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TO-DAY'S WANTS

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($1.50 IF NOT PREPAID)

The following replies have been received:

544, 545, 547, 550, 556, 566, 592, 595 598, 618; 633.

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PREMISES TO LET.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1930.

New Advertisements Lammert's ~ Auctions

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB

·Draft programmes and Entry Forms for the First Extra Race Meeting to be held on Saturday, 8th March, 1930 (weather per- mitting) may be obtained at the Race Course, Hongkong Club, and Causeway Bay Stables.

Entries close at 12 a'clock noon on Modday, 3rd, March, 1930.

Hongkong 19th February, 1930.

UNION WATERBOAT CO., LTD. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

The Twenty Fifth Annual General Meeting of Shareholders will be held in the Offices of Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd., on

PUBLIC AUCTION,

The Undersigned have received

·LOCAL TEACHING METHODS.

(Continued from Paga 1.). Instructions to sell by Public loyal service which he sought to Auction,

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on Thursday

the 20th February 1930. commencing at 2.30 p.m.

at No. 22 Humplireys Buildings, Kowloon

A Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture

On Vlow from Wednesday, the 19th February, 1980. Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers,

PUBLIC AUCTION,, ;

The Undersigned have received

inculcate

Value of Sport.

It is not so much preaching in cannya nawaper "lour schools against the evils ox, oplum English text-book. It was a hopeless which will effect any change, as the and, almost worthless book to try to Introduction of normal healthy excur teach

elso among the masses of the Chinese The fact of the matter is that it i people. No one need ever say that almost impossible to teach English In person who takes regular healthy this ways The best way to teach exercise and keeps it up throughout correct English in by paraphrasing. re will become, heavily addicted and what this writer says is waste of Then so ma is really good paraphrasing. oplum smoking.

The taacher' umela

hich is to bu here is only

best.

The brightest hope for the future Hays;-- of the Chinese race lies in the growth, wasted in showing that certain ex- I heard with interest your Hond of this love of healthy sport. We pressions are now: ungrammatical or

were pleased to see, therefore, that mitogether changed" in "moa Master's references to your varied

our previous year's senior, swimming But in this very WKY activities in the field of athletics

Young Yuen-wa, won the of En champion, and I share his view that school open competition for Chiness, across games, Important though they are, the Harbour, and that his cousin, should not be allowed to usurp the Young Yuk-wa, of Châul 4A, ■' Júnior, place of learning in the school cur- came in first in the same race. They riculum. But I do think that out-are both the sons of honoured old boys, door games are of special import of this College.

Matthe Role of, Sport. ance to Chinese boys of the present generation. The Chinese boy in-Y herits a traditional reverence for scholarship; but, the world cannot be run by pure acholarship alone. Those essential; qualities of charac- possible must be learned as much outside the classroom as in it, and here that organized games can provide one of the necessary ingredients of education.

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the Star TO LET-Or for Sale 101 and 162 SUNGLASSES-Near

and Ferry on Tuesday: Owner can the Penk. Detached House have same on application to this Bungalow, Mount Kellot Road,

with spacious grounds and gardens Monday the 10th March 1930 at | instructions to all-by Public | ter without which leadership is im- i posa" for which the school exists has «And all s/wonder, and a wild "doqizg'"- office.

and 2 Tennis Courts. Each has SITUATIONS VACANT. 12 living rooms 3 bedrooms with bathrooms attached, kitchens and WANTED.-A good COOK BOY servants quarters and wells for modern sanitation. and WASH AMAH for house on gardening,

Immediate possession. Apply Sang Peak. Willing to pay good wages. Kee, New Bank Building: Phone Write Box No. 038, "Hongkong Telegraph."

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at 6 p.m. On FRIDAY, 28th February, 1930.

Business:- Adoption of Report and Ac counts of 1929.

Election of Officers and Com mitice.

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RACE MEETING, 1930.

24th, 25th, 26th, February

and 1st March, 1930,

On Saturday 22nd February the first race will be run at 2 p.in. and on all other days at 12 o'clock On the first day the arsi noon. bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m. and on the other four days at 11.30a.m. "Members' Badges and Enclosure.

Members' Badges may obtained by those members who have not already received them on "application to the Secretary,

be

Such Badges will also ensure admission to all Extra Race Meet- inge during. 1930.

Members are notifed that they and their ladies must wear their badges prominently displayed.

No one without a badge will be admitted to the Members Enclo

Bure.

Badges admitting non-members to the Members, Enclosure and

Club Rooms at $10 per day or $40. for tho Meeting (ladios $4,-and $16-respectively), are obtainable through the Secretary upon introduction by a Member, Auch Member to be responsible for payment of all chits, etc.

