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THE HONGKONG DAILY

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SATURDAY,

MARCH | SED, 1928

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BRITISH CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE CONFERENCE

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FURTHER RESOLUTIONS.

The following resolutions additional to those already published were pamed] at the Conference of British Chambers) of Commieres se Shanghai,

AHEAD OF THE MAIL

SUPPLEMENTARY WIRES.

The following telegrams are taken from. Ceylon exchanges:

DEE AND DON IN SPATE, .

LONDON, February 19th.

Owing to spate in the rivers Dee and Don following several days of heavy rains, the opening date of the net salmon ishing ia Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire has been postponed for the Arst time for

"AULD BRIG" SAFE.

INADEQUATE CUSTOMS FACILITIES AT PUKOW

That in the opinion of this Conference the absence of adequate Customs facilitres at Pukow is a serious handicap to thefty years. present trade of the port of Nanking and! a hindrance to the future development of Pukow, and this Conference, in view of the delay which must stilt elapse before pemanent Custom House with staff quarters, atc. can be erected, urges that temporary Custom House be immediately established on the railway whärves or other suitable location."

THE BOXER INDEMNITY.

That this Conferenco weleases the announcement recently made of the intention of His Majesty's Governalent to devoto the British share in the outstanding portion of, the Boxer Indemnity to purposes mutually, (beneficial to Great Britain and China

"That, in the opinion of is Con- ference, the purposes to which these funds can most usefully be applied in accordance with the above decision are the education of Chinese on British lines and the support of British medical work, educational and clinical, in China.

NOW

THE PRESS.

THE DIRECTORY

AND CHRONICLE:

1923.

FOR CHINA, JAPAN

FORKA.

INDO-CHINA, SIAM, STRAITS

BETTLEMENTS, MALAY STATES,

NETHERLANDS INDIA, PHILIP.

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Loapos. February 12th. Following the fierce controversy over the proposal of the Arr Town Council to reclaim laad froin the bed of the River. Ayr near the historie Auld Brig, a liter from the First Commissioner of Works was, cead at a "meting of the Council stating that the Committee for the Preservation of Ancient Monuments. had decided to take care of the Brig. OBTAINABLE The Council thereupon agreed to abandon the reclamation scheme, and therefore the unenity of the Brig was ante.

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LONDOS. February, 12th Scandalous scenes which occurred in Oxfordstreet when the public houses" on side closed, and the customers one tumultuously rushed to the other side to houses still open were described by a witness at the "Marylebone Licensing Ses sion in the course of an application to extend the closing hours to eleven in the

og similar to the neighbouring› boroughs. The justices refused the ex-

tension:

`BOTTLED IN COGNAC AND GUARANTEED PURE GRAPE BRANDY the invited educationalists) under which was charged with obtaining £4 from Sir

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MONEY BY FALSE PRETENCES. LONDON, February 19th. Thomas Frederick Hunt, a printer who Fenton Aylmer, and attempting to obtain a further £3, has been sentenced to two consecutive terms of four months int- prisonment with hard inbour.

"That, as regards the application of the funds to be devoted to educational werk, this Conference adheres getterally to the view expressed in the report adopted by ths last Conference of Chambers (as specified by the memuran- dum received by the Conference from first place was given to the support of secondary school in Chius under British control, with subsidiary provision for the development of feeder primary schools and with as ample provision as possible

ARMY APPOINTMENTS. " for scholarships from the feeder primary

Lobos, February 12th. schoals to the secondary schools, from the latter to the University of Hongkong, It is officially announced that Lieut- and, in appropriate cases (more especially General Sir Hugh Jeud wine will succeed for post-graduate work) to Universities Lieut-General Sir Noel Birch [1:3

in Great Britain.

Director-General of the Territorial Army, The following appointments to Divisional Commands to the Regular Army are announced: Major-General Sir E P. Strickland to second division, Major General Sir Archibald Montgomery to first division Major-General Sir R. B. Stephens to fourth division.

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That, in view of altered conditions. this Conference of opinion

(a) That public monies, upon the scale contemplated, ought not to be devoted to any British school which is not, or is not capable of becoming, a really eficient school; and..

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LONDON, February, 12th

(b) that while grants, both of a capital' and of a recurring nature, might properly

A verdict of suicide while of unsound be made, as a provisional measure, with

view to bringing a school up to the mind was returned at the inquest on required standard, the ultimate object Major Cocil Sebag-Montefiore, who was should be the creation of autonomous found shot in the office in Grafton Street educational foundations, with adequate of Messrs. Bathin, Limited, travel eadowments, due regard being had to the agents, of which he was the Governing purposes for which the school was origin-Director. He was a member of a famous ally founded.

That this Conference would be glad to see the University of Hongkong placed in a position inanerally to meet the obligations likely to be placed upon it.

That this Conference is satisfied that much of the work done by British agencies in "Union" institutions (under which heading there is included practically the whole of British medical educational work in China proper) is upon debaitely British lines and is an almost necessary complement to the work done in British secondary schools, for both which reasons it is deserving of financial support under the proposed scheme.

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LONDON, February 19th. "That this Conference "would approve

Luxor. The evacuation of the tomb. the giving of financial support to technical education in China on British lines, orvas resumed yesterday, and continued The removals included two the provision of scholarships tenable in to-day.

gala one evidently, a England for the study of special processes chariot-bodies, in caves in which the provision of facilities chariot in magnificent condition, covered on the "spot would be impossible or would with exquisitely chiselled gold-sheets and involve unreasonable expense.

the interior avishly decorated with "That this Conference regards the scenes of Asiatic and African prisonera,

FFICE and RESIDENCE with Servants provision of facilities for the education also gold horus, birds, and numerous taman Kitchen on Good Locality of Chinese girls and women as an essential canes and wands delicately carved uni complement to the education of Chinese covered with gold leaf, and an ancient in SHAMEEN:

bow and boomerang, youths on Western lines.

"That, finally this Conference would Priceedings yesterday were enlivened welcome the creation of machinery in by the appearance of the representative China to aid in the distribution of the monics available, and regards it is essential that such machinery, should make provision for the adequate repre- sentation af China's opinion,'

TRAIFF, RULE 1.

of an American film company, who arrived direct from New York armed. with a permit by the Department of Antiquities. Hitherto. Lord Carnarvon's official photographer held undisputed away in filming the removal of the aures, and incidents in the neghbourhood. "That this Conference expresses its The newcomer's intrusion was countered regret that the Chinese Government has by the next trayful of treasures to emergo not seen its way to agree to the proposed from the tomb being "enveloped in a revision of Tariff Rule 1 on the lines white, sheet. approved by the majority of the delegates The American's protest was met with on the Tariff Revision Commission and the blaud statement that the objects were expresies the hope that, with a view to covered to keep off the dust. the matter being taken up again at the News that another cinematographer first opportunity, His Majesty's Govern had arrived led to the early resumption ment will give its support to the views of the work this morning, six tray of British merchants in China

emerging in quick succession before the pressed in the resolution passed at the

new operator appeared. 1991 Conference of the Associated Cham- bera, the principle of which was approved. by the delegates on the Tariff Revision Commission representing Sweden, Brazil, Denmark, France, Italy, Norway and Portugal."

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