existing number of special subjects
Scheme but to restrict the
to be taken
up by individual classes or scholars.
6.
Certain preliminary, conditions were however in
the Managers for both the additional work to be imposed upon
and for the
the schools
etary retrenchments an increase of
necessary to prevent expenditure.
I am
my opinion as.
7.
state that, in
absolutely necessary for a successful
the scheme. These condi-
revision
of
tions I conceive to be these, viz. (a) not
to tamper
tials of
a
any way
with the essentials of
a scheme which has for the
last twenty years proved so equally beneficial under the peculiar difficul-
friction; (b) not to increase the cau-
ses of this Colony
and worked,
, for
the last fifteen years,
without
any
of the Government, of
cational expenditure
the introduction
in spite of youth standard in all and of arith-
metic in the Chinese school and the consequent increase in the earning
the grant
capabilities
of
the schools;
and (c) to secure the approval of
happy to be able to
endeavour to realise
my under
the above mentioned aims and to ful-
fil the foregoing conditions, I have
assistance from
received
every
the
Managers concerned, who have all
consented to a material reduction in the value
the case
of the
capitation grant in of all Chinese schools in order to balance the cost of the intro-
duction of arithmetic in those and
By
a certain standard in all schools,
and
as well as to a reduction of the needle-work grant
and of the liberty values hitherto attached to passes in special subjects. The draft of the re-
vision now recommended by
the
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