[ { "id": 293928, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-167 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [1-8]", "page_number": 588, "title": "CO129-167 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [1-8]", "content_text": "582 \n\nwork to be performed in the erection of the Post Office at Shanghae, which was prepared by Robert H. Boyce, Esq., the Surveyor and Architect of the Board of Works, who has the direction and charge of the Legation and Consular buildings throughout China and Japan, under whose supervision the erection of the New Post Office at Shanghae has, with His Excellency's sanction, been placed. The tender of Chen Lee Sting for the performance of the work for $14,000 was accepted, and a further tender of $564 for the supply of Ningpo stone, as per Specification inclosed, was also accepted; these two sums and an additional $486.66 for stoves, eaves gutters, and gas pipes and fittings brought the cost of the building up to $15,050.66, upon which the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council considered it expedient to vote $16,000, so as to cover the commission payable to Mr. Boyce, and to provide for any small unforeseen outlay.\n\nI have further to report that during my recent official...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-167 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [1-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 374050, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899", "page_number": 123, "title": "CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899", "content_text": "Liverpool School of Pathology\n\nThompson Yates Laboratories\n\n11 Jan 99\n\nI have much pleasure in supporting the candidature of Mr. J. H. Dancy for the post of Inspector in Hong Kong.\n\nMr. Dancy has for two years been associated with our school of Hygiene & Bacteriology and has thereby made himself thoroughly acquainted with all the modern principles of Hygiene & Infectious Diseases.\n\nIt is very rare to find Sanitary Inspectors possessing knowledge of Bacteriology. Mr. Dancy has taken out my practical class in that subject and has made himself familiar with the important methods employed in Bacteriology & Research.\n\nI am sure that the acquisition of this subject will be of the very highest importance to him in any Sanitary post. It will show him the numerous ways & the means that may be adopted to prevent infection.\n\nIn consequence, I warmly support his application.\n\n(Signed)\n\nRubert Boyce, M.B.\n\nProfessor of Pathology\n\nBacteriologist to the Liverpool Corporation\n\nPathologist, Royal Infirmary, Fellow of University College, London.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493079, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "page_number": 432, "title": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "content_text": "H.B.M. Office of Works,\n\nShanghai, September 26th, 1922.\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by my Board to place myself in communication with Your Excellency on the subject of the British Post Office Buildings at Shanghai and to request Your Excellency's views as to the manner of disposing of the buildings after they cease to be used for Post Office purposes on December 1st next.\n\nThe original Post Office building stands on ground which was leased by the Imperial Government for nine hundred and ninety-nine years to the Hongkong Government at a peppercorn rent by virtue of an Agreement dated 18th of March, 1875, between Mr. Robert Henry Boyce of Shanghai acting on behalf of H.M. First Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings and Sir Arthur Kennedy, C.M.G., Governor of Hongkong.\n\nThere is also an extension which stands on ground belonging to H.M. Government and rented by the Hong Kong Government at Taels 100.00 per mensem by Agreement dated 6th of December, 1905.\n\nThe lease was considered cancelled when the Shanghai Post Office was transferred from the Hongkong Administration to the Imperial Government on January 1st, 1911, from which date the rent ceased to be paid.\n\nIn 1917 the British Postmaster at Shanghai terminated his occupancy of the flat on the upper floor and the premises were leased as offices, with the consent of the Hongkong Government, to Messrs. White-Cooper and Master, who continue to rent them on a monthly tenancy at Taels 150 per mensem, the rent being paid to the Hongkong Government through the British Postmaster.