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Chinese schools to half a dollar and I that of Romanized. Chinese schools quarters of to three a dollar. If the same time this reduction, amounting to about $1457.66 per annum will the cost very nearly cover of adding a seventh standard in all the schools (about $1,500), whilst a reduction of the values of the needlework grant, to which the Managers have also consented in order to get the British Arithmetic added to the curriculum of the Chinese schools, will save an annual expenditure of about $645. Thus there will be a saving of about $2102.66 per annum to balance the increase of expenditure involved in Aid Code. It is impossible to estimate at present what the cost of enlarging the scope of the Grant-in-Aid will be, because it will take several years before large numbers of scholars sufficiently trained to pass can be, especially as most of the teachers of these schools know hardly the rudiments of Chinese Arithmetic (use of the abacus). But I believe the above mentioned monetary reductions combined with the revision of the values of passes in Chinese schools and the limitation of the number of special subjects (to be taken up by individual classes or scholars in English schools) will suffice for many years to come to balance the increased expenditure involved in the necessary changes in the Code.
9. As regards purely educational changes made in the proposed code, the vast majority of the new changes concern details and are so obvious.