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X \n\n[8] The Graband \n\n1166", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-103 - Others - 1864.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 280710, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869", "page_number": 192, "title": "CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869", "content_text": "186\n\nB\n\nM\n\npropose going to day to Faringdon\n\nHadley\n\nHurday While I go Lord Wrothesley's. Writer lay\n\n4. Wolverhampton\n\nI have the honour to be\n\nSi\n\nGreen Obedient Servant\n\nR\n\nA\n\nTΩ\n\nT\n\nDEX.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 305441, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-187 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [1-4]", "page_number": 182, "title": "CO129-187 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [1-4]", "content_text": "## Prize Distribution\n\n**4th Class, 1st Division**\n\n- A Silva, for General Improvement, \"Stories of Birds,\" presented by Honourable J. Russell; \n- B. Vieira, for Good Conduct, \"Webster's Dictionary,\" presented by Rev. Father Sainz, Spanish Procuration; \n- C. Hynn, for Religious Instruction, a Pen and Kaleidoscope, presented by Mr. Noronha; \n- F. Aguir, for Arithmetic, a Dictionary, presented by Dr. Stewart; \n- J. Vieira, for Religious Instruction, a Dictionary, presented by Father Sainz, and for Arithmetic, a Gold Pencil Case, presented by Mr. Belilios; and for Home Work, a Book, \"Mousters of the Deep,\" presented by Mr. Kwok Acheong; \n- G. Ranciman, for Reading, a Penknife, presented by Dr. Stewart; \n- T. Masso, for Reading, a Gold Pencil Case, presented by Mr. Belilios; \n- G. Thomas, for Orthography, a Book, \"Life Among the Indians,\" presented by Dr. Stewart; \n- James Grimes, for Writing, a Book, \"Life Among the Indians,\" presented by the Brothers; \n- G. Gutierez, for Writing, a Book, \"Tales of Kings and Queens,\" presented by the Director; \n- W. Rose, for General Improvement, a Gold Pencil Case, presented by Mr. Belilios.\n\n## Class Prizes\n\n### 1st Class, 2nd Division\n- A Castro, for Mental Arithmetic, a Silver Medal, presented by Mr. Sharp; \n- M. Souza, for Geography and Writing, a Silver Medal, presented by Mr. Coxon (Consul for Belgium); \n- M. Pereira, for Arithmetic, \"Webster's Dictionary,\" presented by Doctor Stewart; \n- C. Castro, for Analysis and Parsing, Chamber's Dictionary of English Language, presented by Deputy Inspector-General Breeu.\n\n### 2nd Class, 1st Division\n- F. Braga, for General Improvement, a Gold Medal, presented by Mr. Plichon, Consul for France; and a prize for Chinese, by Dr. Eitel; \n- H. Rozario, for Grammar, a Silver Medal, presented by Dr. Gomes; \n- C. Oemand, for Composition, \"Ogilvie's English Dictionary,\" presented by Mr. Justice Francis; \n- B. Remedios, for Arithmetic, a Silver Medal, presented by Honourable J. Russell; \n- F. Soares, for Grammar, \"Webster's Dictionary,\" presented by Mr. Kwok Acheong; \n- G. George, for Arithmetic, a Book, \"Living Pages from many Ages,\" presented by Honourable P. Ryrie, and a Book, \"Longfellow's Prose Works,\" for Orthography, presented by Mr. Fleming; \n- P. Assis, for Religious Instruction, \"History of America,\" presented by Rev. Father Borghignoli, and \"The Sea and its Wonders,\" presented by Mr. Loureiro, Consul for Portugal; \n- C. Ozerio, for Geography, a Pen Case, presented by Mr. Noronha; \n- J. Braga, for Geography, an Inkstand, presented by the Italian Consul; \n- F. Britto, for Good Conduct, a Book, \"Cruise of the Frolic,\" presented by Honourable P. Ryrie.\n\n### 2nd Class, 2nd Division\n- G. da Costa, for Arithmetic, a Pencil and Kaleidoscope, presented by Mr. Noronha; \n- A. Ribeiro, for Arithmetic, a Gold Pencil Case, presented by Mr. Belilios; \n- A. Adams, for English, a Gold Medal, presented by H.E. the Governor.\n\n### 3rd Class, 1st Division\n- F. Jesus, for English, a Book, \"Parlour Menagerie,\" presented by Mr. Justice Francis; \n- P. Sonza, for Arithmetic, a Gold Pencil Case, presented by Mr. Belilios; \n- C. Barradas, for Arithmetic, a Book, \"Tales of the Sea,\" presented by Mr. George; \n- F. d'Almada, for Grammar, a Book, \"Little Folks Holiday Album,\" presented by Portuguese Consul, and for Dictation, a Gold Pencil Case, presented by the Director; \n- J. Prestage, for Reading, a Book, \"The Manners and Customs of the World,\" presented by Mr. George; \n- J. Brandão, for Good Conduct, a Book, \"Stories for the Household,\" presented by Honourable P. Ryrie; \n- J. Mesny, for General Improvement, a Silver Medal, presented by Mr. Newton; \n- A. Barradas, for Christian Doctrine, a Gold Pen, presented by Mr. Belilios; \n- C. Carvalho, for Mental Arithmetic, a Book, \"Three Years at Wolverhampton,\" presented by the Italian Consul; \n- E. Sequeira, for Writing, an Inkstand, presented by the Honourable J. Russell; \n- A. da Costa, for Regular Attendance, a Book, \"Nugae Syricae,\" presented by the Italian Consul; \n- B. Braga, for Parsing, a Dictionary, presented by Rev. Father Sainz, Spanish Procuration; \n- J. Leon, for Home-tasks, a Book, presented by Mr. A. G. Romano, Consul for Brazil.\n\n### 5th Class\n- E. Adams, for Reading, a Dictionary, presented by the Brothers; \n- H. Campos, for Arithmetic, a Dictionary, presented by the Brothers; \n- J. Remedios, for Writing, a Colour Box, presented by Mr. Belilios; \n- W. Foley, for Reading, a Penknife, presented by Mr. Noronha; \n- M. Barradas, for Arithmetic, a Dictionary, presented by Father Sainz; \n- L. Rosario, for Writing, a Gold Pencil Case, presented by Mr. Belilios; \n- M. Dauenberg, for Orthography, a Colour Box, presented by Mr. Belilios; \n- L. Rose, for Orthography, a Gold Pencil Case, presented by Mr. Belilios; \n- G. Tavares, for Arithmetic, an English and French Dictionary, presented by the Brothers; \n- L. Assis, for General Improvement, a Dictionary; \n- P. Gomes, for Good Conduct and Application, a Book, \"Life among the Indians,\" presented by Honourable J. Russell; \n- F. Sequeira, for Reading, a Book, \"Narratives and Dialogues,\" presented by Dr. Stewart.\n\n### 6th Class\n- C. Gutierrez, for Writing, a Colour Box, presented by Mr. Belilios; \n- S. Figueiredo, for Spelling, a Book, \"Columbus and Laperouse,\" presented by the Brothers; \n- D. da Costa, for Arithmetic, a Book, \"Catholic Legions\"; \n- I. Placido, for Reading, \"Story of Christian Heroism\"; \n- L. Brass, for Religious Instruction, \"Tales of Enterprises\"; \n- V. Musso, for Good Conduct, a Gold Pencil Case, presented by Mr. Belilios; \n- B. Fasso, for Reading, a Gold Pencil Case, presented by Mr. Belilios.\n\n## Chinese Class Prizes\n\n| Student Name | Prize | Presented By |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Leung Ah Mong | \"Worcester's Dictionary,\" an Ornamental Inkstand, a Drawing Box | Honourable Ng Choy |\n| Luy Chin Un | A Drawing Box and a Box of Colours | Rev. Brother Leo |\n| Hing Shang | \"Pictures from Bible Lands\" | Mr. A. G. Romano, Brazilian Consul |\n| Lam Shing Man | Silver Medal | His Lordship the Bishop |\n| Leung Aur | Drawing Box | Brother Idanaelis |\n| Tuò Ah Sing | Silver Medal | His Lordship |\n| Kan Shang | \"Stories of Animal Sagacity\" | Kwok Acheong |\n| Wong Wing Kwong | Chinese and English Dictionary | Mr. Noronha |\n| He Kam Uu | Chinese and English Dictionary | Doctor Eitel |\n| Ng Au | Chinese and English Dictionary | Mr. Noronha |\n| Leung Chin Im | Silver Watch | Opium Farmer |\n| Acheung | Silver Pencil Case | Opium Farmer |\n| A Ngo | Silver Pencil Case | Opium Farmer |\n| Wong Wing Kee | Knife | Opium Farmer |\n| A Foon | Silver Pencil Case | Opium Farmer |\n| Tso Aching | \"Parlour Menagerie\" | Opium Farmer |\n| Ng Hing Shan | \"Parlour Menagerie\" and a Watch | Opium Farmer |\n| Leung Aut | \"Parlour Menagerie\" | Opium Farmer |\n| Lain Shang Nan | \"Parlour Menagerie\" | Opium Farmer |\n| Fung Tio Sek | Penknife | Opium Farmer |\n| Ma Wan Nek | Penknife | Opium Farmer |\n\nPage 179\n\nHis EXCELLENCY then said—My lord, ladies and gentlemen,—I have now discharged the pleasing task of distributing the prizes which the pupils have obtained upon the examination of Dr. EITEL, the Government Inspector of Schools. I need hardly say that no one in this Colony is better qualified than Dr. EITEL to test the proficiency of scholars. It affords me peculiar gratification to be present here to-day to take part with all of you in seeing the result of the instruction given by the Christian Brothers. As his Lordship has said, it is the first time that this school has come under our Government grant-in-aid system although that system was established in 1873. The difficulties to which his Lordship referred have been happily surmounted, and Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH, in the decision he gave, has caused universal satisfaction throughout the Colony to the School managers and the parents of the pupils.\n\nIt is true his predecessor, Lord CARNARVON, addressed to me a despatch desiring me to ask the Bishop how it came to pass that in this Colony the Roman Catholic schools were not accepting any aid from the Government. Accordingly, a letter was addressed to the Bishop conveying the instructions I had received from Lord CARNARVON. The Bishop, in answering, went minutely into the objections that he and other managers of schools took to the grant-in-aid scheme, for it did so happen that he did not stand alone in the objections that he raised to it. At the very same time that his Lordship objected to the scheme as it then stood, the head of the Berlin Mission, Pastor KLITZKE, his successor during his absence, Pastor Louis, and our late Colonial Chaplain, Mr. Kron, also came to me and stated their objections to the scheme. Those objections were reduced to writing and duly transmitted by me to Her Majesty's Government. They turned mainly on one point, that the scheme insisted that certain books to be used in the schools should be secular books and that four hours a day should be given to purely secular instruction. They said, \"Let us teach our schools as we ourselves and the parents of the children think best, teaching according to the standards fixed upon by the Government; let the Government select the subjects, let Government select its own Inspectors and Examiners and give the grant-in-aid according to the result of their inspection and examination, but do not tie us down to any specified class of books or four hours of secular teaching.\" Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH considered these objections, and of the ten points raised by the Bishop, he instructed me to grant seven, the other three being points of a different character, one of them relating to the two hundred attendances. I shall convey to the Secretary of State the cordial acknowledgments which the Bishop has made publicly to-day to Her Majesty's Government for what Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH has done. I shall also not fail to consider most carefully the Bishop's observations with respect to the two hundred attendances. It is a fact that at Singapore there is a different rule, and indeed the rule in England also on that subject is different. It is also, perhaps, a reasonable statement to make that whilst it may be perfectly fair to expect two hundred attendances from a Chinese boy, to expect the same from a European boy in this climate may not be equally fair. However, I shall consider that question.\n\nThe school we are now assembled in is therefore enjoying a grant-in-aid, and the question arises, what does the Government get from this school, what advantage will Her Majesty's Government derive from the grant-in-aid given in this and similar institutions? I admit at once it is the duty of the State to assist education, but I think it is especially our duty in this Colony to assist in giving a sound English education. It was therefore satisfactory to see that the young gentleman who read out the list of prizes so clearly got a first prize. His correct enunciation showed how well he deserves it. Dr. EITEL has reported that as far as English speaking goes, of all the schools he has been examining he regards this as the best; in arithmetic, he reports highly of his examination, and also in the art of handwriting. In other words, the English speaking, the writing, and the arithmetic in this school show a sound basis for our mercantile requirements. The Inspector has also reported that the results of the teaching in Algebra and Geometry are excellent. But there is one defect to which I venture, as I have received a report on the subject officially, to call the attention of the teachers, and that is in English Composition. Now, it arises, I believe, not so much from the fault of the teachers as from the fact that the pupils are mostly young gentlemen of the Portuguese race. I observe my friend Mr. LOUREIRO, the Portuguese Consul, here. He sees a majority of apparently Portuguese youth in this school; but I claim them from him as British subjects, because, although they are of the Portuguese race, they have been born in the Colony and therefore it is only their fathers or grandfathers he has charge of; I have official charge of these young gentlemen.