\n\nHis Excellency\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government,\n\nHongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493089, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "page_number": 442, "title": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "content_text": "423\n\nARTICLES OF AGREEMENT made and entered into this eighteenth day of March One thousand eight hundred and Seventy five BETWEEN ROBERT HENRY BOYCE of Shanghai in the Empire of China Assistant Surveyor of works acting for and on behalf of Her Majesty's First Commissioner of works and Buildings London (hereinafter called the Landlord) of the one part and SIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, K.C.M.G., C.B., for himself and his successors as Governor of Hongkong and its Dependencies for and on behalf of Her Majesty Queen Victoria of the other part (hereinafter called the tenant) THE said Landlord hereby agrees to let and the said tenant hereby agrees to take and rent for the term of nine hundred and ninety nine years to commence from the first day of April One thousand eight hundred and seventy four ALL THAT piece or parcel of ground situate on the British Concession at Shanghai aforesaid being a portion of the ground known as the \"Old Jail Lot\" and numbered Lot Five hundred and eighty one Registered Five hundred and seventy four in the British Consular Register for the Port of Shanghai delineated and colored in the Plan drawn in the margin hereof, measuring on the North and South sides One hundred and ten feet and on the East and West sides Sixty four feet and a half (be the same several admeasurements little more or less) and bounded on the North by the Peking Road on the South by the remaining portion of the \"Old Jail Lot\", on the East by the Upper Yuen Ming Yuen Road and on the West by private property Together with all easements and appurtenances to the said premises belonging or in anywise appertaining YIELDING AND PAYING\n\nUPPER YUEN MING YUEN ROAD\n\n110 feet\n\nSITE FOR BRITISH\n\nPOST OFFICE\n\nOld Jail Lot\n\n64½ feet\n\nRemaining portion of\n\nLot letting under Her Majesty's Government\n\nPrivate property\n\nASIATIC\n\nSociety's House", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493091, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "page_number": 444, "title": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "content_text": "ASA \n\nbima erit gaiTLÓ TROY VIOve bra „vitaey,bebræab ti toleradt 18q Jasa Is [(ob neoixell eno Yo star [ertimon acid de dret MTOJ art neewded bra yd beera reddruk vdazed at +1 (MA moza tart you of ni Jart pažvel{0} Termam ni ajavad naitzaq blas anonim raditaťér rovnosðaðir sömumosuus kas anxat estar Lis nt rajtasted so bugradio won naturaedito mo sa lomao). Laqiskuch to Toatedá dzoq yim to soulmurq bins add nogs begrado eď srit gairah yam Jadi scożJoere to mathlimm adt to yra croqu bne bing ed (ladu toured) bodoate re #lind að støð hinu don (Carla degent, selà duelt „önneT hinn seld yf bagradsuih of FosteŃð Jing yrs to sealmeɛg binu sit do fraber za minua bien est vqueDG TO BEN 20 zeveosende entouraq TO Montag yns Seau eď od amma acid zoY7am to Toererið dinq yrs to seelserą trọt duiting a Yo suoqtaq edź zo? mundié satwiodło balqdoo to ake to brofbeni bina adi Yo Irwanoo exit toodi kw mo¿170 bine art manžeď bemiga reddunt qdered at #2 (MA uro BHODDEM [[ada amperag reqong radio (in beta bro [brend add Jarlź welding \n\nbisa adt to Jusuper selà de amað hinu gelź yakınb amið bisa act Ya ensaí a studera anglesa to erassecem ald \n\nweld beta akarud bakbodna eza na surat omne aɗt nogi montmore [(a nisao (lade biaserola as bažudeze ed of oe asani bisa \n\naɗ yan na aaoiðibros bus adneemvos saune to Lasma ben TOGOTE oto anaimarq bina sdt galzumna Tadded rot stinkoper bemmeb SYANJA (FIVORS argilene best viberscoon siri Fram? kino ndë bavraket yðarað Fruft add 11 Jurić beerga y lanesque už #1 bes vna zadła wyeb acco, ytreamed. To anoqa allà vì błaquar að mein ni to bing med svari od drĺzao ami moetode syab och Yo \n\nbne enoidibnoo to yns to sorteartofieques to dosení add to \n\nFrerel bine ndë to drug add no beniadron nierad så \n\nbise art to? [df?wnlod [Lucia 31 amp2nne bee aroseecome ald \n\nTo sol770 mid ni stansecoue aid to soyal yemed Fred of avijajnomezqat betnjogge yĽub ade reddo tO TOTSTIDĚ ŽrsJOİNRÁ #gnibliud brte eźrow Yo TanałunkmoƆ Jurk¤ a1ydoożall vell Yo \n\nTo nesimatą bine arið moqu bra otni zadînarocké aut \n\nadd bra tadneert od a forfe self to samit adlá ml Tostadź duq yo \n\nTell to ↑ [sdad no baa tot aasaaoqet bas miega sveď od \n\n425 \n\nMajesty's First Commissioner of works for the time being, anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding and thereupon all interest right title and claim of the said Tenant his successore and assigns in or to the said premises or any part thereof or in or to any buildings or Structure of whatsoever description that may be upon the said ground shall thereupon cesse and determine. AS WITNESS the hands of the said parties \n\nWitness to the signature of \n\n(Sd.) \n\nRobt. H. Boyce. \n\nRobert Henry Boyce \n\n(Ed.) A. W. Hewlett, \n\nR.M. Consular Service. \n\nWitness to the signature of Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy K.C.M.G., C.B. \n\n(Sd.) Edmund Sharp, \n\nCrow Solicitor, \n\nHongkong. \n\n(Sd.) \n\nA. E. Kennedy, \n\nGovernor, Hongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 598003, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-625-3 Hong Kong University- rehabilitation (1950) 1-1-1950 - 31-1-1951", "page_number": 165, "title": "CO129-625-3 Hong Kong University- rehabilitation (1950) 1-1-1950 - 31-1-1951", "content_text": "SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, THURSDAY, MARCH\n\n'VARSITY CONGREGATION NEW BUILDING\n\nDEGREES CONFERRED\n\nImpressive Ceremony In War-Scarred, Roofless Great Hall\n\nFIRST SINCE LIBERATION\n\nIn the war-scarred, roofless Great Hall of Hong Kong University yesterday, the first official Congregation since the liberation was held in the presence of a large and distinguished gathering. His Excellency the Governor and Chancellor, Sir Alexander Grantham, conferred forty degrees, many of which were wartime. Three awards were posthumous.