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SCHOOL OF

ACCOUNTANCY

AND COMMERCE

Successful Dance On Saturday

AWARDS PRESENTED

The annual dinner of the School of Accountancy and Commerce, given Jointly with the Hong Kong Accountants and Secretaries Students' Society at the Peninsula Hotel on Saturday night. proved great success,

Prizes and awards won by the students in competitive examina- bons at 300 centres throughout the world were presented by Mr. P. B. da Silva, the Senior Supervisor. immediately following the dinner.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1936.

Festive Follies

Another picture of the attractive. "Festive Follies", who will be appearing at the Hour Kong Hotel Roof Garden during Christmas and New Year,

SENIOR SUPERVISOR'S SPEECH

There was a large attendance of friends and well-wishers, of the students. About 140, attended the

Mr. F. B, da Silva said, in part: dinner and 100 more came later

"What struck, me most was the for the Mancing. Mr. M. S. Phoon, discipline generally maintained B Co., LL.B.. FILA. (Aust), during the examinations. Needless F.C.I. (Eng.). T.D.. Principal of to say this reflects great credit the school and Mr. Charles Aboth on the candidates and their Figueiredo, AB.I.. President of the teachers. specially Mr. Phoon Students' Society were hosts to the whose competency and emciency official parties, the guests being requires no introduction. Mr. F. B. da` Sliva. Mr and Mrs. M. A. Figueiredo, Mr. U. Tat Chee. Mr. and Mrs. Wong Wing-seen,dates, in particular Miss La. who. BA.. III.A. (Aust,) and Mr. Jack

Lau

"Before concluding I desire to congratulate the successful candi.

I believe, holds the unique distinc- tion of being the first and the only lady to have won the much covet-

FAR EAST HEALTH

The health bulletin of Eastern ports for the week ending Decem- ber 5. la Basseini case. Colombo 1;, Cholera; 1.5 follows: Plague: Bombay 1 case, Calcutta 19, Madras 41: Rangoon 2. Tuticorin 3, Chit- agong 8: Small-pox: Bombay I case, Calcutta 3, Madras 6. Moul- mein 13. Shanghai 17.

COCKTAIL TIME

The Management of the Penin.

sd President's gold medal awarded aula Hotel takes pleasure in ad- to Overseas students."

Mr. Thomas G. Young. (1934 Gold Medallist) LILA, (Aust.); Mr. Edwin K. Kong, F.B.I.; Mr. Thomas A. Johnston, Secretary of

WINNERS OF AWARDS the Society; Mr. Walter J. Brown.

The following were the Social Secretary; Mr. E. M. Mar- ones, Sports Secretary: each enter-Fients of the awards:

guests

tained a party of guests.

Others who entertained were. Mr. E. M. Sequeira: Messrs. John and Anthony Braga; Mr. Nap L. Fan: Miss Lau Mung Gold Medalist); and Miss Fung Po-king.

(1936

Among those present were :—Mr..

F. B. da Siva, Mr. and Mrs. M. A Figueiredo, Mr. J A B. da Silva Mr. II. Tat-chee, Miss Violet Miss Chiew M. Ngo, W. 8. Wong Mabel S. Mah, W, Y. Chu. Jack Lam. Mrs. P. Phoon, F. J. Mauin- .der. C. Figueiredo and Mr. G MS

Poo...

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In a short speech the President of the Society thanked those present for their attendance and paid

tribute to the organizers of the function Particular mention was rade of the untiring efforts of the contributors of the "Accounting Student" the society's official or- gan

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PRINCIPAL'S SPEECH Mr. M. 8. Phoon, on behalf of the school, teaching staff, and the student body, welcomed the guests and congmtulated the recipients of prizes and degrees. In his re- port, "Mr. Phoon sald in part:

reci-

Gold Medals Mr. John Henry Hart. First Place 1935; and Miss Lau Mung Lol Overseas Intermediate December June 1938.

Degrees

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of

Mr. Thomas G. Young and Te Chak Chun the LILA, (Aust) De- of Accountants; and Mr. Charles A. gree of the International Institute, Figueiredo, the ABI, Associate- ship Degree Book-keepers, London

of the Institute

"Official Notices" The "Oficial Notices" of the International Institute of Ac- Countants were awarded to:

Intermediate Bookkeeping Paper No. 1

Glap: Chang Young Hin; Walter

Miss Lau Mung Lol; Wee. Hoe Brown; Liao Yuan Ying: Lee Keng Swee; Thomas A. Johnston; Edwin K. Kong; Ong Tiang Jin; and V Charrington.

