HONGKONG.
REPORT ON QUEEN'S COLLEGE, FOR THE YEAR 1906.
No. 15
1907
Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government.
1. The Annual Statistics having assumed a somewhat stereotyped character call for no special remark. The total number on Roll for the year was 1,418, the average Daily Attendance, 1005. The regular attendance of scholars continues to be a very satisfactory feature.
2. School was held for 231 instead of 225 days. There would have been an actual gain of nine days, but the college had to be closed on three days on account of typhoons in the last fortnight of September.
3. The total gross expense of the college, including a special vote of $900 (Financial Minute No. 46) Language Allowance to Mr. R. E. O. BIRD, was only $56,132 as against $60,585 in 1905. This decrease is chiefly due to the low rate of exchange taken in the Estimates as opposed to the actual high quotation of the Mexican dollar in the market: the balance may be attributed to reductions in salaries caused by new appointments at initial salaries. Öne tenth of the amount provided in the Estimates for Queen's College lapsed. The share of the Public in the cost of Queen's College for the year 1906 was 44 per cent., 56 per cent. being defrayed by Fees and Refunds. The cost of each boy to the public revenue was $24.45 or $4.21 less than in the previous year.