[ { "id": 246685, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "page_number": 520, "title": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "content_text": "21.\n\n36\n\nTHE INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM\n\nsongs, some brief treatise which might help them to know whether it is a fish or a serpent which is offered to their grasp, and to perceive that they are receiving bread, where they thought it was a stone.\n\nII. The Home Industrial Museum, secondly, should be a place where the nature and value of the unknown products of this country and of foreign countries might be ascertained and made public. Investigations into native products calculated to serve the entire nation have been prosecuted in all the practical museums of the country since their establishment. I mention one or two. At the Museum of Economic Geology, London, an elaborate and most valuable series of researches on the steam coals of the Navy, was made some years ago by Sir Henry De la Beche, and Dr. Lyon Playfair. An equally important series of analyses of the iron-ores of England has recently been completed under Dr. Percy of the same Museum; and Dr. Hoffmann and Mr. Witt, who are also among its officers, have investigated at great length, the question, How far, without prejudice to the public health, the sewage of great towns may be rendered agriculturally useful. Sir Robert Kane, Director of the Museum of Irish Industry, Dublin, has devoted an entire volume to the discussion of\n\nAND COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE.\n\n517\n\nthe Industrial resources of Ireland. Along with Dr. Sullivan, he has also made a detailed report on the modes in which the too abundant peat of his native country can be rendered useful; and in the laboratory of that museum, the question of cultivating beet-root in Ireland as a source of sugar, has been very fully considered. Similar investigations are continually in progress.\n\nAs for foreign countries, every day ships bring to our great sea-ports, important raw materials which, through the ignorance of brokers, are wasted or neglected. I speak on this point chiefly on the authority of Professor Archer of Liverpool, who illustrated the fact at the Great Exhibition of 1851, and has since repeatedly brought it before meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He has furnished me with many examples of the truth I refer to. He has moreover himself organised a museum at Liverpool, to assist his townsmen in overcoming the difficulties which ignorance sets in the way of their enterprise, and has made public the important suggestion which I commend to your special approval, that samples of every strange raw material which passes through the Inland Revenue Office, should be sent to one, or other, or all of the Industrial Museums of the country, to be", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 263532, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-108 - Public Offices - 1865", "page_number": 235, "title": "CO129-108 - Public Offices - 1865", "content_text": "# 10629\n\nHong Kerry.\n\n231\n\nand conditions of the office and the time at which he will be required to prepare himself for it, I shall feel greatly obliged by receiving any such information which \nyou may be in possession of, and I will transmit \nit to Dr. Cochran.\n\nTo\nFam Soi\n\nYour obedient Servant\nAllen Thomson M.D.\n\nSir Frederic Rogers\n&c &c\nProfessor Macgowan\n\n## MINUTE\n1865\n\nEx 4 NOV\n\nCivil Surgeons 7\n\nMy Sir F. Rogers,\n\nI have made their \nCorrespondence\n\nEntered\n\nNovember 1865.\n\nI am directed \n5\n\nSir\n\nBy Cardwell to acquaint \nfully. Your letter \nof 30th ult. will be \nlaid before Mr. Cardwell with pleasure in \nanything you recommend: marked is possible. Concerning Dr. Andrew Cochran \nfor the office of Superintending \nthe Civil Hospital at Hong...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-108 - Public Offices - 1865.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 272586, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867", "page_number": 144, "title": "CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867", "content_text": "## THE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\n### PORT OF AMOY.\n\n**CHINA**\n\nSHIPOWNERS, AGENTS, and COMMANDERS are informed that the Dock Company's Establishments at the above Port afford facility for REPAIRING and REFITTING STEAM and SAILING VESSELS.\n\nTheir large Granite Dock, 288 feet on the blocks, 307 feet over all, is in complete working order, and at average spring tides can take vessels drawing 16 to 17 feet. It is filled with Caisson Gate and with a powerful centrifugal Steam Pump, ensuring despatch in all states of the tide.\n\nTheir two smaller Granite Docks, one 223 feet, the other 160 feet on the blocks, can take vessels at average spring tides drawing 14 feet to 13 feet.\n\nA stock kept on hand of Timber, Spars, Copper and Metal Sheathing, Paints for Iron Vessels, and other material required for Dockyard use.\n\n### CHARTERED MERCANTILE BANK of INDIA, LONDON, and CHINA.\n\n**INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER.**\n\nPAID-UP CAPITAL ... £750,000 \nRESERVE FUND... £145,908 14\n\nEllis Jas. Gilman, Esq. \nD.F. Robertson, Esq., Chief Manager (or officiating).\n\n**Court of DIRECTORS.**\n\n| Name |\n| --- |\n| George Gardon Nicol, Esq., Chairman |\n| Donald Larnach Esq. |\n| George May, Esq. |\n| Sir F. Halliday, Esq. K.C.B. |\n| Jas. Murray Robertson Esq. |\n\nThe premises comprise Carpenters Shops, Mast Sheds, Calendering and Blacksmiths' Shops, superintended by experienced Euro-Madras and European Foremen; also an Engineer's Workshop, supplied with Lathes and other tools worked by Steam, in charge of a Resident European Engineer. Dry Godowns for the reception of stores of vessels requiring to discharge them.\n\n**BANKERS.**\n\n- The Bank of England.\n- The London Joint Stock Bank.\n\n**BRANCHES AND AGENCIES.**\n\n| Location |\n| --- |\n| Colombo |\n| Kandy |\n| Galle |\n| Penang |\n| Singapore |\n| Shanghai |\n| Hankow |\n| Foochow |\n| Canton |\n| Hong Kong |\n| Yokohama |\n\nThe Bank negotiates and collects Bills and grants Drafts payable at its Branches and Agencies, and issues Letters of Credit and Circular Notes.\n\n### NOTICE TO SHIPOWNERS.\n\n**SINGAPORE DOCKS.**\n\nTHE PATENT SLIP AND DOCK COMPANY execute, in the most efficient manner, SHIPS REPAIRS of all descriptions, under the supervision of European Shipwrights and Engineers.\n\nThe DRY DOCK (opened in March, 1869) admits two Vessels at the same time, being over 400 feet in length, with a depth of water ranging to 16 feet.\n\nAnother Dry Dock of larger dimensions, adjoining the above, will shortly be completed, and available for the heaviest Steamers.\n\nThere is on the same premises extensive Wharf, with substantial Warehouse and other accommodation, comprising every convenience for coaling Steamers, discharging and storing Goods, together with ample Machinery and appliances for repairing Iron Steamers, &c.\n\nApply at the Offices of Messrs. PATERSON, SIMONS, and Co., Singapore; or to W. W. KEB, Esq., 101, Cannon-street, London, E.C.\n\nW. CLOUGHTON, Managing Director. \nNew Harbour, Singapore, June, 1867.\n\n### THE AGRA BANK (LIMITED).\n\nESTABLISHED IN 1833.-CAPITAL, £1,000,000. \nHEAD OFFICE-Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street, London.\n\n**BANKERS.**\n\nMessrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie, and Co., and Bank of England.\n\n**BRANCHES.**\n\n- Edinburgh\n- Calcutta\n- Bombay\n- Madras\n- Kurrachee\n- Agra\n- Lahore\n- Shanghai\n- Hong Kong\n\nCURRENT ACCOUNTS are kept at the Head Office on the terms customary with London bankers, and interest allowed when the credit balance does not fall below £100.\n\nDEPOSITS received for fixed periods on the following terms, viz.:\n\n- At 5 per cent. per annum, subject to 12 months' notice of withdrawal.\n- At 4 per cent. per annum, subject to 6 months' notice of withdrawal.\n- At 3 per cent. per annum, subject to 3 months' notice of withdrawal.\n\nEXCEPTIONAL RATES for longer periods than twelve months, particulars of which may be obtained on application.\n\nBILLS issued at the current exchange of the day on any of the Branches of the Bank free of extra charge; and approved bills purchased or sent for collection.\n\nSALES AND PURCHASES effected in British and foreign securities, in East India stock and loans, and the safe custody of the same undertaken.\n\nInterest drawn, and army, navy, and civil pay and pensions realised.\n\nEvery other description of banking business and money agency, British and Indian, transacted.\n\nM. BALFOUR, Manager.\n\n### COMPTOIR D'ESCOMPTE DE PARIS.\n\nIncorporated by National Decrees of 7th and 8th of March, 1848, and by Imperial Decrees of 20th July, 1854: and 31st of December, 1866.\n\nRecognised by the International Convention of 30th April, 1862.\n\n| | Francs | £ |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Subscribed Capital | 80,000,000 | |\n| Capital paid up | 50,000,000 | £2,000,000 |\n\nThe Bank will undertake the Agency of parties connected with India and China, the Purchase and Sale of Indian Securities, the Safe Custody of same, and the receipt of Interest, Dividends, Pay, Pensions, and other Moneys.\n\nThe Bank receives money on Deposit, on which Interest is allowed according to the length of time deposited.\n\nParticulars as to Rates, &c., can be ascertained on application.\n\n5, Old Broad-street, London, E.C.\n\n### HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.\n\nCapital, 5,000,000 dols. Paid up, 2,500,000 dols. \n**COURT OF DIRECTORS AND HEAD OFFICE IN HONG KONG.**\n\nLONDON AGENCY.-W. H. Vacher, 32, Nicholas-lane. \nBANKERS.-London and County Bank.\n\n**BRANCHES AND AGENCIES.**\n\n| Location |\n| --- |\n| Hong Kong |\n| Shanghai |\n| Foochow |\n| Ningpo |\n| Hankow |\n| Yoka (Yokohama) |\n| Manila |\n| Singapore |\n| Bombay |\n| Calcutta |\n\nThe Bank grants DRAFTS upon and negotiates or collects BILLS at any of its Agencies or Branches; also receives DEPOSITS for fixed periods, at rates varying with the period of deposit.\n\nIn addition to fixed rates of interest, the Bank has adopted the principle of setting aside a certain portion of its early profits to be given as a Bonus on Funds lodged with the Bank. Depositors will participate equally in respect of such Bonus, whether shareholders or not.\n\n### PIGNATEL & CO.\n\n**STOREKEEPERS, GENERAL MERCHANTS, AND COMMISSION AGENTS.**\n\nNAGASAKI JAPAN.\n\n### TUPPER AND COMPANY.\n\n**MANUFACTURERS OF PATENT GALVANISED IRON**, in Sheets, Tiles, Iron Roofs, Sheds, Cisterns, Pails, Gutters, Nails, Wire for Fencing, &c.\n\n**WORKS AT BIRMINGHAM AND LONDON.**\n\nOffices-6a, MOORGATE-STREET, LONDON. \nMerchants' orders executed with despatch.\n\n### R. L. SOUTHERN and Co.\n\n**MERCHANTS AND AGENTS.**\n\n6, MINCING-LANE, LONDON, E.C.\n\n### TO LET.\n\n[Aug. 13, 1867.]\n\nNow ready, price 10s. 6d.\n\n**TABLES for ASCERTAINING the COST PER POUND of CHINA RAW and WASTE SILK** Laid down in London; all charges paid at rates of Exchange from 6s. 6d. to 7s. 6d. per tael for Raw Silk, and from 5s. to 7s. 6d. per tael for Waste Silk.\n\nBy Edward Holdsworth.\n\nTo be had at the office of the \"London and China Telegraph,\" 2, Cowper's-court, Cornhill.\n\n### TO PARENTS IN INDIA AND CHINA.\n\nTHE ADVERTISER (who is the wife of a professional man) is willing to receive TWO YOUNG LADIES to be EDUCATED with her own daughter. The best course of education will be combined with all the advantages of a comfortable home. The house and garden are large, and in the neighbourhood of the Crystal Palace. Terms, £100 per annum each.\n\nAddress \"F\" London and China Telegraph Office, 2, Cowper's-court, Cornhill. Unexceptionable references given and required.\n\n### TO CHINA MERCHANTS.\n\nTHE ADVERTISER, having had considerable experience in the China Trade, both in managing a large business and as Silk Buyer for five years (his knowledge of Silk extending over a period of thirteen years), is anxious to meet with an APPOINTMENT, either in England or China.\n\nAddress, E. C. E., care office, \"London and China Telegraph,\" 2, Cowper's-court, Cornhill.\n\n### TO JAPAN MERCHANTS.\n\nAN energetic GENTLEMAN, aged 39, and possessed of 22 years' business experience (10 of which have been passed as a Merchant in one of the Australian Colonies, the remainder in London) SEEKS A CONFIDENTIAL APPOINTMENT IN JAPAN AS MANAGER OR OTHERWISE. Is a first-class Accountant and Correspondent, well acquainted with Merchandise, Shipping, Insurances, &c., is competent to take the management of a Branch for a Marine Insurance Company, having great experience at Lloyd's. Is seeking an opening where integrity and ability may lead to future advancement rather than any immediate high remuneration. References of the highest character.\n\nAddress \"S. W.\" care of Messrs. WILLIAM BROWN and Co., 40, Old Broad-street, E.C.\n\n### WA\n\n**CHINA AND JAPAN TRADE.**\n\nWANTED a PARTNER, either active or sleeping, to take a share in a business connected with China and Japan. Capital required, about £5,000.\n\nFor interview address S. T., London and China Telegraph Office, 2, Cowper's-court, Cornhill.\n\n### A GENTLEMAN, recently returned from Japan.\n\nhaving had for five years the management of the books of one of the principal houses in Yokohama, is desirous of a fresh ENGAGEMENT, either in Japan or any house in England connected with the East.\n\nAddress, E. J. S., 5, Love-lane, Aldermanbury.\n\n### PERRY and Co.'s PATENT ESSENCE OF INK.\n\nThe CHEAPEST INK. \nThe BEST INK. \nThe PERMANENT INK. \nThe 1d. Packet equal to a 6d. Bottle. \nThe 1s. Bottle makes Two Quarts.\n\nPERRY and Co.'s PATENT ESSENCE OF INK.\n\nThis preparation produces Extemporaneous Ink of the finest quality in one minute with cold water, and instantly with hot water, by simple solution as salt or sugar. Sold in packets 1d. each, and in glass bottles 1s. each. Sample free, per post, for two stamps. Sold by all Stationers, Wholesale, 87, Red Lion-square, and 3, Cheapside, London.\n\n### A FURNISHED (DOUBLE) HOUSE AT FOREST HILL.\n\nContaining DINING ROOM, DRAWING ROOM, and Six BED ROOMS, BATH ROOM, KITCHENS, LAUNDRY, &c. The Situation is good, and the house in all respects desirable.\n\nRent, £4s. per Week, or the Lease and Furniture can be purchased.\n\n### BOSTONITE GOODS.\n\nPERRY and Co. have much pleasure in introducing their new patent BOSTONITE to the Public, and they do so with the full conviction that it will supply a want long felt, viz. perfect Lead or Coloured Pencil Tablets, Slates, &c.\n\n\"This will be made suitable for persons just arriving in England from India, China, &c.\n\nApply to Mr. SALLING, 163, Fenchurch-street, City.\n\n### BASS AND ALLSOPP'S INDIA PALE ALES.\n\nGEORGE JONES, No. 8, Billiter-street.\n\nPresent prices. 7s. 3d. per dozen quarts, and 4s. 0d. per dozen pints. Free on board, protected by his own and the Brewer's Labels and Patent Capsule.\n\nPERRY and Co.'s PATENT BOSTONITE PLAYING CARDS, 2s. 6d. per pack. \nBostonite Slates from 6d. each. \nBostonite Book Slates, 1s., 1s. 6d., and 2s. 6d. each. \nBostonite Memorandum Tablets, 6d., 1s., and 1s. 6d. each. \nBostonite Umrica, 1s., 1s. 6d., and 3s. 6d. each. \nBostonite Music Slates, 6d. each. \nBostonite Purses, from 1s. 6d. each. \nBostonite Multiplication Tablets, 4s. each.\n\n### FURNITURE FOR INDIA, CHINA, &c.\n\nHEAL AND SON **MANUFACTURE, ESPECIALLY FOR EXTREME CLIMATES**, SOLID MAHOGANY FURNITURE, Entirely free from Veneer. A large general assortment always on view.\n\n**IRON AND BRASS BEDSTEADS** In the choicest Designs. 3,500 Bedsteads kept in Stock.\n\n**HEAL & SON'S PATENT HORSEHAIR MATTRESS** Prevents the material from Felting Into a mass, as is the case in all ordinary Mattresses. The Patent Mattresses are made of the very best Forchair, are thicker than usual, and the prices are but a trifle higher than those of other good Mattresses.\n\n**ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES** Of Bedsteads and Bedroom Furniture, designed for INDIA and the EAST, SENT POST FREE TO EVERY PART OF THE WORLD.\n\n142, 143, 144, Tottenham-court-road, London, W.\n\n### REVUE ORIENTALE.\n\nConducted by M. LEON DE ROSNY, Professor of Japanese in the Imperial School of Living Oriental Languages of Paris.\n\nDEVOTED specially to Ethnography, History, Literature, and Commerce of Asia, Africa, and Oceania.\n\nThe last issue (No.58) contains, amongst other matters:\n\n- DE LA LITTERATURE ARAMEENNE; par Munk de l'institut (since deceased).\n- LES GRANDES EPOPEES DE L'INDE DANS LEUR RAPPORTS AVEC LA CIVILISATION; par Léon de Rosny.\n- DEUX MOIS CHEZ LES SAUVAGES AINOS (Japon) - ORAISON FUNERBE, PRAVCITE DU COGITIF CHINOIS par Truong-vinh-ky.\n- BIBLIOGRAPHIE-NOUVELLES ET MELANGES—THĖME ORIENTAL.\n\nAgents in London: TRÜBNER AND CO.\n\n### THE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\nTHE NINTH Volume of this JOURNAL commenced on the 7th of January, 1867. The Subscription for the three numbers per month is 20s. per annum, including Postage, and to the Export Supplement 12s. Terms for advertising, 2s. 6d. per five lines; and 6d. for each additional line.\n\nSubscriptions and Advertisements received abroad by The following Agents:\n\n- G. W. YAPP, 4, Place Pentagonale, Paris.\n- HEAL & SON, Bedstead, Bedding, and Bedroom Furniture Manufacturers, 196, 197, 198, Tottenham-court-road, London, W.\n\n### GRANT'S TRANS-MONGOLIAN TELEGRAMS.\n\nAug. 4, 1867.\n\nAnnual Subscribers from Europe to China, £180. \nAnnual Subscribers from China to Europe, £100 sterling. \nAnnual Subscribers from Europe to China, and China to Europe, £200 sterling.\n\nThese rates are exclusive of Express Couriers and Telegraph Charges, viz. Twenty words, 3s. 7d. or Tls. 2.50 Shanghai Sycee, and for every ten words extra Rs. 3.50 kopecks, or Tls. 1.25 Shanghai sycee.\n\nAnnual Subscribers have the privilege of sending Telegrams of any number of words to any one person or firm; the name and address of such person or firm must be given on payment of subscription.\n\nIf an Annual Subscriber or his Agent publishes in any newspaper, or allows the contents of any Telegram to be made public without the special consent of the undersigned, the said Annual Subscriber shall forfeit his subscription. Telegrams for publication, 50 per cent. extra. Telegrams may be despatched from Europe-From Tuesday, 19th February, to Tuesday, 19th November inclusive.\n\nFrom Shanghai, on the departure of the first steamer to Tientsin till the freezing of the river Peiho.\n\nC. MITCHELL GRANT. \nAgency in London--\"London and China Telegraph\" Office, 2, Cowper's-court, Cornhill (over the Jerusalem).\n\n### TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.\n\n**PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.**\n\nSingle Paper ... 8d. \nYearly... £1 4s.\n\n**BY POST.**\n\nSingle Paper ... 9d. \nYearly... £1 10s.\n\nFISHER, Castle-court, Birchin-lane, Cornhill, London, E.C. \n**Post-office orders to be made payable to FRANCIS FISHER.**\n\n### HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT and PILLS.\n\nDangerous Diseases. How many life-long maladies spring from neglecting trifling symptoms... Holloway's remedies will remove eruptions of the skin, scorbutic diseases, and scrofula... By the use of Holloway's excellent, speedy, and safe medicament, much pain and immense expense may be saved...\n\n### DR. J. COLLIS BROWNE'S CHLORODYNE.\n\nVice-Chancellor Sir W. Page Wood stated publicly in Court that Dr. J. Collis Browne was undoubtedly the inventor of Chlorodyne...\n\nDR. J. COLLIS BROWNE'S CHLORODYNE is a certain cure in CHOLERA, DYSENTERY, DIARRHOEA, COUGHS, &c.\n\nExtract from the GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH, London, as to its efficacy in Cholera.\n\nFrom A. MONTGOMERY, Esq., late Inspector of Hospitals, Bombay-Chlorodyne is a most valuable remedy in Neuralgia, Asthma, and Dysentery.\n\nDR. J. COLLIS BROWNE'S CHLORODYNE. CAUTION-Noue genuine without the words \"Dr. J. Collis Browne's Chlorodyne\" on the Government Stamp.\n\nDR. J. COLLIS BROWNE'S CHLORODYNE The immense demand enables the proprietors to render the price; it is now sold in bottles, 1s. 1½d., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and 11s.\n\nAGENT: Hong Kong, Mr. A. S. WATSON. \nJ. T. DAVENPORT, 33, GREAT RUSSELL-STREET, LONDON.\n\n### THE CAPE, INDIA, AND CHINA AGENCY.\n\nORDERS for GOODS of all descriptions executed, and Shipped by the Overland Route or by Clipper sailing vessels. Consignments realised.\n\nThe Goods are selected by parties who have had personal experience of the requirements of the markets at the Cape Colonies, India, China, and Japan.\n\nTERMS:-One-half the estimated cost to be remitted with the order, and the balance on receipt of Bill of Lading and Invoice. Commission, 2½ per cent. on Orders over £50 and 5 per cent. on amounts under £50.\n\nOrders and remittances should be addressed to the MANAGER.\n\nOffice, 2, Cowper's-court, Cornhill (over the Jerusalem), London, E.C.\n\n### COWASJEE DINSHAW.\n\nClose to the Landing Place. \nDepot of EUROPEAN, CHINA, and INDIAN WORK.\n\n- WINE, BEER, CHAMPAGNE, and SPIRITS of the best quality.\n- BOMBAY-MADE SODA WATER and LEMONADE.\n- PERFUMERY, CONFECTIONERY, OIL, &c.\n- MATS'S STORES, and STATIONERY of every description.\n- SOFA TICKETS and CANVAS SHOES, &c.\n\nTHE STEAMER POINT, ADEN.\n\nDrawing and Reading-room free to Passengers.\n\n### LONDON AND CHINA EXPRESS.\n\nON SALE.\n\n### THE MONEY MARKET REVIEW.\n\nA WEEKLY JOURNAL OF THE HIGHEST CLASS, EXCLUSIVELY DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION OF COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL TOPICS.\n\nAgents:\n\n| Location | Agent |\n| --- | --- |\n| Labuan, Sarawak, and Singapore | LOMAN AND VEESTER. |\n| Penang... | HOON & KEYT. |\n| Bangkok. | WILMER AND ROGERS. |\n| Batavia | J. CHITTIEN. |\n| Manila | P.CUMBO, St. Catherine's-square. |\n| Aden | COWASJEE DINSHAW. |\n| | CHESSON AND WOODHALL. |\n| | SANDERS, CONES, AND CO. |\n| | G. S. ANTHANISZ. |\n| | J. W. VANDOW. |\n| Singapore | Jony Lee & Co., Singapore. |\n| | SANDILANDS, BUTTERY AND CO. |\n| Anjer-Straits of Sunda | HUNTER, HOUGHTON, AND Co. |\n| | G. SCHUIT, Anjer Hotel. |\n| Hong Kong, Canton, Macao, & Swatow | PHILLIES, MOOZE, AND CO. |\n| | J. B. Mowatt, Hong Kong. |\n| | Audy ... |\n| Foo-Chow-Foo...... | BELLAMY AND CO. |\n| | HEDGE AND Co. |\n| Shanghai | ... |\n| Tien-Tsin... | H. FOGG AND CO. |\n| Nagasaki-Japan... | JAMES HANDERSON. |\n| Yokohama | PIGNATEL AND CO. |\n| | HANSAND AND BLACK. |\n\nOFFICE, 2, COWPER'S COURT, CORNHILL, E.C. (Over the Jerusalem.)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334026, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "page_number": 310, "title": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "content_text": "298\n\nTHE SANITARY RECORD.\n\nSIMPSON, Mr. William Hirst, B.A., Solicitor, has been appointed Town Clerk and Clerk to the Urban Sanitary Authority of Higham-Ferrers, at £in per annum.\n\nSMITH, Mr. Job Ross, the Inspector of Nuisances for the Shipley Urban Sanitary District, has been appointed Inspector of Dairies, Cowsheds, &c.\n\nSTEVENSON, Mr. G., the Inspector of Nuisances for the Much-Wenlock Urban Sanitary District, has been appointed Inspector under the Dairies, &c., Orders of 1885 & 1886.\n\nSUTCLIFFE, Mr. Alfred, has been re-appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Thornton Urban Sanitary District, at £40 for one year.\n\nSYKES, Mr. Edward has been appointed Surveyor to the newly-formed Cheadle and Gatley Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, at £35 per annum, and Inspector of Nuisances at £35 per annum.\n\nSYKES, Mr. James William, Inspector of Nuisances for the Windhill Urban Sanitary District, has been appointed Inspector under the Dairies, &c., Orders of 1885 and 1886.\n\nTAYLOR, Mr. George, has been elected a Member of the Tipton Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Field, resigned.\n\nTHORNTON, Mr. Reginald Douglas Banker, has been appointed Treasurer to the newly-incorporated Town Council and Urban Sanitary Authority of Wareham.\n\nTHORNTON, Mr. Richard, Surveyor, &c., to the Drighlington Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, has been appointed Inspector pro tem, under the Dairies, &c., Orders of 1885 and 1886, and pursuant to the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Acts of 1878 and 1886.\n\nWALTER, Mr. Nimrod, has been re-appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Reigate Urban Sanitary District, at £75 for one year.\n\nWARD, Mr. Joseph Henry, has been appointed Clerk to the Baildon Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, Yorkshire, at £24 per annum, vice Hines, resigned.\n\nWATERTON, Mr. William, has been appointed Inspector of Nuisances, &c., for the Barnsley Urban Sanitary District, at £120 per annum, vice Savage (but who continues as Canal Boats and Smoke Inspector, at £50 per annum).\n\nWETHERELL, Mr. John, has been appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Richmond (Yorkshire) Rural Sanitary District, at £85 per annum, vice Mr. J. Wetherell, deceased.\n\nWHITE, Mr. John, has been re-appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Chard Urban Sanitary District, at £20 for one year.\n\nWILLIAMS, Mr. Richard Owen, Surveyor, &c., to the Bethesda Improvement Commissioners and Urban Sanitary Authority, has been appointed Inspector under the Dairies, &c., Orders of 1885 and 1886.\n\nWORTHINGTON, Mr. Isaac, has been appointed Collector to the newly-formed Cheadle and Gatley Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, at 3 per cent. commission.\n\nPUBLIC ANALYSTS.\n\nCULLI, Mr. R. B., has been appointed Public Analyst for the Borough of Tiverton, for one year.\n\nESTCOURT, Mr. Charles, has been appointed Public Analyst for the Borough of Lancaster, at £10 10s. per annum, and 6s. per analysis, vice Brown.\n\nFUNNAR, Mr. Otto, has been re-appointed Public Analyst for the Borough of Derby.\n\nHILL, Alfred Bostock, M.D., S.Sc.Cert.Camb, L.R.C.P.Edin, has been re-appointed Public Analyst for the Borough of Royal Leamington Spa, at £20 per annum, and 6s. 8d. per analysis.\n\nVACANCIES.\n\nMEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH for the Walton-on-the-Naze Urban Sanitary District, £20 per annum. Application, 6th inst., to T. A. Middleton, Clerk to the Authority.\n\nTREASURER to the Alcester Guardians and Rural Sanitary Authority. Application to S. A. Guthard, Clerk.\n\nMEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH for the St. Anne's-on-the-Sea Urban Sanitary District. Application, 10th inst., to William Thompson, Clerk.\n\nTREASURER to the Conway Town Council and Urban Sanitary Authority. Application to T. E. Parry, Town Clerk.\n\nCLERK to the Birkenhead Guardians and Rural Sanitary Authority. Application to The Chairman.\n\nCLERK to the St. Anne's-on-the-Sea Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority. Application to The Chairman.\n\nSURVEYOR to the Redditch Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority. Application to H. C. Browning, Clerk.\n\nSURVEYOR and INSPECTOR of NUISANCES to the Town Council and Urban Sanitary Authority of Higham-Ferrers. Application to W. H. Simpson, Town Clerk.\n\nCOLLECTOR to the Town Council and Urban Sanitary Authority of Higham-Ferrers. Application to W. H. Simpson, Town Clerk.\n\nLOCAL INTELLIGENCE.\n\nThe Hambledon Guardians and Rural Sanitary Authority have been invested with urban powers, rights, &c., under the provisions of Sections 157 and 158 of the Public Health Act, 1875, within the contributory places of Bramley, Cranley, Shalford, and Wonersh.\n\nThe Egremont Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority recently re-appointed Dr. Calderwood as Medical Officer of Health for three years, but the Local Government Board have refused their sanction for more than one year, on account of his being a Poor-law district medical officer.\n\nAt the last meeting of the Driffield Guardians and Rural Sanitary Authority, it was unanimously resolved to decrease the salary of Dr. Wood, Medical Officer of Health, from £130 to £70 per annum, and that of Mr. Sumner, Inspector of Nuisances, &c., from £100 to £100 per annum, upon the expiration of their appointments at Christmas.\n\nIt was recently proposed to form a Local Government District for the Ogmore and Garw Valleys within the area of the Bridgend Rural Sanitary District, and the necessary formal steps were taken under The Public Health Act for that purpose. This was followed by the usual Local Government Inquiry, at which some evidence in opposition was given. At the meeting of the Bridgend Rural Sanitary Authority on the 4th inst., the question was discussed, and a resolution passed upholding a previous one in favour of the formation of the proposed district, as they 'saw no reason to change their opinion after hearing the objections raised at the recent Government Inquiry.'\n\nNOTES AND QUERIES.\n\nHaving for some time back been in the receipt of Queries appertaining strictly to sanitary work, and which it would be easy to answer, without having to refer our correspondents to competent professional advisers, we have opened a column in which to register such Queries and Replies thereto as can fairly be expected from us; and our subscribers and readers are invited to make such use of this column as will tend to benefit themselves and the community. Both Queries and Replies will, however, be subjected, if unnecessarily long, to a strict curtailment.\n\n205. TEST SOLUTIONS FOR WATER ANALYSIS.\n\nI should be much obliged if you would state where you would recommend me to get reliable test solutions for water analysis according to Wanklyn.\n\nR.M.O.H. [Messrs. Y. E. Becker & Co., 34 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, W.C., supply the solutions in a satisfactory state.—ED.]\n\n206. WATER SUPPLY.\n\nCan you recommend me any book that gives the average quantity of water used or required per head of population throughout the country?\n\nC. W. P.\n\nThe most reliable information as to the quantity of water which should preferably be allowed per head of population under varying conditions is to be found in Parkes' and De Chaumont's 'Practical Hygiene,' and it would, perhaps, be useless to seek elsewhere, as all the information upon this subject is brought down to a late date. Consult the Sixth Edition (1883) of the above work, pages 3 to 7. The publishers are Messrs. J. & A. Churchill, 11 New Burlington Street, London, W. (See also SANITARY RECORD, Aug. 16, 1886, page 91.) All engineers strive as much as possible to allow 30 gallons per head for domestic purposes, and in the work above mentioned this amount is thus distributed—Domestic supply (without bath or closets), 20 gallons; add for general baths, 4 gallons; water-closets, 6 gallons; unavoidable waste, 3 gallons—total, 33 gallons.—ED.]\n\n207. QUALIFICATIONS OF A CHIEF INSPECTOR OF NUISANCES.\n\nWhat do you consider the proper qualifications for a chief inspector of nuisances in a town of between 90,000 and 100,000 inhabitants, whose salary will be between £140 and £160 per annum? There will be several inspectors under him, and there is a medical officer of health who does not practise privately.\n\nALPHA.\n\nThis is not a question which lends itself to any such short answer as alone is possible for us in this corner of the RECORD. But our correspondent will find fully detailed remarks as to the qualifications for the post which he describes in the number for May 15, 1883, p. 510.]\n\nJEYES' PERFECT PURIFIER' is a disinfectant in fluid form of extraordinary efficacy. It is used in the Royal households and by Her Majesty's Government establishments, the Corporation of London, Smithfield and Billingsgate Markets, various steamship and railway companies, the principal hospitals, &c., and is authorised by the Board of Trade and the Indian Government. The testimonials which have been received bear the names among others of such unimpeachable authorities as Sir R. Rawlinson, C.B., C.E., Chief Sanitary Engineer of the Local Board, Home Office; Professor Wanklyn, M.R.C.S.; Dr. C. A. Cameron, Medical Officer of Health, Dublin; Mr. J. T. Dibdin, A.V.D., Cavalry Barracks, York; and Dr. Crookshank, Inspector-General of Prisons, Cairo. In addition to its powerful disinfecting properties, this compound possesses the recommendation that it is non-poisonous, non-corrosive, stainless in use, and cheap. The scientific mind will understand and appreciate this characteristic of the manufacture—that it prevents contagion by destroying its cause; it instantly removes bad smells; is an unfailing cure for eczema and other skin diseases, and is the best known insecticide.—Sold by all respectable Chemists' Stores, &c., in bottles at 6d. and 1s. and drums at 5s. per gallon. Jeyes Sanitary Compound Company (Limited), 43 Cannon Street, London, E.C.