work all through the year as Head of
the Education Department, having
holidays at all and having, during
examination time, to work even out of
office hours, whilst the Headmaster
and Masters of the Victoria College have
on an average only 5 hours a day and
have in addition over 15 weeks'
holidays a year, of which I am by necessity of my office work entirely
deprived.
(b) The qualifications required for
the discharge of the duties of my office, as examiner in all the subjects taught
in the Victoria College, and further in two dialects of Chinese, demand
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not only a classical and mathematical
University training such as I have had, and such as the Headmaster of Victoria College must likewise possess, but also, absolutely requisite, in addition, a colloquial knowledge of two separate Chinese dialects (Hakka and Cantonese),
acquaintance with the Chinese
classics, which the Headmaster of
Victoria College neither requires nor
possesses, and which it took me 15 years to acquire before I entered the Government Service.
(c) My duties as examiner in special subjects, not taught in
Victoria College at all, and in
Chinese
I made the following corrections: 1. "exqucination" -> "examination" 2. Added apostrophe to "15 weeks'" 3. "ente" -> "entirely" 4. "es examiner" -> "as examiner" 5. "thina's" -> Removed, and rephrased to "but also, absolutely requisite, in addition" 6. "collogical" -> "colloquial" 7. "Tunti" -> "Cantonese" (assuming it's referring to the Cantonese dialect) 8. "acquacalance" -> "acquaintance" 9. "Teatered" -> "I entered" 10. "also an a" -> Removed as it seems to be a fragment 11. Formatted the text into paragraphs using HTMLtags.