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FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN.

What to do to help a child

Anyone knowing of a child who has been assaulted, neglected, or Ill-treated in a manner likely to cause unnecessary buffering or injury to health, or knowing of a parent who is seeking advice on any matter concerning a child, would be doing. an act of kindness by communicating at once with} —

The Hon. Secretaries, 11.KS.P.C. The Old City Hall, Queen's Road C., Hongkong, or the Inspector, 49, EU BROTHERS MARRY Pokfuium Road, ist floor; or the Inspector, Violet Peel Health Centre, Supreme Court Ceremony Wanchai; or the inspector, 12, Sal Young Choi Street, 1st door, Kow- And Big Reception

loon.

All further steps will be taken, and Widely known in Hongkong Mesurs.expenses borne, by the Society. Eu Keng-loon and W, K. Y. Du, kons

te

The Informant's name will of Mr. Eu Tong-sen, were married to kept strictly private, except in cases Miss Nancy Kun and Miss May Shum where malice is proved. respectively at the Supreme Court yesterday,

Including the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, and Lady Mar Gregor, there were many prominent prople present at the weddings.

The couples were married before Mr. T. S. Whyte-Staith, Registrar of Marriages, and Mr. T. J. Gould, Deputy of Marriages. Mr. Kan Tong- po, the bride's father, who is Chief Munager of the Bank of East Asia and Sir Shouson Chow, acted as wit- nesses in the ceremony of Eu Keng- loon, and Mrs. Shum Lau-shi and

In the other marriage.

In the afternoon a reception, given

by the bridegrooms' parents was held at their home, "Euston," in Bonham Road. Captain Balty-Smith, A.D.C. represented the Governor at the - party.

ACTRESS MARRIED

Also married at the Supreme Court yesterday, were Mr. H. L. Kwan, solicitor, and Miss Wu Tip-ying, pro-

Never Saw A

White Man

New Race Found In New Guinea

He declared that the scientific results of the expedition might be described as the most important ever organized in New Guinea.

Co-operation Of University Stressed By Chancellor

The thirty-second Congregation of the University of Hong. kong whs held in the University Great Hall last night, the Chancellor, His Excellency the Governor, conferring degrees on the graduates for 1939,

Professor C. A. Middleton-Smith, the late Taikoo Professor of Engineering, was the recipient, in abacntia, of the degree of LL.D. (honoria causa).

n

tain that our existing accommoda- | which effectively bars the approach tion, which, after all, was intended of,many whom we most want to help. for Chinese Hterature, will before The Committee was bound to con-- long be unable to cope with that clude that in order to survive, this demand. An adequate University University must develop, and that Library, therefore, stands near the f anything like the full harvest of forefront of

qur necessities. Un- those developments was to be reaped, fortunately, it is one which Nes out-[ a large and generous provision of ride the range of practical polities so scholarships for able young men and for

na University funds are con- | women from inland China was essent- cerned, at any rate for very many tial. This alone would Justify the years to come, I am, however, not cost of development." without hope that some yet unknown bencfactor moy

appear and thus endaw us. It would indeed be a vision ported In so practical and lucid a monument to a citizen of this from Chinese schools presenta no manner that September next will see Colony and a lasting memorial of diMculties. the opening of the Teachers' Training his munificence. College in temporary quarters: next year it will, I hope, be in its per- manent home. It is fundamental to

a community's prosperity rad pro- gress that those persons to

minds

Future Development

Given sufficient funds, the pro-

of scholarships to students

Co-operation with China

So much for material considera- part of the Committee

I have alrendy mentioned the re-

tions. Turning to the psychological suggests two which as side, the Committee entrusted the shaping of them.

nds Chancellor I appointed to advise upon means by which the University could

the of the rising generation should them-

future development of the Uni- draw closer to Chinese higher educa- grives be rightly

and adequately versity. That report has just been lon. The rat is the catablishment central Universities Bureau. for published: it is an extremely valu- of trained. Recently a great champlon le document and I gindly render China. The proposed Bureau would of humanity, Mr. Franklin Roosevelt, sald "Men are not prisoners of fate: the thanks of the University to its serve as a centre for the collections they are only prisoners in their own members. In particular I wish 1

and diesemination of information to about

Universities, for the minds." Education's

our gratitude to Mr. Han express Greatest

is so to work on the mind of youth | of Education for his participation in ly as an appointments agency.

