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HOW TRADE MAY BE IMPROVED

SUGGESTIONS BY CHAIRMAN OF CHINESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Government Help For Experimental Farm

The annual general meeting of the Chinese General Cham- ber of Commerce was held yesterday afternoon at the Chamber's Headquarters, when the Chairman reviewed the events of the past and presented the accounts for adoption.

Among those present were Mr. Wong Kwang Tin (Ohair- man), Mr. Lui Yam Shuen (Treasurer), Mr. Chan Ping, Au (Söcre- tary). Messrs. Chow Tung Sang. Jackman To. Gock Chin, Mok Lin. Fan Shiu Nam, Slu Lan Ting, Wong Kong Chee, Lo Shut Po. Yung Koon Man, 14 Flu Tat, Kwok Yau Ting. Lau King Ching, Chu Pick Tung. Chan Tat Sam. Fang K1 Cheak, Yu Cheuk Sam, Chung Chi Lam, Chan Kim Tung, Li Sing Koi, Chow Sing Chee. Chung Wal Lam, Wong Mow Lam, and mony others.

After the accounts had been formally accepted in the usual manner, the Chairman told the meeting that the number of thousand members of this Chamber had increased up to one during the past year. He also expressed his high appreciation: of the co-operation of the Executive Committee for the Cham- ber's success.

Chairman's Address

Addressing the gathering the Chairman said:-

Gentlemen,-The 21st Annual Report has been in your hands for some time, and I presume that you have all read it. I would however, call your attention to the form in which the annual report of this Chamber appears for the first time.

You will notice that there is an English text with it. This text has been introduced at the request of some of our British friends including the Hon. Mr A. E. Wood,

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1934.

Chinese Schools In Hong Kong

INTERESTING SPEECH BY

WILLIAM HORNELL

SIR

Is The Local University Standard Too High?

Very Interesting, visüs on the question of education in local Chinese schooly were expressed yesterday when the Chinese Teachers' Association corumemorated Teachers' Day. The teachers from every Chinese School in the Colony were present at the - King's Theatre where the function was held.

Mr. Chan Tit Yat presided over the gathering and amongst those present were Bir Shou-son Chow, Sir William Hornell and Professor L. Forster, all of whom addressed the gathering.

First "Teacher's Day" In Hong Kong

The Chairman in a brief speech, Explained that the object of the meeting, which was the first of its kind, was to bring those responsible for the teaching of Chinese, in each other. meeting would

closer touch Further such

with

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semble to listen to what others' have to say You must always be trying new methods, making fresh appeals. You must collate the ex- pertences which each one of you Individually acquire in your class-į rooms; you must get together and discuss your problems in the light of your mutual experiences. I you do this "your Association will be a success even though the public does not hear very much about it. You are dealing with living material--boys and girls, not with antomatic machines. Your con- tact with them must be vital. It It is not your puplis will...waste most of the hours which ther spend in your classrooms and your life, your work. will be a monoton cus process of unrelieved drudgery.

PROFESSOR FORSTER

Professor Forster sald:-

It is only in China Ithink that, we celebrate a teachers day and It is only in China that one would expect to do so, for fn no country in the world is the teacher so highly honoured and esteemed, as The he is among the Chinese. great Confucius, was not only a teacher he was an adviser to the Emperor and statesmen. In the book by Sir Reginald Johnston this fact is clearly brought out." viz. that the Rogul tutor or teacher

By inauguration of an Experi- tend to uphold the prestige of the Now this ought not to be so. Uni- occupies a position

So as, to be

mental Live. Stock and Poultry Farm, which would require Govern- ment assistance. able to afford experiments for the purpose of discovering the best type of live stock and poultry to breed, and which would place the laformation gained and all helpful advice at the disposal of the poor farmers in the New Territories. 1

also .to en- would be necessary deavour to grow in the New Terri- tories as much foodstuffs as possible

late Secretary for Chinese Affairs. to feed the pigs and poultry

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that is only equalled by the most important statesmen. He had privileges which placed him above ordinary, folk. Then I understand that in wedding ceremonies the bride and bride-groom bowed to the teacher who with the parents had been re-

results of the school examinations which the University conducts are not satisfactory and that the Star

not alto of the University are gether satisfied with the capacity which those few boys and girls who come to the University possess,

Chinese teacher

versity courses should not be Sir Shou-son Chow with typical | beyond the power of the average Chinese modesty, explained to the intelligent boy or girl who has gathering that he spoke, with great been through what we should call diffidence, because he was neither England a secondary school a teacher nor an orator. Although | course. But not a few of those he was Chairman of the King's boys and girls who finally get to heatre. he assured the gathering the University do in effect find it that he had never before spoken difficult to pass their examination. You may say that the standards of the Hong Kong University are too high. The founders of the Univer- sity insisted that these standards with lofty towers; you may have should be comparable with those which obtain in England.

from its stage,

Sir Shou-son Chow pointed out at a teacher's task was no easy ne, and that a teacher shared with a boy's parents, the respon That was why the teacher in China was held in such veneration and respect.

the Hon, Mr. C. Gordon Mackle. and this also would require the assisility of the boy's future life, Chairman of the Hong Kong Gen-sistance of the experts of the said eral Chamber of Commerce. and Experimental Farm. ** Mr. G. C. Pelham, H. M. Trade

By encouraging" the planting Commissioner. I am sure this sec- "of wood-oll plants and sugar-canes tion in English is not out of place, and establishing up-to-date fa and I hope it may prove of inter-tories for extracting oll and sugar. est if not of value to our friends. and requesting the Government who do not read Chinese.

to give land facilities at reduced

rates

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A regular union of teachers and

a uniformity of method in teach Ing. said Sir Shou-son Chow, would ultimately lead to a united riation.