Badges admitting to Members' Enclosure will not be on bale at the Race Course.

A

on Thursdays- the 20th Februáry, 1930." commencing at 11; Min at No. 46A. Nathan Road,

Kowloony t Quantity of Valuable Household

Furniture

On View from Wednesday, the 19th February, 1930, Terms-Carli.on Delivery..

LAMMERT BROS

Auctioneers

PUBLIC - AUCTION. The Undersigned have received instructions. to sell by Public Auction,

On FRIDAY, the 21st February, 1980, commencing at 11 am.. at No. 4, Amal Villas,

Austin Avenue, Kowloon. A Quantity of Household Furniture.

In many Home schools the various momber port and their addends usurp all teacher giving me Brow

the Book to paraphrasó:

**Ok-lyria Kri-shall" angel ant; half kick the anergias of the institution soon to his wife from The Ring much so that the fundamental pur

I have often tried since to pa aften waned or become non-existent|

It will hot gun lib We do not wish, this to be the case phrase the passage and have failedi ! here Sports are very good, and es- 1 now. nential their place, but after all sermo pelafiria without mer destr spart is only to keep the body healthy tion. But this is not true about, and the mind fully alert. It ought many of the speeches in Shakespears. China to day is stirring into new not to be the bo-all and the end-all of They can be turned into good correc

prose. MRM The Yellow Drupen the monthly Bealdes, the analysis of character life after centuries of stagnation. existence. It needs above all the well educated, man of action not the pure organ of the school activities, has and the background of incident in Bourished with great vigour. Like the plays form the warp and woof scholar whose outlook is bounded by his studs Walls, still less the very good College magazine it has for a lesson such as in not given by

failed to pay in the more monetary any loader from a newspaper.

It is a very okay matter to take sentenco such saj pure athlete whose horizon is limit-sense; but has acted as a close link ed by the, goal post or the wicket, between the old boys and the present an utterly idiotic but the man of sound physique and boys of the school and done much to Until the men were died his frienda sterling character, of wide outlook forter Interest in the College. As the were bury him, and to attribute it and balanced judgment such as can Dragon in ancient times had much to the teaching of Shakespeare and anly be produced by the judicious influence on the weather, it is fitting such like. I might just as well at- tradition; and this year we published combination of serious work and that this one should live up to its tribute it to the daily newspapers. serious play. Such a combination a very complete and valuable meteorg- it is the aim of schools like Queen's logical graph of the weather condi College and school masters like Mr. tions in Hongkong during the year, based on the daily readings taken in Crook to produce.

the College.

The True Product,

Examination Results.

Wrong System.

mare

So far as it can be attributed to any cause it is due to the system by which students who, have" only la smattering of English can go to pri vate schools where they are pushed on, irrespective of merit to work for. which they are totally unfitted. Until all these schools are closed up by ab sorption and the scholars graded in organised Government Schools this". The school work has gone on, with type of monstrosity will abound.

To people with a language like Chinese where t the time and state unbroken devotion, which might, on a

divorced casual glance, seem like stagnation, the but is really assiduity. Fifty-one of an action are entirely boys from this College sat for the from the verb, and 'Indeed, often not! Matriculation and Senior Local Ex- expressed at-ally and where singular amination, and of these twenty-three and plural are not so obvious and im passed, or 45, gaining five distinc-portant as they are with us; where, tions. One boy, Douglas Hunt, ob-number is often only considered in a sion of time and state sa cxpressed in tained honours with distinctions in vory, general way, the correct expres boths English and Mathematics

The Magazino la widely rend by past papila and has even boen in The true product of a good educa-light demand by persons completely tion is the active and recaptive soul: unconnected with the College, We want you to be receptive to new Ideas, active to carry them out and above all honest in your purpose; the for, as was aptly put in an address I was reading a few days ago, "ability and knowledge unless in the grip of sound character are but dangerous tools". Your education in your school is your preparation for efficiency in life...

Catalogues will be issued, On View from Thursday, 20th February, 1980.7

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

PUBLIC AUCTION, The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Publle Auc- tion on vacant Tuesday, the 25th. February 1930,

commencing at 10.30 s.m..:

at No. 41, Humphreys Buildings,

Kowloon

A quantity of Valuable Household

Furniture.

HONGKONG & SHANGHAI - BANKING CORPORATION..

