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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1938.

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GRIN AND BEAR IT

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SIR WILLIAM

DES VOEUX

An Extremely Capable

A

Administrator

BY T. PAUL GREGORY

WELL-KNOWN name in the history of the Colony is that of one of its Governors, of same forty odd years ago-Sir George William des Vacux. His career in the Colony, if not particularly brilliant, was at least an eminently satisfactory one; for he was not only a sensible and practical administrator, but also a liberal- minded and courteous gentleman.

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the. explorer and author and authority on Australia, commenting on the Duke of Devonshire's statement in the House of Lords that we should populate the Empire or others would populate it for us.

EMIGRATION TO Aus- usleep over their books from sheer

tralia is big news weariness. again-and will be for many Climate's Toll years to come.

shire that Australia and the Domin

I agree with the Duke of Devon-

the Northern Territory, sooner or later, the climate takes its The northern European cannot cope with much manual work up there where the aborigines can still be

sccn.

tralia's problem is not an easy one. populations increased. But Aus-

tralia support? Some say 50,000,000. How many white people can Aus-

Years ago, transport used to pre- I believe that is about the gure.

sent a very definite problem. Bul The Commonwealth can accommo- to-day, Australian railways are com-

that the methods and scope of Here there is a far greater dan-| vantage personally, but above ously, and they should thrive nearly three weeks if you catch

warfare have been so changed that the whole nation must per- force be engaged in the business of waging it and of suffering as its victims.

Sir George William des Voeux Bath, and in June 1878 the Se- was born in England on Septem- cretary of State for the Colonies ber of a very old and wealthy Acting Governor of Fiji. Sir family of Norman origin which William continued in this ap- had been elevated to a Baronetcy pointment until 1880, when he in 1787. These circumstances was named Governor of the naturally enough proved of Bahamas, and shortly after- able to obtain an excellent educa- where he served in a liko tion, attending Charter House capacity. He was also nominat- and afterwards Balliol College, ed to fill concurrently the post of Oxford. When 27 years of age, Assistant High Commissioner of he was called to the Bar of Up- the Western Pacific. Subse-; per Canada, and two years later quently, he was promoted to in 1803; he entered Her Majesty's High Commissioner of the area THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1038.

colonial service. His first ap- in which position he continued pointment was that of a Stipen- until 1885. In the meantime, he APPEASEMENT MAY Guiana, and some years later he tralasian Congress in 1883, and diary Magistrate in British représented Fiji at the Aus- NOT MEAN SECURITY the government of the island of which prepared the Fijf Council was nominated to administer was a member of the committee The fear of war is one of the serving in this post, he col- administrator of merit received Santa Lucia. While he was Bill. His splendid record as an dominating motives-when-men taborated with the Chief Justice the approbation of the Queen, begin to think out what kind of in the preparation of an impor- who accordingly created him a foreign policy they are prepared tant legal work "The Civil Code K.C.M.G. In 1886, Sir William to advocate or support. It is of Santa Lucia" which, on ac- was appointed Governor of New- perhaps right that this should count of its general excellence, foundland, but he was soon be 30, We remember the

was subsequently declared the transferred to what was

his horrors of the last World War,

Jaw of that Colony.

greatest and most important and we are well aware that if

colonial assignment--the Gov- another World War were to be

ernorship of the Colony of started, its effects in all pro-fism's promotions in the colonial

From thence forward, Sir Wil- Hongkong. bability would be even more hor-service were on the whole rapid Colony on October 8, 1887, and Sir William 'arrived in the rible, and more devastating and highly satisfactory; for in at once assumed the usual duties than those of the last. Lord January 1877, he was appointed incumbent upon the occupant of ions and Colonies must have their toll: white people have to come south, Baldwin's often quoted dictum Acting Governor of the island of his high office. His maiden that the next war would be the Trinidad. He served in this speech in connection with his in- end of our civilisation has sunk Post until the following January auguration was notable for its deep into the political

when he returned Home on brevity and was regarded as a leave. While he was in England most happy augury of his career sciousness of the British nation. he was the recipient of a Com- in Hongkong; for he stated that date them, provide them with a petent and air transpert is something The experience of the so far mandery of the Order of the he preferred deeds to words and descion our country beyond, the ex-

and they, in their turn, can to amaze the visitor. localised wars in China and Spain have convinced many too

