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OBITUARY

FINANCIAL MAGNATE AND MINISTER FOR TRANSPORT

London, Oct. 21, The death occurred last night of Sir John Pybus M., formerly Minister of Transport, aged 56.- Britial Wireless.

1935.

LITTLE GIRL'S PLIGHT

·SEVERELY THRASHED BY

HER MISTRESS Pleading guilty through her solicitor, Mr, M. A. da Silva, to a charge of assaulting a girl, Fan Lin-tai, alias Sum Fong, aged 12 years. Lai Yee, 10, married woman; was fined $50 by Mr. E. I. Wynne- Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday afternoon.

"I want to go back to the To Leung Kuk and not to the defen- dant," stated the little girl in Court."

A new enthusiasm in education was described by Professor J. Forsler, re-elected President of the Teachers' Association, at the Bunual meeting at King's College yesterday, where a large gathering heard him welcome the new policy Percy John Pybus,' engineer, iu- of "looking at education from both thority on transport and polite ends." Greater attention should be cian, was born in Jan. 1880, at paid to primary teaching, he as-Hull, his father having been an Ferted and the recent report of the allerman of that city. After Government expert should be being trained as an electricn) en- | adopted-hère ns it could have beengineer he went on to the business Sub-Inspector T. O'Connor. Ins adopted two decades ago. .

aide of engineering and other en- pector of Mul-Teni. for the pro The main business of the meet- terprises, showing a great capa-secution, remarked that the girl ing was the election of officers and city for hard work and a ready had expressed a wish to remain at the adoption of reports,

grasp of both commercial and the Po Loung Kuk as the food and Mr. W. L. Handyside presented technical problems. Eventually treatment were better, compared the report and nine, in the absence he became chairman of the Power with the defendant's home.

Finance Co. vice- through indisposition of Mr. W. J. and Traction Dyer, the accounts. He said: The chairman of the Phoenix Assur- Income for the financial year end-ance Co. and a director of the ing on September 16, was $1156.00 English Electric Co., the Associat- and the expenditure (including aed Portland Cement Co. and the vote of £20 to the Library and the "Times" Publishing Co. cost of two issues of the Journal). During the world-war his know-a result of which Lady Inspecter was $831.46 showing excess of income over expenditure of $324.55. The Balance Sheet shows a Credit Ralance of $1335.85.

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Mr. G. Morgan resigned us Hon. Treasurer in June. Mr. W; J. Dyer was co-opted by the Council invited to act ny Hon. Treasurer until the next Annual General Meeting. The office hearers retire but are eligible for re-election. The following mem- bers of Council retire but Are eligible for re-election: Mesdames Cotton, Newshome. Sawyer, Silcocks, Bro. Matthias, Rev. Mr. Martin, Messrs. Beddow, Noble. and de Rome.

ledge of business and the techni- en side of transport proved very valuable and he served on various committees, receiving in 1917 the CE. He was a member of the

Royal Commission on the Civil Service, the Advisory Committee of the Dept. of Oversens Trade, the Balfour Committec on Industry and Trade and the Unemployment Grants Committee.

Sub-Inspector O'Connor stated that the child was beaten very. severely between October 7 and 17. On the intter date an anonymous

received letter was

by the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs as

Wel Mo-fung went to the defen- dant's address in Shamshuipo dla- trict. She found the girl in a very dirty condition carrying a baby on her back. The defendant

was

questioned as to what the girl was. doing and she produced a lai sin which proved that the girl was a mom på traï (young girl sold for and defendant marriage). The

have

the girl were taken to the S. C. A. A Liberal in politics, he was a office, which was the usual practice candidate for the Shipley Division in cases of this nature. The girl

and was examined

Lady of Yorkshire in Dec. 1923,

by the Oct. 1924, but was defented on both Inspector and found to censions. In May, 1929, how various bruises whieh his Worship On the in- ever, he was elected for the Harsaw last Saturday. wich Division of Essex. When instructions of the S. C. A. the de- to Mongkok Aug. 1931. the split occurred in fendant was taken the MacDonald Labour govern Tsui Police Station and charged, ment over the country's financial while the girl was sent for medical crisis and led to the formation of examinatica. the National Government. Pybus was appointed Minister of Trans- port.