Intermediate Bookkeeping Paper No. 2

Miss Lau Mung Lol: Wee Hoe Gap: Walter J Brown;, Liao Yuan Ving: Chang Yoong Hin; Thomas A. Johnston; Edwin K. Kong: and Lee Keng Swee...

vising patrons of the Cocktail Time every evening from 8 to 8 p.m. in. the ground floor Lounge when Or- chestral music will also be given by the Hotel's Band.

CORNER STONE

The service of the laying of the corner stone of the new St. Mary's Church, Causeway Bay, by the Rt. Rev. Mok. Sau-tsang. Bishop Canton, will be held on December 19. at 3 p.m.

SHERIFFS SALARIES

of

The proposal by the Government to increase the salaries of English County Court Judges and Metro- politan Magistrates, which will in the near future, will not be come before the House of Commona taken exception to by Scottish legal M.P.s, but they do not intend to miss the opportunity for urging that there should also be an early review of the salaries of Sheriffs- substitute. Buch a review would not, as in the English case, require special legislation, the matter be- ing entirely one for the Treasury. and it is therefore felt that, with Hittle trouble or delay, the creation of wide differences between legal "The School continues to adhere

Wee Hoe Glap; Walter J Brown; remunerations in Scotland and to its policy of not issuing any

Thomas A. Johnston: and Edwin England could be avoided by certificates or its own to

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prompt administrative action. By graduater but rather to coach its Intermediate Commercial Law a cogent presentation of their case students for degrees and diplomas Wee Hoe Glap; Miss Lau Mung the Scottish M.P.s will be able to issued by Institutions which have Lot: Chang Yoong Hin; Walter J. convince the Government, and that received British Parliamentary re- Brown; Liao Yuan Ying: Lee Keng the required review will be granted. cognition. The increasing numberSwee; Thomas A. Johnston"; Edwin of students who have obtained K. Kong: and Miss V. Charrington. employment and their ability to

Fina! Bookkeeping No. 1 keep their position-the promo Edwin K. Kong: Thomas tion given to our students--the Johnston; Tao Chak Chun: Charles standing they now enjoy amongst Pau Ka Ling: and Young Kong their friends and relatives-they Low. are all proofs of the soundness f this policy.

ACCOUNTANCY SUCCESSES "In the December 1935, Interna- tional Institute of Accountants Final examination, Mesars, Thomas G. Young. Charles A. Figueiredo. and Tso Chak Chun all passed in the subjects taken, and the Licen- tiateship LILA, (Aust) Degree has been conferred the Associate- ship Degree of the Institute of Bookkeepers, London,

"As in the previous examina- tions the students of the school succeeded in securing First Places in the Overseas Interme- diate Examinations of the Inter- national Institute of Accountants,

Intermediate Auditing

Final Bookkeeping No. 2

A

WORLD'S WORST WINES

A wine so bad that it has not been imported into England for Edwin K. Kong: Thomas A. John-was "Bucellas Hock," a Portuguese 20 years was incorked recently. It ston; Tso Chak Chun, Charles Pau imitation of a German type. made Ka Ling; and Young Kong Low.

from the wrong grapes grown on the wrong soli,

Final Auditing Charles A. Figueiredo;

Final Law No. 3

Thomas

Thomas G.. Young and Teo Chak Chun..

INSTITUTE OF BOOKKEEPERS. LONDON

THE RIGHT TO DIE WARNING SYSTEM

Debate On Euthanasia

INAUGURATED

Whole Country To Know By Seven Minutes

Members of the Hunterian So- clety recently arranged a debate on what was described as "the foremost sociological problem of the day," the right to die or volun- tary euthanasia. The debate wa held in the hall of the Cutlers'

Britain now has a system of Society, London, and the case was warning against air"ralds by which put by the hon. secretary of the all the country would know within Voluntary Euthanasia Legislation seven or ten minutes that raiders Committee. Dr. G. Kulek Millard, have passed the coast-and plans and the discussion was opened by are already being prepared for Dr. C. Roche Lynch, the Home or-{ evacusting London in Casc 01 Ace analyst, who spoke in support, Dr. Millard reminded the mem- bers that notwithstanding all that medicine and radiological science had done, they were still faced with the fact that many human beings ended their days by slow and painful illness which was only brought to

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emergency.

