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Opened by H. E. the Governor.

a now

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2 1920.

The

SHIPPING NEWS.

NEW CHINESE SCHOOL. [greatest possible benefit should be derived from the kindness of tha Kai Fonga in collecting funds far the purpose of education. This was the desire of the Committée,

ISLE OF MAN STEAMERS, In the presence of a large were our predecessors, and was have carried 1,000,000 passengers sub-Committee and Kai Fongs who Man Steam Packet Company The steamers of the Isle of gathering, which included many also the hope of the professional since May 1. well-known Chinese residents, and business communities. and a number of Europeans, His school has three storeys and has Excellency the Governor yester accommodation for several hundred able plant were destroyed by fire

FIRE ON THE TYNE, ----- day formally opened

Several workshops and valu- Chinese school at

students. In future, though at the Tyne Iron and Shipbuilding Hollywood Road.

cannot give education to all poor Company's sand at Willington Situated on a site adjacent to several hundreds in addition to the boys of the Colony, we can admit the Man Mo Temple, the nawold number.

Quar. schoal is the largest institution of the public be gratiñed, and the Thus will the wishes that has so far been dedicated to ex.Committee and sub-Committee War

TOTAL OF TURBINED VEŠSELS.

The aggregate horse-power of vernacular education, and its happy in the fulllment of their vessels throughout the world is and mercantile turbined important rola in the system of duty. Our honour has been to now over 35 millions. free education is assured by the follow them in this work. support of influential Chinese that your Excellency will perform organizations and the Govern the opening

FRENCH CREW MEETING. The crew of the French steamer ment, the latter of which has

ceremony. Ap.Menes, who recently mulinied at promised 3 grant of $25,000

Hull, are to be tried by the Mari-

have

themselves.

and

plause.

I begi

I

Havre.

=

AT THE PANAMA CANAL.

towards the expenses incurr H. E. the Governor replied: Metime Commercia! Tribunal Ted in its construction. Built Wing Kwenz sad gentleman, to a height of three storeys, com- This is the seconì occasion within

PANAMA CANAL ZONE modious quarters are provided for a few weeks on which 1 have had 500 pupils who will be taught

SELF-SUPPORTING, the privilege of being assperated under & benevolent scheme with with an extension of the phi Panama Canal Zone says that the The official publication of the which the Directorate of the nthropic setivities of the Tung Panama Canal Zone is self-sup- Tung Wai Hospital

Wah Hospital Committee-Pa the posting and would bare shown a Chinese Confucian Society Previous necasion it was for the surplus if there had not been the

prominently associated bodily needs of the Chinese com. recent changes in that region.

These organiza-nity that provision was being BUNKERING tions have also been respon-made this time the provision S sible for the raising of the for their mental advantage. necessary funds by donations gratulate the Committee on the notification from Pansms to the A British firm has received and publie subscriptions, and site policy which they bave effect that the coal situation at libe Chin representativesloped sufen the admirable uses Panama Canal is worse, and it is Council have further succeeded which they hate found for the feared further restrictions will be! in interesting the Government in funds which have been placed at imposed by the Government with- the work. The cost of the new this disposal.

It is unbebessary jour school is $52,000 and this will be adat- to lay stress on the inbunkers

notice on the supply of considerably eased by the pro-portance of education to any people throug the canal.

to steamers passing mised Government grant.

who are destes, to maintain and The maintenance of the school improve its posita in the world,WELCOME ORDER FOR PARROW.. will be entirely borne by the fand it a great satisfaction to find

Messrs. Vickers, L., have! authorities of the Man Mo Temple that the representatives of the booked an order from the Ja out of their yearly earnings,inese community of Harkong Paese Government for two sets The good results which the school al that the provi-loa of machinery

of

for submarines and the other eighteen free ing-educational farilities is

for that country. The subuariues tutions maintained by the Tung)atter

Ca3 07 shouldjare Wah Hospital will produce for tell wholly to the Government.] he community were resteras but that the community itself o described by His Excellency, through its recognised beadle, can be slackness in the engineer. The front of the building was play an important part in the ad.ing shops at Barrow, and this is tistfully decorated with flags and Vancement of the interests of a welcome offer. greenery. When His Excellencsuture generation of Chinese. The THE MERSAY SHIPWRIGHTS | bad-formatty opened the builling Goverment bas assisted in the

the visitors were ushered into the building of the present sokmol by i "As a result of the strike of entrance hall which presented a mass of a grunt-in-sid and will shipwrights only about two out quaint appearance with its grace, siways be ready to operate with of 36 dry docks on Merseyside. ful style of Chinese architecture the Chinese community in educa and gilded decorations.

thomat work, bus I an endleat for very_many_years-hes guetre are at present in occupation, Noi Acause there are the tha: The GAT results will t- eStain-state of affairs existed. Hon. Mr Law Chupak. Ha. Mele if the matter is left as largely stated that 15 Liverpool ships are B. R. Halls, Hes Mr Ho Fook, pestle in the Laws of the Cei- (undergoing Ben Waldversar, Messrs Hese community sal their worthy some of them in Halland and, repairs elsewhere, Wiaz. Forster, Lo Wing Kang, representatives,

Is this gritates

Belgium, where the cost is much

Your

of the larges: type, and similar to the latest built at Bar- For some time there had

STRIKE

I: is

in the

power

to

He Kw Tong, Chau shi K, La brali le mens a warletheaper. Some of the strikers are P Kesi, Chan Kan lu, (bas Tue Appreciation of the activites of the reduced to poverty.-Liverpool Sacz, S. W. Ten, Chos Hind. YPC alucian Society which has now Journals of Commerce. Le Feng Pen Shang. Wells, establishe i twenty-four schools for Kalazi Wong Kars Tin.

