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DIOCESAN GIRLS' SCHOL.

LARGE GATHERING AT ANNUALPRIZE

DISTRIBUTION.

TRIBUTES PAID TO FORMER SCHOO!MISTRESSES.

A SATISFACTORY YEAR'S WRK.

Yesterday at the annual prize distributionof the Diocesan Girls School, Kowloon, two photographs of foer mistresses of the school were unveiled by Mra. M. K. Lo. Thphotographs were those of Miss Ferguson and Miss Dulmage, anbefore the unveil- ing, the Rev. Copley Moyle paid a warm tributto the good work done by these two ladies. Miss Ferguson wathe former head- mistress of the school, who died in 1995. Misoulmage was lent to the school by the Canadian Presbyterian Maion in the place of Miss Ferguson. She died on September of th same year. As a minute mark of respect to the memory of these twoadies, one silence was observed.

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Following this, the pupils of the school entertained the audience with songs and piano solos. The Rev. Copley Moyle during an inter val expressed the regret at the coming departure of the. Rev. and Mrs. Lindsay. He said that whea Mr. Lindsay goes the school will lose one of its most able workers und advisers.

The prize distribution took place Meanwhile,nd consequently, the before a large gathering of friends, problems of lucation become more relatives and parents of the pupils and more coplex because educa- in the school. Among those present tion includemore and more of life, were Mr. W. W. Hornell, C.LE, nor is it of that they are com- M.A. (Vice-Chancellor of the Hoaz plex, for thaibject matter to which Kong University), Rev. H. Copley they are apjied is neither station Moyle. Rev. T. R. Lindsay, Mr. A. ary nor polic and calculable in its E. Wood (Director of Education) movements. It is always in flax and Mr. and Mrs. M. K. Lo,

and we do ot possess the formula Prior to the reading of the annual of its chang. We can only inter reports of the school by the headpret the pisent by experience of mistress, Miss Sawyer, the Rev. the past an even that experiences true" of Copley Hoyle spoke of the good is defective What was qualities of Miss Ferguson, the yesterday inot necessarily true of former headmistress, who died in to-day and will probably not be 1925 and of Miss Dulmage, the true of to-morrow. We legislate-for former acting headmistress, lent to conditions which are in process of the school by the Canadian Pres- change. Hre something like a gift byterian Missiou. Miss Dulmage of divinatia is needed no less than passed away in the same year. The the two quilities of experience and photographs of these two ladies enthusiasm To govern zeal with were then unveiled by Mrs. M. K. wisdom to preserve motive power Lo, one of the past pupils of the in accumalted experience another gift is needed, the gift of construc- tive imagination.

school..

At the conclusion, the Rev. Lind- say endorsed ail what Miss Sawyer had said abous tau able and loyal manner in which Miss Walter bad temporarily carried out the work of the school under great stress and diticulty until the retura of Ass Sawyer.

The Headmistress report is as follows:-

rest after

On

FOR

5 DAYS

VIOLINS

VIOLIN BOWS MANDOLINES

ETC., ETC.

AT

HALF PRICE.

S. Moutrie & Co., Ltd.

Chater Road.

AN UNAUTHORISED TAX ON PIGS: GANG WHOSE ACTIVITIES RAISED PRICE OF PORK.

SEVERAL ARRESTS,

THOUGHT FORCES.

ADDRESS TO THE THEOSO "PHICAL SOCIETY.

At this week's public meeting of the Theosophical Society on Thure

It is with much diffidence that I present this, the 27th, report on the work of our school. We began the year with 109 en the roll and closed with 211, and to-day we have 238 of whom 40 are boarders It was in March last year that I said the passing of Miss Ferguson in the year 1993 would leave its mark on the D.C.S. and now I feel that 1926 has been equally vital in the school's history. Miss Dulage of the Canadian Presbyterian Mission, who had been lent to as by her mission committee to act as Headmistress board, was appointed by the school while I was on furlough. As most

Berere suffering, of you know, she was called to her September 29th, and Miss Walters very loyally and ably carried on In under great stress and dificulty spite of much sickness and many until my return last month. changes on the staff the work of the school has maintained a high atan-

One of the reasons why we in day, Mr. J. Russell gave an address dard and we have received a very satisfactory report from the Educa-the Colony have been paying an on Thought-Forces," in the course tion Office after the Annual Inspec- exorbitant price lor pork was re of which he said: There exist tion. Mr. de Martins visited the vealed when the head man and always around us in the thought of November and D. Minette made alleged blackmailers were arrested crude thought-forces, laden with

error, worry, selfishness and school in Jane and again at the end other members of an association of atmosphere a certain amount of two medical inspections, one in July by the Police a few days ago.

