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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;

TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1923.

OCCASIONALLY YOURS. MR. M. S. NORTHCOTE... years of enjoyable retirement in

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Gort ServiI baya also sean

them on the cars. Some of the conductors have the davil's own job with them, they are no cheeky. MacPherson --Well, 盘

Leaving Hongkong To-morrow.

the Old Country.

Presentation.

A pleasant little ceremony took place at the offices of the Hong- kong Land Investment and Hongkong to-morrow loses one Agenor Company this morning. of its oldest and best-known re- when the staff and contractors sidents, in the person of Mr. mes to present a handsome silver- Mowbray Stafford Northcote, | salver to Mr. Northrote. Engraved upon the Secretary of the Hongkong Land

salver Investment and Agency Co., Ltd., were the signatures of the must learn lo stick with which firm he has seen 28 donors

and it bare the years' continuous service. En following inscription: "Present- grounds of health, Mr. Northcote ed to Mowbray S. Northcote is going Home on retirement, Esq. Secretary of the Hongkong leaving by the P. and 0. mail Land Investmeat and Agency

for himself. He canna" lie down and be tramped on by every- Mr. Mac. No'likely. Bather than send them all that way I'd send them to Teacher-The Convent? Just 10, and the teachers get the blame. A lot of this talk about these Church Schools (shall I call them providing a better educa. tion is just mere tesh, Lote of parents I know send their children to such schools timply because they must have something different. They do bol want their children to mix with the children of their employees. And the Government schools get the blame on educational grounds. It's tot fair. MacPherson: The pupils of

the Church Schools, as Je call them, come out very well in the examinations. Teacher:-Oh. D external examination isn't every- thing. It

not al

ways so fair a test as you may

imagine. possibly

Being able էր pass a University examination is not always synonymous with a sound education. Mrs. Mac-I'll take a chance

ADWAY.

Teacher:-The fruits of educs.

tion are not always observ able right away. MacPherson-But we canna' wait twenty years till we find out whether a lad is likely to shape as a taipan

or merely qualifying for

the House of Detention.

steamer Mores.

Co., Ltd. by the staff on bis re- It was in May, 1892, that Mr.tirement, as a slight token of ap Northcote first came to thepreciation of his 28 years service Colony, and during his lengthy and his unfailing courtesy and residence here he has made

kindness to all," wide circle of friends, who will greatly miss his cheery personal. it, for in all his activities here he bas shown, himself to be Ia his Seniality personified.

In making the presentation. Mr. W. J. Wilkinson, the oldest member of the staff, said he was sure the rest of the staff would agree with him when he said that? earlier days, Mr. Northcote was a they were all very sorry be was

MR. M. S. NORTHCOTE

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Responding, after his health had been warntly toasted, Mr. Northcote, speaking with great emotion, thanked the staff and

Govt Serit:Yes, but that's very keen and enthusiastic Volun- leaving them, but Mr. Northcote's

rather beside the point, teer. He held a commissioned health

he such that Was don't you think? Isn't the rank in the Corps and

must have a rest and change of trouble to do with our awarded the V.D. decoration for climate. He asked them to join satem of co-education. long and meritorious service. He with him in wishing Mr. North- this herding together of was formeveral years Hon. Secre- cote a sperdy recovery of his boys and girls?

táry of the Rifle Association, as health and a long life in the Old Teacher:--Yes, that's rather well as of the Society for the Country, and said that they would

bad in a way.

Prevention of Cruelty to Animals all miss his jovial smile and Govt Servt-It must be jolly and the Hongkong Devonian gentle demeanour. To know bim hard to get boys into the Society. He is a Justice of the was to love him, and he would playing field and interested Peace, having been appointed intake bone with him the best in footer and cricket with 1909, whist be bas also served as wishes of them all. all these girls at their a member of the Licensing Board. elbow. And they all get Apart from these posts and his older much earlier out keen attention to business, the bere, don't they?

name of Mr. Northcote will long TeacherThat's so. I have be remembered here in connection said that it was only reasons had some trouble in that with the Hongkong A.D.C., of of health that compelled him to direction, the exchanging which he was formerly Hon. sever bis connection with the of notes and so forth. But Treasurer. He has played many Company which had 80 you see, the mischief is parts in the various theatrical happy associations for him. The that the number of pupils productions put on by local names of the members of the

beec being so small, it would be amateurs, and can with truth be staff would have very dificult to Save described as one of the finest graved upon his memory" eve

bad they

2203 bee o separate schools for boys amateur actors the Colony has if and girls. Personally. I ever had..

engraved upon the salver. He think the idea most ex-

concluded by extending to each cellent but one has to con-

member of the staf a hearty sider the matter of expense,

invitation to come and visit him I suppose. I'm rather in

if ever they were in England. favour of boarding schools myself.