—ADVT.)\n\nDRAFT.\n\nThe Crown Agents\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMINUTE.\n\nRebolt kr\n\nMr. Wingfield.\n\nMr. Bramston,\n\nMr. Meade.\n\n1967\n\nSir R. Herbert.\n\nLord Onslow.\n\nSir H. T. Holland.\n\nAust 17452\n\n20\n\n12766\n\nرسله\n\nHome May:\n\nJJ.\n\n303\n\n21 Ich 27\n\nSentherm\n\nThe site th\n\nf State\n\nI. 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In Duis Je618.\n\n(keep to\n\nte\n\nin\n\ndig\n\nduplicate of dess)\n\nlost 2.\n\npamphlets in wig", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381873, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 586, "title": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "content_text": "582\n\nThe telephone lines also were affected by the tramway, and the tramway Company had to pay the cost of certain alterations which the Telephone Company had to make to their lines in order to avoid the inductive disturbances from the tramway currents.\n\nProfessor Ayrton on Electrical Disturbances. Proc. Inst. Elec. Engrs. May, 1897.\n\nI am glad to say that the three important companies that have had Bills before Parliament this spring, for obtaining sanction to construct the City and West-End line, to run between Hammersmith and the City, Brompton and Piccadilly Circus line, which is to run from South Kensington to Piccadilly Circus, and the Bill for boring a deep tunnel under the present District Railway, through which express trains will be run electrically, as well as for converting into an electric railway, that portion of the Inner Circle that belongs to the District Railway Company, I am happy to say that the Engineers of these three Companies have been sufficiently convinced for the promoters in each case to have given a written undertaking that a completely insulated system shall be employed; so that, whether these lines be worked on the two or the three wire system, whether the current be direct or alternating, there are clauses in the Bills guaranteeing that the return shall be insulated throughout to the satisfaction of the City and Guilds of London Institute, and of the Science and Art Department. That, I think, is a great step in advance, not merely in the interests of science, but in the interests of the electric railways themselves.\n\nProfessor Perry. Same Proceedings.\n\nBut I do ask the members carefully to consider the amount of harm which non-insulated returns are capable of doing; to say if it is beyond the powers of an electrical Engineer, not the Engineer of a mere pioneer line in a new country, but rather of lines in a thickly inhabited district, where there are many pipes and telegraph and telephone lines which are likely to be interfered with to insulate his return conductor at a cost which will not seriously interfere with the new enterprise. As for my own views, I consider, with Professor Ayrton, that in the long run a tramway Company will find that it pays to insulate the return conductor, not only because there is less chance of a break-down; but that the actual cost of a well-arranged system will be less.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403338, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 247, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "242 \n\n2 \n\nThis telegram supplied the material for a Parliamentary question addressed by Sir Gilbert Parker to the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on the 19th April. Earl Percy replied: **\"No information of the acts alleged in the question has reached us. Such acts would be violations, not of the Treaty of 1902, but of Treaties concluded with China at an earlier date. His Majesty's Minister at Peking has been informed, in reply to his inquiries as to the steps which had been taken to carry out the provisions of Article II of the Treaty of 1902, that the Office of Financial Administration has presented a Memorial to the Throne proposing the establishment of a general Mint at Tien-tsin for the coinage of silver and copper and the introduction of a uniform national coinage. As soon as definite arrangements have been made they will be communicated to Sir E. Satow. With regard to the Mining Regulations, the Chinese Government state that Regulations have been drawn up, but that it is necessary to consult the provincial authorities before the final arrangements could be settled.\"** \n\nOn the 20th April a Reuter telegram was sent out from London, and in due time published in Shanghai, which ran as follows: **\"Lord Percy said that no information had reached the Government as to China having ignored the terms of the Mackay Treaty.\"** \n\nThree days later a letter signed \"E. S. Little\" was published in the \"North China Daily News,\" of which I beg to inclose a copy. I beg to call your Lordship's attention to the opening sentences of this letter, inferring on the authority of the Reuter telegram that the British Government is absolutely ignorant of the existing state of affairs in China. If His Majesty's Minister to China and the Consuls have reported home the number of cases of Chinese evasion of Treaty obligations the Government will be unable to state with truth that no information has reached the Government as to China having ignored the terms of the Mackay Treaty. If British officials in China have not informed the Government, it is high time the British mercantile community should step in and supply the necessary information to our badly-informed Government.\n\nThe remainder of Mr. Little's letter to the paper is in great part an anticipation of the statements contained in the letter of the Shanghai merchants to your Lordship. \n\nIn pursuance of the desire expressed by your Lordship that I should furnish my observations on the questions raised by the signatories of the telegram, I have the honour, with regard to the general statement that China ignores the Commercial Treaty, to point out that of the fourteen Articles which it contains the following have been fulfilled since the exchange of ratifications took place on the 28th July, 1903, or are in process of fulfilment.\n\nI. Drawback Certificates. \nIn regard to this Article a difference of opinion occurred between the Taotai and His Majesty's Consul-General, but representations were made to the Chinese Government by His Majesty's Legation which resulted in its removal, and no further complaint has been received. \n\nV. Removal of artificial obstructions to navigation in the Canton River. Reports on this subject were forwarded in despatches Nos. 135 of the 21st April, 144 of the 24th April, 168 of the 12th May, and 389 of the 15th November, 1904, besides others sent direct to your Lordship's Office from His Majesty's Consulate-General at Canton. \n\nVI. Bonded warehouses. \nSee my despatch No. 12 of the 13th January, 1904, and inclosure. \n\nVII. Trade-marks. \nIt cannot be fairly alleged that China has neglected this question, or neglected to make proposals for the enactment of a trade-mark law, as the voluminous correspondence between your Lordship's Office and His Majesty's Legation sufficiently proves. \n\n3 \n\nX. Inland Navigation Rules and opening of Kongmoon. \nReports were furnished in despatches Nos. 18 of the 18th January, 45 of the 2nd February, 128 of the 12th April, 130 of the 13th April, and 416 of the 7th December, 1904. The ports of call and passenger stations mentioned in this Article were all opened by the 1st March, 1904. The question of licensing launches to run to Nanning and Pose is still a subject of discussion with the Canton Viceroy. \n\nXIV. Interport transport of rice. \nAfter some correspondence with the Chinese authorities, the export of rice was allowed from Chinkiang under certain limitations, which, though contrary to Treaty, were accepted by British merchants. I inclose an extract from Mr. Tratman's Intelligence Report for the March quarter 1905, bearing on this question. On the 23rd September, 1903, the Governor of Hunan was informed by His Majesty's Acting Consul-General at Hankow that a limited permission to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co. and Messrs. Butterfield and Swire to export rice from Changsha would be accepted as a temporary measure only, and that we should insist on our Treaty rights. \n\nIn regard to Articles III, duties and li-kin levied on goods carried from Hong Kong to the Treaty ports in the Canton Delta, and IV, obligations of Chinese shareholders in foreign Companies, no questions have arisen. \n\nArticles XI, XII, and XIII contain undertakings on the part of His Majesty's Government of which occasion for fulfilment has not yet presented itself. \n\nThe execution of Article VIII, abolition of li-kin and substitution of a surtax on imports, depends on the adhesion of all the other Treaty Powers.\n\nArticles II, the establishment of a uniform national coinage, and Article IX, the revision of the existing Mining Regulations within twelve months from the 5th September, 1902, have not been carried into effect. \n\nProceeding to comment on the points raised in the Shanghai letter, it may be observed that to reform the currency system of China so as to bring it into conformity with that prevailing in most civilized countries is a task of considerable magnitude, and the negotiators of the Treaty wisely fixed no limit of time within which it must be accomplished. The existing system has been described in great detail in two articles which appeared in the \"Times' Financial and Commercial Supplement\" for the 13th and 20th March of this year, and the obstacles to reform are very well stated by the writer. Not long after the Mackay Treaty was signed the United States, at the request of Mexico and China, appointed a commission of experts to confer with leading European financial authorities, official and non-official, with regard to the best method of harmonizing the currency systems of these two silver-using countries with those of the countries which possess a gold standard. In 1903 they reported, and early in 1904 Professor Jenks, the most prominent member of the American Commission, paid a visit to China, in the course of which he discussed with the leading authorities, both provincial and metropolitan, an elaborate series of proposals for the regulation of Chinese finance and the adoption of the gold standard. Reports of his proceedings appeared in the local press, and at one time there seemed no small reason to hope that he would succeed in his endeavours. The Chinese Government, however, eventually decided against the acceptance of Professor Jenks' plans, and resolved to begin with the reform of the copper currency.\n\nA sketch of the proposed course of procedure, as given by the Chinese Minister for Finance, was contained in my despatch No. 150 of the 2nd May to your Lordship. In that despatch I mentioned the apprehensions entertained by foreign business men with regard to the apparently unrestricted coinage of the new 10-cash copper piece. The Chairman of the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce has since addressed to the Diplomatic Body a letter, giving information with regard to the provincial copper mints, and pointing out the danger of depreciation of the new coin. To this letter a reply has been sent asking for further and more precise details. A copy of this correspondence is inclosed, and it is probable that a representation on this subject will be addressed to the Chinese Government by the Diplomatic Body. It is also reported that the Board of Revenue is alive to the necessity of controlling the issues by the provincial mints, and I have the honour to inclose translation of a Memorial on this subject, which, though not going as far as could be desired in the direction of supervision and control, is still a considerable step in advance. \n\nIn the meantime it may be noted that the \"North China Daily News\" of the 6th July states that a careful analysis has been made of 10-cash pieces from various", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403503, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 412, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "## \n\nThis telegram supplied the material for a Parliamentary question addressed by Sir Gilbert Parker to the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on the 19th April. Earl Percy replied: **\"No information of the acts alleged in the question has reached us. Such acts would be violations, not of the Treaty of 1902, but of Treaties concluded with China at an earlier date. His Majesty's Minister at Peking has been informed, in reply to his inquiries as to the steps which had been taken to carry out the provisions of Article II of the Treaty of 1902, that the Office of Financial Administration has presented a Memorial to the Throne proposing the establishment of a general Mint at Tien-tsin for the coinage of silver and copper and the introduction of a uniform national coinage. As soon as definite arrangements have been made they will be communicated to Sir E. Satow. With regard to the Mining Regulations, the Chinese Government state that Regulations have been drawn up, but that it is necessary to consult the provincial authorities before the final arrangements could be settled.\"**\n\nOn the 20th April a Reuter telegram was sent out from London, and in due time published in Shanghae, which ran as follows: **\"Lord Percy said that no information had reached the Government as to China having ignored the terms of the Mackay Treaty.\"**\n\nThree days later a letter signed \"E. S. Little\" was published in the \"North China Daily News,\" of which I beg to inclose a copy. I beg to call your Lordship's attention to the opening sentences of this letter, inferring on the authority of the Reuter telegram that \"the British Government is absolutely ignorant of the existing state of affairs in China. If His Majesty's Minister to China and the Consuls have reported home the number of cases of Chinese evasion of Treaty obligations the Government will be unable to state with truth that no information has reached the Government as to China having ignored the terms of the Mackay Treaty. If British officials in China have not informed the Government, it is high time the British mercantile community should step in and supply the necessary information to our badly-informed Government.\"\n\nThe remainder of Mr. Little's letter to the paper is in great part an anticipation of the statements contained in the letter of the Shanghae merchants to your Lordship.\n\nIn pursuance of the desire expressed by your Lordship that I should furnish my observations on the questions raised by the signatories of the telegram, I have the honour, with regard to the general statement that China ignores the Commercial Treaty, to point out that of the fourteen Articles which it contains the following have been fulfilled since the exchange of ratifications took place on the 28th July, 1908, or are in process of fulfilment.\n\n1. Drawback Certificates\n\nIn regard to this Article a difference of opinion occurred between the Taotai and His Majesty's Consul-General, but representations were made to the Chinese Government by His Majesty's Legation which resulted in its removal, and no further complaint has been received.\n\nV. Removal of artificial obstructions to navigation in the Canton River\n\n| Despatch No. | Date |\n| --- | --- |\n| 135 | 21st April, 1904 |\n| 144 | 24th April, 1904 |\n| 168 | 12th May, 1904 |\n| 389 | 15th November, 1904 |\n\nReports on this subject were forwarded in the above despatches, besides others sent direct to your Lordship's Office from His Majesty's Consulate-General at Canton.\n\nVI. Bonded warehouses\n\nSee my despatch No. 12 of the 13th January, 1904, and inclosure.\n\nVII. Trade-marks\n\nIt cannot be fairly alleged that China has neglected this question, or neglected to make proposals for the enactment of a trade-mark law, as the voluminous correspondence between your Lordship's Office and His Majesty's Legation sufficiently proves.\n\nX. Inland Navigation Rules and opening of Kongmoon\n\n| Despatch No. | Date |\n| --- | --- |\n| 18 | 18th January, 1904 |\n| 45 | 2nd February, 1904 |\n| 128 | 12th April, 1904 |\n| 130 | 13th April, 1904 |\n| 416 | 7th December, 1904 |\n\nReports were furnished in the above despatches. The ports of call and passenger stations mentioned in this Article were all opened by the 1st March, 1904. The question of licensing launches to run to Nanning and Posé is still a subject of discussion with the Canton Viceroy.\n\nXIV. Interport transport of rice\n\nAfter some correspondence with the Chinese authorities, the export of rice was allowed from Chinking under certain limitations, which, though contrary to Treaty, were accepted by British merchants. I inclose an extract from Mr. Tratman's Intelligence Report for the March quarter 1905, bearing on this question. On the 23rd September, 1903, the Governor of Hunan was informed by His Majesty's Acting Consul-General at Hankow that a limited permission to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co. and Messrs. Butterfield and Swire to export rice from Changsha would be accepted as a temporary measure only, and that we should insist on our Treaty rights.\n\nIn regard to Articles III, duties and likin levied on goods carried from Hong Kong to the Treaty ports in the Canton Delta, and IV, obligations of Chinese shareholders in foreign Companies, no questions have arisen.\n\nArticles XI, XII, and XIII contain undertakings on the part of His Majesty's Government of which occasion for fulfilment has not yet presented itself.\n\nThe exception of Article VIII, abolition of likin and substitution of a surtax on imports, depends on the adhesion of all the other Treaty Powers.\n\nArticles II, the establishment of a uniform national coinage, and Article IX, the revision of the existing Mining Regulations within twelve months from the 5th September, 1902, have not been carried into effect.\n\n## 3\n\nProceeding to comment on the points raised in the Shanghae letter, it may be observed that to reform the currency system of China so as to bring it into conformity with that prevailing in most civilized countries is a task of considerable magnitude, and the negotiators of the Treaty wisely fixed no limit of time within which it must be accomplished. The existing system has been described in great detail in two articles which appeared in the \"Times' Financial and Commercial Supplement\" for the 13th and 20th March of this year, and the obstacles to reform are very well stated by the writer. Not long after the Mackay Treaty was signed the United States, at the request of Mexico and China, appointed a commission of experts to confer with leading European financial authorities, official and non-official, with regard to the best method of harmonizing the currency systems of these two silver-using countries with those of the countries which possess a gold standard. In 1908 they reported, and early in 1904 Professor Jenks, the most prominent member of the American Commission, paid a visit to China, in the course of which he discussed with the leading authorities, both provincial and metropolitan, an elaborate series of proposals for the regulation of Chinese finance and the adoption of the gold standard. Reports of his proceedings appeared in the local press, and at one time there seemed no small reason to hope that he would succeed in his endeavours. The Chinese Government, however, eventually decided against the acceptance of Professor Jenks' plans, and resolved to begin with the reform of the copper currency.\n\nA sketch of the proposed course of procedure, as given by the Chinese Minister for Finance, was contained in my despatch No. 150 of the 2nd May to your Lordship. In that despatch I mentioned the apprehensions entertained by foreign business men with regard to the apparently unrestricted coinage of the new 10-cash copper piece. The Chairman of the Shanghae General Chamber of Commerce has since addressed to the Diplomatic Body a letter, giving information with regard to the provincial copper mints, and pointing out the danger of depreciation of the new coin. To this letter a reply has been sent asking for further and more precise details. A copy of this correspondence is inclosed, and it is probable that a representation on this subject will be addressed to the Chinese Government by the Diplomatic Body. It is also reported that the Board of Revenue is alive to the necessity of controlling the issues by the provincial mints, and I have the honour to inclose translation of a Memorial on this subject, which, though not going as far as could be desired in the direction of supervision and control, is still a considerable step in advance.\n\nIn the meantime it may be noted that the \"North China Daily News\" of the 6th July states that a careful analysis has been made of 10-cash pieces from various...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403589, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 498, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "(This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.)\n\n# CHINA TRADE\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## No. 1\n\n491\n\n[October 6.]\n\n### SECTION 1\n\nDraft Memorandum for communication to the Shanghae Merchants by His Majesty's Legation at Peking.\n\nON the 3rd May, 1905, the following telegram was received by His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs signed by certain British merchants at Shanghae:-\n\n\"British merchants draw Government's attention to fact that China ignores Mackay Treaty, rendering same ineffective in most essentials. China actively opposes currency, mining, taxation, navigation stipulations. Beg British Government insist on Treaty being made immediately operative. Signed seventy British merchants, care of Consulate.\"*\n\nIt has since been ascertained that this communication was prompted by the publication at Shanghae of a Reuter telegram in which Lord Percy was represented as having stated in answer to a question in the House of Commons that no information had reached His Majesty's Government as to China having ignored the terms of the Mackay Treaty.\n\nLord Percy had, of course, said nothing of the kind.\n\nOn the receipt of the telegram from the Shanghae merchants, His Majesty's Minister at Peking was requested to obtain, and forward to His Majesty's Government, a detailed statement by the Signatories in amplification of their complaints; and such a statement is inclosed in a despatch recently received from Sir E. Satow.\n\nThe questions with which the statement specially deals are:\n\n| Item | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | Currency |\n| (b) | Mining |\n| (c) | Taxation |\n| (d) | Navigation |\n\nWith regard to (a) the facts appear to be in accordance with the account given by the merchants, but it may be observed that to reform the currency system of China so as to bring it into conformity with that prevailing in most civilized countries is a task of very considerable magnitude, and the negotiators of the Mackay Treaty wisely fixed no limit of time within which the reform must be accomplished.\n\nWhat has actually occurred in the matter is briefly as follows:-\n\nNot long after the signature of the Mackay Treaty, the United States, at the request of Mexico and China, appointed a Commission of experts to confer with leading European financial authorities, official and non-official, with regard to the best method of harmonizing the currency systems of these two silver-using countries with those of the countries which possess a gold standard.\n\nThe Commission reported in 1903, and, early in 1904, Professor Jenks, a prominent member, paid a visit to China, in the course of which he discussed with the leading authorities, both provincial and metropolitan, an elaborate series of proposals for the regulation of Chinese finance and the adoption of the gold standard. Reports of his proceedings appeared in the local press and at one time there seemed some reason to hope that he would succeed in his endeavours to persuade the Chinese authorities to accept his proposals. The Chinese Government, however, eventually decided against the acceptance of Professor Jenks' plans, owing to the necessary initial expense of adopting a gold standard, and it is understood that they have resolved to begin with the reform of the copper currency, and then proceed to the introduction of a Board of Revenue dollar, and the Regulation of the coinage of silver dollars by the provincial mints.\n\nAs the Signatories of the statement are no doubt aware, the Chairman of the Shanghae General Chamber of Commerce has addressed to the Diplomatic Body at Peking a letter, giving information with regard to the provincial copper mints and...\n\n* Memorial: Inclosure 20 in Sir E. Satow's No. 242, July 11, 1905. `[2214 --1]`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453071, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "page_number": 427, "title": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "content_text": "# Page Four\n\n## An Imaginary Interview With Carnival Director Dean\n\nMills Dean, the Director General of the 1915 Carnival, was finally located by our reporter at the rehearsal of \"Defending Their Homes\" on the Carnival grounds. He was in earnest conversation with Dr. Cox, Dr. Robinson, Mr. Batchelder, and Col. Johnson from Rome, Georgia, boyhood friend of Mrs. Wilson and now here directing the census. Mills explained to the scribe: \"You see, this spectacular drama must not only be attractive but it must be historically accurate in every detail. This pirate Tamah is fierce, and I would like to have Mr. Batchelder take that role, but he wishes to have a sea scene, the sinking of a passenger ship. We can't have that. He wants to save the ladies by putting life-belts on them. I don't want a sea drama. I want his views on how the fierce wild tribes ought to act. I want expert advice on savages from him. Then Col. Johnson is from the South and these Tamah pirates are supposed to come up from the south. He wants to have them all stop fighting and do a buck and wing dance and have a glee club quartette sing 'Georgia, Georgia, Over All', but you see how impossible it would be to give it local U.S.A. color. Dr. Robertson suggested that one side be chosen from the subscribers to 'Consolidacion Nacional' while the other be selected from the Vanguardia readers and arm both parties with stuffed clubs and let the tocsin ring and the people would get their money's worth, but this does not appeal to me. I want to have harmony. Dr. Cox has some of the clearest views, but I am sorry I cannot incorporate them into the show. He wants the dialogues written in the ancient Polynesian-Indico-Ibernica language which, according to undisputed authorities, might have been spoken here 1635 years ago or more correctly 280 A.D. He contends, and I think with force of reason, that all the private colleges would come and it would be a feast of reason as well as a flow of soul. But I think the general public wants something stirring so we have all collaborated and have produced this last word in dramatic art.\"\n\n\"I must express my admiration of the beautiful scenery and large conception, Mr. Mills.\"\n\n\"Oh, that was done by our esteemed and talented Sr. José Viñas of the Spanish Opera Co. He also has taken great pains to coach me in acting all the leading parts. You see, I stand ready to fill any part. It may be that one of the actors wants to go to a ball on a certain night, and if that happens you will find me right there with the goods and take his part without a hitch. Oh, it is not only in this great drama that I have become proficient, but I have made it a duty to be an understudy for every attraction in the Hubbub. I state it modestly that I am prepared to take Mme. Garcia's place in the bell-defying plunge through space in the dinky automobile. I have also given lots of attention running the Old Dutch Windmill. Boss La Pointe has volunteered to be understudy for Wa-wa, the Borneo missing link. I had some difficulty in successfully learning the parts in the Chinese playhouse. Of course, you know I would only be called on to play the leading parts because the minor parts can be filled by others and if they bungle it won't be so noticeable. These Chinese dramas continue on for two weeks and unless one gets thoroughly into the spirit of the play he cannot do it justice, but I may not be called on to act. I shudder to think of how I would correctly act the part of the Samar twins. It has been suggested that if they are indisposed and cannot show that act be suspended and I have about decided that this is the best solution because it would never do to only act half of the twins or in any other way do less than perfection.\"\n\n\"Mr. Dean, then nothing has been left to chance. You are bound to make it a success. What other features do you emphasize?\"\n\n\"There are the three parades. I have given them personal attention. I wanted Major Hartigan to take complete charge but he begged off. He said he wished to be foot loose and frisk about and have some fun with the boys. I have got a lot of real startling effects for the parades. The Japanese have taken a hold in great style as have the Chinese and when the boy scouts are masqueraded and their identity is hidden they will 'cut up dog' for fare-ye-well. Oh, it is all doped out and is going to be a hummer. Of course, the balls each night are a specialty by themselves. I shall naturally have to shape their course and destiny and now that the constabulary band is not here I will have to give special attention to the music. I have thought some of having a snare drum in the orchestra to keep up the spirit of the Escuela de Baile. Opinion is divided. There are those who declare they cannot dance without the drum while others want variety and have the drum cut out. I have been giving several hours a day with the brass bands putting life and ginger into them. Their technique is fairly good and if I get their morale improved I will have gained much.\"\n\n\"Mr. Dean, I really had no idea of the vast amount of work you have done. How did you ever dare to undertake it?\"\n\n\"Well, as one becomes accustomed to responsibilities one gets to carrying a few more on an ever-increasing ratio until the whole frame becomes a machine to do more and there is then no longer any limit to what the will power can force the unwilling body to do, but as each day sees its task well done there is the compensating reward of a contented mind. And now if you will please excuse me I see a duty before me. I have daily taken the young ladies who sell the chocolates on an imaginary round to accustom them to the routine and I see they are waiting for me as usual and the most possible must be made of the few days to insure thoroughness in every detail.\"\n\n## O'CONNELL'S, January 30, 1915\n\n### One On Cooper\n\nOle Olsen, the descendant of Eric the Red, the Viking king that beat Columbus to America by a century or two, now and then between times when he is shipping cigars to the States by the million or so, indulges in a little visit to the house of a friend out near the new reservoir. Ole went there last Sunday and spent some little time in looking over his friend's garden patch. Ole is some farmer himself. He says that when he was living back in Norway on the side of an iceberg, he often used to see pictures of trees and flowers and grain growing in the green fields and he thought that if he could ever get some place where winter did not last eleven months and a half every year he would turn farmer. Ole has a nice little garden around his place near the gas-house and quite frequently he attires himself in some old clothes that he had especially imported from the States to do the part right in, and ambles forth among the cabbage patches and the cucumber vines to fool the birds. Ole is the original thing in scarecrows when he gets properly togged out in his farmer costume. Well, to get back where we started. Ole was looking his friend's place over when he noticed that the pump would not work. Immediately he called his host's attention to the fact and suggested that he buy one of Henry Cooper's hot air pumps. His friend replied that Cooper was a pretty regular caller and thought that there was no necessity for buying a pump as Cooper's conversation could be used and this would cost nothing.\n\n### The breeze has been blowing some cooler Plaza Moraga this week.\n\n### Clever\n\nThat story printed in one of the daily papers about the possibility of the Igorot Scouts not being permitted to take part in the military parade because of their lack of pants, was certainly a clever piece of publicity. All over town people were talking about it and some of the rumors were that Major-General Barry had delivered an ultimatum that if the scouts from the hill country could not parade then there would be no parade of any of his troops. Quite a little excitement was stirred up about the matter. The carnival publicity man deserves a medal for putting that one over.