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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1931

DEGREE DAY AT UNIVERSITY.

(Continued from Page 2.) don with the University's inavit able difficulties. I take this op- portunity, on behalf of all my cóllongues and myself, to tender to Your Excellency and to your Counsellors our profound grati- tudo.

.

In 1927/8 he was Counsellor to PRINCES FAREWELL the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

and Director General of the Cus-

For

AND QUEEN.

toms Administration of the Nu-SAY GOODBYE TO THE KING tionalist Government. In this last capacity he acted as Chairman of the rocont Tariff Commission. part of 1928 he was away from

Mr. China travelling with Han-min, Mr. Sun Fo and Mr. C. C. Woo.

Many Activities.

Hu

at Buenos Aires

on

London, Jan. 12. The Prince of Wales and Princo George paid a formal visit to Buck- ingham Palace to-day, to bid good- bye to the King and Queen," who are returning to Sandringham this In the same year he became a afternoon and will not gain ace the Member of the Legislative Yuan of Princes before their departure for The year 1930 also saw the de- the Nationalist Government and South America, where the Prince cision of His Majesty's Govern- Chairman of the Foreign Rela- of Wales will open the British Trade ment decision graciously actions Committee; also Chairman Exhibition cepted by the Government of the of the Civil Codification Commis- March 14.-British Wireless, Republic of China--that the Uni-

This Commission has now versity should receive a contribu- published an English translation tion from the Boxer Indemnity of the Civil Codes of the Republic Fund. The contribution repre- of China Books I, II and III and sents a solid aur which, if wisely Mr. Foo has contributed an intro used is going to help us in placing duction to this volume. In 1929 the University on a sounder finan-Mr. Foo was appointed Chinese cial basis. I have already recely- Minister to Belgium, un appolat- ed a good many suggestions as to mant which he did not take up. how the money should be spent. Mr. Ping-sheung Foo, it will be Personally, I hope that the capital

a great pleasure to me to call upon will not be touched. If we invest His Excellency the Chancellor to the whole £266,000 la Trustee confer upon you honoris causa, thin Securities in England wo may University's degree of Doctor of

hope to

year, that is to say even if the money can not be invested at n rate of interest higher than 4% I will not attempt to convert this sum Into Hongkong dollars,

But the question of additional income apart, the contribution is a textimony to the bellef of His Majesty's Gavernment und that of the Government of the Chinese Republic that the University of Hongkong can, and will, if it be given a fair chance, contribute something to the building up of the Chink of the future.

of

to the

you began your speech with a stinel, direct, and personal note, ! feel it would be churlish of me Bot to thank you for your words of welcome and that I do, most sincerely, on behalf of my wife and myself. As a consequence, i feel that I must retura a direct and personal noto and, at this, the first public meeting of the Uni- versity when degrees have been

I

an additional fncome Lawa. You are the fret graduate/von, I take this opportunity of for the fiversity of £10,600 a of this Univeralty to receive this Congratulating you on the honouri

which has recently ana gruciously distinction. According 10 the been conferred upon you by His testimony

all, you have, Majesty the King.

in

recogniti through a period of great stress of the very fine work you and temptation, filled honourably

done on behalf of this University many responsible posts of State,

(applause). I know of no one who I hope that the honour which this has more deserved to win such an University is now about to canfer honour, and no one else receiving encourage it could have caused me greater upon you will bo na ment to others to follow in your pleasure. With that honour con footsteps. We hope and bellevo rerred upon you, Sir William Hor- that you retain and will ever keep nell, I feel that the University with a dried to do for you here.

you a grateful memory of of longkong must share, to a cur It is on young men like you that the future of China depends. British Colony but Hongkong is the destinies of China and Hang- kong are inextricably interwoven, one with another. I don't expect you to be blind to our shortcom- that in inge, but I do believe your heart of hearts you know that though we Britishers are not de- monstrative China has no truer friends.

Brilliant Career.

tain extent, in the luatre of it,

The following were then pro sented to His Excellency as hav- ing been found worthy of the de- grees to be conferred upon them:

Thone Honoured. From the building up of the China of the future to the Hon.