I congratulate the prize winners, but I do not condole with the lasers, The loser who can give of his besti and see another carry off the prize, and still smile md offer congratula tons to the winner, may well be ac quiring a better education than he who, by reason of avine natural gift or special advantage, may find no difficulty in satisfying the exami ners. The honest effort is the thing that counts in education; and failure should be only a stimulus to further effort

We think this a quite satisfactory our verb is extremely difficult and reauit. Of course if we have only cannot be learned in a couple of small number of entries it is much years. The marvel is that anus) of easier to get 100% of passes. And them are as good as they are. I if the entries are controlled during should be very sorry, therefore, to seo the year, much easier still. For ex the rather inconsequent suggestions of ample, we hold a half yearly examina English Undedied adopted through- Lion in June. At that examination out the Colony passed the Matriculation had passed last year in Class Full 2 all those who descans with us except one and all the who failed at the Matriculation had failed with us except one.

and

Limile of Class Work.

On View from Monday, the 24th.

Class work in schools or indeed in, University gives little scope for the training of the February, 1930.

Ts in this examination our own cultivation and

aesthetic faculties, though those..are Terma:-Cash on delivery..

And in your work as in your play Lammert Bros.,

only differed from the let your sense of humour never rer a Auctioneera,

asany other. We try to encourago desert you. You have in your University results by the fact that just as important a part of the raind Head Master living example of we failed one boy whom they passed one part of aesthetics by teaching a amount of drawing; and to, certain passed one boy whom they falled. one who has preserved through therefore, we controlled the en-

in the year in painting, drawing, years of hard work the saving tries and only allowed those to enter further this, we have two competitions humour. He the own half. brush-work, and also in map produc- Members can obtain, upon ap-

Notice is bereby given that, there of hamile to help one over who had pase could have almost

tion. Follow 100% of passes. But by our regula The pictures sent In for these com- plication to the Secretary, badges

Ordinary Yearly Meeting" of the life's gravest difficulties. fres. (limited to two) for the

Shareholders in this Corporation his good example and you will find, tions every boy here who passer the

an improvement en many previous En- admission to the Members*

22nd smiles, but much more so, when he next year for the Matriculation; and ones, and those who were kind enough

ait for the closure of wives, lady relatives and will be held at City Hall, Hong like Sterne, that "every time a man Junior Local Examination sits the Petitions this year showed, we think, come and judge these were greatly. to

efforts. some of the friends. Names must be stated Kong, on Saturday, the

Matriculation who has not oblain- February, 1980, at 11.30 am, for laughs, he adds something to this we allow nobody to

fragment of life". when applying.

ed a Junior Local Certificate. We be pleased with

Although we touch drawing in the the purpose of receiving the

lieve that this is the only fair method school and think, it ought to be taught On no pretext will children be

Head Master's Report. "'" to adopt towards the Junior Local we find it hard to justify it an a permitted in either enclosure dur-Report of the Board of Directors

Matriculation subject, and we think The Head Master's report was as and Matriculation Board.

the Hongkong University must be ing the first four days of the together with a Statement of Ac-

counts for "the year ending Slat follows:-There is curtain monotony

070 of the only ones in the world. Meeting.

December, 1929.

in reading, out figures and statistics The Register of Shares of the years after year, which, though they We hope that the slight stringency which has drawing in its regular

are not identical, must of necessity introduced into bath these examina-matriculation, subjects. Corporation will be closed from have a great almilarity. With Your long this year will ultimately have The series of maps which were ant after standing merit, so much so that we Monday, the 10th February to Excellency's permission, therefore, I rond affect and bring about the in for our competition were of out- Saturday, the 22nd. February, 1930, shall be as brief as possible on this adoption of a second year study (both days inclusive), "during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.

Public Enclosure. The price of admission to the Public Enclosure is $8 per day for all persons, including ladies, and is payable at the Gate.

Soldiers and Sailers in uniform are admitted to the Public Ea- closure at $1.per day.

Bookmakers, Tie Tae men, etc. will not be permitted to operate! within the precincts of the Hong- kong Jockey Club during Race Meeting.

Servants Pass45,

the

*

·

By Order of the Board of Directors,

A. C. HYNES.

Chief Manager. Hongkong, 3rd February, 1980. ROYAL HONG KONG YACHT CLUB "TREVESSÄ” TROPHY,

The thirteenth bi-annual raco for ship's lifeboats will he sailed on Wednesday, the 19th March,

Passes for Servants will be is sued on application to Messrs. Linstead and Davis, Alexandra Buildings.

Employers are requested to dis-starting at 4 p.m.

Each ship may enter any num tribute them with discrimination and to endorse their names on the ber of boats, ME

COURSE-Start from Channel passes.

