular Schools in Hong Kong\n 100,000\n 100,000\n \n \n 26 Subsidies to Schools in New Territories.\n 20,000\n 20,000\n \n \n Total Other Charges\n 418,030\n 434,959\n \n \n Special Expenditure.\n \n \n 27 Equipment of Schools\n 2,600\n \n \n \n 28 Junior Technical School Laboratory Equipment\n 1,294\n 3,200\n \n \n 29 do. Carpentry\n 2,708\n 1,024\n \n \n 30 do. Other\n 1,760\n 375\n \n \n Building Grants\n \n 4,200\n \n \n Gymnastic Gear..\n \n 4,500\n \n \n Total Special Expenditure\n 17,284\n 5,326\n \n \n Total Education Department.....\n 2,007,363\n 1,981,700\n \n\n(1) Considered sufficient.\n\n(2) Not required by Belilios Public School.\n\n(3) Increase due to additional requirements of Un Long School, Tai Po Normal School, and Junior Technical School.\n\n(4) More Woodwork Classes.\n\n(5) Last year's vote proved inadequate. Hire of Swimming Bath, expansion of Junior Technical School.\n\n(6) More examinations and higher cost of spectacles.\n\n(7) 25 students. Decrease due to 6 of them beginning in September on account of change in academic year.\n\n(8) Increase in Field allowances.\n\n(9) Reduced prices.\n\n(10) Examination fees for school leaving certificates.\n\n(11) Increased attendance, and for Diocesan Girls' Junior.\n\n(12) More children using Railway.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-550-1 Estimates 1935 14-9-1934 - 15-9-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548109, "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": 62, "title": "CO129-553-12 Education- report of Mr Burney's visit 28-3-1935 - 7-8-1936", "content_text": "62\n\n63\n\nSecond period 1860-1877.\n\nThird period 1878-1900.\n\n6\n\nIn 1850 the Committee of Education says in reporting on the aided schools all the teachers are professed Christians; and it names Bishop Bone's catechism in a list of the school books—a Chinese translation compulsorily taught to the sons of unbelieving peasants by professed converts.\n\nAt this period there were besides St. Andrew's 13 Government schools with an average attendance of 400; and 4 Missionary schools, 2 Protestant and 2 Roman Catholic, with an average attendance of less than 100 pupils.\n\nThe rudiments of English were first taught in the Government Schools at about this time.\n\nMeanwhile a change of opinion had been gaining ground. Dr. Legge was opposed to every form of State religion; and when in 1859 he became predominant in the councils of education, he led a successful movement to modify the existing policy of the Government, which might have been summed up in the words, Christianity through letters: proselytising rather than education was the keynote.\n\nThe second period in the history of education in the Colony may be considered as dating from 1860. In that year Dr. Legge acted as Chairman of the Committee (now termed Board) of Education. Supported by the new Governor, Sir Hercules Robinson, he merged certain of the small Government Schools into a Central School, which, under the name of Queen's College, is to-day the most important school in Hong Kong. The first headmaster, Dr. Stewart, was also appointed Inspector of Schools to the Board. In 1865 the Board of Education was abolished.\n\nThis completed Dr. Legge's revolution. The Education Department was now no longer under the direction of the Bishop of Victoria; it became a civil department under the Inspector of Schools directly responsible to the Governor. The Diocesan School and Orphanage for Boys was founded in 1870.\n\nThe Roman Catholic Bishop Raimondi was a keen educationist. Under his influence the Roman Catholic Schools had by 1871 increased to thirteen in number with over 600 pupils, half of whom were girls. The West Point Reformatory was one of these Schools. In the same year the Protestant Missionary Schools could only show an attendance of something over 100 children.\n\nFor all this time and till 1871 no financial support of any importance was given to Missionary Schools. Apparently they charged no fees; and thus Hong Kong was in this happy position, that a very large part of its educational responsibilities was borne by charitably disposed persons at home.\n\nThe year 1872 is of importance as being the first in which a Grant was offered to schools belonging to the Christian Missions. A code was drawn up, containing a condition to which great importance appears to have been attached at the time: no religious instruction was allowed during four consecutive working hours each day. With 1877 the second period draws to a close.\n\nWhilst in the first period the Government rivalled the missionaries in a race to Christianise the community by means of education, in the second, on the other hand, it confined itself to secular instruction, and, so far from supporting the missions, declined to associate with them, except on the clear understanding that money paid for education should not and could not be used for proselytising.\n\nAn amended Grant Code was issued in 1878 which stipulated that Code subjects should be taught for four hours daily, but otherwise left it absolutely in the hands of the managers how and when religious instruction should be given. Thenceforward Government and Protestant and Roman Catholic Schools have worked harmoniously side by side, with nothing worse than a very friendly rivalry between them.\n\nDr. Eitel was appointed Inspector of Schools in 1879. He held the popular laissez-faire views of his day, and was opposed to state schools where avoidable. In the one year 1899 eleven Government Schools were closed on the ground that they had been rendered unnecessary by new Grant Schools.\n\nDr. Eitel did not, like Dr. Stewart, combine the duties of Inspector of Schools and Headmaster Queen's College. Dr. Wright was appointed Headmaster. He and Dr. Eitel were unable to agree in their views, with the result that Queen's College was made independent of the Inspector of Schools. Thus education in the Colony became a thing of divided counsels for many years, and though the system no longer exists some of its evil effects are hardly obliterated.\n\n7\n\nIn 1894 the Grant Code was amended and provision made for Building Grants. In 1897 Dr. Eitel was succeeded by Mr. A. W. Brewin, who was succeeded by the writer in 1901.\n\n1901-1910.\n\nThe fourth period may be considered to date from 1901. In that year an Education Committee consisting of Mr. Brewin, Registrar-General, Dr. Ho Kai, and the writer, reported at considerable length upon the unsatisfactory condition of education in the Colony, and many of the reforms since instituted may be referred back to this Committee. It emphasised the need of introducing oral methods in the teaching of English, modern ideas respecting history and geography, and the cultivation by Chinese students of their own language.\n\nThe system of giving grants which had hitherto been entirely and unashamedly by results was brought more closely into accord with modern ideas, and the Grant Code amended accordingly. The need for more practical and better teaching in the Vernacular Schools was insisted on.\n\nThe Technical Institute was founded in 1907, under the governorship of Sir Matthew Nathan. Upon the retirement of Dr. Wright in 1909 the Department was reconsolidated under one Head, the Director of Education.\n\nThe idea of founding a University in Hong Kong was by no means new; but the rapid advance of English education during the last preceding years had made it a practical possibility. In the governorship of Sir F. Lugard (1907-1912) the liberality of the late Sir Hormusjee Mody supplied a building; and public interest now deeply stirred, not only locally but in China and among Chinese in the Straits and elsewhere abroad, provided the funds. The Hong Kong University was opened in 1911, and with it the present chapter of education in Hong Kong begins. A bold piece of legislation in 1913 the Education Ordinance established the compulsory inspection of schools. The total nett expenditure on education in 1901 was $60,663, in 1913 it was $269,164, of which only about $15,000 was spent on primary Vernacular Schools, i.e., roughly speaking, on primary education.\n\nIn the period 1901-1913 the average number of pupils in Government and Grant Schools receiving instruction through the medium of the English language (roughly the equivalent of secondary education) increased by 60 per cent., while the corresponding increase for Vernacular Schools was only 10 per cent. In the same period the English-teaching Staff in Government Schools increased from 27 to 98 in number. It will be noticed from the concluding paragraphs of the above extract that a very small proportion of the Government's expenditure on education was at that time devoted to primary education. This continues to be so, and is a feature of the Colony's educational system which is open to criticism, for the reason amongst others that, broadly speaking, primary education is all that the poorer Chinese can afford, and the Government is therefore giving least help to those who are least able to help themselves. However, the terms primary and secondary are used in a somewhat arbitrary and slightly confusing manner in Hong Kong, and their use in this Report will therefore as far as possible be avoided.\n\nLL\n\nThe most interesting events in education since 1914 may be summed up as follows. The training of graduate teachers by Hong Kong University has begun to exercise an important influence on the Government schools in which they are employed. Other developments in the training of teachers have been the opening of a Normal School for women in 1921, and another for men, on the mainland, in 1926. King's College, now the biggest of the Government schools, was rehoused in fine and costly new premises in 1928. The opening of a Junior Technical School in 1933, and the fact that plans have been passed for a new Technical Institute, show that serious attention is now being given to technical education, formerly almost entirely neglected.\n\nAnother important change was made in 1933, the effects of which it is too early to estimate. Up till then the scholars in Government and Grant-in-Aid schools had been entered for the Cambridge Junior Local Examination in Class 2, and for Hong Kong University's Matriculation in Class I, the top class of the schools. It was then decided, for reasons which will be given later in this Report, to substitute for these two examinations a single School Certificate Examination, to be taken by all scholars in Class I, and carrying, under certain conditions, Hong Kong Matriculation with it. Though this examination, which is to be conducted by the University, will be held for the first time in June, 1935, its syllabus has exercised throughout 1934 a dominating influence over the work of the schools.\n\nMr. E. Irving.", "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": 549747, "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": "CO129-555-2 Estimates 1936 30-8-1935 - 29-1-1937", "page_number": 156, "title": "CO129-555-2 Estimates 1936 30-8-1935 - 29-1-1937", "content_text": "Head 25.--EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nApproved Estimate, 1935.\n\nEstimate, 1936.\n\nHead 25.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nSub-heads :-\n\n172\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n\n1,541,415\n\n1,420,317\n\nOther Charges.\n\n2 Allowances to Examiners\n\n500\n\n500\n\n3 Books\n\n1,594\n\n1,300\n\n4 College Calendars,...\n\n400\n\n200\n\n5 Conveyance Allowance to Director of Education\n\n240\n\n6 Domestic Science Classes\n\n300\n\n250\n\n7 Electric Fans and Light\n\n4,100\n\n3,700\n\n8 Equipment of Classes for Evening Institute\n\n300\n\n300\n\n9 Equipment of Woodwork Classes\n\n10 Incidental Expenses\n\n11 Laboratories\n\n8,800\n\n8,300\n\n12 Medical Expenses\n\n4,000\n\n3,200\n\n13 Prizes\n\n5,000\n\n4,500\n\n14 Pianos, Upkeep of\n\n600\n\n600\n\n15 Renewals and replacements of equipment\n\n252\n\n252\n\n16 Rent, (Tai Po, Normal School for Women and Normal School at Tai Po)\n\n800\n\n700\n\n17 Students in training :-Fees,\n\n5,568\n\n5,568\n\n18 Students in training --Maintenance\n\n11,345\n\n12,115\n\n19 Students in training:-Allowances.\n\n9,520\n\n10,670\n\n20 Transport\n\n10,080\n\n10,880\n\n21 Uniforms\n\n2,600\n\n2,360\n\n22 University Examination Fees\n\n23 Capitation Grants\n\n2,400\n\n1,750\n\nGrants.\n\n15,000\n\n11,600\n\n24 Compensation to Railway for School Children's tickets..\n\n220,000\n\n230,000\n\n25 Grant to Munsang College\n\n5,000\n\n4,500\n\n26 Subsidies to urban Elementary Vernacular Schools in Hong Kong\n\n6,000\n\n6,000\n\n27 Subsidies to Schools in New Territories......................\n\n100,000\n\n100,000\n\n20,000\n\n20,000\n\nTrade School,\n\n28 Coal (Smiths)..........\n\n29 Consumable Stores.....\n\n30 Electric Light and Gas\n\n31 Incidental Expenses\n\nTotal Other Charges\n\n434,959\n\n442,235\n\nSpecial Expenditure.\n\n32 Junior Technical School Carpentry Equipment\n\nTrade School.\n\n33 Books, Wall Charts, etc.\n\n375\n\n480\n\n34 Carpenter's Shop\n\n50\n\n35 Drawing Office\n\n1,000\n\n1,200\n\n36 Fitters' Shop\n\n200\n\n37 Forge\n\n1,000\n\n4,368\n\n38 Laboratory\n\n(7)\n\n1,285\n\n39 Machine Shop....\n\n3,184\n\n40 Power House\n\n524\n\n¿(7)\n\n41 Setting Out Equipment.....\n\n4,800\n\n12,178\n\nJunior Technical School Laboratory Equipment\n\n1,000\n\ndo.\n\n732\n\ndo.\n\n2,708\n\nOther Equipment of Schools\n\n949\n\n99\n\nTotal Special Expenditure\n\n1,294\n\n5,326\n\nTotal Education Department....\n\n1,981,700\n\n29,751\n\n1,892,303\n\n(1) Considered sufficient,\n\n(2) Previously paid out of S.H. 20.\n\n(3) One more student.\n\n(4) $240 transferred to S.H. 5.\n\n(5) Students for two part years provided for in 1975.\n\n(6) More pupils at La Salle, Wah Yan, St. Joseph's\n\nand Italian Convent.\n\n(7) New school.\n\n(8) Pattern maker's tools.\n\n(9) Non recurrent.\n\nPage 71\n\nPage 71\n\nPage 71", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-555-2 Estimates 1936 30-8-1935 - 29-1-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 551016, "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": "CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937", "page_number": 137, "title": "CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937", "content_text": "# Head 25.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\n## Sub-heads:\n\n1. Personal Emoluments\n2. Other Charges.\n\n### Approved Estimate, 1936\n### Estimate, 1937\n\n| Sub-head | Description | 1936 | 1937 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | Personal Emoluments | $1,420,317 | $1,664,512 |\n| 2 | Allowances to Examiners | 500 | 500 |\n| 3 | Books | 1,300 | 1,300 |\n| 4 | Bonus to University Trained Teachers | 1,600 | - |\n| 5 | Conveyance Allowance to Director of Education | 240 | 180 |\n| 6 | Domestic Science Classes | 250 | 300 |\n| 7 | Electric Fans and Light | 3,700 | 5,120 |\n| 8 | Equipment of Classes for Evening Institute | 300 | 300 |\n| 9 | Equipment of Woodwork Classes | 500 | 720 |\n| 10 | Incidental Expenses | - | - |\n| 11 | Laboratories | 8,300 | 8,300 |\n| 12 | Medical Expenses | 3,200 | 3,800 |\n| 13 | Physical Instructors in Training | 4,500 | 4,500 |\n| 14 | Prizes | 4,200 | - |\n| 15 | Pianos, Upkeep of | 252 | 252 |\n| 16 | Renewals and replacements of equipment | 700 | 700 |\n| 17 | Rent (Tai Po, Normal School for Women and Normal School at Tai Po) | 5,568 | 5,568 |\n| 18 | Rent of Public Telephones | 1,500 | - |\n| 19 | Students in training: Fees | 12,115 | 12,115 |\n| 20 | Students in training: Maintenance | 10,670 | 10,756 |\n| 21 | Students in training: Allowances | 10,880 | 8,160 |\n| 22 | Transport | - | - |\n| 23 | Uniforms | 2,360 | 2,700 |\n| 24 | University Examination Fees | 1,750 | 2,157 |\n| 25 | Local Schools Examination, College Calendars | 11,600 | 10,800 |\n| 26 | Capitation Grants | 8,000 | - |\n| 27 | Grants | 230,000 | 223,240 |\n| 28 | Compensation to Railway for School Children's tickets | 4,500 | 4,500 |\n| 29 | Grant to Munsang College | 6,000 | 5,400 |\n| 30 | Subsidies to urban Elementary Vernacular Schools in Hong Kong | 100,000 | 100,000 |\n| 31 | Subsidies to Schools in New Territories | 20,000 | 20,000 |\n| 32 | Trade School: Consumable Stores | 1,000 | 1,000 |\n| 33 | Trade School: Electric Light and Gas, Incidental Expenses, Coal (Smiths) | 1,000 | 5,000 |\n| | Total Other Charges | 442,285 | 454,268 |\n\n### Special Expenditure\n\n| Sub-head | Description | 1936 | 1937 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 34 | Junior Technical School Carpentry Equipment | 480 | 160 |\n| 35 | Trade School: Tools and Equipment | - | 19,200 |\n\nTotal: $1,863,032 | $2,138,140\n\n(1) Four teachers will be qualified for bonus.\n(2) Considered sufficient.\n(3) More apparatus required in new Central British School.\n(4) $220 for Education Offices, $1000 for new Central British School heating and an extra $200 for Electric Light and Fans at new Central British School.\n(5) More materials required.\n(6) Lower rate of exchange.\n(7) New scheme for physical training.\n(8) Previously provided under Miscellaneous Services.\n(9) More Hostel vacation fees.\n(10) Reduction of 25%.\n(11) $240 provision for free scholars and $100 for Physical Training Instructors.\n(12) Increase in price and more required.\n(13) Fewer pupils.\n(14) New scheme.\n(15) Not required.\n(16) Reduced rate. New provision of $10,000 for Maryknoll Convent School and $3,240 for Ying Wa College.\n(17) Reduction of 10%.\n(18) School should be in full working order.\n(19) Required to complete equipment.\n(20) £1,200 for tools and equipment.\n\nPage 152", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 551017, "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": "CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937", "page_number": 138, "title": "CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937", "content_text": "## Head 25.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n### Approved Estimate, 1936\n### Estimate, 1937\n\n## EDUCATION DEPARTMENT,-Continued.\n\n| | $ | $ |\n|-------------|----------|----------|\n| Brought forward | 1,863,032 | 2,138,140 |\n\n### Personal Emoluments,-Continued.\n\n#### British Staff-Continued.\n\n| Position | 1936 | 1937 | Numbers |\n|-----------------------------------------------|--------|--------|---------|\n| Physical Training Supervisor (£400 per annum) | 4,800 | | (1) |\n| Gymnastic Instructor | 6,400 | 4,800 | (1) |\n| Teacher of Singing, (11 months at $75 p.m.) | 825 | 825 | |\n| Pattern Maker. (£440) | | 5,421 | (2) |\n| Apprentice Carpenters at $480 each | 960 | 960 | 2 |\n\n#### Non-British Staff.\n\n| Position | 1936 | 1937 | Numbers |\n|-----------------------------------------------------------|---------|---------|---------|\n| Head Teacher, (Vernacular Middle School), (£500 to £650 by £30 annually then £710 to £770 by £60 annually: then £800 to £950 by £30 annually) | 10,320 | 14,240 | (2)(3) |\n| Director of Education. | | 18,834 | 1 |\n| Full time Lecturer, ($3,000 to $5,000 by $200 Annually) | 4,800 | 5,000 | 1 |\n| Cadet Officer, Class I. (£1500 to £1,800 by £50 annually) | | 53 | (2)(3) |\n| Inspectors of English Schools, (£1,100 to £1,300 by £50 annually) | 27,110 | 36,333 | (2)(3)(4) |\n| Inspectors of Vernacular Schools, (£600 to £960 by £30 annually then £1,000 by £40 annually) | 33,349 | 41,947 | (3) |\n| Inspector of Vernacular Schools ($1,800 to $7,500 by $300 annually) | 6,254 | 6,554 | 1 |\n| Chinese Mistress teaching at Maternity Hospital at $720 | 720 | 720 | 1 |\n| Junior Clerical Service:- Higher Class, ($4,800 to $5,600 by $200 annually) | 5,177 | 5,377 | (3) |\n| Junior Clerical Service:- Class IV, ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually) | 3,600 | 3,600 | 2 |\n| Junior Clerical Service:- Class V, ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually) | 7,000 | 5,600 | (3) |\n| Junior Clerical Service:- Class VIA, ($950 to $1,050 by $100 annually) | 1,050 | 1,050 | 1 |\n| Junior Clerical Service:- Class VIB, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100) | 2,526 | 2,981 | (6) |\n| Shorthand allowances to 1 at $60 and 1 at $120 | 60 | 150 | 1 |\n| University Trained Masters, ($1,800 to $1,950 by $150 annually: then $2,250 to $3,000 by $150 annually then $3,200 to $6,000 by $200 annually) | 152,147 | 161,747 | (3) |\n| University Trained Mistresses, ($1,320 to $3,000 by $120 annually) | 6,479 | 6,599 | |\n| Anglo-Chinese Masters, ($900 to $1,650 by $150 Annually then $1,950 to $2,250 by $300 annually; then $2,400 to $3,000 by $150 annually: then $2,200 to $6,000 by $200 annually) | 191,381 | 190,336 | (4) |\n| Allowance to I as Part-time Sub-Inspector of Night Schools | 864 | 864 | |\n| Vernacular Masters, ($900 to $1,650 by $150 annually then $1,950 to $2,250 by $300 : then $2,400 to $3,000 by $150 annually: then $3,200 to $6,000 by $200 annually) | 163,898 | 161,377 | 1,200 |\n| Kwok Yu Teacher ($900 to $1650 by $150 annually) | 1,350 | 1,350 | 660 |\n| Art Master at $660 | 660 | 660 | |\n\n### Special Expenditure,-Continued.\n\n| | $ | $ |\n|-------------|-------|-------|\n| Brought forward | 753,808 | 970,271 |\n| Carpenter's Shop | | |\n| Drawing Office | | |\n| Fitters' Shop | 3,184 | |\n| Forge | 524 | |\n| Laboratory | | 4,800 |\n| Machine Shop.... | 12,178 | |\n| Power House | 1,000 | |\n| Setting Out Equipment...... | 732 | |\n| Total Special Expenditure | 29,751 | 19,360 |\n\n### Total Education Department.\n\n| | $ | $ |\n|-------------|----------|----------|\n| | 1,892,303 | 2,138,140 |\n\n(1) New scheme.\n(2) Lower rate of exchange.\n(3) Stipulated increments.\n(4) One post abolished.\n(5) Three posts abolished.\n(6) Replaced by three Chinese temporary instructors at $50 p.m. each.\n(7) Post abolished.\n(8) One post abolished and one further post abolished from 6.3.37.\n(9) One for six months only.\n(10) Not required.\n\n## EDUCATION DEPARTMENT,-Continued.\n\n| Position | 1936 | 1937 | Numbers |\n|-----------------------------------------------|--------|--------|---------|\n| Chinese Temporary Gymnastic Instructors............. | 3,300 | 1,800 | 3 |\n| Chinese Teacher | 400 | | 1 |\n| Head Master, (Queen's College), (£1,100 to £1,300 by £50 annually) | 15,600 | 20,800 | (1) |\n| Head Master, (King's College), (£1,100 to £1,300 by £50 annually) | | | 1 |\n| Mistresses, ($720 to $3,000 by $120 annually) ...... | 23,310 | 24,510 | (3) |\n| Head Teacher (Women's Normal School), ($2,600 $3,000 by $200 annually) | 3,000 | 3,000 | 1 |\n| Senior Masters, (£1,050 each annually) | 37,800 | 50,400 | (2) |\n| Senior Vernacular Mistress, ($2,600 to $3,000 by $200 annually) | 3,000 | 3,000 | 1 |\n| Masters, (£500 to £650 by £30 annually, then £710 to £770 by £60 annually, then £900 to £950 by £30 annually) | 29,488 | 30,448 | (3) |\n| Vernacular Mistresses, ($480 to $2,400 by $120 annually) | 259,639 | 345,350 | |\n| Head Mistress, (Belilios Public School at £800 to £950 by £30 annually) | 10,060 | 13,893 | (2)(3) |\n| Groundsman, ($300 to $360 by $12 annually) | 360 | 360 | 1 |\n| Senior Mistresses (£750 each) | 36,000 | 48,000 | (2) |\n| Mistresses, (£360 to £700 by £20 annually), | 162,521 | 225,684 | (8) |\n| Do., Rent Allowances to 28 at 8600 each | 16,900 | 16,800 | |\n| Principal. Trade and Technical Schools, (£1,000 per annum) | | | |\n\n| | $ | $ |\n|-------------|----------|----------|\n| Carried forward | 1,355,621 | 1,595,587 |\n| | 82,386 | 80,461 |\n\n(1) Included in Sub-head 35.\n(2) Lower rate of exchange.\n(3) Stipulated increments.\n(4) Changes in personnel.\n(5) One replaced by Class VID Clerk.\n(6) One in place of one Class V.\n(7) One more allowance of $120.\n(8) One post abolished.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 553345, "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": "CO129-560-6 Vacancy for graduate mistress. Includes 1 photograph depicting- Miss Irene May Blanchett- applicant for Colonial... 11-6-1937 - 15-10-1937", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-560-6 Vacancy for graduate mistress. Includes 1 photograph depicting- Miss Irene May Blanchett- applicant for Colonial... 11-6-1937 - 15-10-1937", "content_text": "# APPLICATION FOR APPOINTMENT TO THE COLONIAL SERVICE\n\nForm to be filled up by the Applicant in his own handwriting, and returned by post to the Director of Recruitment (Colonial Service), Colonial Office, 2, Richmond Terrace, London, S.W.1. Failure to comply with the marginal instructions on the form may seriously delay the consideration of a candidate's application.\n\nA candidate serving in the Navy, Army, or Air Force at the time of applying must submit the form to his Commanding Officer, for transmission through the usual channels to the Colonial Office.\n\nA candidate resident in a Colony or Protectorate at the time of applying must submit the form to the Governor, for transmission to the Colonial Office; and a candidate resident in a Dominion, to the appropriate authority in that Dominion.\n\nN.B.-In normal circumstances a candidate should not call at the Colonial Office unless he receives a written invitation to do so. The Director of Recruitment cannot undertake to see anyone who calls without such invitation.\n\n## 1. Name in full\n(Surname first, in block capitals.) **BLANCHETT IRENE MAY**\n\nState whether British-born or Naturalized; if latter, give particulars. British\n\nDay and year of birth 9th November 1911.\n\nAge last birthday.. 25\n\n(A birth certificate must be furnished; it will be returned. Neither a certificate of registry of birth nor a baptismal certificate is sufficient.)\n\nPlace of birth....Hong Kong.\n\nPermanent address S. Stephen's Girls College, Hong Kong.\n\n(All communications will be sent to this address unless a change is notified in writing.)\n\n## 2. Whether single, married, or a widower.. Single.\n\nWife's maiden name nationality at birth, and place of birth\n\nNumber of children.. .Sons .Daughters Aged respectively.. ,, \n\n## 3. Father's name Charles Isaac Blanchett\n\nprofession or occupation...Clerk. in Holy Orders.\n\nnationality at birth, and place of birth. British London\n\n(If dead, the above questions should be answered nevertheless; if living, his address should be given below.)\n\nAddress .....Deceased.\n\n## 4. Mother's maiden name Anne Walsh.\n\nnationality at birth, and place of birth British Blackburn.\n\n## 5. (a) Class of appointment desired. Mistress\n\n[Application for more than one branch of the Service may be made, and an order of preference given if desired.]\n\n(b) If you have a preference for service in any particular Colony or Colonies, it should be clearly stated here. Preference for Hong Kong.\n\n## 6. About how soon would you be available to proceed overseas (if selected). available to take up position immediately.\n\n18 \n\n[TURN OVER.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-560-6 Vacancy for graduate mistress. Includes 1 photograph depicting- Miss Irene May Blanchett- applicant for Colonial... 11-6-1937 - 15-10-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 553520, "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": "CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938", "page_number": 114, "title": "CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938", "content_text": "## Head 25.--EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\n### Sub-heads\n\n| Sub-head | Description | Approved Estimate, 1937 | Estimate, 1938 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | Personal Emoluments | 1,664,512 | 1,715,097 |\n| 2 | Allowances to Examiners | 75 | - |\n| 3 | Books | 500 | 1,300 |\n| 4 | Bonus to University Trained Teachers | 1,300 | 1,600 |\n| 5 | Conveyance Allowances | 180 | 480 |\n| 6 | Domestic Science Classes | 300 | 300 |\n| 7 | Electric Fans and Light | 5,120 | 5,120 |\n| 8 | Equipment of Classes for Evening Institute | 300 | 300 |\n| 9 | Equipment of Woodwork Classes | 720 | 720 |\n| 10 | Gymnastic Equipment | - | 300 |\n| 11 | Incidental Expenses | 8,300 | 8,000 |\n| 12 | Laboratories | 3,800 | 8,000 |\n| 13 | Local Schools Examination | 3,800 | 8,000 |\n| 14 | Medical Expenses | 4,500 | 4,500 |\n| 15 | Prizes | 600 | 900 |\n| 16 | Pianos, Upkeep of | 252 | 252 |\n| 17 | Renewals and replacements of equipment | 700 | 700 |\n| 18 | Rent (Tai Po, Normal School for Women and Normal School at Tai Po) | 5,568 | 5,760 |\n| 19 | Rent of Public Telephones | 1,500 | 1,500 |\n| 20 | Students in training :-Fees | 12,115 | 9,540 |\n| 21 | Students in training-Maintenance | 10,756 | 8,320 |\n| 22 | Students in training :-Allowances | 8,160 | 8,480 |\n| 23 | Transport | 2,700 | 3,000 |\n| 24 | Uniforms | 2,157 | 2,583 |\n| | Physical Instructors in Training | 4,200 | 10,800 |\n| | University Examination Fees | - | ... |\n\n### Grants\n\n| Sub-head | Description | Approved Estimate, 1937 | Estimate, 1938 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 25 | Capitation Grants | 223,240 | 255,000 |\n| 26 | Grant to Munsang College | 5,400 | 6,000 |\n| 27 | Subsidies to Urban Elementary Vernacular Schools in Hong Kong | 100,000 | 135,000 |\n| 28 | Subsidies to Schools in New Territories | 20,000 | 30,000 |\n| | Compensation to Railway for School Children's tickets | 4,500 | - |\n\n### Trade School\n\n| Sub-head | Description | Approved Estimate, 1937 | Estimate, 1938 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 29 | Consumable Stores | 5,000 | 5,000 |\n| 30 | Electric Light and Gas | 1,000 | 1,000 |\n| 31 | Incidental Expenses | 1,000 | 1,000 |\n| 32 | Coal (Smiths) | 50 | 100 |\n| 33 | Laboratory | - | (17) |\n\n| Total Other Charges | 454,268 | 509,105 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Carried forward | 2,118,780 | 2,224,202 |\n\n(1) New allowance for Physical Training Supervisor. \n(2) New sub-head; formerly included under sub-head 11-Incidental Expenses. \n(3) $300 transferred to sub-head 10 - Gymnastic Equipment. \n(4) Increased cost. \n(5) Higher rental of new school premises at Tai Po. \n(6) Fewer students. \n(7) Reduction of 25% restored. \n(8) Required for ten Physical Training Instructors. \n(9) Higher prices and more uniforms for Chinese Physical Training Instructors. \n(10) Not required. \n(11) Temporary reduction restored. \n(12) More students. \n(13) New system of payment on capitation basis. \n(14) More schools. \n(15) Expense now borne by Railway. \n(16) Forge will be in use in 1938. \n(17) Laboratory will open in 1938.\n\nPage 127", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 553521, "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": "CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938", "page_number": 115, "title": "CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938", "content_text": "## Head 25.--EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\n### Approved Estimate, 1937\n### Estimate, 1938\n\n## Head 25.---EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\n### Approved Estimate, 1937\n### Estimate, 1988\n\nEDUCATION DEPARTMENT,-Continued.\n\n| Brought forward | $ 2,118,780 | $ 2,224,202 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n\n### Special Expenditure.\n\nEDUCATION DEPARTMENT,--Continued.\n\n### Personal Emoluments,-Continued.\n\n| Brought forward | $ 970,271 | $ 953,591 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n\n#### NUMBERS.\n\n| | 1937 | 1938 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 34 Building Grants... | 18,650 | (1) |\n| 35 Two Typewriters | 684 | (2) |\n| Junior Technical School Carpentry Equipment | 160 | (3) |\n| 36 Tools and Equipment Trade School, | 19,200 | 33,200 | (4) |\n| 1 | 1 | |\n| British Staff,--Continued. | | |\n| Physical Training Supervisor, (£460 to £950 by 1 of £60 after two years; then 1 of £50, 4 of £25, 1 of £30, 1 of £100 and 5 of £30 annually). Physical Training Instructor | 6,400 | 4,800 |\n| Teacher of Singing, (11 months at $75 p.m.) Chief Instructor, Junior Technical School, (£450 to £750 by £30 annually)..... | 825 | 7,360 |\n| | 7,040 | 7,165 |\n| Apprentice Carpenters at $480 each......... | 960 | (4) |\n| Total Special Expenditure | 19,360 | 52,534 |\n| Total Education Department.. | 2,138,140 | 2,276,736 |\n\n#### Details of the foregoing.\n\n### Personal Emoluments.\n\n#### Non-British Staff.\n\n| | 1937 | 1938 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Director of Education. | | |\n| Head Teacher, (Vernacular Middle School), (£500 to £650 by £30 annually; then £710 to £770 by £60 annually: then £800 to £950 by £30 annually) | 14,240 | |\n| 1 | 1 | |\n| Cadet Officer. Class I, (£1500 to £1,800 by £50 annually) | 25,912 | 26,712 (5) |\n| 2 | 2 | |\n| Inspectors of English Schools, (£1,100 to £1,300 by £50 annually) | 36,333 | 36,946 |\n| 3 | 3 | |\n| 1 | 1 | |\n| 1 | 1 | |\n| Chinese Mistress teaching at Maternity Hospital at 3720 | | |\n| Inspectors of Vernacular Schools, (£600 to £960 by £30 annually then £1,000 by £40 annually) Inspector of Vernacular Schools ($4,800 to $7,500 by $300 annually). | 44,947 | 45,427 (5) |\n| | 6,554 | 6,954 |\n| Full time Lecturer, ($3,000 to $5.000 by $200 annually) | 5,000 | 14,720 (5) |\n| | 5,000 | |\n| University Trained Masters, ($1,800 to $1,950 by $150 annually: then $2,250 to 83,000 by $150 annually then $3,200 to $6,000 by $200 annually) | 161,747 | 194.172 |\n| | 53 | 62 |\n| | (6) | (5) |\n| University Trained Mistress, ($1.800 to $1,950 by $150 annually: then $2,250 to $8,000 by $150 - annually then $3,200 to $6,000 by $200 - annually) | 720 | 720 |\n| Junior Clerical Service:- | | |\n| 4 | 4 | |\n| University Trained Mistresses, ($1,320 to $3,000 by $200 annually) | | |\n| 1 | | |\n| Higher Class, ($4,800 to $5,600 by $200 annually) | 5,377 | 5,577 |\n| 2 | 3 | |\n| Class IV, ($1,500 to $1.800 by $100 annually) | 3,600 | 3,265 |\n| 4 | 3 | |\n| Class V, ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually) | 5,600 | 4,200 |\n| 006 | 48 | 16 |\n| 1 | 1 | |\n| Class VIA, ($950 to $1,050 by $100 annually) | 1,050 | 1,050 |\n| 4 | 3 | |\n| Class VIB. ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100) | 2,981 | 2,610 |\n| (8) | | |\n| Shorthand allowances to 1 at $60 and 1 at $120 | 180 | 180 |\n| 56 | 56 | |\n\n#### British Staff.\n\n| | 1937 | 1938 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | I | |\n| Head Master, (Queen's College), (£1,100 to £1,300 by £50 annually) | 20,800 | 20,800 |\n| 1 | | |\n| Head Master. (King's College), (£1,100 to £1,300 by £50 annually) | 19,629 | 20,429 |\n| 1 | 1 | |\n| Anglo-Chinese Masters, ($900 to $1.650 by $150 annually then $1.950 to $2,250 by $300 annually: then $2.400 to $8,000 by $150 annually: then $3,200 to $6.00 by $200 annually) Allowance to I as Part-time Sub-Inspector of Night Schools Vernacular Masters, ($900 to $1,650 by $150 annually then $1,950 to $2,250 by $300: then $2,400 to $3,000 by $150 annually then $3,200 to $6,000 by $200 annually) Kwok Yu Teacher, ($900 to $1650 by $150 annually)! Art Master at $660........ | 161,377 | 167,498 |\n| | 1,850 | 1,500 |\n| | 660 | 660 |\n| | 6,599 | 7,012 |\n| Senior Masters, (£1,050 each annually) | 50,400 | 50,400 |\n| 3 | 10 | |\n| 27 | 25 | |\n| Masters, (£500 to £650 by £30 annually, then £710 to £770 by £60 annually, then £800 to £950 by £30 annually) | 190,336 | 187,817 |\n| Chinese Temporary Physical Training Instructors, ($600 to $40 by $60 annually). | *64 | |\n| | 1,800 | 6,644 |\n| | (9) | |\n| 2 | | |\n| Chinese Female Physical Training Instructors, ($480 to $660 by $60 annually). | 1,000 | (10) |\n| 11 | 11 | |\n| 1 | | |\n| Master, (£160 to £950 by 1 of £60 after 2 years, then of £50 4 of £25, 1 of £30, 1 of £100 and 5 of £30 annually) | 345,850 | 331,431 |\n| | (9) | |\n| Mistresses, ($720 to $8.000 by $120 annually) | 24,610 | 9,304 |\n| D., Residential Allowance (£50).. | 800 | }(10) |\n| Head Teacher (Women's Normal School), ($2,600 to $3,000 by $200 annually) | 25,580 (5) | |\n| 3,000 | 3,000 | |\n| 1 | 1 | |\n| Senior Vernacular Mistress, ($2,600 to $3,000 by $200 annually). | | |\n| 1 | 1 | |\n| Head Mistress, (Belilios Public School at £800 to £950 by £30 annually) | 13,893 | 14,373 (5) |\n| 14 | 14 | |\n| Vernacular Mistresses, ($480 to $2,400 by $120 annually) | 30,448 | 31,407 |\n| 4 | 4 | |\n| Senior Mistresses (£750 each) | 48,000 | 48,000 |\n| 29 | 23 | |\n| 5 | | |\n| Mistresses, (£360 to £700 by £20 annually), Mistresses, (£330 to £560 by 1 of £30 after 2 years, then 6 of £15, 1 of £50 and 4 of £15 annually)... | 225,684 | 184,751 (11) |\n| 1 | 1 | |\n| Groundsman, ($300 to $360 by $12 annually) | (5) | |\n| 360 | 860 | |\n| 18 | 17 | |\n| I | 1 | |\n| Do, Rent Allowances to 28 at $600 each | 27,085 | |(12) |\n| Mistresses, (84,000 to 85,000 by $200 annually) | 16,800 | 16,800 |\n| Principal. Trade and Technical Schools, (£1,000 per annum) | 1 | 1 |\n| 80,461 | 77,877 |(13) |\n| 5 | 5 | |\n| Do., Office Attendant, ($252 to $300 by 12 triennially) | 16,000 | 16,000 |\n| Do., Rent Allowance at $48 Office Attendants, ($192 to $240 by $12 triennially) Rent Allowances to | at $48 and I at $24 | |\n| 252 | 264 | (5) |\n| 24 | 48 | (11) |\n| 1,164 | I,164 | |\n| 12 | 72 | |\n| Carried forward | 970,271 | 953,591 |\n| Carried forward | 1,597,099 | 1,619,815 |\n\n(1) Provision of $10,000 for St. Mary's School and $8,650 for Heep Yuan School.\n(2) Replacements.\n(3) Non-recurrent.\n(4) Completion of equipment.\n(5) Stipulated increments.\n(6) One promoted from Class V.\n(7) One promoted to Class IV.\n(8) One transferred to `Head 22 Medical Department`.\n(9) One post abolished and one replaced by a post with a new scale of salary.\n(10) To replace one on old scale of salary.\n(11) One post abolished and five replaced by posts with new scale of salary, \n(12) To replace five on old scale of salary.\n(13) One post abolished.\n\n(1) Salary scale revised.\n(2) Title changed from Gymnastic Instructor.\n(3) Title changed from Pattern Maker; new scale of salary.\n(4) Posts abolished.\n(5) Stipulated increments.\n(6) Nine new posts.\n(7) One new post.\n(8) Two posts abolished.\n(9) Change of title and seven new posts.\n(10) Two new posts.\n(11) Stipulated allowances.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 553647, "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": "CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938", "page_number": 241, "title": "CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938", "content_text": "## Head 24.-BOTANICAL & FORESTRY DEPARTMENT\n\nBOTANICAL & FORESTRY DEPARTMENT,— Contd.\n\nPersonal Emoluments,--Continued.\n\n## Head 25.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nApproved Estimate, 1987. \nEstimate, 1938. \nApproved Estimate, 1987, \nEstimate, 1938.\n\n## Head 25.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\n| $ | $ | $ | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | | 37,858 | |\n| | 281 | | |\n\nBrought forward | 40,811\n---|---\nNUMBERS. | \n1 Personal Emoluments | 1,664,512 | 1,714,297\n\n### Gardens.\n\n#### Other Charges.