may around

ccase

be. The

from the

op-

The

tion.

the Chinese Ministry of

that

an means proposed

versity. Appointed in May 1012 to holiday in a more temperate climate Mother Superior of St. Paul's Con- the Commrmer, at an early stage. They will, of course, have close con-

accept-

to

within a few days of his arrival the is a poorer place by the loss of his The offer was most gratefull used. i University standard of eliban croat will, I am sure, wholeheartedly on- The expedition met natives who frst, large batch of Engineering stu-cheerful presence and the charm ofed and I publicly express our thanks higher standard can be attained therement is that we must co-operate with

had never seen white men previously, and it discovered many interesting

mammals,

Committee's Report

Fonsidered in turn Chinese Universitienpete with the

the

order

In his address, the Chancellor stressed the need of co- operation between the University of Hongkong and the Universities of China. Quoting from a letter from the Vice- Chancellor, he said, "If this University is to be not merely a sign but an active agency for British goodwill to China, its doors must be much more widely open to studenta from China.

of youth Lith-wu and to the Chinese Ministry of educational problem the discussion and general- A conspicuous obstacle to the free entry.; of Chinese is the relatively high scale of charges in this University....In order to

that the shades of the prison-house the Committee's Jabours: he gave tggestion, of course, la

tend less and lesa

primarily to close

matter Hurvive, this University must develop, and that, if anything like

help

for the growing child. That invaluable

nil a a full harvest of those developments is to be reaped; a large and

prison-house is built by man out of important angle of China's require Education: i feel sure, however,

Hongkong Univer generous provision of scholarships for able young men and

half-truths in a half light: under the ments of us. The reasons for the for their part the

alty authorities would willingly take women from Inland China is essential.”

sun-rays of knowledge it would appointment of the Committee

old Jibo. Quis pear in the first chapter of the re- an active part in such that by them institution. His Excellency declared the Con- This Congregation of the University custodiet?" smells of the prison. If, Desire to ascertain why the Unl is the organisation of the inter-

They port.

be summarized

second gregation open, following the Pro- having assembled for the conferring so far as the problems of education cessional March into the Hall. In of degrees, I will begin this address are concerned, we substitute for it ver

versity had failed in one of its change of University teachers, a requesting the Chancellor to confer by speaking of one towards whom the serious inquiry

in matter Quis docebit? original purposes, viz. that it should

which we

of the Sino- the degree of LLD. (honoris causa) the University to-night will mark is we shall find that the answer will serve Its great neighbour China and, the valuable assi coula depend on Smith, Professor. F. A. Redmond clation of his long and valuable cause upon Professor C. A. Middleton-

British Cultural Relations Associa- many of our dimeulties to secondly, how that objective might by conferring on him

be atinined.

The Committee also re- the vanish. Dean of the Faculty of Engineering degree AMSTERDAM, May 30.

of Doctor of Laws. Mr. Опсе more I revert to my last

In effect the Committee's findings commended the appointment to our

staff Mr. Rand, who was a member said,

can be divided into two categories, Middleton-Smith retired on February address to Congregation because an

of more graduates from the On February 1st Cndes Alfred 9,

onc of which concerns the cur-

Universities of China. Mr. Tong Shui-kel were the witnesses of the Archbold air expedition to Middleton-Smith, Taikoo Professor of being then our most senior pro-appeal which I made then for the gift ouium, the other being concerned

fessor. It is a matter for regret that of a Hostel for Women Students was

These recommendations are, to my New Guinea, arrived here to-day Engineering for nearly 27 years, he cannot be here in person to re- met almost immediately by a most more

more with underlying principles. A mind, notable for insight and vision. en route to the United States.