Oficials of the Criminal Investi- In order to overcome their influence and one in December, and her re

week arrested a number of alleged we must use the powers of truthful most helpful ports and suggestions have been gation Department have during the which tend to darken our outlook, men who have formed themselves loving mind, and thus shall we amination results were satisfactory.blackmailers belonging to a gang of thought, of a nobler and more on error. We need that all who One Matriculation candidate was tions: 9 Seniors, 3 of whom

of a tax on importers of pigs passed

The most surprising part is that accept the truth that thought power entered and passed with 3 distinc into an Association for the levying overcome all thought-forces founded ( distinctions in all); 10 Juniors

dealers in this commodity have al- or force can be set to good ends, and 8 passed (3 distinctions in all).

This time last year we were allowed themselves to be intimidated will practise it daily at pre- Cultivation of the Imagination.

feeling very pleased at the thought into paying three cents for each pig arranged time thus mutually in- I claim bat the most important of a new playground which had just imported. Recently some of the creasing each others vibrations of and higher been granted to us by the Govern victins thought of dodging the tax unselfish love and truth and prac thing in secondary

playground to the full and during about way, but the Association result in increased strength, and a

found

out the trick and as a happy and peaceful life. education is the cultivation of the ment. To-day we are enjoying that by importing the pigs in a round tical brotherhood which alone will imagination There was time the year it has been enclosed by punishment increased the levy to when we proceded as if the im- the very substantial wall. We have $3 per pig.

Their patience at length exhaust now, our own. hockey ground, a

a portant thing was the acquisition of

second Tennis court, and

matter to the notice of the Police, information, it did not very much useful vegetable garder. In Decem-ed, the dealers trought the whole matter about what. There was very her both present and past pupils and hence the arrests.

organised a sale of work by which years have passed since Plate made were given, to charity at a s W.Socrates say in his "Republic." school-magazine fund, 850 to the 8TH DESTROYER FLOTILLA

school-library, 2000 to the Cóm- "But then, i' I am right, certain mittee towards the new grounds and

The prizes were distributed by Mr. Hornell, after the reports. had been read The Rev. Lindsay pre- sented the financial statement, which showed that the school is in a sound position....

THE VICE-CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH.

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&TC

uttio excuse for this.

Ang pang

44

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The University ex-

very

this $151

sent pupils.' Those words were

ARRIVES.

A FEW HOURS AHEAD OF

TIME.

The

evil...

We all, who have found that every good thought going out from us is a potential force for good, and greatly increased powers, should ultimately will return to us with daily use it to increase thus the happiness and well-being of all, and. we need each others daily co-opera tinn. Thought-co-operation for in- creasing love, truth and goodwill. will help us to overcome the evil in ourselves and in others.

Flotilla, SMALL-POX IN THE EAST.

Destroyer 6th

which reference was made yester detached from the Atlantic Fleet, to

time.

Plague,

1 case at Fort Said. 2 cases at Bombay.

3 cases at Rangoon."

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Addressing the large assembly of pupils, staff popanth d The Vice-Chancellor of the Hong Kong University (Mr. W. Hornell, C.I.E., MA.) said:

Most men and women are always professors must be Wrong, when I have in hand 8525. This latter I willing to talk about, education even they any that they put knowledge am adding to what I have already in the savings bank for Sports and if only to abuse it, but I have

into the soul which was not there I am hoping to have a covered drill- noticed that those whose lives are before, like sight into blind eyes. shed erected which will also be a

