HONGKONG.
REPORT OF THE INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS, FOR THE YEAR 1904.
Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Governor,
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT. HONGKONG, 9th March, 1905.
No. 26
SI, have the honour to report to the Government on the Education Department for the year 1904.
1905
STAFF.
Appointments.--Mrs. MAIN to be Headmistress of the Kowloon School. from 20th November, 1904.
Mrs. MURRAY to be Second Mistress of the Kowloon School, from 5th December, 1904.
Miss HEANG to be Junior Assistant at the Belilios Public School, from 19th April, 1904.
Mrs. WHITEHEAD to be Mistress of the Indian School, from 1st January, 1905.
Resignations. Mrs. JAMES, Headmistress of the Kowloon School, from 19th November, 1904.
Mrs. HATWELL, Mistress Indian School, from 31st December, 1904.
Miss VANSTONE, Junior Assistant Belilios Public School, from 18th April, 1904.
Leave. Mrs. TurCHER, First Assistant Belilios Public School, from 30th March, 1904.
There have also been several changes in the Chinese staff of the District Schools.
REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE.
Excluding $500 paid by Mr. ARCULLI towards the cost of the Indian School as explained below, the Revenue collected by the Department amounts to $7,177.50. Details are given in Appendix A. A comparative statement of the revenue collected during recent years is given in Appendix B. It has increased from $922 in 1900 to $7,177.50 in the year under review, or nearly eight-fold.
The Expenditure on Education, including Queen's College, for the year was $151,589, being 2.32 per cent. of the estimated Expenditure. A statement shewing this ratio for recent years is given in Appendix C.
NUMBER AND CLASSIFICATION OF SCHOOLS
AND SCHOLRAS.
The number of Schools (Government and Grant) including Queen's College, is 81, of which 23 are Upper Grade Schools and 58 are Lower Grade Schools. An Upper Grade School means one in which at least part of the Staff is European. Lower Grade Schools are those under purely native management. Broadly speak- ing the Upper Grade Schools teach in English, and the Lower Grade Schools teach in the Vernacular. There are, however, a few exceptious, details of which can be seen in the Grant List (Appendix E.).