1930-09-12 — Page 7

PRIZE-GIVING AT KOWLOON.

GENERAL'S SPEECH AT THE GARRISON SCHOOL.

PLAYGROUND HOPE.

· POLICE · FALL INTO HARBOUR.

SERGEANT AND SEAMAN

GET DIPPING.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. 1930.

NO ALARM FELT BY DUNLOP.

(Continued from Page 1.)..

"(a) In the first place it is the A mishap to a European Ser-aim of the Dutch Government to ap geant and a seaman of the water ply as little compulsion as possible Police, who were precipitated into towards the native population. The the harbour whilst examining the native population has not asked for certificates of a number of boats, measures of restriction, and there is contained in a police report against any such action.

is even propaganda, on their behalf issued this morning. There was, fortunately, no injury suffered by either man, although both certain articles of their gear. tional daily income or who are en- The report was made by Ser-tirely dependent for their income report presented by Miss Adams,geant Jessop, who stated that he on rubber trees will by restriction the headmistress, at the annual was inspecting. Lying-in-Shore actually be damaged and will not prize distribution of the Garrison permits at 10.30 p.m. last night be- be much impressed by the possibil- School at Gun Club Hill, Kowloon,tween the Ping On Wharf and the ity of future compensation for such this morning.

immediate damage.

A' year's good progress and very satisfactory results, attributable to a large extent to the happy.co- operation between the teachers, pupils and parents and the esprit, de-corps which exists throughout the school, was the keynote of the

The General Officer Command ing (H.E. Major-General J. W Sandilands) presented the awards, and at the same time announced that every effort was being made to secure a playground for the child ren on the Peninsula. It was possible, he said, that they might succeed in obtaining a piece of land on the side of the Kowloon-Canton railway.

Supporting the General were Col. W. D. S. Brownrigg, D.S.O., (H.Q. Staff), Lt. Col. Thom, D.S.O., R.A., Capt. R. C. Strachey, Major R. H. E. Bennett; Major H. J. D. Clark, Lieut. A. H. Musson, R.A., Major O'Brien (C. F.), R.C., Capt. Me- Kenzie (C.F.), and the Rev H. T. Foley, R.N..

General's Speech,

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lost

Shamshulpo Ferry Wharf on the Hongkong side, when he fell into the harbour as a result of one of the boats pulling away from the police launch. Sergeant Jessop and a Chinese seaman had been standing on a gang plank, which fell into the barbour as the small boat drifted away.

Sergeant Jessop lost his torch and one of the putties, while the scaman lost his cap. Neither was Injuired in any way.

21 YEARS AGO.

SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE

"TELEGRAPH" FILES.

The following_extracts are from the Hongkong Telegraph for the week ended Sept. 11th, 1909.

•

The rate of the dollar on

After distributing the prizes, General Sandilands. addressed the children and said he wished to congratulate the Headmistress on her excellent report. He con- gratulated those who had succeed-mand was La. 9.1/6d. ed in gaining prizes and advised) those who had not to refrain from being depressed. He considered the mothers were worthy of con- gratulation on the manner the children were turned out and on their healthy appearance.

As they were aware, they were trying to obtain a children's play- ground. They had got one the other side and they intended to procure one for the children in

Kowloon.

de-

The half-yearly report of the Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd., showed profits on working account totall- ing $71,184. A dividend of $2.40 on the old shares and 40 cents on the new was recommended.

A Chinese Naval Mission, visit-

ing South China to reorganise the Fleet, was given a big reception They had hoped to in Hongkong. Prince Sbun was secure нете of the ground opposite the Peninsula Hotel, but a member of the party.

that had fallen through and they

*

might now get a piece on the other The water in storage in island side of the railway. They antici-reservoirs on September 1st was pated that this would materialise 542,291 million gallons and in a few months' time.

Kowloon 1941.667. (It is interest-

in

Upon the arrival of the Generaling to compare these figures with at Gun Club Hill, he inspected the those of the same date in 1930, H.K.S. Brigade and presented long the Hongkong storage being 1- service and good conduct medals 977.84 million gallons and Kow- to Master-Gunner Lott, B.Q.M.S. | loon's 515 million gallons). Hill and Gunner Chet Singh.

Subsequent to the prize distri bution, the children raised three hearty cheers and a "Tiger" for be popular and have proved of great General Sandilands, and he to- educational value to the pupils. gether with his staff, visited the class rooms and inspected the handiwork of the pupils.