SIR WILLIAM HORNELL

Hornell in

his

When Mr. Ching Hing Chow came and asked me to attend this

Colony which

Late Mr Ho Leung

4. By improving transport and Before I proceed with general trading facilities, the most import- business of this meeting, I am sure ant being (a). The linking up of the you will all join, with me in ex- Canton-Hankow and the Kowloon-

Sir William pressing our regrets at the loss of

Canton railways and (b) The pro-address, said:→→ Mr. Ho Leung, a staunch support-vision of a telephone trunk line to er of our organization. He was shanghai via Swatow, Amoy and Vice-Chairman from 1931-1933 and Foochow has been responsible for many in-

5. By improving the Ashing in celebration, I had, I am ashamed provements for which we are great-dustry. such

to say, never heard of the Chinese as the method ly indebted,

Teachers Association. There are fresh water culture, and by provid-societies and Associations in this Although this Chamber caning up-to-date crafts for deep sea number among its members, the fishing.

and indeed everywhere, Chambers of Commerce of the

6. By forming a

mect annually, consumes permanent F'uklen. Klangsu

Cheklang Consulting Committee consisting tea or some other alleged innocu- and Yunnan Provinces, and the of Europeans and Chinese bankers. Qua beverage, proclaim mostly In Chamber of Commerce of the dif- merchants

the platitudes ferent. Districts of the Kwangtung consult together from time to time sentiments and aspirations, and Province, besides 2 number of on the economic position of the during which period the "only then disperse for another year Trade Organizations. Guids and Colony in general and on ways and activity shown is the frantic and Manufacturers" Associations, we means in particular for improving still feel that the membership local conditions of trade and mann-frequently unavailing efforts on which totals one thousand is still facture, and also by forming an the part of the Hon. Treasurer to small, taking into consideration. annual and quarterly Inter-Cham-collect members subscriptions. I the number of Chinese firms in ber Dinner with members of two be that this Association is not the Colony: it is. our earnest desire Chambers participating, 30 that a society of this kind. I trust that that those who have not yet join-European and Chinese, merchants this

association has come into may come close contact with each exlatence to meet a real need:

.I, of course, know nothing about schools in Hong Kong, my sphere

ëd. should enroll themselves. ; ·

Hong Kong's Importance

distributing Hong Kong is the centre. for South China. Here' come ships flying the flags of every maritime nation, carrying cargo to and from all parts of the world,

ought to feel that Hong Kong is

a city, in which we have our heart.

other.

and industrialista ta

Reduced Rates

Govern-

7. By requesting, the ment to mark out certain parts of land in New Kowloon' such as Shum-shul-po, Lal-chee-kok and

most exquisite

High Standards

"

"If a Chinese parent wants his son or daughter to become Kong University medical degree; doctor on the basis of the Hong he must realise that the qualifica- tions aimed at must be those which will enable the boy or girl to practice medicine not only in this Colony but also in Great Britain and Ireland and indeed through out the British Empire. If a young man wants to secure. our

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something

sponsible for his upbringing. The teacher is the centre and the educational Pivot of the whole

system

You may build schools of grand architectural design, "adorn them

the most expensive and elaborate equipment, and you may have a thousand pupils but there is no meaning and no fe imparted to the scheme until the teacher be- gins to function,

master and his asistants which in It is the quality of the head-

the long run determines the char- acter of the school.

"The Rising Generation.

that the social system can be im- It is only through the teacher

proved for on the rising generation depends the future of the state. All great thinkers have recognised this.

such

engineering.degree he is aiming at something which examiners ap-

When Pestulozzi in 1793 saw the Pointed in London are going to appraise. I know that most of my

wretched state of the children who students are earnest workers: I had suffered as

now also that they find the Uni-French Revolution a few years a result of the versity examinations exceedingly ealler he set about the task of difficult. There is

educating them and succeeded, to wrong somewhere..

a remarkable degree in Language Dificulty

transforming them in appearance, The supreme diffléulty of school in habit and in ability, that his education in Hong Kong is the name is forever enshrined in the a language by itself; it is some- difficulty of language. Chinese is hearts of the Swiss people, De- thing quite different from all other

cause of his magnificent work.

