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IMMEDIATE HONG KONG
TELEGRAM NUMBER 217
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TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE,
10 MARCH 1969
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YOUR TELEGRAM 166: PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION BY JOHN RANKIN.
NANGTAU
QUESTION ONE. THE POPULATION OF WANGTAU HOM ESTATE IS ABOUT
68,000. IN SEPTEMBER 1968 THERE WERE 19,131 CHILDREN ATTENDING
FRIMARY SCHOOLS OF ALL KINDS IN THE ESTATE, BUT THIS AND OTHER
FIGURES NEED TO BE TREATED WITH CAUTION AS SEVERAL THOUSAND
WANGTAU HOM CHILDREN ATTEND PRIMARY SCHOOLS ELSEWHERE, MOSTLY
WITHIN EASY WALKING DISTANCE, WHILE MANY OF THE PLACES IN WANG
TAU HOM ESTATE SCHOOLS ARE OCCUPIED BY CHILDREN FROM
NEIGHBOURING DISTRICTS,
2. THE SEPTEMBER 1968 FIGURE OF 19,131 PRIMARY SCHOOL ENROLMENTS
WITHIN WANG TAU HOM ESTATE CAN BE BROKEN DOWN AS FOLLOWS:~
CA) 10,117 CHILDREN WERE ATTENDING GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIZED PRIMARY
SCHOOLS. THERE ARE NO (R) NO VACANT CLASSROOMS IN THESE
SCHOOLS AND THE NUMBER OF CASUAL VACANCIES TOTALS ONLY 79
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PLÁCES.
(8) 6,014 CHILDREN WERE ATTENDING UNAIDED PRIVATE PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
IN SEPTMBER 1968 THESE SCHOOLS HAD 52 EMPTY CLASSROOMS WITH A
CAPACITY OF 1,872 CHILDREN; THEY ALSO HAD 605 CASUAL VACANCIES
IN CLASSES WHICH WERE OPERATING, GIVING A TOTAL OF 2,477
VACANCIES.
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