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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 6TH JULY, 187
GOVERNMENT EDUCATION, HONGKONG.
The following Annual Report from the Inspector of Schools, with Appendices and Supplement, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd July, 1878.
J. M. PRICE,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
[No. 18.]
HONGKONG, 8th February, 1878.
SIR,-I have the honour to forward to you the Annual Report on Education and the Blue Book Returns for 1877.
2. Taking all the schools subject to Government supervision together, there was an increase in the total number of scholars, amounting to seven and a half per cent., as compared with the preceding
year.
3. In the Government Schools, to which there was no addition during the year, there was a decrease in numbers of one per cent., although there was an increase of six per cent. at the Central School. This, however, is the only decrease that has to be reported. In every other respect there was a marked improvement. The average monthly enrolment was seven and a half per cent., the minimum monthly enrolment was fourteen and a half per cent., the average daily attendance for the year was six and a half percen and the minimum daily attendance was eleven and three fifths per cent. higher than in 1876.
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4. The Gt-in-Aid Schoc year, adding 140 scholars to the lis.. gives an increase of thirty-two and a ha
de a great advance. Three new ones were admitted during the is, with an increase of 105 at the previously existing schools,
r cent. on the numbers of the previous year.
5. At the Government Schools there was an increase of ten per cent. in the number of girls, and in the Grant-in-Aid Schools there was an increase of eighteen per cent. The total number of girls as compared with that of boys, in the schools taken collectively, was in the proportion of one to four.
6. As regards the Central School, there is nothing to add to previous reports* beyond the increase of six per cent. already mentioned, and an increase of nearly ten per cent. in the average daily attendance. The total number of scholars enrolled was 610, and the average daily attendance was 431. Many applicants had, as usual, to be refused admission for want of accommodation. A very great loss was sustained in the death of Mr. GAIR, the Third Master, whose indomitable energy, great firmness, and other high qualifications added greatly to the efficiency and discipline of the school.
7. The other schools under the direct supervision of the Government require little comment. Five were ranked very good, seven good, and the remaining seventeen fair. Of the five schools in the first rank the two at Tang-lung Chau, which appear for the first time in that category, were found to have made very great progress. In addition to a proper amount of ordinary Chinese work, the School Book Committee's Series and Geography had been thoroughly well taught. In the Hákká Scho every scholar answered with the greatest readiness the questions in Geography which were put. T two schools were long very backward, but with the present masters there should be no return t unsatisfactory condition.
* As to the insufficient teaching of English, sce result of Mr. STEWART'S examination of the pupils, pp. 317-