資料：1940年12月11日《The China Mail》第8頁
Acting Governor At King’s College Speech Day
“IT IS WITH GREAT pleasure that I can announce that we now have another scholarship in the school. This is due to the generosity of Mr. Li Po-chun, who has provided funds for one scholarship in each class,” said Mr. H.G.Wallington, M.A., headmaster, at the annual speech day and prize giving of King’s College.
The prizes were distributed by His Excellency the Acting Governor, Lieut.-Gen. E.F.Norton. With him on the official platform were Mr. Wallington, Mr. C.G.Sollis, Director of Education; Mr. Alfred Morris; Mr. G.P.de Martin; Mr. F.J.de Rome; Captain S.H. Batty-Smith, A.D.C., and Mr. G.F.Reiss, Second Master.
Presenting his annual report, Mr. Wallington thanked His Excellency for the honour he had bestowed upon the school. “I am sure that everyone fully appreciates the fact that in times like the present you are one of the busiest men in the Colony and that you have this morning given up valuable time shows your keen interest in the education of the Colony.
“The school re-opened with a maximum enrolment of 858 and throughout the year the percentage attendance was 96 per cent. This I consider to be extremely good in view of a certain amount of evacuation to Shanghai and Macao that took place after the Chinese New Year holidays.
“It was in September that Class 4 was almost entirely removed from the district schools and concentrated in King’s and Queen’s Colleges, and as a result I had five divisions of Class 4 in this school.
“The Matriculation Examination was held during the first week in June 1940. This was earlier than in previous years. The school re-opened one week late and the fact that the Matriculation examination was put forward made a very short year. Forty-eight boys entered for Matriculation, of whom 31 passed obtaining 8 distinctions. Of the 31 who passed, 5 were boys from Class 2 who entered as private students. This was unknown to me until the examination took place and although I am pleased that they did pass I do not consider it a good thing.
“For one thing, boys who pass in this way are usually too young to enter the University and have to waste a year before entering. Also, usually, they leave thus depriving the school of some of its best students one year early. If the entry of students from a non-matriculation class is permitted I can see no reason why, in future years, boys from Classes 3 and 4 should not try their luck provided they can get someone outside the school to sign the entrance forms.”
Governor’s Speech
His Excellency, replying, said: First let me begin by saying that I consider the report we have just heard to be a very satisfactory one.
Mr. Wallington has held the office of Principal for under two years and during the last year, owing to war conditions, he has had considerable difficulties to overcome. Several reasons contribute to make me believe that he has every reason to be pleased with the success of his administration during a difficult period.
First the examination results are above the average and are distinctly creditable. We may take it that the primary object of schools is to teach and the most immediate and obvious test of the standard of teaching of a school is found in the results of open examinations. Here then I think it is safe to say that all is well with the School.
Second the School has put up a good record at games – a better record than for some years, and here the general upward trend of the standard in which they are competing must not be forgotten. This cult of games and healthy open-air exercises is a big factor in young China to-day and one which is conspicuously in evidence in Hong Kong.
Admirable Spirit
Third I am struck with the admirable spirit which must actuate the seniors who have devoted so much time out of their well-earned holidays to the voluntary instruction of their poorer compatriots. The performance of boys in Classes 1 and 11 in this direction during last summer holidays was a really fine bit of work, and I should like to congratulate the boys concerned, who spontaneously organised and carried it out.
Here then are the grounds for my satisfaction with the year’s work of the School. The inference is that the School has made good mentally, physically and morally, and there can be very little wrong with it if these three aspects of its life are so flourishing.
In congratulating Mr. Wallington on these results I do not forget the share of the credit which is due to his staff. They have achieved what we should all hope to do in war, when a special extra effort is required from all of us; they have carried out their own task most satisfactorily and in addition have done their duty in shouldering their share of the Volunteer activities for the defence of the Colony in an emergency.
Scout Troop
I must refer to one point in Mr. Wallington’s report, to wit, the Scout Troop. Should an emergency occur the Boy Scout organisation is going to have an outstanding opportunity of playing its part in the very best type of Scout work for the good of the community. It would be a pity if King’s College, which has showed already so excellent a spirit in voluntary work, should not play its full part here; if it is to do so it will be necessary to expand the present strength of its Scout Troop and for this purpose it seems necessary to organise a supply of more Scouters to train it.
Now I want to express my great appreciation of the generosity of Mr. Li Po-chun, who as you have heard, has provided no less than ten new scholarships to the School. This is indeed a wise and public-spirited act of generosity, and one of which the donor may well be proud.