\n\nIn the address which my young friend ALMADA read, I have been invited to give the scholars advice. Acting on that invitation, I therefore recommend that they should endeavour of all things to improve their English Composition. We all know what admirable clerks the young Portuguese make, we know how accurately they keep their accounts, how clear is their handwriting; and we know their other good points—fidelity, punctuality, and the courtesy that arises from a natural disposition to please—but they are defective in English Composition, and it is a most important thing in this Colony that they should pay attention to it, and that in this respect they should show they are equal to any other youths in Hongkong. I would therefore advise them to establish some organisation or society among themselves where they might read little essays in English and discuss them, and also to endeavour to form a library of English authors, not so much of instructive as of entertaining books; by reading these books and writing essays they might gain the skill they require in English Composition. I am sure in giving that advice, from what I have seen of the prizes to-day, I am only doing what the donors of the prizes would like. I find among the prizes some contributed by Dr. STEWART, the Head Master of the Central School, and all the prizes he has given are prizes pointing in that direction, to the teaching and studying of English.\n\nOwing to the munificence of my generous friend, Mr. BELILIOS, there is established in this Colony now a series of scholarships. The Honourable Mr. RYRIE, Dr. EITEL, and the Governor of the Colony are the trustees of the `BELILIOS Scholarships`. Some of these will be devoted to giving medical instruction to Chinese, which I hope to see accomplished by means of the native physicians at the Tung Wah Hospital in combination with a teacher of western medical science. Some of the scholarships go to the Central School; and some to this school. I advise the pupils who may compete for the `BELILIOS scholarships` to endeavour to work beyond the sixth standard, to remain a little longer at school, and to give their attention in the direction I have been pointing, namely, to English composition and English literature.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-187 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421181, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "page_number": 491, "title": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "content_text": "# Head Quarters, North Midland Divl. Artillery, T.F.\n\n401\n\nWith reference to the attached letter from the Commandant Hong Kong Volunteer Corps, handed to me personally by Sergeant A. J. Darby, of No. 3, Artillery Company of the above mentioned Corps, I have the honour to report that I have no objection to this N.C.O. being attached to the Brigade under my Command.\n\nSergeant Darby, besides performing drills here, is also desirous of attending Annual Training with this Brigade, and as this involves certain expenses, it is requested that authority may be obtained to cover the cost of travelling to and from Fleetwood, and also for Pay and Messing Allowance whilst at Camp.\n\nThis case being without precedent in my Brigade, I shall be glad if full instructions can be given.\n\n**(SGD) H. A. ORME. Major.** \nFor Officer Commanding 3rd North Midland Brigade R.F.A.\n\nWolverhampton, \n12th May, 1909.\n\n## Headquarters, North Midland Division.\n\nForwarded **(Sąd.) F. S. Watson, Capt.** \nFor Colonel, Commanding N.M. Divl. Artillery.\n\nStafford, \n14. 5. 1909.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421183, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "page_number": 493, "title": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "content_text": "## Head Quarters, North Midland Division.\n\n6. No vacancy exists for Sergeant Darby to fill.\n\nAs he will only be attached for about 9 months it is not intended to displace any other Sergeant in order to train this N.C.Officer.\n\n(SGD) N. JERVIS. Capt. R.F.A. \nFor Commanding 3rd North Midland Brigade. R.F.A. \nWolverhampton, \n24. 5. 1909.\n\n## 7. Head Quarters, Northern Command,\n\nReference Minute 4. There is no vacancy for this N.C.O.\n\n(SGD) G. W. F. MILNE. Colonel. \nFor G.O.C. N. Midland Division. \nLichfield, \n25. 5. 1909.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421184, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "page_number": 494, "title": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "content_text": "## \n\nD \n\nFrom | To \n---------|-----\n | The Commandant, H. K. V. C. | Officer Commanding, 1st Shropshire and Staffordshire Territorial Artillery.\n\n484 \n\nHong Kong, 25th February, 1909. \n\nSir, \n\nSergeant A. J. Darby No. 3 Artillery Company Hong Kong Volunteer Corps, proceeds to England on 2nd March on 12 months' leave of absence. \n\nThis N. C. O is desirous of being attached to the Corps under your command during his stay in England. \n\nIf you have no objection will you kindly communicate with him on the subject. \n\nHis address is:- Stonely House, Penn Road, Wolverhampton. \n\nI have, &c., \n\n**(SGD) ARTHUR CHAPMAN. Lieut. Colonel, Commandant H. K. Volunteer Corps.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421185, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "page_number": 495, "title": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "content_text": "4844\n\n**Officer Commanding, \n4th Staffs. Battery, R. F. A.**\n\nHave you any objection to this Sergeant being attached to your Battery please.\n\n**(SGD) N. JERVIS. Captain R.F.A.** \n**For Commanding 3rd North Mid. Bde. R.F.A.** \n\nWolverhampton, \n6th May, 1909.\n\n**Adjutant, \n3rd N. Mid. Bde. R.F.A.**\n\nI have no objection to this attachment.\n\n**(SGD) H. A. ORME. Major.** \n**Commanding IV Staffs. Battery, \nTerritorial Field Artillery.** \n\nWolverhampton, \n6th May, 1909.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434419, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 420, "title": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## SECTION 1\n\n### No. 1\n\nSir,\n\nMr. Coales to Foreign Office.--(Received February 11.)\n\n4, Avenue Road, Wolverhampton, February 9, 1911.\n\nI HAVE the honour to submit some notes on the progress of the opium campaign in the Chinese provinces of Kansu and Hsin Chiang made during my recent journey across Asia.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nOLIVER R. COATES, 1st Assistant.\n\n### Enclosure in No. 1\n\n#### Notes on the Progress of the Opium Campaign in North-west Kansu and the Hsin Chiang\n\nTHE last notes I sent to Sir A. Hosie dealt with the Hsining prefecture and neighbouring districts of Kansu. From Hsining I crossed the Nan Shan to Kanchou and then followed the main road as far as Anhsi Chou, whence I crossed the desert to Hami. With the exception of a small district at the foot of the Nan Shan, where I saw the poppy in bloom, the opium harvest had been collected long before my arrival, so I had little opportunity of personal observation.\n\nIt is no exaggeration to say that in the three districts comprising this part of Kansu, Kanchou-fu, Su Chou, and Anhsi Chou the prohibitions against opium had remained almost a dead letter. Not only had no measures been taken against the traffic in and consumption of opium, but the area under poppy appears to have been little reduced, and in Kanchou there was an actual increase.\n\nOf the three districts the officials in Kanchou appear to have been the most negligent. As we descended the lower slopes of the Nan Shan range to the prefectural city we passed through two or three small walled towns in agricultural country partly dependent on the rains and partly irrigated. Here at one town, Hung Shui, in particular I found the best lands, that is those near the river, almost entirely given up to the cultivation of the poppy. Unlike the white poppy of southern Kansu, the plant, which was in full bloom, had bright scarlet blossoms, while the capsules were smaller. Round Kanchou itself I found the dry plants still standing in many places, while fields showing the characteristic double furrow used in poppy cultivation were to be seen everywhere. The priest at the Roman Catholic Mission here confirmed what I had heard elsewhere that the area under poppy in this prefecture was larger in 1910 than in previous years. In Liangchou-fu and Su Chou he thought there had been a slight decrease, the plant being rarely seen near the main road. Chinese also said there had been a reduction at Su Chou, 40 per cent. of the former area being one of the estimates given. The magistrate whom I saw dilated strongly on the difficulty of stopping cultivation in outlying districts, but the plant seems to have been also grown along the main road, for in one small oasis I found poppy sticks heaped in abundance for winter fuel. In these districts, where cultivation is restricted to small and definite areas, supervision ought to be easier than elsewhere.\n\nAt Anhsi Chou I was told the soil is poor and saline and opium little grown. I believe this is correct. The more remote oasis of Tun-huang, where opium was formerly grown in large quantities, I was unable to visit, as it is distant several days' journey from the main road.\n\nIn Kanchou there was no restriction on the sale or consumption of opium. Shops openly advertised its sale, while even in one of the Shansi banks I found opium pipes and lamps set out for the use of visitors. Smoking was, in fact, commonly practised throughout north-west Kansu. In Su Chou and Anhsi Chou a large trade in opium is illicitly carried on with the new dominion, where importation is prohibited.\n\nPage 420\nPage 421", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 451811, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914", "page_number": 169, "title": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914", "content_text": "164 HONG KONG EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, THREE ASSISTANT MISTRESSES.\n\nThe candidate whose name is given below has been interviewed by the Selection Committee. Further details concerning her will be found in the accompanying application form.\n\n# Ethel Percy Gilbert.\n\nSt. Mary's, King's Avenue, Chichester.\n\n## NAME: Ethel Percy Gilbert.\n## ADDRESS: St. Mary's, King's Avenue, Chichester.\n## AGE: Thirty three (33) years. Born 29th October, 1880.\n\n## EDUCATION:\n| Institution | Duration |\n| --- | --- |\n| Bath High School | 1889-1899 |\n| Cambridge Training College for Secondary Teachers | September 1900-July, 1901 |\n\n## EXPERIENCE:\n- Cambridge Teachers' Diploma: Class I in Theory and Practice.\n- Diplôme de l'Alliance française à Bordeaux, 1910.\n- Southfields, Allenwood School, 1901-1902.\n- Leicester, Granville House School, 1902-1904.\n- Wolverhampton, Tettenhall Road, The Beeches, 1904 (6 months).\n- Dundee, Broughty Ferry, Gartlands School, 1905-1907.\n- Clower, St. Stephen's High School, 1907-1908.\n- Folkestone St. Nicholas, September 1908 - July, 1909.\n- Bordeaux, Ecole Normale Caudéran, October 1909-July, 1910. *\"Répétitrice au pair\"*.\n- Gloucester, Girls' High School, September 1910-July, 1911. *Germany Assistant Mistress*.\n- Rostock, Höhere Mädchenschule, September, 1911-March, 1912. *\"Au pair\"*.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 475375, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917", "page_number": 372, "title": "CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917", "content_text": "LIK, ROSE'S TOUR.\n\nITINERARY.\n\n46, Abingdon Villas, Kensington.\n\nTele: W. Chamberlain 367\n\nMonday, February 5th, Glasgow\n\nTuesday, 6th\n\nWednesday, 7th\n\nThursday, 8th\n\nFriday, 9th\n\nSaturday, 10th, Travel to Leeds\n\nSunday, Leeds\n\nMonday, 11th, Leeds\n\nTuesday, 12th, Leeds\n\nWednesday, 13th\n\nThursday, 14th\n\nFriday, 15th\n\nSaturday, 16th, Halifax.\n\nSunday, 17th, Bradford\n\nMonday, 18th, Bradford\n\nTuesday, 19th\n\nWednesday, 20th, Bradford\n\nThursday, 21st, Bradford\n\nFriday, 22nd, Sheffield (commence 2.30)\n\nSaturday, 23rd, Sheffield\n\nSunday, 24th\n\nMonday, 25th\n\nTuesday, 26th, Manchester\n\nWednesday, 27th\n\nThursday, 28th\n\nFriday, March 1st\n\nSaturday, 2nd\n\nSunday, 3rd\n\nMonday, 4th\n\nTuesday, 5th\n\nWednesday, 6th\n\nThursday, 7th\n\nFriday, 8th (implied, not written)\n\nSaturday, 15th (implied, not written), Liverpool\n\nSunday, 16th (implied, not written), Travel to London\n\nMonday, 17th (implied, not written), Travel to Coventry\n\nTuesday, 18th (implied, not written), Coventry\n\nWednesday, 19th, Birmingham or Wolverhampton.