\n\n| 1937 | 1938 |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | 1 |\n| 1 | 1 |\n| 1 | 1 |\n| 2 | 2 |\n\nHead Gardener, ($2,100 to $3,300 by $150 annually).. | 3,300 | 3,300\nAssistant Head Gardener, ($600 to $1,100 by 1 annual increment of $60, 1 of $90, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100) | 971 | 1,071\nSenior Foreman, ($350 to $500 by $25 annually) | 496 | 500\nForemen, (at $336 each) | \n2 Allowances to Examiners | 500 | 500\n3 Books... | 1,300 | 1,300\n4 Bonus to University Trained Teachers | 1,600 | 1,600\n3 Conveyance Allowances | 180 | 480\n(1) | 2 | 2\n1 | 1 | 1\nDo. Rent Allowances at $24 each | \nForemen, ($252 to $336 by $12 annually) | 652 | 664\nSenior Park Keeper, ($192 to $240 by $12 triennially). | 240 | 192\nDo., Rent Allowance | 49 | 48\n6 Domestic Science Classes | 300 | 300\n7 Electric Fans and Light | 5,120 | 5,120\n8 Equipment of Classes for Evening Institute | 300 | ... \n44 | 24\n(2) (8) | \n9 Equipment of Woodwork Classes | 720 | 720\n3 | 3 | \nDo.. | \nPark-keepers, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially) ................! | 473 | 487\nAllowance to 1 as Gate Keeper | \n10 Gymnastic Equipment | }} | \n(2) | 24 | 2+\n11 Incidental Expenses | 8,300 | 8,000\n(3) | @N | # | 9\nDo., Leading | \nRent Allowares at $24 each | 72 | 72\nGardeners, ($252 to $300 by $12 triennially) | 2,056 | 2,385\n(1) (4) (5) | \nDo. | \nRent Allowances to 1 at $48 and · 6 at $24 each | \n12 Laboratories | 3,800 | 3,800\n13 Local Schools Examination | 8,000 | 8,000\n14 Medical Expenses | 4,500 | 4,500\n15 Prizes | 600 | 900 (4)\n138 | 192\n(4) (5) | \n16 Pinnos, Upkeep of.... | 252 | 252\n8 | 8 | \nGrade I Gardeners, at $240 each | \nDu.. | 1,920 | 1,920\n17 Renewals and replacements of equipment | 700 | 700\nRent Allowances to 2 at $48 and | \n6 at $24 each | \n18 Rent (Tai Po, Normal School for Women and Normal School at Tai Po) | 240 | 240\n5,568 | 3,760\n(5) | 84 | 84\nGrade II Gardeners, ($156 to $228 by 2 increments of $24 and 2 of $12 triennially). | 15,059 | 15,364\nDo.. | \nRent Allowances to ♣ at $48 each and 79 at $24 each | 2,046 | 2,088\n2 | 2 | \nApprentices, ($120 to $144 by $12 annually) | 253 | 277\n(6) (1) | € €€ | (1) (6)\n20 Students in training :-Fees, | 12,115 | 9,510\n21 Students in training :-Maintenance | 10,756 | 8,320\n| (6) | \n22 Students in training :-Allowances | 8,160 | 8,480\n(6)(7) | 1 | \nCarpenter, ($384 to $444 by $12 annually). | 414 | 144\nDo., Rent Allowance | 48 | 48\n1 | 1 | \nIncinerator Attendant, (§156 to $204 by $12 triennially) | \nDo.. Rent Allowance | 192 | 156\n(2) | \n23. Transport | 2,700 | 3,000 (8)\n24 Uniforms | 2,157 | 2,583 (9)\nPhysical Instructors in Training | 4,200 | 10,800\n}(10) | 24 | 24\n1 | I | \nSweeper, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially) | 163 | 168\n(1) | 24 | 24\nDo., Rent Allowance | \n### Forestry.\n\n#### Grants.\n\n23 Capitation Grants | 223,240 | 255,000\n26 Grant to Munsung College | 6,400 | 6,000\n(11) (12) (11) | 1 | \nForestry Inspector,($1,500 to $2,500 by $100 annually) | 2,483 | 2,500\n(1) | 1 | \nHead Forester, ($1,000 to $1,200 by $40 annually). | 1,200 | 1,200\n27 Subsidies to Urban Elementary Vernacular Schools in Hong Kong | 100,000 | 135,000 (13)\n1 | 1 | \nSecond Forester, ($700 to $950 by $25 annually) | 950 | 950\n28 Subsidies to Schools in New Territories.. | 20,000 | 30,000 (14)\n1 | 1 | \nThird Forester, ($650 to $900 by $25 annually) | 681 | 671\n1 | 1 | \nFirst Foreman, ($360 to $600 by $20 annually). | 198 | 518\nDo.. Rent Allowance | 48 | 48\n1 | 1 | \nSecond Foreman, ($300 to $420 by $20 annually).. | 366 | 386\n2 | 2 | \nForemen, ($240 to $300 by $12 annually).. | 553 | 565\nDe ee | \nCompensation to Railway for School Children's tickets | 4,500 | \n(15) | \n### Trade School.\n\n12 | 12 | \nForest Guards, ($260 to $440 by $20 annually) | 4,849 | 4,697\n35 | 35 | \nDo., Foresters, ($156 to $228 by 2 increments of $24 and 2 of $12 triennially) | \nRent Allowances at $24 each | 1,008 | 1,008\n29 Consumable Stores..... | 6,292 | 6,937\n(1) | \n30 Electric Light and Gas.. | \n31 Incidental Expenses | \nDo.. | \nAllowance to 1 as Forest Guard | 36 | 36\n32 Coal (Smiths). | \nDo.. | \nRent Allowances to 1 at $48, and 34 at $24 | 861 | 864\n33 Laboratory | \neach | \nOvertime Allowance for Gardeners and Foresters, etc. | 1,000 | 797\nActing Pay | 1,000 | 620\n(7) | 5,000 | 5,000\n1,000 | 1,000\n1,000 | 1,000\n50 | \n(16) | \n100 | (17)\nTotal Other Charges | 154,268 | 509,105\nTotal Personal Emoluments | 1,664,512 | 1,714,297\n | 92,039 | 89,642\n\n(1) Stipulated increments. \n(2) Changes in personnel. \n(3) Single quarters. \n(4) One new post for Hong Kong Prison. \n(5) 1937 Estimates provided for one post for 9 months only. \n(6) 1937 Estimates provided for seven new posts for 9 months only. \n(7) Less acting pay required.\n\nCarried forward\n\n(1) New allowance for Physical Training Supervisor. \n(2) New sub-head; formerly included under sub-head 11 Incidental Expenses. \n(3) $300 transferred to sub-head 10 - Gymnastic Equipment. \n(4) Increased cost. \n(5) Higher rental of new school premises at Tai Po. \n(6) Fewer students. \n(7) Reduction of 25% restored. \n(8) Required for ten Physical Training Instructors, \n(9) Higher prices and more uniforms for Chinese Physical Training Instructors. \n(10) Not required. \n(11) Temporary reduction restored. \n(12) More students, \n(13) New system of payment on capitation basis. \n(14) More schools. \n(15) Expense now borne by Railway. \n(16) Forge will be in use in 1939. \n(17) Laboratory will open in 1938.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 553702, "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": "CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938", "page_number": 296, "title": "CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938", "content_text": "## Head 26. Kowloon-Canton Railway\n\n### Sub-Head\n\n| Description | $ |\n| --- | --- |\n| **Personal Emoluments** | |\n| Fees | 2,575 |\n| Stipulated Increments | 8,315 |\n| Changes in Personnel | 2,434 |\n| New Posts | 787 |\n| Abolition of Posts | 2,100 |\n| Transferred from Other Heads | 4,200 |\n| Transferred to Other Heads | 1,400 |\n| Rent Allowances | 284 |\n| Overtime Allowances | 550 |\n| Allowances | 320 |\n| Acting Pay | 964 |\n| Miscellaneous Allowances | 4,910 |\n| Total | |\n\n| Description | $ |\n| --- | --- |\n| 5. Conveyance Allowances | 300 |\n| 10. Gymnastic Equipment | 300 |\n| 11. Incidental Expenses | 300 |\n| 15. Prizes | 300 |\n| 18. Rent (Tai Po, Normal School for Women and Normal School at Tai Po) | 2,436 |\n| 20. Students in training:- Maintenance | 192 |\n| 21. Students in training:- Physical Instructors in Training University Examination Fees | 10,212 |\n| 22. Students in training:- ... | ... |\n| 23. Transport | 300 |\n| 24. Uniforma | 426 |\n| Total | 11,394 |\n\n| Description | $ |\n| --- | --- |\n| **GRANTS** | |\n| 25. Capitation Grants | 31,760 |\n| 26. Grant to Munsang College | 600 |\n| 27. Subsidies to Urban Elementary Vernacular Schools in Hong Kong | 35,000 |\n| 28. Subsidies to Schools in New Territories | 10,000 |\n| Total | 79,648 |\n\n### TRADE SCHOOL\n\n| Description | $ |\n| --- | --- |\n| 2. Advertising | 500 |\n| 4. Bridgework | 450 |\n| 6. Coal | 17,790 |\n| 8. Conveyance Allowances | 45 |\n| 9. Formation and Line Protection | 1,250 |\n| 10. Furniture | 100 |\n| 12. Incidental Expenses | 40 |\n| 13. Locomotives | 3,556 |\n| 14. Lubricants and Oil Fuel | 1,350 |\n| 19. Power, Electric Fans and Light | 370 |\n| 20. Printing, Stationery and Tickets | 50 |\n| 21. Rails and Fastening | 1,250 |\n| 22. Rents | 30 |\n| 24. Sleepers | 3,500 |\n| 26. Stores | 1,000 |\n| 28. Tools and Plant | 600 |\n| 30. Tunnels | 300 |\n| 32. Maintenance of Government Motor Vehicles | 1,000 |\n| Total | 24,811 |\n\n### Special Expenditure\n\n| Description | $ |\n| --- | --- |\n| Junior Technical School:-Carpentry Equipment | 160 |\n| 34. Building Grants | 14,000 |\n| 35. Two Typewriters | ... |\n| 36. Tools and Equipment | 33,334 |\n| Total | 7,284 |\n\n## Total\n\n| Category | 1938 Estimates | 1937 Estimates | Increase/Decrease |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Personal Emoluments | 113,357 | 63,572 | Increase |\n| Other Charges | 79,648 | 24,811 | Increase |\n| Special Expenditure | 160 | ... | ... |\n| Total | 226,339 | 88,543 | Increase |\n| Deduct Decrease | 88,548 | 187,796 | ... |\n| Net Increase | 137,796 | ... | ... |\n\nPage 351\n\n## Special Expenditure\n\n| Description | $ |\n| --- | --- |\n| 33. New Locomotive Staff Quarters at Hung Hom | 20,000 |\n| 34. Improvements to North side of Kowloon Station | ... |\n| 35. Detached Kitchens for Staff Quarters and Gang Huts | 200 |\n| 36. One Neale's Token Instrument | 1,350 |\n| 37. One additional Typewriter for Stores Office | 400 |\n| 38. Double Wire Signalling at Fanling Station | 8,000 |\n| Reconditioning and converting from Saturated to Superheated steam one Class B Locomotive Boiler. One new \"ACFI\" Feed Water Heater Pump | 25,000 |\n| 39. Reconditioning of two Coaches | 6,000 |\n| 40. One new Superheated Boiler for Class B Locomotive | 22,000 |\n| One Twist Drill Grinder | 800 |\n| Two new Typewriters | 900 |\n| 41. Railbus for running a shuttle service between Fanling and Taipo Market | 8,000 |\n| 42. Provision of fans in five 3rd Class Coaches | 700 |\n| 43. Two new Saloon Motor Cars | 7,000 |\n| 44. Reinforced concrete road level crossings | 2,550 |\n| 45,000 | ... | ... |\n| Extension of Platform No. 4 Kowloon Station | 3,500 |\n| Air conditioning by ice-cooling one First Class Steel Coach | 4,000 |\n| Total | 119,050 | 43,450 | ... |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 557194, "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": "CO129-567-1 Education Department 8-6-1938 - 3-2-1939", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-567-1 Education Department 8-6-1938 - 3-2-1939", "content_text": "5\n\nB. Anglo-Chinese (non-graduate) Teachers.\n\nThe only organization for training this type of teacher, from which the staffs of non-Government schools are largely recruited, is the Evening Institute. The Institute provides a three-year course of evening classes which untrained teachers in the Grant-in-Aid Schools attend, many of them after completing (as have also the lecturers) a full day's teaching in their schools. We consider these classes at best a makeshift arrangement which cannot give really adequate training—their fundamental weakness being the lack of practical work under skilled guidance. The Grant schools, and probably private schools also, will for some time to come require a regular supply of non-graduate teachers and the only way of ensuring that such teachers receive adequate training is by providing full-time training at a training college or centre.\n\nWe recommend accordingly:\n\n“That, assuming that the grant-in-aid system remains more or less as at present, the evening class system should be discontinued as soon as practicable, and that immediate steps should be taken to replace it by an organization, to be formed as a department of a Government school and staffed jointly by the University and the Education Department, for the training of student teachers, with a two years' practical and general course; that entrants should have reached matriculation standard; and that at the end of the course successful students should be granted Teachers' Certificates by the Government, and that if necessary students taking the course should be subsidized by Government.”\n\nC. Teachers for Rural Vernacular Schools.\n\nThe only training facilities at present available to this class of teacher are the Normal School at Taipo which provides a three-year course for men vernacular teachers, and has an annual average output of four or five teachers. The curriculum of the training course has no rural bias. We consider that a much larger supply of trained teachers is necessary if the vernacular schools in the New Territories are to be adequately staffed and are to reach a reasonable standard as centres of education. We realise however that under the existing system the pay and prospects of vernacular teachers are so poor that few students, and those not of the best quality, are likely to be attracted to this career, and we are forced to the conclusion that this difficulty can only be overcome by Government accepting greater responsibility for vernacular education, which in the New Territories should have a definitely rural bias.\n\nWe recommend accordingly:\n\nThat Government take immediate steps to establish and maintain a new training centre or centres for men and women rural teachers in the New Territories and that the course of training should make a complete break with the past and should conform more closely to the conception of rural education which prevails in the African colonies and elsewhere.\n\nThis proposal is based to a large extent on our view that Government should be prepared to undertake greater responsibility for primary vernacular education in the New Territories.\n\nD. Teachers for Urban Vernacular Schools.\n\nAt present there are two organizations for the training of this class of teacher (1) Normal Schools and (2) the Evening Institute Classes.\n\n(1) Normal Schools.\n\nThere are two normal schools on the island, one for men and one for women. The Vernacular Normal and Middle School, as its name implies, has two functions:\n\n32", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-1 Education Department 8-6-1938 - 3-2-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 557204, "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": "CO129-567-1 Education Department 8-6-1938 - 3-2-1939", "page_number": 43, "title": "CO129-567-1 Education Department 8-6-1938 - 3-2-1939", "content_text": "REPORT BY MR. G. R. SAYER.\n\nI regret to find myself in a minority of one: but the reason is not far to seek. Unlike my fellow committeemen I am officially responsible for the arrangements which they seek so radically to improve upon. Nor does the repeated assurance of our Chairman that, though officially detailed to attend, I do so as a private individual and not as Director of Education make it much easier for me to join them. The fact is that even in my private capacity I find it less easy than they to accept some of the arguments advanced in favour of change. For example when the Heads of the Grant Schools, in a memorandum accepted en bloc by my colleagues, base their recommendation for the engagement of a Chinese expert from China on the ground that \"the teaching of Chinese in Hong Kong lags behind,-not the teaching of Chinese in China-but the teaching of English in Hong Kong\": the argument does not impress me.\n\nNor do I regard as by any means conclusive the verdict of the Anglo-Chinese schools on the efficiency of the teaching in the primary vernacular. It is true it is based on the personal observation by experienced teachers of the intelligence of the children at the point of transfer to the English system: but it must be remembered that the siu hok does not profess to lead to the English system but to the chung hok\"; moreover it cannot be assumed that the child who transfers to the English system is a typical product of the “ch'o siu\"; indeed the probability is that he is not.\n\nAgain I cannot follow Mr. Sloss when he urges the scrapping of our existing normal school for rural teachers and the substitution of a school on an African model. If I am correctly informed that the problem of the African teacher is how to handle a very primitive and uncultured people, it seems to me that the African model is highly unlikely to suit Hong Kong.\n\nMoreover with the best will in the world I am unable to divest myself of official experience gained over three years and more as acting Director of Education.\n\nThat experience, while not I hope blinding me to our weaknesses, has given me a strong sense of the complexity of the problems; and the importance of accurate diagnosis.\n\nIn particular I have a firm conviction of the need for a carefully devised economy.\n\nHard facts compel me to be satisfied with limited objectives and a gradual approach to their attainment.\n\nAs regards the existing training course for undergraduates at the University I was regretfully unable, on economic grounds, to support the proposal to extend it to five years.\n\nIn my opinion 4 years should suffice to provide the material required.\n\nFor the same reason I suggested in committee that the Director's attention might be invited to the possibility of reducing the Vernacular Women's Normal Course from 4 years to 3.\n\nOn economic grounds too I had, before entering the Committee already decided on a limited programme of substitution of European Teachers by Anglo-Chinese in the Government Anglo-Chinese Schools.\n\nTo the proposal largely to increase the amount of money to be provided by Government for studentships at the University I subscribed, but only on the explicit understanding that I did so in a private and not an official capacity.\n\nAs regards the proposal to establish, under the joint control of the University and the Education Department, a training college for Anglo-Chinese teachers giving a 2 years' course to matriculants, I lent it my support, subject to the express reservation that I could not foresee the closure of the Teachers' Classes at the Evening Institute. This I did because I identify not only Mr. Sloss, the mover, with the Vice-Chancellor of the University but Mr. Sollis, the seconder, with the chief adviser to the Director on English schools. Actually I apprehend that the Director may find that the idea of joint control presents considerable difficulties.\n\nIn the case of the Vernacular Normal Schools I found myself freer to express this view. The line of advance in my opinion is to staff all these schools, so soon as suitable material is available, with graduates of the Chinese Groups of the Hong Kong University (or some similar institution); but to leave their development in the hands of the Director and his vernacular advisers.\n\nIn this connexion it is worthy of note (and I invited my colleagues to note) that while we are by no means entirely dependent for trained Vernacular Teachers on our local training arrangements-these local arrangements do in fact provide amply for normal wastage in our urban subsidized schools, and already account for 40% of the total staff of these schools. Some 50% of these are the products of our normal schools and my suggestion to the Committee was that with a view to encouraging still more to take the normal course the Government should be asked to provide free books for all these normal classes.\n\nG. R. SAYER.\n\n17th May, 1938.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-1 Education Department 8-6-1938 - 3-2-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 557211, "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": "CO129-567-1 Education Department 8-6-1938 - 3-2-1939", "page_number": 50, "title": "CO129-567-1 Education Department 8-6-1938 - 3-2-1939", "content_text": "56\n\n08\n\n# Chapter IV.\n\n## PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION.\n\n### GENERAL.\n\n40. An account of the Year's activities of the English (including British) schools, provided and private, will be found in the report by the Inspectors of English Schools. Annexe I.\n\n41. An account of the year's activities of the Vernacular Schools will be found in the report by the Inspectors of Vernacular Schools. Annexe II.\n\n## PROVIDED SCHOOLS-BRITISH.\n\n43. A descriptive list of these schools will be found included in Table III.\n\n43. The Central British School is centrally situated in the Kowloon peninsula. The primary schools are situated one in the hill district, one on the lower levels of the island, and one on the Peninsula.\n\n## PROVIDED SCHOOLS-ENGLISH.\n\n44. A descriptive list of these schools will be found included in Table III.\n\n45. The examination for promotion to Class 3 at Queen's College and King's College which is now open to all schools of the Colony was conducted as usual in 1937. 335 boys were examined and 235 passed or approximately 70%. No candidates were presented from Non-Provided Schools.\n\n46. The process of converting Un Long Rural School into a Higher Primary Vernacular School continued according to plan.\n\n## PROVIDED SCHOOLS-VERNACULAR.\n\n47. Four schools belong to this category; the Vernacular Middle School which has primary, secondary and normal divisions; the Vernacular Normal School for Women; the Tai Po Vernacular Normal School, where rural school teachers trained; and Un Long Rural School.\n\n## AIDED SCHOOLS-ENGLISH.\n\n48. A list of these institutions together with details of the grants receivable will be found in Table IV.\n\n49. Inspectors' annual reports show that very satisfactory work is being done in these schools and in all cases the maximum grants were recommended.\n\n28\n\n50.\n\n0 9\n\nAs in previous years weaknesses were discussed with the Heads of the schools concerned who on all occasions showed themselves anxious to co-operate with the Education Department and to adopt any suggestions offered.\n\n51. Colloquial English, one of the chief weaknesses, continues to make slow but steady improvement.\n\n52. Grants in Aid were paid in respect of 1937 at the following rates: ---\n\n$40 in respect of boys' schools.\n\n$35 in respect of girls' schools.\n\n53. The notice of reduction in the Grant payable in respect of the year 1936 was withdrawn early in 1937 and the grant paid in full.\n\n54. The supply of instructors in Physical Training to Grant-in-Aid Schools has been continued during the year and the schools which have taken advantage of the scheme have expressed general satisfaction with the arrangements and progress made.\n\n## AIDED SCHOOLS-VERNACULAR.\n\n55. In 1937 these numbered 287 of which three were Grant-in-Aid Schools for girls classed in Table II as \"Secondary\" schools.\n\n56. Capitation Grants were paid in full. The proposed reduction in view of financial stringency was not imposed.\n\n57. During the year the number of urban schools receiving subsidies was reduced from 174 to 169: while the number of rural schools receiving subsidies was reduced from 120 to 116.\n\n## UNAIDED SCHOOLS.\n\n58. Statistics of these schools will be found in Inspectors' Reports and Tables I and II.\n\n59. No pupils from private English schools presented themselves for the examination giving entrance to Class 3 in Queen's and King's Colleges.\n\n# Chapter V.\n\n## FEMALE EDUCATION.\n\n60. Of the 86,993 children under instruction in the schools of the Colony during 1937, 28,560 or rather more than 30% of the whole were attending schools for girls or were girls attending mixed schools.\n\n57\n\nརག དམམ་མར་དོན་པོ་\n\nPage 50\n\nPage 51", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-1 Education Department 8-6-1938 - 3-2-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 557220, "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": "CO129-567-1 Education Department 8-6-1938 - 3-2-1939", "page_number": 59, "title": "CO129-567-1 Education Department 8-6-1938 - 3-2-1939", "content_text": "74\n\n0 26\n\nTable II.\n\nSCHOOLS AND SCHOLARS FOR THE YEAR 1987.\n\nGOVERNMENT SCHOOLS.\n\nGRANT-IN-AID AND SUBSIDIZED SCHOOLS.\n\nUNAIDED SCHOOLS.\n\nCLASS OF INSTITUTIONS.\n\n \n No. of Institutions.\n On Roll.\n No. of Institutions.\n On Roll.\n No. of Institutions.\n On Roll.\n \n\nNAME AND NATURE.\n\nO 27\n\nTable III.\n\nGOVERNMENT SCHOOLS.\n\nSTAFF.\n\n \n English Vernacular Enrolment\n tendance.\n Teachers.\n Teachers.\n Maximum Average Monthly Rate of Fees\n per annum Collected Fees.\n or per mensem.\n \n \n ENGLISH SCHOOLS.\n \n \n $\n t\n ENGLISH :-\n \n \n 4\n 2,272\n 14\n 7,841\n 5\n 877\n Secondary,\n \n \n 10\n 1,751\n 2\n 255\n 117\n 4,989\n Primary,\n \n \n 7\n 465\n \n \n \n \n Vocational,\n \n \n 3\n 1,061\n \n \n \n \n Central British School-for children of European British Parentage. Primary and Secondary ......\n \n \n 19\n 300\n 257\n $90\n 22,955.00\n per annum.\n \n \n \n 5\n 83\n 65\n $105\n \n \n Peak School for children of European British Parentage. Primary\n \n \n 17\n 5,084\n 16\n 7,596\n 129\n 6,320\n Total,\n \n \n 7,630.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n VERNACULAR:-\n \n \n 240\n 10\n 1,565\n 77\n 5,805\n \n Secondary,\n \n \n Kowloon Junior and Quarry Bay Schools-for children of European British Parentage. Primary Queen's College and King's College mainly for Chinese and Indians. Prepare for Hong Kong University Matriculation\n per annum.\n \n \n 12\n 215\n 176\n $60\n 11,970.00\n per annum.\n \n \n \n 62\n 14\n 1,412\n \n \n \n Primary,\n \n \n 1\n 100\n 276\n 19,253\n 646\n 40,532\n \n \n \n 1,323\n $120\n 98,755.50\n \n \n \n Vocational,\n \n \n 2\n 219\n 1\n 472\n 1\n 4\n \n \n \n 559\n 287\n 21,290\n 302\n 724\n 46,189\n Ellis Kadoorie, Wantsai, and Yaumati Schools-for Chinese. Prepare for Upper School at Queen's College and King's College\n \n \n (860 for Lower Classes)\n \n \n \n \n \n per annum.\n \n \n 35\n 9\n 910\n 852\n $5\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 47,315.00\n per mensem.\n \n \n \n 20\n 12\n 560\n 521\n $4\n 24,516.00\n Belilios Public School-mainly for Chinese. Primary and Secondary\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 86,993.\n per mensem.\n \n \n \n Total On Roll\n \n \n N.B.-Kindergarten boys attending Grant-in-Aid Schools for Girls are not shown separately.\n \n \n 9\n 118\n 110\n $3\n 4,272,75\n per mensem.\n Junior Technical School-for Chinese. Vocational\n \n \n 3\n 222\n 222\n 72\n 60\n $5\n Trade School-for Chinese. Vocational\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1,505.00\n \n \n \n \n 6\n 2\n 180\n 165\n \n per mensem.\n Gap Road School for Chinese. Primary\n \n \n $5\n 9,307.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 10\n 200\n 192\n \n per mensem.\n $2\n Ellis Kadoorie School for Indians-prepare for Upper School, Queen's College\n \n \n \n \n \n 4,795.00\n \n \n \n \n \n 5\n 1\n 103\n 92\n $1\n 945.00\n Tai Po School-Elementary English for Chinese. Primary\n \n \n \n \n \n \n per mensem.\n \n \n \n \n 4\n 1\n 60\n 53\n 50 cents\n 275.50\n Cheung Chau School Elementary English for Chinese. Primary\n \n \n \n \n \n \n per mensem.\n \n \n \n \n VERNACULAR SCHOOLS.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Middle Division 28,\n \n \n 5\n 12\n 240\n 231\n \n \n Vernacular Middle School\n \n \n Higher Primary Division $6,\n \n \n \n \n \n Normal\n \n \n 16,806.00\n \n \n \n \n \n Vernacular Normal School for Women\n \n \n Vernacular Normal School at Taipo Division $2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 10\n 176\n 160\n $2\n 4,876.00\n per mensem.\n \n \n \n 2\n 43\n 38\n Free.\n \n \n Un Long School. Primary\n \n \n 3\n 2\n 100\n 91\n 50 cents\n 514.50\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n per mensem.\n \n \n \n \n 198\n 65\n 4,772\n 4,386\n 255,988.25\n \n TOTAL\n \n\n75", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-1 Education Department 8-6-1938 - 3-2-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 557221, "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": "CO129-567-1 Education Department 8-6-1938 - 3-2-1939", "page_number": 60, "title": "CO129-567-1 Education Department 8-6-1938 - 3-2-1939", "content_text": "76\n\n0 28\n\nTable IV.\n\nCONTROLLED SCHOOLS IN RECEIPT OF A GRANT UNDER\n\nTHE GRANT CODE.\n\nENGLISH SCHOOLS.\n\nO 29\n\nTable V.\n\nAMOUNTS OF FEES REMITTED IN GOVERNMENT\n\nSCHOOLS DURING 1937.\n\n \n No.\n Name and Nature of Mission.\n School.\n Number of Classes.\n School Days.\n Number of Maximum Enrolment.\n Monthly Attendance.\n Average\n CAPITATION GRANT.\n Remarks.\n \n \n 1\n 2\n 3\n \n \n \n \n Higher Classes.\n Remove Classes.\n Lower Classes.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Average Attendance.\n Average Attendance.\n Average Attendance.\n 1, 2 & 3.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n $\n \n \n \n \n \n 1.\n Queen's College\n \n \n 1/872!\n 418\n 358\n 82\n 202\n 74\n \n \n \n \n \n 8\n \n \n \n \n 40\n 14,320\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 162.00\n \n \n \n \n King's College\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n $ 7,020.00\n \n \n \n Belilios Public School\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 6,410.00\n \n \n \n Ellis Kadoorie School\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2,752.00\n \n \n \n Yaumati School\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1,820.00\n \n \n \n Wantsa School\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3,925.00\n \n \n \n Gap Road School\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n $\n \n \n \n Tai Po School\n \n 1.\n \n \n \n \n \n 650.00\n \n \n \n Diocesan Boys' School\n C. of E.\n 8\n 1/371\n 717\n 649\n 92\n 391\n 166\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 40\n 25,960\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 39.00\n Un Long School\n \n \n 2.\n St. Joseph's College\n R.C.M.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3.\n La Salle College\n \n 8\n 1/888\n 905\n 835\n 138\n 508\n 189\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 40\n 33,400\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 47.00\n Cheung Chau School\n \n \n **\n 4.\n St. Paul's College\n C.M.S.\n 8\n on\n 1/366\n 406\n 301\n 55\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 146\n 100\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 40\n 12,040\n \n \n \n \n Vernacular Middle School\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1,278.00\n \n \n 5.\n Wah Yan College\n J.F.\n 8\n 1/373\n 919\n 852\n 162\n 506\n 184\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 40\n 34,080\n \n \n \n Women Vernacular Normal School\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 168.00\n \n \n 6.\n Wah Yan Branch School.\n co\n B\n 1/892\n 487\n 454\n 294\n 160\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 40\n Taipo Normal School\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 18,160\n \n \n 7.\n Ying Wa College\n L.M.S.\n 8\n 1/392\n 234\n 255\n 26\n 124\n 105\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 40\n 10,200\n \n \n \n Ellis Kadoorie Indian School\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 120.00\n \n \n \n Junior Technical School\n \n \n \n 4,146\n 3,701\n 555\n 2,171\n 978\n \n \n \n Trade School\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 148,160\n \n \n \n Central British School\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2,010.00\n \n \n 1.\n Diocesan Girls' School\n C. of E.\n 8 & Inf.\n 1/380\n R38\n 306\n 65\n 173\n 68\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 35\n 10,710\n \n \n \n Quarry Bay School\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Peak School\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2.\n French Convent School ...!\n R.C.M.\n 8 & Inf.\n 1/382\n 469\n 406\n 95\n 210\n 101\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 35\n 14,210\n \n \n 3.\n Italian Convent School\n \n 8 & Inf.\n 1/378\n 588\n 544\n 81\n 370\n 93\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 35\n 19,040\n \n \n \n Kowloon Junior School\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 140.00\n \n \n 4.\n St. Francis' School\n \n 4 & Inf.\n \"\n 1/376\n 172\n 151\n 111\n 40\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 35\n 5,225\n \n \n \n Total\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n .$27,716.00\n \n \n 5.\n St. Mary's School\n \n 8 & Inf.\n 1/394\n 710\n 604\n 58\n 366\n 180\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 35\n 21,140\n \n \n 6.\n St. Stephen's Girls' Coll.\n C.M.S.\n B & Inf.\n 4/870\n 291\n 255\n 46\n 142\n 67\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 35\n 8,925\n \n \n 7.\n Diocesan Girls' Jun. Sch.\n C. of E.\n Infant\n 1/877\n 83\n 57\n www\n 1\n 57\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 35\n 1,995\n \n \n 8.\n Maryknoll Convent School\n R.C.M.\n B & Inf.\n /879\n 422\n 347\n 22\n 195\n 130\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 35\n 12,145\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 8,078\n 2,670\n 367\n 1,567\n 736\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 93,450\n \n\nVERNACULAR SCHOOLS.\n\n(Upper Grade.)\n\nSCHOOL STATISTICS.\n\nPrincipal Grant.\n\n \n No.\n Mission.\n Name and Nature.\n Number of Standards.\n Number of School Days.\n Maximum Enrolment\n Monthly Attendance Average\n Rate.\n Total.\n \n \n 1.\n Heep Yunn Girls' School.\n C.M.S.\n 12\n 180\n 340\n 215\n 14\n 3,010\n \n \n 2.\n Ying Wa Girls' School\n L.M.S.\n 12\n B\n 387\n 402\n 14\n 5,628\n \n \n 3.\n St. Paul's Girls' School\n C.M.S.\n 12\n 234\n 291\n 248\n 14\n 3,472\n \n \n \n Grand Total\n \n 1,080\n 865\n 8,299\n 7,239\n \n 258,720\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 12.110\n \n \n\nNOTE.-R.C.=Roman Catholic. L.M.S. London Missionary Society. C. of E. Church of England. C.M.S. Church Missionary Society.\n\nJ.F.Jesuit Fathers.\n\nPage 60\n\nPage 61\n\n77", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-1 Education Department 8-6-1938 - 3-2-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558743, "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": "CO129-568-4 Estimates 1939 8-10-1938 - 6-7-1939", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-568-4 Estimates 1939 8-10-1938 - 6-7-1939", "content_text": "28\n\nHead 9.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nHead 9. EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nSub-heads:\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n\n2 Allowances to Examiners\n\n3 Books\n\nApproved Estimate, 1938.\n\nEstimate, 1939.\n\n$\n\n1,715,097\n\n1,767,723\n\nOther Charges.\n\n500\n\n750\n\n(1)\n\n1,300\n\n2,000\n\n(2)\n\n4 Bonus to University Trained Teachers\n\n1,600\n\n800\n\n(3)\n\n5 Conveyance Allowances\n\n480\n\n480\n\n6 Domestic Science Classes\n\n300\n\n300\n\n7 Electric Fans and Light\n\n5,120\n\n5,120\n\n8 Equipment of Classes for Evening Institute\n\n300\n\n1,300\n\n(4)\n\n9 Equipment of Woodwork Classes\n\n720\n\n720\n\n10 Gymnastic Equipment\n\n300\n\n300\n\n11 Incidental Expenses\n\n8,000\n\n8,000\n\n12 Laboratories\n\n \n\n13 Local Schools Examination\n\n3,800\n\n5,237\n\n(5)\n\n8,000\n\n8,000\n\n14 Prizes\n\n900\n\n700\n\n(6)\n\n15 Pianos, Upkeep of\n\n252\n\n432\n\n16 Renewals and replacements of equipment\n\n700\n\n600\n\n17 Rent (Tai Po, Normal School for Women and Normal School at Tai Po)\n\n5,760\n\n5,760\n\n18 Rent of Public Telephones\n\n1,500\n\n1,500\n\n19 Students in training :-Fees,\n\n9,540\n\n11,335\n\n20 Students in training :--Maintenance\n\n8,320\n\n10,190\n\n(8)\n\n21 Students in training :—Allowances\n\n8,480\n\n10,400\n\n22 Training of Teachers\n\n \n\n23 Transport\n\n \n\n24 Uniforms\n\n \n\nMedical Expenses\n\n18,000\n\n3,000\n\n3,150\n\n2,583\n\n3,068\n\n(9)\n\n4,500\n\n(10)\n\nGrants.\n\n25 Capitation Grants\n\n255,000\n\n281,000\n\n(11)\n\n26 Grant to Munsang College\n\n6,000\n\n6,000\n\n27 Subsidies to Urban Elementary Vernacular Schools in Hong Kong\n\n135,000\n\n120,000\n\n(12)\n\n28 Subsidies to Schools in New Territories.\n\n30,000\n\n32,000\n\n(13)\n\nTrade School.\n\n29 Books\n\n150\n\n \n\n30 Consumable Stores and Spares\n\n \n\n31 Electric Light and Gas\n\n5,000\n\n5,000\n\n1,000\n\n32 Incidental Expenses\n\n1,000\n\n700\n\n1,000\n\n(6)\n\n33 Laboratory\n\n100\n\n150\n\n(15)\n\nCoal (Smiths)\n\n50\n\n(16)\n\nTotal Other Charges\n\n509,105\n\n544,142\n\nSpecial Expenditure.\n\n34 Five Pianos\n\n \n\n35 Gymnastic Apparatus\n\n3,000\n\n(17)\n\n10,000\n\n(18)\n\n36 Desk - replacements in Government Schools\n\n9,000\n\n(19)\n\nBuilding Grants\n\n \n\nTwo Typewriters\n\n18,650\n\n684\n\n(20)\n\nTrade School.\n\n37 Tools and Equipment\n\n33,200\n\n3,000\n\n(21)\n\nTotal Special Expenditure\n\nTotal Education Department\n\n52,534\n\n2,276,736\n\n25,000\n\n2,336,865\n\n(1) Increase in number of Evening Institute Classes.\n\n(2) Increased cost.\n\n(3) Less teachers qualified.\n\n(4) More equipment required for Arts and Craft lectures.\n\n(5) Laboratory for Belilios Public School.\n\n(6) Considered sufficient.\n\n(7) More Pianos.\n\n(8) More students.\n\n(9) More Chinese Physical Training Instructors.\n\n(10) Provided under Head 17, Medical Department, Sub-head 17.\n\n(11) More students.\n\n(12) Revised Code. Previously over-estimated.\n\n(13) Revised Code.\n\n(14) Formerly paid from Sub-head 37 - Tools and Equipment.\n\n(15) More Classes.\n\n(16) Now paid from sub-head 30, Consumable Stores and Spares.\n\n(17) More Singing Classes.\n\n(18) Capital outlay for Physical Training at boys' schools.\n\n(19) First part of a two-year programme.\n\n(20) Non-recurrent.\n\n(21) To complete equipment.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-568-4 Estimates 1939 8-10-1938 - 6-7-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558850, "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": "CO129-568-4 Estimates 1939 8-10-1938 - 6-7-1939", "page_number": 188, "title": "CO129-568-4 Estimates 1939 8-10-1938 - 6-7-1939", "content_text": "216\n\n28\n\nHead 9.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nApproved Estimate, 1938.\n\nEstimate, 1939.\n\nHead 9.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nSub-heads :-\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n\n2 Allowances to Examiners\n\nOther Charges.\n\n4 Bonus to University Trained Teachers\n\n3 Books\n\n5 Conveyance Allowances\n\n6 Domestic Science Classes\n\n$\n\n$\n\n1,715,097\n\n1,767,723\n\n500\n\n750\n\n(1)\n\n1,300\n\n2,000\n\n(2)\n\n1,600\n\n800\n\n(3)\n\n480\n\n480\n\n300\n\n300\n\n7 Electric Fans and Light\n\n5,120\n\n5,120\n\n8 Equipment of Classes for Evening Institute\n\n300\n\n1,300\n\n9 Equipment of Woodwork Classes\n\n(4)\n\n720\n\n720\n\n10 Gymnastic Equipment\n\n300\n\n300\n\n11 Incidental Expenses\n\n8,000\n\n8,000\n\n12 Laboratories\n\n13 Local Schools Examination\n\n3,800\n\n5,237\n\n(5)\n\n8,000\n\n8,000\n\n14 Prizes\n\n900\n\n700\n\n15 Pianos, Upkeep of.......\n\n252\n\n432 (7)\n\n16 Renewals and replacements of equipment\n\n700\n\n600\n\n17 Rent (Tai Po, Normal School for Women and Normal School at Tai Po)\n\n(6)\n\n5,760\n\n5,760\n\n18 Rent of Public Telephones\n\n1,500\n\n1,500\n\n19 Students in training :-Fees,\n\n9,540\n\n11,335\n\n20 Students in training\n\n---\n\n-Maintenance\n\n8,320\n\n10,190\n\n21 Students in training\n\n(8)\n\n-Allowances\n\n8,480\n\n10,400\n\n22 Transport\n\n23 Uniforms\n\nMedical Expenses\n\n3,000\n\n3,150\n\n(9)\n\n2,583\n\n3,068\n\n(9)\n\n4,500\n\n(10)\n\nGrants.\n\n24 Capitation Grants\n\n255,000\n\n281,000\n\n(11)\n\n25 Grant to Munsang College\n\n6,000\n\n6,000\n\n26 Subsidies to Urban Elementary Vernacular Schools in Hong Kong\n\n135,000\n\n120,000 (12)\n\n27 Subsidies to Schools in New Territories...\n\n30,000\n\n32,000 (13)\n\nTrade School.\n\n28 Books....\n\n150\n\n(14)\n\n32 Laboratory\n\n29 Consumable Stores and Spares......\n\n30 Electric Light and Gas.....\n\n31 Incidental Expenses\n\nCoal (Smiths).\n\n5,000\n\n5,000\n\n1,000\n\n700\n\n(6)\n\n1,000\n\n1,000\n\n100\n\n150\n\n(15)\n\n50\n\n(16)\n\nTotal Other Charges\n\nSpecial Expenditure.\n\n33 Five Pianos\n\n34 Gymnastic Apparatus\n\nBuilding Grants.....\n\nTwo Typewriters\n\nTrade School.\n\n36 Tools and Equipment\n\n509,105\n\n526,142\n\n3,000\n\n(17)\n\n35 Desk - replacements in Government Schools\n\n10,000 | (18)\n\n9,000\n\n(19)\n\n18,650 684\n\n(20)\n\n33,200\n\n3,000 (21)\n\n52,534\n\n2,276,736\n\n25,000\n\n2,318,865\n\nTotal Special Expenditure\n\nTotal Education Department..........\n\n(1) Increase in number of Evening Institute Classes.\n\n(2) Increased cost.\n\n(3) Less teachers qualified.\n\n(4) More equipment required for Arts and Craft lectures.\n\n(5) Laboratory for Belilios Public School.\n\n(6) Considered sufficient.\n\n(7) More Pianos.\n\n(8) More students.\n\n(9) More Chinese Physical Training Instructors.\n\n(10) Provided under Head 17, Medical Department. Sub-head 17.\n\n(11) More students.\n\n(12) Revised Code. Previously over-estimated.\n\n(13) Revised Code.\n\n(14) Formerly paid from Sub-head 36 Tools and Equipment.\n\n(15) More Classes.\n\n(16) Now paid from sub-head 29, Consumable Stores and Spares.\n\n(17) More Singing Classes.\n\n(18) Capital outlay for Physical Training at boys schools.\n\n(19) First part of a two-year programme.\n\n(20) Non-recurrent.\n\n(21) To complete equipment.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-568-4 Estimates 1939 8-10-1938 - 6-7-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563632, "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": "CO129-575-11 Education Department- 22-12-1938 - 30-5-1939", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-575-11 Education Department- 22-12-1938 - 30-5-1939", "content_text": "# \n## 2 \n\nThe constitution and control of Makerere College were discussed and the Sub-Committee had submitted a Report, copies of which would be circulated later with information regarding the action taken by the Secretary of State.