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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

CORRESPONDENCE.

Fall of the Dellar.

[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.].

"Sir,-"A.LT.S." assorts that the term "silver basis" has been very loosely employed in the past when dealing with the Colony's currency, and points out that it did not.ap pear in the Banks' official announce- ment of October 24th last.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1930.

HERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES MESSAGERIES-MARITMES,

The Steamship,

silver dollars, but is it not a fact. CONSIGNEES NOTICE. that, until the decision of October, the Banks forced notes rather than dollars on their customers? “As I see the matter, this policy of the Banka put our currency on a new foundation or basis." It may have been fictitious and artificial, but that does not alter the fact. The bankers admit so much when they so Insistently refer to the re- establishment of a silver basis.

COMMON CENTS.

Teaching of English.

May I suggest, however, that if Sir,--With reference to Prof. Simpson's instructiva lecture on there has been any misconception English difficulties and "Kolt's" created by the use of the term, it is interesting letter on the Junior due more to our bankers than to Local debacle (English being, 1. anyone else?

presume, in the majority of casos the failing" subject), it seems to me that the method of teaching English to Chinese in Hongkong in utterly at fault.

Whilst it is true that the announ- cement of October 24th did not contain the allegedly misleading term, a reference to the S. C. M. Post will show that Mr. A. H. Ferguson, in giving out the announ- dificulties of English are admit To all non-English speakers the cement, added that "the decision to. re-establish the currency of Hongard diametrically opposed to us in tedly great, but to the Chinese, who kong on a silver basis was a unent- mous one."

Furthermore, an earlier oficial intimation, made on behalf of the Banks on October 18th by Mr. J. S. McEachran, was to the effect that "the Banks have agreed to, the re- establishment of the currency of the Colony on a silver basis.”

"GENERAL METZINGER”. Arrived Hongkong on Wednesday, the 15th January, 1920, From MARSEILLES &c. Consigness of Cargo by the above named steamer are hereby informed that their

with the exception of Optum, Trasure and Valuables are being landed had placed at their risk in the Godowns of the Hongkong Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co. Ltd, Kowloon, whence delivery can be ob tained as the goods are landed. cluding date of arrival, will be sub- Goods not cleared within 7 days in- ject to rent

All claims must be sent to the un- dersigned before the Friday, the 24th January, 1930, or they will not be recognized.

Damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the consignees, and the Company's Bur yeyor Messra:-Goddard & Douglas at 10.00a.m. on Tuesday, the 21st

the goods have left the Godowns. January, 1980.

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L. LESDOS, Hongkong, 15th January, 1830.

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so many points of thought, habit} and custom, they must be superla-] tively so. Why, then, in the name of all that is educational, are Hong-" kong Chinese taught English through the archaisms and obsoles cences of Shakespeare and Lamb,, embellishment and embroidery; or the incomprehensibilities of cer- for, in English composition, is not tain "selected" Essays, so that most If further evidence is required of showing that certain expressions poetic exaggeration? But deli- of the teachers' time is wasted in one of their greatest faults a ten-

vlu Kobe à Torohams dency to symbolic, metaphorie and the use of the term by men who are now ungrammatical, or alto herately to teach brush and palette

TYNDAREUN ought to know what they are talk- gelher changed in meaning; or in English to those who have not a ing about, I would refer "A.I.TS." trying to explain thought as ob-hammer-and-chisel (or, is it sick- to an interview of October 7th, scure and language as involved an le?) knowledge of it can give re- when the Hon. Mr. A. C. Hynes, those in an Einstein treatise, to suits only as lamentable as they Chief Manager of the Hongkong students, who, unless continually are ludicrous-ft. themes merely and Shanghai Banking Corporation, watched, will write such "English" which as "Until the men was died his

for the comic papers, referred to three ways in the situation could be adjusted, re- friends were bury him."

While on this subject, it would marking that "one was to get the

be interesting to know why it is local currency back to the silverSurely to Chinese who study (as alleged) that in the case of an English "because it is spoken in exact subject like Mathematics the America," a thorough grounding in University precribee a definite plain, matter-of-fact English prose text-book, whereas in the case of a auch, for instance, as that found in vague and wide subject like Euro- well-written newspaper leaders,) would be of infinitely greater ser so that a student may toil a whole pean History no guidance is given, vice than the teaching of obsoles- year to no purpose, the subject of cences and profundities.

basis."

No one needs to be told that our currency has always been backed Бед

by silver, but I do suggest that the quetations which I have given above show that even the Colony's leading bankers realised before the slump that, in actual fact, noteal rather than silver had become thei real basis, "A.I.T.S.” says that our banknotes promise to pay only

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