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NURSE WINS £2,000

Law Lords Decide Breach Suit

NO JUDICIAL

PRECEDENT

An interesting (though not un- precedented) result of a recent de- cision by the House of Lords-that the nurse who sued Sir Anthony St John-Mildmay for breach of promise obtains judgment for the. £3,000 damages assessed by a King's Bench jury that five Judges in this protracted litigation have been against her, and only four in her favour.

LORD NUFFIELD

HONOURED

Duke Of Connaught On Loyal Services"

་

AUGUST 2, 1937.

CEYLON

TO HAVE A

UNIVERSITY

PUBLIC DEMAND

GRANTED

The Council of the Royal So- ciety of Arts attended at Clarence House, when the Duke of Con-

» After Jong agitation and in`res=" naught. President of the society, ponse to a keen demand by the presented the society's Albert public, Ceylon is at last to have A Medal for 1937 to · Lord Nutheid | proper university of its own.... "for services to industry, transport, The site has been selected and and medical science." In making a sum of six million rupees has the presentation, the Duke of Con- | been provided for the purpose, naught said:-

Blx teachers, representing the "It gives me great pleasure to | Union of Teachers' in Ceylon, who present you with the gold Albert are en route to Tokyo to attend Medal of the Royal Society of Arts, the bi-annual" conference' of 'tea- with which my dear father, the chers which will be attended by Prince Consort, was so closely con- over 1,000 teachers from all over nected for so many years.

the world. arrived in Singapore Yet she succeeds for this rea-:

"Your loyal services to the City last week by the F. and O. Raj- son; in the King's Bench Court of Oxford, where your life has been putans, and in an interview with Mr. Justice Hawke, despite the principally spent, and to the the Tribune representative, sald Jury's "assessment of damages in University with which it is 30

that the Universitý of Ceylon. her favour, upheld a plea by Sir closely allled, are well known and

which would be a purely residen- Anthony that his agreement to appeal to us all. You have beential University, would be a very marry her "I the decree nisi | great employer of labour, even in (obtained by the first Lady Mild-the most depressed periods, and may) was made absolute"-was") have improved the transport illegal and vold as being against powers of the world and thereby publle polley.

Increased the facilities of com- in the Court of Appeal that rul-merce, especially ing was confirmed. Lord Justice Greer dissenting from Lord Jus tice Blesser and Lord Justice Greene (now the Master of the Rolls).

in your own

big affair.

The site had been selected, at Dumbara. on the outskirts of Kandy...

There was a certain amount of country. Your wealth you have opposition to the establishment of applied, not to yourself, but to the the institution, but the principal Improvement of trade, commerce.stound of complaint was the site. This was the Arst occasion that and selence, all of them alding the happiness and well-being of all classes of people. Most warm- At that stage, therefore, the 1-1 do I congratulate you on your selection for this medal, and I hand it to you with best wishes for your continued success in the great and generous work to which you have devoted your life." "

dicial findings were 3 to 1 in., far- our of Sir Anthony St. John- Mildmay.

Now, in the House of Lords, the majority decision of the Court of Appeal was supported by Lord

Lord Numileld. said that the Russell of Killowen and Lord

award of the medal had touched Roche, but Lords Atkin, Thanker-him almost more than anything in ton and Wright found. for the his life. One

his of

earliest nurse, and the final judgment was memories was of his parents" ad- therefore entered in her favour formiration for the Prince Consort, the £2,000, and costa..

and that impression, had remained with him through life. To receive a medal instituted in his memory from the hands of his son, who, like him was closely associated with the Royal Society of Arts, was an honour which he appreciated more than any he had yet received.

The appellant was Miss Emily Fender, a former State-registered nurse, of Holt, Dorset, and her action raised the question whether for damages can be awarded breach of a conditional promise of marriage made between the date

of a decree nist for divorce and the date when that decree is made absolute.

In view of such costly litigation Miss Fender was allowed to ap- peal as a "poor person." ..

The Crown Colony of Ceylon is already facing up to a problem which affects the whole of the

BELFAST EXPLOSION

in

Ceylon was being represented at this world conference, the last of which was held in Oxford.

