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ngollence upon religious grounds. You will, however, observe that the omission of the Ementary" from 1 (a) of the Rules, necessitates a further alteration in the definition (a) of mentary School in the Schedule; where in place of the words 'a Public Elementary a mean a school where elementary education is the principal part of the education given, a Public School shall mean a school where education is wing words should be substituted ·
prisc de for sabjects of the Standards."'
life excuse.
ti weins to ine necessary to insist upon certain other points objected to by Bishop RAIMONDI, (8 ... letter to Dr. EITEL). The requirement of 200 attendances under Rule 14 should be 4. I regard it as a safeguard for the thoroughness of the education; and in order to secure rai eficiency of the schools, the children must not be withheld from examination without I also consider that, for the present, at any rate, the capitation fees should remain Bishop RAIMONDI appears to me to do only justice to the Government when he describes It will be time enough to consider the propriety of stem kemurat-in. Aid Scheme as a fair and liberal one.
titres these fees after the Roman Catholics have come into the scheme, if upon a fair trial they w that the amounts granted are unreasonably low, or are so arranged as to operate to their schools."
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- the question of building grants, which have hitherto been dealt with separately upon the of each case as it arose, it is of course impossible for the Colony to make to the Managers *t, equivalent, or indeed approaching, to the sums which it spends upon the Government Schools, quite willing to approve, as part of the Code, a general regulation on this subject applicable And I have to request ds receiving grants-in-aid and framed so as fairly to meet all cases. transmit for my approval before it is brought into operation the drafts of such a regulation, Eh, if approved, will eventually become part of the Grant-in-Aid System."
TAL INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS TO THE HONOURABLE THE COLONIAL SEcretary.
INSPECTORATE OF SCHOOLS,
HONGKONG, 25th April, 1879.
It are dance with the instructions contained in your letter No. 329 of 27th ultimo, I have the ir to forward, under this enclosure, a draft of the new Grant-in-Aid Scheme, revised by myself on of the Despatch No. 15, of 6th February, 1879, from the Right Honourable Sir MICHAEL Hack --Baca, It.. M.p., to Governor POPE HENNESSY, C.M.G.
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As regards Building Grants" I have drafted, in accordance with the Secretary of State's ten. a general regulation, which is simply an abridgment of the regulations introduced in bangtand unhr the "Code (1871) of Minutes of the Education Department."
I take this opportunity to direct the attention of the Government to another alteration in the Aid Scheme, which I beg to suggest and which is of no vital importance to the Scheme, but of utility in Hongkong. I propose to abolish rule 1, on page 1, "the average attendance is not This rule is borrowed from the English Code, but is quite unsuited to the peculiar ator of Chinese schools, in which class teaching finds but limited application, so that a teacher ely teach more than twenty boys effectively. More than one half of the Government schools of Cony have actually all along had an average daily attendance of less than twenty. To prove
se a table showing the number of those Government schools, out of a total of thirty, in *ran, during the last five years, the average daily attendance was under twenty. This table is compiled
* Animal Reports of the Education Departinent as published in the Government Gazette.
I should also like to direct the attention of the Government to the fact that the Hongkong now stands, rakes no provision for night-schools nor for industrial schools, which are 4 la England under the New Code of 1871.
I have the honour to be,
Humble W. II. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
E. J. EITEL,
Inspector of Schools.