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GENERAL

Educational Experiment DIOCESAN GIRLS ORDER FOR

Solve Problem

Of D.B.S. May

A Major

WITH THE OPENING OF A NEW SCHOOL TERM TOMOR- ROW, THE DIOCESAN BOYS' SCHOOL, one of the oldest schools In the Colony, will embark on an educational experiment which, should it work out as well as it is hoped it will, may aid “con- siderably to the solution of a major problem in the local syś- tem of education,' --

This is the problem or Chinese rant his being placed in a higher boys who advance rapidly in ma- grade. thematics and kindred subjects The whole of the syllabus in while remaining weak in English. | Mathematics for Classes S to 5 and of overseas Chinese and other and again for Classes 6 to 8, where

SCHOOL'S NEW LABORATORY

REMOVAL OF GRAVES

Government Clerical Examination

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1940. DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION RECEIVES DELEGATION FROM CHINESE SCHOOLS

requested

lt is expected that the new It is "notined in the Government:

In order to reply personally to the petition sent in by wing being added to the Diocesan Gazette nat orders for the re- The following is a list of indek

all Chinese educational institutions, charitable and other- Girls' School building in King's moval of all graves have been numbers of, candidates who are Park will be completed early next made as follows:-

eligible for further examinacioń

wise, seeking to modify the regulations governing schools year

Sections B and C in Mount for appointments to the Junior, in the Colony, Mr. C. G. Sollis, Director of Education, ră- .Rapidly assuming shape, the Caroline Cemetery, section A in Clerical Service of the Hongkong ceived a delegation of representatives from these schools. new, wing, including furniture and New Kowloon Cemetery No. 4 Government:-

Mr. Solis assured the delegation] the strip for black-board and tea- equipment for the new laboratory,(Sat Yu Shek Cemetery), sections

16, 7, 89.10.15. 18, 19, 20, 21. that schools will be granted time, cher, will cost $70.000, part of which is B and C in Kowloon Cemetery 25, 28, 29, 30, 31, 35, 36. 37, 44, 47, on certain conditions, to the end being contributed by Government No.. 2 (Ho Man Tin Cemetery),

The delegates also 50, 52, 53, 54, 55, 57, 59, 64, 65, 87, of the coming academic year. that more time should be granted and the rest by subscriptions from section A in N.K. Cemetery No 369. 78. 84. 88. 89. 95, 97. 98, 100. June 1941, to comply with the new to schools required to close their old pupils and other well wishers (Cheung Sha Wan Cemetery), Sec-101, 105, 107, 108, 109, 113, 114, 116, regulations. of the establishment.

tion A in New Stanley Cemetery.

present premises and seek new By the end of June 1941 the top sites elsewhere. Mr. Sollts replied The Building Fund is still short section A and trenches in Kai 118 119. 121. 128, 133, 134, 139, 140. boys whose long association with the younger boys will be similarly of some $10,000 and further sub-Lung Wan East Cemetery, portions 142, 143, 146, 148, 151, 154, 156. 157. class will be graduated and the that such request will be granted the English language has given graded again into separate classes scriptions, are being called for, of Tung Wah Hospital cemetery 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 166, 168, 169, number of students will be re- in case they have good reasons them an advantage over the Hong-for English and Mathematics, has The new wing is three-storey-at Kat Lung Wan, section A in 170, 172, 173, 176, 180, 182, 184, 192, duced. If, after

Some ten schools, which were kong Chinese, boy In English suh been revised to fit in with the new ed, with seven class-rooms,

an Shum. War Cemetery, Aberdeen 197, 198, 203, 204, 203, 209, 210, 311. the remaining number still exceeds) ordered to be suspended so far. jects.

scheme by Mr. E.C. Thomas, B.Sc., arts form and a science labora and section A in Chai Wan Cems-219 222, 224, 226, 227, 230 231, 233, the maximum permitted by the were all inspected personally by Familiarity with spoken and F.R.G.S., the Hongkong Dally Press tory. Two

new regulations, then no class-rooms and the tery,

studerits can be admitted. written English, gained by overseas learned from the Headmaster of laboratory will be on the ground

If the school authorities mtend boys abroad, and by many other the School, Mr. GA, Goodban, M.A. | floor and two class-rooms and the boys locally in English-speaking į "

A new Subsidy Code, increasing to admit more students a new PROMOTION

arts room on the first floor. homes, has given these boys con-

The top floor will contain thre? Promation for a boy from Class class-rooms,

class should be established at the the amount of financial assistance bottom of the school. But regula-

from Government," will probably sistently higher marks in their! English papers and has resulted, 3 to Class 2 will be dependent on

The walls of the laboratory will

in many instances, in such boys his showing a standard of English be splinter-proof, the walls being having taken more of an interest satisfactory to Class 3 is at least 14 inches thick In English studies, more easy to, standard and a standard of ma- them of mastery, to the detriment,thematics satisfactory to

in many cases, of their work in Class Mathematics, and such kindred standard.

SIX SECTIONS

A-1

Maths.

or A-2 finishing.

ANOTHER CHANGE

Volunteering activities have ne-

238, 239, 240.