\n\n### Paper Suppressed\n\nDublin, Ireland, Dec. 3. - The newspaper Sinn Fein did not appear today. The publishers of this journal refused to print in consequence of having been warned by the authorities that they would be liable to prosecutions for the publication of treasonable matter.\n\nThis is the second step in the suppression of Irish publications which have been opposing enlistment and expressing pro-German sentiments. The police last night raided the office of the Irish Freedom, a monthly publication, and confiscated all copies of the paper offered for sale on the news stands.\n\n## O'CONNELL'S, January 30, 1915\n\n### Manila Ethics\n\nCommissioner Dennison has decreed that a municipal doctor, paid by public funds, can refuse to attend any call for his services even in critical cases, if it is contrary to his established code of professional ethics.\n\nFor the benefit of those who have not seen the account of the case in question we will briefly state the main facts. An infant child of Capt. Hill of the Cavite naval ferry was taken with severe convulsions during the Captain's absence. Several women who live near went to the assistance of Mrs. Hill, and one was sent out to summon a doctor. This woman saw Dr. Catalino Nicolas, municipal doctor of Cavite, sitting in the drug store smoking and talking, and she rushed to him. She stated to him that Hill's baby was very sick and asked him to come at once. This doctor, paid out of public funds presumably to attend urgent cases, refused and stated as they had Dr. Victoriano before let them get him again and he would not go. Thanks to a merciful Providence the child did not die and this cold-blooded doctor did not have the joy of telling everybody in Cavite what an awful mistake it is to ever hire the other doctor because the other doctor turned up just in time and saved the child's life.\n\nThe public of Cavite asked Capt. Hill to report this matter because if this is the kind of spite that is worked out on a paying patient, what hope is there to get this doctor to visit a poor patient in time of need?\n\nThe accused doctor simply smiled when the charges were made. He knew that the influence that put him in office would keep him there. In answer to the charges he said he \"understood\" that he was merely wanted for consultation and that he did not want to look after somebody else's patients. His superior, Com. Dennison, figuratively speaking, patted him on the back and intimated to him that when an urgent call comes and he does not wish to violate professional ethics all he needs to do is to telephone the undertaker and coroner to go to a certain house and his ethical duties as municipal doctor will be quite fully and satisfactorily discharged.\n\nOh! for one hour of stern Worcester, whose shadow falling on Dennison would make that pigmy look like a man.\n\n### From Another Angle\n\nThe \"Free Press\" publishes the following just appreciation of agricultural specialist Prautch, but seems to err in thinking that Prautch has been the chief sufferer in not being paid a salary. We desire to interject this idea. The people have been deprived of more than Mr. Prautch has; they have lost possible crops and prosperity.\n\nWe fully concur with the \"Free Press\" as far as it goes and print the editorial to give it wider publicity:\n\n#### Prautch Redivivus\n\n\"A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. For ten years past a man by the name of Prautch has been dinning into our ears that in spite of the sad fate of Lipa, coffee can be grown in the Philippines and on a large scale with every assurance of success. Now a Mr. Strauss, a practical planter from Java, confirms what Mr. Prautch has been saying. The trouble with Mr. P. is that he was not born in Kansas and can't qualify as a \"boy expert.\" It is not so very long ago that 19,000 was paid Professor Waters from Kansas, who never saw the tropics till he came to the Philippines, to come over and tell us all about the land we live in. It was the old story of what was new was not good and what was good was not new, among the \"new\" being a fairy tale to the effect that locusts take a trip down from the hills once every ten years. And that is just about the length of time that Mr. Prautch has been \"doing his voice-in-the-wilderness stunt.\" But he never got any twelve thousand pesos. No, he is just a prophet, not a professor, and he doesn't hail from Kansas.\"\n\n# Page Five\n\n## Answers To Correspondents\n\n| Name | Response |\n| --- | --- |\n| Burdett | The mistake you made was very natural. He was a veterano not veterinary and hence the confusion. Your claiming him as a brother ought not to worry you now that you know. |\n| H. Skinin | He runs two newspapers in Kansas. It seems a job in the Bureau of Agriculture pays him better. Search us. Eight others also came. They don't know much in any language. |\n| Heinie Fisher | You should have no difficulty in heating any well-built ice house. The best method is the simplest one. It is just the opposite of the way to cool a hot house. We hope you get your money. |\n| Horace H. Ferns | should be watered daily but once every two years is often enough to water stocks. |\n| Florence | We would offhand answer that a good \"foot rule\" is to take off your shoes before going to bed. |\n| Eddie Tait | Yes, a bill was introduced to change Aug. 13th from Occupation Day to Blessed Redeemer Day or Redemption Day. July 4th will not be changed to Leberwurst Day to please anybody. |\n| Carrie Bly | We decline to print your article. We think that City Club speech was stupid, so does he. We can say so, he dare not. Why nag him, he is trying to return among white folks. |\n| Carl Hess | It is not so much why he got out of politics but what he got out of politics. See the difference, Carl? |\n| Elmer Brown | Your questions \"How far can a bed spring, and does a watch run fast in cold weather in order to keep warm?\" are silly. Send them to the \"Free Press.\" |\n\n### MANILA HOTEL Will Not Be Closed During The Carnival\n\n### NUFF SED\n\n### LIVE WIRE!\n\nA messenger, AT CALL, bicycle mounted, in this land of mañana, is a live wire personified. We have Pronto Service TEL. 152 42 ESCOLTA", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453072, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "page_number": 428, "title": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "content_text": "# The Caloocan Clarion\n\nThe fact that no issues of this paper have appeared lately is due to the fact that we have been off on a holiday? Who in the world wants to work all the time. We don't and we are compelled at times to put aside the scissors and the paste pot and take a trip to Heyman's home for weary ones on Calle Pinpin. We are now back on the job, a little bit the worse for wear and deucedly short of funds. We wouldn't mind having some of our delinquent subscribers come through as we sure feel that a plate of beans or wieners would improve our health. Our office is at the same old place and we still can write our name to a receipt. Don't crowd.\n\nThe war news from the front has been quiet lately. The French news censor licked the English news censor for trying to cop all the glory. General Joffre says that the French are tired of doing all the fighting and having the English claim all the credit.\n\nGeneral French has lost his powder puff. There will be a suspension of hostilities until a new one arrives from London.\n\nThe Portuguese army surrendered in a body yesterday to a corporal and seven men of the German army. They will be put to work making tamales for the export trade.\n\n## Advertisements\n\n**GORDON & Co's DRY GIN DISTILLERY, LONDON. APRIL 1, 1917**\n\nT. Graydon Moody has won the championship mile race at the International Athletic Meet at Dublin.\n\nCarl Hess called at the office last week and wanted to know if he owed anything. We got a dollar out of him on account.\n\nBacoor is now the most orderly town in the islands at the present time. The town received a thorough purification some years ago.\n\nThe Ananias Club of the Philippines held its regular annual meeting at Clarke's Saturday last and awarded the prizes for the three best liars in the islands. One went to Henry De Wolff and the other two were awarded to Joe Wolfson.\n\nThe Czar of Russia has conferred the Double Cross on his Imperial Allies King George of England and President Poincaré of France.\n\nJapan is trying to make an alliance with Germany and says that she is willing that, besides ceding back Kiaochau, Singapore and Hongkong should be turned over to the Germans.\n\n## O'CONNELL'S, January 30, 1915\n\nNo. 50\n\nA number of prominent British citizens called at this office last night, but as we were entertaining a delegation of friends from the Caloocan Turn Verein and the Malabon Lodge A. O. H., they did not come in. We tried to persuade them to stay and promised them lots of fun, but they said they were out of training.\n\nMcCulloch Dick was arrested last night on the Escolta for masquerading in false attire. Dick had got himself up as a neutral.\n\nBy means of our own private wireless, we learn from the trenches in Europe that while the soldier boys appreciate the sacks and sweaters and scarfs and bands and such things the women are knitting for them, they would also like to have some one knit for (or otherwise produce) certain other things. Why not knit the boys a good pipe and package of tobacco? Why not knit them plenty of cigarette paper and tobacco? Why not knit them a lot of matches in waterproof match boxes? Why not knit them a few cans of beef extract for hot broth while they are in the trenches? Why not knit them a supply of stationery and pencils for writing home? And a lot of the brave boys would like to have some shattered bones knit for them. Why not knit them a few mending outfits?\n\n**GORDON'S Dry & Old Tom Gin**\n\nBest for Cocktails, Rickeys, Fizzes, etc.\nTake no Substitute\n\n**Kuenzle & Streiff. Ltd**\n343-347 SAN JACINTO\n\n**O'CONNELL'S, January 30, 1915**\n\n## Carnival Opens\n\nA Hint To Mack\n\nWe have received a copy of the new \"Agricultural\" monthly edited by that famed Kansas expert Mark Cretcher. We think that too much of the bureau's appropriation has been spent in paper and ink. If Mr. Cretcher would follow Cyclone Jim's plan and get out and try and make something of value come out of the ground, he would show more real intelligence and be of more value to the people. Incidentally, he would be less criticised. If Mr. Cretcher does not know anything about coconuts, he might start a bean farm or something of the sort. Cretcher has been roasted to a frazzle and from all reports, he is a very decent fellow. He perhaps needs the job he is at present holding and we have no objection to his staying on the payroll. We think, however, that he should stop fooling and get down to real business.\n\nToday is the day. Manila is in fiesta garb and worry and care have been shelved that revelry and merry-making may reign supreme. The big Carnival of 1915 is on and when the great carnival parade winds through the streets of the gay capital this afternoon, it will mark the opening of this famed celebration for which the Philippines are known all over the wide world. Already confetti is being scattered over our sidewalks and pathways, already the maskers are seen mixing with the laborers and the tradesmen. At eight tonight, the only people in the town who will be working will be the policemen, the car-conductors, and the engineers in the light and ice-making plants. Everybody else will be bound for the gay white city on the Luneta to partake in the merriment and have a good time. The carnival city is more beautiful this year than ever before and the Hubbub is full of wonderful attractions from Coney Island and other pleasure resorts. The big ball which will open the carnival this evening is the Devil's Raising Ball and the crowd that attends generally does it. It's merry hell long about midnight. Some elegant costumes will be worn at the ball this year, say the modistes, and it will be worth the price of admission to those who do not dance to go and look on. There will be lots of good things to eat and drink on the carnival grounds. Come early and stay long. Make this the best Carnival we have ever had.\n\nHe Was A Yid\n\nMacfarlane, the Insular Lumber Company manager, tells a story of a Jew soldier in the German army who had accomplished some gallant deed on the field of battle and had been mentioned for the Iron Cross. The Kaiser was present at the town when the Iron Cross was to be presented and decided to make the presentation himself. He asked if the Jew was a man of family and was told that he had a wife and six children and was quite poor. The Kaiser, thinking that the Jew might better appreciate a gift of money, asked him when he was brought up, whether he would rather have the Iron Cross or a hundred marks. The Jew said, \"Your Highness, what is the value of the Iron Cross?\" The Kaiser replied that it was worth a couple of marks, whereupon the Jew said, \"Well, Your Highness, I will take the Iron Cross and 98 marks.\" Mac does not say what the Jew got.\n\nDiscovered\n\nProfessor Waters has been discovered by the daily press. They are certainly getting wise to this Kansas faker at a pretty late day. Waters should be prosecuted by the Philippine government for estafa.\n\nThe man who flooded the German position on the Yser, says a cablegram, has been decorated with the Order of King Leopold. What's that, a rubber medal?\n\nThe entrance of Portugal into the conflict somehow reminds us of the By assisting old man Noah's elephant up the ark's gangplank.\n\nIt seems about time now for the employment of a couple of real tropical agriculturists in the bureau. Why not give Prautch and Lyons a show? Governor-General Harrison has made it pretty evident to everyone in the islands that he has some backbone and wants to do the right thing. He should compel the agricultural bureau to stop wasting its funds and commence to get results.\n\n## Portugal And The War\n\nThe resignation of the Portuguese cabinet was first announced on December 6th, 1914.\n\n...according to a dispatch received here from Lisbon, as stated in an official cablegram received by the German Consul here; but the same was not acknowledged and accepted by Reuter until January 26th, 1915, when he announced the fact in a cablegram dated London, January 25th.\n\nAnd there are still people who declare that the German news-service - official as well as unofficial--is badly informed and brings only faked news.\n\nThere has been so much talk about Portugal being on the brink of war against Germany and of sending an army to the aid of the allies, but we never heard anything of the accomplished fact.\n\nNow this wonder is cleared up.\n\nIt was on the Spanish mail between Hongkong and Singapore; on board were some Portuguese officers heading home from Macau. They were a miserable-looking lot. Their sadness caused the compassion of their fellow-passengers. One of these, a Spanish merchant, asking them for the reason of their sadness, whether or not they did not like to go to war, received this answer: \"We are longing for the war as we are soldiers, but say, isn't it a pity, thrice we sent a declaration of war to Germany but never even a confirmation of receipt.\"\n\nGermany has more to do than to acknowledge little Portugal's war-declarations!\n\n## Advertisements\n\n### THE CARNIVAL NEEDS That Ten Pesos YOU NEED A LITTLE FUN\n\n**RICHTER'S DRY GOODS STORE**\n114-116 ESCOLTA\n\n| Corsets | Description |\n|----------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| AMERICAN LADY | The Corset that braces, buoys up woman and beautifies the modern through the active hours... |\n| MADAME LYRA | ...soft, light and pliant- yielding to every demand of the wearer. |\n\n**E. E. 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C. 5th Edition", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 460389, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "page_number": 522, "title": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "content_text": "92\n\nSheriff, A. W. Shewan, A. Shewan, R. G. Showler, W. Y. Siegler, W.\n\nSimms, H. G.\n\n519\n\nS\n\n*Simpson, A. P. Simpson, G. *Simpson, Jae, Singlehurst, R. Singleton, T. A. Metcalf, H. E. *Meyer, J. *Michael, J. R. Middleton, W. B. O. Midwood, L. Milne, E. M. Milne, N. P. Miller, Geo. Miller, W. D. B. Milles, W. J., M.D. Mille, S. V. *Mitchell, W. F. Mocock, O. F. *Mobsby, G., C.M.G., F.S.A. *Moller, C. H. C. Moller, N. E. Mollison, J. P. Monkman, F. L. *Monro, James D.\n\nN\n\nNathan, E. J. *Nathan, F. 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Earl Stanion, W. K. Stanton, A. L. Stanton C. Stenhouse, J. Stepheu, A. Stephens, M. F. Stern, J. Sterns, H. C. Stewart, C. E. **Stewart, Gershom, M.P. Stewart, H. A. **Stewart, H. D. Stewart, J.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492107, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 37, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "March 25th, 1922]\n\ning and generally on business. Such fears, I am glad to say, proved not well founded. There has been a very considerable amount of building during the past year and I had hoped it would be sufficient to relieve the previous shortage of housing accommodation to the extent that it would make it unnecessary to continue the Bill in operation. I am informed, however, that this has not been the case and it is still necessary to continue to keep this Bill alive; otherwise, tenants would be in the unfortunate position from which we had to rescue them last year. They would be at the mercy of unscrupulous landlords. I have, therefore, to give notice that it is the intention of the Government to propose in the next few weeks that the Ordinance restricting rents should be retained in operation another year. During the course of this year there have been communications to the effect that the Ordinance in certain circumstances had worked hardship on the landlords, and it might be that we shall think it desirable to introduce amendments which will require consideration. It will be of great assistance to the Government if those landlords or others who have found that the operation of the Ordinance as it stands needs amendment will inform the Government fully of the points to which they object in order that we may consider how far they weaken the principle of the measure.\n\nTHE ADJOURNMENT.\n\nI propose that the Council adjourn till this day week, and as there will be very little before the Council, I propose, unless members object, that we should meet at 12 o'clock on that day.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY intimated that he would like the members of the Council to remain after the meeting of the Finance Committee.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY later returned to the Council Chamber, but this meeting was not open to the Press.\n\nFINANCE COMMITTEE.\n\nA meeting of the Finance Committee was held, the COLONIAL SECRETARY presiding.\n\nRAILWAY NOTES.\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $1,200 in aid of the vote Kowloon-Canton Railway, Other Charges Maintenance of Way, works and stations, repairs, Station buildings.\n\nCHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT\n\nThe Hon. Mr. POLLOCK: It is done at night properly, and fill the cisterns ready for the next morning.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN: Yes. The vote was agreed to.\n\nEX-SERVICE MEN.\n\nSUCCESSFUL RE-UNION DINNER.\n\n\"THE PEOPLE OF THE MIST.\"\n\nThe Ex-Active Service Men's Association held a most successful re-union dinner at the Hongkong Hotel on March 18th. A large company assembled and the spirit of good comradeship evoked in the trenches of France and Flanders was manifest in the gathering. The President (W. St. A. Malleson, V.C., R.N.) was in the chair and the guests included H.E. Sir John Fowler, K.C.M.G., C.B., Colonel Nicholson, Mr. H. Percy Smith, and Captain Fisher.\n\nDuring the evening \"The Silent Toast\" was honoured and the \"Last Post\" was sounded by one of the King's Regiment buglers; also the sergeant in charge of the buglers. \"Old Bill\" was there in costume issue. The menu card was as follows:-\n\nRATIONS.\n\n1-Estaminet Cocktail.\n\n2. Trench Soup (and plenty of it).\n\n3. Sole a la Whizz Bang.\n\n4.-Fillet of Shrapnel en Hellfire Corner.\n\n5. \"Somme\" Chicken.\n\n6-Iced Asparagus (of your dreams).\n\n7.-Pipsqueak en Surprise.\n\n8-Mills Bombs on Toast.\n\n9. Dessert (please don't).\n\n10.-Coffee and Rum (Watch the Sergeant Major).\n\nProfessor MIDDLETON SMITH, in proposing the toast of the Association, congratulated the Association on the pleasant reunions it had organised to keep members in touch with one another, and spoke of the value of keeping green memories of the great effort the Empire made in 1914-1918. The times, he said, were somewhat out of joint and the future would not be bright unless the splendid spirit of comradeship and high endeavour shown in the war continued to prevail.\n\nThe PRESIDENT (Lieut. Malleson, V.C.), in responding to the toast, laid emphasis on the need of a club where ex-Service men could meet and be sure of finding the glad hand extended to them. He did not think the Association would ever get going properly until they had acquired a club house of their own.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN: The Engineer of the railway has reported that in consequence of the abnormally heavy traffic recently passing through, the collapsible gates have been seriously damaged and should be taken in hand at once. There are new gates and it is proposed to utilise them, and the estimate for carrying this work into effect is $1,200.\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $5,386 on account of Kowloon-Canton Railway, Special Expenditure, additional sidings, Loco Yard, Hunghom.\n\nMr. Tom WRIGHT responded to a call for a speech, and extending a cordial welcome to General Fowler, Mr. Mackintosh said that they were ready to follow the General in the battle of peace as they did in the battles of war- (Applause).\n\nMajor General FOWLER, replying on behalf of the visitors, said that he felt greatly honoured by having been invited to reply to this toast. As far as he was concerned, he would assist the Association to the utmost of his ability. He also looked to the Association to help in the maintaining of order.\n\nA voice: We will do our best for you, Sir.\n\nDuring the evening an excellent concert took place and the whole assembly joined in many songs reminiscent of army life.\n\nTHE BRITISH LEGION.\n\nREPETITION OF THE ANNUAL MEETING.\n\nThe British Legion, aggrieved by the stabs of the anonymous letter-writer, held its annual meeting over again at the City Hall on March 20th. The Committee, elected at a sparsely attended meeting during the strike, had resigned en bloc. This time there was a large attendance.\n\nA \"vote of confidence\" in the President (Brig.-General E. B. Macnaghten) was indicated by his being elected to the chair. Someone then proposed that the decisions of the earlier meeting should be endorsed forthwith. Another member thought it would be better to have each name formally proposed and seconded. In the end, the course was adopted of asking members to fill in ballot papers, taking the names according to their choice, from the full list of members of the Legion.\n\nThe result of the ballot was declared as follows:-\n\nPresident, Brig.-General E. B. Macnaghten; Chairman, Mr. A. Murdoch; Vice-Chairman, Mr. H. C. Gray; Hon. Secretary, Mr. H. K. Holmes; Hon. Treasurer, Mr. W. J. Hawker; Hon. Auditors, Mr. H. Spicer and Mr. A. Piercy.\n\nCommittee.-Lieut. Conway Hake, the Rev. C. C'ouston Porri, Mr. G. K. Hall Bratton, Lieut.-Col. L. G. Bird, Mr. T. W. Hill, Mr. M. H. Turner, Mr. H. W. Roberts, Mr. F. W. James, and Mr. H. S. Burleigh.\n\nIn the course of the proceedings, the Chairman read a letter from the Captain Superintendent of Police stating that the Legion had been the first to offer services in the special constabulary during the strike and thanking them for the excellent example set and the good work done.\n\nDr. TEESDALE MACKINTOSH, in proposing the toast of \"The Visitors,\" urged those of the guests who were eligible to become members of the Association to see that before Sunday dawned they got hold of the secretary and joined up. To those who were \"really bona fide visitors,\" he appealed for their support and sympathy. \"We have,\" said Dr. Mackintosh, \"annoyed a great many people in this Colony (Cheers) and we have trod upon a great many peoples' corns. If these people have corns, they must expect to have them trod upon.\"\n\nAMATEUR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP.\n\nA London telegram says:-An overwhelming majority of amateur golfers voted in favour of the suggested new Amateur Championship rules, which include a stroke qualifying competition over 38 holes. Thirty-two competitors will be played over thirty-six holes.\n\nThe Hon. Mr. PARR: Does it mean that the 1920 and 1921 championships were circularised and 129 voted for the change, 19 against, and 90 did not reply? A petition was presented to the authorities forthwith with the request that this revision will govern the 1922 championship at Prestwich in May.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN: The Manager of the Railway states that they are experiencing great difficulty in the cleaning of the coaches. This work is done at Hunghom at the loco yard, and after discussing the matter with the Traffic Superintendent, it was decided to concentrate and transfer the whole of the cleaning to Hunghom, putting in three sidings and laying additional water pipes.\n\nA gentleman, who was a parson, had suggested to him that Hongkong needed a quiet day in the Cathedral. Hongkong did not want a quiet day. What Hongkong wanted was an earthquake (Loud cheers). He wanted this Association to provide that earthquake. He wanted it to put an end to this splendid spirit of isolation and this peculiar halo that surrounded the people who dwelt so many hundred feet above the sea level. He wanted to bring them down out of the fog.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN: The fact is that with the present accommodation, it is impossible to clean the coaches in time for the next day's traffic, but if they have them concentrated in one place, they can clean them properly.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527576, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 66, "title": "CO129-530-2 Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies- Hong Kong education report 1930 23-12-1930 - 12-10-1931", "content_text": "## C. 70107/30/7 [No. 12]\n\n**(Confidential)**\n\n## REVISE\n\n## MINUTES OF THE NINETEENTH MEETING OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION IN THE COLONIES\n\nHELD IN THE COLONIAL OFFICE ON THURSDAY, THE 23RD OCTOBER, 1930, AT 11 A.M.\n\n### Present\n\n* **SIR CECIL BOTTOMLEY** (in the Chair)\n* MISS BURSTALL\n* SIR JAMES CURRIE\n* SIR WILLIAM GOWERS\n* SIR ROBERT HAMILTON\n* LORD LUGARD\n* SIR GEORGE MAXWELL\n* SIR PERCY NUNN\n* MR. OLDHAM\n* SIR MICHAEL SADLER\n* MISS WHITELAW\n* LADY CURRIE\n* H. H. ANNETTS (Deputy Director of Education, Nigeria)\n* MR. HARMAN (Assistant Director of Education, Gold Coast)\n* PROFESSOR ROTHENSTEIN\n* MR. AINSWORTH\n* MR. STEVENS\n* MR. TOMLINSON\n* Mr. ELLIS\n* MR. PARKINSON\n* MR. BEVIR, Colonial Office\n* CAPTAIN NEWBOLT\n* MR. MAYHEW, Joint Secretary\n* MR. POYNTON, Official Secretary\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN explained that Dr. Drummond Shiels had not yet returned from Cyprus and Palestine and that Sir John Shuckburgh was still absent from the Colonial Office. He welcomed the visitors present at the meeting.\n\n### 2. The Minutes of the Eighteenth Meeting were confirmed subject to slight amendments.\n\n### 3. Secretaries' Notices\n\nMR. MAYHEW reported that:\n\n(a) Mr. W. A. Stewart had been appointed as Supervisor of Technical Education in the Palestine Department of Education. An important part of his functions would be to give advice regarding the development of indigenous arts and crafts. Prior to his appointment, he had conducted a preliminary survey, accompanied by the Director of Education. Mr. Stewart had been educated in the School of Art, Bradford, and the Royal College of Art. He had had experience as head designer to a firm of silk manufacturers, as Director of the School of Egyptian Arts and Crafts, Cairo, and as technical artist to an American archæological expedition in Egypt. He had been recommended by Professor Rothenstein.\n\n(b) Mr. J. R. Cullen had been appointed Director of Education in Cyprus, in place of Canon Newham who had retired. Mr. Cullen was a scholar of Balliol, Hertford scholar and Craven scholar, and took a first-class in Classical Moderations and a second-class in Lit. Hum. He had been employed on the staff of Winchester College, and had also been engaged in archæological work in Asia Minor, in the course of which he acquired a knowledge of Turkish and modern Greek. Prior to his appointment, he underwent an intensive course of training in administration and school inspection, under the general direction of one of His Majesty's Inspectors of Schools.\n\n(c) Referring to the announcement at the last meeting that the Palestine Government had accepted an annual grant of £1,000 for at least two years from the Institute of Rural Life, controlled by the Near East Foundation, New York, and with reference to a question then put by Mr. Snell, MR. MAYHEW stated that the approved scheme towards the expenses of which this grant was to be devoted was for the advancement of Arab rural communities by an improved system of education with an agricultural bias. This involved an intensive course of agricultural training for village schoolmasters at ...\n\n*See page `Education.-Gp. 6. 39/2372. 3. 125. 12/30. (7526) M. & S.` \n## Page 90", "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": 527577, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 67, "title": "CO129-530-2 Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies- Hong Kong education report 1930 23-12-1930 - 12-10-1931", "content_text": "## 91\n\n\n2 \n\nThe newly-opened Kadoorie Agricultural School at Tulkarem, the appointment of a special instructor on the staff of that school, the establishment of a hostel for the students, the award of scholarships, and expenditure on the improvement of school gardens.\n\n**(d)** **MR. MAYHEW** drew attention to the Report of the Colonial Films Committee circulated with the papers for the meeting. They would find in it suggestions regarding ways in which the services of this Committee might be used for the development of the cultural and educational use of films in the colonies.\n\n**(e)** He also drew attention to a preliminary announcement that had just been placed before them regarding a Conference to be held in April between educationists at home and overseas. The list of names on the Advisory Council which had approved of the Conference included three members of the Advisory Committee. It was proposed to circulate information regarding this Conference to Directors of Education overseas, as it was thought that officers on leave might like to take advantage of this opportunity for discussing general educational topics with Home educationists and educationists from other parts of the Empire. Though the Conference dealt essentially with Christian education, it would cover many topics concerned with education generally.\n\n**(f)** Sir Edward Denham, now Governor of British Guiana, had asked that thanks might be communicated on his wife's behalf and his own to the Advisory Committee for their kind appreciation of their work in the Gambia. This appreciation had been recorded at the Committee's meeting of the 19th June.* \n\n## A \n\n**(g)** He stated that replies had been received from all Colonial Governments to whom, on the recommendation of the Advisory Committee, a questionnaire had been addressed regarding the delegation of educational powers to local authorities. A summary of the information thus obtained was being prepared for the use of the Committee.\n\n**(h)** The Advisory Committee's Memorandum on English Reading Books had been communicated by the Secretary of State to all Colonies where there was a large number of non-English-speaking pupils, as well as to educational publishers and other bodies likely to be interested. In addition to the 800 copies thus circulated, 238 copies had subsequently been asked for, many of the requests coming from the West Indies, where the Memorandum had also been found useful.