The spirit of this great teacher languages, but this difference must stil flourishes 'in Switzerland. not be allowed to, blind us to the When Germany in 1806 lay crush- fact that you can not think cleared under the heel of Napoleon, it y unless you can express your was Fichte the great German thought lucidly and that the philosopher who turned to the medium of thought is language, schoolmaster to get the help neces- whether that language be Chinese sary for ballding up the new. Ger- or English or Greek or Latin. many. So in Denmark in 1881 Your pupils are Chinese. They after the country had suffered the loss of a province. Dalyas one of the Danish leaders said we must

is the University which, incidental must of course acquire facility and draws its material entirely from lucidity of expression in their own schools. But anyone whose mis-language."

win from within what has been lost without and then there began movement,

Caine Road about 12.30 p.m. or 4.80 indeed I do not know Chinese at a folk high school fortune it is to have to drive along Now I am not a Chinese scholar; I think all of us Chinese Merchants Sung Wong.Tol for construction

and industrial purposes for a perm. cannot fall to be interested in all Nobody is more conscious which reinvigorated the whole na- lod of five years without premium, education. It takes the than I am what a handicap to me tion, because the teachers. who but to pay Crown Rent. In the patient ingenuity of even

the this ignorance of Chinese 13. were put in charge of these schools sixth year, premium is to be paid most careful driver not to commit. Therefore I cannot advise you as were people of outstanding char

while he is making this perilous to how you should teach Chinese acter. passage, homicide which would of But boys and girls who have got It is not necessary to labour, the be culpable, Fer Caine to face the world under the con- point or illustrate it still further Road-literally swarms with school-aitions that prevail to-day must by reference to some of the great boys and school-girls.

have lucidity of expression at English headmasters like Arnold

We want trade and we do not mind fair competition. Our desire is for peace in the Colony, for pro- gress and for trade. We do not

understand, and we are not coo~ cerned with politics. We have had bad tunes, but bad times come and go. It is to be hoped that 1934 will bring about a great improve ment. It has occurred to me that there seems to be too much tric-

tion and bad feeling everywhere Employers and employed seem to .lack sympathy with one another. Such friction can easily be removed through the medium of organiza- tions, such as this Chamber,

Trade Improvement

sideration:

by instalments at a fixed rate, and when they have been fully paid,

Course then the land should become the property of the occupier, and Et the same time, it would give work to the unemployed, so that both employers and unemployed can be mutually berieted.

I am therefore going to venture least in their own language. This of Rugby, Thring cf Uppingham; throughout this Colony a demand exaggeration to say that it is a of Oundle. These men Eve to-day on the statement that there is is your problem and it is no Almond of Loretto, or Baunderson for instruction in schools the per-problem on which the future of in the character of the schools 8. By discontinuing Land Sales sistence of which is irresistible the Chinese community of Hong they built up, and in the pupils on the part of Government for Every parent wants not only his Kong largely depends. It is a who were trained directly by them, period of two industrial and special purposes, some school;

years. except for sons but his daughters to attend commonplace to say that a teacher or induenced by the traditions applications, for the ground to be long since outgrown the supply o

the demand har has great responsibilities or they created. A teacher has a determined by a board, nominated

course, he has, But a teacher is tremendous responsibility for to a for that purpose."

Government.human and he is not going to large extent he determines the untain efficiency by mere reflection quality of the nation in the next on those responsibilities. The only generation. way to be an effective teacher 15 Are You Prepared?

and

Government added schools.

Examinations Unsatisfactory "The members of this Associatio,

By requesting the Govern- I have frequently asked people ment to improve the, methods of how trade might be improved searching at the different wharves. Among many suggestions I have 10. By requesting the Govern- are, I understand, teachers 1 to regard the training of your The first question, therefore, received, I pass on to you the fol- ment to reduce rates, taxes and vernacular primary schools als puplis as a problem of lying and which a tracher must ask himself lowing as being worthy of con-water-rates, in order to help in re- unaided schools of a wide: dally interest, a problem which is whether he is properly prepared lieving the burden of the land range. The age range of the you will never solve, but a problem for the task which is before him. 1. By encouraging and assisting | owners. ...”.

pupils in the latter, schools cover the honest tackling of which Has he taken the trouble to and farmers in the New Territories to Should you approve of all or any childhood and adolescence. Some you will obtain satisfaction.

out what the sims of education increase their products of good of the recommendations, I would of the schools in the latter cate. You have formed, yourselves into are and should be, is he acquaint- stuffs. particularly in the direction be happy to have your expression gory send candidates for the an Association and you are now ed with the best methods or of pigs, cattle, poultry and eggs, of opinion, so that I may forward Matriculation Examination of the celebrating Teachers Day. But technique for training: his pupils. thereby keeping and circulating same for the favourable considera- University. Now I have not visited this Association is not going to He must not only have knowledge within the Colony and for the tion of the Government I may many schools in Hong Kong and help you in the least so long as bat he must know how to pet benent of the Colony, some of the add that your Committee have 1 have never been privileged to you regard it as institution which it. Now I think he ought money, which is now spent outside equzsidered the above-recommenda- watch,a Hong Kong-school work- merely provides occasions like the Colony.

tions and approved same

ing. But this I do know that the this occasions when teachers sa-

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