Servants are not permitted Is Rocks, thence to Howloon, Hock the Members' Enclosuse except for (F3, Mark off Yacht Club (S) passing through on their duties, Gust Rock Mark (P), Finish a but must remain in their omthe Yacht Club across the line

from West to East ployers' stands.

*

Second Year's Study.

of the report as I want to pass the Junior Local Setore student found great dificulty in judging them. some remarks on the relation of school can elt for his matriculation. On We decided therefore, to send about education to what follows, both in previous occasions both here and 12 or 14 of the best of them to tr business and in the University and elsewhere I have already outlined a Reeves, the Mop Curator and Carto- after. The results of the recent ex-method by which I think this might graphor of the Royal Geographical aminations and certain letters in the be accomplished. It would be an in Society, whose works on mans "and nowspapers seem to justify comment estimable gain to all higher educa- map production are known over the whole divilleed, world. We asked him by those who are responsible for the tion in the Colony. actual teaching,

year: There were 691; which took their examination 'colside, ar pula s

In the Junior Local Examination for a frank and candid criticism and We had 220 working days the fifty-eight boys sat and twenty-seven for a classification in order of merit, same as the previous year and a

Productions. good attendance of pupils through passed or 4644% with twelve dis if he cared to give it

inctions. Exclusive of these classes out the scholars on the roll with an average there were five hundred boys who at In his reply he say I have re- dally attendance of 019 or almost for the annual school examination, ceived the maps drawn by the boys SERYE of these pree hundred and twenty in your College and have been-mach 90%

At the beginning of the year we eight passed or about 651536 In ell interested in them Kps" are all cepted all the new boys we had these examinations; both our own and certainly most, creditable productions, room for. These were mostly in divi. the Junior Local and Matriculation, and it is close that with pro cious of Classes 8 and 3; those in the slight increase in stringency in ing these studenta would maako Class 3 being front the District passing is not a bad sign, nor a sign good redgraphical draughtsmen Schools. In the other classes proof want of work, but good open for Mr. Reeves places some of them.

tions from the next lower class the future, S practically all the class above so that candidates for admission can be accepted: We had to turn away about 150 applicants. Most of these, Tald of examine, as this takes too time and only raises fales, hopese ved

Though there was a good Any persons found loitering Competing boats should be in inco of mulls and their math to

This writer goes on to ex- came in Arat in the harbour, race with Servants Passes in their position of the starting line by good, there was quite a lot of sick-

neas among the staff and I zagret to plain what he thinks ought to be done in a map which Mr. Reeves describ

a very creditable Chire should be a thorough possession will forfeit the same 3.30 p.m

showing that the interest this boy has” say that a highly valued member

taken in swimaning has not, and will be removed from the Ships proposing to enter bosts the staff, Metal Pat-yan, died during in plain matter of fact

wuch, for Iratante, as that BTA, requested to notify the Honing the year. As boy and master he prose Secretary, Royal Hong Kong Yacht had been directly connected with the in well Clob, not later than noon, on the College for over quarter of The letter le pot

wery cheery and LED TWIRL that the

mothe respecta, but it is not 19th March

enclosure.

By Order,

Hongkong, 10th CREDIT FONCIER DI

CHTENT Mortgage Bank & Estate Agen "PEAK MANSIONS Six-roomed and Five-roomad Hepartmental

Prince Edward Rond's

Kowloon

Detached and Ben

villas, Modern construct

with garare.

"Cambay Buildings”

Flats with modern conveniences,

B. J. VERNALES D Hon. Secretary, R.HEY.C. Hongkong, 17th February, 1980. BEIGENLAND DANCE At·

HOTEL SAVOK

ednesday 19th February From #p.m. to 13 pan, Meet the Bolgenlindera

All Welcome va Admission #1 Marench Including refreshment.

We had'

order of merit, Al-ow! exigencies of prize distr had to make our awards two mi wspapers before als letter arrived, I am Persons writing in the have spoken, of the Junior Local to say that his nasessment Debacles and one correspondent said almost exactly with four that the method of teaching English published in the Billoso

Chinese in Hongkong 15 utterly at may bay Also Leat

back to us P254

corte

Opium Habit.

fing early in the

mpetitions inval swimming, as well ke other schools in football, valley-ball, Many of thes ara indulged in enthusi the best of them from a hes of view, swimming, is now among the Chinese ma 16 Euroseana, A MYRKA

I should like to say hers with refe ence to the oplum habit in China:

inite text

apped his ability

for

rather

The maps which were sent to Mr. Herves and his letter of

here for day one whip

Sagan schoo Exropean mont But mean

Colony a lend and

Univaralty: dia Ject by makin

of modern