Big, fast American air-liners link hoped that his future acquaint-perta way, all expectations if they the southern capitals at least twice forces of Italy and Germany. would prove to their mutual ad-

ance with the Hongkong public are the right type.

daily. You can get from Adelaide to Transplant citizens of Europe Darwin within 24 hours; it takes. ger of world war, for Russia and all for the benefit of the Colony dark-skinned many individuals from France over which he had been appoint- the banane, pineapple, and tobacco ago, was the only feasible method.

in Australia. Put the Southerners, steamer travelling the eastern coast sunshine-lovers, into route. And this, less than 20 years and from Britain itself rush to ed by help the Government of Spain. Governor.

Her Majesty to act as

belts of Queensland.

The aviation companies, bucked by Young Englishmen wanting to subsidies from big shipping lines, To meet this danger Britain and

shun city life can find the ideat exist-have invested hundreds of thousands her friends devise a "non-inter- The local press was especially ence on the big sheep stations, tracts to bring their services, operated by vention" policy, which has in- impressed by the sincerity and of anything from 50,000 to 1,000,000 £30,000 Dougins 10 and 14-seaters deed prevented open inter- carnestness of the new appointee acres, where they become juckeroos parallel with those flying over Europe national conflict, thought in to the gubernatorial chair, and rise at dawn and ride out across

(student sheep farmers). They will and America.

the actual working it seems to have the Hongkong Telegraph in its plains on hardy horses, bustering, fore they realise their outlay. But It should not be a long time be- Fascist States against Spain, part: "The career of Sir William, hard work. favoured the aggression of the issue of October 11, 1887 snid in drafting, and inspecting. But it is these services have to be patronised for Italy at least has had no des Voeux in this Colony will de Hard Work

to be belleved. scruples about intervening while pend mainly

Well-educated young Englishmen can and do rank among Australia's professing adherence

upon himself.

most valuable migrants. In a West non-intervention' creed, it is way, and for some time at least Adelaide, in West Australia, and in finest workers there.

the There are many obstacles in the THE family man can find his niche Australian mine I met a Rugby man, in the orchard country round generally recognised as one of the suspected.

his office will be no sinecure; but the Murray River irrigation areas, or A closely allied policy is that to

resolute and independent in the rucsalands of the Wimmern, possibly find town life more attrac

average Englishman would of appeasement. The aggres- man, determined to work for the cast of the South Austrailun border, tive than the isolation of the out No member, then, of this for agreement. So far Ger- favour, there is nothing that

sor is approached with proposals general weal without fear or or among the peaceful fertile farms back, where

of Victoria.

village life, as the European knows it, is dimcult to dis- great peace-loving

He can bring his wife

and his cover. Common many has been too intransigent cannot easily be surmounted. wealth, the British Empire, can

children to these parts with com-l to come to any terms, Italy has There is a glorious future before | parative complacency.

But Australia wants her migrants be blind to the fact that the been more amenable. She and Sir William des Voeux in Hong-

to go out into the country. The people there will welcome

There chief purpose of British foreign the Spanish question is settled his past reputation; we sincerely

Britain are to be friends when kong if he only remains true to him; he should like them.

are jobs for farm hands- to do the milking, the tiling, the But it takes a hardy, steadfast man mustering, policy to-day must be to prevent on condition that Britain ac-trust that our hopes, often dis to wring a living from the Bush,

the droving-but the war. Yet undiluted fear muy knowledges her illegal conquest appointed, will in this case be

average tradesman might find it dif When this matter of migration was ficult to get employment until the be a bad guide to action. Few of Abyssinia.

