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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 November 1938, Page 7

A slipway is to be provided for Port of Spain, Trinidad, adjacent to the St Vincent Jetty. At present the plan, which is to cost £57,200. is for a slipway to take ships up to 1200 tons, but this may be altered so as to enable ships up to 1800 tons to be accommodated.

Frank Chew Lee, the Chinese boy of fifteen who won the senior sports championship at the Lyttelton District High School, and who was dux of the school a year ago. has had to exercise great patience in a brief period of school (remarks the “Star-Sun.”) Though he was born in Christchurch, he was taken back tb China at a very early age, and when he returned to Nev/ Zealand four and a-half years ago with his mother he was unable to speak English. To help him, with signsand'.pictures principally, one of his classmates was told off to instruct him. and the headmaster of the school (Mr A. F. Barrell) put it down to the boy’s ambition and the help of his classmates, that starting at Primmer I. he passed into Standard IV within a year and went on to become dux of the school. Even then he had some difficulty in expressing his thoughts in English, but in the words of the lady who is now his teacher he has an ambition to get on that is almost a religion, endless patience, and a determination to do more than he sets himself io do at any task. Among his preferences is drawing, and he paints delicately in the manner of his countrymen.