\n\nUNIVERSITY MACE\n\nDr L. T. Ride, Vice-Chancellor, in his speech at the University Congregation yesterday, referred to the Mace which was stolen from the University library in February, 1945. The makers had been traced, he said, and a photograph had been taken of a newspaper cutting which depicted the Mace. An exact replica, he added, would cost $10,000.\n\nDuring tea, after the official opening of the new School, Mr Leung Yew promised Dr Ride a donation of $10,000 towards the cost of the Mace, it is learned. Mr Leung took part in the official Procession at the Congregation.\n\nfine arts, and music has place within our academic walls\n\nFor years we have been all too conscious of this formidable list of deficiencies, and before the war my predecessor Dr Sloss started the huge task of dealing with it. With renewed and amazing vigour he tackled it again after the war, and largely as the result of this, plus the keenness and enthusiasm of our present staff, I am optimistic enough to predict that before the next Congregation...\n\nArchitecture School Opened\n\nBY GOVERNOR\n\nFollowing the Congregation at the University yesterday, His Excellency the Governor, with the turn of a gold key, opened the new Duncan Sloss School of Engineering and Architecture in Pokfulam Road.\n\nThe building, which is very simple and neat, is of three floors with the basement used for hydraulics. The ground and first floors are for engineering and the top for architecture.\n\nMessrs Harry Way and G.A.V. Hall, the architects, were introduced to His Excellency.\n\nOn view in the various rooms were exhibits which included a model of the proposed new Ho Tung Hall for a women's hostel, the Henry Yeung collection, some objects of Chinese art from the University Museum, a bas-relief bust of Dr Duncan Sloss and a model plan of the University grounds.\n\nVisitors inspected the building and tea was served.\n\nThe Band of 3 Commando Brigade, R. M., rendered a programme of appropriate selections both at the Congregation and at the opening ceremony.\n\nIn the course of his address, the Vice-Chancellor, Dr L. T. Ride, said that whatever our creed, whatever our standard of learning, \"surely in this year of grace 1950 it is to the advantage of humanity as a whole that there should remain in the Far East yet one institution of higher learning where freedom of thought still exists, where freedom of expression is not at the mercy of any one political party and where freedom to choose one's beliefs remains unthreatened by an iron fist or untrammelled by a curtain, be it of iron or bamboo. That is the justification of a British University in Hongkong.\"\n\nSeated on the dais on His Excellency's right were Dr L. T. Ride (Vice-Chancellor), Mr Malcolm Macdonald (Visiting Chancellor from Malaya), Prof. S. M. Banfill (Dean of Medicine), Prof. R. K. M. Simpson (Dean of Arts), Lt-Gen Sir E. C. Robert Mansergh, the Hon. R. R. Todd, Bishop Valtorta, the Hon B. C. K. Hawkins, the Hon D. F. Landale, the Hon T. N. Chau and the Hon E. A. Boyce. On the Governor's left were the Hon Sir Arthur Morse, Prof. F. A. Redmond (Dean of Engineering), Prof. D. F. Davies (Dean of Science), Mr B. Mellor (Registrar), Bishop Follows, the Hon C.G.S. Follows, the Hon S. N. Chau, the Hon Sir Man-kam Lo and Dr the Hon I. Newton. Also on the dais were members of the Court and Senate and senior Staff members.\n\nIn the front row of the audience sat Lady Grantham, Lady Morse, Prof. Edwards, Miss Dorothy Ride, Mrs Scott, Mrs Banfill, Mrs Redmond, Mr Cassels, Mr C. J. R. Dawson, ADC, and Capt J. Baker, ADC.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor with Dr L. T. Ride, Vice-Chancellor (left) and Mr G. A. V. Hall, architect (right) after opening the new Duncan Sloss School of Engineering and Architecture. — (Staff Photographer).\n\nDr Ride, addressing the gathering, said: This is the 38th Congregation of our University, and the first official Congregation held in this building since May, 1941. It is customary on these occasions for the Vice-Chancellor to review the salient activities of the University since its Congregation last met; but nine years is a large proportion of the life of a University barely 40 years old, so I do not propose to-day to attempt to cover in detail the vicissitudes of the University during all that period. I shall confine my remarks in the main to what I consider the most outstanding and supremely important outcome of the trial of war.