Govt Servt:-That would still mean separate schools. Teacher: Of course. But the Govertmen: would have first to ascertain beiber European would be in favour of this scbere, otherwise

Hosts of friends will say good bye to him with genuine regret to-morrow, and all will entertain the hope that be may have many

Whirter

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

many

en.

MacPherson:-And that's a

Fact. If some

them would stay at home and- look after their own kids

The Paris bus company has they'd be better employed. What do you say Macdecided to add a corps of inter- preter to its staff, a move which "Mrs. MacPherson and gentle. Will being them into line with MacPherson: It would mean men." says i."I have to declare the first English buses which Mr. this match a draw on points. All George Shillibeer ran from the educational white

"Yorkshire Singo at Padding- bets are off. Thank you for your elephant-a couple of them

Results attendance.

will baton to the Bank. For conductors in fact. Mrs. Mac:-Government Board. announced later. I'm off to bed he obtained the services of two

ing Schools smack too much after I've had an aspirin. Good naval officers socs,

night."

an

of the Poorhouse to me. MacPherson:And even then,

with a Boarding School. we're not sure that the kids will have better education. Look at the Public Schools at Home. I wouldas ece of their products And very among my feet. likely the teachers would be changed around just the

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SIX MILLION TREES, Replacing Timber Given Up for War.

The announcement that two The Duke of Atholl denuded young giraffes of a rare tyre have large areas of his timber for the been acquired in South Africa for requirements of the nation during the London Zoological Garden" the war, and since then he has is a reminder that the grest col-planted about three million trees,

Teacher: And most likely the pupils. Continuity of pupils

It will be remembered that Mr.lection at Regent's Park imported maintaining in this respect the is just as important as con-

Temple Thurston's "Wandering the first specimens of those great arboricultural tradition of tinuity of staff. I was once

Jew" ran for 402 nights in Lon animals seen in Western Europe his family.

In addition he is now contem. in a school here where in

'don, and it is still canning in the for nearly two thousand years. Claes 1 only one girl had

country. There were those who Four of them were sent over from plating farther scheme which gone right through the

said that it was merely a tour de Kordofan in 1837, and the three involves about 2,000 acres in the school,

it. (See diagram.) There were force, but those critics who made which reached England alive neighbourhood of Dunkeld.

This will mean handling Govt Servt:-And teachers re- two circles of trees, as shown in this statement may find that created a great sensation, and at-

plante, Walls" tracted visitors from all over another three million quire holidays at Home as the diagram. In renting out the "The Roof and Four well as parents and papils. small house, the man wanted to establishes him as a real dram- Europe. How little known the mainly hybrid larch and Douglas It's a hard proposition. keep the outer circle of trees to list. The new play is to be pro-animals were even by repute in fr.

of Mr. Mac-Some the himself. How did he divide the duced this evening. It is a come- the eighteenth century is evident It is interesting to recall that.

teachers they've had bere land?

dy which is bound to cause from reference of Gibbon's to the first larch introduced into from time to time bavena'

Yesterday's answer:

good deal of domestic discussion. the killing of one of them in the Scotland was brought over from had far to go to get Home. The head of

handbag and a fish is pine Üne of bis earlier plays, "Driven," arena by the Emperor Com- the Tyrol in a Teachers You mean?

inches long.

which was put on -in June 1914, modius. "This strange animal,"planted in the neighbourhood of Mr. Mac-I mean some of th The tail is as long as the head looked like having a successful commented the bistorian," has Dunkeld.

young lasstes that's been and balf the body.

time, but in August, owing to not been seen in Europe since the teaching bere. I wouldns' The body is as long as the head, the war, it was taken off. Mr. the revival of letters, and though give some o' them my best and tail together.

Thurston's newest play-which Buffon has endeavoured to de- The fish is 72 inches long; ile has not yet appeared on the scribe he has not ventured to de china to wash, let alone teach my bairas.

body is 36 inches, and ite tail 27. stage Judas Iscariot," is shart-lineate the giraffe,”

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