\n\nThursday, 20th (implied, not written), Birmingham\n\nFriday, 21st (implied, not written), Birmingham\n\nSaturday, 22nd (implied, not written)\n\nSunday, 23rd (implied, not written)\n\nMonday, 24th\n\nTuesday, 25th\n\nWednesday, 26th, Leicester\n\nThursday, 27th\n\nFriday, 28th, half-day\n\nSaturday, 29th (implied, not written), 30th (implied, not written), 31st, Nottingham\n\nTravel to (destination not specified)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 475885, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-447 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [1-3]", "page_number": 249, "title": "CO129-447 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [1-3]", "content_text": "# \n## \nI, **HORACE PERCY SMITH**, of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, Chartered Accountant, do solemnly, sincerely and truly declare and say as follows:-\n\n1. I am a natural born British subject, having been born in Wolverhampton, England, of British parentage.\n\n2. I am a householder in, and a Justice of the Peace for, the Colony of Hongkong.\n\n3. I have read the Memorial and Petition of **Hackertich Cyril Owen** for a Certificate of Naturalization dated the 14th day of November 1917 now produced and shown to me and I verily believe that all the statements therein are true and that the said **Hackertich Cyril Owen** is a person of very good character and loyal to the British Crown.\n\n4. I have been well acquainted with the said **Mackertich Cyril Owen** for the last fourteen years.\n\n5. I am not the Agent for, nor am I connected with the said **Mackertich Cyril Owen**.\n\nAnd lastly I make this solemn declaration, conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the Provisions of the Statutory Declarations Act 1835.\n\nDECLARED at Victoria Hongkong, ) this 16th day of November, 1917.\n\nBefore me, \n(sd.) **Crae. L. Wilkinson**, \nNotary Public, \nHongkong.\n\n(sd.) **Horace Percy Smith**.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-447 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 478699, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "page_number": 164, "title": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "content_text": "## EX-OFFICERS.\n\n### Medical Notes.\n\n| No. | Regt. | Age. | Medical Notes. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| D.O.798 | R.E. | 29 | Good |\n| D.O.798 | K.O.Y.L.I. | 24 | Good |\n| D.O.840 | London. | 26 | Fair |\n| D.O.853 | Leicester Yoo. | 28 | Good |\n| D.O.871 | R.F.A. | 28 | Good |\n| D.O.1091 | R.E. | 28 | Fair |\n| D.O.1097 | A.O.C. | 28 | Good |\n| D.O.1127 | Cambridge. | 30 | Fair |\n\nB.Q. D.06.-29.7.18.\n\n### EX-OFFICERS.\n\n| No. | Rank. | Regt | Age. | Medical Notes. | Qualifications and Previous Employment. | Present Locality. | O.U.T.C. Courses, |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| D.O.1161 | Sergt. Maj. | 39 | 38 | Good | | London. | A.S.C. M.T. |\n| D.O.1179 | Trooper | S.A.F. | 35 | Fair | Ed. privately. Apprentice mechanical engineering. 1 yr. Italy, 1 yr. Germany. yrs. engineer (motor) to R.A.C., Pall Mall. 1 yr. on own account, India. Joined Army at outbreak of war. [Hindustani, French.] | Yorkshire. | |\n| D.O.1180 | 2nd Lieut. | R.E. | 61 | Good | Ed. privately. 4 yrs. apprentice to Redditch Gas Co. 2 yrs. engaged with Mexbro. Gas Co., Maltby Ons Co., and Brighton Gas Co. (gas engineering). | Essex, | |\n| D.O.1205 | Lieut. | B.G.A. | 25 | Good. Neurasthenia. | Ed. privately. 2 yrs. electrical and mechanical engineer, Electrical Installations, Ltd., London. Just completed course of engineering, Edwards & Armstrong, Stroud, Glos. | Warwick. | |\n| D.O.1224 | Lieut | S. Staffs. | 24 | Good | Ed. privately. Graduate of Institute of Mechanical Engineers. Worked with Herbert Morris Ltd., Loughborough, 6 yrs. In charge of 9-2 shell forge and press shop. Hydraulic forgery, Camell Laird & Co., Nottingham, 17 mos. | Edinburgh. | |\n| D.O.1228 | Capt. | R.A.F. | 25 | Good | Ed. privately, and Edinburgh Univ. B.Sc. Engineering. 1 yr. engineer, Beale Peebles & Co. 2 yrs. engineer, Eler, Power Station Leith, and engine testing fitting Sunbeam Motor Car Co., Wolverhampton. | Northante. | |\n| D.O.1282 | Capt. | R. Fus. | 56 | Good | Ed. Dever. Malines Inst. of Engineering, Belgium. Degree. Machine construction. & Fra. apprentice in engineering shops and drawing office, Massam, Scott & Co., Ltd., Fulham, 2 yrs. chief draughtsman, Deepwell Boring Co., St. Albans. Has been in Paris during last 2 yrs. in connection with supply of aviation materials to American and French Governments. Thorough knowledge aviation factory equipment, installation and supervision. [French] | Gloucester. | |\n| D.O.1364 | Private | London. | 32 | Good | E. City of London and London Univ. B.Sc. Course (engineering). 3 yrs. app, Mitchell Motor, Ltd. 1 yr. app. The Waterloo Motor Works. 3 yrs. with Leyland Ltd. Motor Works, 2 yrs with the Surrey Tracting Co. 1 yr. with the Powders Shell Works, maintenance plant, erection gun-making machinery. [French, Latin, Greek.] | London. | |\n| D.O.1385 | Lieut. | London. | 45 | Good | Ed. Royal Acad., Queen's Coll., Belfast, London Univ. yrs. engineering course. Appointed assist. engineer, Shell Transport Co. Resigned to join Army. [French.] | London. | |\n| D.O.1465 | Lieut. | A.S.C. | 20 | Fair | Ed. Dulwich. 22 yrs. engineering experience, England, France, U.S.A and Germany. Knowledge of motors. [French, German.] | London. | |\n| | | | | | Ed. privately, Passed exam, engineer Inspector, Natal, yrs. engineer inspector, Durban. 5 yrs. engineer inspector, Electrical and Water Supply Co. Natal. 2 yrs. on own account, automobile and agricultural business. 8 mths, inspector machine tool. Woolwich Arsenal. 15 mths Woolwich National Gauge Factory. [Dutch,] | Lancashire. | |\n| | | | | | Ed. privately. Trained engineering work, 4 yrs. asst civil engineer. yrs construction work, Midland Iron works. Several yrs. draughtsman, clerk of works, Gas Light & Coke Co. Engaged L.C.C. designing, constructing gas and chemical plant, bridges, piers, sewage and Water works, etc. | Lancashire. | |\n| | | | | | Ed. Merchant Taylors', Liverpool. Liverpool Univ. 4 yrs. specialising refrigerating engineering. Slight knowledge of aeronautical drawing. | Staffs. | |\n| | | | | | Ed. School Technology, Manchester. 3 yrs. shops of Hans Renold, engineers, Manchester. | Sussex. | |\n| | | | | | Ed. privately and Oxford. Matric. 1st honours Motor engineer. Theoretical railroad engineering. Designer and inventor of internal combustion engines. [French,] | Warwick. | |\n| | | | | | Ed. privately. 3 yrs, brass, copper works, U.S.A. 7 yrs. steel manufacture. 2 yrs. export, import trade. Represented eng. firm. Recruiting work. Military representative tribunal. [French, Italian, German,] | London. | |\n| | | | | | Ed. Newton Coll. Engineering course, Crystal Palace, A.I.E.E, 5 yrs, st. engineer, Cable Work Dept., India & Canadian Pacific Railway (drawing office and surveying). [Hindustani.] | Norfolk. | |\n| | | | | | Ed. privately. 7 yrs. engineering asst. 3 yrs. own business set to architects. 9 yrs. own business general engineering asst. [French.] | H.Q. | |\n| | | | | | Ed. St. Paul's School and Felstead. Studying engineering prior to joining Army. Unable to resume studies at present. Used to horses and cattle. Considerable veterinary exp. | | |\n\nH.Q. D.O.4-28.7.18.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 478700, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "page_number": 165, "title": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "content_text": "# EX-OFFICERS.\n\n| No. | Rank | Regt. | Age | Medical Notes | Qualifications and Previous Employment | O.U.T.C. Courses | Present Locality | Rank | No. | Regt. | Age | Medical Notes |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| D.O.1499 | C.Q.M.S. | R.G.A. | 34 | Fair. Seurasthenia | Ed. privately. 5 yrs. engineering, Leeds. 5 yrs. teacher National Scbs., U.S.A. | | Cheshire | | | | | |\n| D.O. 870 | 2nd Lieut. | R.E. | 45 | Fair | Ed. Downside Coll. 6 yrs. app. workshops & drawing office Midland Bly. Northern Counties Committee, Ireland. Served in S.A. War and remained in army till recently discharged. Desires engineering work. | | Ireland | | | | | |\n| D.O.1806 | Capt. | | 42 | Good | Ed. privately: Representative, acting manager constructional engineers, hardware merchants. | Engineering (Civil) | Leinster | | | | | |\n| D.O.1527 | Private | D.L.I. | 20 | Good | Engineering | | | | | | | |\n| D.O. 28 | Lieut. | B.G.A. | 44 | Good | Bachelor of Civil Engineering, Melbourne Univ.: engaged 6 yrs on surveying and architecture; experience of buying wool in Australian market knowledge of patrol engines, and mechanical engineering. | | | | | | | |\n| D.O. 51 | Capt. | D.F. | 30 | Good | Ed. Dublin Univ. 12 yrs. practical exp. civil engineering. Manager quarries, railway construction, Ireland & Americas. Motor work. | | | | | | | |\n| D.O. 83 | 2nd Lieut. | B.A.F. | 27 | Fair | Ed. Sandwich and Elysée Hoche, Versailles; employed in architecture and surveying through ill health unable to take exams, joined firm of construction engineers, later partnership in Motor engineering Co.; knowledge of ic engines. Passed tech. course R.F.O. [French] | | | | | | | |\n| D.O. 159 | Private | A.S.C. M.T. | 45 | Good | Ed. Stoneyhurst, Articled pupil civil engineering. Held appointment as manager of quarries and public works contracts. 18 yrs. entire charge of firm carrying out contracts in the nature of roads, sewers, railways, wharves, piers, concrete construction, etc. Served in S. African War. | | | | | | | |\n| D.O. 190 | Colonel | R.E. | 58 | Good | Ed. R.M.A., Woolwich. Comm. R.E., 1880. Commander Exploration Brit. Somaliland, 1885, Under Secretary P.W.D., Bengal, and P.W.D., Hyderabad. Chief Engineer Calcutta Corp., 1898-9. C.E. Military Works, 1900-11. Divisional C.E. 1911-14. Retired from Army, 1914. Studied Art in Paris. Has exhibited paintings. Painted theatrical scenery. Desires employment as inspector or designer of camouflage. [French, Hindustani, Arabic, Somali.] | | London | | | | | |\n| D.O. 338 | Lieut. | Notts. & Derby | 29 | Good | Ed. King Edward School, Birmingham. 11 yrs. constructional engineer, roofs and bridges, James Summerhill & Co., Wolverhampton. [French.] | | London | | | | | |\n| D.O. 491 | Lieut. | Lancs. Fus. | 22 | Fair | 4 yrs. articled with City Engineer and Surveyor, Lincoln. Engaged on railway work in England, Africa, Canada and USA. Assistant engineer Gold Coast Railways. 2 yrs. assistant draughtsman, Haviland & Tibbetts, civil engineers and surveyors, San Francisco. | | Lincoln | | | | | |\n| D.O. 522 | Lieut. | R.E. | 55 | Good | Ed. privately, London Univ. Apprentice architect and glass firm, London, 3 yrs. head draughtsman, Elsleya Ltd., London, civil engineers, metal workers, 18 mos. Obtained London scholarship head draughtsman 1918. | | London | | | | | |\n| D.O. 952 | 2nd Lieut. | K.O.Y.L.I. | 30 | Good | Ed. privately. 4 yrs. engineers' office, Meakin & Dean, engineers, Westminster. Timekeeper Wrexham and Liverpool Waterworks, and engineers' office. Gatawen Railway 5 yrs. ordnance survey and draughtsman, Chester, 3 yrs. surveyor, water engineer, and sanitary inspector. U.D.C. (Mon.). 15 yrs. private practice, architect and surveyor 2 yrs. staff of R.E. W.D. valuer. [Welsh.] | | Wales | | | | | |\n| D.O.1210 | 2nd Lieut. | R.A.F. | 47 | Fair | Ed. privately. Experience, Childe & Hoyland, Wakefield, civil min. engineers. 2 yrs. Siemens Bros., Stockton-on-Tees. Cable laying, N.E.R. electrification. | Engineering (Electrical) | Wales | | | | | |\n| D.O.1299 | Capt. | R.F.A. | 61 | Fair | Ed. privately, London Univ. 4 yrs. articled civil engineer. yrs. est. H.M. Office of Works. 10 yrs. own practice. 5 yrs. est. eng. C.P.R. Asst. works manager, Willesden filling factory. | | London | | | | | |\n| D.O. 192 | Lieut. | R.A.F. | 38 | Good | Ed. B.M.A., Woolwich, 11 yrs. in Army. Civil engineer, employed many parts of world. Experience handling men, good administrator. [French, Arabic.] | | London | | | | | |\n| D.O. 140 | 2nd Lieut. | | 23 | L. eye defective | Ed. Harrow; 1900-3 studied languages abroad; 1906 motor business; 1909 Edison & Swan Electric Supply Co.; 1912 mining, Canada (Yukon), until outbreak of war. [French, Italian, Spanish, German.] | | London | | | | | |\n| D.O. 556 | 2nd Lieut. | N. Lancs. | 27 | Fair | El Plymouth. + yrs. appren. Ignatic Electric Co., Bedford, machine fitting and assembly shops. Knowledge, rheostats and electric controlling gear; petrol engines. | | Devon | | | | | |\n| | | | | | Ed. privately. 7 yrs. clerk St. James and Pall Mall Electric Light Co., London, Thorough knowledge electrical engineering. | | H.Q. D.06.—29.7.18. | | | | | |\n| | | | | | | | H.Q. D.0.6.