In view of the prevalence of speat in a vain, attempt to find a

We have repented of all this. Now. playground in wet weather and the practical solution for its insoluble a-days, the scientist vies with the heat. I must here take the opportu problems are, as a rule, the most artist in calling upon young men aity of publicly thanking all those day, has arrived in port. They saali-pox, thoughs only to a very and young women to see visions and who helped to bring about such came in during Thursday evening, minor extent, in this Colony, it is to dream dreams. If you who are excellent results. I want to refer lew hours ahead of the expected interesting to note. the number of reticent. Part of the price which

cases reported in other Eastern last year's report and I will quote

The Flotilla Leader, H.M.S. has to be paid for the importance schoolgirls to-day can see things as which education has assumed in they now are in their true perspec- wards I used. It is one of tay Bruce is one of five similar vessels Ports & complete record of which tive and at the same time ace hopes for the near future that we built by Messrs. Cammell Lairds it appears under the following Head- ing "Health Bulletin of Eastern" visions of what they might be, then, shall have an Old Girls Association, 1915-19, and is 3321 ft. length, 31ft. ports From Aden (13) to Kobe common thought is that we living in an era of over emphasised indeed, we shall not solve the prob- to be a bond between past and pre- sins. beam, 12ft. 3ins. draught and (1) cases are reported, the heaviest half truths on the subject All lem of education that will only be

solved when the world process closes spoken on March 13th and before 1,800 tons displacement. Twin screw returas being report Calcutta viest

a speed these tend to produce corresponding we shall avoid those the end of the month two prelimin- driven by engines developing 10,000 Bombay (86) Madras (29), Rangoon Her armament consists (29), Bangkok (12). Eleven cases are reported from nine ports, 80 re-actions. It is hard to strike a deadly enemies of the soul, superary meetings of Old Girls were held, h.p. he can reach

and on April 14th the inaugural 36 nots.

of five. 4.7 ins, one 3irs. anti- balance between the enthusiasin of ficiality and formalism.

meeting took place, when the con aircraft, and two two-pounder anti-that the situation at present is by Tribute to Miss Sawyer. inexperience and the disillusion of

stitution was adopted and officers aircraft guns, and six torpedo no means alarming.

The health bulletin of Eastern I kaew your head mistress, Miss elected. The Association has come

The crew numbers 132. experience; and everywhere and

into being and is known as The tubes. Sawyer, long before either of us

All the other vessels of the flotilla ports for the week ending March always there is the constant danger over dreamed that one day would Diocesan Old Girls' Association, or were built between 1918 and 1929, 19th, states:- of becoming absorbed in the machinace us both sitting on the

same more familiarly, the D.O.G.A

the Thracian being the latest. They ery of education for its own sake school platform in Kowloon. I cen- Already this association is making are 276ft. in length, 38jft. in and forgetting that, all machinery is gratulate Miss Sawyer on being the itself felt in the present school and breadth, and 10ft. draught, with a headmistress of the Diocesan Cirls' I for one am proud to belong to it but a means, and that what matters School, and the Diocesan Girls' and hope next month to be made displacement of 1,075 tons. Their develop 27,000 hp., giving erigines,

knots, is the quality and value of the pro- School on having as its headmistress life member. I know I can always a maximum speed of 38

Mise Sawyer. If from time to time rely on the D.O.G.A. to support the Three 4-ins., one two-pounder, one both of us think wistfully of India, school, not only materially but also machine gun, four Lewis guns, and it can at least not be brought as a by their sympathy and loyalty, and two deck torpedo tubes comprise reproach against us that we have it is up to the present girls to be their armament. Each vessel car- left our first lave, and perhaps India equally loyal. Should any Old Girl ries a complement of about 100 men. It is sometimes said that every was and is rather specially calcul bere to-day like to receive informa nation, as every individual, gets ated to impress upon the British tion about the D.O.G.A. she may eventually what it wants provided teacher that his or her work there apply to the Hon. Secretary, Miss Miss Couche is filling Miss Pater- Jordan House, Nathan son's place, to whom we were sorry will be wholly without avail if it Kacker,

to say Good-bye last month Mrs. that it knows what it wants and be not based on sympathetic under Road.