Degree of Doctor of Laws, Honorie Foo Ping-sheung is a transition at

Causa.

The Hon. Foo Ping-sheung, once easy and obvious, The Hon. Foo Ping-sheung was born on the

B.Sc. (Eng.).

Degree Doctor of Medicine.-Dr. 16th February, 1896. at Fat

Yeoh Kok-Chuang, M.B., B.S., D.P.R. Shan, Д Auburb

Canton. of

(Camb.), D.T.M. & 1. (Eng.). father WON Fon Shin,

Degree of Bachelor of Medicine and 3VI1- Chinese scholar.

Bachelor of Surgery.Joseph

· In 1924 Mr. Baldwin told the liom Barnes, Jay Boon Koey, Lam Chi brought up by his uncle Foo Sk

well-known merchant of Hong-London Teachers' Association that Wie, Miss Lung Chum Ha. Mok Hing "the idea of particular excop- Fai, Carlos Engenio da Roza, Misa

!

was

Gigantic Task.

kong. In 1908 Mr. Ping-itional people pursuing learning Perrin Ruttonjèe. Granville Francie

passed

course

in

Fan.

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Foo went to the Ellis School, which he left in 1910 for had been familiar to the whole de Sourn, Sze Taung Sing, Tan St. Stephen's College. From St. world for scores of centuries but Tiong Lam, Taoi Taz Shuk, Woo Kai Stephen's College he

that the idea of

preparing whole

Absenti-instings Adams, Norman Palmer Foyntz 1912 to this University, where he classes or communities for

ጊዚ ቤ graduated in due

operation and common action by

Cheah Khay Chuan, Bachelor of Science in Engineer- training in common idens WOei Phee Tuan, Tong La! Yer,

This is Miss. Pau Choi-chuc and Peter Pau. ing, belag awarded by the London comparatively new one. you Degree of Bachelor of Science in Assessors, First Class Honours. gigantic task to which

Weng Kwan, In 1917 he went as an assistant and 1, and indeed all of us, now Engineerin-Chan

We are living Chen Fah Shin, Koh Nye Poh, Pao englacer to the Shanghai-Hang-

ang-stand committed.

that Yue Lam, Arthur Augustus Reed, then in days in which the wh

Mins chow-Ningpo Railway. He

Bernard Herman Schroter, used to us inherent in

In Absentia.-Chung Sek Chfu. Degree of Bachelor of Arts. Booy

returned to longkong and taught lege are passing rapidly away. Tanng Tin Chien, Eric, Wongtape,

for

at St. Stephen's year College, his old school.

Hive, moreover, in an age when working in the malatenance of that level Feng Lum, Chung Hok Nang, Miss In 1918/19 he was Canton us Hend of the Bureau of civilization to which the world has Grace Ho Tun, iu Pais Mi, Jan Yu, in attaining, Misa Kwok Yik Ming, Misa Julie Lani, only be Pan

Printing of the Military Govern-ready allied and spread Lo Chi Chlu, Mak Kai Hung, Miss

Yik Fong,

Misa

ment there and as Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which by the education of the people. Agnes Pau, Tam

In Absentin,--Wong Yan Chee, was then presided over by the late And it has never been more urgent Wong Lai Chong.

late than it is at the moment-not only Dr. Wa Ting-fang. In this capa- In China but throughout the he went to the Paris Peace world to wage the war of rea- city Conference as Secretary of the Chinese Delegation. From 1920. son against the passion that may

be worked as 1922 he

of Customs and tendont be stimulated by mob psychology.

Com

of

Do Dat!

colleagues Will you tell your Foreign Affairs for Kaingehow when you get back to Nanking

we are watching with sympathy and Pakhoi. In 1923 he became not antinged with anxiety Commissioner of Foreign Affairs

for

the

their Province of Kwangtung efforts to weld together the Chin and Superintendent of the Cantonese Nation and that this is a task Customs, and subsequently Chlef in which your Univeralty claims of the Bureau of Foreign Affairs the privilege of being allowed to in the Civil Governor's Office, help. Canton. Later he was adviser to the Ministrica of Finance and War.

The Governor's Remarks.

His Excellency said:-I had not Intended to make any remarks but |

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