retired from the service of the Uni-ceive his degree, but his need of a generous offer from the Reverend regards the the first profesorship in the Univer- Justified his departure when his vent to provide additional hostel ac-longong University is not up

reached the conclu Court in due course. Whatever con

sideration by the Council and the sion that the education given at the clusions those bodies may reach they sily he arrived in Hongkong the active service in the University came commodation which will ultimately following September to find that

women that to an end. The University compound enable forty

Britain or China, and that unless a dorse the Committee's remark that

a necessary condition of our develop dents had to be set to work in a de-Mrs. Middleton-Smith.

for the Convent's liberality.

a decline tn Bull

one

bound and Tower is that that fine example will be follow-

not seek to to happen

that line of partment which consisted of a few unfurnished class-rooms and prac

ed

by others. We have to-day 112 thought they tically no laboratory accommodation.

women students on our books: even

There Is, however, one question: Nearly

aspect every

University's During the next four or five years

a year and a half has with this new hotel the available teaching and equipment

which to

is raised in Chapter XI of the thie Talkoo Professor was to have no passed since I had the privilege of accommodation for them will take discover the right lines of

report which, of progress. noaddressing Congregation. At that

I think, calls for in- reat.

They prefaced their recommendations vestigation by an expert committee time the able and practical report sixty only: we would much like to in various capacities-ns Dean off of the committee, appointed by six house the remainder.

with the 'caveat that "they are to statutory authorities. I refer to that to before it can usefully go before the Faculty, Professor of Civil and Andrew Mechanical Engineering. Consulung ditions in the University, and

Caldecott

finding. to review con-

be read as contingent

on the from one source or another, of large title Transfer and

raised in Chapter XI, which bears the Engineer to the University and mem-recommendations for their ameliora- to make

There are several other donor their advice

money,"

Rebuilding of details of ber of Inumerable committees,

University." That the University he was kept exceedingly busy:

was under consideration by the

the whose liberality during the year de enter this event, do not propose to should not be where

is undeni organising

it The scheme.are.

is is courses of Instruction, drawing up and for that reason, comment thereon of this address allows. Very gener-

governing bodies of the University, serve longer mention than the quires close examination by the of practical politics is for more

able: whether its removal is a matter ore dif- syllabuses and framing rules and

Der was not possible on that occasion. Qualy the Sino-British Cultural Re

statutory authorities of regulations, in planning and super- In the Interim not only has that relations Committee have given four 8lly and an exploration of financiallcult to determine. But the progTCSS

the Univer-f vising the erection of hostels, staff-

of any institution is necessarily ham- possibilities before

fore public comment

pered and Its future is jeopardised houses, new laboratories and so recommen Published, but many of its scholarships of Hongkong $800 each,. and in other pioneer work. viher things he founded the Uni-10 effect. While none of the Providing the holders Woncerned with fundamentals, may again in process of appointing a small

the University can be of material advantage.

The second category, which is con- such a doubt, and I am, therefore,

Jong 50 ns it rests under the cloud of versity Engineering Society and was resulting changes were fundamental, tuition and hostel accommodation; cer its first president; he was the moving they have served very usefully in that contribution by the University is be usefully subdivided into

material and the psychological. On stage of our existence and having the committee to inquire whether at this sity Union and in the provision of at which had been long in debate, and tatn Walter Rosman made the magni- that in order to be of service to | building of the University elsewhere spirit in the founding of the Univers clarifying certain issues, some of evaluated at $700 per scholar. the material side, the point is,

Is made

regard to local conditions the re- in and

in simplifying the ad-year scholarships of $800 each

Beent gift of $50,000 for three two- Cistration of the University. Their

China, the University

must

akce re- Special mention should be made of formulation. has at last enabled at Oxford. Mr. S. T. Williamson has to students in China, it must also

His within the bounds of practical sidence here not merely attractive his mission to England during the University

the the lines of the Rhodes Scholarships

ive politics. summer of 1913

Ordinance to the result of

bo complete-

There I will leave the subject of which

ly revised. Thanks to Mr. J. A. most kindly given $2,000 to provide make it reasonably machinery and

our future for the moment, adding apparatus worth many thousands of pounds Fraser's able industry, a more precise an annual prize in engineering them to live here.