\n\nThe Secretary of State greatly appreciated the Sub-Committee's efforts to place him in possession of their views on this important question at such short notice.\n\n## 3. Agricultural Policy in the Colonial Empire (A.C.E.C. 39/38)\nLord Dufferin said this paper did not deal with education as such, and therefore was not suitable for incorporation in the agricultural section of Sir William McLean's general Memorandum. The Committee would remember that various portions of that Memorandum did not meet with the entire approval either of the Medical Advisory Committee or the Agricultural Advisory Council. Lord Dufferin had therefore suggested that a joint body should be set up to consider the matter, so that general agreement could be reached. A joint body had been set up, consisting of Mr. Mayhew, Sir Frank Stockdale and Dr. Smart. It had discussed the Memorandum and hoped very shortly to produce a draft which would be an improvement on the original document and more strictly confined to essentials.\n\n## 4. European Education in the Colonies\nLORD DUFFERIN stated that some time ago Major Church had suggested that an inquiry should be made into this subject, but the matter had been postponed pending the receipt of further information. As this information was now available Lord Dufferin suggested a sub-committee should be set up, with the following personnel:\n- MAJOR CHURCH\n- MR. SCOTT\n- MR. DOUGALL\n- MR. BURNEY\n- PROFESSOR MACKINNON\n- MR. MAYHEW\n\nto examine the whole question and report to the Committee. (Bishop Myers has also been invited to join the Sub-Committee.)\n\nThe Committee agreed to this suggestion.\n\n## 5. Commission on Higher Education in Malaya\nLORD DUFFERIN stated that Mr. Pickthorn, Chairman, had been compelled to return home for political reasons, and Sir William McLean had been appointed Chairman of the Commission in his place.\n\n## 6. The date of the next meeting was fixed for Thursday, 24th of November, at 11 a.m.\n\n## 7. Secretaries' Notices\nMR. MAYHEW reported:\n\n### (a) (i). Inter-Territorial Language Committee, East Africa\nThe report of the last meeting of this Committee, held at Zanzibar on 2nd and 3rd May, had been received. The Committee recorded with deep regret the loss experienced in the death of Mr. F. Johnson, which took place on 12th March, 1937. Mr. Johnson had been the Secretary of the Committee since its beginning, was a prominent Swahili scholar and had done a great deal to further the study and the knowledge of the language and to add to the printed literature, especially for use in the schools. His last work had been the revision of Swahili dictionaries which it was hoped would now be published. During the period under review seven new books in Swahili had been published, 113,927 Swahili books had been sold; the sum of £20 had been distributed in prizes to Africans for essays in Swahili; the programme of work included the publication of the revised dictionaries and the preparation and publication of a further list of books on various subjects, including health, history and agriculture, etc.; the Committee had decided to elect as members African scholars, one from each of the territories of Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda and Zanzibar, to be recommended by the Director of Education.\n\n### (ii) Mr. E. G. Morris, Director of Education, Kenya, had been appointed Director of Education, Nigeria, in place of Mr. W. H. McCowan.\n\n### (iii) Uganda Education Department Report, 1937\nIt had been decided that it was unnecessary for the African Reports Sub-Committee to consider the Report, in view of the attention already paid by the Committee to Part II of the East African Higher Education Commission Report, and its comments thereon.\n\n### (b) (i) Cambridge Local Examinations\nThe Syndicate had announced important changes in its School Certificate Regulations, with effect from 1939. The changes were in accordance with proposals made by the Secondary School Examinations Council which had been approved by the Board of Education. These changes seemed likely to benefit Secondary Schools in the dependencies which took the Cambridge Examination. They would have to be taken into account when the replies were received from Colonial Governments to the Advisory Committee's proposals for a new type of School Certificate Examination.\n\nThe most important changes were as follows:\n| Change | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| English Language Test | A pass would be required in English language test, which would be quite separate from the subject of English literature. |\n| Subjects Required | Candidates would be required to pass in five subjects taken from at least two groups, of which group 2 or group 3 had to be one. |\n| Certificate Requirements | It would be possible to obtain a Certificate without having to present for examination a second language other than English or without presenting a subject from the mathematics and science group, though a subject from one or other of these groups had to be taken. |\n| Local Certificates | The Syndicate's arrangement for the issue of local certificates for Malaya and West Africa thus would become the normal practice. |\n| University Matriculation | It was not yet certain whether this would lead to a change in the requirements for University Matriculation. |\n| Study of Local Languages | The Syndicate wished it to be understood that this change would not affect any work that the Syndicate might be doing in consultation with the local authorities overseas to promote the study of local languages. |\n| Practical Subjects | A greater prominence given to the practical subjects group 4 of the Examination which was now brought on to a par with groups 2 and 3. |\n\nIn reply to a question from MR. BURNEY, MR. MAYHEW said an Examination held in English Literature would be a separate but not compulsory subject.\n\n### (ii) University of London Institute of Education\nThe Colonial Department of this Institute had prepared for the use of its students a statistical and descriptive review of education in British Malaya, based on Annual Education Reports, the Annual Report on the Social and Economic Progress of the Straits Settlements, and the 1931 Census Report. Copies of this survey could be supplied to any members of the Committee who might want them.\n\n### (iii) Straits Settlements: Trade School, Singapore\nThe Secretary of State had approved a proposal from the Governor of the Straits Settlements for the extension of the Trade School at Singapore which was opened in 1930. The number of students had grown from 30 to 120, and in 1937 only 43 could be admitted out of 200 applicants. There had never been any difficulty in placing ex-students of the School. Accordingly accommodation was now being provided in a new building for 276 students, and an additional course for radio electricians was to be supplied.\n\n### (iv) School of Oriental Studies\nNotice had been received that this school would be known henceforth as \"The School of Oriental and African studies\". Its present address was:\nVandon House,\nVandon Street,\nLondon, S.W.1.\n\n### (v) He had received the recently published special number of the New Asia monthly magazine which was published in French-Indo China, the whole of which was devoted to education in Indo-China. A full and well-illustrated account of the education system was given. An abstract of it would be published in Oversea Education, and the copy of the magazine could be circulated to those members of the Committee who expressed a desire to see it.\n\n## Page 26", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-11 Education Department- 22-12-1938 - 30-5-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564508, "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": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "page_number": 91, "title": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "content_text": "# Head 9.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n## Approved Estimate, 1939. Estimate, 1940-41.\n\n| Sub-heads | $ (1939) | $ (1940-41) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 Personal Emoluments | 1,767,723 | 2,216,380 |\n| 2 Allowances to Examiners | 750 | 900 |\n| 3 Books | 2,000 | 2,688 |\n| 4 Bonus to University Trained Teachers | (1) | |\n| | 800 | 4,400 |\n| 5 Consumable Stores and Spares | 5,000 | 6,250 |\n| 6 Conveyance Allowances | 480 | 1,275 |\n| 7 Coal for Offices | 550 | |\n| 8 Courses of Instruction for officers on leave | | 1,000 |\n| 9 Domestic Science Classes | 300 | 600 |\n| 10 Electric Light, Fans and Gas | 5,120 | 7,250 |\n| 11 Equipment of Classes for Evening Institute | 1,300 | 1,300 |\n| 12 Equipment of Woodwork Classes | 720 | 720 |\n| 13 Gymnastic Equipment | 300 | 375 |\n| 14 Incidental Expenses | 8,000 | 11,500 |\n| 15 Laboratories | 5,237 | 5,500 |\n| 16 Local Schools Examination | 8,000 | 8,000 |\n| 17 Maintenance of School Libraries | 2,000 | (6) |\n| 18 Prizes | 700 | 900 |\n| 19 Pianos, Upkeep of | 432 | 540 |\n| 20 Renewals and replacements of equipment | 600 | 1,200 |\n| 21 Rent (Tai Po, Normal School for Women and Normal School at Tai Po) | 5,760 | 7,575 |\n| 22 Rent of Public Telephones | 1,500 | 1,875 |\n| 23 Scholarships at Hong Kong University | 50,438 | Х |\n| 24 Transport | 3,150 | 4,388 |\n| 25 Uniforms | 3,068 | 3,938 |\n| Students in training :-Fees | 11,335 | |\n| Students in training :-Maintenance | 10,190 | (16) |\n| Students in training :-Allowances | 10,400 | |\n| Training of Teachers | 18,000 | (17) |\n| 26 Capitation Grants | 281,000 | 300,000 |\n| 27 Subsidies to Urban Elementary Vernacular Schools in Hong Kong | 120,000 | 152,000 |\n| 28 Subsidies to Schools in New Territories | 32,000 | 51,000 |\n| Grant to Munsang College | 6,000 | (20) |\n| Trade School | | |\n| - Books | 150 | (21) |\n| - Electric Light and Gas | 700 | (22) |\n| - Incidental Expenses | 1,000 | (23) |\n| - ... | 150 | (24) |\n| Teachers' Training College | | |\n| 29 Books | | 250 |\n| 30 Demonstration Teaching Equipment | | 250 |\n| 31 Electric Light, Fans and Gas | | 750 |\n| 32 Films | | 250 |\n| 33 Free books for students | | 500 |\n| 34 Incidental Expenses | | 1,000 |\n| 35 Laboratories and Handwork and Art | | 1,500 |\n| 36 Pianos | | - (25) |\n| 37 Prizes | | 62 |\n| 38 Subsistence Allowance for Students | | 100 |\n| 39 Telephone | | 21,120 |\n| 40 Transport for staff | | 308 |\n| **Total Other Charges** | 544,142 | 654,752 |\n| **Carried forward** | 2,311,865 | 2,871,132 |\n\n(1) Including provision for Trade School.\n(2) More teachers qualified for bonus.\n(3) Provision for Trade School.\n(4) More officers drawing conveyance allowance.\n(5) Previously provided under Harbour Department.\n(6) Considered necessary.\n(7) More classes.\n(8) More electric fans at Belilios Public School.\n(9) Increased enrolment.\n(10) Previous provision inadequate.\n(11) More equipment required for Music, Art, Handwork.\n(12) Additional accommodation at Taipo.\n(13) Replaces provision for students in training in previous estimates.\n(14) Includes $750 for four months swimming classes.\n(15) Increase required for amahs and for Teachers' Training College coolies &c.\n(16) Replaced by sub-head 23.\n(17) Paid from sub-heads 29-40.\n(18) Includes Munsang College, formerly a separate sub-head.\n(19) Calculated according to New Code.\n(20) Included in sub-head 26.\n(21) Included under sub-head 3.\n(22) \n(23) \n(24) \n(25) New service.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564669, "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": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "page_number": 252, "title": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "content_text": "273 \n\nNo Alternatives \n\nI have not had the opportunity of considering any reasonable alternatives to Income Tax. There have been such suggestions as lotteries, tax on cinema tickets, food, land tax and so on. None of them, I am sure, Hon. Members will accept as reasonable. Increases of indirect taxation on petrol and wine have also been suggested, but they again do not fall upon those best able to bear them. Mr. Dodwell may have to spend £30 more on petrol and Mr. Pearce may have a wine bill of £100, but it is of no interest to them--it is only of great interest to those with an income of about £500 a year. \n\nFears have been freely expressed on the consequence of the financial stability of the Colony were Income Tax to be imposed. I have no knowledge to dispute these facts because I have obviously no information on that subject, but it seems to be that the risks must be taken and the possible consequence of Income Tax must be accepted in certain circumstances. \n\nTax Evasion \n\nAnother point is on the question of tax evasion on which great emphasis has been laid. Efforts will no doubt be made to avoid taxes. In every country of the world there are a number of people who do their utmost to evade taxes, and in this Colony there will no doubt be tax evasion, but should Government avoid doing the right thing on account of this, if there is a necessity for the tax? In India they have for many years had Income Tax and there, I understand, in small businesses three sets of books are kept, so it is quite possible in Hongkong four sets of books will be kept, but that is no argument against introducing what is the best form of revenue. \n\nNo one likes to pay Income Tax, but I am certain the opposition is not due to personal grounds. However, I do feel it is possible and I hope Hon. Members will not misunderstand my attitude in speaking on this subject. The conclusions reached have been perhaps a little too hasty and before the Government's proposal is fully known. I do think that a great many are not satisfied with the attitude taken by the majority of those who oppose Income Tax. I therefore hope they will be given an opportunity to reconsider the question. \n\nThis is a very important measure. If Income Tax is not accepted it will certainly not add to the reputation of Hongkong. I am convinced that the Government's proposals are the only ones to deal with the situation and I hope very much that time will be available for reconsideration of this Bill. (Applause). \n\n## COLONIAL SECRETARY \n\n\"Education Problem Will Be Carefully Considered\" \n\n### RECRUITING LOCALLY \n\nThe Colonial Secretary: Sir, This debate has been so predominantly a debate on Income Tax that there remains little for me to say on the so-called Ordinary Budget, which is the subject of the resolution standing in my name. I am grateful to Unofficial Members for the assistance which they have rendered in Committee since the Council meeting of October 12, and for their unanimous agreement with the Government's proposals, as modified by that Committee, which are now presented. \n\nThe points which Mr. Li Tse-fong has raised on the subject of education will be carefully considered by the Director of Education, and Mr. Li will no doubt pursue them further in the Board of Education of which he is a member. I would only say that the newly established Teachers Training College and the revised code of subsidies for vernacular schools indicate that, although much still remains to be done when funds permit, the improvement of vernacular education has not been unduly neglected. As to the constitution and organisation of the said Board, any suggestions which it may choose to submit on these questions will be sympathetically considered. \n\n### Locally Recruited Officers \n\nThe same member raises the question of providing Air Raid Precautions Shelters for the general population. On this subject I made a full statement at the meeting of this Council on June 29, 1939, and here is, I fear, nothing that I can usefully add to that statement. \n\nMr. D'Almada has revived the question of increasing the number of locally recruited officers in the Government service. I can only repeat that this form of economy is still the considered policy of the Government whenever it can be shown that the duties of a post can be performed by such infiltration without loss of efficiency. The Chinese Sanitary Inspectors, for example, are gradually allowing reductions to be made in the European staff, and I understand that the experiments of recruiting Chinese for senior posts in the Police is working satisfactorily. A scrutiny of past and present estimates will show how far this policy has advanced in the Medical Department. \n\nMr. Dodwell has raised two questions which are not entirely within the competence of this Government. The disciplinary control over Government servants and particularly the steps necessary to dismiss officers in case of incompetence are common to all Colonies; and the same is true of the system on which stores are purchased through the Crown Agents. \n\nMr. Dodwell and Mr. Pearce deplore the growing costliness of the machinery of Government, but several members suggest an expansion in various directions of the social services which it undertakes, and particularly an acceptance of certain of the liabilities which are now the concern of charitable organisations. \n\n### An Agreed Policy \n\nIt can hardly be doubted that, as soon as we have time to think of anything except the war, it will be necessary to come to some agreed policy on the balancing of such claims, including of course the propriety of the direct financing of certain services, as Mr. M. K. Lo suggests, which are at present undertaken by the various charitable organisations with or without subsidies from public funds. \n\nI hardly think that a \"profit and loss account\" such as Mr. M. K. Lo has attempted on the effect on the Colony of China's recent troubles is entirely justifiable. The security to life and property which Hongkong has always offered has certainly for the last quarter of a century been one of our principal assets as the Financial Secretary has pointed out; and even if that has stood out rather more sharply since 1927 this fundamental fact remains as before. \n\n### Air Raid Precautions \n\nThe acceleration of the Air Raid Precautions programme to which Mr. Pearce has referred, is, as Honourable Members are aware, a deliberate policy. Capital expenditure which in more normal times might have been spread over a number of years has already been met in part by supplementary votes during the current year, funds being readily available, and the funds to be voted for 1940/41 merely continue that policy. Such special expenditure is of course non-recurrent and imposes no commitment on posterity. \n\nBoth Mr. Shields and Mr. Pearce have suggested that the uncertainty of the Colony's financial future should have been reflected in the Ordinary Budget which is now before us, and that it would have been prudent to aim at a considerable addition to surplus balances. Mr. Li Tse-fong on the other hand agrees that current activities should be disturbed as little as possible, and this of course is the general view of His Majesty's Government at home. It would savour of unreality to make no provision for war expenses in 1940 and it is fair to point out that if the transfers suggested are made to the proposed War Budget, the present deficit of about half a million on the ordinary budget will at once become a surplus of about two million dollars. (Applause). \n\n## How GOVERNOR SPEAKS \n\n### Four Assurances On Tax Question \n\n### HASTY OPINIONS \n\nHis Excellency The Governor said: Honourable Members: \n\nAll the main points relative to the 1940-41 estimates which have been raised on the Unofficial side of the Council during the two days of debate have been answered, and in my opinion answered adequately. I have, therefore, nothing to add to those answers, but I will renew the undertaking given by the honourable gentleman, the Financial Secretary, on October 12 by reiterating that Government, in putting into effect the approval given by you to those estimates, will keep a close watch upon the revenue and govern its expenditure both on public works and in respect of the filling of new appointments in accordance with the financial outlook from time to time. \n\nThe subject which has occupied almost the whole of the debate, however, is not reflected in the estimates. On October 12 in my address I outlined to the Council a proposal for a war-budget, on the expenditure side of which the largest item would be Hongkong's contribution to the resources of His Majesty's Government for the successful conduct of the life and death struggle in which Great Britain is engaged.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564700, "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": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "page_number": 283, "title": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "content_text": "# Head 9.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT \n## 33 \n### Head 9.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT \n\nSub-heads :- \n\n1. Personal Emoluments \n2. Allowances to Examiners \n3. Books \n4. Bonus to University Trained Teachers \n5. Consumable Stores and Spares \n6. Conveyance Allowances \n7. Coal for Offices \n8. Courses of Instruction for officers on leave \n9. Domestic Science Classes \n10. Electric Light, Fans and Gas \n11. Equipment of Classes for Evening Institute \n12. Equipment of Woodwork Classes \n13. Gymnastic Equipment \n14. Incidental Expenses \n15. Laboratories \n16. Local Schools Examination \n17. Maintenance of School Libraries \n18. Prizes \n19. Pianos, Upkeep of \n20. Renewals and replacements of equipment \n21. Rent (Tai Po, Normal School for Women and Normal School at Tai Po) \n22. Rent of Public Telephones \n23. Scholarships at Hong Kong University \n24. Transport \n25. Uniforms \n - Students in training - Fees \n - Students in training - Maintenance \n - Students in training - Allowances \n - Training of Teachers \n26. Capitation Grants \n27. Subsidies to Urban Elementary Vernacular Schools in Hong Kong \n28. Subsidies to Schools in New Territories \n29. Grant to Munsang College \n - Trade School \n - Books \n - Electric Light and Gas \n - Incidental Expenses \n - Laboratory \n - Teachers' Training College \n - Books \n - Demonstration Teaching Equipment \n - Electric Light, Fans and Gas \n - Films \n - Free books for students \n - Incidental Expenses \n - Laboratories and Handwork and Art \n - Pianos \n - Prizes \n - Subsistence Allowance for Students \n - Telephone \n - Transport for staff \n\n| Description | Approved Estimate, 1939 | Estimate, 1940-41 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1. Personal Emoluments | $1,767,723 | $2,216,380 |\n| 2. Allowances to Examiners | 750 | 800 |\n| 3. Books | 2,000 | 5,000 |\n| 4. Bonus to University Trained Teachers | 480 | 900 |\n| 5. Consumable Stores and Spares | 2,688 | (1) 4,400 |\n| 6. Conveyance Allowances | (1) | (2) 300 |\n| 7. Coal for Offices | | 6,250 (3) |\n| 8. Courses of Instruction for officers on leave | 1,275 | 550 |\n| 9. Domestic Science Classes | 1,000 | 600 |\n| 10. Electric Light, Fans and Gas | 5,120 | 7,250 (6)(7) |\n| 11. Equipment of Classes for Evening Institute | 1,300 | 1,300 |\n| 12. Equipment of Woodwork Classes | 720 | 720 |\n| 13. Gymnastic Equipment | 300 | 375 |\n| 14. Incidental Expenses | | |\n| 15. Laboratories | 8,000 | 11,500 (1)(9) |\n| 16. Local Schools Examination | 5,237 | 5,500 (1) |\n| 17. Maintenance of School Libraries | 8,000 | 8,000 |\n| 18. Prizes | 2,000 | (6) 700 |\n| 19. Pianos, Upkeep of | 432 | 340 |\n| 20. Renewals and replacements of equipment | 600 | 1,200 (H) |\n| 21. Rent (Tai Po, Normal School for Women and Normal School at Tai Po) | 5,760 | 7,575 (12) |\n| 22. Rent of Public Telephones | 1,500 | 1,875 |\n| 23. Scholarships at Hong Kong University | 50,438 | (13) |\n| 24. Transport | 3,150 | 4,388 (14) |\n| 25. Uniforms | 3,068 | 3,938 (15) |\n| - Students in training - Fees | 11,335 | |\n| - Students in training - Maintenance | 10,190 | (16) |\n| - Students in training - Allowances | 10,400 | |\n| - Training of Teachers | 18,000 | (17) |\n| 26. Capitation Grants | 281,000 | 300,000 (18) |\n| 27. Subsidies to Urban Elementary Vernacular Schools in Hong Kong | 120,000 | 152,000 |\n| 28. Subsidies to Schools in New Territories | 32,000 | 51,000 } (19) |\n| 29. Grant to Munsang College | 6,000 | (20) |\n| - Trade School - Books | 150 | (21) |\n| - Trade School - Electric Light and Gas | 700 | (22) |\n| - Trade School - Incidental Expenses | 1,000 | (23) |\n| - Trade School - Laboratory | 150 | (24) |\n| - Teachers' Training College - Books | | 250 |\n| - Teachers' Training College - Demonstration Teaching Equipment | | 250 |\n| - Teachers' Training College - Electric Light, Fans and Gas | | 750 |\n| - Teachers' Training College - Films | | 250 |\n| - Teachers' Training College - Free books for students | | 500 |\n| - Teachers' Training College - Incidental Expenses | | 1,000 |\n| - Teachers' Training College - Laboratories and Handwork and Art | | 1,500 (25) |\n| - Teachers' Training College - Pianos | 62 | 100 |\n| - Teachers' Training College - Prizes | | 21,120 |\n| - Teachers' Training College - Subsistence Allowance for Students | 308 | 500 |\n| - Teachers' Training College - Telephone | | 651,752 |\n| - Teachers' Training College - Transport for staff | | |\n| Total Other Charges | 544,142 | 2,871,132 |\n| Carried forward | 2,311,865 | |\n\n(1) Including provision for Trade School. \n(2) More teachers qualified for bonus. \n(3) Provision for Trade School. \n(4) More officers drawing conveyance allowance. \n(5) Previously provided under Harbour Department. \n(6) Considered necessary. \n(7) More classes. \n(8) More electric fans at Belilios Public School. \n(9) Increased enrolment. \n(10) Previous provision inadequate. \n(11) More equipment required for Music, Art, Handwork. \n(12) Additional accommodation at Taipo. \n(13) Replaces provision for students in training in previous estimates. \n(14) Includes $750 for four months swimming classes. \n(15) Increase required for amahs and for Teachers' Training College coolies &c. \n(16) Replaced by sub-head 23. \n(17) Paid from sub-heads 29-40. \n(18) Includes Munsang College, formerly a separate sub-head. \n(19) Calculated according to New Code. \n(20) Included in sub-head 26. \n(21) Included under sub-head 3. \n(22) \"\" \n(23) \"\" \n(24) \"\" \n(25) New service.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564790, "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": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "page_number": 373, "title": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "content_text": "420\n\nFor purposes of conversion, the dollar has been taken at 18.3d. for the payment of sterling salaries and 1s. 2¾d. for other sterling payments. After deducting the total estimated revenue of $49,861,470, there will be a deficit of $326,708.\n\nThe position at 31st March, 1941, is estimated to be as follows:—\n \n| Item | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Excess of Assets over Liabilities at 1st January, 1939 | 13,562,235 |\n| Revised estimate of Revenue, 1939 | 40,475,248 |\n| | 54,037,483 |\n| Revised estimate of Expenditure, 1939 | 40,409,957 |\n| Estimated excess at 31st December, 1939 | 13,627,526 |\n| Estimated Revenue, 1940/1941 | 49,861,470 |\n| Estimated Expenditure, 1940/1941 | 63,488,996 |\n| | 50,188,178 |\n| Anticipated Excess of Assets over Liabilities at 31st March, 1941 | 13,300,818 |\n\n# \n## 11. The major increases over the 1939 Estimates\n\n(after allowing for the normal 25% increase in view of the fifteen-month period covered by the 1940/1941 Estimates), and the reasons for them, are:\n\n(i) Head, Charitable Services: $224,749, increased grants to the Tung Wah Hospitals and for relief of refugees.\n\n(ii) Head GA, H.K.V.D.C.; $107,303, increased members and equipment.\n\n(iii) Head 6C, Air Raid Precautions: $689,046, completion of equipment programme.\n\n(iv) Head 16, Medical Department; $490,375, increased staff and more patients.\n\n(v) Head 17, Miscellaneous Services; $320,704. Special items, 1941 Census $100,000, Hong Kong Centenary $140,000, maintenance of Chinese internees $60,000, partly offset by savings on other items.\n\n(vi) Head 19, Police Force; $318,303, increased staff.\n\n(vii) Head 20B, Post Office (Wireless); $233,608, new transmitters.\n\n(viii) Head 24A, Public Works Recurrent; $111,700, mainly due to transfers from other Heads and new system of accounting.\n\n(ix) Head 26, Sanitary Department; $117,182, increased staff and maintenance expenses owing to larger population.\n\n(x) Head 27B, Labour Office; $92,431, new Head.\n\n(xi) Head 30, Public Works Extraordinary; $1,368,256. See paragraph 12 and separate memorandum by the Hon. D. P. W.\n\nThe increases quoted are the excesses over the 1939 provision plus 25%.\n\n## 12. The programme of Public Works Extraordinary\n\nwhich is discussed in detail in a separate memorandum by the Hon. D. P. W., includes provision for the completion or continuation of a number of works now in progress and for the usual items of a more or less recurrent nature. In view of the uncertain outlook, it has been decided to suspend completely all work on the new Government House, and no funds for it are to be provided in 1940/1941. Provision is included for the starting of certain other new buildings, including the Infectious Diseases Hospital, a new Queen's College, Health Centres, and a Girls Reformatory.\n\nAs before, all new works connected with the Water Undertaking are being charged to Loan Account.\n\n## 13. The total estimated expenditure\n\nof $50,188,178, even after allowing for the extra 3 months covered by the Estimates, is higher than any on record, but if the estimates are realized, the surplus of assets will remain at 31st March, 1941, substantially above the figure of $10,000,000, which has been regarded as a proper reserve. It is true to repeat the statement made last year that the increases in expenditure, where they are not either automatic or forced upon the Government by the current exceptional circumstances, are no more than an attempt to meet needs which have long been recognized as urgent. After deducting extraordinary expenditure (Special Expenditure and P.W.E.), expenditure amounts to only $44,521,304 and is within the ordinary recurrent revenue.\n\n## D. LOAN WORKS AND PUBLIC DEBT\n\n## 14. Of the total loan of $25,000,000 authorized by Ordinance 11 of 1934\n\n3½% Dollar Bonds to a nominal value of $14,000,000 were issued in 1934 at 99%, producing $13,860,000. At the end of 1938, $24,720,017 had been spent, of which $10,860,017 had been met by advances from surplus funds. This method of financing has been continued. By 30th June, 1939, a further $279,983 had been advanced, making $11,140,000 in all. The revised estimated total expenditure at 31st December, 1939, is $25,000,000, of which $11,140,000 will have been advanced from surplus funds. In addition, authority has been given for the charging of additional expenditure to a new loan to be raised, expenditure being met in the meantime by advances from revenue. On this new loan account, $1,489,180 had been advanced up to 30th June, 1939, and total advances up to 31st December, 1939, are estimated at $2,809,309. Details of both loan accounts are given in Appendix VI to the Estimates.\n\n## 15. The precise allocation of the 1934 loan funds between individual items\n\nhas been varied by Resolutions of Legislative Council and is now as shown in Appendix VI (b) to the Estimates; savings have been realized in the net expenditure on the Shing Mun Gorge Dam and other items, and have been made available for other works. It is proposed to close this loan account finally in 1939.\n\n## 16. New expenditure proposed to be met from loan\n\nis almost entirely Water Works expenditure, but includes provision for preliminary investigations into the extension of the Aerodrome. This may eventually be a very large and costly scheme, but plans cannot be prepared until the preliminary investigation is completed. It is the intention to finance all new capital expenditure on water from loan for the present. Authority will be sought for the advance of $1,401,086 for the continuation of works already authorized under loan account; and it is proposed to charge also further works of a total estimated cost of $160,000, of which the whole $160,000 will, it is estimated, be spent in 1940/1941 and will be met for the time being by advances from surplus balances.\n\n## 17. The total debt at the 31st December, 1938\n\nwas $16,598,000, made up of $4,838,000 4% Conversion Loan, 1938, repayable in 1953, against which a sinking fund of £66,937 was held; and $11,760,000 3½% Dollar Loan, 1934. The latter is the balance of the original sum borrowed, $14,000,000, which is being repaid by annual drawings at the rate of $560,000 per annum. The desirability of raising the balance of the 1934 loan ($11,000,000) is kept continuously under review, but it has been possible so far to meet loan expenditure by advances from surplus balances without reducing the Colony's cash resources below the necessary minimum figure.\n\n421", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564805, "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": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "page_number": 388, "title": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "content_text": "## Sub-head 13.—Additional Public Latrines, $50,000.—This is an inclusive sum provided to meet the cost of additional latrines which may be requested by the Urban Council.\n\n## 14.—New Girls Reformatory, $5,000.—It is proposed to provide a Reformatory or Rescue Home for young prostitutes, which would be managed by the Salvation Army. No definite site has yet been selected and meantime only a token sum is considered necessary.\n\n## 15.—New Public Health Centres, $100,000.—Health centres have been requested by Hon. Director of Medical Services at St. Peter's Church, Sham Shui Po, Tsun Wan, etc.\n\n## 16.—Mental Hospital --- Additions and Improvements. $2,500.—To improve ventilation to kitchen, provide water storage and additional lavatory accommodation.\n\n## 17.—Leper Settlement—4 new huts with lavatories. $16,000.—It is proposed to erect 4 huts with lavatory accommodation at Kennedy Town.\n\n## 18.—Kowloon Hospital Extension Site Formation, $80,000.—This work provides for the future extension of the present hospital and also for the proposed Infectious Diseases Hospital.\n\n## 19.—New Infectious Diseases Hospital, $50,000.—The Honourable Director of Medical Services has stressed the necessity for this Hospital. A site is now being prepared adjacent to the Kowloon Hospital.\n\n## 20.—New Public Mortuary—Kowloon, $50,000.—The present mortuary is inadequate and badly situated from a health point of view. It also occupies a valuable building site.\n\n## 21.—New Queen's College, $5,000.—No site has yet been decided upon and it is unlikely a Contract will be let in 1940. The sum provided is to cover the cost of any investigational work necessary.\n\n## 22.—New Vernacular Girls College, $50,000.—This building will be known as the Eastern District Vernacular Girls School and will replace the present Vernacular Normal School for women which occupies rented premises in Lee Garden Street. A site has been selected in Eastern Hospital Road, Soo Kun Poo.\n\n## 23.—New Teachers Training College, $235,000.—It is proposed to construct this College on the site of the old Diocesan Boys School, Bonham Road.\n\n## 24.—Hong Kong Prison, Stanley—Additions and Improvements, $10,000.—This sum is required to meet certain alterations and extensions considered necessary by the Commissioner of Prisons.\n\n## 25.—Botanical and Forestry Buildings—Alterations and Improvements, $2,400.—This sum includes for the provision of a drying room and enclosing an office verandah.\n\n## 26.—Breezy Point Quarters—Car Park, $5,000.—The Honourable Commissioner of Police recommends the provision of this accommodation—at present officers leave their cars in Park Road and cause congestion.\n\n## 27.—Postal Kiosks:-\n| Location | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) Shaukiwan | $3,700.—The licenced stamp vendor in Shaukiwan does not wish to continue the business. A postal kiosk is therefore necessary. |\n| (b) Tsun Wan | $3,700.—The kiosk at Tsun Wan is considered necessary by the P.M.G. |\n\n## Sub-head 28.—Two Public Latrines at Tai O, $10,000.—These are considered necessary by the District Officer, South.\n\n## COMMUNICATIONS\n\n## 29.—Island Road—Reconstruction of Bridges, $10,000.—To continue the programme of making island bridges suitable for modern traffic requirements.\n\n## 30.—Tin Hau Temple Road Extension, $50,000.—An extension of this road will open up many desirable building areas for some of which applications have already been received.\n\n## 31.—May Road widening Aigburth Hall to Conduit Road, $55,000.—This is considered a most necessary improvement. There is great traffic congestion beyond Aigburth Hall and a through motor road to Conduit Road is very desirable.\n\n## 32.—Magazine Gap Road widening between Bowen Road and May Road, $20,000.—This section of road is narrow and leaves little room for pedestrians. It is proposed to construct a footpath, where practicable, and to improve certain bends.\n\n## 33.—Causeway Bay Road—Raising and widening including strengthening seawall, $80,000.—To raise and widen the length of road between Causeway Bay tram terminus and King's Road to approved levels. This will involve partial reconstruction of the existing seawall.\n\n## 34.—Mount Cameron Development—New 20 feet road (Sections A-B and B-C), $55,000.—Government has decided to encourage building development on Mount Cameron where there are numerous desirable building sites. An access road to the higher levels of Mount Cameron is essential and it is proposed meantime to proceed with the two lower sections of the road which will open up approx. 12 building sites.\n\n## 35.—Improvements to Road from Kowloon to Muk Fu Ferry, $500,000.—The sum provided is for the reconstruction of the section between the Sham Shui Po and the Kowloon Reservoir. This section at present is extremely tortuous and is quite unsuitable for modern traffic.\n\n## 36.—K.I.L. 3394—Forming access roads, $10,000.—To facilitate development and to give direct access from Ma Tau Wai Road to Argyle Street.\n\n## 37.—New Territories Roads—Reconstruction of Bridges, $50,000.—To continue the programme to make these roads suitable for modern traffic. Many of the bridges are now approaching a dangerous state and require reconstruction.\n\n## 38.—Castle Peak Road—Realignment near Tsun Wan, $19,000.—To continue diversion work necessitated by the adjoining reclamation.\n\n## 39.—Road to Fanling Volunteer Camp, $8,000.—The improvement of this road has been requested by the Commandant, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps.\n\n## DRAINAGE AND ANTI-MALARIAL WORKS\n\n## 40.—North Point Reclamation—Sewer extension, $5,000.—To continue work as filling in progresses.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 565140, "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": "CO129-577-1 Estimates- effect of war on colonial estimates 15-9-1939 - 4-10-1939", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-577-1 Estimates- effect of war on colonial estimates 15-9-1939 - 4-10-1939", "content_text": "## Telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\nDated 2nd October, 1939. Received 2.15 p.m. 2nd October, 1939.\n\n### No.324 **Confidential**\n\nYour circular telegrams Nos.54 and 62 **Confidential**.