\n\n**(i)** **MR. MAYHEW** (in Mr. Vischer's absence) reported that Mr. Rivers-Smith was due to retire from his post of Director of Education, Tanganyika Territory, early in the coming year. The heads of the local Catholic missions had asked the Government to use their influence to prolong his services until the educational scheme had gained full strength and maturity. They had been informed in reply by the Government that His Excellency was gratified to receive this testimony to the value of Mr. Rivers-Smith's services, but would not feel justified in standing in the way of his desire to take a well-earned pension on completion of more than twenty-five years' public service in Africa.\n\n**(j)** As regards the London Club for African Students he stated that a meeting of various persons interested was held under the chairmanship of Sir Percy Nunn on Wednesday, the 15th of October, and an Organizing Committee was set up to endeavour to get the club started. It appeared that Mr. Lapido Solanke, the Secretary of the West African Students' Union, had obtained promises of some support for a club, and it was considered essential to obtain his co-operation. He was shortly returning to this country. There was likely to be an annual deficit on the club of between £1,500 and £2,000, and initial expenditure of some £5,000 or £6,000 would probably be necessary. Means of obtaining this money were now being considered, and it might be necessary to issue a public appeal. The African Governments were expected to make annual contributions in the neighbourhood of £1,000 a year.\n\n**(k)** Action had been completed by the Colonial Office on the previous recommendations of the Committee in practically every instance.\n\n## 4. Annual Report of Kenya Education Department, 1929\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN** informed the Committee that the Annual Report of the Kenya Education Department for 1929 had been circulated and that he understood some members wished to comment on it.\n\n**SIR JAMES CURRIE** drew the Committee's attention to certain passages on pages 7 and 8 regarding the \"Policy of Missionary Assistance\" and \"Native Aspirations.\" He considered that the Report was a very challenging document and that it ascribed to the Committee an educational policy which the Committee had never held. In support of this view he read a note on the subject prepared by Mr. Mayhew. He had also received a letter to a similar effect from Lord Lugard. This letter was read to the Committee.\n\n**MISS BURSTALL** associated herself with the protest raised by Sir James Currie.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN** said that no statement had ever been made by the Committee which would justify Mr. Scott's views.\n\nWith regard to a point raised in Lord Lugard's letter to the effect that the Kikuyu tribe had quarrelled with the Missions generally on the matter of female circumcision, he thought that in fact they had quarrelled only with the Scottish Mission and that the influence of the Church Missionary Society had not been weakened at all.\n\n**MR. PARKINSON** was in no doubt, from other reports to which he drew attention, that the Kenya Government had correctly understood the policy of the Committee, and it was therefore unlikely that the Director of Education should misunderstand it; and he had wondered whether the mis-statement in the paragraph referred to could be due to bad drafting. In reply to a question by Sir James Currie, he said that the practice of female circumcision was part of initiatory tribal rites, and he summarized briefly the Government policy in the matter.\n\n**MR. OLDHAM** said that the policy as stated by Mr. Scott was not the policy advocated by the Missions who were entirely in favour of the policy laid down by the Advisory Committee. It might be that his mistake had arisen owing to the fact that before going to Kenya, he had had long experience in the Transvaal where the educational policy was that all educational work should be done by Missions.\n\nThe best Missionary opinion was in favour of the recognition and, as far as possible, the retention of native customs, but in regard to the extreme form of female circumcision there was a body of competent opinion which held that it was a barbarous custom which ought to be discouraged in every possible way.\n\nAfter some further discussion it was decided that Mr. Mayhew and Mr. Parkinson should together draw up a statement regarding the policy of the Committee for immediate communication to the Government of Kenya, and that copies of the statement should be circulated to the Committee, for information at their next meeting.\n\n## 5. Form of Annual Education Reports\n\n**SIR GEORGE MAXWELL** referred to the circulated abstracts of the Trinidad and Hong Kong Reports, and considered it unfortunate that the suggestions of the Committee (relating to the form and content of Annual Education Reports) had not been communicated to Colonies which were not participating in the Advisory Committee's affairs. The whole aim and object of the suggestions made was that the reports of all the Crown Colonies should be uniform. If a certain number of Colonies was omitted, the value of the co-ordination and of the statistics available fell to the ground. He suggested that the Secretary of State should be invited to send a copy of the Committee's suggestions for such Education Department Reports to all non-participating Colonies.\n\nHe also pointed out that Hong Kong, which had received the suggestions, had not complied with them.\n\n**MR. MAYHEW** explained the objections to sending the suggestions to non-participating colonies. So far as Hong Kong was concerned, it was decided that Mr. Mayhew should write privately to the Director of Education.\n\n## 6. The Development of Indigenous Art in Tropical Colonies\n\nMemoranda on this subject by Mr. Ainsworth and a covering note by Mr. Mayhew relating to the views of Professor Rothenstein and Mr. Stevens had been circulated to members of the Committee.\n\n**PROFESSOR ROTHENSTEIN** informed the Committee of his experiences as a member of a Selection Committee of the Board of Education, appointed to select a candidate for the direction of art in the Straits Settlements. The cultural obligations of this country were very great and should take an important place in our responsibility for the Colonies.\n\n**MR. STEVENS** emphasized the difficulty of carrying out the proper research work on indigenous art in the Colonies. It could only be done in school holidays, owing to the fact that an officer attached to one particular institution would at other times be fully occupied by his ordinary teaching duties. He pointed out that there were two attitudes towards art teaching—the academic attitude and the experimental attitude; for the subject of indigenous art, the experimental attitude was the better one.\n\nIn education, any change took two or three generations to work out. There were still schools in the Gold Coast which the new influence had not yet reached.\n\n\n\n## 92", "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": 528076, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-531-10 Hong Kong University- encouragement of Chinese students to counteract American influence 30-5-1931 - 1-9-1931", "page_number": 32, "title": "CO129-531-10 Hong Kong University- encouragement of Chinese students to counteract American influence 30-5-1931 - 1-9-1931", "content_text": "# 57\n\nC. 80047/8/31 [No. 23].\n\n**REVISE**\n\n## MINUTES OF THE TWENTY-NINTH MEETING OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION IN THE COLONIES\n\nHELD IN THE COLONIAL OFFICE ON THURSDAY, THE 23RD JULY, 1931, AT 11 A.M.\n\n### Present:\n\n* **DR. DRUMMOND SHIELS** (in the Chair)\n* SIR JOHN SHUCKBURGH\n* MISS BURSTALL\n* SIR JAMES CURRIE\n* MR. HORRABIN\n* LORD LUGARD\n* MR. MANN\n* SIR GEORGE MAXWELL\n* MR. MAYHEW\n* SIR PERCY NUNN\n* MR EZECHIEL (Crown Agents for the Colonies)\n* PROFESSOR FORSTER (Professor of Education, Hong Kong University)\n* MR. LACEY (Director of Education, Nyasaland)\n* MR. LATHAM (Director of Native Education, Northern Rhodesia)\n* MR. MATTHEW (Director of Education, Sudan Government)\n* MR. RANKINE (British Resident, Zanzibar)\n* MR. ELLIS (Colonial Office)\n* MR. POYNTON (Official Secretary)\n\nThe CHAIRMAN welcomed the visitors present. He expressed regret at the absence, through illness, of Mr. Vischer.\n\n## 2. The Minutes of the 28th Meeting* were confirmed.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN explained that arising out of these Minutes (see Item 7) it was necessary to appoint a sub-committee to consider the report on education in Bechuanaland Protectorate by the Resident Commissioner, together with the Annual Report of the Inspector of Education, Swaziland, for the year 1929 which had been circulated to the Committee. The following sub-committee was therefore appointed:\n\n* MR. MANN (Chairman)\n* SIR JAMES CURRIE\n* MISS BURSTALL\n* MR. HORRABIN\n* MR. VISCHER\n* Representative from the Dominions Office.\n\n## 3. Secretaries' Notices\n\n### (i) MR. MAYHEW reported the following:\n\n(a) Hong Kong University. At their 24th Meeting,† in February, 1931 (Minutes Item 4), the Advisory Committee had made recommendations regarding the position to be occupied by Chinese in the Hong Kong University matriculation examination, and emphasized the desirability of a faculty for the study of Chinese literature and the necessity for reconsidering the whole question of Chinese studies in the light of the recent development of China proper. The Governor of Hong Kong had reported that the University had amended accordingly the matriculation syllabus, and that a local Committee had been appointed to go fully into the other questions referred to by the Advisory Committee.\n\n(b) Selly Oak Colleges.—(cf. 28th Minutes,‡ Item 3 (ii) and previous references.) A report had been received that three candidates had passed the first examination held at the completion of the course. Of these, two will be working in India, and one, Mr. Wood, was proceeding to Nigeria. Mr. Wood was placed in the first class, and his work pleased Dr. Marett, Professor of Anthropology at Oxford, so much that he had suggested that Mr. Wood should proceed to Oxford for further study in this subject.\n\n(c) Conference of Directors of Agriculture.—At the invitation of the Agricultural Adviser, Mr. Mayhew attended a meeting of the Conference of Directors of Agriculture this month, when agricultural education was under discussion. A copy of the minutes of the meeting would be communicated to members of the Committee in due course.\n\n† See page ... in `Miscellaneous No. 397`. \n‡ See page ... \n`Education. Gp. 6. 166/2622. 3. 125`. \n`10/31. (10505) M. & S.`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-531-10 Hong Kong University- encouragement of Chinese students to counteract American influence 30-5-1931 - 1-9-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 528296, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-531-11 Hong Kong University- general and financial points 14-9-1931 - 8-11-1931", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-531-11 Hong Kong University- general and financial points 14-9-1931 - 8-11-1931", "content_text": "C. 80047/9/31 [No. 8]. *\n\n[Confirmed]\n\n**REVISE**\n\n## MINUTES OF THE THIRTIETH MEETING OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION IN THE COLONIES,\n\nHELD IN THE COLONIAL OFFICE ON THURSDAY, THE 1ST OCTOBER, 1931, AT 11 A.M.\n\n### Present:\n\n| Name | Title/Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sir JOHN SHUCKBURGH | (in the Chair) |\n| Miss BURSTALL | |\n| Sir JAMES CURRIE | |\n| Archbishop GOODIER | |\n| Mr. HORRABIN | |\n| Lord LUGARD | |\n| Sir GEORGE MAXWELL | |\n| Mr. MAYHEW | |\n| Sir PERCY NUNN | |\n| Mr. OLDHAM | |\n| Sir MICHAEL SADLER | |\n| Mr. SOMERVILLE | |\n| Mr. L. BEALE | |\n| The Hon. C. FARRER | (Department of Overseas Trade) |\n| Mr. LACEY | (Director of Education, Nyasaland) |\n| Dr. LINDSAY | (Chairman, Universities China Committee, Master of Balliol College, Oxford) |\n| Mr. SEWELL | (Secretary, United Committee for Christian Universities of China) |\n| Professor SOOTHILL | (Professor of Chinese, Oxford University) |\n| Mr. CALDER | (Colonial Office) (for Item 4) |\n| Mr. POYNTON | (Official Secretary) |\n\n1. The **CHAIRMAN** welcomed the visitors present. He announced that Sir Robert Hamilton had succeeded Dr. Shiels as Chairman, and said that Sir Robert much regretted that he was unable to be present on this occasion. He then read a letter from Dr. Shiels expressing his regret at leaving the Committee.\n\nSir **MICHAEL SADLER**, on behalf of the Committee, said that the members had appreciated serving under Dr. Drummond Shiels who had always shown an active, strong, sustained, and encouraging interest in the work. He asked that Dr. Drummond Shiels might be informed of the Committee's great regret that he would no longer be serving on the Committee.\n\n2. The Minutes of the 29th Meeting* were confirmed. Miss **BURSTALL**, referring to the education of Mohammedan girls (Item 4, paragraph 3 of the Minutes of the 29th Meeting), said that she understood that it had been decided to close the Government girls' school at Tabora, Tanganyika, and that Miss Hake, the Headmistress, had been retrenched. She asked for a statement of the position. The **CHAIRMAN** replied that the Tanganyika Government had recently appointed a Retrenchment Commission which had referred in its report to a suggestion it had received that this particular school could be managed and run on secular lines by Mission sisters at one-third of its present cost, or alternatively that the school might be closed and the pupils sent to a Mission school at Ndala. The Commission had not definitely recommended either alternative, but had confined themselves to saying that the suggestion was \"worthy of investigation.\" The recommendations of the Governor upon the Retrenchment Commission's report had not yet been received. Miss Hake had been retrenched, but so far as the Secretary of State was aware no final decision had yet been taken as to the closing of the school.\n\n3. **Secretaries' Notices**.-Mr. **MAYHEW** reported the following:-\n\n(a) Mr. Caldwell, Assistant Director of Education, Nyasaland, had been appointed Director of Native Education, Northern Rhodesia, in place of Mr. Latham, who had recently retired. Mr. Scott, Director of Education, Kenya, was expected in England on 6th November this year.\n\nSir Percy Nunn informed the Committee that Mr. Caldwell, while on leave last year, had taken the course at the London Day Training College and his presence at the College, side by side with the younger men, had been a very valuable feature of the year's work.\n\nThe Committee agreed.\n\n* See page 75 `Education. Gp. 6. 166/2622. 3. 125. 11/31. (11034) M. & S.`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-531-11 Hong Kong University- general and financial points 14-9-1931 - 8-11-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 554269, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937", "page_number": 67, "title": "CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937", "content_text": "## Witness\n\nMr. J. E. Shaw, County Clerk, County of Ayr \nMr. Hugh Begg, F.R.C.V.S., County Veterinary Inspector, Lanarkshire \nMr. H. A. Pritchard, Town Clerk, Leicester (Chairman of the Law Committee of the Association) \nMr. J. K. Allerton, Town Clerk, Worthing \nMr. Brennan de Vine, F.R.C.V.S., Chief Veterinary Officer, Birmingham \nMr. P. W. Margetts, Secretary of the Law Committee of the Association \nDr. W. Allen Daley, Principal Medical Officer in charge of the General Public Health Division of the Public Health Department \nMr. T. E. Birtwisle, Chairman \nMr. H. T. Perry, Senior Vice-Chairman \nMr. T. Topping, Member of the General Council \nMr. E. Whone, Member of the General Council \nMr. W. B. Jepson, Secretary \nDr. E. G. Annis, Chairman of the Pure Milk Committee of the Institute, and Medical Officer of Health for Greenwich \nDr. G. W. N. Joseph, Medical Officer of Health for Warrington \nMr. H. E. Bywater, M.R.C.V.S., Veterinary Officer for West Ham \nProfessor H. E. Armstrong, D.Sc., F.R.S. \nSir Daniel Hall, K.C.B., F.R.S. \nSir Frederick Menzies, K.B.E., County Medical Officer of Health, London County Council\n\n## Description of Witness\n\nRepresentatives of the Association of County Councils in Scotland \nRepresentatives of the Association of Municipal Corporations \nRepresenting the London County Council \nRepresentatives of the Sanitary Inspectors' Association of England and Wales \nRepresentatives of the Pure Milk Committee of The Royal Institute of Public Health\n\n## (b) List of Institutions and Persons from Whom Written, but Not Oral, Evidence Was Received\n\n| Institution/Person |\n| --- |\n| Agricultural Economics Research Institute, University of Oxford |\n| Animal Diseases Research Association, Moredon Institute, Gilmerton, Midlothian |\n| Viscount Astor |\n| Professor J. Basil Buxton, F.R.C.V.S., D.V.H., Director, Institute of Animal Pathology, Cambridge |\n| Dr. E. P. Calder, M.B., Ch.B., D.Ph. |\n| Cumberland Agricultural Committee |\n| Mr. Arthur Gofton, F.R.C.V.S., Chief Veterinary Inspector, Edinburgh |\n| Mr. John Golding, D.S.O., F.I.C., National Institute for Research in Dairying, University of Reading |\n| The Graham-Enock Manufacturing Company, Limited |\n| Mr. G. H. Johnstone |\n| Dr. H. D. Kay, Director, National Institute for Research in Dairying, Reading |\n| Dr. E. C. V. Mattick, M.Sc., Ph.D., National Institute for Research in Dairying, University of Reading |\n| Royal (Dick) Veterinary College, Edinburgh |\n| Royal Sanitary Association of Scotland |\n| Dr. Evelyn Sprawson, M.C., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., L.D.S., Director of Dental Studies and Lecturer on Dental Surgery, the London Hospital |\n| Mr. A. M. Trotter, M.R.C.V.S., Chief Veterinary Inspector, Glasgow |\n| West of Scotland Agricultural College |\n\n## APPENDIX 2, The Average Life of Dairy Cows\n\nThere are three sources from which estimates of the average annual wastage of dairy cattle have been made: \n(i) from the investigations carried out by milk recording societies into the number of animals drafted out of recorded herds; \n(ii) from the age distribution of a large sample of cows; \n(iii) from the annual agricultural census carried out by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Scottish Department of Agriculture.\n\n### (i) The Investigations of Milk Recording Societies\n\nThere have been two large-scale investigations by milk recording societies which bear upon the annual wastage of dairy cattle, undertaken respectively by the School of Agriculture, Cambridge University, and by the National Institute of Research in Dairying at Reading. The results of these two investigations are surprisingly difficult to interpret. It appears that only about 80 per cent. of the actual number of disposals are reported by farmers. This deficiency is said to be largely accounted for by the fact that dry cattle which are awaiting disposal on the 1st October, the date at which the annual register is opened, are not entered in the register and their disposal is not subsequently noticed. In addition, some disposals are overlooked, as a result, e.g., of transfers between herds belonging to the same owner.\n\nIn view of the discrepancies resulting from these causes, those responsible for both these investigations have taken the number of new entrants as being the better measure of wastage. In one case (Cambridge), the size of the herd has been based upon the number registered at the beginning of the year (which excludes dry cows being fattened for sale); in the other (Reading), the closing number has been chosen. As the opening number presumably corresponds with the two classes \"cows and heifers in milk\" and \"cows in calf, but not in milk,\" adopted for the yearly agricultural census, it has been used in the sequel.\n\nThe principal source of error in this method of calculation is to be found in increases or decreases in the numbers included in the herds during the period under review. The cow population of England and Wales does not vary greatly; but it is possible for variations to take place in the herds in question which would sensibly affect the results.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 554759, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-562-8 Hong Kong University- Engineering Faculty 16-6-1937 - 5-4-1938", "page_number": 43, "title": "CO129-562-8 Hong Kong University- Engineering Faculty 16-6-1937 - 5-4-1938", "content_text": "# HONGKONG UNIVERSITY \n\n(Continued from Page 8.)\n\nThe endowment was being run in a sound, economical, and businesslike manner, and whether the most was being made of its public utility. Now it is because I have had doubts expressed to me by responsible persons on both these points as regards this University, because also its present finances afford room for considerable concern, and chiefly because the Colonial Government is now contributing to them annually a sum of no less than three hundred and fifty thousand dollars that I have decided, as Governor and with the full approval of my Executive Council, to appoint a small committee of inquiry.\n\n## Committee of Inquiry\n\nI to investigate the present, and probable future, financial position of the Hongkong University and to advise whether any changes are desirable in its staffing, personnel, salary scales, or organization;\n\nII: to enquire and advise whether any such, or other, changes are desirable in the interest of its utility or prestige;\n\nIII: to tender any other advice or suggestions for the future of the University.\n\nI have heard the suggestion made that we ought to get an expert out from home for this investigation, but I feel certain myself that our local conditions and circumstances are so peculiar to ourselves that the first thing at any rate, to do is to bring good, clear local brains to bear on the problem and to have their summing up of the position and their advice regarding it before we consider the expensive proposition of obtaining outside opinion which, however expert on the subject of University organization, would not be expert in regard to the special circumstances and requirements of the Far East.\n\nThe gentlemen who will be invited to serve on the Committee will be the Honourable Mr. N. L. Smith, Colonial Secretary, the Honourable Sir Shouson Chow, Mr. J. R. Masson, and Mr. A. Morse, Honorary Treasurer of the University. The membership is small, because I do not believe in unwieldy committees, but the committee will take the evidence of all who respond to its invitation or volunteer to appear before it.\n\n## Scholarships\n\nThe scholarships awarded were:\n| Scholarship | Recipient |\n| --- | --- |\n| The Ng Li-hing Medical Scholarship | divided between S. Bard and V. N. Vargassoff |\n| The Ho Fook and Chan Kai-ming First Medical Scholarship | V. N. Vargassoff |\n| The Ho Fook and Chan Kai-ming Second Medical Scholarship | For May 1936, Wu Hung-tak; For December, Cheng See-yan |\n| The Anderson Scholarship for 1936 | Cheng See-yan |\n| The Chan Kai-ming Engineering Scholarship | Chan Bing-hung |\n| The Chan Kai-ming Arts Scholarship | Li Shi-yi |\n\n## Congregation Details\n\nThe Great Hall was filled to capacity with invited guests and friends and relatives of those who were receiving degrees. Among those present not on the dais were Lady Caldecott, Captain W. J. R. Cragg, A.D.C. to His Excellency, Mr. Secretary to His Excellency; H. E. H. J. Cruttwell, Private Secretary to His Excellency; Vice Admiral Sir Charles Little, and Lady Little, H. E. Maj.-Gen. A. W. Bartholomew and Mrs. Bartholomew; and Rear Admiral C. G. Sedgwick.\n\nWhile tea was being served in the grounds, the Band of the 2nd Battalion, The East Lancashire Battalion, played selections. The programme included: \"March of the Peers\" from \"Iolanthe\", Sullivan; \"The Merry Widow\", Lehar; Selection from the Musical Play; Valse, \"Amorettan Tanze\" Gung'l; Entr'cte, \"Humcresque\", Dvorak; Selection, \"Merrie England\", German.\n\n## SIR WILLIAM HORNELL\n\nSir William Hornell, who has been Vice-Chancellor of the University since 1924, was formerly in the Indian Educational Service. A son of the late Mr. Robert Hornell, Barrister-at-law of the Inner Temple, he was born in 1878 and educated at Radley School and Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated Master of Arts. In 1901, he entered the Indian Educational Service, and the following year was appointed Professor of English at the Presidency College, Calcutta. Transferred to Bengal, he rose there to be Director of Public Instruction. For some years, he was attached to the Board of Education, Whitehall. In 1918, he was honoured with the C.I.E., and in 1933, he was created a Knight Bachelor. In 1931, he was presented with an honorary degree of Doctor of Law by the Hongkong University.\n\nFor twelve years, he has been building on its foundations and without any edifice of bricks and mortar but the lives and careers of hundreds of young men and women. He has made himself extremely popular in the Colony, and has associated himself with many local organisations. He has confessed to a sense of frustration: He was largely instrumental in securing for the University a share in the Boxer Indemnity Fund.\n\nNobody realises defects in foundation, in lay-out, or in materials more than the master-builder, and the appointment of my small committee will provide the opportunity for the master-builder to come forward and advise as an architectural consultant for the University's future.\n\nSir William has confessed also to a sense of isolation. So far as contact with the British Universities is at present lacking or ineffective, I am bold to prophesy that, when he is back home, Sir William will personally achieve a proper and effectual liaison. He will be, I am confident, this University's apostle to England. But as regards the loss which his departure will spell for us in Hongkong, I can find no words of comfort at all. It is, alas, proverbial that great men leave great gaps. Sir William Hornell has been not only a great Vice-Chancellor but a very human one, so that the gap which he leaves will be a gap not only in the list of Hongkong's distinguished residents but in that innermost circle of public friends which the Colony has taken warmly and gratefully to its heart.\n\nHe ended his address to us this afternoon with the sad word \"Goodbye\"; I refuse now to anticipate our parting with him by returning that salutation but, at this, his last Congregation, and on behalf of all present, I will conclude my remarks by addressing to him two words, two simple little words which can nevertheless be charged with all our infinity of obligation, admiration, and affection towards him--Thank you, Sir William.\n\n## The Graduates\n\nThe following received the degree of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery:\n- Cheng See-yan\n- Miss C. Wong\n- Lee Hua-ngak\n- L. Gosano\n- Teng Pin-hui\n- Szeto Eng-kee\n- Ong Ewe-hin\n- Kho Pek-po\n- Kong Sau-yui\n- P. R. T. Naidu\n\nIn Absentia:\n- Chau Woon-nin\n- Ng Yew-seng\n- Kandiah Nagalingam\n\nDegree of Bachelor of Science in Engineering:\n- Chow Shiu-lim\n- Chua Keng-ju\n- Walter J. Citrin\n- Ho Chiap-chye\n- Hui Che-shing\n- Lim Chong-hin\n- Lu Sui-shing\n- Vadim Bonch-Osmolovsky\n- Ting Zeh\n- Wong Wan-kung\n- Wong Yat-sing\n- Zea Yue-kun\n\nIn Absentia:\n- Chang Chia-ning\n- Cho Tuck-choon\n- Alexis Ignatius Napoloff\n- Shao Tsun\n- Adi Bejan Tata\n- Michael Constantin Yatskin\n\nDegree of Bachelor of Arts:\n- Chan Yoong-hin\n- Mrs. Kan Po-chi\n- Lee Kui-chee\n- Miss Li Sau-man\n- Mak Cheuk-hon\n- Goh Tiang-hin\n- Lau Kwok-ching\n- Leung Yau-cheung\n- Miss Li Wan-saan\n- Miss Josephine Wong Po Lin\n- Dachin Yih\n\nSir William Hornell is a brother of Mr. E. B. Hornell, formerly secretary in the Colony of the China Sugar Refinery, and of Rear-Admiral Robert A. Hornell.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-562-8 Hong Kong University- Engineering Faculty 16-6-1937 - 5-4-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564025, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-575-2 Vacancy for lady medical officer in the Medical Department 12-4-1939 - 13-10-1939", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-575-2 Vacancy for lady medical officer in the Medical Department 12-4-1939 - 13-10-1939", "content_text": "## Application Form\n\n7. Give particulars of any physical impairment from which you may have suffered. It is particularly important that any previous trouble such as neurasthenia or an impediment in speech should be mentioned.\n\n8. State here whether you possess special knowledge of any language other than English.\n\n### 9. Schools\n\n| School Name | Location | Dates of Entry and Leaving | Examinations Passed/Distinctions |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Victoria High School | Derry, Ireland | 1905-1908 | ... |\n| Ladies College | Jersey | 1908-1909 | ... |\n| Welsh School | Aberdare | 1909-1912 | ... |\n| Walthamstow Hall School | Edinburgh | 1912-1914 | ... |\n\nMention any Examinations passed [e.g., Matriculation, School or Higher Certificate], any distinctions gained in school work, games, school societies, etc., and positions of responsibility held. Give the names of your Head or House masters.\n\n### 10. University (or other similar Institution)\n\nState (a) any scholarships held or prizes won. (b) Subject or subjects read in degree or diploma course. (c) Athletic and other non-academic distinctions. (d) Give the name of your college Tutor, or of the Professor or Lecturer who knew you best.\n\nEdinburgh University, M.B., Ch.B. 1923.\n\n### 11. Degree, Diploma, or Professional Qualifications\n\n| Qualification | Date Obtained | Result/Class |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| M.B., Ch.B. | 1923 | ... |\n\nThe result or class obtained in each part of your course must be clearly shown here. If not completed at the time of application, give particulars and date of final examination.\n\n### 12. Civil employment or occupation\n\n| Employer | Position Held | Dates | Cause of Leaving |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Hish. Delte | House Surgeon | 1923 | ... |\n| R.M.O., GLING | R.M.O. | 1924-25 | ... |\n| R.M.O., Matering Hosp. | R.M.O. | ... | ... |\n| Matering Hosp., Bangalore | M.O. | 1925-27 | ... |\n| Government Infant Welfare in Cantonments | ... | ... | ... |\n| R. Watford Informary | ... | 1933 | ... |\n| ... | ... | 1938 | ... |\n\nMention in chronological order each position held by you, the dates between which you held it, and the cause of leaving; also any dates between which you were not employed. The name of each employer should be stated and his address should also be given, unless it is stated in Section 15.\n\nState present employment and salary you are now receiving.\n\n## Testimonial\n\nDr. Anna Blair has been working as the doctor in charge of the Indian Welfare work in Cantonments in Quetta during the past Summer. The work entailed the supervision of Child Welfare and Maternity practice in connection with the Indian Units in Quetta. As the strength of the Indian Garrison in the station is between seven and eight thousand men, Dr. Blair has had a wide and varied experience of Indian Welfare and Maternity work. Dr. Blair has carried on the work very successfully and has given every satisfaction to the committee under whom she worked.\n\nI.M.H. QUETTA. 19.9.30.\n\nCertified true copy.\n\n(sa) W. M. Cruickshank. Major. I.M.S. Off. Commanding. I.M.H. Quetta.\n\n22nd July, 1939.\n\n(sa) Welling, Secretary, Medical Department.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-2 Vacancy for lady medical officer in the Medical Department 12-4-1939 - 13-10-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573732, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-589-11 Port of Hong Kong- Report on future control and development 18-7-1941 - 10-10-1944", "page_number": 70, "title": "CO129-589-11 Port of Hong Kong- Report on future control and development 18-7-1941 - 10-10-1944", "content_text": "## THE DOCK AND HARBOUR AUTHORITY\n### February, 1942\n#### Port of Hong Kong-continued\n\nSir David Owen's Report having been brought to the notice of Mr. John Duncan, M.Inst.C.E., formerly Port Engineer of Hong Kong, the following interesting communication has been received from that gentleman. It will be recalled that Mr. Duncan's recommendations for the future development of the Port were published in the issues of this Journal for April and May, 1926:- \n\n**To the Editor of The Dock and Harbour Authority**\n\nPort of Hong Kong\n\nIt is indeed the irony of fate that whereas in 1924, the peak year of the colony's prosperity, I had the honour of advising the Government of Hong Kong on the commercial development of that great port; now in 1942, when that beautiful Colony with its excellent natural harbour, second to none, including even that of Sydney, after heroic resistance, has fallen to the Japanese, I feel impelled by the report of the late Sir David Owen to make comment on the same subject.