The Girl Guides competed for the Woodward though not a regular that it wants it enough. Certainly standing, patience and long suffer in education if the demand is vagueing, and that these qualities must Prince of Wales' banner on May 8th member of the staff has helped us

be genuine and not mere cloaks of and were successful in carrying it generously

This year we are not giving our and feeble the supply will be cor- ineficiency, weakness or cowardice off. Last month it was again com-

not going respondingly tentative and uncer. In Hong Kong today the same peted for, this time our company usual entertainment at the Prize- taia All the world over we seen problems confront teachers as once lost to the Central British School giving I am

confronted Miss Sawyer and me in Company. After a lapse of several apologize for this because to be faced with the paradox, that India. The old order in China is years the school again sent in candi- that parents and friends realise that for the Royal Drawing in spite of much sickness on the a satisfactory system of national changing with a vengence and it is dates education can only be created in a hard to stifie misgivings as we think Society's examinations. Out of 115 staff we have endeavoured to keep educated nation, and an educated of the new order to which the old entries we gained 63 Honours and up the standard of work.

These 107 certificates will be a short musical programme nation can only be created through is giving place. The re-organisa-24 passes.

I want to close on a note of grati- a satisfactory system of national tion of the machinery of political, bave already been awarded and this after the distribution of prizes. education. The world is full of such social and domestic life can effect accounts for the fact that we are theoretical impossibilities but the nothing unless this re-organisation giving no drawing prizes this year. tude, first of all to the parents who world moves on slowly all the same. be accompanied by a quickering of Games are now popular and play have responded to my appeal for This at least may be said of this ideals. But youth is not the time an important part in school life. co-operation-I feel there is a dis- Colony and the University and the for dismay and I am not going to Since November we bave play 8 tinet improvement here to the schools of Hong Kong are becoming end on note of warging. The Hockey Matches besides the Tennis many friends and firms who have more and more intimately connected toughest problems, the most critical Cup Matches and the Captain Ball generously helped the school, to the with the whole framework of the situations have no terrors for the Matches Of the 8 Hockey Matches staf, who have carried on so ably Colony's social and civic life. Actu- simple faith of a child. In times of 5 have been against outside teams and loyally through very difficult Yesterday's weather report, fare- ally education follows, slowly and prosperity men and women are apt and 3 in the school. As soon as we months, to Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay cast and remarks issued by the at a long distance, a movement in to become hard and exacting, but have a drill shed I hope to introduce who ever sincs their arrival in the Royal Observatory at 5 p.m. stated: The anti-cyclone is central over or ought to be. Think of this when the qualities which count at all the curriculum at present we have touch with the school, and of whore 8. Manchuria and is relatively over the idea of what education might humility and gracefulness, those are organized physical exercises into Colony have been in very close next you hear a so-called practical times. "My poet's vanity," Robin a little but pot much. man disposing of an enthusiast by dra Nath Tagore once wrote, "dies the old, old retort that the enthu.in shame before thy sight,

duct.

:: Theoretical Impossibilities That "* Work "Out."

siant's ideas are impracticable. As if any great, vital movement of the heart or mind could ever be tram- melled by the limitations of the im- į mediately practical. "The wind bloweth whither it listeth."

Oh, Master Poet, I have sat down

at thy feet,

Ouly let me make my life aimple

and straight, Like a fate of reed for thee to fill

with music.

unfailing kindness

8 cases at Colombo.

at Sourabaya. 2. cases at Saigon,

"Cholera,

52 cases at Calcutta, 1 case at Madras.

* 3 casce at Rangoon,

1 case at Negapatam,

22 cases at Bangkok.

Emall-pox...

13 cases at Aden.

66 cases at Bombay. 278-cases at Calcutta, 20 cases at Madras.

2 cases at Negapatam.

to

.29 cases at Rangoon.

know

I case at Vizagapatam.

I ease at Singapore.

1 case at Padang,

12 cases at Bangkok.

There

cannot ade-

1 case at Dairen.

1 case at Port Arthur.

2 cases at Vladivostock. 1 case at Fusan.

at Kobe.

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WEATHER REPORT.

Before closing I should l'ke to wel-quately speak. We shall miss them the China Sea. Moderate to freeh very much when they leave us and monsoon may be expected along the" for our own sake wo feel sad at the E. coset of China and over the thought of their departure, and we Northern portion of the North Local forecast: N.E. winds. thank them most sincerely for all China Sea. they have done and are doing.

rain. Thank you all very much for coming moderate, overcast, and occasional bere to-day.

come the new members of the staff Mr. Baldwin joined us in Septem- her, Miss Clarke in November and Mrs. Wilson in January. Miss Dew ing is taking up the work of Miss McGill who has gone on furlough. (Continued on next Column}.

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