Annual Report.

The large number of prizes to- day has been made possible owing to the generous contributions re ceived from the various Naval and Military Officers, Units. Messes

The annual report was as fol- and Clubs, from H.M. Dockyard lows:

Officials and from the parents of During the year under review civilian children attending the there have been no changes in the schools. In addition the Hong- staff in either the Infants or kong Board of Education and the Elder

Children's School, This individual members of the General has ensured a year's good progress Committee of the Hongkong Cham- ard very, satisfactory results. ber of Commerce have again' very These results may be attributed to generously contributed towards

a large extent to the happy co- the prize fund. To all these I operation between the teachers, tender the sincere thanks of the pupils and parents and the capril-school Staff and scholars to thank do-corps which exists throughout the General Officer Commanding the school., í congratulate the for consenting to present the Queen's Army Schoolmistress on prizes, and to express our.ap the general, sound organisation preciation to those parents and and system of training in the friends who by their attendance school. I regret that we shall be to-day have shown their interest losing Miss Lalis, who is being in the school. posted to the Home Establishment | and will be proceeding home at the beginning of this trooping season. The staff and children join me in

The prize-winners were:- Standard 6.-1st, Ian Read; 2nd, wishing her every happiness in

Claude Brace; good conduct and her new station.

The attendance has been con- progress, Eileen Brace. sistently good throughout the Standard 6.-1st, Arthur Hann; Achool year. The departare of 2nd, Peggy George; good conduct the majority of the Somerset Light and progress, Robert Gascoigne, Infantry families to Hongkong de- Winnie George and Leonard Gib pleted our members somewhat son.

Prize List,

for a short time but this de- Standard 1-1st, Olive Gar- pletion was made up by the arrival diner;. 2nd, Marjorie Ecatwell; of the Argyll & Sutherland High- 3rd. Betty Mullen; good conduct landers from Tientsin in March. and progress; Maisie Higgins and The School has been fortunate. In Edna Hann. ita complete freedom from epidemics.

this Achool.

3rd

conduct

Standard 3.-1st, Joan Porter: 2nd, Margaret Mackie; Of the eight scholarships offered Dorothy Eustace; good by the Board of Education to and progress, Ray Collett, Greta children attending Army Schools Falconer and May Hart, three were gained by children of Standard 21st Roy Cox; 2nd, The following Alec Gardiner; 3rd, Daphne Beat children are to be congratulated well; good conduct and progress, on winning them-Moreen Ruras Ferina Roberts, Kenneth Parry by, Lilian Parry and Edith and William Chidgey.

Special Awards:Drawing, Ian The annual swimming sports Read, Francis Hougton; sewing, take place on the 2nd October Marjorie Beatwell and Margaret when the school hopes to acquit Mackie; handwork, Arthur Hann; itself honourably, Last year most of the children in the school English, Olive Gardiner.

Withers.

were

newcomers to the station,

with the result that the Hongkong School carried off most of the prizes.

A large number of the children belong to the Boy Scout and 'Brownie, organisations.

Infants' School.

Standard 1-1st, Doreen Wil-1 liams; 2nd. Barbara Wayman; 3rd, Keith Mackle.

Needlework-Mary Courtney; handwork, Ronald Gascoignie; con- A library has been started by duct, Patricia Cooper, progress, the children and I wish to take Maureen Chidgey. this opportunity of expressing the Class 2-1st, Harold Roberts; thanks of the Staff to the par- 2nd, Cynthia Collett; 3rd, Harold ents for gifts of books to the 1- Parry. brary, which have been greatly ap- Needlework.** Pauline Shave; preciated by the children.

handwork, Richard Romskill; con- The Pictorial Education end duct and general efficiency. Ronald children's newspapers continue to Hana.

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"(b) A second objection is that those who own a limited number of trees yielding them a small addi-

RADIO TALK TO MANILA.

LOCAL AMATEUR MEETS

WITH SUCCESS.

The well-known" amateur Radio Transmitting Station VS6AF,

and owned

operated by Mr. J. T. Cotton, Jr., at No. 1, Carnar von Road, Kowloon, has succeeded in establishing

one-way radio telephonic conversation- with KAIPW, an amateur station in Camp Stotsenburg, Philippine Is- lands.

that with his Pilot Super Wasp KALPW reports on Morse code receiver he could clearly hear music and speech from VSBAF filty feet away from the loud speaker.

TSIN WAN AFFAIR DETAILS.