\n\n### Conditions in 1924 and 1941\n\nFor many years prior to 1924 commercial interests had been clamouring for developments to meet more adequately and efficiently the needs of the Colony's growing trade. The problem was a difficult and complex one, not only because of the many competing, and in some cases conflicting, interests of peoples of different nationalities, but one further complicated by political considerations, of which—whilst the Government may be fully acquainted—the man interested in his own commercial business may be quite unaware. The following remarks will serve to illustrate this point: \n\nI am fully acquainted with the fact that economic and political conditions in 1941 were vastly changed from those obtaining during a year or two prior to 1924, the peak year of the Colony's prosperity. Advisedly, I use the word \"prosperity\" for, coincident with a record return in 1924 of shipping and goods tonnage entering and leaving the Port, there was a tremendous boom in land values; and why? Because China, even at that late date, was still undergoing the process of regeneration caused by the overthrow of the Manchu regime in 1911 and, in consequence, internecine strife was rampant throughout the whole country. Coincident with these unfortunate conditions, foreign political intrigue was active, particularly in South China—exploiting China in its unfortunate state, but really directed against British interests in the Far East. That was during the presidency of the late Dr. Sun Yat Sen—but I must not dilate further on this theme, otherwise the Censor will intervene. Enquirers may well say: What has all this to do with engineering matters? Much; for the result was a great increase in the Colony's population seeking safety and security, many of whom would elect to remain permanently. There was such a flow of money into the Colony that the banks almost refused to accept it and when they did so, they paid little or no interest for it placed on deposit account. The result was a boom in land values, which, together with the increased population, affected very much the question of reclamation work and the provision of all public services, including such work connected with harbour development as ferry piers. It, therefore, behoved anyone dealing with the subject under review to give much consideration to the possible effect of political influences which may affect the problem. Fortunately, as it happens, I did so in 1924, for, as events subsequently proved, political influences had repercussions of a very unfortunate character in regard to the trade of the Port. I can now admit publicly that in 1924 I had secret information from Chinese sources—which proved to be well founded—that a General Strike or boycott was planned for 1925, and, unfortunately for Hong Kong, it so happened. It was cunningly planned to take place just before Settlement Day in June of that year. Shipping was held up and commercial operations were not merely incommoded, but for some time practically suspended. Then the Colony received a setback, from which cause, followed by world-wide depression, the trade of the Colony has never recovered. In point of fact, it has gone from bad to worse. Hence the reason why in 1924—to quote Professor Middleton Smith, M.Sc., M.I.Mech.E. (Taikoo Professor of Engineering in the University of Hong Kong—now retired) who, in his article which appeared in the December, 1936 issue of **The Dock and Harbour Authority**, aptly and correctly interprets my advice—I advised the Government to \"hurry slowly\" with works recommended by me for the physical development of the harbour. Nevertheless, I have great hopes for the future prosperity of Hong Kong. Given permanent peace and more equitable conditions of life, the problem under review—expurgated of such unfortunate political influences and provided goodwill and mutual trust exist between all concerned—will then be resolved into the simple one of control, economics and, so far as engineers are probably more interested, Physical Development. I agree with Professor Middleton Smith that \"whatever the political future of Hong Kong may be, its geographical position and its wonderful harbour give it an almost unchallengeable future as the most important port in South China.\" Mr. Churchill in his address to both Houses of the Canadian Parliament on 30th December last, goes even farther when he describes it as \"the greatest port of shipping in the whole world.\" It must and will always remain, at least, one of the largest ports in the world. We do not know what conditions exist in Hong Kong to-day. Even if we did, it would not avail us one iota for, if the Japanese should adopt the scorched-earth policy before they are driven out of Hong Kong, the whole matter, as your editorial comment says, may well call for fresh consideration at the close of hostilities and so, at the present time \"the various proposals have little more than academic significance.\"\n\n### The Report of 1924\n\nI was unaware of the report presented by the late Sir David Owen last year. That report I have now read with much interest, but before proceeding to express my opinions on his recommendations for administrative control and physical development, I must make an assumption and acquaint your readers with my recommendations in 1924, so that fair comparison may be made. There can then be frank and open discussion on the subject.\n\nI cannot imagine for one moment that the Government would withhold from Sir David Owen any reports and recorded information in its possession, relevant to the subject on which his advice was sought, so I am going to assume that he received a copy of the report which I presented to the Government in 1924.\n\nOne naturally refrains from drawing attention to any eulogistic comment on, or criticism of one's own work, but, having regard to the fact that no reference whatsoever has been made to that report, which, if I may say so, was comprehensive, based on years of experience in Hong Kong, intensive study, and exhaustive research, I may perhaps be pardoned, if, under the circumstances, I first refer to one or two press comments on it.\n\nOn December 30th, 1924, editorial comment—all much on the same lines—was made in: **The China Mail**, Hong Kong; **The Hong Kong Daily Press**; and **The Hong Kong Telegraph**; and at later dates in other newspapers in the Far East and elsewhere. This is what **The China Mail** said:—\n\n\"Historic is the only term that can describe the report presented by the Colony's Port Engineer, Mr. John Duncan, M.Inst.C.E., on the commercial development of our harbour. For historic it is in many ways. The Colonial Secretary said yesterday that a more interesting and important document has seldom been laid before the Council. Sir Claude Severn could have gone further without overstating the case. He could safely have said that the report may prove the most important document in the Colony's history, for, upon the commercial development of the harbour, as everyone knows, depends the future prosperity of the whole Colony. Other harbour reports there have been in the past, but they have all been so much tinkering with the problem. Even the late Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice dealt with only one aspect of the matter—the providing of wharves to meet Kowloon's future needs as a railway terminus—which Mr. John Duncan's report, if it does not say so in as many words, shows to be the wrong angle from which to approach the problem, looking to the fact that the through railway from the North is not likely to be completed for many years and anyway the bulk of the colony's trade will always be waterborne.\"\n\nIn all fairness to the late Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice and his firm, then Messrs. Coode, Fitzmaurice, Wilson and Mitchell, Consulting Engineers to the Crown Agents for the Colonies, I would here interpolate that the matters on which his firm's advice was sought in 1920 were:—\n| Matter | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | Improvements of the harbour generally. |\n| 2 | The provision of wharves and warehouses provided with railway communication. |\n| 3 | Improvement of the Mongkoktsui Harbour of Refuge. |\n| 4 | The question of dredging plant generally; the refitting of the dredger `St. Enoch` being considered in this connection. |\n| 5 | The best means of providing facilities opposite Statue Square for landing from, or embarking on launches and small craft generally. |\n\nThe consulting engineers adhered strictly to the terms of reference, which did not require them to deal with anything but engineering issues. In consequence, their report practically resolved itself into one dealing with the provision of wharfage, by the construction in the bight of Hung Hom Bay of a reclamation of 48 acres from which were to project in a southerly direction a series of six jetties.\n\nIn the April and May, 1926, issues of **The Dock and Harbour Authority** a succinct resume of my report was presented for the information of your readers and in your editorial of the latter issue you refer to it as:—\n\n\"...a very lengthy document embodying the result of a great deal of painstaking research and containing a considerable amount of valuable information on all phases of the problem...\"\n\nIt will perhaps be conceded that at least in some quarters, the information contained in that report was considered of some value. But, if Sir David Owen considered it of little or no value, I submit that he would have added more to the solution of the problem by adverse criticism, rather than by eschewing all reference to it. In point of fact, he almost denies its existence, for, does he not say in paragraph 68:—\n\n\"It may further be noted that there does not seem to have been much in the nature of planning for the future development of the Port...\"\n\nThat statement is quite incorrect, for, apart altogether from the plans prepared by my staff on my instructions, I might here ask: What about—\n| Plan | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | The plans of Jetties and Reclamation at Hung Hom Bay and of extensions to Mongkoktsui Breakwater prepared by Messrs. Coode and Co. |\n| 2 | Plans of Wet Dock at Kowloon Point proposed by Captain W. Davidson, marine superintendent of the Canadian Pacific Railway Co. |\n| 3 | Plans for Wharfage and Reclamation at North Point recommended by the late Mr. T. L. Perkins, C.M.G., Director of Public Works. |\n| 4 | Plans of a Passenger Depôt at Victoria, proposed by Mr. Robert Sutherland, M.B.E., o/c Shipping Department of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co.; and |\n| 5 | Plans for the Development of the Harbour Front in General, recommended by The Hong Kong Town Planning Committee. |\n\nI do, however, agree with Sir David Owen that there has been no officially adopted plan of development.\n\nI trust your readers will not interpret any criticism I have to make as being made in any captious or cavilling spirit, for such is far from my mind. I had a great interest in the development of the harbour of Hong Kong. If in any way I can assist towards the most satisfactory solution of the difficult problem under review, then I shall feel happy in having accomplished something. One regret we all have, is that Sir David Owen has passed away; and so we shall not have the benefit of such reply as he may have felt disposed to make on any of the conflicting opinions which, apparently, have been already expressed on his report.\n\nWhereas the Government's instructions to me in 1924 were limited:—\n\n\"to prepare and submit for the consideration of the Government a complete scheme for the Development of the Port.\"\n\nI note that the terms of reference given to Sir David Owen were extremely wide; even to the extent of taking into account political conditions at a time when the Colony was threatened with war.\n\nNevertheless, and fortunately as it happens, I considered it my bounden duty to take into consideration all influences: political, economic, or physical, which, in my opinion, had any bearing whatsoever on the question of the future control and development of the Port.\n\n### Proposed Port Administration\n\nFor the information of your readers I would now draw their attention to the \"Policy, Control, Management and Administration\" which I recommended should be adopted by the Government.\n\n\"...In my opinion, a properly-constituted Advisory Port Authority, Board, or Impartial Tribunal is the first need.\" (May I here draw attention to a printer's error in Professor Middleton Smith's article wherein he states that I was emphatic...)\n\nPage 70\nPage 71", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-589-11 Port of Hong Kong- Report on future control and development 18-7-1941 - 10-10-1944.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579142, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 58, "title": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "content_text": "64\n\n12\n\nto be suffering from acute malaria. But for the prompt pooling of resources of personnel and materials by the Civil and Crown Forces, it is probable that a very serious epidemic of malaria would have attacked all branches of the community in the last quarter of 1945 owing to the regrettable neglect of this problem by the Japanese. As it was, it became necessary to enforce the taking of a tablet of atebrine (mepacrine) daily, the wearing of long sleeves and long trousers from an hour before dusk to an hour after dawn and the use of mosquito nets by all members of the Forces in the Colony.\n\nSoon after the re-occupation of Hong Kong arrangements were made for a specially adapted aeroplane to be shipped from Australia, to be reassembled on Kai Tak Airfield, Kowloon, and to carry out aerial spraying with a mixture of anti-malarial oil and D.D.T. dissolved in kerosine. The aeroplane was fitted with one 300 gallon tank under each wing and with a smaller auxiliary tank, to fly at a height of 100-300 feet at a speed of about 160 miles per hour and in a wind not exceeding six miles per hour. It was anticipated that this form of spraying should prove effective on marshy land, paddy fields, and the like (and would also be effective against flies), but that D.D.T. spraying of the interior of premises and the usual anti-malarial oiling and permanent training of nullahs, ravines and hill seepages would have to be continued.\n\nAs in pre-war days, the general Health Inspectorate (or rather such of the very reduced staff as remained in Hong Kong during the occupation) gave full co-operation to the anti-malarial staff and did their best to cope with the general mosquito nuisance. This work was considerably handicapped by three factors, inter alia. Firstly, the Japanese prohibited the collection and disposal of tins by the Health staff on the grounds that the tins would be gathered up at a later date and sent to Japan with all other forms of metal (factory parts, telephone wire, road studs, iron gates and railings, reinforcement from demolished buildings, and so on). In this way, heaps of tins were to be found in ruined houses and formed potential reservoirs for mosquitos after every heavy rain. Secondly, in an entirely ineffectual way to stop looting and destruction of property, the Japanese had hundreds of premises barricaded with barbed wire and forbade Health Inspectors to inspect and deal with mosquito-breeding and other nuisances. This had no effect in keeping determined looters from entering these same buildings at night and removing all the contents including wooden floors, ceilings and staircases, doors, windows, etc. In the Peak District alone there were 500 looted residences. Thirdly, the Naval, Military Forces and Gendarmerie refused to allow the Health Inspectorate to enter any areas occupied by them and to take appropriate anti-mosquito measures. This was a particularly unsatisfactory feature because the occupation forces seized property all over the Colony and, hence, provided nuisances and mosquito-breeding foci in areas which could otherwise have been effectively protected. Immediately the Department came into existence once more, a strenuous effort was made to overcome this state of affairs. Valuable co-operation was rendered by British Naval, Military and Air Force units in ameliorating conditions.\n\n(b) BACTERIOLOGICAL INSTITUTE\n\nThe Bacteriological Institute remained open during the whole period of the Japanese occupation. In fact, the Japanese took over a teaching institution at 103, Austin Road, Kowloon, and established a second laboratory, in the former Maternity Ward of the Kowloon Hospital. Although the Institute rendered valuable assistance in the earlier months of 1942 by carrying out special tests for Tweed Bay Hospital, Stanley Civilian Internment Camp, St. Paul's, the Nethersole, Mental and Sai Ying Pun Hospitals, Hong Kong, its activities were very largely devoted to the preparation of anti-cholera vaccine and the examinations of rectal swabs from would-be immigrants or contacts with cases of cholera and typhoid. The invading authorities refused to make any provision for the care and feeding of laboratory animals and the large majority of these had died before the retaking of Hong Kong, despite the devoted sacrifices made by the staff of the Institute. This state of affairs had a very depressing effect on Professor R. C. Robertson, M.C., former Lecturer in Pathology to the University of Hong Kong and Medical Officer in charge of the Victoria Mortuary. After putting up a courageous fight, he found the situation too difficult and died under tragic circumstances in the early summer of 1942.\n\nMuch of the cholera vaccine produced by the Japanese, especially in Kowloon, proved to be heavily contaminated and had to be condemned owing to its very serious effects on those inoculated with it. The anti-smallpox vaccine also proved to be without any potency whatever and had to be destroyed.\n\n63\n\ni\n\n13\n\nIt would appear that the interest taken by the Japanese in performing tens of thousands of rectal swab tests and in inoculating the community with cholera vaccine was not unconnected with the necessity for the Japanese Medical Department to raise revenue to cover its expenditure. Out of the first ten thousand rectal swabs examined at the Bacteriological Institute, during a period, be it said, of cholera prevalence, only one proved positive. This was quite understandable, for to produce a growth two prerequisites are essential; firstly the media used must be suitable and the swab must not have dried off after removal from the rectum before being applied to the culture tube. No steps were taken in the one instance mentioned, although it would only be fair to record the fact that several contacts with cholera patients who were alleged to be carriers were detained for varying periods at the Infectious Diseases Hospitals in Kennedy Town and Lai Chi Kok. It should, also, be noted that very large numbers of cholera inoculations were given free at ferry crossings and in the streets, but no amount of protests and representations on the part of the writer were successful in persuading the Authorities to order these inoculation units to take aseptic precautions, although a tremendous improvement was noted on occasions. It is hardly to be wondered at, under these circumstances, that all who could afford the fee charged at special inoculation centres were glad to avoid being pricked with a needle that had already done service on a half dozen or more persons without previous sterilization. Many inflamed arms and abscesses were encountered following these mass infected inoculations.\n\n(c) CHEMICAL LABORATORY\n\nThe Chemical Laboratory was taken over by the Japanese Military Authorities soon after the surrender in 1941 and ceased to be available for the examination of works samples, food, drugs or biochemical work. In the middle of 1942, however, the writer was able to persuade the Japanese Medical Authorities that such laboratory facilities would be of considerable assistance and could be made self-supporting by charging fees for reports on drugs, etc. As a result and since the Military Authorities refused any co-operation, a duplicate laboratory was fitted out in the same building and at considerable expense, although the bulk of the actual chemicals and apparatus had been seized from \"enemy sources\" in the town. In view of the high prices charged for drugs (the importation of which ceased when the Colony was captured, with the exception of a relatively small quantity of Japanese origin), the counterfeiting of drugs like atebrine, quinine, sulfanilamide and vitamins became very prevalent. To give an example, eight out of ten samples of sulfapyridine which the writer needed for outbreaks of dysentery (especially in Shamshuipo Military Internment Camp) proved to be inert or heavily adulterated. The testing of powder, tablets and solutions purporting to contain...", "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": 579161, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 77, "title": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "content_text": "101\n\nled\n\n12\n\n100\n\nto be suffering from acute malaria. But for the prompt pooling of resources of personnel and materials by the Civil and Crown Forces, it is probable that a very serious epidemic of malaria would have attacked all branches of the community in the last quarter of 1945 owing to the regrettable neglect of this problem by the Japanese. As it was, it became necessary to enforce the taking of a tablet of atebrine (atecrine) daily, the wearing of long sleeves and long trousers from an hour before dusk to an hour after dawn and the use of mosquito nets by all members of the Forces in the Colony.\n\nSoon after the re-occupation of Hong Kong, arrangements were made for a specially adapted aeroplane to be shipped from Australia, to be reassembled on Kai Tak Airfield, Kowloon, and to carry out aerial spraying with a mixture of anti-malarial oil and D.D.T. dissolved in kerosene. The aeroplane was fitted with one 300-gallon tank under each wing and with a smaller auxiliary tank, to fly at a height of 100-300 feet at a speed of about 160 miles per hour and in a wind not exceeding six miles per hour. It was anticipated that this form of spraying should prove effective on marshy land, paddy fields, and the like (and would also be effective against flies), but that D.D.T. spraying of the interior of premises and the usual anti-malarial oiling and permanent draining of nullahs, ravines, and hill seepages would have to be continued.\n\nAs in pre-war days, the general Health Inspectorate (or rather such of the very reduced staff as remained in Hong Kong during the occupation) gave full co-operation to the anti-malarial staff and did their best to cope with the general mosquito nuisance. This work was considerably handicapped by three factors, inter alia. Firstly, the Japanese prohibited the collection and disposal of tins by the Health staff on the grounds that the tins would be gathered up at a later date and sent to Japan with all other forms of metal (factory parts, telephone wire, road studs, iron gates and railings, reinforcement from demolished buildings, and so on). In this way, heaps of tins were to be found in ruinous houses and formed potential reservoirs for mosquitoes after every heavy rain. Secondly, in an entirely ineffectual way to stop looting and destruction of property, the Japanese had hundreds of premises barricaded with barbed wire and forbade Health Inspectors to inspect and deal with mosquito-breeding and other nuisances. This had no effect in keeping determined looters from entering these same buildings at night and removing all the contents, including wooden floors, ceilings, and staircases, doors, windows, etc. In the Peak District alone, there were 500 looted residences. Thirdly, the Naval, Military Forces, and Gendarmerie refused to allow the Health Inspectorate to enter any areas occupied by them and to take appropriate anti-mosquito measures. This was a particularly unsatisfactory feature because the occupation forces seized property all over the Colony and, hence, provided nuisances and mosquito-breeding foci in areas which could otherwise have been effectively protected. Immediately the Department came into existence once more, a strenuous effort was made to overcome this state of affairs. Valuable co-operation was rendered by British Naval, Military, and Air Force units in ameliorating conditions.\n\n(b) BACTERIOLOGICAL INSTITUTE\n\nThe Bacteriological Institute remained open during the whole period of the Japanese occupation. In fact, the Japanese took over a teaching institution at 103 Austin Road, Kowloon, and established a second laboratory in the former Maternity Ward of the Kowloon Hospital. Although the Institute rendered valuable assistance in the earlier months of 1942 by carrying out special tests for Tweed Bay Hospital, Stanley Civilian Internment Camp, St. Paul's, the Nethersole, Mental, and Sai Ying Pun Hospitals, Hong Kong, its activities were very largely devoted to the preparation of anti-cholera vaccine and the examinations of rectal swabs from would-be immigrants or contacts with cases of cholera and typhoid. The invading authorities refused to make any provision for the care and feeding of laboratory animals, and the large majority of these had died before the retaking of Hong Kong, despite the devoted sacrifices made by the staff of the Institute. This state of affairs had a very depressing effect on Professor R. C. Robertson, M.C., former Lecturer in Pathology to the University of Hong Kong and Medical Officer in charge of the Victoria Mortuary. After putting up a courageous fight, he found the situation too difficult and died under tragic circumstances in the early summer of 1942.\n\nMuch of the cholera vaccine produced by the Japanese, especially in Kowloon, proved to be heavily contaminated and had to be condemned owing to its very serious effects on those inoculated with it. The anti-smallpox vaccine also proved to be without any potency whatever and had to be destroyed.\n\nIt would appear that the interest taken by the Japanese in performing tens of thousands of rectal swab tests and in inoculating the community with cholera vaccine was not unconnected with the necessity for the Japanese Medical Department to raise revenue to cover its expenditure. Out of the first ten thousand rectal swabs examined at the Bacteriological Institute, during a period, be it said, of cholera prevalence, only one proved positive. This was quite understandable, for to produce a growth, two prerequisites are essential; firstly, the media used must be suitable, and the swab must not have dried off after removal from the rectum before being applied to the culture tube. No steps were taken in the one instance mentioned, although it would only be fair to record the fact that several contacts with cholera patients who were alleged to be carriers were detained for varying periods at the Infectious Diseases Hospitals in Kennedy Town and Lai Chi Kok. It should also be noted that very large numbers of cholera inoculations were given free at ferry crossings and in the streets, but no amount of protests and representations on the part of the writer were successful in persuading the Authorities to order these inoculation units to take aseptic precautions, although a tremendous improvement was noted on occasions. It is hardly to be wondered at, under these circumstances, that all who could afford the fee charged at special inoculation centres were glad to avoid being pricked with a needle that had already done service on a half-dozen or more persons without previous sterilization. Many inflamed arms and abscesses were encountered following these mass infected inoculations.\n\n(c) CHEMICAL LABORATORY\n\nThe Chemical Laboratory was taken over by the Japanese Military Authorities soon after the surrender in 1941 and ceased to be available for the examination of works samples, food, drugs, or biochemical work. In the middle of 1942, however, the writer was able to persuade the Japanese Medical Authorities that such laboratory facilities would be of considerable assistance and could be made self-supporting by charging fees for reports on drugs, etc. As a result, and since the Military Authorities refused any co-operation, a duplicate laboratory was fitted out in the same building and at considerable expense, although the bulk of the actual chemicals and apparatus had been seized from enemy sources in the town. In view of the high prices charged for drugs (the importation of which ceased when the Colony was captured, with the exception of a relatively small quantity of Japanese origin), the counterfeiting of drugs like atebrine, quinine, sulfanilamide, and vitamins became very prevalent. To give an example, eight out of ten samples of sulfapyridine which the writer needed for outbreaks of dysentery (especially in Shamshuipo Military Internment Camp) proved to be inert or heavily adulterated. The testing of powder, tablets, and solutions purporting to contain...", "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": 580176, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 85, "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": "8272\n\nPAPERS TO BE DUPLICATED AND CIRCULATED\n\nTO MEMBERS OF THE\n\nHONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE\n\nBEFORE THEIR FIRST MEETING\n\n1. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald's letter of the 9th November, 1939 to the Governor of Hong Kong stating the degree of support which had been reached on the outbreak of war on the proposal that the scope of the University should be enlarged and that it should be given an annual grant from Imperial funds.\n\n38 on 53611/39\n\n2. The Report of the Advisory Committee which met in 1943 to consider the resumption of the activities of Hong Kong University and other higher educational institutions in the Far East.\n\n1 on 55213/44\n\n3. The memorandum dated 20th February, 1945 which the Colonial Office submitted to the Far Eastern Committee of the War Cabinet on the future of the University.\n\n8A.\n\n4. A memorandum by Dr. Gordon King, Dean of the Medical School regarding the possible reconstitution of the University.\n\n5. A letter from Professor Percy Roxby, Senior Representative of the British Council in China giving his views as seen from the China end on the future place of the University particularly in relation to the British Council work in China. The letter is dated 30th August, 1945.\n\n48\n\n6. A letter dated 22nd August, 1945, from Joseph Needham, Sc.D., F.R.S., Head of the British Scientific Mission in China, giving his views on the future of the University.\n\n38.\n\n43.\n\n7. A letter dated 31st July, 1945, from Sir Andrew Caldecott, at one time Governor of Hong Kong and Chancellor of the University.\n\n28.\n\n8. A telegram dated 30th October, from Dr. Gordon King, Dean of the Medical Faculty and Assistant Director of Medical Services in the Civil Affairs Administration, reporting on the present state of the University buildings and equipment.\n\n51.\n\n19.", "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": 580244, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 153, "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": "2\n\n-\n\n149\n\nBritish auspices, but in fact the high cost of that education and the restricted number of scholarships have hitherto mainly confined it to a relatively small number of rich Chinese, especially from the affluent Chinese communities from Malaya and the South Seas. I feel strongly, therefore, that in the future Hong Kong University should be in a position to provide high-grade British University training both for graduates and undergraduates with meagre financial resources and that, for this purpose, there should be a much larger number of bursaries and postgraduate research scholarships together with an extension of hostel facilities.\n\nThe Development of Humanistic Studies\n\nIn their discussion of the specific academic activities of the University in the future Dr. J. Needham and Dr. G. King naturally and rightly stress the importance of scientific and medical education, but\n\nI wish to supplement their recommendations by an earnest plea for a parallel and equal development of humanistic studies. This is partly on the ground that every university worthy of the name is truly catholic and comprehensive in the range of its intellectual activities and that the \"Humanities\" can never be subordinated without grave peril to the work and value of the university as a whole.