Shanghai Schoolboy a Winner this Year One of the proudest schoolboys in Shanghai to-day is Master Noblaton, of the Public School for Boys, who isthe third in the "history of Shanghai schools to gain the coveted Peace] Memorial Scholarship in connexion with Hongkong University Matrictulation Examination. The scholar-
Jwhich do not, yet his 12 years at the Public School certainly belie this. He has the distinction of having passed the Hongkong examination Jon two previous occasions with honours, in 1922 and 1923—just to keep his hand in as he expresses Nit. On the last occasion when icon the scholars local was his first success and too, he passed with honours.
Master Noblaton intends to London University to study electrical longineering which will necessitate chip, presented by an anonymous donor, is tenable for three years at ang. recognized University in the world and of the value of £1,400.
Candidates are required to fol-Jow a course chosen from Electrical] Engineering and/or Synthetic Chemistry; Agriculture and/or Prac~ Hleal Farming, Nobiston, a bright youth who! scarcely locks his 17 summers, has the engaging manner of the ordinary, schoolboy who conscientiously studies those subjects which appeal to him and. as conscientiously neglects: those ON Monday morning a rag-picker, who had been plying his trade in the vicinity of Shanse Road, picked up a parcel containing 482' rounds of pistol ammunition in an adjacent alleyway. He informed the police, and though further search was mad by them, nothing else was disclosed, but the theory is maintained that either an agent or_ principal betaine frightened by his: proximity starch purty of constables, and cast aside his contraband, hoping (9 retrieve it at a Later date,
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