\n\nI believe that from this veritable test of fire this University has emerged, firmly established in its own right, as an integral, permanent and valuable, though small, part of the community of Hongkong; and I believe it has attained this status not merely through the wise deliberations of the influential citizens who serve on its governing bodies, but through the solid achievements of those trained within its walls.\n\nA university presents to its members a way of life, and we in the British Empire believe that our way of life, founded on Christian principles, has something to offer to perplexed humanity. If ever the world needed it, it needs it now, as Osbert Sitwell has said: \"Of wolf-and-buffalo politics, where to howl over your prey is to be realistic, where to bellow is to prove strength, and to whine is to show grace: the world in which we sull—but only just—survive: the world in which the sabre-toothed tiger and the ant are each paragons and the butterfly is doomed for its wings, which are uneconomical...\n\nBritish Way of Life\n\nThe University is here, not to force any particular political, religious, social, economical, or scientific beliefs on its students, but to make available to those who so choose, the advantages they may find in the British way of life and learning.\n\nWhen we start talking about standards of University degrees, we are on very debatable ground. In general, no standards are laid down; a university fixes its own, but in some of the professions there are definite standards; for example, in medicine a very rigid standard is set for the protection of the public by a statutory body known as the General Medical Council.\n\nIn engineering, there is no such legal yardstick, but each year standards are checked by the Department sending the examination papers to London University for assessment by their professors.\n\nThe Fine Arts\n\nBut in the other sciences and the arts we have no such outside help, and the departments concerned are more at the mercy of local university conditions, mainly financial.\n\nIt is only fair to the citizens of the Colony that claims for assistance in the higher education of its people should receive equal consideration by the Colonial Office with the claims from other colonies.\n\nDr Ride continued, \"We have never lacked critics. I admit here and now, without shame, that in those years just prior to the war, our final year students were of their number: I often asked myself: 'What useful purpose do we serve here in Hong Kong.' My head wagged in unison with those who doubted whether we were fulfilling any really useful purpose in this community, whether the result of our efforts was worth the outlay.\n\nAbundance of Critics\n\nIn this, as in other things, it is fortunate that we have had the guidance of our academic and administrative staff, and further, the solid achievements of those trained within our walls.\n\nThe University has therefore made application to the Colonial Office for an allocation from the sum set aside under the Colonial Development and Welfare Act 1945. Our request was placed before the Inter-University Council for Higher Education in the Colonies for their recommendations.\n\nIt is expected that these visitors will arrive in the very near future.\n\nDr Sun Yat-sen, in a speech on February 20, 1923, said, \"It is a place where students, through close association with their teachers, learn to apply the knowledge of the past to the problems of the present and future, and thus become, by the attainment of a recognised standard of general and technical education, useful citizens of their community.\"\n\nA university exists for the benefit of the community and not merely for the instruction of a few selected individuals.\n\nIn the course of his address, Dr Ride said, \"This blue-print for a University gives the architect a very wide scope, but in other words, the instruction broadens the field for the critic. The loose usage locally of the term 'student' has recently been the subject of just comment by the Director of Education.\n\nA student is one who is matriculated in, or otherwise admitted to, an institution of higher education.\n\nThe conception we in the British Empire have of a university, like many other things British, has undergone numerous changes, some gradual, some radical, through the centuries.\n\nAt an International Conference held at Utrecht in August, 1948, the \"Role of a University\" was one of the major subjects for discussion.\n\nDr Ride said, \"I would put to you that the definition by which we should judge a university should at least be extended somewhat as follows: It is a place where students, through close association with their teachers, learn to apply the knowledge of the past to the problems of the present and future, and thus become, by the attainment of a recognised standard of general and technical education, useful citizens of their community.\"\n\n(Contd. on Page 10, Col. 2)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-625-3 Hong Kong University- rehabilitation (1950) 1-1-1950 - 31-1-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]