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SATURDAY. OCTOBER 30, 1920.

EDUCATION BOARD.

Poor Accommodation

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at Kowloon,

COTTON-GROWING IN THE EMPIRE.

An Organisation for its Promotion.

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A meeting of the Hongkong of England, is to be converted Beant of Filucation was bald yes- An outline of the executive or- into a Dutch garden, and will terday at the Sanitary Board room.ganization which the Empire Cos- contain the Bank War Memorial. Hon. Mr A. E. Irving (Director of ton Growing Committee considers MITSUBISHI DIRECTOR'S Education presided, and there necessary for its schame of pro-

MUNIFICENCE.

were present. Mesars, S. W. Tso, moting the cultivation of cotton Mr. Jiro Harada. a retired W. Jackson, Hon. Mr. Lau Chu within the Empire has bean pre- Director of the Mitsubishi Com-Pak, Rev. Dr. T. W, Pearce, A. pared. The proposed organization. pany, has allocated his entire B. Silva Netio, N. Teesdale provides primarily for the employ- fortune of Yen 10,000,000 to found McIntosh, F. Maria and S. C.ment of men abroad with a the Sekizaukai, an organisation|Lau, Secretary

central office in London to co- The Chairman introduced Messrs. ordinate work. The for the welfare of the middle classes and patriotic public un-Jackson and Melntosh, who have estimated at £200,000 a year. dertakings.

just joined the Bean).

The funds are to be provided The first business was the conjointly by trade interests sad by GENERAL LI SHUN'S BEQUESTS.

General Li Ching, brother of sideration of increased accommade the British Government and vest-

pytoes under Royalt the late General Li Shun, bastion necessary to meet the increasing ed in issued a circular telegram to the number of pupils 81 Kowloon Charter.

The direct control will be ex- Chinese press announcing that he British School.

The Chairman sail that theercised by an extensive committee has already remitted 3500,000 15 the Tientsin Nankai College and average attendance of the school appointed from this main council, $500,000 to the Chihli Relief for 19 was 32; 1915, 561.1916, while for particular aspects of the Association, in accordance with |20; 1917,65; 1915, 67 and 1919, 72, work, such as research or

or development in the wish expressed in his deceased Before he went an leave he conformation brother's will.

sidered that the large numbers were differant countries, there will be 1,100 BRICKS PER MAN PER DAY.due great measure to the war. 1 sub-committees of which men of The average number of bricks appeared to him that a large num special qualification may be co-

fter of children were being kept opted. aid per man per day was 1.100,back E, and be expected that s The work that has to be done said the chairman

the

large number of them would have falls into three divisions. The Dhanlop Rubber Company in

teen sent home on the suspension first is mainly administrative in referring to new works being

of hostilities: but was greatly character, questions of policy. built for the company in Buffalo. The comparative speed urprised to find, og returning a ficance and general administra- of building operations in that the beginning of this year, that the tion being grouped under this country, he said, was a sorrowful average attendance for 1919, so heading along with power work in

far from having gone down, had suitable area. and annoying fact to contemplate.

visen to 72, which he thought was FRENCH CONSUMERS TO HAVE A LOOK-IN.

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RESEARCH STATIONS.

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the maxunun for the schoral. The The second division is work numbers for this year were very demanding scientiaz know- The Journal Of in! publishes considerably increasel, however, ledge and training and includes a decree establishing in each and especially for this term. The the collection and dissemination Department of France a" Council total enzelmat was cow 113, and of information on all scientific of Consumers.” Each Council the average attendance during the and experimental work on cotton, will consic of one member be mozit a two had been the gathering of full knowledge cominated by the Municipal Visiting the school, he was struck of the characteristics of all ver Council of the chief town of the with what appeared himieties of cotton, sad the fostering Department ons member of the to to the overcrowded conditions of research in couon growing by Chamber of Commerce in that The door space in several of the the three methods of (1) establish- town, two representatives of con-clas rams was only bour 1789ing research stations abroad: (2) sumers co-operations associat, quite inadequate for the assisting in providing facilities tions and eight representatives ofj

trupirs. IE America they for training men for the various) the consumers, states a French leekused at it. Rricultural services; and (3) wireless message.

advisable as comum, and assisting in selecting men for in the troplys 25 sp. It, as desirable, special work on cotton abroad. all of which was quite out of the The third division of thei 13 mainly commercia!! STATE PAPERS AS WASTE.[question with the present Kowloon work

School building. Not only was the and has to do with valo- door space inadequate, but the ing cottons, keeping in touch) staff also, partly due

the with markets, where advis- increased numbers of pupils. Asable guaranteeing prices to grow- For Legislation.

the Board was co doubt aware, ers, securing better prices for Tons of bistorie documents were increases of establishment appear better cotton, ginding and mar- destroyed-by their official custoding in the estimates were estichtel keting where desired, and pro- ans during the reign of Queen Vic-arly in each year in ooler that moting the growing of cotton in toria, stated a speaker at the the approval of the Secretary of place of other crops. conference of the Library Associa-Star might be obtained, and In the pursuit of these objects tion at Norwich recently.

therefore tbe establishment of it is proposed that travelling com. Another speaker mentioned the the Rowl British School was missioners should be employed to case of an interesting and valu-estimated for on the basis of keep in touch with local develop- eble State paper having been the atten lance Gi March or ment by systematic touring; re- hought from a barrow in a market April last year, Apart from this, search stations would be under place.

however, there had been great the control of a general director, The subject was introdured by dimenity to getting teachers from and facilities would also be pro- Mr. Henry R. Tedder. secretary home, this of an establishment vided for training men for the and librarian of the London of British teachers he was 20 various agricultural services Athenæum, in a paper on theshon. That dil cos. mean that abroad. report of the Public Records there was actually a shortage is Commission.