SEQUEL TO GAMBLING ARRESTS.

COOLIES ANGERED..

Police Hoadquarters had this morning received no fresh details of the incident at Tsin Was, which we briefly reported in our issue of Jast evening. !

afternoon, it appears that it From enquiries made yesterday was

at 11:30 a.m. that the European sergeant in charge at the Tsin Wan station received a noti Bcation from the villagers that a hundred coolies, party of some engaged in work on the reclama tion land on the other side of the. bill, were advancing towards the village, and it was then believed that the attackers had designs on the police station.

A telephone message

WAS im-

"(c) Furthermore, the applica- i An interesting test will be car restriction to native production ried out, at 11 o'clock to-night would be very difficult and scarce when Camp Stotsenburg will at ly possible, because there is hardly tempt to rebroadcast VSGAF any land registration in the other through their transmitter WYS on possessions of the Netherlands 575 kilo-cycles. The power input East Indies as is the case in Bri- to the oscillater at VSGAF is ap tish Malaya. For this reason the proximately 25 watts. . Stevenson Scheme would be im- Mr. Cotton will be glad to re-mediately sent through to Mr. D. practicable for native producers.ceive reports of his tests on tele- Burlingham, Divisional Superinten. Regulation of the production typhony from listeners-in. checking export would bring about wave-length is 41 metres, large stocks and have a very un- desirable influence оть home prices of the product. Increase of export duty might be succesa- ful, but would weigh heavily on the small owners.

Final Objection. *Cessation of tapping for a few days a week would only be prac- ticable with native co-operation, but would be less successful than might seem probable at first sight, because at present already in many regions, tapping is being done very irregularly, and because

FLANNEL DANCE.

Y.M.C.A. FUNCTION BIG SUCCESS.

The

The last of the flannel dances by the European arranged Y.M.C.A.. in connexion with the summer programme of 1930, was held last night and was well at

tended.

Heavy rain, unfortunately, of the technical difficulty that in-prevented the function being held

THE "TELEGRAPH" ART SUPPLEMENT.

Tomorrow's Interesting

Pictures.

There will be a big variety of topical pictures in to-mor- row's issue of the Telegraph Art Supplement.

Sporting pictures will cover the baseball match between the Japanese and Kisoras and re- cent, tennis championship con- tests at Canton, whilst there will also appear groups of the V.R.C. teams which won the Water Polo League champion- ships.

There will be a photograph taken at the annual dinner of the Portuguese Company of the Ying Wa Girls' School;

The wedding of Mr. G.E. Kerr and Miss Elizabeth P. Langley will be illustrated, and in another group will be seen

Officers the Warrant

and Sergeants Moss of the Royal Engineers.

.

A striking picture of the mammoth bridge which spans Sydney Harbour will appear, as well as a photograph of the N.Y.K.'s

liner new motor

undergoing Yasukuni Maru her speed trials.

dent for Kowloon, advising him of the situation, and, within twenty minutes, several car loads of Euro- pean, Chinese and Indian polles officers arrived from Tsim Sha Tsui.

Meanwhile, precautions had been taken at Tain Wan, and the Indian contingent had been posted with rifles around and guarding the main road.

The coolics made alow progress over the hill and as they came in view of the village discovered that the police defenders had arrived, and, discarding their bamboo poles, they hastily retreated.

The police followed and detained on the tennis courts as originally a few of the men without a shot arranged, but the lounges were being fired or blows being exchang- quickly converted into a delighted. ful dance hall, one and all enjoy- ing the benefits of an excellent floor.

The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels dance band was again in attendance and provided suitable music for the occasion, whilst Mr. G. W. E. True ably carried out the duties of M.C.

Novelty dates were introduced into the programme, and played their part in the success of the function.

M. BRIAND ON HIS SCHEME.

(Continued from Page 1.)

Good Faith Doubted.