—29.7.18. | | | | | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 526910, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-529-3 China- Boxer Indemnity (Application) Bill 21-2-1931 - 21-2-1931", "page_number": 41, "title": "CO129-529-3 China- Boxer Indemnity (Application) Bill 21-2-1931 - 21-2-1931", "content_text": "## China Indemnity (Application) Bill\n\n### HOUSE OF COMMONS\n\n[Mr. Dalton.] present form, that will be a very good prelude to successful negotiations on this other separate matter. The negotiations are not advanced to a stage at which I can give details. Sir Miles Lampson is actively collecting material for formal and precise presentation of our claims. He will continue on that line, and the hon. Member may take it, as the Foreign Secretary has said on a number of occasions, that we shall give it full support and hope the result may be satisfactory. Beyond that the hon. Member will not expect me to go.\n\nMr. SAMUEL: In view of what the Under-Secretary has said, I beg leave to withdraw the Amendment.\n\nAmendment, by leave withdrawn.\n\n### CLAUSE 2.-(Constitution, functions, &c., of Chinese Government Purchasing Commission.)\n\nMr. MANDER: I beg to move, page 2, line 14, after the word \"Kingdom,\" to insert the words \"provided the British price is not substantially higher than the world price.\"\n\nI would like to congratulate the hon. Gentleman on the many bouquets thrown at him to-night from across the floor of the House, and, if he has finished blushing, I hope he will show himself as willing to accept Amendments from these benches as those from above the gangway. This particular Amendment was moved by me in Committee, and I was thoroughly dissatisfied with the answer then given. I cannot see why it should not be accepted, because it carries out what was in the mind of the Government as to the way the scheme would work. The object of the whole system is to create good will for this country in China. I think this is a bad Bill and the wrong way to do it altogether, and that the money would be far better spent on education. I quite recognise that there has been an agreement between China and this country on which we cannot go back, but, looked at from the point of view of the primary object of the Bill, which is to create good will for this country in China, I think that, unless this Amendment is put in, there is a considerable danger in years to come of creating prejudice. I do not think that the insertion of these words would prevent purchases in this country of that railway material which we are all extremely anxious to see purchased at the earliest possible moment, but, if it were found that British material were, in certain circumstances, say, 50 per cent. higher than foreign material, the Chinese Government would buy other material with other money and spend the whole of this money on railway material purchased in this country.\n\nThis Amendment is necessary in order to prevent the possibility of a ring being formed by manufacturers here in order to hold up the price, knowing that there was no real foreign competition. The British price is for certain types of railway material substantially higher than can be the foreign price. Nothing worse than that the competitors of our country should go round whispering in the ears of Chinese Ministers that this was all humbug and that the Chinese Government was being forced to pay more than they would be forced to pay in the open market. It is to safeguard a possibility of that kind that I suggest these words should be put in. If there were only a small difference in price the orders would go to this country, but, if our prices were much higher, then the money covered by this Bill would be spent in purchasing other railway material. Remembering the Under-Secretary's willingness to accept the Amendments from hon. Members on the Unionist benches, his new-found allies, I ask him not to forget his old friends and to see whether he cannot accept this Amendment which is in accord with the declared views and wishes of the Government, and will not prejudice the spending of this money on British materials in this country, but will avoid the real danger of doing an immense amount of harm to the good will of this country in China.\n\nDr. BURGIN: I beg to second the Amendment.\n\nMr. DALTON: It would, of course, be a great pleasure to accept Amendments from all parts of the House to-night, and the hon. Member for Wolverhampton (Mr. Mander) has indeed been an ally of mine in certain aspects of foreign policy when others have been on the other side of the trench. It would have been a special pleasure, therefore, to have accepted this Amendment from him, but he moved the same Amendment in Committee upstairs, and I am afraid that, just as he has made the same speech in substance in moving it now, I shall have to make the same speech as I made upstairs in resisting it. The effect of the Amendment, as moved, would either be nil, in which case it is not worth moving, or else it would result in the diversion of orders from this country to foreign firms. It has not been asked for by the Chinese. The Bill represents an agreement. I would suggest that there is really no ground for the hon. Member's apprehension, because, after all, the Chinese Government Purchasing Commission in London will contain not only Chinese representatives but certain very competent British representatives, who will know all the facts about prices, and whose duty it will be, as trustees of this money, to see that the Chinese are not charged unreasonable prices. As to the possibility of rings in this country, I should be prepared to agree that that possibility exists, but there are other bases of comparison that will be available to the Commission. We have, for example, an export trade in steel rails and so on to other markets than the Chinese, and we are open to foreign competition, but we do sometimes get these orders, and therefore you have a basis from which prices will be known to the Chinese Government Purchasing Commission. If it is known that British firms are asking a higher price from China than from, say, Argentina, the Commission will be entitled to reduce the price to the level of that charge. I would also remind the hon. Member of the words in Clause 2, Sub-section (1, ii), whereby the Chinese Government Purchasing Commission in London may \"so far as those moneys are not immediately required for such purposes,\" that is to say, the purposes for which this money is to be used as set out in the Bill. They may establish \"a reserve fund for the purpose of enabling the Commission to discharge similar obligations and defray similar expenses in future years.\"\n\nI hope it will not be necessary for large sums to be placed in reserve for an appreciable time. I hope the whole of this £3,000,000 will be spent at a comparatively early date in British industries. It will obviously be to the benefit of employers that they should keep their prices down, as otherwise the money might be put to this reserve. Should British employers short-sightedly endeavour to profiteer as a result of this Clause, then the resource is available to the Purchasing Commission to put these moneys to reserve until British employers learn wisdom. There is really, therefore, no purpose in this Amendment, and I trust the hon. Member will not feel it necessary to press it to a Division.\n\nMr. MANDER: I understand clearly from the Under-Secretary's speech that it is not the wish nor the intention of the Government that any of this money should be used on British material if the price is substantially in excess of the world price. Am I right?\n\nMr. BRACKEN: It grieves me to disagree with the hon. Member for Luton (Dr. Burgin), who is my representative in this House, but I think it very important that we should congratulate the Under-Secretary on his excellent speech. I am sure that, although he may have to suffer from the Chancellor of the Exchequer for making it, many will think that the Labour Party has at last awakened to the essential merits of using every opportunity to provide work for British people—work at good wages and work that will please the Chinese even if it does not please the Portuguese. But it is an extraordinary thing that the hon. Member for Wolverhampton (Mr. Mander) and the hon. Member for Luton, representing industrial constituencies, should take up an attitude against both Chinese and British views in this matter. They have intervened in order to send orders for goods manufactured in Great Britain abroad. It is a remarkable thing indeed that Members in whose constituencies unemployment is rife should come down and betray the interests of their constituents. There is the result of an election published to-night which gives no satisfaction to the Liberal party, and I hope that not only my own constituency will repulse the hon. Member for Luton but that Wolverhampton will also show that it objects strongly to the betrayal of the interests of its workmen.\n\nAmendment negatived.\n\n### FIRST SCHEDULE.—(Payments to be made out of the China Indemnity Fund.)\n\nMr. DALTON: I beg to move, in page 3, line 7, after the word \"London,\" to insert the words:", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-529-3 China- Boxer Indemnity (Application) Bill 21-2-1931 - 21-2-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 533957, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-539-3 Mui Tsai system 8-2-1932 - 10-1-1933", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-539-3 Mui Tsai system 8-2-1932 - 10-1-1933", "content_text": "Page 378\n\nWOMEN AT HOME AND ABROAD\n\nBravo, Amy!\n\nTHE VOTE\n\nThe Women's Freedom League offers Miss Amy Johnson (Mrs. Mollison) its most enthusiastic congratulations on her triumphant achievement in breaking the record for the flight from England to Capetown, set up last March by Mr. J. A. Mollison, of four days seventeen hours by ten and a half hours and that despite nine hours lost at Benguella owing to lack of oil pressure, due to sand getting into her engine while crossing the Sahara.\n\nThe King sent his hearty congratulations on her splendid achievement.\n\nLast May Miss Amelia Earhart achieved lasting fame as the first woman to fly the Atlantic alone, and she was awarded the American Distinguished Flying Cross by President Hoover. We hope that our own country will be no less generous in bestowing on Mrs. Mollison a suitable honour.\n\nUniversity Woman's Appointment\n\nMiss A. Margaret Tillyard, M.A., has been appointed by the chief officers of the Halls of Residence as one of their representatives upon the Court of Governors of the University of Manchester.\n\nWoman Chairman of Health Committee\n\nMiss K. M. Worrall has been selected as chairman of Birkenhead Health Committee. She is the first woman in Birkenhead to occupy that position.\n\nWoman's Advertising Post\n\nMrs. Simmonds has been appointed as their advertising manager by Messrs. Wolsey, Ltd., the British hosiery manufacturing firm. This is said to be one of the biggest appointments in the world of advertising. Mrs. Simmonds for some time previously had been conducting market research for this firm. She was formerly private secretary to Sir William Crawford, head of one of the big London advertising agencies.\n\nWoman Sculptor Wins Again\n\nMiss Helen V. Mackay has for the second year in succession been awarded the £100 prize given annually by the Feodora Gleichen Memorial Fund for the best piece of work by a woman sculptor.\n\nWomen to Make Films\n\nTo-day's Cinema reports that an organisation of women has just been formed to produce films. The company is being registered as the British Women's Picture Corporation. The president will be the Dowager Lady Raglan.\n\nWOMEN LAWYERS\n\nLast week six women were among the ninety-one successful law students called to the bar in the hall of the Inns of Court. They were: Mrs. Alice G. Morrice (Lincoln's Inn); Miss E. I. Froggatt (Inner Temple); Miss Ursula B. C. Newell (Middle Temple); Dr. Flora H. M. Calder (Middle Temple); Miss Marie M. Delage (Gray's Inn); Miss Mary R. Tabor (Gray's Inn).\n\nMiss Newell was called at the same time as her elder brother, and is the daughter of a retired County Court Judge. Dr. Flora Calder, M.A., M.D., Ch.B., Edin. Univ., D.P.M., Royal College of Physicians, Eng., is an assistant medical officer of the County Mental Hospital, Winwick, Warrington. Miss Mary Tabor is a municipal officer of the Norwich Corporation. She has been in the city engineer's estates department since March.\n\nThe following women were among the successful candidates at the Intermediate Examination of the Law Society (for solicitors), held on November 2nd and 3rd. A candidate is not obliged to take both parts of the examination at the same time:\n\nPassed: Mabel Harold.