New Hospital Wing Will Be One Of World's Best

Ranging among the finest in 'this part of the world will be the new third class block of the Johore General Hospital, which is almost completed and will be opened for use before the end of the year

up-to-date hospital. the most modern tuberculosis sanatorium. in Malaya

The sanatorium. standing AND

BOOM FOR 1,700 BEDS

Idea of the size of this splendid block can be đẹtérmined

examined. There were 470 boys at will be stronger this year, is lock-the top of the new block, will be/from the fact that after providing |

the reduction,

new

are

school

the Director.

NEW SUBSIDY CODE

tions should be closely followed be enforced in the coming year, even if such a few class is formed. according to Mr. Sollis Schools which-are-now-not-subsidised, can OLD STUDENTS :

apply for subsidies which will be students in excess Ola

granted according to their merits. allowed to remain in

Those present at the meeting until June 1941. Their vacancies. were the Diretor of Education, ́. however, must not be filled.

Mr. T F 10. barrister-at-law, end The Director of Education did not Mr. Y. P. Law, both members of agree with the delegates' request of the Board of Education, Messrs. the amendment, in measuring floor Chan Lan-feng, Wong In-ching. space. They suggested that the Cheung Lân-chow, Li Stu-kok and ten Square feet per student should Chan Kuk-y1. members of the be calculated before deduction of Delegation.

some 80 feet above ground level for open spaces, there will be over room between them. while re- of the most important and expen- though it will be a less interesting The hospital Itself is built en anale beds, we provision for dou- covery rooms are also provided. sive devices of the hospital, a

subjects as Physics and Chemistry Some other boys will be indivi-

The D.B.S. plan at present is dually considered for promotion if cessitated another change in the Costing the Johore Government being given on the roof gardens, ja sum of over $1,250,000, the new while in addition, there are to be number of single rooms with necessarily confined only to the they come short of the standard / School life, too, and the Wednesblock will contain, in addition to teaching of Mathematics. It will in either subject. Such exceptional day half-holidays will be replaced all the latest apparatus for an private baths attached.

by half-holidays on Thursdays. apply principally to promotion cases will, however, be very few.

Four of the masters are out on from Class 3 to Class 2, which Tests for new boys were held at volunteering duties on the latter Class sits for the School Certif-the School yesterday, when some

day. cate Examination.

200 applicants for admission were

The School cricket team, which Beginning with the new term, the school last year, and it is

ing forward to the new season, boys in Classes 3, 4 and 6 will be thought probable that, despite the re-graded into six sections for the evacuation of a number of British

boys, the enrolment for the new concerned with the absence of the one where inter-school cricket is Classes in Mathematics. Class standing will be determined by a term may be a larger one.

C.B.S. boy's standard in English and It is understood, also, that a

There has been only one change other subjects, but a boy whose number of boys who attended the on the staff with the passing of standard for English is good enough Central British School, now closed the summer vacation, Mrs. Trim for Class 3 may be required to down, last term, will be admittedmer, who took charge of Class 8,ed to be completed some months the specially-designed windows of The new block wij also house In addition to these... ·restau- study in Maths. Class A-6 should to the 'D.B.S.

having left with the evacuees.

the wards which have been so an out-patients department as rants for light refreshment for he be considered very weak in There is an innovation for the An additional teacher on the Shipping delays, after the out-constructed as to prevent are well as the administrative centre out-patients have also been erect- Mathematics.

new term also in the housing of staff will be Mr. A. James Hulse, break of war, however, resulting within, and at the same time in-- which will be the offices of ed, while there will also be a small Similarly, a Chinese boy with a the boarders. The west wing dor B.S. (Lingnan University), who is a delayed arrival of the devices troducing a "forced draught" the medical officers, clerks, refectory where patients may poor knowledge of English, who is mitory has been turned into * a graduate in Biology, Mr. Hulse ordered. held up the work.

ventilation system, by means of stewards, matron, an examination have their meais. . placed in Class 5 for this subject, library and reading room, and the will be remembered as a D.B.S. jn the sanatorium. over 30 suction.. fans.

hall, a library, a lecture hall and It is still undecided as to whe- may be permitted to attend Class boys who were there last term are cricketer of the seasons 1933-35, cubicles for patients requiring ac- There are two operating thea-common rooms, all of which arether there wi be On official A-1 In Mathematics should his being moved to the main dormi- and graduated from the School tive treatment are being provia tree, costing $100,000, both air-for the use of the whole hospital, opening for this proven ability in the subject war-tory.

only in the latter year,

ed, with allowance for exercises conditioned, with a " sterilizing

elevation,

The new block adjoins the pre sent hospital, and is meant pri- marily for third-class patients.

Work commenced two years ago, and it was originally expect.

back.

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the number should the ocea–

These rooms, it is understood,large Therapy X-Ray apparatus sion arise

are for second or first-class for the treatment of cancer---- O magnificent structure, the patients Who use this theatre believed to be the biggest and building is of five-storeys, rising sulte, and who cannot be directly most-up-to-date in the country—

a height of 80 feet,

transferred back to their class has recently arrived, and is being. Another notable feature will be immediately after operation.

fitted up.

It is also understood that one (Malaya Tribune).

new

block.-

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