That was revealed by Wing Com- mander Steele-Perkins, of the Rome Office, at the Public Health Congress in London" recently.

The Home Office hoped, he said, to let local authorities have in- formation of a strained diplomatic close by exhaustion, situation, sand the authorities explained that voluntary would then have to put their or- euthanasia meant. easy death ex-ganisations into operation. pressly desired only by the suf ferer. Nothing beyond that contemplated.

was

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London, the east and south-

east coasts and the industrial areas of the Midlands would be virtually blacked out.

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THE RELIGIOUS PROBLEM

Temple, said that he was concernut slum property in London where

Canon Anson, master of

Wing Commander Steele-Perkins the said that a census had been taken ed only with the moral and re- the houses could not be made gas- ligious aspects of the question, proof. From the religious point of view they had to ask whether the be ginning and ending of life was predestined, and whether there-i tore it was an immoral thing to interfere either with birth Or death.

In the event of an air raid it was proposed to have a voluntary and organised evacuation of London.

"That is being worked out with the railway companies and out- side authorities," he said.

to areas where the risk of attack "It is proposed to evacuate them

is less."

"It is generally allowed that there are occasions when it 5g lawful for us to hasten by our own means the oncoming of death," he public to keep indoors in gas- He strongly advised the general said. "We all know the man who proofed rooms, and the casualties gives his life for his country, and from air we do not think it wrong to hurry considerably reduced.

attack would thus bé death except if reasons are inade-

"We fear incendiary bombs pro- quate. We have to ask ourselves bably more than anything else," i intolerable pain is adequate rea- he said. son. Many people remind us that pain might do. But supposing, so said that every inhabitant would we can never say how much good

Wing Commander Steele-Perkins far as we can tell, pain is so long ger a respirator free of cost issued and so intolerable that there seems prior to an emergency;

to be no use in suffering further. Then in those circumstances there does not seem to be any reason why, with proper safeguards, a man should not be able to shorten another man's life."*

FREE MASKS

"He won't get it to-day or to- morrow," he said. "We don't want, little boys playing Quy Fawkers with them." Depots were to be get

up throughout the country where res- pirators would be stored.

Mr. Nicholas stressed the need

to meet the gas raid menace. of complete national preparedness Our

trouble national reluctance to anticipate must be forcibly put on one side.

Mr. Gilbert Rule said that legalise or conventionalse entha- to

nasia would give

Mr. R. Nicholas, city, engineer suicides a loop-

and surveyor, Shefeld, said that hole, and there could be no gener-ultra-short-wave wireless may well al rule or a decision as to whe- prove the ideal method of control. administered. ther or not euthanasia should be and co-ordination between the dif- Any attempt to ferent authorities responsible for set up laws permitting voluntary air raid precautions. euthanasia would break down and would certainly bring about abuses. Sir Walter Langdon-Brown said that as a practising physician he encountered two types of reaction in the relatives of a dying man The first was the desire to have anything done to prolong life to the end, however bitter it end must be. In his opinion. sician's duty was clear in such cases and he had to do it if he could. In the other type there was the clearly expressed wish that the patient should be spared any unnecessary suffering. Keep him as free from pain as posible" was The King's Birthday Parade, on the cry: "Don't try to prolong, Ure Monday, December 14 is now can- If the position is hopeless."

celled.

phy-VOLUNTEER DEFENCE

an

CORPS

King's Birthday Parade Cancelled

THE KISS SUSPECT

That is not difficult where the disease is running a rapidly down- ward courte," said Sir Walter, "but it is not easy where it is running a slow and painful course to an inevitably fatal fasue. Even mor

Although the Japanese have

doses as to reduce the patient to reconciled to kisses in general or phla may fall unless given in such

taken to many Western ideals and

an invert log, and even then canto dim kisses in particular, and it customs," they have never become

we be sure there is no suffering?