At that time he was in New York. Returning to England hy the first boat, he resigned all his directorships before taking up his The Council desires to express duties.

At the elections In Octo- its thanks to the following: The ber he was returned by Harwich as Vice-Chancellor, The University La Liberal Nationalist and resumed and the Heads of Schools for grant-his post as Minister of Transport ing facilities for meetings; the which he held till 1933. Mannger, South Chinn Morning Pybus often wrote articles for Post for the use of the Board newspapers on social and labour Room, all contributors to the subjects.

Journal and all lecturers; Mesare. F. J. de Rome, and 10. Holmes. for auditing the accounts.

Dr. C. H. Luk, of the Kowloon Hospital, stated the bruises must have been inflicted within ten days of his examination on October 18.

Sub-Inspector O'Connor stated that they had found the girl hnd been beaten on other occasions, but the defendant was justified and t was not until between October 7 and 17 that she meted out severe, beatings.

Said to be Stubborn

Mr. Silva stated the girl had been with the defendant for four years, and had been chastised as she was extremely stubborn and obstinate. Prlor.to October 7, the

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week und gave instructions the child to keep the house clean. On her return she found the house in as bad a condition, if not worse than before. She told the girl to

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but she flatly refused. clean the place within two days,

The Chairman said: We ean look back on the past year · with gratitude, especially to those who have helped to make most aut- cessful. The work of this Society will always depend most on its sections, with the oportunities they between Shanghai and Canton will be The long distance radio telephone give for the interchange of ideas, discussions and fruitful work. open for public servien on January chastised her, but even after this We are very grateful to our secret.accdng to a statement inade by the girl still refused and

Mr. Tang Chung-ylu, the Canton beaten a second time. ary for the enthusiasm which he director superval. Tang returned mitted the thrashings were exces- construction Mr. Silva adiled that it was ad- has brought to his work (ap-of this telephone, MT. plause). It is something in a to Canton from

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place, where the climate is so de-after, an inspection only recently sive, but it was only through the |vitalising as in Hongkong to have fitim of the Shanchal formatives to the girl's stubbornness and |

of the construc- defendant losing her temper owing Mr. Tang told press

such enthusiasm, and it is impor- that the building of the telephone obstinacy, The defendant had tant to keep one's mind keen on

station In Shanghai was completed offered to take the girl back and to such things as education,

Canton enter into a bond whereby she ago, while the

this, month,

t:

Here, where there is a kind of deadness and where things fluctuate and come and go, there is inclined to be an atmosphere of frustration, and it is important to keep alive and going. I preserve one article and principle of faith still unimpaired, and I accept it as a principle that is growing stronger. That is, that education is the most vital process in social life and In raising the status of a community, especially in the training of mind. body and spirit. I share that bo- lief with many eminent people and of what is taking place all over the Leung Kuk and would later go into

within was expected to be completed would present herself and the girl once a month before the Society. Referring to the Canton-Kongmon for the Protection of Children, long 'distance

radio telephone Mr. Tang said that the $400,000 mn failing which she would forfeit her chinery is to arrive in Canton from bond. Defendant's husband work- The ed in the Kowloon Docks as a con- America in six weeks' time. Morvice will connect Kongmoon, Shek- tractor. 7 Ree (near Macao) and Canton.

we want to see it applied in this colony.