debated in the House of Lords on population increases to such an ex- intelligent people are isolation-

Wednesday,

nobody tent that the country begins crying probably realised better than the Duke of De for ists in these times, for it is only policies is whether they lead or Handicapped By Illness Settlement Committee, that this, and ships necessary to cope with the in- plumbers, carpenters, builders vonshire, chairman of the Closer and contractors to erect the

town- too obvious that the modern are likely to lead to genuino world is an economic and there and lasting peace. Surely they career of Governor des Voeux in he peopled carefully if a resumed from Dritain,

Unfortunately, however, the other pai

paris--notably the extreme flux. ! northern section of Australia must Now as to the system of emigration fore political unity. A

do not-and

cannot because Hongkong was handicapped by migration drive to to succeed. anywhere has its repercussious expediency

they are based upon temporary serious ill health, and he was

Since March of this year, when the and ignore the

Greeks and Italians have probably movement began to be oppreciable, everywhere. This is specially fundamental bed-rock of respect forced to leave before the com-

Bourished, as far as it la possible for 340. nominated persons true of the British Common- for law, upon which alone can

passed the white man to flourish, in Darwin through Australia House.. These are plotion of his term of office, and the settlements not far south of people whom friends or relatives in wealth with its territorial and secure peace be built. Indeed nevertheless, during his three Darwin,

Australla have undertaken to look trading intercats in every quar- these policies may well be mak years here, there was yet much

after on their arrival. ter of the globe.

ing war inevitable, for they en- accomplished which has paved Heat-Locked courage aggression and in the the way for the future greatness A pelicy therefore that wins resulting anarchy the moment of the Colony. The most impor. I the Bush, Australian by-word for

hardship, I have seen women community. widespread support is that of may, easily come when British tant, perhaps, was the official from England saving cupfuls of

so largely and opening of the Peak Tramway water from their severely death un are given assisted passages if localising war. Japan attacks interests are

clearly endangered that a fight which took place on May 28, reduced rations to damp the patch they Fave capital: for a married man China. We recognise the imin their defence will be un-1888. This was justly consider they call their garden. morality of her action; but we avoidable.

not less than £300 or an Income of ed a gala occasion and on the spades to shovel away the dust which the case of a single man not less than do not conceive it to be our

with not less than £100 a year; and in Many regret that the League next day free trips were offered converted rabbit-proof fences into £50 on arrival. business to interfere, cither of Nations policy-to which to the general public; for such easily negotiable and infinitely

Approved leds going out to farm alone or in united action with Britain is verbally pledged a novelty did the funicular as-gentle rises in the ground. Their work pay only one-sixth of the

children wolk miles to the nearest steamer fare. other like-minded nations for seems to have been discarded cent prove to be that it was

school. that way, as we imagine, lies arising out of resistance to wonder," but at the same time, they milk, maybe they do a bit of live of what capital they may have

altogether. The risks of war looked upon as a sort of "seventh

The assisted passages are avoll- In the mornings before they go able to approved emigrants Irrespec- the possibility of world war. aggression are probably far less those who first rode up the steep harrowing, maybe they go forth on in excess of the minimum sumu," an Civil war breaks out in Spain, than those which come from mountain-side were regarded as and the rebels are-aided from concessions that ought never to daring indeed. Women the outbreak by the organised be made.

were (Continued on Page 11.) KATE

Finally the fear is given bodily shape and intensified by the knowledge that the three militarist governments of Ger- many, Italy and Japan are openly and confessedly training their peoples to regard war as the true end of manhood and nationhood, openly preaching the doctrine that might is the only arbiter between nations of what is right and just.

WAI'

to

The real criterion of these

realised."

have seen them go forth

pinched ponies to do odd jobe.

People not nominated must have a certain

in

to uvela becoming a charge on the

People who cannot obtain nomina-

ometal stated, "and conditions in Then, later in the day, these Australia have so much improved youngsters find lessons too much for that there are openings for every them, for teachers tell me they fall kind of men and woman worker