the greater is also the public expenditure, and the greater is the need of an external supervision - an external examination. An external examination is needed because, as admitted by both parties in the latest examination controversy raised by Professor Thorold Rogers, all teaching which is not submitted to an external test naturally falls into a groove! - "External supervision is needed because the College is locally competing with other Educational Institutions, under private management for the examination of the Inspector of Schools and might either fall behind in the general advance which education is making in Hongkong or be unduly favoured and pampered so as to handicap private effort in secondary education. That this general competition constitutes a very close neck-to-neck race will be seen from the Comparative Statement.