\n\nThe following passed the legal portion only: Hilda M. Charbonnier, Freda Gaukroger, Dorothy Hedges, Agnes W. Knight, Annie D. Litten, Joan L. S. O'Connor.\n\nThe following passed the trust accounts and book-keeping portion only: Anne E. James.\n\nFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1932\n\nTHE BEGUM SHAH NAWAZ\n\nThe Begum Shah Nawaz, the only woman among thirty-two Indian representatives appointed to attend the third Indian Round Table Conference, arrived in London last Saturday. She then stated that she hoped to help to do great things for India, and particularly for the women of India. Things were improving, she said, but there was need for much further advance.\n\nThe Conference entered upon its detailed work at the House of Lords last Monday.\n\nA NEW CECIL HOUSE\n\nThe thrill of a fifth Cecil House for homeless women is the hope of the immediate future. To collect funds for this a meeting was convened by Mrs. Cecil Chesterton and her supporters at the Cambridge Theatre (London) on November 18. It was marvellous, for there were nine speakers and more, and not a touch of dullness! The aim was its own plea. A warm glow of generous love seemed to flood the packed theatre, and every word from the platform increased it. Already a site has been found and secured across the river—in Tower Street, S.E.1. To set it going £5,000 is needed, towards which a creditable sum was raised.\n\nThere were two M.P.s—Mr. Adrian Moreing, a Londoner, in the chair; and Mr. D. G. Somerville, who, with Miss Helena Pickard, ably raked in cheques and \"promises,\" and new subscribers. Both members shed all the trappings of Parliamentary eloquence and became inspiringly human and direct in this heart-warming cause. Mr. Louis Golding made a tender, poetical speech, paying special tribute to the old women uprooted in the storms of life, to whom the Cecil Houses are such a boon; of their charm, and their subtle spiritual relationships. \"All things they have in common being so poor.\" Miss Sheila Kaye Smith followed, with what he had called her \"Green Apple\" eloquence, and spoke of what it meant to every woman to come back to a bed after a long, tiring day—even more than it meant to a man: \"Women must have what they call a home.\" It is essential to the feminine nature.\n\nAnd at a Cecil House it is \"home\" with bed, warmth, and food for 1s. a night. No forms to fill in—the need of shelter passport enough. But some have the shilling and can't get in. Mr. J. B. Priestley, introduced by Mr. Moreing as a \"Good Companion,” also said a few sympathetic words.\n\nMr. Ernest Milton, who had been over two Cecil Houses, said how much he was struck by their brightness of colouring, and by the atmosphere of confidence and friendliness and self-respect. He described the attitude of the matrons as more like that of \"a pleasant buxom hostess of a solid provincial hotel.\"\n\nWhen Mrs. Chesterton entered a house with a cheery \"Good evening, ladies,\" she came as a woman and a friend.\n\nThe Chairman presented Mrs. Chesterton as the \"heroine of the work.\" She spoke in moving words of what could be done for the \"down-and-outs\" in giving them back their self-respect and fighting spirit. And she told how at the Harrow Road House they were getting new recruits of a different class: trained nurses, girl clerks, and others, unemployed and cut off by poverty from their own kind. Dainty Miss Pickard related a personal experience of being stranded in Hanley (Staffs) when on tour, and how she had longed for a Cecil House.\n\nE. M. E.\n\nSIXTEEN WOMEN MAYORS!\n\nAlderman Mrs. Keynes, Mayor of Cambridge, points out an omission in our list of Women Mayors—Mrs. Carr, Mayor of Godmanchester. This brings the number of women mayors up to sixteen—six of whom are in East Anglia.\n\nPage 379\n\nFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1932\n\nChild Marriage\n\nTHE VOTE\n\nIN PARLIAMENT\n\nMISS RATHBONE (Ind., Eng. Universities) on November 14 asked the Secretary of State for India whether the Census Reports for 1931 are sufficiently available for him to supply figures showing whether and to what extent, the practice of child marriage in India has decreased since the previous census.\n\nSIR SAMUEL HOARE: I regret that I am not yet in a position to supply this information.\n\nMISS RATHBONE asked the Secretary of State for India (1) if he will supply figures showing the number of prosecutions that have taken place under the Sarda Act in Restraint of Child Marriage in the years 1930, 1931, and 1932 respectively; (2) if he can now report the result of his inquiries on the question whether, and to what extent, the provincial governments are carrying into effect the administrative measures recommended by the Joshi Committee three years ago as being necessary for the successful enforcement of the Sarda Act in Restraint of Child Marriage.\n\nMR. GEORGE HALL (Lab., Aberdare) asked the Secretary of State for India how many prosecutions have taken place under the Child Marriage Restraint Act, No. 19 of 1929 (the Sarda Act), and with what result.\n\nSIR S. HOARE: I am not in possession of figures showing the numbers of prosecutions and convictions under the Sarda Act, but I will obtain them. The result of the inquiries made of local governments regarding the recommendations of the Joshi Committee have not yet been received, but I will inquire how the matter stands.\n\nMISS RATHBONE: Does the right hon. gentleman not think that there has been great dilatoriness on the part of the provincial governments, inasmuch as it is two years since the inquiry was circulated and that a year ago he undertook to remind the provincial governments of it; and, in view of the fact that the Act was passed with the strong approval of the Government at Delhi, as being necessary to remove \"a great and corroding evil\"—I think those were the words—does he think that the provincial governments are showing enough zeal in seeing to it that the Act is not made a dead letter?\n\nSIR S. HOARE: The hon. lady knows that the Act raises many important questions, and I think she would not expect me to express an opinion as to the attitude of the provincial governments. I am having compiled for her the information for which she has asked, and, as soon as I have it, she will get it.\n\nMaternity and Child Welfare (Grants)\n\nMR. PARKINSON (Lab., Wigan) on November 15 asked the Minister of Health what grant will be made towards maternity and child-welfare services during the current year; and what was the amount in the year 1931.\n\nMR. SHAKESPEARE (Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Health): Under the Local Government Act, 1929, separate grants for maternity and child-welfare services, other than the training of midwives and health visitors, ceased to be payable in respect of any year after the financial year 1929-30.\n\nThe amount of the discontinued grant formerly paid by the Exchequer in respect of these services was included in determining the loss on account of grants under the Act.\n\nHouse of Lords\n\nMR. MANDER (Lib., Wolverhampton E.) on November 17 asked the Prime Minister whether it is the intention of the Government to introduce legislation dealing with the reform of the House of Lords on the lines of the report recently issued, or on other lines.\n\nTHE PRIME MINISTER: The Government have not considered this question.\n\nNIGHT EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN\n\n\"The Times\" reports that the Permanent Court of International Justice recently delivered its advisory opinion on the following question, submitted to it by the Council of the League of Nations at the request of the Governing Body of the International Labour Office:\n\nDoes the Convention concerning employment of women during the night adopted in 1919 by the International Labour Conference, apply, in the industrial undertakings covered by the said Convention, to women who hold positions of supervision or management and are not ordinarily engaged in manual work?\n\nBy six votes against five the Court answered this question in the affirmative.\n\nThe question had its origin in a difficulty which the British Government had encountered for several years past in the application of Article 3 of the Convention: “Women, without distinction of age, shall not be employed during the night in any public or private industrial undertaking, or in any branch thereof, other than an undertaking in which only members of the same family are employed.\"\n\nBritish Government regarded this provision as applying to all women, without exception, employed in industry, but at the same time they considered that an exception ought to be made in favour of women occupying posts of supervision or management. They therefore proposed that the Convention should be revised in that sense.\n\nThe Court rejected arguments which had been put forward to show that the natural meaning of the Article might be disregarded. The first of these was to the effect that the Washington Convention, being a Labour Convention in the sense of the Labour portions of the Peace Treaties of 1919, ought to be interpreted as applicable solely to manual workers. The next was that the circumstances in which the Convention was adopted in Washington furnished adequate grounds for restricting its application to women engaged in manual work, more especially because the Washington Convention was merely an extension and application of the Berne Convention of 1906, an instrument which was concerned solely with women performing manual work. Lastly, there was the argument that the Convention of Washington did not cover women occupying posts of management, because in 1919 such cases were very few in number, and therefore were not under consideration.\n\nWOMEN'S WORK IN THE CHURCH\n\nIn his first presidential address to the Southwark Diocesan Conference, held recently, Dr. Parsons, Bishop of Southwark, referred to the problem of the shortage of trained women workers in the Church.\n\nHe said that at present a commission which had been appointed by the two archbishops were considering the matter. Personally, he was convinced that the life and work of the Church would never be as healthy and as efficient as it should be until educated and specially trained women were given scope and opportunity for their talents and ministrations in the Church's service as full and free as was given to men of similar education and training.\n\nIt was a matter of very grave concern that at a time when larger opportunities of service and of influence were opening out to women in so many other directions, in the Church, just when a supply of women duly qualified to serve it was forthcoming, the demand for that supply should be diminished.\n\nYOUNG WOMEN AVIATORS' ENTERPRISE\n\nMiss Joan Page, daughter of Sir Arthur Page, and Miss Audrey Sale Barker, recently flew to South Africa, where they carried consignments of Cow and Gate milk food to introduce to South Africans.\n\nPage 20", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-539-3 Mui Tsai system 8-2-1932 - 10-1-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 535785, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-541-4 Empire Products Fair- report 2-7-1932 - 16-3-1933", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-541-4 Empire Products Fair- report 2-7-1932 - 16-3-1933", "content_text": "21\n\nFima's display consisted of building materials, textiles, and \"Rickshaw\" tea.\n\nRobertson Protected Metal Products, made by the Wolverhampton Corrugated Iron Company, Limited, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, were shown by a scale model of a building in R. P. X. ventilated by a model Robertson Ventilator.\n\nThe process of ventilation is demonstrated and results recorded by an anemometer fitted in the front wall of the building. The Robertson Ventilator Demonstrating Machine was in operation during the fair and visitors were greatly interested to witness several types of ventilators undergoing efficiency tests on flat and pitched roofs.\n\nThe Robertson V. Beam Roof was also shown.\n\nThe textile exhibit of Lavie, Boag & Company comprises cotton and wool yarns and fabrics produced in the mills of the British Manufacturers Export Association (Textiles) Limited and also bleached and unbleached embroidery linens from the Irish Linen Mills, Limited, of Belfast.\n\nThe British-American Tobacco Company exhibited two brands of cigarettes known throughout the world as British products of unvarying quality, namely \"Three Castles\" and \"Players\". Messrs. J. D. Hutchison & Company exhibited on behalf of Messrs. Godfrey Phillips, Limited, De Reszke, Abdullah, Gold Flake, Army Club, and Prince Charming cigarettes.