Finally I will conclude this brief address with an item which seldom fails to go with a swing in any school in any part of the world, and that is to request Mr. Wallington to grant the School a holiday to celebrate this occasion as a mark of my satisfaction of the excellent year’s work by the whole team, Principal, staff and boys.
翻譯：
護理總督出席英皇書院頒獎禮
「我很榮幸地宣佈本校再增設新的獎學金，一切歸功於李寶椿先生(Mr. Li Po-chun)的慷慨捐輸，使每一班都可增設一個獎學金名額」以上是英皇書院校長華靈頓先生 MA文學碩士 (Mr. H.G.Wallington)於周年頒獎禮的講話。
頒發獎品的是護理總督閣下岳桐中將(Lieut.-Gen. E.F.Norton)，其他出席嘉賓包括華靈頓先生、教育司疏利士先生(Mr. C.G.Sollis)、莫理士先生(Mr. Alfred Morris)、馬田先生(Mr. G.P.de Martin)、羅姆先生(Mr. F.J.de Rome)、副官史密夫上尉(Captain S.H. Batty-Smith)、副校長賴斯先生(Mr. G.F.Reiss)。
在宣讀年度校務報告時，華靈頓先生感謝了閣下的蒞臨，「相信在座各位都會認同，在這時勢下，你是本地最忙碌的人。閣下抽出寶貴的時間於早上蒞臨本校，足證閣下十分重視本地的教育事業。
學校去年滿員招生858人，全年出席率為百份之96。對比春節其間於上海及澳門發生的逃難事件，我認為本校的情況十分良好。
於9月期間，同區學校停辦第4班級，合資格學生皆轉讀英皇書院及皇仁書院，導致本校第4班級現增至五班。
大學入學試於1940年6月的第一週舉行，比往年有所提早。本校延遲一星期開學，加上入學試提早舉行，導致學年相應縮短。本校有48名學童報考入學試，合格人數31人，其中8人獲優秀成績。在31位合格學童中，有5名第2班級學生以自修生身份報考。關於這事，我在考試開考前毫不知情，雖然我對他們都順利通過考試感到欣慰，但我不認為這是一件好事。
事實是，這些通過考試的學生未達入學年齡，他們將浪費一年時間才能入學，學校亦失去一年培育優秀學生的機會。如繼續容許非預科學生報考，我相信不久將來，可能會有第3班級甚至第4班級學生利用校外報名碰碰運氣。」
總督訓詞
閣下訓詞如下：首先，關於剛才的校務報告，本人感到十分滿意。
華靈頓先生接任校長兩年，在過去的一年因應戰爭狀況，他需處理的事情尤其困難。而從多項證據，皆表明在他的管理下，學校在艱難時期繼續良好運作。
首先是考試成績均高於平均值，甚至達到優秀水準。學校設立的目的是教育，而最能評價教育水準的方法，就是學生於公開考試的成績。由此可見，學校現時不用擔心這個問題。
其次，學校於各項活動均取得良好紀錄，並於歷年來有所進步，可見其標準表現正逐步提升。這些活動及戶外操練在中國內地青年間現正十分流行，而本地亦逐漸流行。
令人敬佩的精神
第三，我十分敬佩高年級學生利用珍貴的假期參與義工服務，付出大量時間幫助受難的同胞。其中第1班級及第11班級於去年暑假的表現十分出色，在此我需讚揚這些自發組織服務的學生。
以上就是我對學校表現感到滿意的原因，由此引證，學校在校風、體育及德育均表現優秀，並在這三項要素下，學校發展一定不會出現重大問題。
在祝賀華靈頓先生的同時，我亦須提及各教職員的努力。在現今戰亂時期，他們均付出良多達致現今成就，他們除了盡忠職守外，並且肩負着於本地進入危急時投身義務民防工作的責任。
童軍團
我須特別提及華靈頓先生報告的一點，是關於童軍團。在危難時期，童子軍最能夠發揮其服務社區的職責。英皇書院在義工服務表現如此優秀，如童軍未能於如此時期參與其中，實屬可惜。希望童軍團能招收更多成員，應對這個問題，你們需要招募更多領袖以訓練童軍。
在此亦借機會感謝李寶椿先生的慷慨解囊，你們剛才已有聽聞，他為學校增設了10個以上的獎學金名額。這絕對是明智及公益之舉，相信捐贈者亦會為自己感到自豪。
最後，我以一項全世界學校都樂於聽聞的提案以結束我的講話，就是請求華靈頓先生批出一天以作為學校假期，以誌慶學校如今之成就，並感謝過去一年整個團隊，包括校長、教職員、學生所作的努力。