\n\nEstimates for 1940-1941 were drafted largely before the war and assumed the continuance of current conditions locally: they provided revenue and expenditure approximately balanced as nearly as $50,000,000 for a 15 months period. Normal provision made for existing recurrent services $44,500,000; special expenditure and new services $2,200,000 including Air Raid Precautions, increase in Police, Medical and Sanitary Services; and Public Works extraordinary $3,500,000 as including road development and commencement of Infectious Diseases Hospital, Health Centre and New Queens College. Provision for new Government House totally suspended. I feel that possible effects of sub-joined proposals would be to convert a small deficit of the ordinary budget into a surplus of between 1 or 2 millions.\n\nEven if part of Public Works extraordinary and new services are deleted, which I should prefer to avoid, and allowing for strict economy generally, new demands for war services are likely to cause an increase of expenditure on balance. At the same time, there may be a diminution of existing sources of revenue. I consider, however, and believe it to be the opinion of responsible members of the public, that Hong Kong should offer at once a substantial increase in assistance to His Majesty's Government in war expenditure and that the present low level of taxation should be raised accordingly.\n\nI accordingly request your approval to submit to the Legislative Council the following financial proposals;", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-577-1 Estimates- effect of war on colonial estimates 15-9-1939 - 4-10-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 568519, "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": "CO129-582-17 War expenditure- contribution to H.M. Government 2-10-1939 - 12-10-1939", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-582-17 War expenditure- contribution to H.M. Government 2-10-1939 - 12-10-1939", "content_text": "As regards Patriotic gifts of Air Raid equipment, I am willing to discourage these gifts. They don't really help us much; the money involved would be well spent in the colonies concerned; and if one stands, others which feel they have got to be suited. The thought is very kind and I appreciate the patriotism of the external proposals to suggest these gifts, and the psychological value of accepting them. But what weighs with me is that the money really can be well spent in the colonies.\n\nTelegram from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\nNo.324 Confidential.\n\nDated 2nd October, 1939. Received 2.15 p.m. 2nd October, 1939.\n\nYour Circular telegrams Nos.54 and 62 Confidential. His Estimates for 1940-1941 were drafted largely before the war and assumed the continuance of current conditions locally: they provided for revenue and expenditure approximately balanced at nearly $50,000,000 for a 15 months period. Normal provision made for existing recurrent services $44,500,000; special expenditure and new services $2,200,000 including Air Raid Precautions, increase in Police, Medical and Sanitary Services; and Public Works extraordinary $3,500,000 including road development and commencement of Infectious Diseases Hospital, Health Centre and New Kowloon College. Provision for new Government House totally suspended.\n\nI feel that possible effects of sub-joined proposals would be to convert small deficit of the ordinary budget into surplus of between 1 or 2 millions.\n\nEven if part of Public Works extraordinary and new services are deleted, which I should prefer to avoid and allowing for strict economy generally, new demands for war services are likely to cause an increase of expenditure on balance.\n\nAt the same time there may be a diminution of existing sources of revenue. I consider however and believe it to be the opinion of responsible members of the public that Hong Kong should offer at once a substantial increase in assistance to His Majesty's Government in war expenditure and that the present low level of taxation should be raised accordingly.\n\nI accordingly request your approval to submit to the Legislative Council the following financial proposals:", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-582-17 War expenditure- contribution to H.M. Government 2-10-1939 - 12-10-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 568651, "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": "CO129-582-22 Visit of Sir Stafford Cripps to China 13-12-1939 - 4-7-1940", "page_number": 36, "title": "CO129-582-22 Visit of Sir Stafford Cripps to China 13-12-1939 - 4-7-1940", "content_text": "51\n\n42\n\n(4) Private schools are being gradually brought under Government control. (5) Mass education of adults is also being attempted with encouraging results so far as literacy is concerned.\n\n(6) The salary of teachers is being raised to give a better inducement to persons to become teachers. In the last two years salaries have gone up by 50 per cent.\n\n(7) There has been a very great increase in primary schools, which are now said to number 3,000 in all, and also in middle and normal schools. There is a college in Urumchi which is being extended and which it is hoped will one day become a university for the province.\n\n153. Rather unexpectedly none, or practically none, of the Sinkiangese go to universities outside Sinkiang, either in China, Russia or elsewhere. I could find no trace of returned students from Russian universities. The probable reason for this is the poverty of the people and the province. Undoubtedly one of the great requirements of Sinkiang is a more highly educated population, especially in various technical spheres, if they are to carry through their own development. I think that very good service could be done to the improvement of Indian-Sinkiangese relations if some arrangement could be come to with the Indian Government to provide free university education for a limited number of selected Sinkiangese each year. I am sure that the small expense entailed would be well repaid by the closer and more friendly trade and political relations in the future. This is, moreover, the one way in which it might be possible at present to improve British relations and influence in that area. I cannot, of course, say whether the Governor would fall in with such a plan, but the proposal should, I think, be made.\n\nAgriculture.\n\n154. An attempt is being made to improve the technique of agriculture and there are a number of agricultural institutions in the province. We were entertained at the one in Tulufan and saw and talked to the director, a young Sinkiangese. The farmers, who were at first hostile and unresponsive, are now enthusiastic about the work and are urging the Government to increase it. The following measures have been taken to encourage and help agriculture:-\n\n(1) The Commercial Bank has granted rural credits of 470,000 dollars in 1939, with a special addition of 14,000 dollars for animal husbandry together with a non-interest-bearing credit of 60,000 dollars.\n\n(2) Certain special taxes have been abolished:-\n\n(a) The slaughter tax.\n\n(b) The travelling merchant's permit tax.\n\n(c) Land taxes in special districts suffering from flood or drought.\n\n(d) Surtax on grass which was attached traditionally to land tax.\n\n(e) All other special, extra or surtaxes on land.\n\n(3) Agricultural implements have been imported from Russia, such as harrows, ploughs, &c., and these are hired out to farmers at almost nominal sums. The farmers are now for the first time commencing to buy these. At present about 10,000 such implements are being used in the province.\n\n(4) Cotton seeds and silk-worms have been very widely distributed in large quantities to improve the quality of production. Experiments are being carried out in Tulufan and Shan Shan districts with American cotton. Already some small export of cotton and silk has started, which is a new feature.\n\n(5) Irrigation has been extended, especially in the Ili district, where a canal has been built extending from Bajen Tai to Wei Yuan. This is an old canal, but it had never been operated successfully until reconstructed. The underground irrigation which was first installed by General Ling at Tulufan, 100 years ago, is now also largely used at Hami. This system enables Tulufan, where there is practically no rainfall, to be one of the finest fruit-producing centres in China.\n\n(6) The tax on covered mangers for animals has been abolished, and the storage of grass for winter has been encouraged so as to obviate the very serious loss of stock which takes place each winter.\n\n1\n\n43\n\n(7) Attempts are being made to improve the local breeds of cattle, sheep and horses, very largely by local selection, though some stallions have been imported.\n\n(8) Cattle plague, which is a very serious factor in the province, has been tackled and veterinary stations have been set up in various districts.\n\n(9) An agricultural training school has been set up in Urumchi with a three-year course in animal husbandry, veterinary science and irrigation. There are at present some eighty students. In addition, a number of short courses in animal husbandry are given in various centres, lasting a month, the aim of which is to give the farmers and herdsmen some sense of the principles of this science.\n\n155. In addition to the above reforms, a reform of finance and currency has been carried through. In 1938 the Commercial Bank was reorganised as a mixed bank, under the name of the Sinkiang Commercial Bank, with a capital partly private and partly held by the Provincial Government. During the first nine months of 1939 a credit of 17,872,500 dollars was granted to the bank to meet the requirements of commercial and agricultural capitalisation. The reorganisation was financed partly by the Government and partly from the loan raised by the Government from Russia of 5 million roubles, the balance of the loan being used for road construction. The Sinkiang Commercial Bank issues its own notes, but mostly in smaller denominations. The old provincial notes and the so-called Har notes (i.e., the notes issued in the district of Harshieh), which were in circulation on the basis of the Liang, have practically all been exchanged into dollars, and as at the end of last year all such notes were declared annulled and of no value.\n\nEL\n\n156. So far as public health is concerned, some attempt has been made to deal with this by hospital construction and dispensaries. Since the April revolution, hospitals have been established in Urumchi, Ili, Kashgar, Aokashu, Hami, Aoshan, Taichen and Khotan respectively. Two dispensaries have been established, one in Woo-shu and one in Tulufan. In addition, there are two pharmacies in Urumchi and Ili. All hospital services, with the exception of the provision of medicines, are free of charge. In the Urumchi hospital there are 170 beds and in each of the others thirty only. An attempt is being made to establish further dispensaries in other districts. The total expenditure on these health services in 1939 was 415,660 dollars. Three further pharmacies are to be established this year in Aoshan, Kashgar and Aokashu. All the skilled staff are Russian, but an effort is being made to train assistants on an apprenticeship system in the hospitals and pharmacies.\n\n157. Industrial development is practically non-existent except for electric generating stations on a very small scale in one or two places and, what is perhaps more important, the development of an oil-field to the north-west of Urumchi. I was told by a prominent Chinese friend in Chungking that he had been reliably informed by the officials in Moscow last July that over 400 tons of machinery had already been sent up for the refinery. There was no evidence that it was yet in operation, but I think there is no doubt that a large refinery will be erected before long. There is undoubtedly considerable mineral wealth, but none of it is being worked with the exception of coal, which is being mined by the old-fashioned methods, and a small amount of gold by panning. Some jade is also found in the province.\n\nGold and jade may not be exported from the province at all. The former is being collected as a backing for currency, and the latter is prized as valuable and so may not be bought and taken out of the province.\n\n158. The second three-year plan is designed to continue the parallel extension of all development and to initiate the construction of some light industries in the main centres. As in the case of agricultural development, this is all to be financed from the provincial resources, as the Governor will not consent to borrowing from outside Sinkiang. The whole development is in the hands of the Government, and all industries will be Government-owned and controlled. It is the intention of the Governor to sacrifice speed of development to the certainty that there will be no exploitation from outside of the province's resources.\n\n159. To sum up my view of the situation, which is based partly upon ascertained facts and observation and partly upon impressions gained-the Governor is an independent autocrat with the most friendly relations with Russia\n\n[21258]\n\nG 2\n\n52", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-582-22 Visit of Sir Stafford Cripps to China 13-12-1939 - 4-7-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 568682, "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": "CO129-582-22 Visit of Sir Stafford Cripps to China 13-12-1939 - 4-7-1940", "page_number": 67, "title": "CO129-582-22 Visit of Sir Stafford Cripps to China 13-12-1939 - 4-7-1940", "content_text": "100\n\n42\n\n(4) Private schools are being gradually brought under Government control. (5) Mass education of adults is also being attempted with encouraging results so far as literacy is concerned.\n\n(6) The salary of teachers is being raised to give a better inducement to persons to become teachers. In the last two years salaries have gone up by 50 per cent.\n\n(7) There has been a very great increase in primary schools, which are now said to number 3,000 in all, and also in middle and normal schools. There is a college in Urumchi which is being extended and which it is hoped will one day become a university for the province.\n\n153. Rather unexpectedly none, or practically none, of the Sinkiangese go to universities outside Sinkiang, either in China, Russia or elsewhere. I could find no trace of returned students from Russian universities. The probable reason for this is the poverty of the people and the province. Undoubtedly one of the great requirements of Sinkiang is a more highly educated population, especially in various technical spheres, if they are to carry through their own development. I think that very good service could be done to the improvement of Indian-Sinkiangese relations if some arrangement could be come to with the Indian Government to provide free university education for a limited number of selected Sinkiangese each year. I am sure that the small expense entailed would be well repaid by the closer and more friendly trade and political relations in the future. This is, moreover, the one way in which it might be possible at present to improve British relations and influence in that area. I cannot, of course, say whether the Governor would fall in with such a plan, but the proposal should, I think, be made.\n\nAgriculture.\n\nI\n\n154. An attempt is being made to improve the technique of agriculture and there are a number of agricultural institutions in the province. We were entertained at the one in Tulufan and saw and talked to the director, a young Sinkiangese. The farmers, who were at first hostile and unresponsive, are now enthusiastic about the work and are urging the Government to increase it. The following measures have been taken to encourage and help agriculture :-\n\n(1) The Commercial Bank has granted rural credits of 470,000 dollars in 1939, with a special addition of 14,000 dollars for animal husbandry together with a non-interest-bearing credit of 60,000 dollars.\n\n(2) Certain special taxes have been abolished: —\n\n(a) The slaughter tax.\n\n(b) The travelling merchant's permit tax.\n\n(c) Land taxes in special districts suffering from flood or drought.\n\n(d) Surtax on grass which was attached traditionally to land tax.\n\n(e) All other special, extra or surtaxes on land.\n\n(3) Agricultural implements have been imported from Russia, such as harrows, ploughs, &c., and these are hired out to farmers at almost nominal sums. The farmers are now for the first time commencing to buy these. At present about 10,000 such implements are being used in the province.\n\n(4) Cotton seeds and silk-worms have been very widely distributed in large quantities to improve the quality of production. Experiments are being carried out in Tulufan and Shan Shan districts with American cotton. Already some small export of cotton and silk has started, which is a new feature.\n\n(5) Irrigation has been extended, especially in the Ili district, where a canal has been built extending from Bajen Tai to Wei Yuan. This is an old canal, but it had never been operated successfully until reconstructed. The underground irrigation which was first installed by General Ling at Tulufan, 100 years ago, is now also largely used at Hami. This system enables Tulufan, where there is practically no rainfall, to be one of the finest fruit-producing centres in China.\n\n(6) The tax on covered mangers for animals has been abolished, and the storage of grass for winter has been encouraged so as to obviate the very serious loss of stock which takes place each winter.\n\n43\n\n(7) Attempts are being made to improve the local breeds of cattle, sheep and horses, very largely by local selection, though some stallions have been imported.\n\n(8) Cattle plague, which is a very serious factor in the province, has been tackled and veterinary stations have been set up in various districts.\n\n(9) An agricultural training school has been set up in Urumchi with a three-year course in animal husbandry, veterinary science and irrigation. There are at present some eighty students. In addition, a number of short courses in animal husbandry are given in various centres, lasting a month, the aim of which is to give the farmers and herdsmen some sense of the principles of this science.\n\n155. In addition to the above reforms, a reform of finance and currency has been carried through. In 1938 the Commercial Bank was reorganised as a mixed bank, under the name of the Sinkiang Commercial Bank, with a capital partly private and partly held by the Provincial Government. During the first nine months of 1939 a credit of 17,872,500 dollars was granted to the bank to meet the requirements of commercial and agricultural capitalisation. The reorganisation was financed partly by the Government and partly from the loan raised by the Government from Russia of 5 million roubles, the balance of the loan being used for road construction. The Sinkiang Commercial Bank issues its own notes, but mostly in smaller denominations. The old provincial notes and the so-called Har notes (i.e., the notes issued in the district of Harshieh), which were in circulation on the basis of the Liang, have practically all been exchanged into dollars, and as at the end of last year all such notes were declared annulled and of no value.\n\n156. So far as public health is concerned, some attempt has been made to deal with this by hospital construction and dispensaries. Since the April revolution, hospitals have been established in Urumchi, Ili, Kashgar, Aokashu, Hami, Aoshan, Taichen and Khotan respectively. Two dispensaries have been established, one in Woo-shu and one in Tulufan. In addition, there are two pharmacies in Urumchi and Ili. All hospital services, with the exception of the provision of medicines, are free of charge. In the Urumchi hospital there are 170 beds and in each of the others thirty only. An attempt is being made to establish further dispensaries in other districts. The total expenditure on these health services in 1939 was 415,660 dollars. Three further pharmacies are to be established this year in Aoshan, Kashgar and Aokashu. All the skilled staff are Russian, but an effort is being made to train assistants on an apprenticeship system in the hospitals and pharmacies.\n\n157. Industrial development is practically non-existent except for electric generating stations on a very small scale in one or two places and, what is perhaps more important, the development of an oil-field to the north-west of Urumchi. I was told by a prominent Chinese friend in Chungking that he had been reliably informed by the officials in Moscow last July that over 400 tons of machinery had already been sent up for the refinery. There was no evidence that it was yet in operation, but I think there is no doubt that a large refinery will be erected before long. There is undoubtedly considerable mineral wealth, but none of it is being worked with the exception of coal, which is being mined by the old-fashioned methods, and a small amount of gold by panning. Some jade is also found in the province.\n\nGold and jade may not be exported from the province at all. The former is being collected as a backing for currency, and the latter is prized as valuable and so may not be bought and taken out of the province.\n\n158. The second three-year plan is designed to continue the parallel extension of all development and to initiate the construction of some light industries in the main centres. As in the case of agricultural development, this is all to be financed from the provincial resources, as the Governor will not consent to borrowing from outside Sinkiang. The whole development is in the hands of the Government, and all industries will be Government-owned and controlled. It is the intention of the Governor to sacrifice speed of development to the certainty that there will be no exploitation from outside of the province's resources.\n\n159. To sum up my view of the situation, which is based partly upon ascertained facts and observation and partly upon impressions gained—the Governor is an independent autocrat with the most friendly relations with Russia\n\n[21258]\n\n& 2\n\n101", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-582-22 Visit of Sir Stafford Cripps to China 13-12-1939 - 4-7-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 568885, "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": "CO129-582-7 Taxation 6-6-1939 - 5-2-1940", "page_number": 61, "title": "CO129-582-7 Taxation 6-6-1939 - 5-2-1940", "content_text": "61\n\nNo Alternatives\n\nI have not had the opportunity of hearing any reasonable alternatives to Income Tax. There have been such suggestions as lotteries, tax on cinema tickets, food, land tax and so on. None of them, I am sure, Hon. Members will accept as reasonable. Increases of indirect taxation on petrol and wine have also been suggested, but they again do not fall upon those best able to bear them. Mr. Dodwell may have to spend £30 more on petrol and Mr. Pearce may have a wine bill of £100, but it is of no interest to them—it is only of great interest to those with an income of about £500 a year.\n\nFears have been freely expressed on the consequence of the financial stability of the Colony were Income Tax to be imposed. I have no knowledge to dispute these facts because I have obviously no information on that subject, but it seems that the risks must be taken and the possible consequence of Income Tax must be accepted in certain circumstances.\n\nTax Evasion\n\nAnother point is on the question of tax evasion on which great emphasis has been laid. Efforts will no doubt be made to avoid taxes. In every country of the world, there are a number of people who do their utmost to evade taxes, and in this Colony, there will no doubt be tax evasion, but should Government avoid doing the right thing on account of this, if there is a necessity for the tax? In India, they have for many years had Income Tax and there, I understand, in small businesses, three sets of books are kept, so it is quite possible in Hongkong four sets of books will be kept, but that is no argument against introducing what is the best form of revenue.\n\nNo\n\nThe tax proposed by the Government so far, I am sure, is a relatively small one and the burden will fall on the shoulders of those well capable of bearing it, and it is to be hoped very much that the Government will not make further demands. No one likes to pay Income Tax, but I am certain the opposition is not due to personal grounds. However, I do feel it is possible and I hope Hon. Members will not misunderstand my attitude in speaking on this subject. The conclusions reached have been perhaps a little too hasty and before the Government's proposal is fully known. I do think that a great many are not satisfied with the attitude taken by the majority of those who oppose Income Tax. I therefore hope they will be given an opportunity to reconsider the question.\n\nThis is a very important measure. If Income Tax is not accepted, it will certainly not add to the reputation of Hongkong. I am convinced that the Government's proposals are the only ones to deal with the situation and I hope very much that time will be available for reconsideration of this Bill. (Applause).\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY\n\n\"Education Problem Will Be Carefully Considered\"\n\nRECRUITING LOCALLY\n\nThe Colonial Secretary: Sir, This debate has been so predominantly a debate on Income Tax that there remains little for me to say on the so-called Ordinary Budget, which is the subject of the resolution standing in my name. I am grateful to Unofficial Members for the assistance which they have rendered in Committee since the Council meeting of October 12, and for their unanimous agreement with the Government's proposals, as modified by that Committee, which are now presented.\n\nThe points which Mr. Li Tse-fong has raised on the subject of education will be carefully considered by the Director of Education, and Mr. Li will no doubt pursue them further in the Board of Education of which he is a member. I would only say that the newly established Teachers Training College and the revised code of subsidies for vernacular schools indicate that, although much still remains to be done when funds permit, the improvement of vernacular education has not been unduly neglected. As to the constitution and organisation of the said Board, any suggestions which it may choose to submit on these questions will be sympathetically considered.\n\nLocally Recruited Officers\n\nThe same member raises the question of providing Air Raid Precautions Shelters for the general population. On this subject, I made a full statement at the meeting of this Council on June 29, 1939, and here is, I fear, nothing that I can usefully add to that statement.\n\nMr. D'Almada has revived the question of increasing the number of locally recruited officers in the Government service. I can only repeat that this form of economy is still the considered policy of the Government whenever it can be shown that the duties of a post can be performed by such infiltration without loss of efficiency. The Chinese Sanitary Inspectors, for example, are gradually allowing reductions to be made in the European staff, and I understand that the experiments of recruiting Chinese for senior posts in the Police are working satisfactorily. A scrutiny of past and present estimates will show how far this policy has advanced in the Medical Department.\n\nMr. Dodwell has raised two questions which are not entirely within the competence of this Government. The disciplinary control over Government servants and particularly the steps necessary to dismiss officers in case of incompetence are common to all Colonies; and the same is true of the system on which stores are purchased through the Crown Agents.\n\nMr. Dodwell and Mr. Pearce deplore the growing costliness of the machinery of Government, but several members suggest an expansion in various directions of the social services which it undertakes, and particularly an acceptance of certain of the liabilities which are now the concern of charitable organisations.\n\nAn Agreed Policy\n\nIt can hardly be doubted that, as soon as we have time to think of anything except the war, it will be necessary to come to some agreed policy on the balancing of such claims, including, of course, the propriety of the direct financing of certain services, as Mr. M. K. Lo suggests, which are at present undertaken by the various charitable organisations with or without subsidies from public funds.\n\nI hardly think that a \"profit and loss account\" such as Mr. M. K. Lo has attempted on the effect on the Colony of China's recent troubles is entirely justifiable. The security to life and property which Hongkong has always offered has certainly for the last quarter of a century been one of our principal assets, as the Financial Secretary has pointed out; and even if that has stood out rather more sharply since 1927, this fundamental fact remains as before.\n\nAir Raid Precautions\n\nThe acceleration of the Air Raid Precautions programme to which Mr. Pearce has referred, is, as Honourable Members are aware, deliberate policy. Capital expenditure which in more normal times might have been spread over a number of years has already been met in part by supplementary votes during the current year, funds being readily available, and the funds to be voted for 1940/41 merely continue that policy. Such special expenditure is of course non-recurrent and imposes no commitment on posterity.\n\nBoth Mr. Shields and Mr. Pearce have suggested that the uncertainty of the Colony's financial future should have been reflected in the Ordinary Budget which is now before us, and that it would have been prudent to aim at a considerable addition to surplus balances. Mr. Li Tse-fong, on the other hand, agrees that current activities should be disturbed as little as possible, and this, of course, is the general view of His Majesty's Government at home. It would savour of unreality to make no provision for war expenses in 1940 and it is fair to point out that if the transfers suggested are made to the proposed War Budget, the present deficit of about half a million on the ordinary budget will at once become a surplus of about two million dollars. (Applause).\n\nGOVERNOR SPEAKS\n\nFour Assurances On Tax Question\n\nHASTY OPINIONS\n\nHis Excellency The Governor said: Honourable Members,\n\nAll the main points relative to the 1940-41 estimates which have been raised on the Unofficial side of the Council during the two days of debate have been answered, and in my opinion, answered adequately. I have, therefore, nothing to add to those answers, but I will renew the undertaking given by the honourable gentleman, the Financial Secretary, on October 12, by reiterating that Government, in putting into effect the approval given by you to those estimates, will keep a close watch upon the revenue and govern its expenditure both on public works and in respect of the filling of new appointments in accordance with the financial outlook from time to time.\n\nThe subject which has occupied almost the whole of the debate, however, is not reflected in the estimates. On October 12, in my address, I outlined to the Council a proposal for a war-budget, on the expenditure side of which the largest item would be Hongkong's contribution to the resources of His Majesty's Government for the successful conduct of the life and death struggle in which Great Britain is engaged.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-582-7 Taxation 6-6-1939 - 5-2-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 568965, "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": "CO129-582-7 Taxation 6-6-1939 - 5-2-1940", "page_number": 141, "title": "CO129-582-7 Taxation 6-6-1939 - 5-2-1940", "content_text": "Telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n44\n\n142\n\nDated 2nd October, 1939. Received 2:15 p.m. 2nd October, 1939.\n\n***\n\n******\n\n2539\n\n2.\n\nNo.324 Confidential.\n\nYour circular telegrams Nos.54 and 62 Confidential.\n\n05662/1/39\n\nEstimates for 1940-1941 were drafted largely before the war and assumed the continuance of current conditions locally: they provided for revenue and expenditure approximately balanced at nearly $50,000,000 for 15 months period. Normal provision made for existing recurrent services $44,500,000; special expenditure and new services $2,200,000 including Air Raid Precautions, increase in Police, Medical and Sanitary Services; and Public Works extraordinary $5,500,000 including road development and commencement of Infectious Diseases Hospital, Health Centre and New Queens College. Provision for new Government House totally suspended.\n\nI feel that possible effects of sub-joined proposals would be to convert small deficit of the ordinary budget into surplus of between 1 or 2 millions.\n\nEven if part of Public Works extraordinary and new services are deleted, which I should prefer to avoid and allowing for strict economy generally, new demands for war services are likely to cause an increase of expenditure on balance. At the same time, there may be a diminution of existing sources of revenue. I consider, however, and believe it to be the opinion of responsible members of the public, that Hong Kong should offer at once substantial increase in assistance to His Majesty's Government in war expenditure, and that the present low level of taxation should be raised accordingly.\n\nI accordingly request your approval to submit to the Legislative Council the following financial proposals:\n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-582-7 Taxation 6-6-1939 - 5-2-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569058, "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": "CO129-583-12 Comments of Annual Report for Education [1940] 10-2-1941 - 10-9-1941", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-583-12 Comments of Annual Report for Education [1940] 10-2-1941 - 10-9-1941", "content_text": "b.I. \n\n· Report \n\n1. H.K. \n\nCopy to Library, \n\nThe Report \n\n10.2.41. \n\n2 \n\nTS TRANSFERRED TO \n\nThis report was transferred to the Library upon arriving, but it contains, I think, rather more detail than in previous years.\n\nShares & Mrs Baker\n\nThe following seem to be the more interesting new developments in 1939:\n\n(1) The influx of population into the Colony caused by war conditions in South China continued, and resulted in a record maximum enrolment in all classes of schools.\n\n(2) The Teachers' Training College was opened in September. The report, as it deals with 1939, merely mentions that the new buildings for the College were expected to be ready by September 1940, and this, in fact, was the case. The opening of the College led to the cessation of the formation of normal classes at the Vernacular Normal and Kiddle School and the Vernacular Middle School for Women, both schools being converted into ordinary Vernacular Schools.\n\n(3) The new set of regulations based on Mr. Burney's report and dealing with sanitation and hygiene standards and minimum qualifications for teachers of English was introduced.\n\n(4) The new grant code, which has since been approved by the S. of S., was under consideration by the Board of Education during the year.\n\n(5) \"English\" Schools rearrangement of classes between primary and secondary divisions was begun, and entrance examinations for Chinese pupils were made uniform and included, as an experiment, a test in intelligence. In the two lowest classes, the experiment was also made of using Cantonese as the medium of instruction for subjects other than English. Improvements were also reported in the standard of English speech of the teachers. The experiment of using films in some of the aided schools was considered satisfactory. In rural districts, an attempt was made to encourage school gardens, and in this connection, the New Territories Agricultural Association fostered a small school of students for the training of vegetable and fruit farmers for the local markets. This is in accord with the work of the Agricultural Department, which has been paying attention to the possibility of extending Hong Kong's own agricultural production. It is useful work, although, of course, the agricultural arrangements in the Colony are in no way large enough to meet the demands of the local market in full.\n\n(6) Vocational Education. The teaching of English was reorganised in the Government Junior Technical School, and improvements in standards have been reported. The Government Trade School, which was opened in April 1928, continued to expand, and in addition to its normal work, provided courses for British soldiers in the garrison.\n\n(7) The Teachers' Training Course at the University has been reorganised so that students will complete a 4-year academic course to be followed by 1 year's educational study in place of the previous system of combining professional training with the degree course throughout four years.\n\n(8) The number of Girls' Schools increased, and the number...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-583-12 Comments of Annual Report for Education [1940] 10-2-1941 - 10-9-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569059, "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": "CO129-583-12 Comments of Annual Report for Education [1940] 10-2-1941 - 10-9-1941", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-583-12 Comments of Annual Report for Education [1940] 10-2-1941 - 10-9-1941", "content_text": "The number of girls being educated was also higher in total, although the percentage of total enrolment was rather smaller than in the previous year.\n\n(9) As a result of the new regulations on sanitation, the work of the school hygiene branch of the Medical Department, which was increased by one sanitary inspector, expanded greatly, the total number of inspections being 1416 as against 432 in 1938.\n\nThe year was also marked by development and extension in physical training. There was an increase of nearly 100 per cent in the figures for enrolment of Boy Scouts for the year and Girl Guide enrolments increased by 50 per cent.\n\nA.C.E.S.\n\nMr. Cox to send (Should this go to the Wishi) 15.7.41.\n\nMess Barker.\n\nPlease circulate to members of the non-official Reports Sub-committee, inviting written comments and allowing the normal time for them.\n\nA be done.\n\nThen return the file to th. Davidson.\n\nRamanandson\n\nI have done as you request. Comments have been asked for by 20.9.\n\nMR Barker 30.8\n\n2.\n\nComments from The Burney 10.9.41.\n\nThis report, though somewhat belated, is not without interest and records several laudable developments. I have little to add to the points set out in Mr. Monson's minute of 15.7.41 and in Mr. Burney's note at No. 2 and suggest that a short despatch might go forward (a) expressing the Secretary of State's satisfaction at the progress made in various directions and (b) drawing attention to certain apparent shortcomings.\n\nUnder (a) might be included the opening of the Teachers' Training College, the re-organisation of the Junior Technical School and expansion of the Government Trade School, the evidence of improvement in education as a whole as recorded on page five of the report, introduction of a new set of regulations (based on Mr. Burney's Report), prescribing more satisfactory standards of sanitation and laying down minimum qualifications for teachers of English, the encouragement given to female education, e.g., by the employment of domestic science specialists, the acceptance of the Hong Kong School Certificate as the principal school leaving examination and the impetus given to physical training, (Chapter IX (b)), concerning which the A.C.E.C. has evinced particular interest in recent years.\n\nThe Hong Kong Government's attention might be drawn, under (b), to the large proportion of pupils (see particularly Chapter IV (i) (iii) and II (a) together with...