only this, that I was deeply gratified were presented to the University; and better ordered instrument will studies. Three Orms, Messrs. John a note which I recently received from and of his success in persuading Sir CXpress our constitution as soon as Swire & Sons Ltd., Messrs. A. Holt the Vice-Chancellor on this subject, to learn from a personal letter from Robert Ho Tung to build and equiof the next volume of the Revised Laws Swire have been good enough | merely a sign but an active agency with the Universities of China which His Excellency General Chiang Kai- Relatively High Charges & Company and Messra. Butterfield

"If this University is to be not aims and plans for clo

shek that he sincerely supports our that I believe will be & the excellent workshop bearing Sir appears,

close co-operation very soon.

offer Robert's name.

free passages to selected The Regulations of the University graduates in engineering who wish of British goodwill

use his own phrase-would meet to gain practical experience in

be much more in Great which govern the teaching and dis- to

widely The late Talkoo Professor has al-cipline of students are also under Britain. Firms too numerous for open to students from China. A con- great need of that country in her

to the free entry work of reconstruction. revision, chiefly to

to give effect

two

helped in the matter of spicuous obstacle mention have ways wielded B

of Chinese is the relatively high scale busy ben, The resolutions of the Senate, Council and engineering apprenticeships.

Recent Accomplishments author of several text-books and Court, The

-first-

-of-these- relates-to-

The Hongkong University.has dur Brief mention may be made at of charges in this

point of two building schemes

"are"not" too highsversity. These sons of well-to-do

PLEASE Turn To Pago 12. in hand. The more important is for men from the Colony, from Malaya a block of buildings for the teaching and from the Chinese ports. They

The expedition, consisting of six miuent Cantonese screen actress. Mr. explorers arrived in New Guinen last Woo Hung-cho and Mr. Kwan Sing-June after a 10,000 mile flight from chi were the witnesses,

San Diego in California.-Reuter,

The

Hongkong Telegraph

NINTH ANNUAL

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June-September, 1939

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in

Pokfulum.

13

Engineer and Auther

on.

Among

port been

put into

and

Scholarships Donated

already have been conditionally

проп

with free

"Cap

On

to

Theover

aums of

doors 'must

the

possible

for

I will quote from

to China. s

-10

many tecknical" papers" he has also the Insutuon of a new Faculty of this piniversity authorities have shown, for the experience hasing the past year come into closer written widely on non-technical sub- Science, the second to the non which

China In which he was deeply in-ion.

in Diploma

terested. During the years 1000-on-or--Teaching, Thero- is-Tason Chemistry, Physics, Biology and, are fantastically high compared with teaching we hope, later of Geology. Plans are the charges of the inland Universities

to hope that when

1008 he carried out in London a con" is independently, science lng prepared for this Science unit of China. The reason for the exist-

siderable amount of research work studies in the University will pro- on a site near Belcher Battery on

the behaviour of

of metals subjected

on

ence of a University in this

small

to combined stresses and his papers done while subordinate to Medical 1940 we shall have laboratories the Far East a University education

gress more rapidly than

than they have Poldulum Rond: It is

is expected that Colony is that it should provide in on this subject form an important contribution to thin branch of En-

Engineering and

teaching. The by change gineering knowledge. As the result of teachers has been made in order scheme is the creation of a block of we can offer that only at a cost In the scheme for the training worthy of the University. The other inspired by British standards. But of a thesis on the same subject he was awarded the degree of M.Sc. by to insure not only a wider range of fats for senior teachers: savings in the University of Birmingham. In

by academic studies, but also more time interest and sinking fund

house-allowances will suffice to

to par Hongkong he made a prolonged study training in the art of teaching. By for both theoretical and practical

money borrowed for this purpose. of the problems affecting air- these changes we expect to achieve to the Hongkong and Shanghal Bank, In both these cases we are indebted conditioning the tropics.

Professor

a higher standard in two important and I take this opportunity to state Middleton-Smith's acti- vities in Hongkong were not confined branches of University studies. within there walls. As an unofficial Justice of the Fence, as a

mem-

Notablo Progress

on the

the University's warm gratitude to the Chief Manager for his friendly aid.