Two Decades Late

Since our last Annual Meeting we have had a visit from a repre- sentative from the Government in England, Mr. Burney who has made a report on education here., That report is a very good one and my only criticism is that it should have been produced 20 years ago, as it well could have been.

been on

The report gives us a policy of education which we have not had in the past. Our education has the lines of producing people wanted as a type such as the clerk. I do not say that this type is a low one or that it is not a good type, but it has been a specialised nim. We have also had a demand for apprentices for At 2.30, 5.20, ship, yards. That is also good. But now for the first time wo have 7.20.9.20 p.m..ja policy which looks at education from the beginning and from the end. For the first time primary

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He also said that the new broad- casting station in Canton which will i heard in Europe will be ready for use about. August 1936.

world.

Sharing Knowledge There Is a demand everywhere for justice and for a more equat distribution for material wealth, but there is an even stronger de mand for the more oven distribu- tion of intellectual wealth. That is our job and that is why we are

here.

Refused to Return Sub-Inspector O'Connor remark- ed that the girl had flatly refused to go back to the defendant, and he was afraid if she werd made to. return she would not stop there. She was being cared for at the Po

the Victoria Home or the Salvation Army Home. The defendant hnd paid $84 for the girl.

The Magistrate: The girl got rere thrashing and she was in very bad mess when I saw her. She looks much better te-day. I should hate to think of a child of used a cane on my small son; but mine in the state she was, I have there is a limit and I think it is duty to assess that limit. Fined fifty dollars.

It is the re- SHANTUNG FLOOD

The great danger here is loss of faith: in one's profession.my But everything one reads of the rest of the world makes one in- creasingly convinced of the impor- tance of this work. generating factor of the world to- dny. This report, which has been received and which commends thin association, is something for which we should be grateful, and, if it is applied, the future for this Colony and its teachers is brighter and better than it lus over been in the' past (Applause)...

The Rev. Father Byrne proposed a vote of thanks to the Secretary which was heartily responded to by those present.

DISASTER OF IMMENSE MAGNITUDE

Shanghai, Oct. 21. Three thousand square miles of territory containing a population Shantung and northern Kiangsu, a of 5,000,000 people has been in- Fundated

by the Yellow River, under conditions which will cause Jose three successive crops according to the

education is considered seriously, The following officials were elect-the inhabitants to

The criticism has been made that fed,

Economic Council by the Hydraulle Engineering Bureau,

the age at which students take President: Prof. L. Forster; report submitted to the National their leaving certificates Is too Vice-Presidents; Miss Sawyer high. That has been because, the (Diocesan Girls), Miss Hughes primary stage has never been all (Belilios), Rev. A. W. Martin (St. elent. At the age of 12 the aver- Stephens), Bro. Aimar (La Salle). age European boy has had four or Hon. Sec. Mr. L. G. Morgan; Hon five years of effective education, Treas., Mr.. W. J. Dyor; Counelli: but we cannot say the same of the Miss Griffin, Miss Woo, Rev. Fr. boys of this Colony, Until that G. Byrne, Mr. Leung Ping-hin, Mr. is put right we shall have to put I. K. Leung, Rev. C. B. R. Sargent, stable crops next year.

months are required for the work The engineers estimate that ten of closing the breaks in the dykes and draining off of the water, and, therefore there is no hope

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up with a present leaving certif- Mr. E. C. Thomas, Miss Cotton, The present autumn crop has ente age. Wherever you look, at Rev. Gallagher, s.J., Mr. A. G. F. gone and there will be no crop Fascism, Nazism, Cummunism, or Prow, Bro. Xavler, Mias Hutchin-next spring, and there will be no it America, you will always mest son, Rev. E. Short, Mias B. M. crop next autumn. the desire for expansion of educa- Pope, Mr. G. W. Reove, Mother Tire Chinese, authorities, it is tion and extension of the ago of Louise, Mr. E. G. Stewart.

understood, are throwing all avail education. Where yourg nyo

Conveners elected. were:

able resources into the fight as £125,000 was spont on education in Thomas, Miss Cotton, Mr. Luard, they realize that they are faced England £85,000,000 in apent to Miss Hall, Mr. L. B. Holmes and With a disaster of almost in- day. That is, merely an indication Mr. Leung Ping-hin.

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