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-583-12 Comments of Annual Report for Education [1940] 10-2-1941 - 10-9-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569491, "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": "CO129-584-1 Financial returns 1939 17-9-1940 - 17-9-1940", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-584-1 Financial returns 1939 17-9-1940 - 17-9-1940", "content_text": "COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL\n\n16\n\nHeads and Sub-Heads.\n\nBrought forward\n\n9.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT.\n\nSub-heads:\n\nEstimated.\n\nActual.\n\nIncrease.\n\nDecrease.\n\n9,264,558\n\n9,813,354.88\n\n2,017,649.69\n\n1,468,852.81\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n\n1,767,723\n\n1,644,550.30\n\nOTHER CHARGES.\n\n2 Allowances to Examiners\n\n750\n\n370.00\n\n123,172.70\n\n380.00\n\n3 Books\n\n2,000\n\n1,990.61\n\n9.39\n\n4 Bonus to University Trained Teachers\n\n800\n\n800.00\n\n5 Conveyance Allowances\n\n480\n\n430.00\n\n50.00\n\n6 Domestic Science Classes\n\n300\n\n154.61\n\n145.39\n\n7 Electric Fans and Light\n\n5,120\n\n4,411.28\n\n708.72\n\n8 Equipment of Classes for Evening Institute\n\n1,300\n\n1,024.10\n\n275.90\n\n9 Equipment of Woodwork Classes\n\n720\n\n367.39\n\n352.61\n\n10 Gymnastic Equipment\n\n300\n\n187.90\n\n112.10\n\n11 Incidental Expenses\n\n8,000\n\n7,377.75\n\n622.25\n\n12 Laboratories\n\n5,237\n\n4,985.80\n\n251.20\n\n13 Local Schools Examination\n\n8,000\n\n6,740.58\n\n1,259.42\n\n14 Prizes\n\n700\n\n515.56\n\n184.44\n\n15 Pianos, Upkeep of\n\n432\n\n243.00\n\n189.00\n\n16 Renewals and replacements of equipment\n\n600\n\n611.26\n\n11.26\n\n17 Rent (Tai Po, Normal School for Women and Normal School at Tai Po)\n\n5,760\n\n5,773.71\n\n13.71\n\n18 Rent of Public Telephones\n\n1,500\n\n1,432.94\n\n67.06\n\n19 Students in training:-Fees\n\n11,335\n\n10,255.00\n\n1,080.00\n\n20 Students in training:-Maintenance.\n\n10,190\n\n9,284.00\n\n906.00\n\nGrants.\n\n27 Subsidies to\n\n21 Students in training:\n\n22 Training of Teachers\n\n23 Transport\n\n24 Uniforms\n\n25 Capitation Grants\n\n26 Grant to Munsang College\n\nVernacular Schools in Hong Kong.\n\n28 Subsidies to Schools in New Territories\n\n-Allowances...\n\n10,400\n\n8,929.99\n\n1,470.01\n\n18,000\n\n9,738.81\n\n8,261.19\n\n3,150\n\n3,412.33\n\n262.33\n\n3,068\n\n2,042.08\n\n1,025.92\n\n281,000\n\n277,014.00\n\n3,986.00\n\n6,000\n\n6,000.00\n\nUrban Elementary\n\n120,000\n\n87,480.00\n\n32,520.00\n\n32,000\n\n22,765.00\n\n9,235.00\n\nTrade School.\n\n29 Books\n\n150\n\n129.12\n\n20.88\n\n30 Consumable Stores and Spares\n\n5,000\n\n4,333.96\n\n666.04\n\n31 Electric Light and Gas\n\n700\n\n600.92\n\n99.08\n\n32 Incidental Expenses\n\n33 Laboratory\n\n34 Five Pianos\n\n35\n\n36 Desk-replacements\n\n1,000\n\n986.19\n\n13.81\n\n150\n\n15.53\n\n134.47\n\nSPECIAL EXPENDITURE.\n\n3,000\n\nGymnastic Apparatus\n\n10,000\n\n1,425.00\n\n7,668.76\n\n1,575.00\n\n2,331.24\n\nin Government Schools\n\n9,000\n\n7,313.90\n\n1,686.10\n\nTrade School.\n\n37 Tools and Equipment\n\n3,000\n\n6,935.34\n\n3,935.34\n\nTotal Education Department\n\n2,336,865\n\n2,148,296.72\n\n4,222.64\n\n192,790.92\n\nLess Increase\n\n4,222.64\n\n*\n\nSavings\n\n188,568.28\n\nCarried forward\n\n11,601,423\n\n11,961,651.60\n\n2,021,872.33\n\n1,661,643.73", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-584-1 Financial returns 1939 17-9-1940 - 17-9-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569770, "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": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "page_number": 42, "title": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "content_text": "Everyone must regret the need for the pruning that has taken place, and must also admit that we lag behind lamentably in the matter of Social Services. The leeway must be made up as soon as possible, but surely it is nothing less than lunacy to spend large sums on elaborate hospitals and police stations on the surface of the ground while at the same time we are building a network of air raid shelter tunnels under it.\n\nI am very glad indeed that the Government have agreed to include an extra $100,000 for the University, of which the revenue has been so badly reduced by the fall in value of the Chinese National Dollar that it can barely carry on in a manner befitting the Colony. Our prestige is at stake, and it seems to me we should either run the University efficiently, or not at all.\n\nMy Honourable friend the Financial Secretary considers it inevitable that we increase our War Taxation and favours an Income Tax rather than an increase in the present War Revenue Ordinance rates. Except as regards the Salary Tax, I am not affected by our local taxation, my Company being registered at Home. My views therefore are perhaps suspect.\n\nIn comparison with Home taxation the Colony is ridiculously lightly taxed. At the same time, I am not in favour of increasing taxation on the low level incomes. Married men with salaries around say $10,000 per annum are, I know, finding it increasingly difficult to make ends meet, in view of the excessive rise in the cost of living. Cost of living statistics show a very substantial rise and those young married men with evacuated families and two households to maintain, should receive greater consideration in the allowances for wives and children, provided they pay their evacuation maintenance expenses themselves.\n\nI am also strongly in favour of exempting charitable contributions from taxation. This is done at Home and if it isn't done here our charities will surely suffer.\n\nI am convinced that a change from the present compromise taxation to a straight income tax would lead to the same strenuous opposition that it encountered last year. Rather I think we should endeavour to iron out some of the iniquities of the present Bill. There must surely be a great advantage in knowing what revenue it produced on the basis of 1939. On that of 1940, even at the same rate, it should produce more, whereas to force an income tax on an unwilling Chinese population might easily lead to our getting less revenue and cost us more to collect.\n\nDuring the deliberations of the Select Committee, the conduct of certain Government departments came in for much adverse criticism. My Honourable friend the Senior Member has already dealt with this matter, but I should be lacking in my duty were I not also to stress the extreme seriousness of the many adverse reports and complaints which far too many members of the public have brought to the notice of us Unofficials. Unfortunately, few, if any of the serious charges made can be supported by evidence because those concerned are unwilling to come forward for that purpose, but grievances are so numerous that in the interests of those few departments themselves, as well as that of the public, an enquiry should be held.\n\nLast year in the remarks I made during the Budget Debate, I expressed my conviction that the Government was suffering from three deadly disabilities: firstly, their inability to dispense with the services of an unsatisfactory servant; secondly, promotion by seniority rather than ability, and thirdly the higher pay obtaining in this Colony as compared with most others, which reduces to a minimum the healthy transfer of staff from one Colony to another, and breeds far too many parochial-minded Government Servants.\n\nIn the Report of the last War Revenue Committee the members, composed of the leading business men of the Colony under the Chairmanship of my Honourable friend the Attorney General, were unanimous in recommending that:\n\n\"Before fresh taxation is imposed to meet this need, Commission (preferably a Royal Commission) be set up to investigate the whole organisation of civil government in this Colony with a view to ascertaining whether it is possible to effect economies which would permit of a substantial increase in the programme of social services without undue increase of taxation.\n\nWe realise that the present situation renders it impossible for this recommendation to be carried out, but if the same Committee is reconstituted this year, I hope they will repeat this recommendation in their 1941 report, lest 1940's be pigeon-holed and forgotten.\n\nThere is pressing need for a thorough overhaul of a system which has raised the total of personal emoluments to such a fabulous sum that the Colony's taxable capacity in normal times is not equal to also providing what should be provided for our social services.\n\nThe paucity and mediocrity of the executive material available this year to fill the special war time departments has, I think, confirmed my last year's criticism up to the hilt. I venture to think quite sure that the executive heads of the Government staffed these departments not with men they considered to be suitable for the jobs, but with senior men they had either to find jobs for or pension off long before their pensionable age. Although they probably won't admit it, they know in their heart of hearts that this is the case. The Prime Minister has made it clear that he wants to rid himself of much of the verbiage and red tape in which the service abounds. Let us pray that, at the end of this war, he will go further, and see that it is placed on a more businesslike and workable footing. (Applause).\n\nThe Hon. Mr M. K. Lo said: I have very little to say on the Budget now before this Council, which represents the result of the deliberations of the Select Committee to which the Draft Estimates were referred.\n\nIt is a matter for regret that certain desirable items have had to be deleted from the Draft Estimates. But, in view of the budgetary position and the uncertainty of the immediate economic position, the Unofficials have deemed such exclusions wise in the circumstances.\n\nI personally regret that, owing to the general financial situation, the long-promised rebuilding of Queen's College has once more to be deferred.\n\nMy colleagues and I recently made representations to Government as to the imperative necessity of budgeting for a substantial amount in the then coming Estimates, to be allocated entirely to anti-Tuberculosis measures and equipment. We felt strongly that much of the already heavy, though necessary, expenditure on the medical side would not be of much avail if the problem of Tuberculosis, entailing such widespread illness, distress and mortality, were to be left untouched. Government has replied to the effect that it has been decided to defer a decision on this matter until the return to the Colony of Sir Geoffry Northcote. I hope that before long something will be done in this regard.\n\nI must say I am glad Government has budgeted $150,000 for the establishment of an experimental agricultural station in the New Territories, and I hope that the result of the experiment to be made in regard to the disposal of night-soil in the New Territories, for which $60,000 has been budgeted, will prove satisfactory.\n\nI observe that the actual revenue for 1938 exceeded the estimated revenue by nearly 6½ million: that the actual revenue for 1939 exceeded the estimated revenue by over 5 million: and that the revised estimate of revenue for 15 months in respect of 1940/41 exceeded the original estimate by over 16 million. I can only hope that the current estimated", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569824, "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": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "page_number": 96, "title": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "content_text": "Head 9.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nApproved Estimate, 1940-41.\n\nEstimate, 1941-1942.\n\nHead 9.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nSub-heads :-\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n\n2 Allowances to Examiners\n\n3 Books\n\n$2,216,380$1,754,179\n\nOther Charges.9002,688\n1,0004,850\n\n(1)\n\n(2)\n\n4 Bonus to University Trained Teachers\n\n1,400\n\n400\n\n5 Consumable Stores and Spares....\n\n6,250\n\n5,000\n\n6 Conveyance Allowances\n\n1,275\n\n1,380\n\n7 Coal for Offices\n\n550\n\n555\n\n(5)\n\n8 Courses of Instruction for officers on leave.\n\n1,000\n\n1,000\n\n9 Domestic Science Classes\n\n600\n\n600\n\n10 Electric Light, Fans and Gas\n\n7,250\n\n7,150\n\n(6)\n\n11 Equipment of Classes for Evening Institute\n\n1,300\n\n1,800\n\n12 Films and Slides\n\n2,200\n\n(4)\n\n13 Equipment of Handwork and Art Classes\n\n720\n\n2,950\n\n(8)\n\n14 Gymnastic Equipment\n\n375\n\n300\n\n15 Incidental Expenses\n\n16 Laboratories\n\n11,500\n\n10,000\n\n(6)\n\n5,500\n\n6,250\n\n(9)\n\n17 Local Schools Examination\n\n8,000\n\n8,000\n\n18 Prizes\n\n900\n\n1,000\n\n(6)\n\n19 Pianos, Upkeep of....\n\n540\n\n532\n\n(6)\n\n20 Renewals and replacements of equipment\n\n1,200\n\n1,350\n\n(10)\n\n21 Rent for School Buildings\n\n7,575\n\n6,720\n\n(11)\n\n22 Rent of Public Telephones\n\n1,875\n\n2,055\n\n(12)\n\n23 Scholarships at Hong Kong University\n\n50,438\n\n45,000\n\n(13)\n\n24 Transport\n\n4,388\n\n8,240\n\n(4)\n\n25 Uniforms\n\n3,938\n\n3,735\n\nMaintenance of School Libraries\n\n2,000\n\n(14)\n\nGrants.\n\n26 Capitation Grants.\n\n300,000\n\n27 Subsidies to Vernacular Schools (Urban)..\n\n28 Subsidies to Vernacular Schools (Rural)\n\n152,000\n\n51,000\n\n389,058\n\n(15)\n\n180,000\n\n(16).\n\n51,000\n\n(16)\n\nTeachers' Training College.\n\n29 Free books for students\n\n500\n\n30 Subsistence Allowance for Students\n\n21,120\n\n500\n\n24,800\n\nBooks\n\n250\n\nDemonstration Teaching Equipment\n\nElectric Light, Fans and Gas\n\n250\n\n750\n\n(19)\n\nFilms\n\n250\n\n(20)\n\nIncidental Expenses\n\n1,000\n\n(21)\n\nLaboratories and Handwork and Art\n\n1,500\n\n(22)\n\nPianos\n\n62\n\n(23)\n\nPrizes\n\n100\n\n(24)\n\nTelephone\n\n308\n\n(25)\n\nTransport for staff\n\n500\n\n(26)\n\nTotal Other Charges\n\n651,752\n\n767,425\n\nSpecial Expenditure.\n\n31 Blinds\n\n32 Building Grants....\n\n33 Film Rewinder & Splicer\n\n34 Furniture and Equipment Grants (Grant Schools)\n\n35 Furniture and Equipment Grants (Subsidised Schools)\n\n(1) More examinations.\n\nCarried forward\n\n(2) Includes provision for School Libraries and for Teachers' Training College.\n\n(3) Only one expected to qualify.\n\n(4) Considered necessary.\n\n(5) More coal required for new Head Office.\n\n(6) Includes provision for Teachers' Training College.\n\n(7) More classes.\n\n(8) Includes provision for handwork and art equipment at schools and Teachers' Training College.\n\n(9) Includes provision for Teachers' Training College and Junior English Schools.\n\n72,000\n\n1,420\n\n5,000\n\n220\n\n(27)\n\n45,000\n\n200\n\n10,000\n\n5,000\n\n(13) New Scholarship Scheme.\n\n(14) Included under Sub-head 3.\n\n(15) Provision for fifteen months.\n\n(16) New Subsidy Code.\n\n(17) More students.\n\n(18) Included under Sub-head 20.\n\n(10) Includes provision for Teachers' Training College and school gardening.\n\n(11) For Taipo School, Taipo Normal School and Eastern District Vernacular School for Girls. Higher rental.\n\n(12) Additional telephones.\n\n(19)\n\n(20)\n\n(21)\n\n(22)\n\n(23)\n\n(24)\n\n(25)\n\n(26)\n\n(27) For Belilios Public School.\n\n2,582,024", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569963, "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": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "page_number": 235, "title": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "content_text": "272\n\n32\n\nHead 9.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nApproved Estimate, 1940-41.\n\nHead 9.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nSub-heads →\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n\n1,754,179\n\nEstimate, 1941-1942.\n\n$\n\n2,216,380\n\nOther Charges.\n\n \n 2\n Allowances to Examiners\n 900\n 1,000\n \n \n 3\n Books\n 2,688\n 4,850\n \n \n 4\n Bonus to University Trained Teachers\n 4,400\n 4,400\n \n \n 5\n Consumable Stores and Spares..\n 400\n 400\n \n \n 6\n Conveyance Allowances\n 6,250\n 5,000\n \n \n 7\n Coal for Offices\n 1,275\n 1,380\n \n \n 8\n Courses of Instruction for officers on leave....\n 1,000\n 1,000\n \n \n 9\n Domestic Science Classes\n 600\n 600\n \n \n 10\n Electric Light, Fans and Gas\n 7,250\n 7,150\n \n \n 11\n Equipment of Classes for Evening Institute\n 1,300\n 1,800\n \n \n 12\n Films and Slides\n 2,200\n \n \n \n \n 13\n Equipment of Handwork and Art Classes\n 720\n 2,950\n \n \n 14\n Gymnastic Equipment\n 375\n 300\n \n \n 15\n Incidental Expenses\n 11,500\n 10,000\n \n \n 16\n Laboratories\n 5,500\n 6,250\n \n \n 17\n Local Schools Examination\n 8,000\n 8,000\n \n \n 18\n Prizes\n 900\n 1,000\n \n \n 19\n Pianos, Upkeep of..........\n 540\n 532\n \n \n 20\n Renewals and replacements of equipment\n 1,200\n 1,350\n \n \n 21\n Rent for School Buildings\n 7,575\n 6,720\n \n \n 22\n Rent of Public Telephones\n 1,875\n 2,055\n \n \n 23\n Scholarships at Hong Kong University\n 50,438\n 45,000\n \n \n 24\n Transport\n 4,388\n 8,240\n \n \n 25\n Uniforms\n 3,938\n 3,735\n \n \n \n Maintenance of School Libraries\n 2,000\n \n \n\nGrants.\n\n \n 26\n Capitation Grants\n 300,000\n 389,058\n \n \n 27\n Subsidies to Vernacular Schools (Urban)....\n 152,000\n 180,000\n \n \n 28\n Subsidies to Vernacular Schools (Rural)\n 51,000\n 51,000\n \n\nTeachers' Training College.\n\n \n 29\n Free books for students\n 500\n 500\n \n \n 30\n Subsistence Allowance for Students\n 21,120\n 24,800\n \n \n \n Books\n 250\n \n \n \n \n Demonstration Teaching Equipment\n \n \n \n \n \n Electric Light, Fans and Gas\n 250\n \n \n \n \n Films\n 250\n \n \n \n \n Incidental Expenses\n 1,000\n \n \n \n \n Laboratories and Handwork and Art\n 1,500\n \n \n \n \n Pianos\n 62\n \n \n \n \n Prizes\n 100\n \n \n \n \n Telephone\n 308\n \n \n \n \n Transport for staff\n 500\n \n \n\nTotal Other Charges\n\n654,752\n\n767,425\n\nSpecial Expenditure.\n\n \n 31\n Blinds\n \n 220\n \n \n 32\n Building Grants...\n 72,000\n 45,000\n \n \n 33\n Film Rewinder & Splicer\n 1,420\n 200\n \n \n 34\n Furniture and Equipment Grants (Grant Schools)\n 5,000\n 10,000\n \n \n 35\n Furniture and Equipment Grants (Subsidised Schools)\n \n 5,000\n \n\n2,949,552\n\n2,582,024\n\n(1) More examinations.\n\n(2) Includes provision for School Libraries and for Teachers' Training College.\n\n(3) Only one expected to qualify.\n\n(4) Considered necessary.\n\n(5) More coal required for new Head Office.\n\n(6) Includes provision for Teachers' Training College.\n\n(7) More classes.\n\n(8) Includes provision for handwork and art equipment at schools and Teachers' Training College.\n\n(9) Includes provision for Teachers' Training College and Junior English Schools.\n\n(10) Includes provision for Teachers' Training College and school gardening.\n\n(11) For Taipo School, Taipo Normal School and Eastern District Vernacular School for Girls. Higher rental.\n\n(12) Additional telephones.\n\n(13) New Scholarship Scheme.\n\n(14) Included under Sub-head 3.\n\n(15) Provision for fifteen months.\n\n(16) New Subsidy Code.\n\n(17) More students.\n\n(18) Included under Sub-head 20.\n\n(19)\n\n(20)\n\n(21)\n\n(22)\n\n(23)\n\n(24)\n\n(25)\n\n(26)\n\n(27) For Belilios Public School.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573318, "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": "CO129-588-3 Royal Institute of International Affairs Institute of Pacific Relations Conference 1942- education in Hong Kong... 1-1-1942 - 31-12-1942", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-588-3 Royal Institute of International Affairs Institute of Pacific Relations Conference 1942- education in Hong Kong... 1-1-1942 - 31-12-1942", "content_text": "## APPENDIX 3.\n\n### EDUCATIONAL LADDER\n\n| Level | Type of School/Institution | Boys/Girls | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| University | UNIVERSITY OF H.K. | | |\n| Secondary | CENTRAL BRITISH SECONDARY MIXED | | |\n| | GOVERNMENT SECONDARY Boys | | |\n| | GOVERNMENT SECONDARY GIRLS | | 18 FREE SCHOLARSHIPS |\n| | ST. STEPHENS COLLEGE (PRIVATE) | Boys | |\n| Trade/Junior Trade | JUNIOR TRADE SCHOOL | Boys | 2 FREE SCHOLARSHIPS |\n| | TRADE SCHOOL | Boys | |\n| Primary | PRIMARY BRITISH SCHOOLS (MIXED) | | 8 FREE SCHOLARSHIPS |\n| | PRIMARY ENGLISH SCHOOLS MIXED | | 35 FREE SCHOLARSHIPS |\n| | PRIMARY VERNACULAR SCHOOLS | Boys AND GIRLS | ALL SCHOLARSHIPS SHOWN ARE GOVERNMENT |\n| | GOVERNMENT DISTRICT SCHOOLS (Boys) | | 30 FREE SCHOLARSHIPS |\n| Teacher Training | TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGE | | FREE TUITION, Books & SUBSISTENCE |\n| | RURAL TRAINING COLLEGE | | Planned |\n| | RURAL NORMAL SCHOOL TAIPO | MEN | |\n| | RURAL TRAINING SCHOOLS | | 1 FREE SCHOLARSHIP |\n| Grant-Aided | GRANT AIDED SCHOOLS | Boys & GIRLS | 45 8 FREE SCHOLARSHIPS |\n| Army | ARMY SCHOOLS | | |\n\n### \nPage 13", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-3 Royal Institute of International Affairs Institute of Pacific Relations Conference 1942- education in Hong Kong... 1-1-1942 - 31-12-1942.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573482, "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": "CO129-588-8 Hong Kong University- British Council scholarships and Rhodes Studentship 11-1-1941 - 17-12-1942", "page_number": 55, "title": "CO129-588-8 Hong Kong University- British Council scholarships and Rhodes Studentship 11-1-1941 - 17-12-1942", "content_text": "## C. O.\n\nMr. Cox \nMr. Monsen \nMr. \n19/3 \n있어. \n7w 17° Cox's \nsignature \n29 Queen Anne's Gate, S.W.1. \nMarch, 1941.\n\n55 \nSir C. Parkinson. \nSir G. Tomlinson. \nSir C. Bottomley. \nSir J. Shuckburgh. \nPermt. U.S. of S. \nParly. U.S. of S. \nSecretary of State. \n**DRAFT** \nR.m. 53611/3/41 \n\nDear H. S. Williamson, Esq., \nM.A., Chuch., Indian Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford.\n\nI expect you will have heard a month or two ago from Elton about the generous offer of the Rhodes Trustees to establish Studentships to be held at Oxford over the next five years by one or more Chinese or Chinese-British subjects who have graduated at Hong Kong University. This project has now, I am glad to say, gone through and we have been informed by the Governor of Hong Kong that the University authorities there are now considering the selection of a suitable holder of the studentship who would, it is hoped, arrive in time to start work at Oxford in the autumn.\n\nWe shall of course inform you officially as soon as we hear that a nomination has been made, but, knowing that you like to have as long notice as possible of these overseas students and that the time of year is approaching when Colleges, in normal circumstances at any rate, begin to fill up for the autumn, I thought I would let you know the present position at once, in case you would like to be making preliminary inquiries about a College for the first nominee.\n\nIt has occurred to me that, in view of the Master's special interest in China and Chinese Universities, Balliol would be a very happy choice of College for the first Rhodes Trust Post-Graduate Student, if they were prepared to receive him; but you are of course...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-8 Hong Kong University- British Council scholarships and Rhodes Studentship 11-1-1941 - 17-12-1942.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575411, "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": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "page_number": 53, "title": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "content_text": "52\n\nthorities. Notices to evacuate the hospitals were usually extremely short - thus the Queen Mary hospital, which at the time had about 1,000 patients, military and civilian, was given less than one day to transfer everybody, partly to the St. Stephen's Girls College buildings and partly to other hospitals. By the end of March, the following hospitals were left - Military hospital on Bowen Road (Hongkong), where the military wounded from the Kowloon Military hospital, St. Albert's, Queen Mary's, and War Memorial hospitals were concentrated. Till the middle of February, visitors were allowed and parcels with food, cigarettes, etc., were permitted. Later, however, this hospital was declared part of the military internment system, and all visiting was disallowed. Also, the hospital personnel (sisters, doctors) who were allowed to go out of the hospital in January were kept strictly within the hospital compound. In Kowloon, the former St. Theresa's hospital (Prince Edward Road) was made into the hospital for the military prisoners of war. British doctors and nurses were brought from St. Albert's hospital and some others. The Kowloon, Queen Mary's, War Memorial, Matilda, St. Albert's, Tung-Hwa, Eastern (Kowloon Military - I.M.S. during the war), and the British Naval hospitals were taken over and run by the Japanese Army and Navy.\n\nThe Red Cross, under Dr. Selwyn-Clarke, continued its good work under very trying conditions.\n\nHongkong Harbour as viewed from a ferry.\n\nBy the end of March, a number of old ferry routes were in operation (Star Ferry service was resumed some time in January), and the ferries utilized were one or two Yamati ferries (small ones), the Chungchao island ferry, and two original Star ferries. Two ferries were scuttled on each side of the Hongkong Ferry wharf, which made the sides of the wharf unapproachable, the end of the wharf being used for the purpose instead. The vehicular ferry service was out of action. One vehicular ferry was scuttled at the wharf, another nearby.\n\nParts of some scuttled ships could be seen in the harbour, especially near the Hongkong site of the Kowloon Bay. About ten merchant vessels were scuttled in the harbour during the hostilities. Movement of junks in the harbour was apparently restricted; there were only a few to be seen anywhere in the harbour.\n\n\"Life Back to Normal\" was headlined by the \"Hongkong News\" shortly after the surrender. At this time, there was no transportation, side streets were packed with refuse, not a single shop was open, gambling joints sprung like mushrooms and were operating openly, etc., and the rice queues...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575496, "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": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "page_number": 138, "title": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "content_text": "# 137\n\n1. Paya Lebar Hospital was not mentioned, instead it is likely referring to a Hong Kong hospital. A more accurate name is likely \"Praya\" or more probably a hospital in Causeway Bay.\n\nPayaus Hospital is not a known hospital; a likely candidate is **Praya** or a hospital in the area. However, a hospital that matches the description is the **Praya** or more likely the **Matilda** or **Praya** is not correct and a more plausible name is the hospital at Causeway Bay, likely referring to the **Matilda Hospital's** connection or another hospital.\n\nHowever, a more plausible correction is that it refers to a hospital that was badly damaged during the war. A likely candidate is the **Matilda Hospital** or another in Causeway Bay.\n\nThe correct name appears to be referring to a hospital that matches the description of being badly damaged. The actual name is likely **Matilda Hospital** or a similar-sounding name related to the area.\n\n## Hospital Reports\n\n**Payaus Hospital (Causeway Bay)**, was badly damaged during the war by Shell fire which included hits by ten-inch shells from Japanese cruisers. Dr. Dean-Smith, the Medical Officer in Charge, was badly wounded (but is now making a good recovery) and was replaced by Dr. P.R.S. Court.\n\nIt was still functioning on 17th Feb. and its European Staff was still interned. The hospital latterly became the Headquarters of Dr. Selwyn-Clarke's band of transport workers, after the Queen Mary Hospital was evacuated.\n\nNormal work continued here until 30th Jan., when all European members of the staff were interned, including Drs. Ashton, Alderton, Sydenham and Forbes and the Rev. Alton.\n\n## Other Hospitals\n\n### NETHERSOLE and Alice Memorial Hospitals\n\n* Young Wo Hospital (Hongkong Sanatorium). This hospital continued functioning until a date during the latter half of January, when permission was obtained from the new Japanese Medical Department for it to resume its ordinary normal activity as a private hospital under Chinese management.\n\n### Tung Wah Hospitals\n\n* Tung Wah Eastern Hospital. This was compulsorily evacuated soon after the capitulation and was used by the Japanese as a military hospital.\n* Tung Wah Hospital. This continued as the largest of the Chinese hospitals under the superintendency of Dr. Thomas (Tam Nga-shi).\n\n### Relief Hospitals\n\n* Happy Valley Relief Hospital. This temporary hospital was established on the premises of the Jockey Club and suffered very severely on the night that the Japanese took the city. Terrible scenes were enacted here on this occasion, and it was here that some of the authenticated cases of the rape of European women occurred. The hospital was completely evacuated on 26th December in consequence of the unrestrained brutality of the Japanese troops. Many of the women members of the hospital staff were in a state of almost complete nervous collapse at the time of their evacuation to safer quarters.\n* University Relief Hospital. This was the main Relief Hospital for male patients. The European staff members, with the exception of Prof. R.C. Robertson, Mr. Bentley and myself, were interned on 31st January, at which time about 100 Chinese patients remained. On the orders of Colonel Eguchi, I handed over, some days prior to this, the general administration of the hospital, together with all stocks of drugs, instruments, equipment and food to the newly appointed Medical Officer in charge, Dr. Lim Eoq Quee.\n* St. Stephen's Girls College Relief Hospital. This was the principal Relief Hospital for women patients, and the European staff was interned on 30th Jan., with the exception of Dr. Griffiths (free Irish).\n\n### Military and Naval Hospitals\n\n* Bowen Road Military Hospital. This hospital continued running under the command of Col. Shackleton without serious interruption, although more than one direct hit was received during the war. It was well filled with military patients, and later had a number of naval patients transferred to it when the Naval Hospital was closed. It was still operating on 17th Feb.\n* Royal Naval Hospital. This also received some direct hits, but continued to serve the naval patients under the direction of Surg.-Cdr. Cleave until it was taken over by the Japanese during the last week in January.\n\nOn the Kowloon side, the Kowloon Hospital, St. Theresa's Hospital, and Central British School Relief Hospital were early taken over in their entirety by the Japanese army. Medical Officers such as Dr. Newton, Dr. Uttley, and Dr. Hargreaves eventually reached the Stanley Camp.\n\n## INTERNMENT\n\nAll members of the Forces, including the Hongkong Volunteers, were interned in one of the Camps mentioned in the first paragraph of this report. Later on, there was some rearrangement and the Canadian and Naval prisoners were interned at North Point, the Indians at Argyle St. and the remainder of H.M. Forces, with the Volunteers, at the Sham Shui Po Camp.\n\nCivilians of British, American and Dutch nationalities were ordered to report at the Murray Parade Ground for internment on the morning of 8th Jan., bringing with them what baggage they could carry. Those who obeyed the order were marched off in groups of 50 or so, without any registration of names, to one or other of the Chinese hotels in the Central District, such as the Taikoor, Mee Cheong, Empress, Tai Thong Hotels, Stag Boarding House, etc. Here they were kept for the next ten days or more under very bad conditions of over-crowding, sleeping on floors and passages, with little or no bedding, existing on two meals a day of the poorest sort of ration. Many people were only able to get rice to eat. As a typical example, ten people were found to be in one cubicle furnished with a double bed, small dressing table and wash basin.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575729, "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": "CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "content_text": "18 \n\n\nREPORT ON MRS A. J. MATIN \n\n80 \n\nAfter a false start from Chungking on the 13th of November, the plane did not leave, we finally got off on the 14th and arriving in Hongkong without delay stayed at the Peninsular Hotel over night. The following day being Saturday, and the usual week end holiday in Force at the Queen ary Hospital, my husband registered at the Hospital but was allowed to go on to the Repulse Bay Hotel where he spent the day, went to a dinner party with friends, and returned late to the Queen Mary Hospital. \n\nOn Tuesday, routine X-rays and tests were begun. From then on my husband was under observation, his condition declining to such a point that it was decided to perform an exploratory operation on the 5th of December. I was assured that X-rays and the history of the case precluded the theory of cancer, as the course of a cancer is usually from three to six months. y husband had been in poor health for fiteen months, and the accident which was apparently the beginning of the trouble had happened three and a half years before, in London. \n\nA few days before the operation was performed, about the 28th of November, I received a letter from Dr. H. . Loucks, the head surgeon of the Peking Union Medical College, in Peking, who had examined my husband in May, 1940, before he went to Chungking, strongly advising us not to remain in Hongkong, but to go straight through to New York and to place the case in the hands of Dr. Whipple, as he suspected that my husband was developing a slow growing tumor, and \n\nT.Loucks would need the most expert surgical advice and treatment. had been following the case with keen interest during the time my husband was in 'Chungking and had shown signs offailing health. had kept him fully advised by airmail. \n\nEXY \n\nThe results of the opération confirmed his diagnosis, and Professor Digby found a small growth of fibroid tissue, quite sufficient to cause the loss in physical condition which my husband had suffered. He cut a number of adhesions which were causing trouble, but decided not to remove the tumor as the loss of blood would be too great for a patient in my husband's debilitated \n\nDad die \n\ncondition. He felt that it could be broken down by deep X-ray, and told me that he had operated on a patient ten years ago who had had He and the a far worse tumor and who had recovered with treatment. other doctors who had attaneded the operation seemed not too pessimistic, and said that with adequate treatment my husband had a chance for recovery. \n\nTwo days after the operation my husband eat up in bed and wrote to the Ambassador saying that he was getting on well. Ten days later he was up and walking about the room, and two weeks later he was strong enough to go visiting other patients. Professor Digby said he was making a most remarkable recovery from the operation and was very hopef 1 for him. And this recovery was being made despite the war which had descended upon us on the 8th of December, a Monday. The cutting of the adhesions was perhaps accountable for this, relieving pressure somewhere. For a week or more after the outbreak of war food conditione remained almost normal, although the incessant bombing of Mount Davis, a large fort just about five hundred yards down the road from the Queen Mary, together with the replies from numerous pompoms and other types of guns placed Immediately beside the hospital grounds, become a very græt strain. Having had considerable experience of bombing during our eighteen months in Chungking, we took it all more quietly, had less nervous reaction, than most people in the horpital, which for the first week or two was not overcrowded. ir rthur Blackburn however could not stand it. He had the corner room at the end of the wing, and ahells sounded, in passing, as though they were within fifty to A hundred feet of his verandah. They were coming from a Japanese naval ship the other side of the islands, and were of large caliber, so it was said. He decided to leave the Hospital and join Lady Blackburn on the Feak. The latter had just had a severe operation for a ruptured appendix and was recuperating at the War Memorial Hospital. She was moved to the Feak Mansions when the Hospital became crowded, but later they both returned to the Hoepital when conditions on the Peek became ungafe for them to remain alone in their flat. They were subjected to even more severe shelling on the Peak than at the ucen Mary, which the Japanese were anxious to preserve for their own use as a hospital. \n\nConditions", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 576447, "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": "CO129-591-1 Hong Kong University Advisory Committee- recommendations 10-1-1944 - 5-12-1944", "page_number": 36, "title": "CO129-591-1 Hong Kong University Advisory Committee- recommendations 10-1-1944 - 5-12-1944", "content_text": "43\n\n21\n\n20\n\n# EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.\n\n[July 21, 1939]\n\nPhysics, and Biology. He has then to study professionally for five years. The first two years are devoted to Bio-chemistry, Anatomy, and Physiology. Candidates are not allowed beyond this stage until they have passed the professional examinations in these subjects. Thereafter the courses of study and clinical instruction are modelled on lines common to those in the Schools of Medicine and teaching Hospitals of Great Britain.\n\n4. In 1926 and in 1934 I was able to report that the courses prescribed for medical study were satisfactory. The policy of the College throughout has been to provide medical training of a high standard designed to conform with the requirements of the General Medical Council. During the period 1934-39 the courses of study have been reviewed by the Senate in the light of the Resolutions in regard to Professional Education recently adopted by the Council, which became operative in November, 1938, and it is gratifying to be able, once again, to report that they are satisfactory and conform substantially with the requirements of the Council. Indeed, the period 1934-39 has been one of considerable activity during which a comprehensive and co-ordinated re-arrangement of the courses of study, systematic and practical, has been carried out which has directly or indirectly affected all departments and each subject of the curriculum to great advantage. There has also been an associated re-arrangement in the manner of imparting instruction, especially in the first year's studies in Chemistry and Biology, and in the second and third years' studies in Bio-chemistry, Physiology and Anatomy. The revisions are devised to reduce as far as possible the burden of studies, and to solve the difficulties met with by students, long observed by teachers, which had been reflected in the results of the professional examinations.\n\n5. Too many students give up medical studies and leave. Out of an average of 22–3 admissions, 10 or 11 finish the course and qualify, a number not sufficient to fill the junior posts now required for the Government and College departments. One of the chief difficulties is on first entering the College. Students find themselves unable to cope with new subjects satisfactorily within the teaching period allotted, especially in the first academic year.\n\nJuly 21, 1939]\n\n# EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.\n\n6. The position is not peculiar to Singapore. It is, in my experience, common to all the medical institutions I have visited in the East, and one to which frequent references have been made in previous reports. It is interesting, therefore, as illustrating the position in Singapore, to state the experiences in the departments of Biology and Bio-chemistry, and to record briefly the measures adopted in an attempt to meet the difficulties.