The authors of the Covenent never believed that disarmament could be achieved if national arma- ments remained unrestricted. The peoples of the world were growing impatient and were doubting the good faith of their Governments. Definite progress had been made, for example by the London Naval Treaty, but that was only a first step and the British Government was ready to go further.

summon a

Unless naval disarmament could' be made general and applied to the reduction and limitation of land and air forces the peace of Europe and the world would not be safe. They hoped that the "Preparatory Commission in November would creased production on tapping complete its task so that the Coun- days would outweigh the decrease cil would be able to of production on those days when world conference on disarmament there is no tapping.

next year.-Router and British "(d) Finally there is, in the Wireless. opinion of the Dutch authorities, another objection of international concern against restriction hy

The Fire Brigade was called out Government, namely, the possibi-

to a small fire at 460, Shanghai lity that the countries consuming Street this morning at 2.30 o'clock. rubber might make reprisals by in Two appliances were sent, under creasing import duties on products Station Officer Moss and Assistant from the Netherlands, East Indies, Station Master Wollard. The out-

"Government intervention by the Dutch authorities cannot, there-break occurred in a medicine shop fore, be expected at present.

Post War Effects.

occupying the ground floor, and damage was done to the extent of $200, mostly, to medicines and herbs. The careless throwing of a "The rubber industry, as is ex-cigarette-end onto some herbs la plained in the report of the believed to have been the origin of Malayan Commission of Enquiry, the outbreak.- - dated the 1st October, 1921, suffers from the fact that it has never yet

upon a

In

The villagers were reticent affording information as to the motive of the attack, and the police have been unable to discover any thing definite.

It was at first thought that the attack was directed against the police station to liberate five of their companions who had been ar- rested the previous night in a gambling raid.

From subsequent enquiries, the police now believe that the attack was intended for the villagers, con- sequent upon friction between them and the coolies. It is stated that one of the village boys had given the information which led to the gambling raid, and in revenge, one of the coolles assaulted the boy. yesterday morning, and the ad- vance on the village was a further retaliatory demonstration.

In order to secure. the village from further trouble, the Tain Wan police station has been re- inforced by several men from Tsim Sha Tsui,

The coolies are engaged in carry- ing out a reclamation work and road making for the Texaco plant, about a mile from the village.

SALVAGE PARTY DEPARTS.

TO REFLOAT STRANDED RIVER BOAT.

A party of men has been sent up to the West River to effect the salvage of the 8.8. Kong Ning, which struck a rock near. Yuet Shing, just above Samshot, and sprang a leak which necessitated her being beached.

Latest information to hand is to the effect that the crew of the ves sel, with the assistance of men from H.M.S. Cicala, which has

been reported to be standing by, are pumping out water and are endeavouring to patch up the hole in the vessel's keel.

The vessel will be brought back to Hongkong for repairs when she is refloated.

KOWLOON SARDINE

CASE.

SHOPKEEPER CONVICTED &

...FINED $250.

The case in which two Chinese

sar.

had a normal period. The year that economic laws must be allow- before the War, 1905-1914, when ed to take their course, in the hope the industry was being established that thereby the stabilisation of were essentially abnormal. Ex-rubber prices may, be realised. traordinary expansion of demand When this has been achieved, a for rubber gave it a scarcity value, large increase in the world's rub its level when the Great War broke be expected, and the rubber in- and the industry had not yet found ber consumption may confidently out and produced world-wide dustry would then enter at last abnormality of trade conditions. When peace came, it was found supply and demand would ap having in their possession

normal period, in which shop dealers were charged with that production had hopelessly proximately balance each other. outdistanced the abnormally re-

dines unfit for human consump- stricted demand of a world striving

I have the honour to be,

tion was concluded at the Sir,

Kowloon Magistracy this morn- to reorganise its shattered trade

Your obedient servant,

ing.. relations. The remedy of restric-

(Sd.) D. BARTLEY, tion, applied in 1921, once more

Colonial Secretary, produced wholly abnormal con

Straits Settlements." ditions; and, when it was removed, the world's production was again! Suggested "Coercion." found vastly to exceed the world's

Colombo, Sept. 11. consumption. ...

The Times of Ceylon advocates "What is now needed is that rubber prices should be stabilised the imposition by Great Britain by the action of economic laws; of an Import tariff on Dutch teas, and His Excellency the Governor, of which, the paper declares the advised by the Executive United Kingdom consumes more

The defence argued that the Council, considers that unilateral than half the output, unless the action in this Peninsula would be Netherlands Government co- sardines were not intended for worse than useless, His Ex- operates in the restriction of human consumption but were to be

dumped, cellency has, therefore, decided

怨越

robber-Reuter.

Mr. Whyte Smith imposed a fine of $250 on Ho Sit, who Was charged with being in possession of 1,180 tins, while both defen dants were discharged on the second count of having 12 tins.

Mr. Horace Lo appeared for the defence and said Ho Sit took all the responsibility and asked that Ho Leung, be discharged.

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