\n\nLane, Crawford & Company, Limited, the leading British departmental store in the Colony, made special displays of Empire products. Today this modern shopping centre", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-541-4 Empire Products Fair- report 2-7-1932 - 16-3-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 554274, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 72, "title": "CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937", "content_text": "# APPENDIX 5.\n\nStatement showing the number of occupiers of agricultural holdings over one acre in extent within an approximate radius of five miles of certain towns, who returned four or more dairy cattle* on the 4th June, 1932 (Ministry of Agriculture's annual livestock).\n\n| Town or group of towns | Number of occupiers |\n| --- | --- |\n| Liverpool, Birkenhead and St. Helens | 400 |\n| Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Walsall | 402 |\n| Blackburn | 553 |\n| Bolton | 338 |\n| Bradford, Halifax, Leeds and Huddersfield† | 1,280 |\n| Brighton | 36 |\n| Bristol | 308 |\n| Burnley | 598 |\n| Coventry | 324 |\n| Croydon | 49 |\n| Derby | 498 |\n| East and West Ham and Leyton | 14 |\n| Gateshead, Newcastle, South Shields and Sunderland | 323 |\n| Hull | 303 |\n| Leicester | 210 |\n| Manchester, Salford and Stockport | 502 |\n| Southend | 53 |\n| Middlesbrough | 204 |\n| Portsmouth | 57 |\n| Southampton | 161 |\n| Norwich | 135 |\n| Nottingham | 188 |\n| Plymouth | 336 |\n| Stoke-on-Trent | 492 |\n| Sheffield | 179 |\n| Preston | 656 |\n| Blackpool | 244 |\n| Oldham | 281 |\n| Bournemouth | 65 |\n| Cardiff | 193 |\n| Rhondda | 123 |\n| Swansea | 79 |\n| Total | 9,584 |\n\n## Annex to appendix 5.\n\nIn submitting the above statement, the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries wrote:-\n\nThe 5-mile radius was taken in every case from approximately the centre of the town, but, where a parish fell reasonably within the circle, all the occupiers in that parish returning four or more dairy cattle have been included.\n\nWhere the circle round one town definitely overlapped that round another, or where the towns adjoin, the towns have been grouped; it would be difficult to allocate certain parts of a parish to one town and other parts to its neighbour.\n\nLondon has been omitted from the statement. The small numbers of cowkeepers found round the East and West Ham group and Croydon indicate how far it is necessary to go outside London before the area is reached where dairy cattle keepers are found in any numbers.\n\nThe imperfections of the figures given in the statement as an indication of the number of producer-retailers in the country are, of course, very obvious; for instance, some cow keepers within the 5-mile radius may not be producer-retailers, while there may be numbers of producer-retailers outside the radius. The figures supplied should, therefore, be used with great reserve.\n\n* i.e., cows or heifers in milk or in calf.\n\n† The overlap in this group was not so pronounced as in the other groups; the four towns might almost have been considered individually.", "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": 554293, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 91, "title": "CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937", "content_text": "## ENGLAND--Continued\n\n| County or county borough | Population, 1931 | Rateable value on 1st April, 1930, for general county purposes | Rateable value for general county purposes per head | Number of cows in milk or in calf and heifers in milk | Rateable value for general county purposes per cow |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Northampton (A.C. and C.B.) | 309,428 | 1,524.5 | 4.9 | 28,661 | 53 |\n| Ely, Isle of (A.C.) | 77,705 | 217.8 | 3.2 | | |\n| Northumberland (A.C.) | | | | 5,952 | 32 |\n| Essex (A.C.) | 1,198,601 | 6,580.4 | 5.5 | 43,914* | 150 |\n| Newcastle-upon-Tyne (C.B.) | 408,665 | 1,873.6 | 4.6 | | |\n| Tynemouth (C.B.) | | | | 30,463* | 61 |\n| East Ham (C.B.) | 142,460 | 676.3 | 4.7 | | |\n| Southend-on-Sea (C.B.) | 120,093 | 1,165.8 | 9.7 | | |\n| West Ham (C.B.) | 294,086 | 1,381.0 | 4.7 | | |\n| Essex (A.C. and C.B.'s) | 1,755,240 | 9,803.5 | 5.6 | | |\n| Gloucester (A.C.) | 335,801 | 1,462.5 | 4.4 | 43,914 | 225 |\n| Bristol (C.B.) | | | | 52,851* | |\n| Nottingham (A.C.) | 443,880 | 1,810.7 | 4.1 | 30,463 | 146 |\n| Nottingham (C.B.) | 268,801 | 1,731.0 | 6.4 | 28,117* | 64 |\n| Nottingham (A.C. and C.B.) | 712,681 | 3,541.7 | 5.0 | | |\n| Gloucester (C.B.) | 52,937 | | | | |\n| Oxford (A.C.) | 129,059 | 336.3 | | 22,526* | 25 |\n| Oxford (C.B.) | 80,540 | 572.0 | 4.4 | | |\n| Oxford (A.C. and C.B.) | 209,599 | 1,276.8 | 6.1 | 22,526 | 57 |\n| Hereford (A.C.) | 111,755 | 506.2 | 4.5 | | |\n| Hertford (A.C.) | 401,159 | 2,788.4 | 7.0 | 17,604 | 153 |\n| Peterborough, Soke of (A.C.) | 51,845 | 283.7 | 5.5 | | |\n| Huntingdon (A.C.) | 56,204 | 194.6 | 3.5 | 6,018 | 32 |\n| Rutland (A.C.) | 17,397 | 80.8 | 4.6 | | |\n| Kent (A.C.) | 1,194,115 | 8,107.3 | 6.8 | 40,345* | 201 |\n| Canterbury (A.C.) | 24,450 | | | | |\n| Salop (A.C.) | 244,162 | 1,067.7 | 4.4 | | |\n| Somerset (A.C.) | 406,319 | 2,181.2 | 5.4 | | |\n| Kent (A.C. and C.B.) | 1,218,565 | 8,290.6 | 6.8 | 40,345 | 206 |\n| Bath (C.B.) | 68,801 | 555.3 | 8.1 | | |\n| Lancaster (A.C.) | | | | 1,794,857 | |\n| Somerset (A.C. and C.B.) | 475,120 | 2,735.5 | 5.8 | | |\n| Barrow-in-Furness (C.B.) | | | | 134,149* | 67 |\n| Southampton (A.C.) | 472,022 | 2,837.6 | 6.0 | | |\n| Blackburn (C.B.) | 122,695 | 688.9 | 5.6 | | |\n| Bournemouth (C.B.) | 116,780 | 1,440.4 | 12.3 | | |\n| Blackpool (C.B.) | 101,543 | | | | |\n| Portsmouth (C.B.) | 249,288 | 1,660.6 | 6.7 | 1,287.8 | 12.7 |\n| Bolton (C.B.) | 177,253 | 973.3 | 5.5 | | |\n| Southampton (C.B.) | 176,025 | 1,263.9 | 7.2 | 48,199 | 149 |\n| Bootle (C.B.) | 76,799 | 480.5 | 6.3 | | |\n| Southampton (A.C. and C.B.'s) | 1,014,115 | 7,202.5 | 7.1 | 48,199 | 149 |\n| Burnley (C.B.) | 98,259 | 559.6 | 5.7 | | |\n| Bury (C.B.) | 56,186 | 322.4 | 5.7 | | |\n| Liverpool (C.B.) | 703,144 | 2,485.2 | 3.5 | 96,452* | 26 |\n| Stafford (A.C.) | | | | 855,539 | |\n| Smethwick (C.B.) | | | | | |\n| Burton-on-Trent (C.B.) | 49,485 | 275.8 | 5.6 | | |\n| Manchester (C.B.) | 766,333 | 6,437.6 | 7.5 | | |\n| Stoke-on-Trent (C.B.) | 276,619 | 974.6 | 3.5 | 6,598.3 | 8.6 |\n| Oldham (C.B.) | 140,309 | 715.3 | 5.1 | | |\n| Walsall (C.B.) | 103,102 | 400.6 | 3.9 | | |\n| Preston (C.B.) | | | | 81,281 | |\n| West Bromwich (C.B.) | 118,839 | 630.2 | 5.3 | | |\n| Rochdale (C.B.) | | | | 133,190 | |\n| Wolverhampton (C.B.) | 90,278 | 500.8 | 5.5 | | |\n| St. Helens (C.B.) | 106,793 | 394.5 | 3.7 | | |\n| Stafford (A.C. and C.B.'s) | 1,431,175 | 5,527.7 | 3.9 | 96,452 | 57 |\n| Salford (C.B.) | 223,442 | 1,118.7 | 5.0 | | |\n| Suffolk, East (A.C.) | 207,420 | | | | |\n| Southport (C.B.) | 78,927 | 894.8 | 10.8 | | |\n| Ipswich (C.B.) | 87,557 | 329.6 | 4.2 | | |\n| Suffolk, East (A.C. and C.B.) | 294,977 | 1,890.6 | 8.1 | 20,795* | 413 |\n| Warrington (C.B.) | 79,322 | | | | |\n| Wigan (C.B.) | | | | 20,795 | 504 |\n| Suffolk, West (A.C.) | 106,137 | 362.7 | 4.2 | | |\n| Lancaster (A.C. and C.B.'s) | | | | 239,111 | |\n| Surrey (A.C.) | | | | 1,180,810 | |\n| Leicester (A.C.) | | | | 22,270* | 40 |\n| Croydon (C.B.) | 302,683 | 1,242.7 | 4.1 | | |\n| Leicester (C.B.) | | | | 22,270 | 61 |\n| Surrey (A.C. and C.B.) | 947,695 | 8,591.1 | 9.1 | | |\n| Leicester (A.C. and C.B.) | 541,794 | 1,589.4 | 6.6 | | |\n| Sussex, East (A.C.) | 276,881 | 2,369.6 | 8.6 | 38,137* | 62 |\n| Lincoln, Parts of Holland (A.C.) | 42,437 | | | 8,456 | 45 |\n| Brighton (C.B.) | 147,427 | 1,515.7 | 10.3 | | |\n| Lincoln, Parts of Kesteven (A.C.) | | | | 8,298 | 36 |\n| Eastbourne (C.B.) | 57,435 | 820.8 | 14.3 | | |\n| Grimsby (C.B.) | | | | 110,059 | |\n| Lincoln, Parts of Lindsey (A.C.) | 263,472 | 1,036.6 | 3.9 | 14,656 | 28 |\n| Hastings (C.B.) | 65,199 | 649.4 | 10.0 | 37,465* | 28 |\n| Lincoln (C.B.) | 92,463 | 434.9 | 4.7 | | |\n| Sussex, East (A.C. and C.B.'s) | 546,942 | 5,355.5 | 9.8 | 38,137 | 141 |\n| Sussex, West (A.C.) | 223,136 | 1,629.2 | 7.3 | 66,246 | 401.9 |\n| Lincoln, Parts of Lindsey (A.C. and C.B.'s) | | | | | |\n| Warwick (A.C.) | | | | 365,323 | |\n| Birmingham (C.B.) | 1,002,413 | 6,015.5 | 6.0 | | |\n| Middlesex (A.C.) | 422,181 | 1,956.5 | 5.4 | 24,202 | 67 |\n| Norfolk (A.C.) | | | | 39,988* | 49 |\n| Great Yarmouth (C.B.) | 56,769 | 312.5 | 5.5 | | |\n| Norwich (C.B.) | 126,207 | 1,110.8 | 3.5 | | |\n| Coventry (C.B.) | 167,046 | 941.3 | 5.6 | | |\n| Warwick (A.C. and C.B.'s) | 1,534,782 | 8,913.3 | 5.8 | 39,988 | 223 |\n| Westmoreland (A.C.) | 65,398 | | | | |\n| Wight, Isle of (A.C.) | 88,400 | 617.1 | 4.9 | | |\n| Norfolk (A.C. and C.B.'s) | 508,846 | 2,040.4 | 4.0 | 42,212* | 48 |\n| Northampton (C.B.) | 217,114 | 925.5 | 4.3 | 28,661* | 32 |\n| Wilts (A.C.) | 303,258 | 1,329.7 | 4.3 | 25,776* | 52 |\n| Worcester (A.C.) | | | | 9,976 | |\n| Dudley (C.B.) | 59,579 | 208.8 | 3.5 | | |\n| Worcester (C.B.) | 50,497 | 299.0 | 5.9 | | |\n\n† Including cows in the county of London. \n* Including cows in associated county boroughs.", "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": 558508, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-567-8 Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps- attachment to home units for training 21-2-1938 - 23-12-1938", "page_number": 42, "title": "CO129-567-8 Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps- attachment to home units for training 21-2-1938 - 23-12-1938", "content_text": "Name.\n\nRank.\n\nF. J. Anslow\n\nGunner\n\nSchedule of Members of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps who desire to undergo training with home units during 1938.\n\n \n Period for which Crown Agents should make payment.\n Payments authorized.\n Nature of course.\n Duration of leave.\n Address in United Kingdom.\n \n \n Not exceeding 14 days.\n Travelling expenses (third class rail). Five shillings for each day's attendance.\n To attend a Q.F. Course of instruction for Territorial Army Officers & other Ranks 1938, at the Coast Artillery School, Shoeburyness. There may be a charge for tuition in addition.\n 20th May, to 1st December, 1938.\n c/o Crown Agents for the Colonies, London.\n \n \n Not exceeding 14 days.\n Travelling expenses £2 roughly (third class rail). Five shillings for each day's attendance.\n To attend a Course of instruction for instructors in Coast Defence Searchlight duties. There may be a charge for tuition in addition.\n 22nd January to 21st October, 1938.\n 18, Upper Vauxhall off Tettenhall Road, Wolverhampton, S. Staffs.\n \n\nE. Casey\n\nLance Corporal\n\nEngo Cent.\n\n26 Feb to 31 Oct (in Colony)\n\nF. J. Anslow\n\nGunner\n\nEND 4 Year", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-8 Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps- attachment to home units for training 21-2-1938 - 23-12-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563260, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# Oral Answers \n\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS \n\n[Mr. Morrison.] learned Member, will the right hon. Gentleman consider the restoration of State grants to the local authorities, which have been reduced by the Government since 1931, and will he give the House some assurance that he is not contemplating the cutting and the reduction of the social services? \n\nMr. Elliot: I am glad to have an opportunity of doing that. The right hon. Gentleman cannot have seen to-day's newspapers. So far from thinking of cutting the social services, it is our hope to maintain them and, if possible, to expand them. \n\nMr. Morrison: In that case, will the right hon. Gentleman inform the House why he intimated only a few days ago that the Government were considering cutting the social services? \n\nMr. Elliot: I am afraid the right hon. Gentleman cannot have read this morning's **Daily Herald**. \n\nMr. McGovern: Is the **Daily Herald** the Government organ now? \n\n## BURNING PIT-HEAP (BRYN, WIGAN). \n\n90. Mr. Gordon Macdonald asked the Minister of Health what is the result of the investigation by his Department into the nuisance arising from a burning pit-heap formed by the Garwood Hill Collieries Company, Limited, Bryn, near Wigan; and what steps are to be taken to have the nuisance abated? \n\nMr. Elliot: My inspectors have made several visits to this pit-heap. Endeavour has been made to reduce the fire by the removal of combustible material and the selection of the material tipped on the heap. I understand that no further spontaneously combustible material is being added to the heap and that an effort is to be made to quench the fire with water. I am keeping in touch with developments. \n\nMr. Griffiths: Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that at the Barnsley football ground they can hardly see the match because of the burning heaps nearby? \n\n## PALESTINE. \n\n91. Mr. Mander asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what is the present position in Palestine, and the number of casualties that have taken place among British, Jews, and Arabs during the last three months? \n\n92. Mr. T. Williams asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has any information to give the House as to the position of affairs in Palestine? \n\n93. Mr. Graham White asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has any statement to make with regard to the position in Palestine? \n\n94. Mr. David Adams asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what is the present position in Palestine? \n\n95. Lieut.