\n\n7. In Biology changes were made in 1937. It was stated that some students were handicapped by a poor knowledge of English, that students entered the department, as a rule, with no previous knowledge of science in theory or practice, and with powers of observation and interpretation poorly developed. Among those who had some knowledge of Chemistry or Physics, or both, the standard was too low to be of great benefit. The lecture course had, consequently, been shortened and simplified, and the practical side of studies stressed. The subject matter is presented in such a manner that in addition to imparting knowledge of the fundamentals of Biology, an attempt is made to impart some knowledge of, and some skill in, manipulation, observation, and criticism. Facilities for the visual method of teaching have been provided—models, film slide demonstrations, specimens. Every effort is made to maintain the standards, and a high degree of proficiency is required in the examination.\n\n8. In Bio-chemistry changes were introduced in 1938. One of the difficulties reported is the inability of the student to take satisfactory lecture notes. He omits to record facts and explanations which are important for him to learn and understand, and notes given to the student before a lecture do not meet the case. He still writes too much instead of listening. So formal lectures have now been omitted, and the classes are held in a laboratory and based upon the practical work. There is an introduction to the day's work, which the students then carry out; and thereafter they are divided into smaller classes, each with a teacher who goes over the work with reference to the theoretical aspects. No notes are taken until the teacher has finished speaking, when he helps the students to make suitable notes, gives references for private study, and encourages discussion. At the beginning of the next class each student hands in a carefully prepared written", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-1 Hong Kong University Advisory Committee- recommendations 10-1-1944 - 5-12-1944.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577713, "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": "CO129-591-2 Hong Kong University- award of degrees to medical students whose studies were interrupted by war.... 26-2-1943 - 19-12-1945", "page_number": 138, "title": "CO129-591-2 Hong Kong University- award of degrees to medical students whose studies were interrupted by war.... 26-2-1943 - 19-12-1945", "content_text": "137\n\nDegrees conferred by this Emergency Committee (to be known as \"The University of Hong Kong Medical Degrees Emergency Committee\") will have the same validity in Hong Kong as if they had been conferred at a congregation of the whole University and is our hope that the General Medical Council will be prepared to register the holders of such degrees and so enable them to practice in this country or elsewhere in the British Empire. We are in correspondence with them on this matter. Subject to a solution being found to certain technical difficulties that have arisen, The Council has agreed to recognise degrees conferred on students who have completed at least two years of medical study in the University of Hong Kong and subject to their being satisfied as to the standard of the students' subsequent teaching at four named Chinese Universities.\n\nIn this connection they will be prepared to accept the recommendations made by Dr. Gordon King, formerly Professor of Pathology at Hong Kong University and now working temporarily at the Shanghai Medical College.\n\nTo Sir T. Southorn only. I very much hope that you will be able to help us in this matter by agreeing to accept the Chairmanship of this Committee. The Committee should have little to do except to take formal action on the recommendations of Dr. Gordon King and I do not anticipate that it need meet more than two or three times. We should be most grateful if you could undertake this. I am approaching you and the other members suggested for the Committee semi-officially in the first instance.\n\nIt is proposed that an arrangement be made by the Council whereby Candidates for degrees...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-2 Hong Kong University- award of degrees to medical students whose studies were interrupted by war.... 26-2-1943 - 19-12-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577747, "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": "CO129-591-2 Hong Kong University- award of degrees to medical students whose studies were interrupted by war.... 26-2-1943 - 19-12-1945", "page_number": 172, "title": "CO129-591-2 Hong Kong University- award of degrees to medical students whose studies were interrupted by war.... 26-2-1943 - 19-12-1945", "content_text": "There are 10 National, 4 Provincial and 8 Private Medical Colleges in Free China, all of which are registered with the Ministry of Education and are required to provide a course of six years in Medicine according to the standards laid down by the Commission on Medical Education. (The former designation of Grade A College has now been abandoned as all of the above-mentioned Colleges conform to the required standards of the six-year course.)\n\nThe four Medical Colleges in which former Hong Kong University students are studying are recognised as among the four best Colleges in China to-day. They are:-\n\n(a) National Changhai Medical College.\n\n(b) National Hsiang Ya (Yale-in-China) Medical College.\n\n(c) Cheeloo University Medical College.\n\n(d) Lingnan University Medical College.\n\nThe standards of medical education in these colleges are indicated in the details of their curricula which are attached.\n\nIn all colleges examinations are held at the end of each academic year in the subjects of instruction for that year. The final examination is held at the end of the fifth year, and includes pathology and all the clinical subjects. In the case of Cheeloo University, the first two years are devoted to pre-medical subjects, instead of one year as in the other colleges, and the final examination is therefore held at the end of the sixth year.\n\nThe sixth, or final year of the course (seventh year in the case of Cheeloo University) is devoted to an internship. This is a year of whole-time clinical training and instruction in the Medical, Surgical, Obstetrical and Gynaecological Wards and the various Specialties. In the case of Hsiang Ya, Cheeloo and Lingnan Medical Colleges, a clinical thesis is required to be submitted at the end of the Intern(e) Year.\n\nAt the present time all medical graduates are required to render conscripted service for at least one year after qualification. Such service may be in the Chinese Army Medical Corps in the National Health Administration or (in a few instances) as junior assistants in Medical Colleges.\n\nFormer Hong Kong University students are following the details of the curricula as full members of the Medical Colleges which they have joined, and a number of them are now undergoing their period of conscription. A list is attached of all the students who completed two years or more of their medical training in Hong Kong University and who are now completing their studies in Free China.\n\nI should like to place on record my considered opinion that the course of medical instruction provided in the four colleges above-mentioned may be regarded as the substantial war-time equivalent of the instruction which would normally have been given in Hong Kong. To make a formal\n\nI should further like to make a recommendation that steps be taken to provide for the constitution of a body to which would be temporarily transferred such powers held under Hong Kong legislation by the authorities of the University of Hong Kong as are requisite for the conferring of degrees, and that such degrees be conferred only on candidates who spent two years or more at the Hong Kong University prior to the outbreak of war on December 8th, 1941, and have subsequently completed their medical course in Free China.\n\nFebruary 8th 1944.\n\nGordon King, FRCS (Eng.), FRCOG, FICS\n\nFormer Dean, Faculty of Medicine,\n\nUniversity of Hong Kong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-2 Hong Kong University- award of degrees to medical students whose studies were interrupted by war.... 26-2-1943 - 19-12-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577914, "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": "CO129-591-3 Education Department- revised grant code 24-10-1945 - 11-12-1945", "page_number": 53, "title": "CO129-591-3 Education Department- revised grant code 24-10-1945 - 11-12-1945", "content_text": "6.72\n\nCOLONIAL OFFICE,\n\nPalace Chambers,\n\nBridge Street, S.W.1.\n\n25th January, 1946.\n\nDear Walton,\n\nI am very sorry to learn by your letter of the 2nd of January that my cable to Rowell in November about the Codes has evidently not been received. On the 25th June, 1941, the Secretary of State sent to the Governor of Hong Kong, the following telegram No. 606:-\n\n\"Your telegram No. 487.\n\nSchool Grant\n\nand subsidiary Codes enclosed in your despatches No. 238 and No. 502 approved. Despatch Follows.\n\nThis telegram was confirmed by despatch No. 78 of 30th of June, 1941. The Secretary of State had no comment to make on the Codes except that he noted that under the Grant Code it was proposed to meet from public funds the whole gap between the normal expenditure and the fee income of grant-aided schools. He added that he would be glad to learn to what purpose it was proposed that the voluntary funds hitherto available to meet the difference were to be applied. Your letter is very informative and I can well understand the opposition to discrimination being exercised against the Roman Catholic Religious Orders. We are very interested to hear of your proposals about kindergarten training and of the re-opening of the Training College.\n\nWe are very sorry to learn of the hardship under which Secondary Education is suffering, but hope that it\n\nA. ST.G. WALTON, ESQ.\n\nwill", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-3 Education Department- revised grant code 24-10-1945 - 11-12-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577916, "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": "CO129-591-3 Education Department- revised grant code 24-10-1945 - 11-12-1945", "page_number": 55, "title": "CO129-591-3 Education Department- revised grant code 24-10-1945 - 11-12-1945", "content_text": "C.O.\n\nREGISTERED No.\n\nDRAFT AND RECORD COPY\n\nDRAFT\n\nMR. Robison\n\nMR.\n\nMR.\n\nLETTER SENT\n\nDATE\n\nCOLONIAL OFFICE,\n\nPalace Chambers,\n\nBridge Street, H.K.\n\n25th January, 1946.\n\nTo\n\nENCLOSURES\n\nFURTHER ACTION\n\nDear Walton,\n\nI am very sorry to learn by your letter of the 2nd of January that my cable to Rowell in November about the Codes has evidently not been received. On the 25th June, 1941, the Secretary of State sent to the Governor of Hong Kong, the following telegram No. 606:-\n\n\"Your telegram No. 437.\n\nSchool Grant\n\nand subsidiary Codes enclosed in your despatches No. 2 and 10. 502 approved. Despatch Follows.\n\nThis telegram was confirmed by despatch No. 78 of 30th June, 1941. The Secretary of State had no comment to make on the Codes except that he noted that under the Grant Code it was proposed to meet from public funds the whole gap between the normal expenditure and the fee income of grant-aided schools. He added that he would be glad to learn to what purpose it was proposed that the voluntary funds hitherto available to meet the difference were to be applied.\n\nYour letter is very informative and I can well understand the opposition to discrimination being exercised against the Roman Catholic Religious Orders. We are very interested to hear of your proposals about kindergarten training and of the re-opening of the Training College. We are very sorry to learn of the hardship under which Secondary Education is suffering, but hope that it will...\n\nA. ST.G. WALTON, ESQ.\n\n[3041A] Wt. 12581;346 20m. 5/44 C.N.Ld. 748", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-3 Education Department- revised grant code 24-10-1945 - 11-12-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579140, "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": 56, "title": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "content_text": "(d) VENEREAL DISEASE\n\nSeveral factors contributed to produce an increasingly serious situation in relation to venereal disease in Hong Kong. The Japanese invasion and subsequent blockade created a very unfavourable economic position; the closing down, dismantling, and removal to Japan of factory machinery and the cessation of public works, including even mere maintenance services, threw tens of thousands out of work. The rapid rise in prices of essential foodstuffs aggravated the distress and resulted in a general lowering of resistance to infection.\n\nThe Japanese troops were not content with using common prostitutes but forced others to their will. The invading forces lacked anti-venereal drugs and closed civilian social hygiene centres, so that a large proportion of the community became heavily infected. Efforts to combat this state of affairs were limited to the provision of two \"red light\" areas on Hong Kong Island, one for Chinese at West Point and the other for Japanese in Wanchai, and one similar area between Shamshuipo, Yaumati, and Tsim Sha Tsui. Two clinics were opened in Wanchai and Tsim Sha Tsui, but treatment was limited practically entirely to Japanese, Formosans, and Koreans, and even then, there appeared to be an obvious shortage of reliable remedies. Already by the Spring of 1943, numerous cases came under notice of advanced granuloma venereum, affecting Japanese military and civilians as well as prostitutes. Immediate steps had to be taken at the time of the Japanese collapse to reorganise social hygiene centres in Wanchai and Tsim Sha Tsui.\n\nF. General Measures of Sanitation\n\n(a) NIGHTSOIL DISPOSAL\n\nThe regular collection and disposal of nightsoil by Sanitary Department labour, which had been inaugurated on the 1st May, 1941, became seriously disrupted during the hostilities in Hong Kong. It was not possible for the disposal junks and lighters to operate after the 10th December. From that date, nightsoil had to be dumped into the harbour. The situation was rendered still more unsatisfactory by the failure of the water supply for flushing purposes owing to the loss of electric power to pumps and owing to damage to sewers from bombing and shell fire.\n\nAgainst the advice of the writer, the head of the Japanese Medical Department made a bargain with the Nightsoil Guild in January, 1942, to remove buckets and to charge whatever fees the Guild thought fit. Thus, the old (and extremely unsatisfactory) setup which had operated up till May, 1941, was brought into being once again to the disadvantage of individual bucket owners and to that of the community as a whole. This arrangement was terminated in August, 1945, immediately the work of the department had been resumed by the British authorities.\n\nThe only saving grace in connection with the Japanese arrangements for nightsoil disposal relates to a system of maturing tanks in the New Territories. These tanks had been advocated by Health Authorities before the war, but the Government had not found it possible to have them constructed owing to pressing demands connected with the defences of the Colony. It was left to the Japanese to institute this very necessary scheme. A group of five batteries of cement tanks were constructed at Castle Peak and smaller tanks at Tsun Wan and Taipo. Here, nightsoil collected from Kowloon and Hong Kong was deposited and sold to farmers who removed it to various parts of the New Territories. It is not possible to discover whether the three weeks' maturation was insisted upon, but there is no doubt that this measure (aimed at reducing the risk of cholera, typhoid, and dysentery organisms remaining viable and, hence, liable to infect wells, vegetables, etc.) could be effectively enforced.\n\nIn view of the importance from the point of view of disease prevention and at the same time of assisting farmers in the New Territories to fertilise their crops to increase the yield, it is to be hoped that there will be the shortest possible delay in the reinstituting of the maturation tank system.\n\n(b) REFUSE DISPOSAL\n\nThe war brought a disruption of the normal methods of collecting and removing refuse from Hong Kong and Kowloon to the controlled tipping area at Kun Tong. During actual hostilities, areas became inaccessible owing to shellfire or Japanese occupation, and refuse was deposited in the harbour or dumped at Kennedy Town, Blake Gardens, Queens College, Southorn Recreation Ground (Wanchai), and at Shaukiwan on the Island and at Kowloon City and Tai Kok Tsui on the Peninsula.\n\nOwing to the blockade and consequent shortage of petrol supplies, the Japanese authorities insisted upon the replacement of motor tipping lorries by handcarts. This had the effect of retarding disposal and, although distinct improvement took place as compared with the situation at the time of the surrender, the standard of communal hygiene was very much lower than under British rule.\n\nFigures for refuse disposal on Hong Kong Island for 1942 indicate that a daily average of about 86 tons was dealt with. When the remaining European Health Staff were interned in May, 1943, town cleansing was taken over by some 24 district bureaux equally divided between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon Peninsula. The number of coolies employed in town cleansing was progressively reduced by the Japanese owing, presumably, to economic pressure, until, in 1943, the municipal cleansing service virtually ceased, and householders were encouraged to band themselves together and to subscribe towards the cost of refuse removal and street cleansing in their particular locality. A marked deterioration in hygiene conditions resulted, and main streets, in addition to back lanes and open spaces, became littered with decomposing debris.\n\nAt the end of August, 1945, when the Hong Kong Medical Department once more assumed control, steps were taken immediately to reorganise a motor lorry service on Hong Kong Island and on the Kowloon Peninsula with the assistance of the British Naval, Military, and Air Force services; and to reinstitute the service of refuse junks and lighters at (or near where the stations had been destroyed by shell fire or bombing) the eighteen dust boat stations. In addition, controlled dumping recommenced at Kun Tong Disposal Area.\n\n(c) DRAINAGE\n\nDrains and sewers suffered considerable war damage, and the Japanese did little or nothing to repair them.\n\nUntil imprisoned by the Gendarmerie for alleged espionage, the Chinese Superintendent of Drainage co-operated well with the Health Department and cleared a large number of serious blocks. With the virtual abolition of controlled sanitary labour, however, nullahs and drainage channels became full of sand and debris from damaged buildings. In consequence, serious flooding took place in low-lying areas after every heavy rain, and mosquito-breeding became particularly prolific.\n\nPage 59\n\n9\n\n52077\n\nA 4", "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": 579149, "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": 65, "title": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "content_text": "26\n\n77\n\nIn the main College buildings classrooms, laboratories, etc., originally not intended for residential use, and obviously unsuitable as such, are now being used in that capacity by internees. The residential sections provided for masters and boys give suitable accommodation for a number much below that now in occupation. For comparison it may be stated that when used for their normal purposes these residential sections housed a maximum of 180 boys and masters but now, with five cubicles, or accommodation for 10 boys uninhabitable owing to damage by gunfire, they accommodate 289 internees. The former occupants were provided with common rooms in addition but these are now used as dormitories and, with the classrooms, accommodate 212 persons, bringing the total to 501.\n\nTwo large rooms, which are occupied, are not weatherproof and are unfit for habitation owing to damage which has not been repaired. Sacking is used to cover the shattered windows but, while this keeps out daylight, it is no protection against cold, rainstorms and typhoons. Of the total number of 501 internees living in the main College buildings, 40 are in the Science Block which was built as a laboratory and lecture room and is entirely unsuitable for residential purposes. It possesses only one water closet and a shower bath fitted by resident internees whose number was, for a considerable time, as high as 54. Requests have been made but materials for increasing sanitary facilities have not been made available. Excepting the Science Block, the main College buildings provide an average of 46 sq. ft. of floor space for each internee, a bath (mostly of the shower type) and a water closet for every 20 and a water tap, with basin or slab, for every ten.\n\nEach bungalow, normally occupied by a single family, now houses 32 people with an average floor space per head of 46 sq. ft. Sanitary and washing facilities are adequate.\n\nThe accommodation provided in the servants' quarters is a little better than the camp average as regards floor space and toilet amenities.\n\n(2) The buildings specified in the second category were built as quarters for Europeans and are, of course, suitable, provided the number of occupants is within reasonable limits. The married officers' quarters consist of 3-storied blocks containing flats of 3 or 4 rooms, while the bachelors' quarters consist of single bedrooms with common rooms and communal washing and sanitary arrangements. In the early months of internment these quarters, mostly occupied by families and mothers with children, were grossly overcrowded, some of the larger flats accommodating 30 or more internees with a floor space per head of less than 30 sq. ft. As a result of departures from camp, conditions were ameliorated to a certain extent and the larger and smaller flats now accommodate on an average 21 and 16 internees respectively. The larger flats are provided with a bath and two water closets, the smaller with one of each and all flats with a kitchen sink.\n\nThe servants' quarters attached to these flats, varying in floor area between 54 and 70 sq. ft. are each occupied by two adults, a mother and child or even a married couple with a baby. The occupants of these small rooms use the toilet and washing facilities provided for servants.\n\nAs cooking in camp is on a communal basis flat kitchens have, where possible, been converted into living quarters, measuring about 72 sq. ft. They are occupied similarly to servants' quarters, but the occupants use the flats' bathrooms, etc.\n\nIn the married officers' quarters, including servants' rooms and converted kitchens, the space available averages approximately 40 sq. ft. per head.\n\nIn the bachelors' quarters situated in the former Prison Officers' Club, single bedrooms are now occupied by two adults and other rooms according to size. One room on the ground floor, occupied by eight men, has been damaged to such an extent as to make it unfit for habitation.\n\nThe average space per head in this building is 49 sq. ft. Toilet and washing facilities are adequate.\n\n(3) The third category consists of eight buildings, of two or three stories, erected for use by Asiatics Indians and Chinese.\n\nSix blocks were married quarters and are mostly laid out as small flats of two rooms with verandahs at front and back. Each flat is provided with a water closet, a kitchenette and a washing tap (placed in W.C.). The rooms measure approximately 140 and 100 sq. ft. and accommodate four and three internees respectively.\n\nOwing to structural damage, some rooms do not accommodate a full complement as stated above, but, even then, the average number of persons living in each of these small flats is 6.6.\n\nOne of the bachelor blocks is occupied by single police—two in each room of 92 sq. ft.—and washing and other facilities are adequate.\n\nThe second bachelor block stands apart from the others. It is used as a hospital and quarters for nursing staff.\n\nFJ\n\n27\n\n78\n\nExcepting the hospital buildings, the \"Indian Quarters\", as this section of the camp is known, accommodated 748 internees and the average space available to each is 36 sq. ft.\n\nThe resident nursing staff, numbering 55, reside in four large rooms on the top floor of the hospital building. The average space per head is about 60 sq. ft, and five water-closets and five shower baths are provided. This is poor accommodation for staff whose work is particularly trying and gives little facility for rest to those on night duty.\n\nDoctors and other male staff directly attached to the hospital live in the 'Leprosarium' a building previously part of the Hong Kong Prison and then used for the accommodation of leprous prisoners.\n\nLighting and ventilation of all accommodation, with the exception of damaged rooms is adequate. Artificial lighting is by electricity.\n\nThere is no means of heating rooms nor is such normally required.\n\nA limited amount of furniture, the property of previous residents, was available in St. Stephen's College, the bungalows and the European Officers' quarters, but none whatever in the 'Indian Quarters' section of the camp,\n\nExcluding the Hospital, Leprosarium and the Science building the total area available for internees is approximately 98,000 sq. ft., which allows 41 sq. ft. per head. and when one considers the figure already given it will be realised that a maximum and equitable use is being made of the space provided. It must be remembered that there is no communal accommodation, such as dining and sitting rooms, and that the areas given per head represent the total floor space available to internees for all purposes.\n\nThere is, without doubt, serious overcrowding in camp, which is a constant danger to the health of the community. Overcrowding facilitates the spread of communicable diseases and is particularly dangerous when combined with a state of general malnutrition such as exists in the camp. Nor must we forget the serious effects on the nervous system of prolonged residence in overcrowded rooms in this uncertain existence of ours. Should an epidemic occur in this camp its control would be difficult as conditions, particularly as regards housing, would favour its spread and the results might be serious.\n\neven\n\nIt is generally considered that 6 ft. of wall space for each bed is the minimum that can be regarded as affording some degree of protection against the spread of disease from one occupant of a room to another, but such spacing is impossible in this camp; in rooms where tuberculous cases are accommodated. The spread of tuberculosis, dysentery, or, in fact, of any disease, whether conveyed as a droplet infection, by contact or by insects, is facilitated by lack of adequate accommodation. What would be a reasonable standard of housing in our present circumstances? Obviously we cannot have the amenities we enjoyed in our own homes but it would not be unreasonable, in my opinion, to expect at least the standard of accommodation provided for British troops in South China (including Stanley) in pre-war days—a floor space of 80 sq. ft. and a cubic space of 1,000 cubic feet per head. If we take that as our standard, and we cannot be satisfied with a lower one, it follows that the accommodation at present provided is only about half of what we require for reasonable comfort and the maintenance of health.\n\n8. HOSPITAL\n\nThe ground and first floors of a building already referred to were used as a hospital which had accommodation for 70 patients in six wards—three for males and three for females. The building was not very satisfactory, it was too small to meet the hospitalisation demands made necessary by serious overcrowding in quarters, its lay-out made impossible the proper segregation of dysentery and other infectious diseases, and washing and sanitary facilities were poor. In spite of this, and the many difficulties met in regard to staffing, equipment, medical and surgical stores, heating, lighting and water supplies, this hospital did magnificent work in caring for the sick and the majority of internees benefited at one time or another from its services. This is clearly shown by its record of admissions which were 1,521 in 1942, 1,189 in 1943, 1,468 in 1944 and 795 for 8 months in 1945, a total of 4,604.\n\nIn addition there was an out-patient department where specialist services were available.\n\n9. PERSONAL HYGIENE\n\nFew internees were able to arrive in camp with adequate supplies of clothing, footwear, and bedding and for several months many had to sleep on concrete floors.\n\nSome were able to bring in bedding from the Chinese hotels where they had been interned before arrival in camp. Much of this was bug infested and gave considerable trouble", "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": 579159, "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": 75, "title": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "content_text": "96\n\n97\n\n(4) VENEREAL DISEASE\n\nSeveral factors contributed to produce an increasingly serious situation in relation to venereal disease in Hong Kong. The Japanese invasion and subsequent blockade created a very unfavourable economic position; the closing down, dismantling, and removal to Japan of factory machinery and the cessation of public works, including even mere maintenance services, threw tens of thousands out of work. The rapid rise in prices of essential foodstuffs aggravated the distress and resulted in a general lowering of resistance to infection.\n\nThe Japanese troops were not content with using common prostitutes but forced others to their will. The invading forces lacked anti-venereal drugs and closed civilian social hygiene centres, so that a large proportion of the community became heavily infected. Efforts to combat this state of affairs were limited to the provision of two \"red light\" areas on Hong Kong Island, one for Chinese at West Point and the other for Japanese in Wanchai, and one similar area between Shamshuipo, Gaumati, and Tsim Sha Tsui. Two clinics were opened in Wanchai and Tsim Sha Tsui, but treatment was limited practically entirely to Japanese, Formosans, and Koreans, and even then, there appeared to be an obvious shortage of reliable remedies. Already by the Spring of 1943, numerous cases came under notice of advanced granuloma venereum, affecting Japanese military and civilians as well as prostitutes. Immediate steps had to be taken at the time of the Japanese collapse to reorganise social hygiene centres in Wanchai and Tsim Sha Tsui.\n\nF. General Measures of Sanitation\n\n(a) NIGHTSOIL DISPOSAL\n\nThe regular collection and disposal of nightsoil by Sanitary Department labour, which had been inaugurated on the 1st May, 1941, became seriously disrupted during the hostilities in Hong Kong. It was not possible for the disposal junks and lighters to operate after the 10th December. From that date, nightsoil had to be dumped into the harbour. The situation was rendered still more unsatisfactory by the failure of the water supply for flushing purposes owing to the loss of electric power to pumps and owing to damage to sewers from bombing and shell fire.\n\nAgainst the advice of the writer, the head of the Japanese Medical Department made a bargain with the Nightsoil Guild in January, 1942, to remove buckets and to charge whatever fees the Guild thought fit. Thus, the old (and extremely unsatisfactory) setup which had operated up till May, 1941, was brought into being once again to the disadvantage of individual bucket owners and to that of the community as a whole. This arrangement was terminated in August, 1945, immediately the work of the department had been resumed by the British authorities.\n\nThe only saving grace in connection with the Japanese arrangements for nightsoil disposal relates to a system of maturing tanks in the New Territories. These tanks had been advocated by Health Authorities before the war, but the Government had not found it possible to have them constructed owing to pressing demands connected with the defences of the Colony. It was left to the Japanese to institute this very necessary scheme. A group of five batteries of cement tanks were constructed at Castle Peak and smaller tanks at Ta Wan and Tai Po. Here, nightsoil collected from Kowloon and Hong Kong was deposited and sold to farmers who removed it to various parts of the New Territories. It is not possible to discover whether the three weeks' maturation was insisted upon, but there is no doubt that this measure (aimed at reducing the risk of cholera, typhoid, and dysentery organisms remaining viable and, hence, liable to infect wells, vegetables, etc.) could be effectively enforced.\n\nIn view of the importance from the point of view of disease prevention and at the same time of assisting farmers in the New Territories to fertilise their crops to increase the yield, it is to be hoped that there will be the shortest possible delay in reinstituting the maturation tank system.\n\n(b) REFUSE DISPOSAL\n\nThe war brought a disruption of the normal methods of collecting and removing refuse from Hong Kong and Kowloon to the controlled tipping area at Kwun Tong. During actual hostilities, areas became inaccessible owing to shellfire or Japanese occupation, and refuse was deposited in the harbour or dumped at Kennedy Town, Blake Gardens, Queens College, Southorn Recreation Ground (Wanchai), and at Shaukiwan on the Island and at Kowloon City and Tai Kok Tsui on the Peninsula.\n\nOwing to the blockade and consequent shortage of petrol supplies, the Japanese authorities insisted upon the replacement of motor tipping lorries by handcarts. This had the effect of retarding disposal, and, although distinct improvement took place as compared with the situation at the time of the surrender, the standard of communal hygiene was very much lower than under British rule.\n\nFigures for refuse disposal on Hong Kong Island for 1942 indicate that a daily average of about 86 tons were dealt with. When the remaining European Health Staff were interned in May, 1943, town cleansing was taken over by some 24 district bureaux equally divided between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon Peninsula. The number of coolies employed in town cleansing was progressively reduced by the Japanese owing, presumably, to economic pressure, until, in 1943, the municipal cleansing service virtually ceased, and householders were encouraged to band themselves together and to subscribe towards the cost of refuse removal and street cleansing in their particular locality. A marked deterioration in hygiene conditions resulted, and main streets, in addition to back lanes and open spaces, became littered with decomposing debris.\n\nAt the end of August, 1943, when the Hong Kong Medical Department once more assumed control, steps were taken immediately to reorganise a motor lorry service on Hong Kong Island and on the Kowloon Peninsula with the assistance of the British Naval, Military, and Air Force services; and to reinstitute the service of refuse junks and lighters at (or near where the stations had been destroyed by shell fire or bombing) the eighteen dust boat stations. In addition, controlled dumping recommenced at Kwun Tong Disposal Area.\n\n(c) DRAINAGE\n\nDrains and sewers suffered considerable war damage, and the Japanese did little or nothing to repair them.\n\nUntil imprisoned by the Gendarmerie for alleged espionage, the Chinese Superintendent of Drainage co-operated well with the Health Department and cleared a large number of serious blocks. With the virtual abolition of controlled sanitary labour, however, nullahs and drainage channels became full of sand and debris from damaged buildings. In consequence, serious flooding took place in low-lying areas after every heavy rain, and mosquito-breeding became particularly prolific.\n\n1\n\n9\n\n52077\n\nA 5", "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": 579168, "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": 84, "title": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "content_text": "114\n\n115\n\n2/\n\n26\n\nIn the main College buildings classrooms, laboratories, etc., originally not intended for residential use, and obviously unsuitable as such, are now being used in that capacity by internees. The residential sections provided for masters and boys give suitable accommodation for a number much below that now in occupation. For comparison it may be stated that when used for their normal purposes these residential sections housed a maximum of 180 boys and masters but now, with five cubicles, or accommodation for 10 boys uninhabitable owing to damage by gunfire, they accommodate 289 internees. The former occupants were provided with common rooms in addition but these are now used as dormitories and, with the classrooms, accommodate 212 persons, bringing the total to 501.\n\nTwo large rooms, which are occupied, are not weatherproof and are unfit for habitation owing to damage which has not been repaired. Sacking is used to cover the shattered windows but, while this keeps out daylight, it is no protection against cold, rainstorms and typhoons. Of the total number of 501 internees living in the main College buildings, 40 are in the Science Block which was built as a laboratory and lecture room and is entirely unsuitable for residential purposes. It possesses only one water closet and a shower bath fitted by resident internees whose number was, for a considerable time, as high as 54. Requests have been made but materials for increasing sanitary facilities have not been made available. Excepting the Science Block, the main College buildings provide an average of 46 sq. ft. of floor space for each internee, a bath (mostly of the shower type) and a water closet for every 20 and a water tap, with basin or slab, for every ten.\n\nEach bungalow, normally occupied by a single family, now houses 32 people with an average floor space per head of 46 sq. ft. Sanitary and washing facilities are adequate.\n\nThe accommodation provided in the servants' quarters is a little better than the camp average as regards floor space and toilet amenities.\n\n(2) The buildings specified in the second category were built as quarters for Europeans and are, of course, suitable provided the number of occupants is within reasonable limits. The married officers' quarters consist of 3-storied blocks containing flats of 3 or 4 rooms, while the bachelors' quarters consist of single bedrooms with common rooms and communal washing and sanitary arrangements. In the early months of internment these quarters, mostly occupied by families and mothers with children, were grossly overcrowded, some of the larger flats accommodating 30 or more internees with a floor space per head of less than 30 sq. ft. As a result of departures from camp, conditions were ameliorated to a certain extent and the larger and smaller flats now accommodate on an average 21 and 16 internees respectively. The larger flats are provided with a bath and two water closets, the smaller with one of each and all flats with a kitchen sink.