\n\nBut I am also thinking of the situation that is likely to develop in China. Nothing, I think is more certain than that the ambitious programme of industrialisation which is now planned for this country will involve acute economic and social problems and that on their study and solution will largely depend the extent to which industrialisation will be a blessing or a curse to China. There is immense scope for well-equipped and active university departments of economics, social science and political science, both for teaching and research. In some of the best Chinese Universities there are promising departments of this character but it would be the special province of such departments in Hong Kong University to make available to Chinese students and research workers the best experience and thought of Great Britain in these fields. Under Professor Hinton the Economics department of Hong Kong acquired a well-earned reputation, and I hope that its activities will be revived and extended and that there will be parallel developments of departments of Social Science and Political Science. Hong Kong would also be an excellent centre for the establishment of a Chair and research department of International Affairs (including trade and banking) with the Far East as special field. The need for such a centre in the Far East has often been felt by Chatham House (R.I.I.A.) and the British groups participating in the I.P.R. Conferences.\n\n+3\n\nThe reputation of Hong Kong graduates for a high standard of spoken and written English should be maintained at all costs, and the Education Department, also well-known, can play an extremely important role in training Middle School teachers for China. With an increased staff and equipment it could serve some of the functions of the London Institute of Education by giving postgraduate and refresher courses. The number of scholarships for Chinese students of education wishing to study at the London Institute is likely to be quite insufficient and in my judgement several should be offered for similar study at Hong Kong.\n\nThe advice of Sir Fred Clarke who has recently retired from the direction of the London Institute of Education, might be invaluable in this connection and indeed on the whole question of the development of humanistic studies in Hong Kong University.\n\nMiss A.M. Ruston,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nWhitehall, London, S.W. 1.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nPercy In Roxby.", "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": 580434, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-593-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 12-1-1946 - 27-10-1946", "page_number": 125, "title": "CO129-593-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 12-1-1946 - 27-10-1946", "content_text": "125\n\nD.J. Sloss, Esq., C.B.E. X\n\nN.L. Smith, Esq., C.M.G. X\n\nJ.A. Vonn, Esq., Litt. D., F.S.A.\n\nVice-Chancellor Hong Kong University since 1937.\n\nFormerly Vice-Chancellor of Rangoon University.\n\nFormerly Hong Kong Administrative Service (Colonial Secretary 1936-1941)\n\nPresident of Queens' College, Cambridge. Member of the Asquith Commission on Higher Education in the Colonies. Visited Hong Kong 1931.\n\nMiss A.M. Ruston (Secretary) Member of the Eastern Department of the Colonial Office.\n\nHKUAC 1\n\nHKUAC 2\n\nHKUAC 3\n\nHKUAC 4\n\nHKUAC 5\n\nHKUAC 6\n\nHKUAC 7\n\nHKUAC 8\n\nHKUAC 9\n\nAPPENDIX B\n\nHONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE\n\nLIST OF COMMITTEE PAPERS ISSUED UP TO 1st JUNE, 1946\n\nCopy of letter dated 9th November, 1939 from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nReport by the 1943 Advisory Committee on Hong Kong University and the Higher Educational Institutes in Malaya and Hong Kong.\n\nThe Future of the Hong Kong University Memorandum submitted by the Colonial Office to the Far Eastern Committee of the War Cabinet.\n\nObservations regarding the possible reconstitution of the University of Hong Kong by Dr. Gordon King, F.R.C.S., F.R.C.O.G. Former Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University.\n\nCopy of a letter dated 30/8/45 from Professor Percy Roxby of the British Council in China.\n\nCopy of a letter dated 22/8/45 from Dr. Joseph Needham, Sc. B., F.R.S. Head of the British Scientific Mission in China.\n\nExtract from a letter dated 31/7/45 from Sir Andrew Caldecott, K.C.M.G.. Former Chancellor of the University.\n\nCopy of a telegram dated 30th October from Dr. Gordon King now a member of the Civil Affairs Branch of the Military Administration in Hong Kong.\n\nA note by Professor K.H. Digby, Professor of Surgery and Senior Member of the staff of the University, which was read to members and staff in Stanley Internment Camp\n\nHKUAC 10", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-593-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 12-1-1946 - 27-10-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 580452, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-593-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 12-1-1946 - 27-10-1946", "page_number": 143, "title": "CO129-593-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 12-1-1946 - 27-10-1946", "content_text": "# APPENDIX A\n\n# HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE\n\n# LIST OF COMMITTEE PAPERS ISSUED UP TO 1ST JUNE, 1946\n\n29\n\n156\n\nKUAC 24.\n\nHKUAC 25.\n\nNote on salary scales by Mr. Sloss.\n\nHKUAC 26.\n\nHKUAC 27.\n\nHKUAC 1. Copy of letter dated 9th November, 1939, from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC 2. Report by the 1943 Advisory Committee on Hong Kong University and the Higher Educational Institutes in Malaya and Hong Kong. The Future of the Hong Kong University-Memorandum submitted by the Colonial Office to the Far Eastern Committee of the War Cabinet. Observations regarding the possible reconstitution of the University of Hong Kong by Dr. Gordon King, F.R.C.S., F.R.C.O.G. Former Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University.\n\nHKUAC 3.\n\nHKUAC 4.\n\nHKUAC 5.\n\nHKUAC 6.\n\nHKUAC 7.\n\nHKUAC 8.\n\nHKUAC 9.\n\nHKUAC 10. HKUAC 11.\n\nHKUAC 12.\n\nCopy of a letter dated 30th August, 1945, from Professor Percy Roxby of the British Council in China.\n\nCopy of a letter dated 22nd August, 1945, from Dr. Joseph Needham, Sc.D., Ph.D., F.R.S., Head of the British Scientific Mission in China.\n\nExtract from a letter dated 31st July, 1945, from Sir Andrew Caldecott, K.C.M.G. Former Chancellor of the University.\n\nCopy of a telegram dated 30th October from Dr. Gordon King now a member of the Civil Affairs Branch of the Military Administration in Hong Kong.\n\nA note by Professor K. H. Digby, Professor of Surgery and Senior Member of the staff of the University, which was read to members and staff in Stanley Internment Camp.\n\nExtract from a letter by Professor Digby.\n\nCopy of a resolution passed at a meeting on the 21st November, 1945, of graduates and past students of the University in Hong Kong.\n\nA later Memorandum by Dr. Gordon King dated 8th December, 1945, on the reconstitution of the University.\n\nHKUAC 13. Summary of Recommendations contained in the Report of a Committee appointed by the Chancellor in 1939 to consider the Development of the University.\n\nHKUAC 14.\n\nHKUAC 15.\n\nNote by Mr. D. J. Sloss on the University of Hong Kong.\n\nExtract from the Directive on Education issued to the Chief Civil Affairs Officer for the period of the Military Administration in Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC 16. Note by Sir George Moss in expansion of his remarks at the first meeting of the Committee on January 18th.\n\nHKUAC 17. Telegram dated 28th January, addressed to Mr. D. J. Sloss by the Commander in Chief, Hong Kong, Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt.\n\nHKUAC 18.\n\nHKUAC 19.\n\nHKUAC 20.\n\nHKUAC 21.\n\nHKUAC 22.\n\nHKUAC 23.\n\nPart A. Extracts from a lecture given by Professor W. J. Hinton on April 2nd, 1941, to the Royal Central Asian Society in London on \"Hong Kong's place in the British Empire\".\n\nPart B. Extract from letter dated 22nd January, 1946, from Professor W. J. Hinton to Mr. C. W. M. Cox referring to the lectures quoted above.\n\nFurther note dated 25th January by Sir George Moss in support of his view that informal or diplomatic approaches should be made to discover the extent of the support of the University which might be expected outside Hong Kong.\n\nExtract from the Report of the 1937 Committee (which met in Hong Kong under the Chairmanship of Mr. N. L. Smith to investigate the financial position and advise on the future of the University) in connection with the possibilities of local specialization.\n\nBrief note by Mr. Sloss on the Libraries of the University.\n\nSummary of recommendations contained in papers already circulated for the extensions and development of the University in academic matters.\n\nExtract from a Report dated December, 1945, made by Dr. A. G. H. Smart late Chief Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on his visit to the Far Eastern Colonies.\n\nExtracts from the 1937 Committee's Report on Hong Kong University in regard to the matter of salary scales.\n\nNote of the present and proposed Staff of the University.\n\nDr. Gordon King's suggestions for the reconstruction of the Medical Library of the University.\n\nHKUAC 28. Extract from a letter dated 24th February, 1946, from Professor Roxby of the British Council in China to Miss Ruston (See also HKUAC 5).\n\nPlan of the proposed degree in Social Sciences.\n\nHKUAC 29.\n\nHKUAC 30.\n\nHKUAC 31.\n\nHKUAC 33.\n\nNote by Mr. D. J. Sloss on the administrative machinery of the University of Hong Kong as established under an Ordinance passed in 1911 and last revised in 1937.\n\nNote on the proceedings of the first five meetings of the Committee.\n\nExtract from a letter dated 30th March, 1946, from Dr. George Yeh, previously Professor of English at the National Pekin University and now Head of the Chinese Ministry of Information in London.\n\nHKUAC 34. Suggestions by Professor Hinton for alterations in the Constitution of the University of Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC 35.\n\nResolution passed by the Shanghai Branch of the Hong Kong University Alumni Association.\n\nHKUAC 36. Extract from a letter from Dr. Gordon King to Miss Ruston dated 23rd March, 1946.\n\nHKUAC 37. Extract from a letter dated 24th April, 1946, addressed to the Colonial Office by the Chairman of the University of Hong Kong Medical Degrees Emergency Committee. (Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg.)\n\nHKUAC 39.\n\nHKUAC 40.\n\nHKUAC 41.\n\nComments on HKUAC 34 by Professor G. M. Forster.\n\nMemorandum by Professor F. Redmond of the Hong Kong University, on the future of the Faculty of Engineering.\n\nNote on Basic and Overseas Pay and Family Allowances.\n\n# APPENDIX B\n\nThe following persons kindly attended meetings of the Committee and gave evidence.\n\nSir Mark Young, G.C.M.G. Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nBrigadier D. M. MacDougall, C.M.G. Chief Civil Affairs Officer during the Military Administration of Hong Kong.\n\nProfessor T. Redmond. Professor of Engineering of Hong Kong University.\n\nMr. C. P. Fitzgerald. Of the British Council.\n\n(Regional Officer for China.)\n\n(32226) Wt. 23066-4903\n\n300 8/46 D.L. G. 373\n\n187", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-593-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 12-1-1946 - 27-10-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 580591, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-593-4 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 27-10-1946 - 30-1-1947", "page_number": 31, "title": "CO129-593-4 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 27-10-1946 - 30-1-1947", "content_text": "HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE\n\nConfidential\n\nNo. HKUAC 5\n\nCopy of a letter from Professor Percy Roxby of the British Council in China.\n\nTHE OFFICE OF THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE BRITISH COUNCIL.\n\nC/o British Embassy:\n\nChunghing,\n\n30th August, 1945\n\nDear Miss Ruston,\n\nHONG KONG UNIVERSITY\n\nOn my return from Kunming on Thursday, August 23rd, Dr. Joseph Needham, who was on the point of leaving for the North West, showed me a memorandum which he had just written on the subject of the post-war reconstruction of Hong Kong University, together with a similar memorandum by Dr. Gordon King. He invited me to make any other comments of my own and Dr. King, whom I saw for a few moments yesterday, August 29th, just before he left for Hong Kong also pressed me to do so. Under these circumstances I venture to send you a short supplementary statement, a copy of which is also being sent to Dr. Gordon King who will, I think, show it to Vice-Chancellor Sloss.\n\nThe Future of Hong Kong University\n\nI find myself, in general agreement with the main contentions and recommendations of Dr. Needham's and Dr. King's reports and largely endorse their view. But Hong Kong University has a vital role to play in connection with the rehabilitation and reconstruction of China, to develop close cultural relations with the Chinese people (both Government and private), and that it should be more than a local institution serving limited ends.\n\nI also share the view that the development of Hong Kong University as an \"expression of British policy towards China and the Far East\" and with \"all China programme\" would involve far greater financial support from Great Britain than it has hitherto received and that it cannot adequately support the role which it ought hereafter to play on locally received funds alone. It is greatly to be hoped that the British Government will take a broad and generous view of the functions which Hong Kong, as a high-grade and well-endowed British University, is fitted to perform in cementing close cultural relations and friendship between Great Britain and China. Whatever the future extension of the activities of the British Council in China, it is probably true to say that Hong Kong University is potentially the largest single \"cultural\" contribution to China's reconstruction which Great Britain is capable of contributing.\n\nApropos of the relationship between British Council activities in China and the functions of Hong Kong University the following observation is perhaps relevant. During the few months I have been here in my present capacity as Chief Representative of the British Council, I have been greatly impressed by the very large number of promising young Chinese scholars who are anxious to study in the British Universities and also by the anxiety of the Chinese Ministry of Education that ample facilities should be accorded for this purpose. I have been recently approached...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-593-4 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 27-10-1946 - 30-1-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 580850, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 5, "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": "# HKUAC 1\n# HKUAC 2\n# HKUAC 3\n# HKUAC 4\n# HKUAC 5\n# HKUAC 6\n# HKUAC 7\n# HKUAC 8\n# HKUAC 9\n\n## APPENDIX B\n### HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE\n#### LIST OF COMMITTEE PAPERS ISSUED UP TO 1st JUNE, 1946\n\n| Number | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 5 | Copy of letter dated 9th November, 1939 from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of Hong Kong. |\n| | Report by the 1943 Advisory Committee on Hong Kong University and the Higher Educational Institutes in Malaya and Hong Kong. |\n| | **The Future of the Hong Kong University** Memorandum submitted by the Colonial Office to the Far Eastern Committee of the War Cabinet. |\n| 9 | Observations regarding the possible reconstitution of the University of Hong Kong by Dr. Gordon King, F.R.C.S., F.R.C.O.G. Former Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University. |\n| | Copy of a letter dated 30/8/45 from Professor Percy Roxby of the British Council in China. |\n| | Copy of a letter dated 22/8/45 from Dr. Joseph Needham, Sc.B., F.R.S., Head of the British Scientific Mission in China. |\n| | Extract from a letter dated 31/7/45 from Sir Andrew Caldecott, K.C.M.G., Former Chancellor of the University. |\n| | Copy of a telegram dated 30th October from Dr. Gordon King now a member of the Civil Affairs Branch of the Military Administration in Hong Kong. |\n| 10 | A note by Professor K.H. Digby, Professor of Surgery and Senior Member of the staff of the University, which was read to members and staff in Stanley Internment Camp |", "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": 580895, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 50, "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": "## \n- 35\n\nwhich is appended to this note.\n\n**POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT, FOREIGN OFFICE MEMORANDUM**\n\nThe Committee was disappointed that the representative of the Foreign Office on the Committee, having regard to the immediate disturbance in Chinese internal affairs, did not feel free to re-affirm the approving judgment of Lord Halifax quoted in Mr. Malcolm MacDonald's letter to the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nThe Committee, therefore, continued its work in an atmosphere to some degree abstracted from reality. It was realised that without strong support from the Foreign Office there was little hope of adequate support being forthcoming.\n\nTherefore, the Committee reaffirmed that the University was a good instrument of a friendly policy, and that the need for it was not materially decreased by the effective work that was being done in China by the British Council, resolved to outline the type of University that it believed would be of value. It was assumed that its beginnings might be modest but that provision should be made for growth in those parts of its work that experience should approve. In making its 'blue print' the Committee had the aid of the recorded views and recommendations of Professor Percy Roxby and Dr. Joseph Needham, representatives of the British Council in China, and Mr. Fitzgerald, the head of the Council's Far East Department in London.\n\nConsideration had been given also to the suggestions of past and present members of the University Staff and to recommendations made by the Hong Kong University Committee of 1939.\n\nPage 50 \nPage 51", "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": 581222, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-594-1 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 29-3-1946 - 3-7-1946", "page_number": 213, "title": "CO129-594-1 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 29-3-1946 - 3-7-1946", "content_text": "# Long Term Policy\n\n(Appendix I)\n\n## 21\nAt its first meeting the Committee became aware that any consideration of long term policy could not, even abstractly, be separated from proposals for an immediate revival of the University and that any consideration of a long term policy for the University of Hong Kong could fruitfully be undertaken only when it had considered the alternative proposal, of a worthy British University of the Far East to serve both Malaya and Hong Kong situated either in Malaya or in Hong Kong, or having Colleges in both those places. The two schemes from the Hong Kong point of view were not true alternatives. The one was for an Institution to serve two Colonial areas, the other for a University conceived partly in terms of Colonial interest but dominated by considerations of British policy in the Far East. The Committee were authoritatively informed that it had been decided to proceed with the establishment of a University in Malaya and agreed that it was undesirable and inappropriate in their view to attempt to achieve a combined University.\n\n## 22\nThe Committee recognises that a University for Hong Kong and China should be planned on more generous lines than a University for Hong Kong alone or for Hong Kong and the Overseas Chinese Communities. It must be worthy to be the assembly place of two cultures and two types of learning. The Committee is of opinion that our quality in scholarship, the content of our culture, the organization of our way of life, the experience crystallised in our social and political institutions have a value for China at this point in social evolution. British civilisation has been enriched in recent generations by the impact of Chinese Art, Poetry and Thought, and there is still much for us to learn. Eminent Chinese have expressed the hope that our peoples may meet hereafter more on the ground of mutual respect for achievements in the spheres of the mind and spirit and less exclusively in the concerns of the market place. This, apparently, is the desire, too, of those Members of the Committee who have recently lived in China.\n\n## 23\nAssuming that His Majesty's Government is concerned to maintain and develop the friendly relations that have existed between China and Britain over these past years, the Committee conclude that a really adequate British University in Hong Kong would be an excellent instrument of such a policy. The Committee's proposals are made on the further assumption that the Chinese will welcome the revival of the University and will co-operate in the efforts necessary if the University is to play its part in the post-war reconstruction of the Republic. Even if, after a relatively short time, Hong Kong reverted to China, the Committee believes that a University of Hong Kong revived on the generous lines proposed by the Founder would be justified as a continuing source of British influence in China.\n\n## 24\nThe Committee, convinced that the University is a good instrument of a friendly policy, and the need for it is not materially decreased by the work that is being done in China by the British Council, resolved to outline the type of University that it believes would be of value. It is assumed that its beginnings might be modest but that provision should be made for growth in those parts of its work that experience should approve. In making its 'blue print' which is appended to this note, the Committee has had the aid of the recorded views and recommendations of Professor Percy Roxby and Dr. Joseph Needham, representatives of the British Council in China, and of Mr. Fitzgerald, the head of the Council's Far East Department.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-594-1 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 29-3-1946 - 3-7-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 581226, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-594-1 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 29-3-1946 - 3-7-1946", "page_number": 217, "title": "CO129-594-1 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 29-3-1946 - 3-7-1946", "content_text": "216\n\nMatters still \n\non the further assumption that the Chinese will welcome the revival of the University and will co-operate in the efforts necessary if the University is to play its part \n\nEven in the post-war reconstruction of the Republic. if, after a relatively short time, Hong Kong reverted to China, the Committee believes that a University of Hong Kong revived on the generous lines proposed by the Founder would be justified as a continuing source of British influence in China.\n\n24. The Committee, convinced that the University is a good instrument of a friendly policy, and the need for it is not materially decreased by the work that is being done in China by the British Council, resolved to outline the type of University that it believes would be of value. It is assumed that its beginnings might be modest but that provision should be made for growth in those parts of its work that experience should approve. In making its 'blue print' which is appended to this note (`Appendix I`) the Committee has had the aid of the recorded views and recommendations of Professor Percy Roxby and Dr. Joseph Needham, representatives of the British Council in China and of Mr. Fitzgerald, the head of the Council's Far East Department in London. Consideration has been given also to the suggestions of past and present members of the University staff and to recommendations made by the Hong Kong University Committee of 1939.\n\nThe most \n\n25. There are a number of matters of major importance on which the Committee, though it has considered them, is not yet able to make final recommendations. The further important of them deal with finance and are covered by consideration in `Appendix II` and `Appendix III`.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-594-1 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 29-3-1946 - 3-7-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 581266, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-594-1 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 29-3-1946 - 3-7-1946", "page_number": 257, "title": "CO129-594-1 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 29-3-1946 - 3-7-1946", "content_text": "## FOREIGN OFFICE ATTITUDE\n\nThe Committee was disappointed that the representative of the Foreign Office on the Committee, having regard to the immediate disturbance in Chinese internal affairs, did not feel free to re-affirm the approving judgment of Lord Halifax quoted in Mr. Malcolm MacDonald's letter to the Governor of Hong Kong. The Committee, therefore, continued its work in an atmosphere to some degree abstracted from reality.\n\nIt was realised that without strong support from the Foreign Office there was little hope of adequate support from the Treasury. The Committee, convinced that the University was a good instrument of a friendly policy, and that the need for it was not materially decreased by the effective work that is being done in China by the British Council, resolved to outline the type of University that it believes would be of value. It was assumed that its beginnings might be modest but that provision should be made for growth in those parts of its work that experience would approve.\n\nIn making its 'blue print' the Committee has had the aid of the recorded views and recommendations of Professor Percy Roxby and Dr. Joseph Needham, representatives of the British Council in China, and Mr. Fitzgerald, the head of the Council's Far East Department in London. Consideration has been given also to the suggestions of past and present members of the University Staff and to recommendations made by the Hong Kong University Committee of 1939.\n\n## Appendix !! \n27", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-594-1 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 29-3-1946 - 3-7-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 581288, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-594-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 1-7-1946 - 19-8-1946", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-594-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 1-7-1946 - 19-8-1946", "content_text": "# APPENDIX A\n## HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE\n### LIST OF COMMITTEE PAPERS ISSUED UP TO 1ST JUNE, 1946\n\n| Ref. | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| HKUAC 1. | |\n| HKUAC 2. | |\n| HKUAC 3. | |\n| HKUAC 4. | |\n| HKUAC 5. | Copy of letter dated 9th November, 1939, from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of Hong Kong. |\n| HKUAC 6. | Report by the 1943 Advisory Committee on Hong Kong University and the Higher Educational Institutes in Malaya and Hong Kong. |\n| HKUAC 7. | The Future of the Hong Kong University-Memorandum submitted by the Colonial Office to the Far Eastern Committee of the War Cabinet. |\n| HKUAC 8. | Observations regarding the possible reconstitution of the University of Hong Kong by Dr. Gordon King, F.R.C.S., F.R.C.O.G. Former Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University. |\n| HKUAC 9. | Copy of a letter dated 30th August, 1945, from Professor Percy Roxby of the British Council in China. |\n| HKUAC 10. | Copy of a letter dated 22nd August, 1945, from Dr. Joseph Needham, Sc.D., Ph.D., F.R.S., Head of the British Scientific Mission in China. |\n| HKUAC 11. | Extract from a letter dated 31st July, 1945, from Sir Andrew Caldecott, K.C.M.G. Former Chancellor of the University. |\n| HKUAC 12. | Copy of a telegram dated 30th October from Dr. Gordon King now a member of the Civil Affairs Branch of the Military Administration in Hong Kong. |\n| HKUAC 13. | A note by Professor K. H. Digby, Professor of Surgery and Senior Member of the staff of the University, which was read to members and staff in Stanley Internment Camp. |\n| HKUAC 14. | Extract from a letter by Professor Digby. |\n| HKUAC 15. | Copy of a resolution passed at a meeting on the 21st November, 1945, of graduates and past students of the University in Hong Kong. |\n| HKUAC 16. | A later Memorandum by Dr. Gordon King dated 8th December, 1945, on the reconstitution of the University. |\n| HKUAC 17. | Summary of Recommendations contained in the Report of a Committee appointed by the Chancellor in 1939 to consider the Development of the University. |\n| HKUAC 18. | Note by Mr. D. J. Sloss on the University of Hong Kong. |\n| HKUAC 19. | Extract from the Directive on Education issued to the Chief Civil Affairs Officer for the period of the Military Administration in Hong Kong. |\n| HKUAC 20. | Note by Sir George Moss in expansion of his remarks at the first meeting of the Committee on January 18th. |\n| HKUAC 21. | Telegram dated 28th January, addressed to Mr. D. J. Sloss by the Commander in Chief, Hong Kong, Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt. |\n| HKUAC 22. | Part A. Extracts from a lecture given by Professor W. J. Hinton on April 2nd, 1941, to the Royal Central Asian Society in London on \"Hong Kong's place in the British Empire\". |\n| HKUAC 23. | Part B. Extract from letter dated 22nd January, 1946, from Professor W. J. Hinton to Mr. C. W. M. Cox referring to the lectures quoted above. |\n| HKUAC 24. | Further note dated 25th January by Sir George Moss in support of his view that informal or diplomatic approaches should be made to discover the extent of the support of the University which might be expected outside Hong Kong. |\n| HKUAC 25. | Extract from the Report of the 1937 Committee (which met in Hong Kong under the Chairmanship of Mr. N. L. Smith to investigate the financial position and advise on the future of the University) in connection with the possibilities of local specialization. |\n| HKUAC 26. | Brief note by Mr. Sloss on the Libraries of the University. |\n| HKUAC 27. | Summary of recommendations contained in papers already circulated for the extensions and development of the University in academic matters. |\n| HKUAC 28. | Extract from a Report dated December, 1945, made by Dr. A. G. H. Smart late Chief Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on his visit to the Far Eastern Colonies. |\n| HKUAC 29. | Extracts from the 1937 Committee's Report on Hong Kong University in regard to the matter of salary scales. |\n| HKUAC 30. | Note on salary scales by Mr. Sloss. |\n| HKUAC 31. | Note of the present and proposed Staff of the University. |\n| HKUAC 33. | Dr. Gordon King's suggestions for the reconstruction of the Medical Library of the University. |\n| | Extract from a letter dated 24th February, 1946, from Professor Roxby of the British Council in China to Miss Ruston (See also HKUAC 5). |\n| HKUAC 34. | Plan of the proposed degree in Social Sciences. |\n| HKUAC 35. | Note by Mr. D. J. Sloss on the administrative machinery of the University of Hong Kong as established under an Ordinance passed in 1911 and last revised in 1937. |\n| HKUAC 36. | Note on the proceedings of the first five meetings of the Committee. |\n| | Extract from a letter dated 30th March, 1946, from Dr. George Yeh, previously Professor of English at the National Pekin University and now Head of the Chinese Ministry of Information in London. |\n| HKUAC 37. | Suggestions by Professor Hinton for alterations in the Constitution of the University of Hong Kong. |\n| HKUAC 39. | Resolution passed by the Shanghai Branch of the Hong Kong University Alumni Association. |\n| | Extract from a letter from Dr. Gordon King to Miss Ruston dated 23rd March, 1946. |\n| HKUAC 40. | Extract from a letter dated 24th April, 1946, addressed to the Colonial Office by the Chairman of the Hong Kong University Medical Degrees Emergency Committee. (Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg.) |\n| | Comments on HKUAC 34 by Professor G. M. Forster. |\n| HKUAC 41. | Memorandum by Professor F. Redmond of the Hong Kong University, on the future of the Faculty of Engineering. |\n| | Note on Basic and Overseas Pay and Family Allowances. |\n\n## APPENDIX B\n### The following persons kindly attended meetings of the Committee and gave evidence.