-Commander Fletcher asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will make a statement on the situation in Palestine? \n\nMr. M. MacDonald: On 5th October I described to the House the measures which were being taken to deal with the serious situation in Palestine. Since then I have conferred with the High Commissioner in London, and, as has already been announced, further reinforcements have been despatched to Palestine to bring the total strength of the garrison up to 18 battalions of infantry, two cavalry regiments, a battery of howitzers, and some armoured cars, with ancillary troops. The recruitment of additional British police continues. The General Officer Commanding has now at his disposal such forces as he requires for the purpose of restoring order but the process of suppressing the rebel bands and of re-establishing the civil administration in outlying areas may take a considerable time. \n\nIn order to ensure speedy action in the sphere of public security the High Commissioner has delegated to the General Officer Commanding power to appoint, with his consent, military commanders over districts, who will be responsible for all security and defence measures and will take over from the District Administration all the powers at present vested in the latter by Regulations under the Defence Order-in-Council. District Commissioners in such areas will become political advisers to the local military commanders, while continuing to be responsible for the administration of purely civil matters. Such military commanders have now been appointed in all the districts of Palestine.\n\nThe following are the figures of casualties desired by the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, East (Mr. Mander): \n\n| Category | Killed | Wounded |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| British | 29 | 75 |\n| Jews | 144 | 232 |\n| Arabs | 231 | 179 |\n\nThese figures for Arabs exclude armed rebels killed or wounded in action. It is impossible to secure complete figures for casualties amongst the Arab rebel forces, but well over 400 are known to have been killed during the three months, and considerable additional numbers wounded. \n\nMr. MacDonald: The principles which govern the schedule for those six months have often been stated in the House. With regard to the second part of the question, I am not certain that my figures are up to date, but when I last made inquiry, the figure was something over 6,000. \n\nMr. T. Williams: How many Jews have been recruited for the supernumerary police? \n\nMr. MacDonald: The figure of 6,000 covers the total figures of Jewish regular police and supernumeraries. Of these the great majority are supernumerary, but I could not give the exact figures without notice. \n\nMr. Williams: Are they being increased? \n\nMr. MacDonald: They have been lately, but whether they are still being increased, I am not quite certain. \n\nThe rebels recently intensified their efforts, and a fortnight ago made a concerted attempt to dominate the Old City of Jerusalem. This attempt was frustrated by the prompt occupation of the city by British troops and police, followed by a thorough search. The success of this operation has had a most salutary effect. Every precaution was taken to avoid injury of innocent members of the civil population and to preserve the sanctity of mosques and sacred buildings and I have been glad to learn from the High Commissioner that the conduct of the troops and police was exemplary. Subsequent intensive searches for rebels have been made in other centres and many arrests have been made. \n\nThe Government have now received and are carefully considering the report of the Palestine Partition Commission. I hope that it will be possible to publish the report and to issue a statement of the Government's intentions shortly after the beginning of the new session. \n\nMr. T. Williams: Now that the Government are re-establishing order in Palestine, will they consider the advisability of increasing what was definitely described as a reduced low level, for a temporary period, of immigration? \n\nMr. MacDonald: The announcement was made recently as to the schedule for the six months up to the end of April, and I have nothing to add to it. \n\nColonel Wedgwood: May I ask whether the Jewish quota of immigrants took into account the number of Jews who have been killed during the last three months, and further, how many Jews are now armed so that they can defend themselves against murder? \n\nLieut.-Commander Fletcher: Will the right hon. Gentleman give an assurance that the determination of the Government to restore order in Palestine will not be allowed in any way delay their putting forward their proposals for pacification and conciliation in Palestine? \n\nMr. MacDonald: Yes, Sir. I hope to make a statement of the Government's intentions about that shortly after the new Session opens. \n\nMr. Petherick: Is close contact being maintained with the French Government, in view of the fact that the co-operation of neighbouring Powers would be of great advantage in dealing with this problem? \n\nMr. MacDonald: Yes, Sir. \n\nMr. Gallacher: Is the right hon. Gentleman not aware that if he withdrew the forces from Palestine, the Jews and Arabs could get on all right? \n\n## BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. \n\nMr. Attlee: May I ask the Prime Minister whether he has any statement to make with regard to the business of the House? \n\nThe Prime Minister: The Adjournment of the House will be moved to-day for a Debate on the international situation. \n\nPage 20\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 587309, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-605-1 Annual Accounts- 1946-7 9-9-1948 - 14-3-1949", "page_number": 116, "title": "CO129-605-1 Annual Accounts- 1946-7 9-9-1948 - 14-3-1949", "content_text": "1721\n\n—— 44 —–—–\n\n# APPENDIX 11.\n\n## STATEMENT OF FUNED PUBLIC DEBT OR LOANS BORROWED FOR FIXED PERIODS OUTSTANDING ON THE 31ST MARCH, 1947, AND THE ACCUMULATED SINKING FUND AT THE SAME DATE.\n\nDesignation of Dollar Loan\nLegal Authority\nAmount Outstanding\nSinking Fund\nNominal Value\nBook Value\nMarket Value\nAmount of Stocks etc.\n\nHong Kong 4% Conversion Loan.\nOrdinance No. 15 of 1933.\n$4,838,000\n\nBrighton British Guiana 3% Stock 1933/53\n£1,850. 0. 0.\n£1,850. 0. 0.\n£1,868.10. 0.\n19,009. 9. 2. (101)\n\nCardiff 2½% 1960 1966/71\n\n19,009. 9. 2.\n20,150. 0. 6.\n\nCommonwealth of Australia 3¾% 1948/53\n650.19.11.\n650.19.11.\n650.19.11.\n3,282. 1. 6. (106)\n\n3½% 1950/52\n3,155.16.10.\n3,155.16.10.\n3,282. 1. 6.\n\n3¾% 1952/56\n12,422. 8. 2.\n12,422. 8. 2.\n12,981. 8. 4.\n(104)\n\n3% 1958/60\n5,900. 0. 0.\n\n6,431. 0. 0.\n(109)\n\nFife County Council\n641. 0. 0.\n641. 0. 0.\n\n(105)\n\nGold Coast 4¼% 1951/61\n6,000. 0. 0.\n\n3,592.14. 5.\n(118)\n\nHull\n3,070. 4. 7.\n\n(111)\n\nIndia 3% 1949\n734. 8.10.\n734. 8.10.\n673. 1. 0.\n6,540. 0. 0. (1028)\n\nKenya 3½% 1950\n11,109.10. 1.\n\n3,622.17. 5.\n815. 4. 7. (1081)\n\nNew Zealand 4% 1948/53\n11,809. 3. 4.\n\n11,401. 2. 7.\n\n4¼% 1950\n6,090. 1. 8.\n6,090. 1. 8.\n12,812.18.11.\n(109)\n\nNigeria 3½% 1949/54\n10,275. 3. 4.\n10,275. 3. 4.\n6,638. 3.10.\n(103)\n\n3% 1952/55\n427.17. 4.\n427.17. 4.\n447. 2. 5.\n(1051)\n\nNorthern Rhodesia 5% 1955 1950/70\n1,656.19. 2.\n\n1,748. 1.10.\n(108)\n\n6,090. 1. 8.\n\n7,949. 1. 0.\n\nNottingham 3% 1.9.57\n7,326. 6. 3.\n7,326. 6. 3.\n\n(104)\n\n8,640.13. 6.\n8,640.13. 6.\n8,986. 6. 0.\n\nPlymouth 3% 1954\n3,130.15.10.\n3,130.15.10.\n3,256. 0. 6.\n73 (104)\n\nSheffield 3% 1954\n1,622.11.10.\n\n1,687. 9.11.\n\n3¾% 1953\n1,679. 4. 6.\n1,679. 4. 6.\n\n(1071)\n\n11,244. 4. 5.\n11,244. 4. 5.\n12,087.10. 9.\n\nSierra Leone 3% 1954\n13,015. 9. 7.\n13,015. 9. 7.\n13,601. 3. 6.\n(1041)\n\nSmethwick 4¼% 1955/65\n3,009. 3. 7.\n3,009. 3. 7.\n3,475.12. 0.\n(115)\n\nSouth Africa 3% Savings Bonds 1955/65\n4,039. 3. 4.\n4,039. 3. 4.\n4,357. 5. 0.\n(105)\n\n3% 1960 70\n19,303.19.11.\n\n20,365.14. 4.\n(1051)\n\n3% 1965/75\n9,308. 6. 8.\n9,308. 6. 8.\n9,820. 5.10.\n\nWar Loan 3/% 1955/59\n412.15. 8.\n412.15. 8.\n437.11. 0.\n(106)\n\nWolverhampton 4¼% 1952/62\n1,805. 4.10.\n\n1,904.10. 7.\n(1051)\n\n827. 3.11.\n827. 3.11.\n905.15. 7.\n(109)\n\n£178,489. 1. 9.\n£179,711. 7. 6.\n£189,480. 7. 3.\n\nHong Kong 3½% Dollar Loan (1934).\nOrdinance No. 11 of 1934.\n$7,280,000\n\nHong Kong 3¾% Dollar Loan (1940).\n\n$8,962,000\n\nTHE TREASURY, \nHONG KONG, \n10th February, 1948.\n\n•Repayment annually at the rate of 1/25th of the total nominal value of $14,000,000 of the bonds issued.\n\nRepayment annually at the rate of 1/25th of the total value of $11,790,000 of the bonds issued.\n\nH. R. HIRST, \nAccountant General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-605-1 Annual Accounts- 1946-7 9-9-1948 - 14-3-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 587396, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-605-1 Annual Accounts- 1946-7 9-9-1948 - 14-3-1949", "page_number": 203, "title": "CO129-605-1 Annual Accounts- 1946-7 9-9-1948 - 14-3-1949", "content_text": "APPENDIX 11.\n\nSTATEMENT OF FUNDED PUBLIC DEBT OR LOANS BORROWED FOR FIXED PERIODS OUTSTANDING ON THE 31ST MARCH, 1947, AND THE ACCUMULATED SINKING FUND AT THE SAME DATE.\n\nDesignation of Dollar Loan\nLegal Authority\nAmount Outstanding\nSinking Fund\nNominal Value\nBook Value\nMarket Value\n\nHong Kong 4% Conversion Loan.\nOrdinance No. 15 of 1933.\n$4,838,000\n\nBrighton 3% Stock 1933/53\n\n£1,850.0.0.\n£1,850.0.0.\n£650.19.11.\n£3,155.16.10.\n\nBritish Guiana\n\n£19,009.9.2.\n£19,009.9.2.\n(101) (106)\n(104)\n\nCardiff 2½%\n1960 1966/71\n\n£12,422.8.2.\n£12,422.8.2.\n£3,592.14.5.\n£11,109.10.1.\n\nCommonwealth of Australia 3½%\n1948/53\n\n£5,900.0.0.\n£5,900.0.0.\n(118)\n(102)\n\n13\n\n£641.0.0.\n£641.0.0.\n£734.8.10.\n£1,868.10.0.\n\nFife County Council 4½%\n1952/56 1958/60 1951/61\n\n£6,000.0.0.\n£6,000.0.0.\n(111)\n£20,150.0.6.\n\nGold Coast\n\n£3,070.4.7.\n\n£650.19.11.\n\nHull\n\n£11,109.10.1.\n£3,282.1.6.\n\nIndia\n1956\n\n(1041)\n£12,981.8.4.\n\nKenya 4% 4½%\n1952/72 1948/53\n\n£11,809.3.4.\n£11,809.3.4.\n£6,090.1.8.\n£673.1.0.\n\nNew Zealand 5% 3½%\n1949 1949/54\n\n£6,431.0.0.\n\n£10,275.3.4.\n£6,540.0.0.\n\n77 19 77\n\n(109)\n£3,622.17.5.\n\nNigeria 3%\n1952/55\n\n£427.17.4.\n\n£815.4.7.\n£447.2.5.\n\n1955\n\n£1,656.19.2.\n\n£11,401.2.7.\n£1,748.1.10.\n\nNorthern Rhodesia 5%\n1950/70\n\n£7,326.6.3.\n£7,326.6.3.\n£7,949.1.0.\n£8,986.6.0.\n\nNottingham 3%\n1.9.57\n\n£8,640.13.6.\n£8,640.13.6.\n£9,081.17.8.\n\nPlymouth\n1954\n\nSheffield\n1954\n\n£3,130.15.10.\n£3,130.15.10.\n£3,256.0.6.\n£1,687.9.11.\n\nSierra Leone 3½% 3%\n1953\n\n£11,244.4.5.\n£11,244.4.5.\n£12,087.10.9.\n\nSmethwick\n\nSouth Africa 4½%\n1955/65\n\n£13,015.9.7.\n£13,015.9.7.\n£13,601.3.6.\n\n1955/75\n\n£3,009.3.7.\n£3,009.3.7.\n£3,475.12.0.\n\n3 Savings Bonds\n1955, 65\n\n1960, 70\n\n£4,039.3.4.\n£4,039.3.4.\n£4,357.5.0.\n\nWar Loan Wolverhampton 3% 4½%\n1955/'59 1952/62\n\n£19,303.19.11.\n£19,412.1.1.\n£20,365.14.4.\n\n19\n\n£9,308.6.8.\n£9,308.6.8.\n£9,820.5.10.\n\n£412.15.8.\n£412.15.8.\n£437.11.0.\n\n£1,805.4.10.\n£1,805.4.10.\n£1,904.10.7.\n\n£827.3.11.\n£827.3.11.\n£905.15.7.\n\n£178,489.1.9.\n£179,711.7.6.\n£189,480.7.3.\n\n---44-\n\nHong Kong 3½% Dollar Loan (1934).\n\nHong Kong 3% Dollar Loan (1940).\n\nTHE TREASURY,\n\nHONG KONG,\n\n10th February, 1948.\n\nOrdinance No. $7,280,000 11 of 1934.\n\n$8,962,000\n\nRepayment annually at the rate of 1/25th of the total nominal value of $14,000,000 of the bonds issued.\n\nRepayment annually at the rate of 1/25th of the total value of $11,790,000 of the bonds issued.\n\nH. R. HIRST,\n\nAccountant General.\n\n230\n\nEND\n\nEC", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-605-1 Annual Accounts- 1946-7 9-9-1948 - 14-3-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 588940, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-608-2 Police Department- European inspectorate 18-2-1948 - 8-1-1949", "page_number": 96, "title": "CO129-608-2 Police Department- European inspectorate 18-2-1948 - 8-1-1949", "content_text": "BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. \n\nName: Anthony Victor TOMLINS.\n\nDate of Birth: 25.9.26.\n\nMarried or Single: Single.\n\nEducation: Royal Wolverhampton School 1933-1944.\n\nHonours, Decorations and Degrees: The General Service Medal, Palestine.\n\nSpecial Training and Qualifications: Police Qualifying Arabic Language Examination. Police Proficiency Pay Examination.