"The situation is worse when the

is now réported from Tokio that all 0. Young; and To Chak Chur

It was the star plece of an ex- patient himself is crying out for

kissing and dancing scenes are to hibition of "bad wines crganised relief by death. There are wordel mean considerable chopping. Final Law No, 1

be cut out di foreign, films. This Thomas G. Young and Teo Chak the Vintners' Company, at his pre-

by Mr. T. A. Layton, Freeman of things than death, and one of Chun.

those things is or a human being There are some aims which, de- Final Law No. 2

mises opposite the British Museum. to be reduced below even

prived of thele kissing and dan- Thomas G. Young and Tso Chak cloudy and ruddy like a fire opal, state-just existing."

In colour it was not unpleasant, animal existence to a vegetative. cng scenes, will be about as com- Chun.

plete as "Hamlet" without the ita red grain being caused by the

Sir Walter declared that they Prince. like clay, and its taste was some- was, he said. illogical to punish a red slopes of Portugual. It smelt were illogical in such matters.. It

Japan's objection to kissing is no doubt based on the strangeness thing "between fermenting stewed

man as a criminal for making an

of the Custom but Western rhubarb and Gregory powder,

unsuccessful attempt at stilcide nations have thrown cold water The exhibition, which is the but if he succeeded to say that he

on the habit for other reasona, first of its kind, is designed to Edwin. K. Kong and Thomas A. show the dangers of choosing arguable that anyone who tried to

was of unsound mind. It was mainly hygienic. A few years ago the Kanka State Board of Health wines without proper knowledge take his own life was of unsound issued some rules for, kissing, and advice.

mind, and in the vast majority of among them: instances it was true. But why re- Never king in crowded places or Kard him as responsible if he fall-in a poorly ventilated room. ed and punish him?,

At a party where kissing games ed if it were logical to conscript a

Str. Walter Langdon-Brown ask-take place be sure to gargle fre

quently; young, unwilling man and compel

If you must kiss, take hot mus him to run the risks of horrible tard footbaths and avoid draughts. torture and mutilation and to re-

Maybe Kansas maidens are in a fuse to allow an old man su escape

class by themselves, but almost from suffering abominable and anywhere else one fears" iz aman continued pain from a hopeless after Klasing a pretty sit excused disease.

himself on the ground that he The argument was sometimes

go and girgle He would stand used, "How do you know it la hope-very Attle chance of repeating less? Medical progress might be the embrace, ev delayed by permitting voluntary de euthanasia

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Stage III (Fellowship)

and the President's Gold Medals Johnston. yere awarded to Mr. John Henry Hart in the December 1935, and to

لله

Part II. John V. Braga: Chang Yoong Miss Lau Mung-lol in the Jane Hin: Robert Silva: Chong Kee 1936. examinations. I regret very Beng: Miss Lau Mung Lpt: Liao much that the Gold Medal cannot Yuan; Wee Hoe Glap; Misa Violet be presented personally to Mr. Leung; and Henry M. Britto. Hart this evening as he is now

Part L continuing his studies in London. Anthony Manuel Braga

INSTITUTE OF COMMERCE, BIRMINGHAM Stage III

SCHOOL SPIRIT

"What gave me and the teaching staff the greatest happiness of all

INSTITUTE OF COMMERCE,

BIRMINGHAM

was the school spirit shown by all Thomas A. Johnston; Ong Tiang the students in the enthusiasm Jin; Miss V. Charrington; and Miss they show in their work and play V. Leung. and the cheerfulness with which they approach their daily assign- ments. In this school at least the students have never been heard fo complain about their home work at any rate, not within my hearing."

Stage H,

Mina Laa Mung Lol: Liao Yuan Ying; Thomas A. Johnston: Wee Hoe Glap; Lee Keng Bwee; Taul Takhol Miss Violet Leung.

Stage I. Edward Ferreira; Bau Kaying; Vincent V. Ribeiro; Tsui Takḥol; Kanwar & Parmar; Miss Jessie Quinn; and Lambert Phoon.

SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS 1st Place: Tsui Takhoi..

Razack-

2nd Places: A. Bakar: and A.

3rd Places: Bau Kaying; Kanwar H. 8. Parmar; Vincent V. Ribeiro.. WONG WING SEEN PEIZEES Intermediate Mercantile Law 1st Place: Francisco Antonio Gill,

Commerce Bookkeeping

1st Place: Miss Joan Lee.

Salesmanship Prize

1st Place: Mr. E. M. Marquest

I leave on one side," he said, from and proceed to point out that "the retort that this implies a de-1 is not this stage of disease gree of experimentation on human that medical discoveries have been beings, which I for one, shrink made.":

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