\n\n| Name | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sir Mark Young, G.C.M.G. | Governor of Hong Kong. |\n| Brigadier D. M. MacDougall, C.M.G. | Chief Civil Affairs Officer during the Military Administration of Hong Kong. |\n| Professor T. Redmond. | Professor of Engineering of Hong Kong University. |\n| Mr. C. P. Fitzgerald. | Of the British Council. (Regional Officer for China.) |\n\n`(52226) Wt. 23066-4903 300 8/46 D.L. G. 373` \n28 \n36", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-594-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 1-7-1946 - 19-8-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 581306, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-594-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 1-7-1946 - 19-8-1946", "page_number": 40, "title": "CO129-594-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 1-7-1946 - 19-8-1946", "content_text": "## Part V. Immediate Action\n\n75. By our terms of reference, we were asked to advise in some detail on the steps necessary to restart such of the work hitherto undertaken by the University as is essential for the needs of Hong Kong, whatever the decision arrived at on the broader issue. Early in our sessions, however, we were informed that there had been established in London by Order in Council **The Hong Kong University Provisional Powers Committee** with authority to deal with immediately important University matters until the proper authorities of the University could fulfil their functions. We have been kept informed of the decisions of this Provisional Powers Committee and have received the following summary of the action it has taken to facilitate an early resumption of higher education in Hong Kong:\n\n(a) Buildings: The Civil Affairs Administration in Hong Kong has undertaken to push forward as rapidly as possible with the work of restoring buildings. The Committee asked that high priority should be given to the repair and refitting of the elementary Science laboratories, of the Medical laboratories, of part of the classrooms in the Arts building, of an office, and of residences for students and staff.\n\n(b) Libraries: Nothing was necessary here except the separation away from the University stocks of the large numbers of books from other places which were gathered at the library for safe-keeping. The Provisional Powers Committee has not attempted to make good the wartime deficiency of periodicals and new books but suggests that towards this end, the University should seek the help of the British Council and of the United Nations Organisation.\n\n(c) Laboratory equipment: English manufacturers of laboratory equipment have been accommodating to a degree beyond earlier anticipation. It is expected that equipment for the elementary sciences and for medicine will be installed and ready for use by October of this year, and that equipment for engineering laboratories will follow two or three months later.\n\n(d) Admission Examination: To ensure a satisfactory standard of entrance, it has been arranged that the London University Matriculation Examination will be used.\n\n## APPENDIX A. ADVISORY COMMITTEE\n\n* C. W. M. Cox, Esq., C.M.G. (Chairman). Educational Adviser to Secretary of State for Colonies.\n* Walter Adams, Esq. Secretary of the Inter-University Council for Higher Education in the Colonies and Secretary-Designate of the Colonial University Grants Advisory Committee.\n* E. Burney, Esq., M.C., H.M.I. Member of the Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies. Visited Hong Kong in 1934 to advise on education.\n* H. J. Channon, Esq., C.M.G., D.Sc. Member of the McLean Commission on Higher Education in Malaya; of the Elliot Commission on Higher Education in West Africa and of the Asquith Commission on Higher Education in the Colonies. Formerly Professor of Biochemistry, Liverpool University.\n* Sir Herbert Eason, C.B., C.M.G., M.D., M.S., F.R.C.S. President of the General Medical Council. Formerly Principal of London University.\n* Mrs. L. Forster. For many years resident in Hong Kong: wife of the Professor of Education, Hong Kong University.\n* Professor W. J. Hinton. Professor of Political Economy, Dean, member of Court and Council of Hong Kong University 1913 to 1929. Director of Studies, Institute of Bankers since 1929.\n* Dr. W. M. Kauntze, C.M.G., M.B.E., M.D., F.R.C.P., D.P.M. Medical Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n* A. Morse, Esq., C.B.E. General Manager of Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, and Treasurer of Hong Kong University.\n* Sir George Moss, K.B.E. Late Consul-General, Hankow.\n* Professor L. M. Penson. Chairman of Academic Council and Professor of Modern History, London University. Member of the Asquith Commission; and of the Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies.\n* Sir Humphrey Prideaux-Brune, K.B.E., C.M.G. Cultural Relations Department of the Foreign Office. Formerly acting Chinese Counsellor and sometime Charge d'Affaires, His Majesty's Embassy, Chungking, also China Relations Officer, New Delhi.\n* R. E. Priestley, Esq., M.C., D.Sc. Vice-Chancellor, Birmingham University. Member of the Asquith Commission; of the Irvine Committee on Higher Education in the West Indies and of the Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies.\n* D. J. Sloss, Esq., C.B.E. Vice-Chancellor, Hong Kong University since 1937. Formerly Principal of University College, Rangoon.\n* N. L. Smith, Esq., C.M.G. Formerly Hong Kong Administrative Service (Colonial Secretary 1936-1941).\n* J. A. Venn, Esq., Litt.D., F.S.A. President of Queen's College, Cambridge. Member of the Asquith Commission on Higher Education in the Colonies. Visited Hong Kong 1931.\n* Miss A. M. Ruston (Secretary). Member of the Eastern Department of the Colonial Office.\n\n## APPENDIX B. HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE LIST OF COMMITTEE PAPERS ISSUED UP TO 1ST JUNE, 1946\n\n| Ref. | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| HKUAC 1 | Copy of letter dated 9th November, 1939, from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of Hong Kong. |\n| HKUAC 2 | Report by the 1943 Advisory Committee on Hong Kong University and the Higher Educational Institutes in Malaya and Hong Kong. |\n| HKUAC 3 | The Future of the Hong Kong University - Memorandum submitted by the Colonial Office to the Far Eastern Committee of the War Cabinet. |\n| HKUAC 4 | Observations regarding the possible reconstitution of the University of Hong Kong by Dr. Gordon King, F.R.C.S., F.R.C.O.G. Former Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University. |\n| HKUAC 5 | Copy of a letter dated 30th August, 1945, from Professor Percy Roxby of the British Council in China. |\n| HKUAC 6 | Copy of a letter dated 22nd August, 1945, from Dr. Joseph Needham, Sc.D., F.R.S., Head of the British Scientific Mission in China. |\n\nPage 40\nPage 41", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-594-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 1-7-1946 - 19-8-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 581390, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-594-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 1-7-1946 - 19-8-1946", "page_number": 117, "title": "CO129-594-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 1-7-1946 - 19-8-1946", "content_text": "# APPENDIX B\n## HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE\n### LIST OF COMMITTEE PAPERS ISSUED UP TO 1st JUNE, 1946\n\n| Ref. | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| HKUAC1 | Copy of letter dated 9th November, 1939 from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of Hong Kong. |\n| HKUAC2 | Report by the 1943 Advisory Committee on Hong Kong University and the Higher Educational Institutes in Malaya and Hong Kong. |\n| HKUAC3 | **The Future of the Hong Kong University** Memorandum submitted by the Colonial Office to the Far Eastern Committee of the War Cabinet. |\n| HKUAC4 | Observations regarding the possible reconstitution of the University of Hong Kong by Dr. Gordon King, F.R.C.S., F.R.C.O.G., Former Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University. |\n| HKUAC5 | Copy of a letter dated 30/8/45 from Professor Percy Roxby of the British Council in China. |\n| HKUAC6 | Copy of a letter dated 22/8/45 from Dr. Joseph Needham, Sc.B., F.R.S., Head of the British Scientific Mission in China. Extract from a letter dated 31/7/45 from Sir Andrew Caldecott, K.C.M.G., Former Chancellor of the University. |\n| HKUAC7 | Copy of a telegram dated 30th October from Dr. Gordon King now a member of the Civil Affairs Branch of the Military Administration in Hong Kong. |\n| HKUAC8 | A note by Professor K.H. Digby, Professor of Surgery and Senior Member of the staff of the University, which was read to members and staff in Stanley Internment Camp |\n| HKUAC9 | |\n\nD.J. Sloss, Esq., C.B.E.\nN.L. Smith, Esq., C.M.G.\nJ.A. Vonn, Esq., Litt.D., F.S.A.\nMiss A.M. Ruston (Secretary)\n\nVice-Chancellor Hong Kong University since 1937. Formerly Vice-Chancellor of Rangoon University.\nFormerly Hong Kong Administrative Service (Colonial Secretary 1936-1941)\nPresident of Queens' College, Cambridge. Member of the Asquith Commission on Higher Education in the Colonies. Visited Hong Kong 1931.\nMember of the Eastern Department of the Colonial Office.\n\nHKUAC1\nHKUAC2\nHKUAC3\nHKUAC4\nHKUAC5\nHKUAC6\nHKUAC7\nHKUAC8\nHKU.C9\n/HKU..C10 \n\n## becomes \n\n# APPENDIX B\n## HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE\n### LIST OF COMMITTEE PAPERS ISSUED UP TO 1st JUNE, 1946\n\n| Ref. | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| `HKUAC1` | Copy of letter dated 9th November, 1939 from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of Hong Kong. |\n| `HKUAC2` | Report by the 1943 Advisory Committee on Hong Kong University and the Higher Educational Institutes in Malaya and Hong Kong. |\n| `HKUAC3` | **The Future of the Hong Kong University** Memorandum submitted by the Colonial Office to the Far Eastern Committee of the War Cabinet. |\n| `HKUAC4` | Observations regarding the possible reconstitution of the University of Hong Kong by Dr. Gordon King, F.R.C.S., F.R.C.O.G., Former Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University. |\n| `HKUAC5` | Copy of a letter dated 30/8/45 from Professor Percy Roxby of the British Council in China. |\n| `HKUAC6` | Copy of a letter dated 22/8/45 from Dr. Joseph Needham, Sc.B., F.R.S., Head of the British Scientific Mission in China. Extract from a letter dated 31/7/45 from Sir Andrew Caldecott, K.C.M.G., Former Chancellor of the University. |\n| `HKUAC7` | Copy of a telegram dated 30th October from Dr. Gordon King now a member of the Civil Affairs Branch of the Military Administration in Hong Kong. |\n| `HKUAC8` | A note by Professor K.H. Digby, Professor of Surgery and Senior Member of the staff of the University, which was read to members and staff in Stanley Internment Camp |\n| `HKUAC9` | |\n\n**D.J. Sloss, Esq., C.B.E.** \n**N.L. Smith, Esq., C.M.G.** \n**J.A. Vonn, Esq., Litt.D., F.S.A.** \n**Miss A.M. Ruston (Secretary)** \n\nVice-Chancellor Hong Kong University since 1937. Formerly Vice-Chancellor of Rangoon University. \nFormerly Hong Kong Administrative Service (Colonial Secretary 1936-1941) \nPresident of Queens' College, Cambridge. Member of the Asquith Commission on Higher Education in the Colonies. Visited Hong Kong 1931. \nMember of the Eastern Department of the Colonial Office. \n\n`/HKU..C10`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-594-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 1-7-1946 - 19-8-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 581428, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-594-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 1-7-1946 - 19-8-1946", "page_number": 155, "title": "CO129-594-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 1-7-1946 - 19-8-1946", "content_text": "## APPENDIX B\n### HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE\n#### LIST OF COMMITTEE PAPERS ISSUED UP TO 1st JUNE, 1946\n\n| HKUAC Ref. | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| HKUAC 1 | D.J. Sloss, Esq., C.B.D. N.L. Smith, Esq., C.M.G. J.A. Vonn, Esq., Litt. D., F.S.A. Miss A.M. Ruston (Secretary) |\n| HKUAC 2 | Vice-Chancellor Hong Kong University since 1937. Formerly University College, N... Principal (Rangoon) |\n| HKUAC 3 | Formerly Hong Kong Administrative Service (Colonial Secretary 1936-1941) |\n| HKUAC 4 | President of Queens' College, Cambridge. Member of the Asquith Commission on Higher Education in the Colonies. Visited Hong Kong 1931. |\n| HKUAC 5 | Member of the Eastern Department of the Colonial Office. |\n| HKUAC 6 | |\n| HKUAC 7 | |\n| HKUAC 8 | |\n| HKUAC 9 | |\n| HKUAC 10 | |\n\n| HKUAC Ref. | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| HKUAC 1 | Copy of letter dated 9th November, 1939 from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of Hong Kong. |\n| HKUAC ... | ... |\n| HKUAC 10 | A note by Professor K.H. Digby, Professor of Surgery and Senior Member of the staff of the University, which was read to members and staff in Stanley Internment Camp |\n\nList of papers:\n- Copy of letter dated 9th November, 1939 from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of Hong Kong.\n- Report by the 1943 Advisory Committee on Hong Kong University and the Higher Educational Institutes in Malaya and Hong Kong.\n- The Future of the Hong Kong University - Memorandum submitted by the Colonial Office to the Far Eastern Committee of the War Cabinet.\n- Observations regarding the possible reconstitution of the University of Hong Kong by Dr. Gordon King, F.R.C.S., F.R.C.O.G. Former Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University.\n- Copy of a letter dated 30/8/45 from Professor Percy Roxby of the British Council in China.\n- Copy of a letter dated 22/8/45 from Dr. Joseph Needham, Sc. B., F.R.S., Head of the British Scientific Mission in China.\n- Extract from a letter dated 31/7/45 from Sir Andrew Caldecott, K.C.M.G., Former Chancellor of the University.\n- Copy of a telegram dated 30th October from Dr. Gordon King now a member of the Civil Affairs Branch of the Military Administration in Hong Kong.\n- A note by Professor K.H. Digby, Professor of Surgery and Senior Member of the staff of the University, which was read to members and staff in Stanley Internment Camp.\n\nPage 182 \nPage 34", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-594-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 1-7-1946 - 19-8-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 582830, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 59, "title": "CO129-596-3 Hong Kong University- recognition of wartime training of medical students 24-1-1946 - 10-3-1949", "content_text": "## A Bird's-Eye View\nBy Arg\n\nThe humidity is high these days. Also the cupidity.\n\nBut if Government repairs the ruined houses where will all the jeep parties be held?\n\nThe new bosom-less evening gowns are going to make gravy unpopular.\n\nHalf of a Russian ship has been sighted. Going nowhere, of course, as enigmatic as ever.\n\nNow Government is offering tomato seedlings. It seems determined to ketchup on the food shortage.\n\n## ACID THROWING CASES ESCAPE FROM HONG KONG\n### on Ballroom Girls\n#### Attack Remains Mystery\n#### MANAGER INTERVIEWED\n\nSo far six dancing hostesses of the Emporium Ballroom and two girls of the Majestic Ballroom have been attacked by unknown persons who threw acid on them.\n\nThe above information was obtained from Mr C. C. Chau, Manager of the Emporium Ballroom, when he was interviewed by a *Post and Telegraph* reporter.\n\nMr Chau said that by a coincidence in all cases the acid was thrown on the lower part of the girls' dresses and made from behind their backs. The various cases occurred mostly between the hours of 7.30 and 8.30 p.m. when the girls were going to their work, and only one case happened at 11 a.m. in daytime. He said one girl suffered burns to her back and another suffered similar burns on her leg. The first incident, added Mr Chau, occurred about three weeks ago and the last case was reported to the Police last Sunday. All these cases were reported to the Police, who are still making enquiries.\n\nMr Chau said that so far as he knew no arrests had been made and no-one was in a position to state why such attacks were made.\n\nMoscow says the British provoked the Cairo rioting. Just like a man cuts a foot off to spite the shoemaker.\n\nKam Tin airfield is to become a vegetable garden. So next time the Japs come we can at least pelt 'em with turnips.\n\nBritish troops in Japan will be polite, but will not visit Japanese homes. That should solve the blucher v. tattami problem.\n\nThe bus service is not likely to improve yet. There is, I understand, some idea of adopting a new design embodying the scientific shape of a sardine tin.\n\n\"Please, Sir, there's a man at the door who's lost an eye.\" \"Well, tell him we haven't got it.\"\n\nConversation wandered around to \"femmes de guerre.\" One innocent immediately arose, and asked with hesitation, \"What is a 'femme de guerre'?\"\n\nThe instructress, somewhat taken aback, tediously explained that it is a certain type of woman who, in times of war, finds it quite profitable to station herself in a place easily accessible to the common soldier.\n\n\"Oh,\" said the girl, \"I thought they were 'hors de combat'.\"\n\n## LOSS OF A PIG\n### Run Over by Lorry And Souvenired\n\nYeung Hung and Yeung Ngau each sentenced to one month's hard labour by Mr W. H. Latimer at the Kowloon Summary Court yesterday when they appeared on a charge of larceny of a pig, the property of Ng Kam, at Main Road near Yeung Uk village, Un Long, on Sunday.\n\nDetective Sub-Inspector Rothwell, who prosecuted, said that at 8 a.m. on Monday, the complainant's daughter saw the pig running loose on the road. It had been injured by a passing lorry. She went in and informed her mother, who came out, but the pig was gone. Following information she had received, the complainant went to the accused's village, where she found them slaughtering the pig. She recognised the pig as hers and asked them to return it. Upon their refusing, she went and reported the matter to the Police. When the Police arrived, the accused were cutting up the remnants of the pig. The pig weighed 60 catties and was valued at $400.\n\n## Radio\n### Hanghing Studio\n\nZBW Hong Kong broadcasting on a frequency of 640 Kilocycles and from 12.30 to 1.30 p.m., 6.30 to 7.30 p.m., and 9.00 to 11.00 p.m. also on 9.52 Megacycles.\n\nH.K.T.\n| Time | Programme |\n| --- | --- |\n| 12.30 | Daily Programme summary |\n| 12.32 | Eddie Carroll and Music |\n| 12.45 | \"Romance and Rhythm\" ENSA |\n| 1.00 | News and Announcements |\n| 1.10 | Casani Club Orchestra |\n| 1.30 | Music from the films |\n| 2.00 | Close Down |\n| 6.30 | Swing and Sway Sammy Kaye |\n| 7.00 | London Relay-News |\n| 7.15 | \"Ivor Pye\" The Singing |\n| 7.30 | Studio: Radio Play \"The Blagden Legend\" |\n| 8.00 | Classical Request Hour |\n| 9.00 | London Relay-News |\n| 9.05 | The Vagabond Sailor ENSA |\n| 9.35 | Music for Dancing |\n| 10.10 | Billy Thorburn and Music |\n| 10.25 | Ivor Novello and some of his successes |\n| 11.00 | Close down |\n\nProgrammes marked ENSA are recorded specially for Services Entertainment by the Dept. of National Services Entertainment.\n\n## A STOLEN COW\n### Disappears From Outside Dealer's House\n#### FOUND IN OTHER VILLAGE\n\nLau Sam was brought before Mr W. D. Latimer at the Kowloon Summary Court yesterday on a charge of larceny of a cow from outside No. 5 Kuk Tin Street, Un Long, the property of Mam Pak Ng-bong. He pleaded not guilty.\n\nThe complainant was called as the first witness and stated that he was a cattle dealer in Un Long. At 3 a.m. on Sunday he was asleep in his house. He had tied up his three cows outside. On waking, he found that his cows were no longer tied outside. He therefore made a search but failed to find them. He then made a report of his loss to the Police at the Ping Shan Police Station. At 7 a.m. he returned to his house and found two of his cows tied outside once more. Also, he received certain information so he went to the Ping Shan Police Station again and reported to Detective Sub-Inspector Rothwell. Then accompanied by the Police he went to Lo Fau Shan, where the third cow was recovered outside a house belonging to the accused. This was at about 10 a.m.\n\nThe second witness was P.C.C. 560 who stated that at about 9 a.m. on Sunday, on instructions given by Detective Sub-Inspector Rothwell, he went with the complainant to recover a cow which the complainant had reported lost. They recovered it from outside the accused's house.\n\nThe accused was found guilty and sentenced to six months hard labour. The cow was to be returned to the complainant.\n\nDetective Sub-Inspector Rothwell prosecuted.\n\n## ESCAPE FROM HOSPITAL\n\nChan Hung, an alleged house-breaker, was captured 15 minutes later at about 11.15 p.m. on Monday night in Waterloo Road near Peace Avenue. Chan was caught by a constable, No. 745, attached to the Emergency Unit.\n\n## ROTARIANS ENTERTAINED BY TALK\n### Lieut-Col Gordon King Tells Exciting Tale Of Journey Into China\n\nThe story of his escape from Hong Kong and his experiences during his journeying into Free China shortly after the Japanese occupation of the Colony was vividly recounted by Lieut-Col Gordon King, Assistant Director of Medical Services (Civil Affairs), to members of the Hong Kong Rotary Club at the weekly luncheon at the Gloucester Hotel yesterday.\n\nCol King met Messrs Marsman and Lavrov, who had escaped from Stanley Camp, and two Chinese friends, in the hills of Kowloon, and together they made their way to Lolung on the East River. From there Dr King reached Kukong.\n\nDr Woo, introducing the speaker, said that Lieut-Col King was formerly Professor of Gynaecology at Hong Kong University and at present was Assistant Director of Medical Services.\n\nA large attendance of members and their friends were present to hear the talk, and visiting Rotarians welcomed by the President, Dr Arthur Woo, were Messrs W. K. Way (Chungking), Y. K. Chow (Mukden), Peter Y. Kwok (Singapore), and H. Kaddorie (Shanghai).\n\nRotarian Kwok brought a message of greeting from the Singapore Club which, he said, had re-commenced functioning shortly after the establishment of the British Military Administration. There was at present a membership of about 70. Though no luncheon or dinner meetings were held owing to the difficult food situation, the Club held weekly tea meetings.\n\nRotarian Kadoorie also conveyed the greetings of the Shanghai Club which was holding meetings fortnightly, he said.\n\nThe Secretary, Rotarian T. E. Jackson, announced that the meeting next Tuesday would be a closed one, and one of the main topics of discussion would be their community-service.\n\nGuests welcomed were Messrs K. Crawford, J. Wilson, Kwok Chan, D. Djoung, W. Stoker, D. I. Bosanquet, Comdr Kirby, Lieut-Col T. W. Ware, Lieut-Col Y. S. Wan, Col Luke T. C. McDouall, Wai Lee, Messrs J. Man-wai and Major R. E. Farrell.\n\n### Dr Gordon King's Story\n\nLieut-Col Gordon King said:\n\n\"I had early been relieved of my duties as Medical Officer in charge of the Relief Hospital, but I was still able to do a certain amount of work in one of the other hospitals where I had some very loyal friends. Soon after the internment of a third of my colleagues, my position in this hospital was made quite untenable by an appointee of the Japanese, who made it quite clear to me that my visits would not long be tolerated.\n\n\"After considering all the possible means of exit I came to the conclusion that the greatest chance of success lay in finding a guide who would take me out by the East River route. I should have been entirely at a loss without the help of two Chinese friends and former students to whom I shall never be able adequately to express my gratitude. Through their aid, an agreement was made with a reliable man and all preparations were made. At first, I was to be disguised as a coolie, but later (somewhat to my relief) it was decided that it would be better for me to dress in shabby European clothes. A supply of food sufficient to last a week, together with a razor, a towel, and a sleeping bag were to be carried by the guide, and a suitcase full of clothes and other necessaries was to follow later if a way could be found. I was, of course, committed to complete secrecy about the whole affair.\n\n\"Just before dawn on February 10, 1942, I left my house, dressed in a shabby old raincoat, wearing an old felt hat and carrying a Chinese umbrella in my hand, met my escort at an appointed place and took an early tram to the Star Ferry. It was scarcely light, but already numerous people were crossing over. The two of us were both fully occupied and then quietly slipped on to the boat.\n\n\"On the Kowloon side, I mingled with the crowd, and, by dropping my head and shoulders and pulling my hat well down over my eyes, managed to leave the ferry without attracting the attention of the Japanese guards who were busily engaged in searching the passengers.\n\n\"My decision to escape from Hong Kong was made at an early date after the capitulation. Several factors influenced me in reaching this decision, and I think I can best set them before you in their chronological order.\n\n\"First of all, I had tried to carry on medical work for nearly a year under the Japanese regime in North China. In Hong Kong, after the surrender, I found that, as far as medical work was concerned, my position was very much worse than it had been in the North.\n\n\"The final spark which fired my determination was provided by an unfortunate encounter with the Japanese Gendarmerie over the cutting down of some trees. In the University Relief Hospital, for which I was responsible during the war, we had run completely out of fuel and we had no means of cooking for some 500 patients and staff unless some trees in the compound were felled for this purpose.\n\n\"Towards the end of January, however, the Japanese decided to transfer the University community to Stanley whither the majority of the internees had already been sent. I was then with Cheeloo University and was the Medical Superintendent of the University Hospital in Tsinan when most of my colleagues were transferred to Stanley. Before his departure, the Vice-Chancellor made it clear to me that the conditions under which we had been interned in the University had ceased to exist, and that as a servant of the University, I was entirely a free agent in making my future plans.\n\n\"During the months that ensued, I quickly realised how impossible it was, even as a servant of the University, to carry on medical work under the Japanese, and I decided that I should be doing much more useful work either in Hong Kong or in Free China. Towards the end of 1938, I was appointed to a post in the University of Hong Kong, and it was with very great relief that I left Shantung.\n\n\"After several requests, permission was finally obtained from the senior officer of the Japanese military unit which was billeted in the University, and three large trees were felled at dawn the next day. The trees were being cut up in the courtyard of one of the emergency hospital buildings when I was hurriedly summoned to the scene, and there I found the chief of the newly formed Gendarmerie with a small party of his men and an interpreter. The officer was livid with rage; he gave me no opportunity to explain and asked me who had given authority for the trees to be felled, and when I told him that a military officer in the compound had done so, he asked me to produce a written permit. When I told him that the permission was only verbal, he flew into a paroxysm of rage and Rotarian... (Continued on Page 4)", "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": 589213, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941", "page_number": 137, "title": "CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941", "content_text": "APPENDIX III\n\n142\n\nNo.\n\n1.\n\n2.\n\n3.\n\n4.\n\n5.\n\nREPORT\n\nOF THE\n\nPORT ADMINISTRATION INQUIRY COMMITTEE\n\nList of Representations received in response to individual invitations addressed by the Chairman on 23rd September, 1946, to the persons and concerns listed in Appendix II,\n\nName and Concern\n\n \n 1.\n Mr. J. Moodie, Acting Manager & Secretary, Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co. Ltd.\n \n \n 2.\n Mr. H. E. Rouffaer, Manager, Java-China-Japan Lijn, N.V.\n \n \n 3.\n Mr. F. C. Barry, Managing Director, Hong Kong & Shanghai Hotels Ltd.\n \n \n 4.\n Mr. E. L. Groome, Gibb Livingston & Co. Ltd., Shipping Agents and Importers.\n \n \n 5.\n Mr. N. O. C. Marsh, Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co., Shipping Agents and Importers.\n \n \n 6.\n Mr. Leung Yew, Managing Director, Wang Kee & Company, Stevedores and Compradores.\n \n \n 7.\n Mr. G. Miskin, Gilman & Co. Ltd., Shipping Agents and Importers.\n \n \n 8.\n Mr. Lau Tak Po, Managing Director, Hong Kong & Yaumati Ferry Co. Ltd.\n \n \n 9.\n Mr. D. J. Gilmour, Manager, Chartered Bank.\n \n \n 10.\n Mr. A. A. Dand, Manager, W. S. Bailey & Co. Ltd., Dockyard.\n \n \n 11.\n Mr. J. Kingsley, Manager, De La Rama Steamship Co., Ltd.\n \n \n 12.\n Mr. J. R. Collis, Bank Line (China) Ltd.\n \n \n 13.\n Mr. John Fleming, C.A., Lowe, Bingham & Matthews, Chartered Accountants.\n \n \n 14.\n Mr. F. Groves, American Express Co. Inc., Travel Agents.\n \n \n 15.\n Mr. J. Finnie, Manager, Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering Co. Ltd.\n \n \n 16.\n \n \n \n 17.\n Mr. R. Lasala, Director, John Manners & Co. Ltd., Shipping Agents and Merchants.\n \n \n 18.\n Professor R. Robertson, University of Hong Kong.\n \n \n 19.\n Mr. E. R. Hill, Director, Dodwell & Co. Ltd., Shipping Agents & Importers. Mr. T. B. Wilson, General Agent, American President Lines Ltd.\n \n \n 20.\n The Hon. Mr. A. Morse, O.B.E., Chief Manager, Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.\n \n \n 21.\n \n \n \n 22.\n Mr. R. G. Craig, Acting Chief Manager, Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co. Ltd.\n \n \n \n Mr. R. W. Aitken-Quack, Director, A. E. Gerondal & Co. Ltd., Shipping Agents and Importers.\n \n\n160", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 590322, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-610-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 9-1-1948 - 18-1-1949", "page_number": 124, "title": "CO129-610-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 9-1-1948 - 18-1-1949", "content_text": "28\n\n# APPENDIX A.\n\n## HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE\n\n### LIST OF Committee Papers Issued UP TO 1ST JUNE, 1946.\n\n130\n\nHKUAC1. Copy of letter dated 9th November, 1939, from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC2. Report by the 1943 Advisory Committee on Hong Kong University and the Higher Educational Institutes in Malaya and Hong Kong. The Future of the Hong Kong University-Memorandum submitted by the Colonial Office to the Far Eastern Committee of the War Cabinet.\n\nHKUAC3. Observations regarding the possible reconstitution of the University of Hong Kong by Dr. Gordon King, F.R.C.S., F.R.C.O.G. Former Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University.\n\nHKUAC4. Copy of a letter dated 30th August, 1945, from Professor Percy Roxby of the British Council in China.\n\nHKUAC5. Copy of a letter dated 22nd August, 1945, from Dr. Joseph Needham, Sc.D., Ph.D., F.R.S., Head of the British Scientific Mission in China.\n\nHKUAC6. Extract from a letter dated 31st July, 1945, from Sir Andrew Caldecott, K.C.M.G. Former Chancellor of the University.\n\nHKUAC7. Copy of a telegram dated 30th October from Dr. Gordon King now a member of the Civil Affairs Branch of the Military Administration in Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC8. A note by Professor K. H. Digby, Professor of Surgery and Senior Member of the staff of the University, which was read to members and staff in Stanley Internment Camp.\n\nHKUAC9. Extract from a letter by Professor Digby.\n\nHKUAC10. Copy of a resolution passed at a meeting on the 21st November, 1945, of graduates and past students of the University in Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC11. A later Memorandum by Dr. Gordon King dated 8th December, 1945, on the reconstitution of the University.\n\nHKUAC12. Summary of Recommendations contained in the Report of a Committee appointed by the Chancellor in 1939 to consider the Development of the University.\n\nHKUAC13.