\n\nPresent Appointment: 2nd British Sergeant.\n\nOfficial Service: Appointed Constable 1.6.46. 2/B/Sgt. 1.6.47.\n\nBranches of the Force served in: Foot Establishment.\n\nRemarks: A keen and capable young police officer, with ... experience. He is fond of sport and has a smart bearing and pleasing manner, but is a regular soldier and may have to complete his regular engagement.\n\nPresent emoluments:\n\n \n Salary\n LP.15.000\n \n \n Variable high cost of living\n LP. 9.250\n \n \n Expatriation allowance\n LP. 3.000\n \n \n Total per month\n LP.27.250\n \n\nPlus free uniform, rations and accommodation.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-608-2 Police Department- European inspectorate 18-2-1948 - 8-1-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 592836, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-614-2 Visit of Sir Patrick Abercrombie to advise on town planning 28-11-1946 - 5-12-1947", "page_number": 124, "title": "CO129-614-2 Visit of Sir Patrick Abercrombie to advise on town planning 28-11-1946 - 5-12-1947", "content_text": "## absent himself from the country for several weeks at a time. He therefore accepted an invitation to visit Cyprus and the appointment of a Town Planning Adviser has been deferred until after the visit.\n\nThe fee is to be 500 guineas plus travelling expenses only, and this is being met from the Colony's revenue, although the suggestion was made that it could come from C.D.&W. funds. This fee includes the visit and the writing of a Preliminary Report with some diagrams but no Town Planning Maps; the Report will be made with a view to deciding what is the best way of preparing a General Regional Plan and a series of Local ones.\n\nIn the case of Cyprus it is understood that, if the Report is acceptable, Sir Patrick's Office will wish to be responsible for the ensuing work.\n\n## 124\n\n(see (26) and `90281/45-4b`)\n\nSir Patrick left by air on 15th February and intends to have about three clear weeks in the Colony; he is accompanied by his daughter, who is his private secretary, but whose expenses are paid separately and privately.\n\nIn addition to Cyprus, he has done, or is doing, Hull, Warwick, Plymouth, the Aldershot area, Addis Ababa, Colombo, Wolverhampton, and sites in Venezuela.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-614-2 Visit of Sir Patrick Abercrombie to advise on town planning 28-11-1946 - 5-12-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 596568, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-623-4 Supplementary Expenditure- includes an annual report for the year ending March 1950 1-12-1950 - 30-11-1951", "page_number": 142, "title": "CO129-623-4 Supplementary Expenditure- includes an annual report for the year ending March 1950 1-12-1950 - 30-11-1951", "content_text": "APPENDIX VII—Continued\n\n154\n\nSTATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS AS AT 31ST MARCH, 1950.\n\n4% CONVERSION LOAN SINKING FUND.\n\n223\n\nAPPENDIX VIII—Continued\n\n155\n\nSTATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS AS AT 31ST MARCH, 1950.\n\n3½% REHABILITATION LOAN 1947/48.\n\n \n STOCKS:\n Nominal Value\n Market Price @ 31.3.50.\n Market Value.\n Book Value.\n Appreciation.\n Depreciation.\n \n \n Australia 3½% 1951/54\n £12,683\n 102\n £12,936 16 2\n £8,136\n \n £641\n \n \n \" 3½% 1952/56\n 5,900 2 11\n 104\n 6,313 9 2\n \n 666 12 10\n \n \n \n \" 3% 1958/60\n 100\n 641\n 666 12 10\n \n \n 25 12 10\n \n \n British Guiana L.C.L. 3% 1960\n 19,009 9 2\n 99½\n 18,961 18\n 19,009 9 2\n \n 300\n \n \n Gold Coast 3% 1954/59\n \n 91½\n 911\n 298 19 10\n \n 311 0 3\n \n \n \" 4½% 1956\n 3,944 6 4\n 107½\n 4,240 2 10\n 4,415 0 2\n \n 22,024 18 11\n \n \n New Zealand 3% 1962/55\n 22,024 18 11\n 101\n 22,355 6 5\n \n 22,769 18 11\n \n \n \n Nigeria 3% 1955\n 19,587 17 11\n 101½\n 19,881 14 3\n \n 20,169 13 10\n \n \n \n Sierra Leone 3% 1954\n 15,583 3 6\n 100½\n 15,661 1 10\n 16,050 13 5\n \n \n \n \n 4½% 1955\n 3,934 6\n 107½\n 4,229 7 9\n 4,405 8 11\n \n \n \n \n South Africa 4½% 1955/75\n 4,039 3 4\n 105¾\n 4,261 6 5\n 4,483 9 6\n \n \n \n \n Cardiff 2½% 1966/71\n 650 19 11\n 88\n 572 17 6\n 631 9 4\n \n \n \n \n Hull 4½% 1952/72\n 734 8 10\n 105½\n 774 16\n 793 3 11\n \n \n \n \n Liverpool 3% 1955/68\n 1,874 15\n 100¾\n 1,884 3 3\n 1,949 15 7\n \n \n \n \n Nottingham 3% 1-9-57\n 8,640 13\n 100½\n 8,683 17 7\n 8,986\n \n \n \n \n Plymouth 3% 1954\n 8,523 14\n 101\n 8,651 11 4\n 8,693 16 7\n \n \n \n \n Sheffield 3½% 1953\n 17,426 18\n 103\n 17,949 14 7\n 18,363 4 7\n \n \n \n \n Smethwick 4½% 1955/65\n 3,009\n 106\n 3,189 14\n \n \n \n \n \n Wolverhampton 4½% 1952/62\n 21,766 11 5\n 103\n 22,419 11 4\n 22,963 14 8\n \n \n \n \n 3% Nat. Defence Loan 1954/58\n 827 3 11\n 103½\n 856 22\n \n \n \n \n \n 2% Nat. War Bonds 1952/54\n \n 7\n 2 11\n \n \n \n \n \n 3% Savings Bonds 1955/65\n 24,974 3 9\n 101½\n 25,286 7 3\n 25,626\n \n \n \n \n War Loan 3% 1955/60\n 19,303 19 11\n 99\n 19,110 19 1\n 20,076 3 11\n \n \n \n \n Cash with Crown Agents\n 3,310 889\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n STOCKS:\n Nominal Value\n Price @ 31.3.50.\n Market Value.\n Book Value\n Appreciation.\n Depreciation.\n \n \n Australia 3½% 1964/74\n £16,233\n 97¼\n £15,774 17\n \n \n £4710\n \n \n British Guiana 3% 1975/80\n 16,212 15\n 98¾\n 16,008 12 9\n 14,374 16\n 15,827 5 3\n \n \n \n &\n \n \n \n 15,625\n 202 5 3\n \n \n \n Jamaica 3½% 1968/73\n 480 5 2\n 98¾\n 482 18 1\n 389 11 7\n \n 236 1 2\n \n \n Malaya 3% 1974/76\n 785 7 9\n 88¾\n 695 1 4\n 483 1 6\n \n 222 3 1\n \n \n British Electricity 3% 1974/77\n 1,345 11 11\n 85\n 1,158 10\n 1,143 11 10\n \n 18 7 2\n \n \n 3% Savings Bonds 1965/75\n 15,288 19 1\n 95\n 14,524 5 8\n 14,924 13\n \n \n \n \n Cash with Joint Colonial Fund\n 278,802 10\n \n \n 278,802 10\n \n \n \n \n \n £343,805 3\n \n £339,249 10 4\n £343,292 5 10\n £202 5 3\n £4,245\n \n \n @ 1/3=$6,500,682.40\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n $1/8=$6,427,995.27\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1/8 55,492,076.66\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1/3=83,286.20\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n € 1/3=$47,920.89\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n £229,065 17 4\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nTHE TREASURY,\n\nHong Kong, 31st August, 1950.\n\n1/3 $3,665,053.87\n\n232,253 12 1\n\n238,027 19 11\n\nNIL\n\n6,774 7 10\n\n@ 1/3=8,716,057.67\n\nExamined.\n\nP. H. JENNINGS,\n\nDirector of Audit.\n\n27th November, 1950,\n\n1/3=$8,808,447.9%\n\n1/3-392,390.26\n\nR. C. LEMMON, Accountant General.\n\nTHE TREASURY,\n\nHong Kong, 21st August, 1950.\n\nExamined.\n\nP. H. JENNINGS,\n\nDirector of Audit.\n\n27th November, 1950.\n\nR. C. LEMMON.\n\nAccountant General.\n\n224", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-623-4 Supplementary Expenditure- includes an annual report for the year ending March 1950 1-12-1950 - 30-11-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 598977, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-626-7 Hong Kong War Memorial Fund 1-8-1951 - 31-1-1952", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-626-7 Hong Kong War Memorial Fund 1-8-1951 - 31-1-1952", "content_text": "LIST OF HONG KONG WAR MEMORIAL FUND BENEFICIARIES\n\nIDENTS IN UNITED KINGDOM\n\nWHO ARE\n\nRELATIVES/DEPENDANTS OF HONG KONG WAR DEAD/ DISABLED\n\nTusband, the late Mr Lawrence Jack, Sgt. H.K.V.D.C., died whilst a P.O.W. on 22.8.42. Cause of death: Diphtheria. Mrs. Jack is receiving a Widow's Pension of 37/- a week.\n\nHusband, the late G.N. Tinson, ex-Officer Commanding Auxiliary Communications Corps, was killed in action on 19.2.41. Mrs. Tinson is receiving a total disablement pension of £2-5-0 a week.\n\nHusband, the late Fra I. Starling, member of the Auxiliary Quartering Corps, died of mal-nutrition in Stanley Camp on 12.2.44. Apart from assistance from the W.M.F., she receives also a weekly disability pension of £1-2-6, plus a Widow's Pension of £1-15-0 weekly.\n\nHusband, J. Jack, member of H.K.V.R., died as a P.O.W. in Osaka Camp, Japan, on 15.9.44. Cause of death: chronic peritonitis and beri-beri. Mrs. Jack is in receipt of a widow's pension of £8-13-8d (approx.) weekly.\n\nHusband, Arthur Watson, member of the H.K.V.R., died as the result of the sinking of the \"Lisbon Maru\" on or about 1.10.42. Mrs. Watson has a part-time job and is in receipt of a Widow's Pension (not specified). This W.M.F. grant is used for her son's education.\n\nMr. Lane was called up on 8.12.41 as Depot Commander, Rescue and Demolition Corps. On 25.12.41, he was captured by the Japanese and subsequently interned at Stanley. He has been incapacitated through internment.\n\nMr. Murphy, a member of H.K.V.D., was a P.O.W. throughout the Japanese occupation of this Colony. Sight impaired, he receives a disability pension of £12 p.a., interest on investment of 50p.a., and has a night job earning £5.10.0 per week. His wife is with him in the UK.\n\n \n Ref. No.\n Name\n Age\n Address\n Allowance from W.M.F.\n \n \n W.M.F.32/B/APP\n Mrs. D. Jack\n 66\n 15 Cranfield Court, Valley Road, Ipswich, Suffolk.\n £100 p.a.\n \n \n W.M.F.2/APP\n Mrs. H. Tinson\n 59\n \"Captain's Cottage\", Compton, Wolverhampton, Staffs.\n £200 p.a.\n \n \n W.M.F.1/APP\n Mrs. H. Starling\n 63\n Flat House, 3 Colbeck Terrace, Tynemouth, Northumberland.\n £67.5 p.a.\n \n \n W.M.F.51/B/APP\n Mrs. H.S. Jack\n 55\n Wynthurst, Aylesbury, Bucks.\n \n \n \n W.M.F.2/C/APP\n Mrs. G.H. Watson\n 45\n 90 Pushfort Street, Longsight, Manchester, 12.\n £80 p.a.\n \n \n W.M.F.1/D/APP\n Mr. A. Lane\n 74\n Flat A, 41 Christchurch Road, Bournemouth.\n £10 p.a.\n \n \n W.M.F.44/B/APP\n Mr. O. Murphy\n 45\n Omega, Teath Close, Banstead, Surrey.\n £120 p.a.\n \n\nPage 24", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-626-7 Hong Kong War Memorial Fund 1-8-1951 - 31-1-1952.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 598981, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-626-7 Hong Kong War Memorial Fund 1-8-1951 - 31-1-1952", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-626-7 Hong Kong War Memorial Fund 1-8-1951 - 31-1-1952", "content_text": "28\n\nLIST OF HONG KONG WAR MEMORIAL FUND BENEFICIARIES WHO ARE RESIDENTS IN UNITED KINGDOM.\n\n \n Ref.No.\n Name\n Age\n Address\n Allowance from W.M.F.\n \n \n W.MF.32/B/APP\n Mrs. D.M. Jack\n 63/7/66\n 15, Cranfield Court, Valley Road, Ipswich, Suffolk.\n £100 p.a.\n \n \n W.M.F.2/N/APP\n Mrs. E.H. Tinson\n 59\n \"Captain's Cottage, Compton, Wolverhampton-Staffs\n £200 p.a.\n \n \n W.M.F1/L/APP\n Mrs. M.M. Starling\n 63\n Elk House, 3, Colbeck Terrace, Tynemouth, Northumberland.\n £75 p.a.\n \n \n W.M.F.51/B/APP\n Mrs. M.S. Jack\n 55\n Aylesbury, Bucks. Wynthurst, Speen,\n £120 p.a.\n \n \n W.M.F.2/C/APP\n Mrs. G.M. Watson\n 45\n 90, Rushfort Street, Longsight, Machester 12.\n £80 p.a.\n \n \n W.M.F.1/0/APP\n Mr A.J. Lane\n 74\n Flat A, 41, Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, U.K.\n £100 p.a.\n \n \n W.M.F.44/B/APP\n Mr. E.O. Murphy\n 45\n Omega, Heath Close, Banstead, Surrey.\n £120 p.a.\n \n\nREMARKS\n\nHusband, the late Mr. Lawrence Jack, Sgt H.K.V.D.C., died whilst a P.W.O. on 22.8.42. Cause of death- Diphtheria. Mrs. Jack is receiving War Widow Pension 37/- a week.\n\nHusband, the late G.G.N. Tinson, M.C., ex-Officer Commanding Auxiliary Communications Corps, was killed in action on 19.12.41. Mrs. Tinson is receiving a total disablement pension of £2-5-0 a week.\n\nHusband, the late Mr. E.L. Starling, member of the Auxiliary Quartering Corps, died of malnutrition in Stanley Camp on 12.2.44. Apart from assistance from the W.M.F., she receives also £1-2-6 weekly, disability pension, plus Widows Pension of £1.15.0 weekly.\n\nHusband, J.M. Jack, member of H.K.V.D.C., died as a P.O.W. in Osaka Camp, Japan, on 15.9.44. Cause of death Chronic peritonitis and beri-beri. Mrs. Jack is in receipt of a widow pension of £8-13-8d (approx.) weekly.\n\nHusband, Arthur Watson, member of the H.K.R.N.V.R died as the result of the sinking of the \"Lisbon Maru\" on or about 1.10.42. Mrs. Watson has a part-time job and is in receipt of a Widow Pension (not specified). This grant is used for her son's education.\n\nMr. Lane was called up on 8.12.41 as Depot Commander, Rescue and Demolition Corps. On 25.12.41 he was captured by the Japanese and subsequently interned at Stanley. Has been incapacitated through internment.\n\nMr. Murphy, member of H.K.V.D.C., was a P.O.W. throughout the Japanese occupation of this Colony. He receives disability pension of £12 p.m., interest of investment £50 p.a. and has a night job earning £5-10- per week. His wife is with him in U.K.\n\n28", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-626-7 Hong Kong War Memorial Fund 1-8-1951 - 31-1-1952.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]