Hongkong is said to be dismally contemplating the present depres. sion. Trade in the Colony is slack and the cheerfulness of the further port of Singapore is unattainabi Owing to the adverse effects of the fiscal policy of Canton. However that may be, there is plenty of building activity in the Island, the construction of the new offices of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation being only one _of several engineering projects in hand. So it is appropriate that the latest Issue of the Hongkong University Journal should be able to record 3 flourishing state of affairs in tae University Engineering Society of which it is the organ. That society has now come of age and boasts of 145 members as against the original 49 in the founding year. During it adolescence the Society has been addressed by several eminent engineers including Sir Matthew Nathan who was also a Governor of the Colony. Shanghai has a special interest in this number for to it President J. Usang Ly of the Chiaotung University contributes a special article on "Some Problems of Seienti. fic, Technical and Engineering Educa. tion in China." The journal appredates this feature as affording practical evidence of reciprocity in ce-operation which it is the aim of the Board of the Faculty of Engineer. ing of the University of Hongkong to establish with other centres of technical education in China. Pro-
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