Library Association's Plea

The report, he said. revealedĮ

Ti

¡the schools of 20 teachers, because

o proportion of teachers were coa-JAPANESE INTERNAL PROBLEMS. the inadequate custody and im-stantly absent on leave, about a The Japanese Government has perfect arrangement and descript nich of them. Then again vacancies given a qum of Yen 50,000,000 to ion of ment of the public records, were being filled. in several cases the Credit Mobile of Japan to and justified the complaint of in adequately but as well as they relieve the financial troubles iD historical scholars that the con- could be filed, by the engagement Japan by providing funds for dition of the national archives of temporary teachers. But except various enterprises. Many desire was unsatisfactory and eren dis

for these two points. which loans and another Yen 30,000,000 | creditable.

alleviated the position to some has been placed in the hands of WHOLESALE DESTRUCTION, Lextent.

in appeared bm the Credit Mobile of Japan for Many public records which that the Kowloon School

was the same purpose. might have been useful to his-lat [b: present moment torians and students had been a fequately staffed Jod withi destroyed during the reign of respect to the temporary tearbers Queen Victoria.

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ragaged be bad very little assurance staff. It was desirable for the Hundreds of tons, most of them that they would say they could school to be amalgamated as far as of early date, were made away leave at a months astice, which possible and there should be no If the with by their official custodians. was very hampering in the carrying necessary restrictions. Before the building of the Public out of the work of the schools. 31 Board endestoured to supervise Record Office the Treasury Nightengale was present and could the schools the difficulty would It had brough: pressure to bear on these give the Board what further be greater than ever. custodians to solve the housing information it required.

been suggested to him many times question by wholesale destruction.

Hoo. Mr. Lau Chu Pak suggested that one British school was suff. the appointment of a sub.comruittee cleat. The war bad led to the ac- to go into the matter and Sir.

WAR RECORDS.

cumulation of bewildering masses Jackson concurred.

The following were appoint. ed to serve on, the sub-Committee: Mackintosh and

of records scarcely to be calculat- Mr. McIntosh asked whether it Messrs Jackson,

ed even in Sgures of thousands of was the policy of the Education Mrs Hickling. tons. They far exceeded in bulk Authorities to continue the system

The Chairman stated that a

Mr Mackintosh

Peer who was Apprenticed as an Engineer.

all the records at present in the Lof co-education of boys and girls. letter bad been circulated by Mr to the effect that Lord Egerton of Tatton, who custody of the Master of the In making provision for the future Mackintosh died last month at the agë ́of 75, | Rolls.

that should be taken into considera- lectures of educational value might succeeded his brother in the title Most of these papers were oftion.

be given to Chinese boys in schools in 1909. He had sat for 23 years merely temporary interest, but Rev. Dr. Pearce said the growth in the Colony. in the House of Commons.

many remained of great future of population must also be kept in bad kindly given lectures to British His lordship was greatly inter-value, and they should find a mind.

boys in the Helens May Institute hoped Mr Eested in engineering, of which he home in the Departmental State The Chairman stated that many and the Chairman

continue to practical knowledge, Paper Office already mentioned. years ago the Governor of Hong-Mackintosh would

that He BO.

W&S sure having been apprenticed to the Mr. Tedder urged that legisla-koog, Sir Matthew Nathan, ex-do building and engineering works trade. For some time he was a tion was necessary to preserve pressed the opinion that the big Mr Mackintosh's announcement Complete stock, Best terms. valuing engineer under the Royal local archives, and local offices boys and big girls should not be of arranging lectures for Chinese Immediate delivery.

Commission on Railways and should be established for their educated together. On his instruc-boys in Government schools would Canals.

preservation. ·

ticas the big boys were to go to the be enthusiastically received. Mr When the late poer becam Mr. W. E. Doubleday (Hamp-Victoria British School and the biz Bird, acting headmaster of Queen's lord of Tatton Park he incurred stead) told bow during the war a girls

Kowloon British College, bad written to him, asking popularity hy, forbidding his whole cartload of municipal School. For several years this him if it was possible for the boys HING LUNG ST. Phone 515 tenants to supply refreshments to documents in one London districtreasure was extremely unpopular to go to see pictures which would He was, however, a was deposed of as waste paper. with the parents of the children be given in conjunétion: with trippers.

educational matters. good landlord. Just before the The military authorities carted who argued that the education of lectures on war he discontinued to a large them off in order to find accom- boys and girla tegeiber could not The films would deal with the Life extent the rearing of game on his modation, and if some were saved be watantly: hartafol Their of Nelsco, products of Canada, etc. very generous was only because the cart was objection was that they did not These were ERAPION N., &ers extensive estates.

The new peer Maurica de Tat full

want their children to travel a long efforts but in giving lectures to the ERAPION NO.

KATALIKONTE gertau, 18:46; and a lieut - Is due country town priceless, way to school After esteful combos Mr Mackintosh would agree PIOWNES comunaday in the RNVR: Like documents were stored in cellars, sideration co-education was estab- with him in saying that it was his father, he is a skilled engineer, where, with the aid of hot-water ed again. On this point it was important that the lectures should and has splendidly equipped pipes, a fine crop of mushrooms obvious that in the schools the be both interesting and instructive. workshops at Knutsford.

was cultivated.

difficulty was to provide a sufficient The meeting then adjourned.

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