It would last for a week, from Aug, 2. to Aug. 7, inclusive.

for

Various subjects on the agenda discussion included adult, health, rural, and visual education, broadcasting in schools, and the question of Teachers' Associations. One of the greatest problems of education in Cey:ch was the me- dium of teaching.

The tendency was towards the vernacular, though there existed well over 500 English schools in Ceylon.

Members of the party are:-Miss R. Paul, Messrs. G. Weeramantry, R. H. Phillips, K. Nestah, H Per- impanayagam, and Vanniasing-

ham

KILLED BY HIS PET LEOPARD ·

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Belfast, July 31. “ Inhabitants of Belfast werd John Aanwerth, thirty-ave year roused from their sleep early this old attendant of the Liverpool HIGHER EDUCATION moins by the explosion of a Zoo, was mauled to death by

land-mine which partially de- leopard ne had loved and cared

for since it's birth. stroyed" a three-storey house

Air Mall for Canton and Dis The name of the beast WAS tricts. the centre of the city.

"No Injuries are reported "Death." and Keeper Ashworth Amoy though windows for a large area before cleaning out the cage was in foihow

the habit or enticing it into the round about were shattered.

Twenty members of the Con- | cage of "Satan,” It's mate. the stabulary were sleeping in

On this occasion he broke his although usual rule, and instead of leaving the male leopard's cage before opening the connecting door, be sild back the dour first..

British Empire, namely that of higher education..

A leading article in the "Ceylon Observer" asks very plainly.

arrests have been made.- Reuter.

"Is there room for the increas-barracks nearby, and ingly large number of highly they turned out at the double, po educated men and women?" An- other question voiced is this... "Can Ceylon (comparatively poor in private munificence, and there- fore dependant on State funds) afford to plan schools on the best models, designed to meet all the complex requirements of modern life?"

BATTLESHIP SIZES DISCUSSED

London, July 31. The size of battleships was dis-

If the answer be in the negative, cussed by Admiral Sir Herbert then there should be some restric-

Richmond. Master of Downing

He was not afraid when “Death”. camé bounding out and crouched In the corner behind him, for bath had eaten out of his hands since

their birth two and a half years

ago.

Keeper Ashwortu moved to- wards the sliding door, calling softly to Batan. Thinking per-

from Children

ww

the Culcheth

tion on facilities for higher educa-College, "Cambridge, at the Liberal haps that Ashworth was going to harm It's mate the leopard tion in the Colony, and for two

Summer School there. Through Death" gave a roar and sprang reasons... One is that we do

out history this had invari- not want too many highly educat ably resulted in another power both front paws and burying its on his back, clutching him with ed men swelling the ranks of the unemployed,... the other that the building similar or bigger battle- fangs in his neck.. Colony should not afford to have schools of this calibre, continually producing an excessive output.

This problem, already brought to light in Ceylon, is one which will sooner or inter have to be faced in Hong Kong.

There is here a plethora of ex- cellent schools which produce young men ready for a scholastic carcer." (and 'very few local posts they can all) while very little, is done to educate youths of the artisan type. Yet the world must have its artisans, arid if a snobish education does not At them for 1, a good living may be made. "

We can only hope that our leaders will realise the importance of the problem while there is yet time.

HEROIN CHARGE

ships in reply. He expressed suT- prise that nations with military school were there with several ability, knowledge and experience

teachers and arrived at the cage should allow. a mistake of this at just after the tragedy, little know- tempt. though indications were ing that the angry leopard pacing that it would be done, and pro- up and down the tage had just phesied that other nations includ-filled a man.

ing Great Britain would be con- The saddest part of this horrible strained to following the example affair is that Ashworth was ex- in order to preserve their position. tremely fond of animals and these two leopards were his favourites. British Wirelene,

HONG KONG TIDE: TABLE From August 3, to 8. 1837.

HIGH WATZE

Wong Po and Chung Pul: ap- peared before Mr. W. Schofield Mon. 2 on Saturday, charged with posSEE- sion of 325 heroin pills at 70 Tues 8. Lower Lascar Road. The second | Wed. 4 defendant was discharged, R.Q. Stephens stated that the drat Thar defendant tried to make his escape by Jumping over 'a parapet.. The defendant was injured to

Bat. such an extent that he was de- tained in hospital for some time Sun. R.O; Stehpen stated that the premises was not a divan as the pills were used for entertaining

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