Tisian the opinion that in spite of the present difficult conditions in Shanghai there would be more and more opportunities for the boy who had been educated in the city and who had been unable to get away, Mr. W. J. Hawkings, a member of the S.M.C. Education Board, addressed parents and boys at the Western District Public School in Tifeng Road yesterday afternoon, The occasion was the annual prize-giving and in presenting the awards to successful scholars, Mr, Hawkings urged those boys leaving school to remember the maxim, that things did not turn up unless they themselves turned them up.
Mr. Hawkings urged the boys to work after the end of their school-Give and again reiterated his belief t there were opportunities in the city for young men about to start ouf in life. There were two kinds of men in the world, he said, those with backbone—or guts—and those without backbone. "You have sim ly got to put your backs into any job today," he emphasized. Mr. Hawkings' concluded by wishing those boys, about to leave for universities abroad, god speed and success and amused his audience by quoting several schoolboy howlers which he had seen during the marking of recent examination paper:
Present on the platform were Mr. and Mrs. Hawkings, Mr. P. W. Bennett BA, headmaster; Mr. J. H. Pyle B.Sc. (Hons), Senior Assistant; Mr. L. C. Healey, Superintendent of the S.M.C. Education Dept., and Mrs. Healey, In his report Headmaster said: The year which is ending has brought to the school a full measure of development and progress. A full measure of difficulties, too, which are largely reflection of. the abnormal conditions that, unfortunately, appear to be perennial in Shanghai. To mention staffing; you know that we have suffered a loss in the departure of Mr. Close, who has taken a post under the British Council of International relations at Athens. Mr. Goodwin and Mr. Rogerson have been on long leave, and I myself am
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