Grave Deficiencies

note

ber of the Institute of Engineers and I am happy to be able to say that Shipbuilders of which he was twice notable progress has been made in elected President, as an equally keen several of the subjects which I So far, so good, but there are grave Rotarian, and in various other capaci- raised in Congregation sixteen months deficiencies for which the University ties he played a full part in the 850. Perhaps the most important of must provide before long if it is to those was that of Public Health, The fulfil its function properly. I quote public and social life of the Colony,

Legislative Council has voted the the following extract from a "The Student's Friend"

salary of a Deputy Director of Health recently received by me from the Finally it may be said that the Services, the int

intention being that Vice-Chancellor. late Taikoo Professor fully earned that officer of Government, who will

The Laboratory provision for the title of the student's friend." very soon be here, shall also occupy Civil and Electrical Engineering is, Always a very bury man he was the chair of a Department of Preven without exaggeration, lamentable. It never too busy to help a studenttive Medicine in this University. I is extemporized, dispersed and in- graduate in need of help; and am inclined to think that the most sufficient, and the equipment is in It is safe to say that several of us urgent material need both of this considerable part already antiquated. here this evening have cause to re- Colony and of China is that the prin- The laboratories for electro-technics, member with characteristic of his, this kindly her file hygiene should be hydroulles and the testing of cement better known and more widely proc- and other materials, projected years Mr. Chancellor, the Court of this tised. It must, therefore, give a deep ago in a building to join up the Peel University has deemed Cades Alfred thrill of satisfaction to every friend Laboratory and the Ho Tung Work- Middleton-Smith worthy of an of this University to realise that the shop on Pokfulum Road, are needed Honorary Degree, not because of the supplying of that need is to be so now. Unless we get more adequate unique

closely linked with the University's laboratories we cannot pretend to the University's first professor, nor ause in the early difficult years of because in

place,

as many of those institutions for the training of Chi- the University he spared no pains to present are aware, the Government nese engineers. The equipment in

or

"distinction he enjoys of beingites in the near future. In the keep our place in the forefront of the

make the, for 27 years he served |

institution a success, but is in Pancussing a Town Plan- the nearer, Chinese Universition=pl=|

rved ning

which has the same ready, for

Smith Don Cades Alfred Middletonļa very praention Inter, discusses in' out-paced..

His

it

ourment Blone, does

rather because the University with faithfulness and object in view. Thirdly, the report in them teachips ours and whe advances, conditions devotion. I now beg to request your of the Committee on the Develop here make it more and more difficult Excellency to confer, in absentia, the ment of the University, of

which I to prevent ourse

being rapidly degree of Doctor of Laws (Honoris shall make

good engineering manner the creation not make for good of an Institute of Public Health. ing,

but it is the sirnw of the Excellency then conferred the Such an Institute

streng- would both

growing need is degree

of LL.D. (honoris causa) on then the health services

The Fung Ping Prot. C. A Middleton-Smith, In and would provide better tenching Shan

of the Colony

is good, but even now absentia, amid great applause.

for medical undergraduates; further. It is hard put to it.

it to house Itin

books ... Presented by Medical Faculty, Professor L. R. that co-operation between the Gov- of those who come to our

R. lablween the one of and their fadero." And the library. Shaw, graduates in medicine received ernment institute of Bacteriology and is the greater because in this great their degrees, and were followed by the University Department of Fatho-city there is no publie library worthy the graduates in Engineering and the logy, which the 1937 Committee of the name: For that reason we| graduates in Arts, who were present strongly, advocated. I am convinced, willingly admit ed by the Dean of the Faculty of both as Chancellor.

resident amit any resid

who is and Governor, competent to make use of the Engineering, Professor F. A. Ited- that every endeavour should be made Library: among them during the mond, and the Dean of the Faculty of to carry this ideal out in practice. inst two years there have been, we Arts, Professor W. Brown, respec-...

Training Teachers

nzo glad to think, some one hundred tively.

Another subject mentioned at the and twenty refuges Chinese scholars. Chancellor's Speech

last Congregation was the training But it may be assumed that this The Chancellor addressed the of teachers. The ad hoc committee, privilege will be more and mare gathering and said,

of which mention was then made, re-bought as time goes on, and it is cer

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