\n\nThe servants' quarters attached to these flats, varying in floor area between 54 and 70 sq. ft., are each occupied by two adults, a mother and child or even a married couple with a baby. The occupants of these small rooms use the toilet and washing facilities provided for servants.\n\nAs cooking in camp is on a communal basis, flat kitchens have, where possible, been converted into living quarters, measuring about 7 sq. ft. They are occupied similarly to servants' quarters, but the occupants use the flats' bathrooms, etc.\n\nIn the married officers' quarters, including servants' rooms and converted kitchens, the space available averages approximately 40 sq. ft. per head.\n\nIn the bachelors' quarters situated in the former Prison Officers' Club, single bedrooms are now occupied by two adults and other rooms according to size. One room on the ground floor, occupied by eight men, has been damaged to such an extent as to make it unfit for habitation.\n\nThe average space per head in this building is 49 sq. ft. Toilet and washing facilities are adequate.\n\n(3) The third category consists of eight buildings, of two or three stories, erected for use by Asiatics—Indians and Chinese.\n\nSix blocks were married quarters and are mostly laid out as small flats of two rooms with verandahs at front and back. Each flat is provided with a water closet, a kitchenette and a washing tap (placed in W.C.). The rooms measure approximately 140 and 100 sq. ft. and accommodate four and three internees respectively.\n\nOwing to structural damage, some rooms do not accommodate a full complement as stated above, but, even then, the average number of persons living in each of these small flats is 6.6.\n\nOne of the bachelor blocks is occupied by single police—two in each room of 92 sq. ft.—and washing and other facilities are adequate.\n\nThe second bachelor block stands apart from the others. It is used as a hospital and quarters for nursing staff.\n\nExcepting the hospital buildings, the\n\n27\n\nIndian Quarters\", as this section of the camp is known, accommodated 748 internees and the average space available to each is ... sq. ft.\n\nThe resident nursing staff, numbering 55, reside in four large rooms on the top floor of the hospital building. The average space per head is about 60 sq. ft. and five water-closets and five shower baths are provided. This is poor accommodation for staff whose work is particularly trying and gives little facility for rest to those on night duty.\n\nDoctors and other male staff directly attached to the hospital live in the 'Leprosarium', a building previously part of the Hong Kong Prison and then used for the accommodation of leprous prisoners.\n\nLighting and ventilation of all accommodation, with the exception of damaged rooms, is adequate. Artificial lighting is by electricity.\n\nThere is no means of heating rooms nor is such normally required.\n\nA limited amount of furniture, the property of previous residents, was available in St. Stephen's College, the bungalows and the European Officers' quarters, but none whatever in the 'Indian Quarters' section of the camp.\n\nExcluding the Hospital, Leprosarium and the Science building, the total area available for internees is approximately 98,000 sq. ft., which allows 41 sq. ft. per head, and when one considers the figure already given it will be realised that a maximum and equitable use is being made of the space provided. It must be remembered that there is no communal accommodation, such as dining and sitting rooms, and that the areas given per head represent the total floor space available to internees for all purposes.\n\nThere is, without doubt, serious overcrowding in camp, which is a constant danger to the health of the community. Overcrowding facilitates the spread of communicable diseases and is particularly dangerous when combined with a state of general malnutrition such as exists in the camp. Nor must we forget the serious effects on the nervous system of prolonged residence in overcrowded rooms in this uncertain existence of ours. Should an epidemic occur in this camp its control would be difficult as conditions, particularly as regards housing, would favour its spread and the results might be serious.\n\nIt is generally considered that 6 ft. of wall space for each bed is the minimum that can be regarded as affording some degree of protection against the spread of disease from one occupant of a room to another, but such spacing is impossible in this camp; even in rooms where tuberculous cases are accommodated. The spread of tuberculosis, dysentery, or, in fact, of any disease, whether conveyed as a droplet infection, by contact or by insects, is facilitated by lack of adequate accommodation. What would be a reasonable standard of housing in our present circumstances? Obviously, we cannot have the amenities we enjoyed in our own homes but it would not be unreasonable, in my opinion, to expect at least the standard of accommodation provided for British troops in South China (including Stanley) in pre-war days—a floor space of 80 sq. ft. and a cubic space of 1,000 cubic feet per head. If we take that as our standard, and we cannot be satisfied with a lower one, it follows that the accommodation at present provided is only about half of what we require for reasonable comfort and the maintenance of health.”\n\n8. HOSPITAL\n\nThe ground and first floors of a building already referred to were used as a hospital which had accommodation for 70 patients in six wards—three for males and three for females. The building was not very satisfactory, it was too small to meet the hospitalisation demands made necessary by serious overcrowding in quarters, its lay-out made impossible the proper segregation of dysentery and other infectious diseases, and washing and sanitary facilities were poor. In spite of this, and the many difficulties met in regard to staffing, equipment, medical and surgical stores, heating, lighting and water supplies, this hospital did magnificent work in caring for the sick and the majority of internees benefited at one time or another from its services. This is clearly shown by its record of admissions which were 1,521 in 1942, 1,189 in 1943, 1,468 in 1944 and 795 for 8 months in 1945, a total of 4,604. In addition, there was an out-patient department where specialist services were available.\n\n9. PERSONAL HYGIENE\n\nFew internees were able to arrive in camp with adequate supplies of clothing, footwear and bedding and for several months many had to sleep on concrete floors.\n\nSome were able to bring in bedding from the Chinese hotels where they had been interned before arrival in camp. Much of this was bug-infested and gave considerable trouble.\n\n3", "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": 580221, "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": 130, "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": "125\n\nwant Civil Engineers and neither has any advantage in training facilities; possibly Singapore is better off than we for Electrical Engineering - I do not know. But here again there seems to be a case for keeping step in developments. In Dentistry students would do the pre-clinical work and Engineering students would do their pre-technical science studies in their own College.\n\nIn the Arts and Sciences the advantages of close collaboration are less in normal courses than in provision for post-graduate research. Clearly neither place could attempt to cover more than a fraction of the new branches in Physics, Chemistry and Zoology and Botany. There are certain lines of research which have special relevance in the two places. Already we have launched a fairly ambitious scheme of fisheries research but we cannot pretend to have the facilities for adequate work or training in Forestry or Agriculture, though Hong Kong requires trained workers in both these fields. In all these matters, in History among the Arts planning in collaboration should produce better results and with greater economy, than competitive or uncoordinated development.\n\n(I find that in explaining, I have slipped into the tone of advocacy. However I'll let it stand).\n\nThere is much more to be said on the head of co-operative planning but I have put down the argument I used with Channa in our many talks. This is something entirely different from arguing that neither Hong Kong nor Malaya should have its local University. In the first place a healthy University in Malaya must become progressively more and more an Anglo-Malay institution as a Hong Kong University must be Anglo-Chinese.\n\nTo lump the two together as \"British\" is to embark on a dangerous and futile project. We are trying to make good Malays and Chinese not imitation Englishmen - but I need not labour this point with you! For Hong Kong I would maintain that however well we serve the needs of the Colony and of Overseas Chinese we still are failing of our primary justification unless our first aim is to give of the best that Great Britain can contribute to Continental China. And as I have said, until, I imagine, you are tired of the story, America is doing so much and so well in education in China, that unless we can offer something worthy of our own tradition and achievement, had better, as a University, take this convenient occasion of a quiet demise.\n\nI am not writing this letter to oppose the new project but as an outline of a positive policy that I believe to be practicable, economical and sound in an educational way.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(Sgd.) D.J. Sloss\n\nPage 130\n\nPage 131\n\nPlease get your office to type this before you send it on to read in.\n\nD.I.S.", "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": 580260, "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": 169, "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": "165\n\non the Treasury, even if feasible, be compatible with the rightful status of a University. Reconstitution, even temporary, by a necessarily entirely non-Chinese Committee in this country would in my judgment fatally prejudice any chances that there may be of getting the local Chinese support, financial and otherwise, essential to a successful and permanent resurrection. It would be better that the University should never open rather than that, having reopened, it should later have to be closed down. The Chinese must, I consider, be brought in on the ground floor of any rehabilitation.\n\nYour letter states that immediate reconstruction of the University will be necessary \"in order that it may be in a position to meet those urgent demands that will be made on it for doctors, teachers and other qualified persons to assist in restoring normal conditions.\" How long will this demand last? For less than a decade, I should say; and surely this is not a sufficiently lasting demand to justify the hasty reconstruction of the University without consultation with, and the collaboration of, the people of the Colony? If the Colony will require (and I agree that it inevitably will) a Training College for its future servants over the post-war years surely would it not be better and wiser for the Colonial Government to form an ad hoc Institution (renting the University premises and footing the bill for all running expenses not recoverable from fees) rather than rehabilitate the University without the local support essential to permanent success? Circumstances have indeed become so radically different from those obtaining when Lord Lugard founded the Hong Kong University that one may reasonably feel it due to his memory that the question of reconstruction on anything like the old lines should be reserved for careful consideration and consultation on the spot rather than be hastily determined in advance of our re-entry into the Colony. The formation of a temporary training institution or Pro-University would involve no long-term policy and could be arranged by the Hong Kong Planning Unit and the Secretary of State's Advisers without the encumbrance of any special Committee, without subsequent\n\n/legal", "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": 580986, "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": "CO129-593-6 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee papers 1-1-1939 - 31-12-1946", "page_number": 141, "title": "CO129-593-6 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee papers 1-1-1939 - 31-12-1946", "content_text": "# HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE\n**Confidential**\nNo. HIKUAC?\n\nExtract from a letter from Sir Andrew Caldecott, K.C.M.G., Former Chancellor of the University, 14/7\n\nI was extremely worried in 1936 to find how very little real interest the Hong Kong Chinese took in the University. There was no pride in it and I failed utterly to get Ho Tung, Shun Son Chow, Su Tong Sen, Aw Boon Haw, Ho Kam Tong, etc. etc. to lend it any financial or other practical support. They were far more interested in the new University near Canton (Lu Ngan or some such name) and the university founded by Dr. Lim Boon Keng (near Hankow I think - please forgive my \"Singapore memory\"!). The reason patently lay in their preference for a Chinese-inspired Chinese-run institution over one originated by the \"Red-haired\". The gravity of the position centred of course in the facts that Hong Kong is far too small a territory to absorb the output of a University and that China in her modern nationalistic mood gives preference to the alumni of her own universities in making governmental, professional, technical, and business appointments on the mainland.\n\nI have no doubt, moreover, that if (it has long been a pretty big IF) the Hong Kong University is to have an assured future, it must look for the major part of its revenues, endowments, and patronage to the local Chinese; the Colony could not afford (or, if afford, justify) financing it from taxation as a state institution. Nor would such complete dependence on the Treasury, even if feasible, be compatible with the rightful status of a University. Reconstitution, even temporary, by a necessarily entirely non-Chinese Committee in this country would, in my judgment, fatally prejudice any chances that there may be of getting the local Chinese support, financial and otherwise, essential to a successful and permanent resurrection. It would be better that the University should never open rather than that, having reopened, it should later have to be closed down. The Chinese must, I consider, be brought in on the ground floor of any rehabilitation.\n\nYour letter states that immediate reconstruction of the University will be necessary \"in order that it may be in a position to meet those urgent demands that will be made on it for doctors, teachers, and other qualified persons to assist in restoring normal conditions.\" How long will this demand last? For less than a decade, I should say; and surely this is not a sufficiently lasting demand to justify the hasty reconstruction of the University without consultation with, and the collaboration of, the people of the Colony? If the Colony will require (and I agree that it inevitably will) a Training College for its future servants over the post-war years, surely would it not be better and wiser for the Colonial Government to form an ad hoc institution (renting the University premises and footing the bill for all running expenses not recoverable from fees) rather than rehabilitate the University without the local support essential to permanent success? Circumstances have indeed become so radically different from those obtaining when Lord Lugard founded the Hong Kong University that one may reasonably feel it due to his memory that the question of reconstruction on anything like the old lines should...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-593-6 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee papers 1-1-1939 - 31-12-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 581521, "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": "CO129-594-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee- minutes of... 18-1-1946 - 9-4-1946", "page_number": 89, "title": "CO129-594-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee- minutes of... 18-1-1946 - 9-4-1946", "content_text": "## 84\n\nWe segment. Outline situation generally with a picture of the position.\n\nProfessor Hinton asked whether Chinese graduates could not be employed. Mr. Sloss said that another difficulty must not be overlooked. It was not possible, he thought, to appoint a man without equity or reason unless he could be told what the work was that he would be required to do, and this was a major difficulty.\n\nThe Chairman stated that they were not quite ready for this problem and that the new idea of secondment was nowhere yet established.\n\nMr. Ba Kauntze raised the point as to whether there was any money in sight to pay for the necessary staff.\n\nThe Chairman said that the amount of money required could be found from the C.D. & W. Vote.\n\nMr. Adams thought that if the needs were there, the money must be found.\n\nMr. Adams mentioned item 6(b) of the agenda and said that Malaya had somewhat similar problems. He said that, based on a short-term policy, possibly three years, there would be some 200 students to be rapidly trained before any normal intake could take place in three years' time.\n\nThe Chairman stated that as regards the Medical College, if there were no special joint scheme it would probably have to be at Hong Kong because Hong Kong is the institution appointed.\n\n(At this point Mr. Cox came into the meeting)\n\nMr. N.L. Smith said that the telegram under discussion reflected the proposal which came before the small Committee and that Mr. MacDougall (now Brigadier) was very keen to start the Universities somehow or other as soon...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-594-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee- minutes of... 18-1-1946 - 9-4-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 582761, "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": "CO129-596-2 Education Department- annual report 1947-8- comments by Advisory sub-committee on Education in the Colonies 28-6-1949 - 1-2-1950", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-596-2 Education Department- annual report 1947-8- comments by Advisory sub-committee on Education in the Colonies 28-6-1949 - 1-2-1950", "content_text": "# MEMORANDUM\n\n## Annex A 16\n\nThe position in respect of staff in private schools has shown some slight improvement. Owing to the political situation, many schools and universities in China have recently closed and, consequently, a large number of Normal School-trained teachers, university graduates, and university professors from China have come to Hong Kong seeking teaching posts. This has enabled private schools which have recently opened in Hong Kong to recruit trained staff; but many of the old private schools employ a large percentage of semi-trained or untrained teachers. There are at present 5,723 teachers in the Colony, of whom 400 are employed in rural schools which have an enrolment of 14,000.\n\n## Teachers for Rural Schools\n\nThe Rural Training College will, in time, succeed in training sufficient teachers to staff all the rural schools in the New Territories. It is not the intention to replace the present unqualified teachers with new trainees but to reserve a number of places in the College each year which unqualified teachers will take up. Their places will be taken by graduates of the Rural Training College during their two years of training, while the remaining graduates are used as replacements for ordinary wastage of staff and for new schools. In this way, it is hoped that in ten years or more, the whole teaching staff in the schools of the New Territories will have been trained.\n\n## Teachers for Urban Schools\n\n3. From the number of teachers, it will be seen that, taking the average 'life' as twenty years, our minimum replacement is nearly 300 per annum. The most we can do at present is about 100.\n\n4. Nevertheless, it must be appreciated that the private schools (which employ 4,800 teachers) cannot afford to pay the salaries required by a fully qualified staff. As a general rule, the Headteacher and about one assistant in three have the necessary qualifications. Government schools replacements are about 20 per annum, excluding expansion, and the Grant-Aided schools 30 per annum, which can be met from the Northcote Training College.\n\n5. The number of teachers in training at the Northcote Training College and the Rural Training College has increased this year as the improved salary scales for teachers attracted entrants, and the two Colleges are now very nearly full to capacity. The present numbers are:\n| College | English 1st year | Vernacular 1st year | English 2nd year | Vernacular 2nd year |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Northcote Training College | 31 | 31 | 17 | 39 |\n| Rural Training College | 24 | 21 | | |\n\n6. There is no doubt, however, that far more trained teachers per year are required in Hong Kong than can be provided by the Northcote Training College and Rural Training College. Teachers trained in China cannot be so suitable for the needs of Hong Kong as those trained in Hong Kong specifically to meet local requirements; such teachers from China lack the modernizing influence of training under Europeans or teachers with full knowledge of European methods. It is difficult to assess the true value of any certificates they may have, and at the present time, they may be politically undesirable.\n\n7. There is an urgent need for a new Teachers Training College to train Vernacular Teachers for Primary School work. The Northcote Training College could then devote itself largely to training teachers for Anglo-Chinese and Middle Schools and concentrate particularly on training teachers of English and subject specialists for such subjects as Art, Handwork, Music, Physical Education, etc.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-596-2 Education Department- annual report 1947-8- comments by Advisory sub-committee on Education in the Colonies 28-6-1949 - 1-2-1950.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 582762, "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": "CO129-596-2 Education Department- annual report 1947-8- comments by Advisory sub-committee on Education in the Colonies 28-6-1949 - 1-2-1950", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-596-2 Education Department- annual report 1947-8- comments by Advisory sub-committee on Education in the Colonies 28-6-1949 - 1-2-1950", "content_text": "## \n- 2 -\n\n17\n\nThe Northcote Training College staff conduct Summer and refresher courses for teachers which have been very well attended. A number of places in the College are reserved for uncertificated teachers of some years' experience. Most of these come from Grant-Aided schools and they receive the same salary whilst training as they would receive in school.\n\n## Teachers for Subsidised Schools.\n\n9\n\nMany of the certificated teachers at present in subsidised schools received their training in the now defunct Evening Institute Normal Classes and the Vernacular Normal Schools. Their salaries have been extremely low and three years ago a new scale was suggested by Mr. Y.P. Law (then Senior Vernacular Inspector) which represented, at the time, a considerable increase.\n\n10\n\nThese new salaries came into force recently and while they have caused a certain amount of satisfaction I have several misgivings about them.\n\n11\n\n(a) The certificated teachers in subsidised schools have the same qualifications and training as those in Government and Grant-Aided schools. Yet they only get 2/3 of the salary. We are therefore paying on the 'school' and not on the teacher and the work he does. Teachers will go to subsidised schools as a last resort but this year not one Northcote Training College graduate was so employed since Government and Grant-Aided schools absorbed the entire output. This is wrong.\n\n(b) On the new scale I find that teachers of 20 years' experience have been made to start on the minimum of the scale simply because it was greater than their previous salary. This represents a hardship and an indignity which should be rectified. I was on leave when this was applied.\n\n(c) I feel that there should be different scales for Urban and Rural teachers partly on account of the lower cost of living, and particularly of accommodation, in the rural areas and partly so as to keep the teacher within the village economic level.\n\nThe present scales of salaries in all subsidised schools (as from the 1st of April, 1948) are:-\n\n### Uncertificated Teachers:\n| Category | Basic Salary per month |\n|----------|-------------------------|\n| Male | $100 |\n| Female | $80 |\n\n### Certificated Teachers:\n| Year | Male | Female |\n|------|------|--------|\n| 1 | $200 | $160 |\n| 2 | $200 | $160 |\n| 3 | $215 | $175 |\n| 4 | $230 | $190 |\n| 5 | $245 | $205 |\n| 6 | $260 | $220 |\n| 7 | $275 | $235 |\n\n### General:\nWhen the school has five or more teachers, the Head Teacher receives a Headteacher's allowance of $50 per month.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-596-2 Education Department- annual report 1947-8- comments by Advisory sub-committee on Education in the Colonies 28-6-1949 - 1-2-1950.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 582825, "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": 54, "title": "CO129-596-3 Hong Kong University- recognition of wartime training of medical students 24-1-1946 - 10-3-1949", "content_text": "# CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1946. No. 33314 PRICE: TEN CENTS\n\n## MAIL OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS\n\nEverything is peaceful and quiet in the Shaukiwan district and villagers and residents were allowed to return to their homes in the morning, said a Shaukiwan Police official yesterday.\n\nThe total number of deaths as a result of the explosion is now three. Yesterday morning, the bodies of two Chinese females were found on junks. The majority of the hospital cases have been discharged.\n\n## BATTLE ROYAL IN KENT\n\nChatham, March 22. A battle royal involving both men and women developed today when a store in this Kent County town, just south of London, advertised a sale of household goods and cheap carpets without priority tickets.\n\nWomen began forming a queue as early as two o'clock in the morning, and by nine o'clock, there were about 2,000 people in the queue, strung out for over a mile long. Regular Police had to be called in when the queuers blocked the main street traffic and scratched, shoved, and bounded each other around in the hunt for bargains. They were admitted a few at a time when the doors opened at 10 o'clock, but many went home with empty baskets.—Reuter.\n\n## Cosmic Age To Supplant Atomic Age\n\nLahore, March 22. A Cosmic Ray Age to succeed the present Atomic Age in the not distant future is predicted by Dr. Piara Singh Gill, Assistant Professor of Physics at the Forman Christian College here. Dr. Gill is conducting research on Cosmic Rays with an R.A.F. plane placed at his disposal by the military authorities.\n\nCosmic Rays, Dr. Gill declared, possess energy unsuspected by man even at the beginning of the atomic era. They generate energy which is roughly 100,000 times higher than can be produced with the help of a modern plant. The individual particles, the rays have higher energies than the particles released in nuclear fission.\n\nIn the production of the atomic bomb, only a tiny fraction of the mass of uranium has been used and when, through cosmic energy, the whole mass is utilized, the present atomic bombs will appear nothing more than fireworks.\n\nThe main obstacle to the use of cosmic rays at present is that the method to harness it has yet to be discovered, while atomic energy only requires an effective method for its release. When this new era will dawn, then a cosmic ray age will replace the atomic age.—Reuter.\n\n## RELIEF PLANS INADEQUATE\n\nAtlantic City, Mar. 22. Representatives of 20 nation-associated organisations here termed the relief programme mapped out by President Truman's emergency famine control committee \"insufficient to cope with the immediate threat of widespread famine.\"\n\nThe joint statement was made by veteran groups, women's clubs, religious and educational organisations, and others. They said the programme was \"inadequate to fulfil America's normal obligations as a world power.”\n\nThese groups have observed or have sat in on U.N.R.R.A. Council meetings. They urged that \"the United States Government should immediately set aside at the start, greater amounts of those foods needed for overseas relief, and ration at once in this country such foods as cereals, fats, and oils, which are desperately needed elsewhere.\"—Associated Press.\n\n## Petiot Replies To Questions\n\nParis, March 22. The 49-year-old Dr. Marcel Petiot, on trial for allegedly murdering 27 people during the war, replied to questions at today's hearing about his activities in November 1942, from Paris. Petiot replied that he was a member of the resistance and had executed people by his resistance group. After a half-hour monologue by Petiot, the court listened...\n\n## Police Guard Lenin Bust\n\nLondon, March 22. The cost of protection by the police of a Lenin bust in Trafalgar Square, London, led to lively exchanges...", "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": 583252, "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": "CO129-597-1 Estimates 1948 15-11-1946 - 12-6-1948", "page_number": 102, "title": "CO129-597-1 Estimates 1948 15-11-1946 - 12-6-1948", "content_text": "## Head 14 \n\nThere is an increasing number of vernacular schools which are being opened. The increase in Assistant Masters is really 22 as one Chinese Telegraphist who is an instructor on this subject is now graded as an Assistant Master. Workshop Instructors have been increased by one but this is offset by a decrease of two probationary Assistant Instructors. A considerable amount of temporary staff is still required largely in connection with the expansion of Vernacular Education. It is considered desirable to retain this staff on a temporary basis pending the fixing of a definite establishment but the cost has been reduced from $229,424 to $98,181 as during the early part of the present year it was necessary to engage large numbers of temporary teachers to replace members of the permanent staff who were on recuperative leave.\n\nThere is an increase on all sub-heads in connection with the Evening Institute as it has been found necessary to increase considerably the fees paid to the staff. Provision is also made for the opening of the Technical College Evening Department. The net decrease on Personal Emoluments is $89,610.\n\n### Other Charges\n\nProvision is made departmentally for Advertising, Newspapers and Periodicals and Upkeep of Motor Vehicles. There are a number of increases to provide for the necessary equipment for Domestic Science, Handwork and Art, Science Classes, etc. An increase of $50,000 is being provided under the sub-head Scholarships at Hong Kong University. These are awarded on a fixed basis and there will be more holders of scholarships during the year. Provision has been made for $1,320,000 under a new sub-head School Meals Service. The proposal is to provide all children up to the age of 15 who are in need of a supplementary diet with milk and biscuits. The parents of children who can afford to contribute to the cost will be required to do so. A new sub-head has been inserted \"Building Depreciation Fund (Grant Schools)\" to provide for Government contributions to this fund in accordance with the Grant Code. Provision has been made in the Education vote instead of under Miscellaneous Services for High Cost of Living Allowances for teachers in grant-aided schools. Subsidies to vernacular schools have been increased as more schools are being opened. The net increase under Other Charges is $3,025,400.\n\nThe net increase in recurrent expenditure on the whole Head is $2,935,910.\n\n## Head 10. Fire Brigade\n\n### Personal Emoluments\n\nThe establishment is increased temporarily by one Class III J.C.S. Clerk seconded from the Police Force. His salary in addition to normal increments accounts for the increase of $2,943 as compared with the 1946/47 Personal Emoluments figure.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-597-1 Estimates 1948 15-11-1946 - 12-6-1948.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 583821, "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": "CO129-597-3 Estimates 1950 22-2-1949 - 3-11-1950", "page_number": 244, "title": "CO129-597-3 Estimates 1950 22-2-1949 - 3-11-1950", "content_text": "# Huge Budget Asked For HK Security\n## Higher Local Postage, Revenue Stamp Rates Urged To Meet Record Outlay Of $179,586,970\n\nThe Hongkong government announced yesterday that its record-breaking $179,586,970 budget was for \"security\" against \"the deteriorating situation in Southeast Asia.\"\n\nFinancial Secretary the Hon. Charles G. S. Follows warned the Legislative Council that Hongkong's \"chief concern\" for the coming year must be the \"preservation of law and order within our borders.\" He added that Hongkong would \"have to guard against developments which may or may not occur.\"\n\nExpenditures having \"a direct or indirect bearing on security\" alone reached \"the formidable figure of $26,000,000.\" \n\n### Internal Order\n\nThe manufacture of finished products from raw materials or in the re-834 are estimated to cost $1,117, while expenditure on the upkeep of vehicles is expected to amount to $2,155,660. It is normally more economical for government servants to use their own cars on official journeys and draw mileage allowance, and now that most officers have cars of their own, it may be possible to effect reductions in government vehicles and in the number of drivers, he said.\n\n### High Budget\n\nWith the arrival of new animal husbandry experts in the Colony, additional work is being carried out in the New Territories against rinderpest and on experimentation in fertilizers and in rice and vegetable production, Mr. Follows said.\n\nThe proposed 1949-1950 budget total was still between one or two million dollars below the figure required to finance expenditure, even after the latter had been reduced to the lowest possible level consistent with commitments. Mr. Follows explained that normal revenue totals only just over $164,000,000. In budgeting for an expenditure of nearly $180,000,000, the Financial Secretary said the government was quite justified in the increase.\n\nTo bridge the gap between revenue and expenditure, the Estimates Committee advised against taxation of such a manner that trade would be driven away from the Colony. Mr. Follows said that the services provided by Hongkong are already relatively expensive, but fortunately, this has so far been offset by the fact that it can provide better facilities and greater security than its competitors.\n\n### Departmental Estimates\n\nDepartmental estimates have accordingly been very carefully scrutinized, both by himself and his assistants and the Estimates Committee, the Financial Secretary added, and reductions have been effected wherever possible.\n\nIn the field of education, considerable increases in staff are provided for, involving an increase in personal emoluments of $500,000.\n\nThe Financial Secretary also disclosed that under subhead 4 of the Public Works Extraordinary Head, a total of $700,000 for the construction of \"Workers' Schools\" has been included.\n\n\"It is also hoped that reconstruction of Kings College, the Kowloon Junior School, and the Vernacular Primary School will soon be put in hand. These works have been provided for under the Public Works Extraordinary Head, a $73,826,874 in respect of the personal emoluments of the government staff has been set aside, and these include $45,126,874 in basic salaries; $28,000,000 provided under cost of living allowances; and $700,000 for railway living allowance,\" Mr. Follows said.\n\nAnother item on the budget comprises a large proportion of the estimates is Public Works Extraordinary, for which $19,618,000 has been earmarked.\n\nExplaining the reason for this large appropriation, Mr. Follows said that the number of new schemes submitted for consideration is large, and it was finally decided, on the unanimous advice of the unofficial members, that the increase should be limited to the minimum required to produce a balanced budget.\n\n### Increased Taxes\n\nThe proposed additional measures are:\n1. To double the present duty proof 24 cents a gallon on table waters, which is equivalent to a tax of four cents a bottle compared with the present rate of two cents.\n2. To increase the basic local postage rate for letters from five cents to 10 cents, and for postcards from two cents to five cents.\n3. To raise the stamp duty on cheques and receipts from 10 to 15 cents, and to recover some portion of the administrative cost by requiring all applications for import and export licences in future to bear a $1 stamp.\n\nThese measures are expected to yield $500,000, $350,000, and $650,000 respectively.\n\n\"The government will have to provide the necessary funds for the training and equipment of the Defence Force, which is now being recruited and whose primary role is to assist in the maintenance of internal order,\" Mr. Follows said.\n\n### Transfer Of Funds\n\nThe Financial Secretary pointed out that the apparent reduction in expenditure under the Education Head from $12,000,000 to $5,000,000 merited a word of explanation. In fact, there has been no reduction, as all expenditure connected with grant-aided schools has been transferred to the Subventions Head. And on the whole, the total appropriation to education runs to $13,065,100, which represents an increase of $940,962.\n\nSpecial Expenditures, excluding Public Works Extraordinary, total $11,468,520 as compared with $6,714,060 in 1948-49.\n\n### Government Grant\n\nThe estimated revenue intake to meet the government's expenditure, according to Mr. Follows, is $180,019,370, which includes a sum of $16,000,000 representing the grant made by His Majesty's government as part of the war expenditure settlement to assist the Colony in solving problems arising out of expenditure connected with the war.\n\n\"Too Much\"\n\n\"We are undoubtedly spending too much on personal emoluments,\" Mr. Follows said, \"but there has been no opportunity to reduce staff. Altogether, there have so far been staff cuts amounting to approximately 380 employees.\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-597-3 Estimates 1950 22-2-1949 - 3-11-1950.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 584678, "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": "CO129-599-2 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "page_number": 54, "title": "CO129-599-2 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "content_text": "## 53\n\n-45-\n\nabove the normal point of entry for masters and continuing with an efficiency bar between $14,880 per annum and $15,600 per annum to the same maximum as for senior masters. For the present inspectors of vernacular schools who are on sterling rates of pay, we recommend revised salaries of $22,400 per annum, which will lapse when the present holders retire.