U.S. MARITIME AMBITION. the poorer classes, and is, I under-j His Excellent, sirived in care

stand, pont vring, with the assistance the following noteworthy letter to A corresponden; has addressed, pany with Captiva Mefrath, 1.0.6., End a zpant from Government funds, the Liverpool Journal of Com asi wis received by the Hon. Mrity extend the scope of its work, mereer-Admiral Benson and the E. R. Hala, Hon Mr Lan Übu Pub and Mr Li Wing Away. | Liu Chu, pak, has takes a prom-have taken great pains to embroil My La. İçlead and colleague. Mr United States Shipping Board Chairman of the Tung Wah is for part in this movement and I themselves with the majority of Art Committee The East Bore 155t the value of bis ser The Cabrina Surety played the hides to his fellow entrymen reprehensible clauses

the maritime powers. Of the many British Natiocal Anthem.

wären be represents on the Legisla-Jones' Act perhaps the most Mr.

L. Wing Awag. th.

the Bugdeik is as bully appr cisted | objectionable is that which gives | Chaumin + the Tune Wat by them ne b-by the Guverame the United States flospit! L'ommitter, cod:Applausen

An interesus van abrogate the clauses in the com- Expellers up! gentle-ple of the cordial operation be To-day is the lastween the Tuon Wah Hospital Curs which forbade the US. to impose mercial treaty foreign nations the the opening cetato ng of the mittee and the Government may discriminatory customs duties on o Wa Shi Yarn, which has be seen is the school which I am goods reaching American ports in been well and truly crostructed. Ilopedio: turdag. and others in Ennectors of the† kas syrved to dievute Day dune of 1y opposed by rival nations, more The Committe fareign vessels. It was strenuOUS- The Wah Hupetal, have the got the building to the use of a normal especially Great Thor in to be in office on the seen-school under the wasples of the Japan. Nevertheless President Britain and Your Exerllesey has kicily - Diretor of Education. This brod Wilson gave it his confirmation, baeaped to perionn the upealak will be of inestimable value in the and the Act became law. Oal e-remay and the reboot was restraining of teachers for versavulo mature reflection, however, the reived einuratulations and be at school+ from the many distinguished gen. Fincere wishes it the surres of the the true

In expressing my tast President seems to have perceived tlemen why have been so kind as new Man Mo School ? may perhaps Wesley L. Jones proposals, and, inwardness of Mr. to one to this meeting. The 1- | Wude briety to one bapect of ele-alarmed at the hopeless muddlej find a great occasion and one mentary education to which per- which a Goremment-controlled. that should be aware of happiness vonully attach great importance. Shipping Board has made in its to us all. Thx school is but os One of the most difficult of the endeavour to rear a marine chick the old site of the Mad Mo Temple | social problems of Hosking the bich has developed "rickets," Free wheel and the building was questing of child labour. The em first proposed by the ex-Directore pintine at of little children in work. righteously indignant maritime is striving to placate the rival and Pub-Directors of the Ki Mi frequently of two a heavy characnations by extracting, so far as is year. The work has bern expediteter for their Years, ani by the he groats generadyontinual appearances

the possible, the poisonbag of the at the United States Mercantile Marine made by the Gorgrament. W Police Courts of child hawkers Act. The increasing number of the Directors of the present year, are features of the life of thejnemy vessels on the marketwill hase thus only carried out the pro- Coleay which no one can regard undoubtedly contribute towards posals of mu- predecessors and our without regret. This employment upsetting the plans and hopes of peur of oftre has been devoted to of children is an dont largely due the U.S. Shipping Board, for the tais purpose.

The object of the reasotals causes with which it is nearer the Teuton approaches bis re-building is to provide the free pot easy to deal, but there is no erstwhile maritime status the sebool with more accommodation doubt al that, in many cases sooner will the death-blow to for the poor Chinese boys of the children are so employed because U.S. maritime ambition be de- Colony so that by improved educa. they cascot be left alone while livered.

tion they may be enabled to earn their parents are at work. If the their invelihood and arord the con- chidren can be sent to school this, sequences of poverty. Enquiries dificulty will be removed, sad with

stow that there is a large number the extension of facilities for free. door of the Man Mo Temple School, of poor boys in the Colony who or very cheap education, such as are

cannot afford an education. The provided by the present school and Presented to H. E. the Governor; free school previously established of the Confucian Society's schools Sir R. E. Stubbs, K.C.M.G. Decem by the Temple and by the Confu- to which I have already referred, I.

ber 1st., 1920. His Excellency cian Society within the past tea look forward with confidence to was then conducted into the build Jears have been insufficient to meet great improvement in this respecting and made an inspection. Oa this demand, and the attention

the Dear future. It only

the ground door is a spacious of the Government has been re-remains for me

to repeat my

vestibule furnished in a first-class peatedly invited to this deficiency congratulations to the Com- manner. The pillars and walls were adorned with red hangings

by the Chinese representatives on mittes and to declare the new with large gold characters and a the Legislative Council. Realising Man Mo School open. (Applause.) profusion of Bower baskets, while this, the professional and business communiljes have exerted their ut-Chinese lock attached to a chain on tions were in evidence everywhere. His Excellency then opened a large boards with similar inscrip- most efforts to develop the free the door of the School, and Was The building is capable of secom. schools so as to satisfy the desire later presented by Major Bird with modeling about 400 boys. of the Government in respect of a gold key with the following education and to ensure that the inscription "Key of the entrance

"

The gathering dispersed after partaking of light refreshments.

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