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30. All correspondence with the Government on subjects connected with this code must be sent through the Inspector
of Schools for the time being,
Hongkong, 25th April, 1879.
Application Schedule.
(To be filled up when application is made for a Grant-in-aid.)
1. What is the name of the School?
2. Is it a Public School? (a.)
3. Is it a Boys', or a Girls', or a Mixed School ?
4. Where is it situated?
5. What are its Dimensions? (b)
6. What is the Average Attendance? (a.)
7. Is the school-work conducted by a Time Table? (d.).
8. Is there a regularly kept School Roll? (e)
9. What Books are to be used under the several Standards? (1)..
10. What are the School-hours?
11. What 'four hours' are to be assigned to instruction in the subjects)
of the Standards ?.....
12. What Holidays are given, and when?
13. What is the Manager's name, and what is bis profession or occupation?
14. What is the paid Master's name?
15. How many years' experience as a teacher has he had?.
16. What Assistants has he, and what are their names?
17. What is the Salary of the paid Master, and that of each of his)
Assielants ?.
18. What annual sum is derived from School-fees?
19. What annual sum is derived from Donations and Subscriptions?,
20. Has the School any other, and what, means of support?...
21. What are the various headings and amounts of Expenditure?..
22. Is there any, and what, Debt connected with the School?
Number.
Signature of Applicant.....
Date of Application.
5.
E. J. EITEL, PH. D., Inspector of Schools,
(a.) A Public School shall mean a school where education is given in the subjects of the Standards, and where no child is refused admittanc0
on other than reasonable grounds.
(b.) Give the length, breadth and height of the room or rooms, with the extent of wall-space available for maps.
(e.) The Average Attendance is the total number of attendances marked in the roll within a certain period, divided by the number of days the
school has been taught during the same period.
(d.) Enclose a copy.
(a) Enclose a specimen page.
(f) Forward a copy of each.
Examination Schedule.
(To be filled up and forwarded to the Inspector seven clear days before the date fixed for the examination,})
Date of
Απο
Admission
Name of Scholar (on last
to this School.
Number of Attendances
In what class
in School.
(The First Class
Birth- day).
of four hours each
means the highest,
at Instruction
Year. Mouth,
in the Year.
Under what Under what
Standard
Standard Last
Now Commence with the to be examined, to be examined.
Lowest Class.
Signature of Manager
Date
Remarks.
Enclosure 2 in Inspector of Schools' Letter No. 36 dated 25th April, 1879.
TABLE SHOWING THE NUMBER OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS, WHOSE AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE
WAS UNDER 20, FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS.
No.
Average Daily Attendance.
1874.
1876. 1876. 1877. 1878.
1
Aberdeen,
11.05
2
Hok-in,
* Hung-hòm,...
4
Little Hongkong,
5
6
8
9
Mi-tau-chung
Mi-tau-ts'ün,....
7 Mong-kok,
Pok-fú-lam,.
Shúi-wún,
10 Shek-ò,
11 Tang-lung-chau, (Hákká),
12 Tang-lung-chau, (Puntí),
13 T-kwá-wán, (Hoklò),
14 Ts'at-tez-múi,
15 Wong-pai-ch'ung,
9.01 17.45
13.87 12.50 10.95 16.00 12.55 10.40 15.20 14.37 17.46 13.65 13.03 14.47 11.98 18.29 12.08 11.68 19.58 16.54 14.21 12.96 12.23 13.55
10.37
13.88
8.62
14.76 14.76 12.84
11.50
8.15
11.82
0.18 12.02
0.78
7.84
13.56
9.93 17.78 13.15
15.24
16.51
16.20 16.32
18.67 13.45
15.59
8.34
18.57
16
Yau-má-ti,
17.34 16.82 18.85 16.31 12.80
9.67 15.90 16.22 11.85 14.71 11.70 19.57
17.20
18.05
HIS EXCELLENCY GOVERNOR POPE HENNESSY, C.M.G., TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH, BART., M.P.
[No. 33.]
GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 29th March, 1879.
SIR,---I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 15 of the 6th of February, transmitting copies of two reports of Mr. STEWART on Education in Hongkong, and conveying to me your instructions with respect to the points raised in those reports and in some despatches I had written on the subject.
2. I believe the decision you have arrived at on the various questions which from time to time I felt it my duty to submit for your consideration, will give very general satisfaction to the parents whose children are to be educated in Hongkong, and will undoubtedly place the public instruction of the Colony on a thoroughly satisfactory basis.
3. As to the Central School, I enclose for your information a copy of a minute in which I indicated my wish to have the revision of the School fees and the other points in the management of that im- portant establishment, determined as far as possible in accordance with Mr. STEWART's views.
4. In creating the separate Office of Inspector of Schools, with a salary of $2,400 a year, you say that you should have instructed me to offer the appointment to Dr. ETTEL, but that I desired to employ his services in another capacity. The question of an Interpretation Department being however still unsettled, and as there is no other gentleman in the Colony whom I could recommend for the post, I have complied with the spirit of your instructions and provisionally appointed Dr. EITEL Inspector of Schools. I have informed him that in continuing the work on which he has been so usefully employed for the last twelve months, he is, in future, to have nothing whatever to say to the Central School, which will be under the sole control of Mr. STEWART. I enclose an Extract from the Estimates for 1879, showing that due provision has been made for the separate office of Inspector, whilst retain- ing to Mr. STEWART his full salary as Head Master.
5. Though in all that I have written or spoken on the subject of Education, the only suggestion of mine as to the separation of the Head Mastership of the Central School and the Inspectorship of Schools is contained in my observations early last year at the Central School, (Despatch No. 12 of 27th January, 1878), in which I expressed a preference for giving the Inspectorship to Mr. STEWART, yet I must admit that further experience has entirely convinced me that the deliberate decision now given by Her Majesty's Government is undoubtedly the best.
6. There is no one in Hongkong who possesses in so eminent a degree the qualifications essential for the responsible office of Head Master of the Central School; and by now devoting his whole time to the School, Mr. STEWART will, I have not the slightest doubt, render it a most valuable institution.