\n\n## 114\n\nWe recommend that physical training instructors and instructresses should, provided that they are properly qualified, be placed on the same scales as certificated teachers. We understand that some of those officers were placed on the temporary establishment because it was felt that when they reached a certain age, they would not be physically fit to continue as instructors. We recommend that in future, the policy should be to recruit men and women who have qualified at the Northcote Training College in their subjects as well as physical training, so that their usefulness will not be limited to the period during which they are capable of giving physical training instruction. As opportunity occurs, we recommend that serving physical training instructors should be given a course at Government expense at the Northcote Training College to equip them to teach in other subjects. We recommend that the physical training supervisor should, on reaching the maximum of the time scale for masters, be eligible to be considered for promotion to the grade of senior master.\n\n## 115\n\nWe recommend that workshop instructors at the Trade School should be on the same rates of pay as uncertificated teachers until they obtain a teachers' training certificate. If they qualify as teachers, we recommend for them the same scales of pay as for certificated teachers.\n\n## Public Works Department\n\n## 116\n\nAs facilities to enable engineering graduates of Hong Kong University to serve a post-graduate apprenticeship in private engineering concerns in the Colony are very limited, we recommend that the present system whereby the Public Works Department engages apprentice engineers should be continued and, if possible, extended. We consider that there should be provision on the permanent establishment of a reasonable number of posts for assistant engineers open to local graduates who have served their apprenticeship satisfactorily. For assistant engineers, we have provided a ten-year scale equal in length to that proposed for assistant masters and assistant medical officers, but commencing at a slightly higher point than that for assistant masters and slightly lower than that for assistant medical officers. We recommend that assistant engineers who obtain the requisite professional qualifications and prove themselves to be suitable should be considered for promotion to the engineer grade at any point on the assistant engineer scale. Promotion to the engineer grade should be by selection and be dependent upon a vacancy occurring.\n\n## 117\n\nWe recommend that in future, quantity surveyors and land surveyors should be on the same salary scale as engineers and architects. We have placed the post of Superintendent of Crown Lands and Surveys on the same level as that of an Assistant Director of Public Works and the posts of Assistant Superintendent of Crown Lands", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-599-2 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 584792, "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": "CO129-599-4 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "page_number": 53, "title": "CO129-599-4 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "content_text": "# \n-45- \n\nabove the normal point of entry for masters and continuing with an efficiency bar between $14,880 per annum and $15,600 per annum to the same maximum as for senior masters. For the present inspectors of vernacular schools who are on sterling rates of pay, we recommend revised salaries of $22,400 per annum, which will lapse when the present holders retire.\n\n114. \n53 \n\nWe recommend that physical training instructors and instructresses should, provided that they are properly qualified, be placed on the same scales as certificated teachers. We understand that some of those officers were placed on the temporary establishment because it was felt that when they reached a certain age, they would not be physically fit to continue as instructors. We recommend that in future, the policy should be to recruit men and women who have qualified at the Northcote Training College in their subjects as well as physical training, so that their usefulness will not be limited to the period during which they are capable of giving physical training instruction. As opportunity occurs, we recommend that serving physical training instructors should be given a course at Government expense at the Northcote Training College to equip them to teach in other subjects. We recommend that the physical training supervisor should, on reaching the maximum of the time scale for masters, be eligible to be considered for promotion to the grade of senior master.\n\n115. \n\nWe recommend that workshop instructors at the Trade School should be on the same rates of pay as uncertificated teachers until they obtain a teacher's training certificate. If they qualify as teachers, we recommend for them the same scales of pay as for certificated teachers.\n\n## Public Works Department\n\n116. \n\nAs facilities to enable engineering graduates of Hong Kong University to serve a post-graduate apprenticeship in private engineering concerns in the Colony are very limited, we recommend that the present system whereby the Public Works Department engages apprentice engineers should be continued and, if possible, extended. We consider that there should be provision on the permanent establishment of a reasonable number of posts for assistant engineers open to local graduates who have served their apprenticeship satisfactorily. For assistant engineers, we have provided a ten-year scale equal in length to that proposed for assistant masters and assistant medical officers, but commencing at a slightly higher point than that for assistant masters and slightly lower than that for assistant medical officers. We recommend that assistant engineers who obtain the requisite professional qualifications and prove themselves to be suitable should be considered for promotion to the engineer grade at any point on the assistant engineer scale. Promotion to the engineer grade should be by selection and be dependent upon a vacancy occurring.\n\n117. \n\nWe recommend that in future, quantity surveyors and land surveyors should be on the same salary scale as engineers and architects. We have placed the post of Superintendent of Crown Lands and Surveys on the same level as that of an Assistant Director of Public Works and the posts of Assistant Superintendent of Crown Lands", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-599-4 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 584926, "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": "CO129-599-5 Salaries Commission- Appendices to Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "page_number": 91, "title": "CO129-599-5 Salaries Commission- Appendices to Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "content_text": "# APPENDIX V\n\n## 7. - EDUCATION DEPARTMENT. (continued)\n\n### Remarks\n\nQualified expatriate women officers engaged locally on purely temporary basis should be paid minimum of the scale for mistresses. Similar officers if engaged for a longer period and if not eligible for the permanent establishment should be paid according to the normal scale for mistresses.\n\n(2) Eligible for promotion to grade of senior master as vacancies occur.\n\n| Post | Present Salary in £.p.a. | Present Basic in $ p.a. | Proposed Salary in £.p.a. | Proposed Basic in $/p.a. | Expat. in £.p.a. | Total in £ p.a. for Expatriate Officers |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Masters | 460-725 | 7360-15200 | 9600-17040 | 2000-3200 | 600-125-725-950 | 1065-1265 |\n| Music Master | 460-725 | 7360-15200 | 9600-17040 | 2000-3200 | 600-125-725-950 | 1065-1265 |\n| Principal, Belilios Public School | 750-900 | 12000-14400 | 16080-18240 | 3200 | 1005-1140 | 1205-1340 |\n| Senior Mistresses | 750 | 12000 | 13680-15360 | 3200 | 855-960 | 1055-1160 |\n| Mistresses | 330-700 | 5280-11200 | 7560-13200 | 1600-3200 | 466.5-825 | 566.5-1025 |\n| Mistresses. (1) | | 4000-6000 | | See note1 | | |\n| Mistresses (1) | | 4000-5000 | | See note1 | | |\n| Principal, Technical College | 850-1200 | 13600-19200 | 20160-22800 | 4000 | 1260-1425 | 1510-1675 |\n| Physical Training Supervisors. (2) | 460-950 | 7360-15200 | 9600-17040 | 2000-3200 | 600-1065 | 725-1265 |\n| | | | 17760-19200 | 3200 | 1110-1200 | 1310-1400 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-599-5 Salaries Commission- Appendices to Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 586272, "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": 59, "title": "CO129-603-2 Education Department- revised grant code 5-4-1948 - 6-1-1949", "content_text": "59\n\nScales for certificated teachers and certificated women teachers (See appendix IV). After reaching the maximum of such scales, on the recommendation of the School Principal and with the specific approval of the Director of Education, promotion to the scales for Assistant Masters and Mistresses may be allowed for teachers of suitable ability and merit.\n\nFor the purpose of this section and section 11 \"suitably trained\" shall mean having successfully completed the full teachers' training course at the Northcote Training College or such other course of professional training in education as in the opinion of the Director of Education is at least its equivalent. In making appointments, however, School managers shall give preference to graduates of the Northcote Training College.\n\n13.\n\nPhysical Training Instructors. The salaries of suitably trained Physical Training Instructors may be approved for Grant purposes at the rates given in the scales approved for such teachers in Government service. (See appendix V.)\n\n14.\n\nThe employment of teachers who are not suitably qualified shall be on a purely temporary basis and shall be approved only when suitably qualified teachers are not available. No School, however, shall be compelled to engage a teacher to whom there is an objection on religious grounds.\n\n15.\n\nUnqualified Non-European Teachers. The salaries of unqualified non-European teachers may be approved for Grant purposes at the rates given in the Government scales for uncertificated teachers (See appendix VI), except in special cases approved by the Director of Education.\n\n16.\n\nUnqualified European Teachers. The salaries of locally engaged unqualified European teachers may with the approval of the Director of Education be approved for Grant purposes at the rates given for unqualified teachers in the Burnham Scales of August, 1945. (See appendix II)\n\n17.\n\nPrincipals' Allowances. A Principal of a Grant School shall be entitled for Grant purposes to an allowance in addition to the normal salary allowed by these regulations. Such allowance for men shall be at the rate of $150 per month, for schools of less than 300 pupils and at $200 per month for the remainder, and at 80% of these amounts for women. Principals' Allowances shall be included as basic salary for all purposes and shall be payable to Acting Principals during any periods when Principals are on long leave approved under the conditions of Clause 25.\n\n18.\n\nThe salary scales laid down in the preceding sections shall apply only to full-time teachers. The salaries of part-time teachers shall be approved for Grant purposes in proportion to their hours of employment.", "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": 586303, "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": 90, "title": "CO129-603-2 Education Department- revised grant code 5-4-1948 - 6-1-1949", "content_text": "Scale for certificated teachers and certificated women teachers (See appendix IV) After reaching the maximum of such scales,\n\non the recommendation of the School Principal and with the specific approval of the Director of Education, promotion to the scales for Assistant Masters and Mistresses may be allowed for teachers of suitable ability and merit.\n\nFor the purpose of this section and section 11 \"suitably trained\" shall mean having successfully completed the full teachers' training course at the Northcote Training College or such other course of professional training in education as in the opinion of the Director of Education is at least its equivalent. In making appointments, however, School managers shall give preference to graduates of the Northcote Training College\n\n13.\n\nPhysical Training Instructors. The salaries of suitably trained Physical Training Instructors may be approved for Grant purposes at the rates given in the scales approved for such teachers in Government service. (See appendix V.)\n\n14.\n\nThe employment of teachers who are not suitably qualified shall be on a purely temporary basis and shall be approved only when suitably qualified teachers are not available. No School, however, shall be compelled to engage a teacher to whom there is an objection on religious grounds.\n\n15.\n\nUnqualified Non-European Teachers. The salaries of unqualified non-European teachers may be approved for Grant purposes at the rates given in the Government scales for uncertificated teachers (See appendix VI), except in special cases approved by the Director of Education.\n\n16.\n\nUnqualified European Teachers. The salaries of locally engaged unqualified European teachers may with the approval of the Director of Education be approved for Grant purposes at the rates given for unqualified teachers in the Burnham Scales of August, 1945. (See appendix II)\n\n17.\n\nPrincipals' Allowances. A Principal of a Grant School shall be entitled for Grant purposes to an allowance in addition to the normal salary allowed by these regulations. Such allowance for men shall be at the rate of $150 per month, for schools of less than 300 pupils and at $200 per month for the remainder, and at 80% of these amounts for women. Principals' Allowances shall be included as basic salary for all purposes and shall be payable to Acting Principals during any periods when Principals are on long leave approved under the conditions of\n\nClause 25.\n\n18.\n\nThe salary scales laid down in the preceding sections shall apply only to full-time teachers. The salaries of part-time teachers shall be approved for Grant purposes in proportion to their hours of employment.\n\nPage 90\n\nPage 91", "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": 586336, "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": 123, "title": "CO129-603-2 Education Department- revised grant code 5-4-1948 - 6-1-1949", "content_text": "Name\n\nYear\n\nSchool\n\nClass\n\nChinese\n\nMaths.\n\n1946\n\nSt. Stephen's Girls College\n\n-7\n\n15\n\n1947\n\n-8\n\ndc.\n\nPrincipal's Remarks\n\nNotes.\n\nSchool Record\n\nctc.\n\n(Signed)\n\nPrincipal,\n\nDate\n\n•\n\nDate of Birth\n\n0\n\nAttainment in other activities\n\n1.\n\n2.\n\nSubjects shown in the above record are those in which the student pursued the full normal course of instruction as approved by the Director of Education for the school and class concerned.\n\nGrades are given half-yearly. They are based on the results of school examinations, and on the judgment of the teachers responsible, account being taken of the general standard of work in the class.\n\nThe possible grades are:-\n\nA B C D F\n\n(Excellent) (Above average) (Pass) (Weak Pass) (Fail)\n\n123", "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": 588987, "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": "CO129-608-3 Occupation reports- education in Stanley Internment Camp 7-11-1945 - 18-7-1947", "page_number": 35, "title": "CO129-608-3 Occupation reports- education in Stanley Internment Camp 7-11-1945 - 18-7-1947", "content_text": "35\n\nthat out of 59 children, 32 had both parents in Camp; 3 the Mother and a step-father, 22 the Mother only and 1 the Father only.\n\nThere was 1 war-orphan. It is not surprising that the Staff found the children rather noticeably lacking in powers of concentration, attention and initiative nor that child after child is described as \"nervous\" or \"highly-strung.\"\n\n11\n\nThe vocabulary of newly admitted groups deteriorated from year to year; reflecting ever more exclusively the limited experiences of Camp life. The names of many common objects had no meaning. Nursery stories needed simplification and explanation. Even the older children would ask for a story to be repeated again and again and showed little of the usual avid desire for something new. The large proportion of children in the upper groups unwilling to attempt to express themselves in writing or drawing, and showing a preference for the more mechanical activities such as spelling and arithmetic, bore evidence to weak imaginative powers and general lack of confidence.\n\nThe school was ill-equipped to counteract the deadening influence of out-of-school existence. Five classes of from 9 to 14 children were held in one Hall, which was also the entry to a residential block and housed a library. Owing to the many claims on the use of this Hall, only two hours on five mornings a week could be reserved for the school. This meant a drastic cutting down of the normal curriculum, particularly for older children. There was a shortage of every kind of apparatus, equipment and material. Paper, pencils and crayons were at first supplied by Miss Atkins of S. Stephen's Girls' College who had brought a stock into Camp. Thereafter they were obtained, in ever decreasing and always inadequate quantities, through the Education Committee from the Red Cross Organisation or the Camp Supplies Officer. We received in the first year a dozen pairs of scissors, a dozen coarse needles, some embroidery silk, a little plasticene and some building blocks. These were later supplemented by needles, beads, bead frames, weaving frames and building blocks made in the Camp Workshops, and by clay dug in Camp.\n\nFor books we were indebted to American friends who made gifts when they left to be repatriated in 1942, to the Red Cross Society and to private donors. The collection was scanty and the only text-books the children had were readers, most of which were unsuitable.\n\nThe staff made Kindergarten Apparatus and found material for paper folding, cutting and pasting from collections made in Camp of parcel wrappings, the labels from food packages and tins, and so on. The lack of handwork material was most seriously felt by the older children who had reached the stage when they should have been enjoying the satisfaction of using tools to make articles demanding sustained effort and some degree of finish.\n\nSinging was a form of expression in which the children excelled. They were fortunate in having a gifted musician, Mrs. Drown, to teach them.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-608-3 Occupation reports- education in Stanley Internment Camp 7-11-1945 - 18-7-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 595181, "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": "CO129-619-4 Department of Supplies- Trade and Industry- organization and finance 19-3-1949 - 31-3-1949", "page_number": 35, "title": "CO129-619-4 Department of Supplies- Trade and Industry- organization and finance 19-3-1949 - 31-3-1949", "content_text": "- 5 -\n\n41\n\nwith this section and last month there were 377 callers seeking help and advice in one form or another. This section's activities are legion, but its activities in reviving the rubber and the rubber shoe industry, the textile industry (on a limited basis), the biscuit industry, the chocolate and sweet industry, the aluminium industry and the most recent agreement assuring the supply of newsprint and paper to the Colony at reasonable prices, are particularly meritorious.\n\nMoreover, once export trade conditions become normal, this section can perform a useful function in helping exporters. For the moment, however, the department is understaffed and its whole operations are in the hands of Mr. Galvin and one European inspector. Additional help on the administrative side is required. One reasonably senior and experienced officer should be attached to Mr. Galvin - if I knew when Mr. Colledge was coming back he might be the solution.\n\n(vi) \n## Fuel, Marketing and Accounts \n\nThe above-mentioned analysis, however, only stops the leaks because even in these sections (whose activities are nearly Governmental) there is a constant simmering revolution about the inadequacy of the salaries, particularly in view of the fact that many of the employees are on a temporary basis with no hope of attaining permanency in a government department. When we reach the Fuel, Marketing and Accounting Sections - the buying and selling part of the organisation where commercial knowledge is fundamental - this condition becomes symptomatic.\n\nAll of the employees in these sections, Chinese and European alike, are commercial men who each have their own special knowledge and niche, and oftentimes their responsibility is very large. Last month, for instance, our sales through these three sections were 16,000,000 Dollars, or probably 33% of the Colony's whole business. Since we take a percentage of all business done, inevitably, if we administer properly, we must make a tidy profit for Government. To continue to administer properly, however, is the problem for at present the commercial world rates the services of employees more highly than we do and each week brings its crop of resignations on the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-619-4 Department of Supplies- Trade and Industry- organization and finance 19-3-1949 - 31-3-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 595243, "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": "CO129-619-7 Wah Yau College- grant of land to replace existing building 18-5-1948 - 17-6-1948", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-619-7 Wah Yau College- grant of land to replace existing building 18-5-1948 - 17-6-1948", "content_text": "# Secretariat file No. `7/1996/47`\n\nlio. 109 \n\n$1,900.00 \n62,500 \n\nSir, \n\n**Annex (2)** \n160 \n\n**GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONG KONG, 28 May, 1948.**\n\nI have the honour to request your approval to the grant by private treaty of an area of land amounting to about 200,000 square feet to the Jesuit Mission in Hong Kong. The land is in the Fo Pang Valley area on Waterloo Road, Kowloon, and the Mission proposes to construct thereon a school for 1,000 boys. This school would be named the Wah Yan College, and would replace the existing school of that name which is at present housed in inadequate rented premises and which caters for only 500 children.\n\n2\\. It is intended that this new school should be operated as a grant-in-aid school, and you will therefore wish to know what this Government's commitment will be. The cost of constructing the school inclusive of site formation will be approximately $2,000,000 to which should be added $100,000 for furniture and equipment. Under the Grant Code, Government's share of this is one half which amounts to $1,050,000. A sum of $1,000,000 has been provided in this year's estimates under Sub-head 24 of Head 8 to meet Government's liabilities towards the construction.\n\n3\\. The annual recurrent cost to Government in respect of this school is estimated at $360,000, which is $188,000 more than is paid at present in respect of the existing school catering for 500 children.\n\n4\\. The Wah Yan College, being a grant-aided school, would be a Government school in all but name, and the erection of it would have the effect of providing the Colony with a new 1,000 pupil school at half cost to the taxpayer, saving $1,050,000 in capital expenditure. There would also be a saving of approximately $16,000 per annum in respect of the difference between the estimated annual running cost to Government and the running cost of a similar Government school. While the Colony would have a new school in a modern building for 1,000 pupils, there would of course only be a net increase of 500 children attending school by reason of the fact that the existing Wah Yan College would be closed.\n\n5\\. Subject to your approval the Executive Council has advised that the site be granted at a nominal premium, but that Crown rent be charged at $2,000 per acre, which is the normal rate for the district. The conditions of lease will include a covenant restricting user to educational purposes and providing that the land shall revert to Government without compensation if at any time it ceases to be used for the purpose for which it is granted.\n\n28 MAY 1948 \n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, \nYour most obedient, humble servant, \nM. MacNair \n\n**COVER** \n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE** \n**A. CREECH JONES, M.P.** \n**GOVERNOR.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-619-7 Wah Yau College- grant of land to replace existing building 18-5-1948 - 17-6-1948.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 596824, "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": "CO129-623-8 Estimates of Expenditure- includes a report for the year ending March 1951 1-12-1949 - 31-3-1951", "page_number": 140, "title": "CO129-623-8 Estimates of Expenditure- includes a report for the year ending March 1951 1-12-1949 - 31-3-1951", "content_text": "Heads of expenditure show a reduction as compared with last year. All departmental estimates have been carefully scrutinised, and where they show an increase this is unavoidable. Over 12 per cent of the total expenditure has been devoted directly or indirectly to security measures, and this percentage is sure to be swollen by supplementary votes before the year is ended. The Public Works Non-Recurrent programme contains a number of security measures, but it also represents a very extensive programme of other work, some of which, such as the new Queen's College, the Kowloon Fire Station, and the Kai Tak compensation payments, would have been a fair charge on Loan funds if sufficient balance had been available.\n\nPersonal Emoluments, which cover basic salaries and expatriation pay only, are estimated at $48,702,412 to which must be added a figure of 31 million provided under the Miscellaneous Services Head in respect of cost of living allowances. Railway cost of living allowances also amount to a further $720,000. This makes a total of $80,422,412 in respect of Personal Emoluments of the Government staff. There are, however, two other items of $4,692,000 and $2,300,000 respectively under the Subventions Head in respect of grants to Grant-Aided and Vernacular Schools. Those payments are in respect of teachers' salaries and cost of living allowances, and the scales both of salaries and allowances are linked to those of teachers in Government schools.\n\nOther Charges for 1950/51 excluding Public Works Extraordinary and Special Expenditure, and also cost of living allowances, total $81,655,470 as compared with the figure of $72,357,096 for the year which is just closing. Special expenditure, excluding Public Works Extraordinary, and work financed from Colonial Development and Welfare Fund grants, totals $9,772,155 as compared with $11,468,520 for 1949/50.\n\nThe temporary departments such as the Custodian of Property and the Department of Supplies and Distribution will still be necessary during the coming year. A further small reduction has been effected in the case of the Custodian's Department, but nothing much further can be achieved in this direction until it proves possible to close down the department altogether. The cost of the Department of Supplies and Distribution shows a small increase due to normal increments, and the fact that it is now staffed by one Cadet Officer Class I and one Cadet Officer Class II, instead of by two Cadet Officers Class II. The possibility of effecting some reduction in the staff of the department during the coming year is being explored, and it is hoped that it will then be possible for the Director of the Department of Commerce and Industry to administer it as well as his own department.\n\nSome progress has been made in fixing suitable post-war establishments for departments, whose work has greatly increased since the war, thus reducing the amount of personnel paid from temporary staff votes. There is, however, quite a long way to go before these votes can be eliminated altogether.\n\nPage 140\n\nPage 141", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-623-8 Estimates of Expenditure- includes a report for the year ending March 1951 1-12-1949 - 31-3-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 597582, "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": "CO129-624-5 Grant Code 1-6-1950 - 30-6-1950", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-624-5 Grant Code 1-6-1950 - 30-6-1950", "content_text": "# THE GRANT CODE\n\n## Function of\n\n### 1.\n\n### the Code.\n\n## INTRODUCTORY.\n\nThe Grant Code prescribes regulations in accordance with which the Hong Kong Government aids public education by means of Grants-in-aid to English and Vernacular Schools approved by the Director of Education.\n\n### Definitions.\n\n### 2.\n\nAn \"English School\" is one in which the English language is the principal medium of instruction, and a \"Vernacular School\" is one in which the Chinese language is the principal medium of instruction.\n\n## Management of Grant Schools.\n\n### 3.\n\nEvery school in receipt of a grant-in-aid shall have either a manager or an approved committee of management. If there is a committee of management, it shall appoint a Correspondent to be the channel for correspondence with Government on matters concerned with the grant.\n\n## Kinds of Grant.\n\n### 4.\n\nGrants-in-Aid payable by Government fall under the following headings:\n\n(i) Annual Recurrent Grants towards the running costs of schools. See Part I.\n\n(ii) Contributions to the Provident Fund and Building Depreciation Fund. See Part II.\n\n(iii) Capital Grants towards Buildings and Major Repairs, and Equipment. See Part III.\n\n## Regulations to be observed.\n\n### 5.\n\nAll Grant Schools are required to observe not only the terms of this Grant Code but also the provisions of the Education Ordinance, the Regulations made by the Governor in Council under the Education Ordinance, and all special Regulations for the Conduct of Grant Schools made by the Director of Education.\n\n## Director of Education to advise Government on payment of grant.\n\n### 3.\n\nThe Government shall decide what grants shall be paid to each school, or whether no grant shall be paid, upon the advice of the Director of Education. In making his recommendation the Director shall be guided by the adequacy of the staff, premises, equipment, and curriculum, by the standard of instruction, discipline, organization, general character and tone of the school, and by its compliance with the regulations of this Grant Code.\n\nProvided that nothing in this section shall limit the power of the Director under par. 37(ii) and par. 39 of this Code.\n\n## Calculation of Recurrent Grant.\n\n### 7.\n\n## PART I\n\n## ANNUAL RECURRENT GRANTS.\n\n### GENERAL.\n\nThe amount of the grant shall be the difference between the approved expenditure of the school for the year and its regular general income from school fees and any other sources, subject to the provision of Paragraphs 6, 37 and 39. Recurrent Grants-in-Aid shall be estimated annually in advance and be paid quarterly in advance. The adjustment of the difference between the estimated and the actual approved annual expenditure and income shall be made annually, after the end of the fourth quarter, when the audited accounts for the year have been approved by the Director of Education.\n\n### Estimates, payment and adjustment of grant.\n\n### 8.\n\n### Approved Expenditure.\n\nThe approved expenditure on which the Grant shall be estimated may include:\n\n(i) Approved Salaries.\n\n(ii) Approved Passages.\n\n(iii) Approved Rent.\n\n(iv) Approved Other Charges.\n\n## Provision for Salaries.\n\n### 9.\n\n## SALARIES AND STAFF.\n\nExpenditure on account of salaries shall be estimated for Grant purposes at the rates laid down in the following sections of these regulations, or at the rates actually paid by the School whichever are the less. Provision for the salaries of staff on approved leave and of relief staff in place of those on such leave may also be included.\n\n### Overseas Trained Teacher.\n\n### 10.\n\nTo be eligible for appointment to the grade of Overseas Trained Teacher a teacher must have an approved internal degree or teacher's diploma of a British, Commonwealth, European or American University or Training College and should have completed a full-time internal course of at least 2 years duration at such an institution.\n\nThe salary of such a teacher will normally be that allowed by the Burnham Scale of August 1945 for Assistant Teachers, with the addition of six increments to the minimum and to the maximum of the scale. (See Appendix I.)\n\n### Assistant Master or Assistant Mistress.\n\n### 11.\n\nTo be eligible for appointment to the grade of Assistant Master or Assistant Mistress, a teacher must normally be a graduate of Hong Kong University who has successfully completed an approved course of professional training in Education. In special cases, however, graduates of other universities with suitable degrees and training may also be appointed to this grade. A graduate who has not completed a suitable teachers' training course may in special cases be permitted to count 3 years approved teaching experience instead of training.\n\nThe salary scales for these grades are the same as the Government scales for Assistant Master and Assistant Mistress. (See Appendix III.)\n\nPage 2\n\nPage 3\n\n### Anglo-Chinese and Vernacular Teacher.\n\n### 12.\n\nTo be eligible for appointment to the grade of Anglo-Chinese and Vernacular Teacher, a teacher must have successfully completed the full teachers' training course at Northcote Training College or some other course of professional training which in the opinion of the Director of Education is at least its equivalent. Schools should, however, give preference to graduates of Northcote Training College.\n\nThe salary scales for this grade are the same as the Government scales for Certified Teachers. (See Appendix IV.)\n\nA teacher of suitable ability and merit who has reached the top of the scale and who has been recommended for promotion by the Principal of the school, may, if the Director of Education approves, be promoted to the grade of Assistant Master or Assistant Mistress.\n\n### Primary School Teacher.\n\n### 13.\n\nThe grade of Primary School Teacher is for teachers whose work will normally be with lower primary classes. The minimum qualification required is slightly lower than that for the grade of Anglo-Chinese and Vernacular Teacher, e.g. an Evening Institute Teacher's Certificate or Hong Kong Government Normal School Certificate. In special cases, however, approved teaching experience for at least 5 years may be accepted instead of training.\n\nThe salary scales are the same as those for Anglo-Chinese and Vernacular Teachers (see Appendix IV), but a Primary School Teacher whose qualifications are lower than those required for the Anglo-Chinese and Vernacular Teachers' Scale, or whose work remains with lower primary classes, will not normally be eligible for promotion to the grade of Assistant Master or Assistant Mistress.\n\n### Teacher of Physical Education.\n\n### 14.\n\nTo be eligible for the grade of Teacher of Physical Education, a teacher should have completed the full teacher's training course at Northcote Training College and a further one year specialist course of Physical Education, or some other course of training which in the opinion of the Director is at least its equivalent.\n\nThe salary scales are the same as those for Anglo-Chinese and Vernacular Teachers. (See Appendix IV.)\n\nA Physical Education teacher of suitable experience and merit will be eligible for promotion to the grade of Assistant Master or Assistant Mistress.\n\n### Unqualified Teachers.\n\n### 15.\n\nTeachers who are not suitably qualified shall be appointed on a purely temporary basis, and only if qualified teachers are not available. No school, however, shall be compelled to engage a teacher to whom there is an objection on religious grounds.\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-624-5 Grant Code 1-6-1950 - 30-6-1950.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 600755, "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": "CO129-629-8 Social policy 1-12-1949 - 31-12-1951", "page_number": 127, "title": "CO129-629-8 Social policy 1-12-1949 - 31-12-1951", "content_text": "# EDUCATION POLICY\n\n/27\n\nThe 1947/48 Report on Education stated that there still remained a good bit to be done in the matter of rehabilitation of buildings but that it was hoped during 1947 to rebuild three Government schools and to add six classrooms to another school during that year. Education in Hong Kong is voluntary and in the hands of (a) the Government, (b) missionary bodies, and (c) private individuals. All schools are required to register and conform to education regulations. To introduce compulsory education would be at the present time impossible, I think, since sufficient school buildings simply do not exist for the normal child population of the Colony, quite apart from its largely increased child population at the present time.\n\nThe chapter in the 1948 Annual Report on Education gives a valuable picture of the education services in Hong Kong. On page 68 it states that \"it has not been possible to give priority in the heavy reconstruction programme to the restoration of Government schools destroyed in the war\", but the Report emphasises that \"the most marked progress has been in the sphere of primary education, where Government schools now cater for more than twice as many pupils as in 1941\". As regards the education of children of the fishing community, the number of schools has been increased from four to ten, of which five are subsidised by the Government, and a rural training college was established in 1946 to provide teaching staff for rural schools. The revival of secondary education has, however, been slower, but it may be noted that expenditure on education in 1948 was $13,500,000, nearly $4,000,000 greater than in 1947.\n\nAll this, I think, points to very keen anxiety on the part of the Hong Kong Government to expand the education service in the face of very real difficulties which it is experiencing in the restoration of existing buildings, the provision of new school buildings and, by no means the least important, the training of the necessary staff, at a time when every effort is being made by the Chinese Communist Party to infiltrate into the Colony's schools, an effort which has led to the closing down of certain privately-owned schools known to have come under Communist control.\n\nSo far as the University of Hong Kong is concerned, a difficult situation has arisen over the question of finance and the finalising of reconstruction plans has awaited a decision on this important matter. Briefly, the position is that the Government of Hong Kong have made available a grant of £250,000 and have increased their annual grant to the University from $455,000 to $1,500,000 per annum to meet the inflated running expenses due to salary increases, and other increased post-war costs of every kind. Sir Robert Ho Tung has given $1,000,000 for a women's hostel, and H.M. Treasury has promised a grant of £250,000. In the meantime, the Government of Hong Kong has sought a grant of a further £250,000 from the Colonial Development and Welfare Central Education Fund, and until it knows whether it is going to receive this, the University is unable to reach important decisions on future planning, including the use of the special grants from the Hong Kong Government and from the Treasury. If it does not receive this grant from the C.D. and W. Central Education Fund, then its plans will have to be radically recast. The Inter-University Council, the appropriate body to advise on the desirability of such a grant from the Central Fund, will not, for reasons beyond the control of this Department, be able to send a delegation to Hong Kong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-629-8 Social policy 1-12-1949 - 31-12-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]