\n\nHKUAC14. Note by Mr. D. J. Sloss on the University of Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC15. Extract from the Directive on Education issued to the Chief Civil Affairs Officer for the period of the Military Administration in Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC16. Note by Sir George Moss in expansion of his remarks at the first meeting of the Committee on January 18th.\n\nHKUAC17. Telegram dated 28th January, addressed to Mr. D. J. Sloss by the Commander in Chief, Hong Kong, Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt.\n\nHKUAC18.\n\nHKUAC19.\n\nHKUAC20.\n\nHKUAC21. Part A. Extracts from a lecture given by Professor W. J. Hinton on April 2nd, 1941, to the Royal Central Asian Society in London on 'Hong Kong's place in the British Empire'\n\n23\n\nPart B. Extract from letter dated 22nd January, 1946, from Professor W. J. Hinton to Mr. C. W. M. Cox referring to the lectures quoted above.\n\nHKUAC22. Further note dated 25th January by Sir George Moss in support of his view that informal or diplomatic approaches should be made to discover the extent of the support of the University which might be expected outside Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC23. Extract from the Report of the 1937 Committee (which met in Hong Kong under the Chairmanship of Mr. N. L. Smith to investigate the financial position and advise on the future of the University) in connection with the possibilities of local specialization.\n\n29\n\nHKUAC24. Brief note by Mr. Sloss on the Libraries of the University.\n\nHKUAC25. Summary of recommendations contained in papers already circulated for the extensions and development of the University in academic matters.\n\nHKUAC26. Extract from a Report dated December, 1945, made by Dr. A. G. H. Smart late Chief Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on his visit to the Far Eastern Colonies.\n\nHKUAC27. Extracts from the 1937 Committee's Report on Hong Kong University in regard to the matter of salary scales.\n\nHKUAC28. Note on salary scales by Mr. Sloss.\n\nHKUAC29. Note of the present and proposed Staff of the University.\n\nHKUAC30. Dr. Gordon King's suggestions for the reconstruction of the Medical Library of the University.\n\nHKUAC31. Extract from a letter dated 24th February, 1946, from Professor Roxby of the British Council in China to Miss Ruston (See also HKUAC5).\n\nHKUAC33. Plan of the proposed degree in Social Sciences.\n\nHKUAC34. Note by Mr. D. J. Sloss on the administrative machinery of the University of Hong Kong as established under an Ordinance passed in 1911 and last revised in 1937.\n\nHKUAC35. Note on the proceedings of the first five meetings of the Committee.\n\nHKUAC36. Extract from a letter dated 30th March, 1946, from Dr. George Yeh, previously Professor of English at the National Pekin University and now Head of the Chinese Ministry of Information in London.\n\nHKUAC37. Suggestions by Professor Hinton for alterations in the Constitution of the University of Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC38. Resolution passed by the Shanghai Branch of the Hong Kong University Alumni Association.\n\nHKUAC39. Extract from a letter from Dr. Gordon King to Miss Ruston dated 23rd March, 1946.\n\nHKUAC40. Extract from a letter dated 24th April, 1946, addressed to the Colonial Office by the Chairman of the University of Hong Kong Medical Degrees Emergency Committee. (Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg.)\n\nHKUAC41. Comments on HKUAC34 by Professor G. M. Forster.\n\nHKUAC42. Memorandum by Professor F. Redmond of the Hong Kong University, on the future of the Faculty of Engineering.\n\nHKUAC43. Note on Basic and Overseas Pay and Family Allowances.\n\n# APPENDIX B.\n\nThe following persons kindly attended meetings of the Committee and gave evidence.\n\nSir Mark Young, G.C.M.G. Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nBrigadier D. M. MacDougall, C.M.G. Administration of Hong Kong. Chief Civil Affairs Officer during the Military\n\nProfessor T. Redmond. Professor of Engineering of Hong Kong University.\n\nMr. C. P. Fitzgerald. Of the British Council. (Regional Officer for China.)\n\n(52226) Wt. 23066-4903 300 8/46 D.L. G. 373\n\n1237", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-610-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 9-1-1948 - 18-1-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 590345, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-610-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 9-1-1948 - 18-1-1949", "page_number": 147, "title": "CO129-610-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 9-1-1948 - 18-1-1949", "content_text": "HKUAC 1.\n\n28\n\n# APPENDIX A.\n\nHONG KONG UNIVERSITY Advisory Committee\n\nLIST OF COMMITTEE PAPERS ISSUED UP TO 1ST JUNE, 1946.\n\n122\n\nCopy of letter dated 9th November, 1939, from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of Hong Kong. HKUAC 2. Report by the 1943 Advisory Committee on Hong Kong University and the Higher Educational Institutes in Malaya and Hong Kong. The Future of the Hong Kong University--Memorandum submitted by the Colonial Office to the Far Eastern Committee of the War Cabinet. Observations regarding the possible reconstitution of the University of Hong Kong by Dr. Gordon King, F.R.C.S., F.R.C.O.G. Former Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University.\n\nHKUAC 3.\n\nHKUAC 4.\n\nHKUAC 5.\n\nHKUAC 6.\n\nHKUAC 7.\n\nHKUAC 8.\n\nHKUAC 9.\n\nHKUAC 10. HKUAC 11.\n\nHKUAC 12.\n\nCopy of a letter dated 30th August, 1945, from Professor Percy Roxby of the British Council in China.\n\nCopy of a letter dated 22nd August, 1945, from Dr. Joseph Needham, Sc.D., Ph.D., F.R.S., Head of the British Scientific Mission in China. Extract from a letter dated 31st July, 1945, from Sir Andrew Caldecott, K.C.M.G. Former Chancellor of the University.\n\nCopy of a telegram dated 30th October from Dr. Gordon King now a member of the Civil Affairs Branch of the Military Administration in Hong Kong.\n\nA note by Professor K. H. Digby, Professor of Surgery and Senior Member of the staff of the University, which was read to members and staff in Stanley Internment Camp.\n\nExtract from a letter by Professor Digby.\n\nCopy of a resolution passed at a meeting on the 21st November, 1945, of graduates and past students of the University in Hong Kong.\n\nA later Memorandum by Dr. Gordon King dated 8th December, 1945, on the reconstitution of the University.\n\nHKUAC 13. Summary of Recommendations contained in the Report of a Committee appointed by the Chancellor in 1939 to consider the Development of the University.\n\nHKUAC 14. HKUAC 15.\n\nNote by Mr. D. J. Sloss on the University of Hong Kong.\n\nExtract from the Directive on Education issued to the Chief Civil Affairs Officer for the period of the Military Administration in Hong Kong. HKUAC 16. Note by Sir George Moss in expansion of his remarks at the first meeting of the Committee on January 18th.\n\nHKUAC 17. Telegram dated 28th January, addressed to Mr. D. J. Sloss by the Commander in Chief, Hong Kong, Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt.\n\nHKUAC 18.\n\nHKUAC 19.\n\nPart A. Extracts from a lecture given by Professor W. J. Hinton on April 2nd, 1941, to the Royal Central Asian Society in London on \"Hong Kong's place in the British Empire\".\n\nPart B. Extract from letter dated 22nd January, 1946, from Professor W. J. Hinton to Mr. C. W. M. Cox referring to the lectures quoted above.\n\nFurther note dated 25th January by Sir George Moss in support of his view that informal or diplomatic approaches should be made to discover the extent of the support of the University which might be expected outside Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC 20. Extract from the Report of the 1937 Committee (which met in Hong Kong under the Chairmanship of Mr. N. L. Smith to investigate the financial position and advise on the future of the University) in connection with the possibilities of local specialization.\n\nHKUAC 21. HKUAC 22.\n\nBrief note by Mr. Sloss on the Libraries of the University.\n\nSummary of recommendations contained in papers already circulated for the extensions and development of the University in academic matters. HKUAC 23. Extract from a Report dated December, 1945, made by Dr. A. G. H. Smart late Chief Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on his visit to the Far Eastern Colonies.\n\n7773\n\n29\n\nExtracts from the 1937 Committee's Report on Hong Kong University in regard to the matter of salary scales.\n\nHKUAC 24.\n\nHKUAC 25.\n\nNote on salary scales by Mr. Sloss.\n\nHKUAC 26.\n\nNote of the present and proposed Staff of the University.\n\nHKUAC 27.\n\nDr. Gordon King's suggestions for the reconstruction of the Medical Library of the University.\n\nHKUAC 28. Extract from a letter dated 24th February, 1946, from Professor Roxby of the British Council in China to Miss Ruston (See also HKUAC 5). Plan of the proposed degree in Social Sciences.\n\nHKUAC 29. HKUAC 30.\n\nHKUAC 31. HKUAC 33.\n\nNote by Mr. D. J. Sloss on the administrative machinery of the University of Hong Kong as established under an Ordinance passed in 1911 and last revised in 1937.\n\nNote on the proceedings of the first five meetings of the Committee. Extract from a letter dated 30th March, 1946, from Dr. George Yeh, previously Professor of English at the National Pekin University and now Head of the Chinese Ministry of Information in London. HKUAC 34. Suggestions by Professor Hinton for alterations in the Constitution of the University of Hong Kong. HKUAC 35.\n\nResolution passed by the Shanghai Branch of the Hong Kong University Alumni Association.\n\nHKUAC 36. Extract from a letter from Dr. Gordon King to Miss Ruston dated 23rd March, 1946. HKUAC 37.\n\nHKUAC 39.\n\nHKUAC 40.\n\nHKUAC 41.\n\nExtract from a letter dated 24th April, 1946, addressed to the Colonial Office by the Chairman of the University of Hong Kong Medical Degrees Emergency Committee. (Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg.) Comments on HKUAC 34 by Professor G. M. Forster.\n\nMemorandum by Professor F. Redmond of the Hong Kong University, on the future of the Faculty of Engineering.\n\nNote on Basic and Overseas Pay and Family Allowances.\n\n# APPENDIX B.\n\nThe following persons kindly attended meetings of the Committee and gave evidence. Sir Mark Young, G.C.M.G. Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nBrigadier D. M. MacDougall, C.M.G. Chief Civil Affairs Officer during the Military Administration of Hong Kong.\n\nProfessor T. Redmond. Professor of Engineering of Hong Kong University.\n\nMr. C. P. Fitzgerald. Of the British Council. (Regional Officer for China.)\n\n(52226) Wt. 23066-4903 300 8/46 D.L. G. 373", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-610-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 9-1-1948 - 18-1-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 590574, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-610-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 15-2-1949 - 7-2-1950", "page_number": 144, "title": "CO129-610-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 15-2-1949 - 7-2-1950", "content_text": "28\n\n# APPENDIX A.\n\n## HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE\n\n### LIST OF COMMITTEE PAPERS ISSUED UP TO 1ST JUNE, 1946.\n\nHKUAC1. Copy of letter dated 9th November, 1939, from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC2. Report by the 1943 Advisory Committee on Hong Kong University and the Higher Educational Institutes in Malaya and Hong Kong. The Future of the Hong Kong University-Memorandum submitted by the Colonial Office to the Far Eastern Committee of the War Cabinet. Observations regarding the possible reconstitution of the University of Hong Kong by Dr. Gordon King, F.R.C.S., F.R.C.O.G. Former Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University.\n\nHKUAC3. Copy of a letter dated 30th August, 1945, from Professor Percy Roxby of the British Council in China.\n\nHKUAC4. Copy of a letter dated 22nd August, 1945, from Dr. Joseph Needham, Sc.D., Ph.D., F.R.S., Head of the British Scientific Mission in China.\n\nHKUAC5. Extract from a letter dated 31st July, 1945, from Sir Andrew Caldecott, K.C.M.G. Former Chancellor of the University.\n\nHKUAC6. Copy of a telegram dated 30th October from Dr. Gordon King now a member of the Civil Affairs Branch of the Military Administration in Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC7. A note by Professor K. H. Digby, Professor of Surgery and Senior Member of the staff of the University, which was read to members and staff in Stanley Internment Camp.\n\nHKUAC8. Extract from a letter by Professor Digby.\n\nHKUAC9. Copy of a resolution passed at a meeting on the 21st November, 1945, of graduates and past students of the University in Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC10. A later Memorandum by Dr. Gordon King dated 8th December, 1945, on the reconstitution of the University.\n\nHKUAC11. Summary of Recommendations contained in the Report of a Committee appointed by the Chancellor in 1939 to consider the Development of the University.\n\nHKUAC12. Note by Mr. D. J. Sloss on the University of Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC13. Extract from the Directive on Education issued to the Chief Civil Affairs Officer for the period of the Military Administration in Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC14. Note by Sir George Moss in expansion of his remarks at the first meeting of the Committee on January 18th.\n\nHKUAC15. Telegram dated 28th January, addressed to Mr. D. J. Sloss by the Commander in Chief, Hong Kong, Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt.\n\nHKUAC16.\n\nHKUAC17. Extracts from a lecture given by Professor W. J. Hinton on April 2nd, 1941, to the Royal Central Asian Society in London on Hong Kong's place in the British Empire.\n\nHKUAC18. Part B. Extract from letter dated 22nd January, 1946, from Professor W. J. Hinton to Mr. C. W. M. Cox referring to the lectures quoted above.\n\nHKUAC19. Further note dated 25th January by Sir George Moss in support of his view that informal or diplomatic approaches should be made to discover the extent of the support of the University which might be expected outside Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC20. Extract from the Report of the 1937 Committee (which met in Hong Kong under the Chairmanship of Mr. N. L. Smith to investigate the financial position and advise on the future of the University) in connection with the possibilities of local specialization.\n\nHKUAC21. Brief note by Mr. Sloss on the Libraries of the University.\n\nHKUAC22. Summary of recommendations contained in papers already circulated for the extensions and development of the University in academic matters. Extract from a Report dated December, 1945, made by Dr. A. G. H. Smart late Chief Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on his visit to the Far Eastern Colonies.\n\nHKUAC23.\n\n29\n\nHKUAC24. Extracts from the 1937 Committee's Report on Hong Kong University in regard to the matter of salary scales. Note on salary scales by Mr. Sloss.\n\nHKUAC25. Note of the present and proposed Staff of the University.\n\nHKUAC26. Dr. Gordon King's suggestions for the reconstruction of the Medical Library of the University.\n\nHKUAC27. Extract from a letter dated 24th February, 1946, from Professor Roxby of the British Council in China to Miss Ruston (See also HKUAC5).\n\nHKUAC28. Plan of the proposed degree in Social Sciences.\n\nHKUAC29. Note by Mr. D. J. Sloss on the administrative machinery of the University of Hong Kong as established under an Ordinance passed in 1911 and last revised in 1937.\n\nHKUAC30. Note on the proceedings of the first five meetings of the Committee.\n\nHKUAC31. Extract from a letter dated 30th March, 1946, from Dr. George Yeh, previously Professor of English at the National Pekin University and now Head of the Chinese Ministry of Information in London.\n\nHKUAC32.\n\nHKUAC33. Suggestions by Professor Hinton for alterations in the Constitution of the University of Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC34. Resolution passed by the Shanghai Branch of the Hong Kong University Alumni Association.\n\nHKUAC35. Extract from a letter from Dr. Gordon King to Miss Ruston dated 23rd March, 1946.\n\nHKUAC36. Extract from a letter dated 24th April, 1946, addressed to the Colonial Office by the Chairman of the University of Hong Kong Medical Degrees Emergency Committee. (Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg.)\n\nHKUAC37. Comments on HKUAC34 by Professor G. M. Forster.\n\nHKUAC38.\n\nHKUAC39. Memorandum by Professor F. Redmond of the Hong Kong University, on the future of the Faculty of Engineering.\n\nHKUAC40. Note on Basic and Overseas Pay and Family Allowances.\n\n# APPENDIX B.\n\nThe following persons kindly attended meetings of the Committee and gave evidence.\n\nSir Mark Young, G.C.M.G. Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nBrigadier D. M. MacDougall, C.M.G. Chief Civil Affairs Officer during the Military Administration of Hong Kong.\n\nProfessor of Engineering of Hong Kong University.\n\nProfessor T. Redmond.\n\nMr. C. P. Fitzgerald. Of the British Council. (Regional Officer for China.)\n\n(52226) Wt. 23066-4903 300 3/46 D.L. G. 373", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-610-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 15-2-1949 - 7-2-1950.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 593897, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-616-2 Hong Kong War Memorial Fund (Amendment) Ordinance 1948 6-2-1948 - 16-11-1948", "page_number": 59, "title": "CO129-616-2 Hong Kong War Memorial Fund (Amendment) Ordinance 1948 6-2-1948 - 16-11-1948", "content_text": "## CONTRIBUTIONS TO HONG KONG WAR MEMORIAL FUND.-Continued.\n\n| Name | Amount | Name | Amount | Name | Amount | Name | Amount |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Ho Ga Yu, Mr. & Mrs. | 40.00 | Ho Siu Hong, Mr. | 300.00 | Hongkong St. Andrews Society | $100,000.00 | King Tai Guan | 100.00 |\n| Ho Kum Tong, Mr. & Mrs. | 1,000.00 | Ho Tung, Sir Robert | 10,000.00 | Hongkong Stock Exchange Ltd. | 25.00 | J. R. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. | 100,000.00 |\n| Ho Nai Tong | 10.00 | Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation | 10,000.00 | King's Store | 25.00 | Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., Staff | 100.00 |\n| Hongkong Bank \"Sun Wah\" | 20.00 | Java-China-Japan Lijn N.V.. | 5,610.00 | Kitty in Memory of Jeff Ko Ho Ning (Macao) | 50.00 | Insurance Staff | 224.70 |\n| Hongkong Telephone Co., Ltd. | 25,000.00 | Java-China-Japan Lijn Staff.. | 50.00 | Ho Wing, Mrs. | 20.00 | Kong Kiu School Staff & Pupils | 1,000.00 |\n| Hongkong Tramways Ltd. | 50,000.00 | Holland China Trading Co. | 50.00 | Hodges, Messrs. H. M. | 400.00 | Hongkong & Swatow Commercial Bank | 145.00 |\n| Hongkong Brewery & Distillery | 1,354.00 | Hongkong Volunteer Association | 3,000.00 | Jehangir, Shirin (Navjote Mubarak, 21/9/47) | 51.00 | H.K.V.D.C'. All ranks | 650.00 |\n| Hongkong Can Co. | 50.00 | Hongkong & Canton Export Co., Ltd. | 100.00 | Jehangir, Pesi (Navjote Mubarak, 21/9/47) | 51.00 | Canadian War Dead H.K.V.D.C. 4th Battery in memory of deceased members and N. C. O's | 51.00 |\n| Hongkong Catholic Centre | 250.00 | Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd. | 25,000.00 | Jehangir & Company (Navjote Mubarak, 21/9/47) | 51.00 | Kowloon Dock Employees Elc. Dept. | 129.00 |\n| Hongkong Chinese Women's Club | 300.00 | Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd. (In Memoriam)... | 925.00 | Jehangir & Family (Navjote Mubarak, 21/9/47) | 51.00 | Kowloon Motor Bus Co. | 5,200.00 |\n| Hongkong Civil Service Chinese Association | 200.00 | Joffee, Mr. & Mrs. | 20.00 | Johannessen, R. | 10,000.00 | Krogh, Moe | 1,000.00 |\n| Hongkong Clays & Kaoling Co., Ltd. | 50.00 | Johnson, Stokes & Master | 2,500.00 | John, James | 50.00 | Kwai Kee Bank | 100.00 |\n| Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd... | 50,000.00 | Jones, Aneurin | 100.00 | Jones, Mr. & Mrs. J. G. | 100.00 | Kwan, Mr. & Mrs. C. Y. | 200.00 |\n| Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd., Staff | 1,017.35 | Jones, J. R. | 50.00 | Jones, Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd | 50.00 | Kwanti Handicap 1941, Balances of a/cs. per Mr. R. E. M. Devaux & Mr. H. E. Phillips | 1,558.00 |\n| Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd., Chinese Staff | 70.00 | Jones & Co. | 100.00 | Joseph, Julia | 1,000.00 | Kwantung Provincial Bank | 200.00 |\n| Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. | 50,000.00 | Josephine & Jennie | 10.00 | Hua, Dr. T. Y., O.B.E. | 100.00 | Kwok, Mrs. Alic | 20.00 |\n| Hongkong Football Association | 4,599.32 | Hugh-Jones, Mr. & Mrs. G. S. | 300.00 | Kwok, Mrs. Lambert | 50.00 | \"Jonah\" | 500.00 |\n| Hongkong Football Association via H.K.V.D.C. | 4.599.51 | Hughes, Mr. & Mrs. A. W. | 5,000.00 | Kwok, Mr. & Mrs. L. P. | 200.00 | Hongkong War Effort | 1,899.41 |\n| Hongkong Hotel Garage Ltd. | 2,000.00 | Humphreys Estate & Finance Co., Ltd. | 50,000.00 | Kwok, P. C. | 50.00 | Hongkong & Yaumati Ferry Co., Ltd. | 7,000.00 |\n| Hongkong & Inland Trading Co. | 10.00 | Hung Lee & Co. | 30.00 | Kwok, Mr. & Mrs. P. K. | 100.00 | Kwok, Miss Alice F. | 10.00 |\n| Hongkong Jockey Club | 100,000.00 | Hung On To | 10.00 | Kwok, W. H. | 50.00 | Kwok, Mr. & Mrs. A. Y. | 100.00 |\n| Hongkong Jockey Club, Members | 700.00 | Hutchinson & Co. John D. | 5,000.00 | Kwok Hing Chun, Mrs. | 100.00 | Kwok, Mr. G. S. | 100.00 |\n| Hongkong & Kowloon Pawnshop Association | 100.00 | Hunt. Mr. D. | 20.00 | Kwok Hing Wang | 100.00 | Kwok Hin Wang 2nd donation (Memory of Mrs. Ma Sheng Shi) | 10.00 |\n| Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd. | 50,000.00 | Hunt & Co. | 200.00 | K. B. G. C. Raffle | 283.00 | K. C. C. Contributions from Members | 102.30 |\n| Hongkong Land Investment & Agency Co., Ltd. | 25,000.00 | Kadoorie & Sons, Sir Elly | 10,000.00 | Kwan, Mr. & Mrs. C. Y. | 200.00 | Kwong Fat Bank | 200.00 |\n| Hongkong Match Factory | 100.00 | Kan Chiu Nam | 50.00 | Kwong On Bank | 500.00 | Kwong Sun Hong | 100.00 |\n| Hongkong Metal Merchant's Association | 100.00 | Kan Koan Asing & Co. | 200.00 | Kwong Tai, Middle School Students | 285.00 | Kwong Tung Hing Fruit Store | 50.00 |\n| Hongkong Printers Association | 200.00 | Kan Kom Tsing | 500.00 | Kate, Granny | 5.00 | Kourjausky, M. | 25.00 |\n| Hongkong Red Swastika Society | 500.00 | Karanjia Dr. & Mrs. N. P. | 100.00 | Keller & Co., Ed. A. | 2,000.00 | Imperial Chemical Industries. | 16,000.00 |\n| Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | 50,000.00 | Keating, Capt. D. | 100.00 | Kemp, G. A. | 50.00 | Incorporated Law Society of Hongkong | 100.00 |\n| Insurance Company of North America | 500.00 | Kennedy Road, Junior School | 100.00 | Kenworth Trading Co. | 25.00 | Indo-China Trading Co. | 500.00 |\n| International Merchandising Co. | 100.00 | Kenniff, Mr. & Mrs., & Miss | 50.00 | Khan, Mr. & Mrs. Y. J. | 5.00 | La Salle College-Staff & Students | 331.75 |\n| Ipekdjian Bros. Ltd. | 100.00 | Kim (N. 0. C. M.) | 1,000.00 | Kim Sing Hong | 100.00 | Labrum, Mr. & Mrs. V. C. | 20.00 |\n| Island Paint Co. | 200.00 | Kincheng Banking Corporation | 500.00 | King Fook Bank | 250.00 | Lai Chack Girls School Branches | 146.75 |\n| King, Professor & Mrs. Gordon | 1,000.00 | King Hing Construction Co.... | 50.00 | Lai Chack Girls School Pupils | 248.25 | Lai Hing | 50.00 |\n| Lamb-Gasper, Mrs. Dorothy... | 300.00 | Lam, F. L. | 500.00 | | | | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-616-2 Hong Kong War Memorial Fund (Amendment) Ordinance 1948 6-2-1948 - 16-11-1948.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 594669, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-618-4 University of Hong Kong- conversion of Tung Wah Eastern Hospital into a teaching hospital 17-2-1949 - 27-9-1949", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-618-4 University of Hong Kong- conversion of Tung Wah Eastern Hospital into a teaching hospital 17-2-1949 - 27-9-1949", "content_text": "# APPENDIX A.\n\n## HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE\n\n## LIST OF COMMITTEE PAPERS ISSUED UP TO 1ST JUNE, 1946.\n\nHKUAC 1. Copy of letter dated 9th November, 1939, from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC 2. Report by the 1943 Advisory Committee on Hong Kong University and the Higher Educational Institutes in Malaya and Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC 3. The Future of the Hong Kong University - Memorandum submitted by the Colonial Office to the Far Eastern Committee of the War Cabinet.\n\nHKUAC 4. Observations regarding the possible reconstitution of the University of Hong Kong by Dr. Gordon King, F.R.C.S., F.R.C.O.G. Former Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University.\n\nHKUAC 5. Copy of a letter dated 30th August, 1945, from Professor Percy Roxby of the British Council in China.\n\nHKUAC 6. Copy of a letter dated 22nd August, 1945, from Dr. Joseph Needham, Sc.D., Ph.D., F.R.S., Head of the British Scientific Mission in China.\n\nHKUAC 7. Extract from a letter dated 31st July, 1945, from Sir Andrew Caldecott, K.C.M.G., Former Chancellor of the University.\n\nHKUAC 8. Copy of a telegram dated 30th October from Dr. Gordon King now a member of the Civil Affairs Branch of the Military Administration in Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC 9. A note by Professor K. H. Digby, Professor of Surgery and Senior Member of the staff of the University, which was read to members and staff in Stanley Internment Camp.\n\nHKUAC 10. Extract from a letter by Professor Digby.\n\nHKUAC 11. Copy of a resolution passed at a meeting on the 21st November, 1945, of graduates and past students of the University in Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC 12. A later Memorandum by Dr. Gordon King dated 8th December, 1945, on the reconstitution of the University.\n\nHKUAC 13. Summary of Recommendations contained in the Report of a Committee appointed by the Chancellor in 1939 to consider the Development of the University.\n\nHKUAC 14. Note by Mr. D. J. Sloss on the University of Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC 15. Extract from the Directive on Education issued to the Chief Civil Affairs Officer for the period of the Military Administration in Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC 16. Note by Sir George Moss in expansion of his remarks at the first meeting of the Committee on January 18th.\n\nHKUAC 17. Telegram dated 28th January, addressed to Mr. D. J. Sloss by the Commander in Chief, Hong Kong, Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt.\n\nHKUAC 18. \n| Part A | Extracts from a lecture given by Professor W. J. Hinton on April 2nd, 1941, to the Royal Central Asian Society in London on Hong Kong's place in the British Empire. |\n| Part B | Extract from letter dated 22nd January, 1946, from Professor W. J. Hinton to Mr. C. W. M. Cok referring to the lectures quoted above. |\n\nHKUAC 19. Further note dated 25th January by Sir George Moss in support of his view that informal or diplomatic approaches should be made to discover the extent of the support of the University which might be expected outside Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC 20. Extract from the Report of the 1937 Committee (which met in Hong Kong under the Chairmanship of Mr. N. L. Smith to investigate the financial position and advise on the future of the University) in connection with the possibilities of local specialization.\n\nHKUAC 21. Brief note by Mr. Sloss on the Libraries of the University.\n\nHKUAC 22. Summary of recommendations contained in papers already circulated for the extensions and development of the University in academic matters.\n\nHKUAC 23. Extract from a Report dated December, 1945, made by Dr. A. G. H. Smart late Chief Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on his visit to the Far Eastern Colonies.\n\nHKUAC 24. Extracts from the 1937 Committee's Report on Hong Kong University in regard to the matter of salary scales.\n\nHKUAC 25. Note on salary scales by Mr. Sloss.\n\nHKUAC 26. Note of the present and proposed Staff of the University.\n\nHKUAC 27. ... \n\nHKUAC 28. Dr. Gordon King's suggestions for the reconstruction of the Medical Library of the University.\n\nHKUAC 29. Extract from a letter dated 24th February, 1946, from Professor Roxby of the British Council in China to Miss Ruston (See also HKUAC 5).\n\nHKUAC 30. Plan of the proposed degree in Social Sciences.\n\nHKUAC 31. Note by Mr. D. J. Sloss on the administrative machinery of the University of Hong Kong as established under an Ordinance passed in 1911 and last revised in 1937.\n\nHKUAC 33. Note on the proceedings of the first five meetings of the Committee.\n\nHKUAC 34. Suggestions by Professor Hinton for alterations in the Constitution of the University of Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC 35. Resolution passed by the Shanghai Branch of the Hong Kong University Alumni Association.\n\nHKUAC 36. Extract from a letter from Dr. Gordon King to Miss Ruston dated 23rd March, 1946.\n\nHKUAC 37. Extract from a letter dated 24th April, 1946, addressed to the Colonial Office by the Chairman of the University of Hong Kong Medical Degrees Emergency Committee. (Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg.)\n\nHKUAC 39. Comments on HKUAC 34 by Professor G. M. Forster.\n\nHKUAC 40. Memorandum by Professor F. Redmond of the Hong Kong University, on the future of the Faculty of Engineering.\n\nHKUAC 41. Note on Basic and Overseas Pay and Family Allowances.\n\n# APPENDIX B.\n\nThe following persons kindly attended meetings of the Committee and gave evidence.\n\n* Sir Mark Young, G.C.M.G. Governor of Hong Kong.\n* Brigadier D. M. MacDougall, C.M.G. Administration of Hong Kong. Chief Civil Affairs Officer during the Military Administration.\n* Professor T. Redmond. Professor of Engineering of Hong Kong University.\n* Mr. C. P. Fitzgerald. Of the British Council. (Regional Officer for China.)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-618-4 University of Hong Kong- conversion of Tung Wah Eastern Hospital into a teaching hospital 17-2-1949 - 27-9-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 594810, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-618-7 Port Adminstation Inquiry Committee- report and minutes of meetings 1-1-1945 - 31-12-1946", "page_number": 80, "title": "CO129-618-7 Port Adminstation Inquiry Committee- report and minutes of meetings 1-1-1945 - 31-12-1946", "content_text": "# APPENDIX III\n## REPORT OF THE PORT ADMINISTRATION INQUIRY COMMITTEE\n\nList of Representations received in response to individual invitations addressed by the Chairman on 23rd September, 1946, to the persons and concerns listed in Appendix II,\n\n| Name and Concern | \n|---|\n| Mr. J. Moodie, Acting Manager & Secretary, Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co. Ltd. | \n| Mr. H. E. Rouffaer, Manager, Java-China-Japan Lijn, N.V. | \n| Mr. F. C. Barry, Managing Director, Hong Kong & Shanghai Hotels Ltd. | \n| Mr. E. L. Groome, Gibb Livingston & Co. Ltd., Shipping Agents and Importers. | \n| Mr. N. O. C. Marsh, Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co., Shipping Agents and Importers. | \n| Mr. Leung Yew, Managing Director, Wang Kee & Company, Stevedores and Compradores. | \n| Mr. G. Miskin, Gilman & Co. Ltd., Shipping Agents and Importers. | \n| Mr. Lau Tak Po, Managing Director, Hong Kong & Yaumati Ferry Co. Ltd. | \n| Mr. D. J. Gilmour, Manager, Chartered Bank. | \n| Mr. A. A. Dand, Manager, W. S. Bailey & Co. Ltd., Dockyard. | \n| Mr. J. Kingsley, Manager, De La Rama Steamship Co. Ltd. | \n| Mr. J. R. Collis, Bank Line (China) Ltd. | \n| Mr. John Fleming, C.A., Lowe, Bingham & Matthews, Chartered Accountants. | \n| Mr. F. Groves, American Express Co. Inc., Travel Agents. | \n| Mr. J. Finnie, Manager, Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering Co. Ltd. | \n| Mr. R. Lasala, Director, John Manners & Co. Ltd., Shipping Agents and Merchants. | \n| Professor R. Robertson, University of Hong Kong. | \n| Mr. E. R. Hill, Director, Dodwell & Co. Ltd., Shipping Agents & Importers. | \n| Mr. T. B. Wilson, General Agent, American President Lines Ltd. | \n| The Hon. Mr. A. Morse, O.B.E., Chief Manager, Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. | \n| Mr. R. G. Craig, Acting Chief Manager, Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co. Ltd. | \n| Mr. R. W. Aitken-Quack, Director, A. E. Gerondal & Co. Ltd., Shipping Agents and Importers. | \n\nPage 80 \nPage 81", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-618-7 Port Adminstation Inquiry Committee- report and minutes of meetings 1-1-1945 - 31-12-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]