Hennessy required the school an independent examination indepex. You will remember that old days of Stewart was both head master of Inspector. He was however a very exceptional man & education was not as advanced then as presumably now C.PL.
I have but in a 24 Oct a copy of a report a copy of report of a local education Commission in 1882, the existence of which I had forgotten. It will not help us My minutes in the margin Dr ot help us Coron gromme except as to Wright's feat.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 84. EDUCATION.
The following Annual Reports on Education in Hongkong, for the year 1882, are published for general information.
By Command, FREDERICK STEWART, Acting Colonial Secretary, Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 3rd March, 1883.
No. 12. GOVERNMENT CENTRAL SCHOOL, HONGKONG, 17th February, 1883.
SIR,I have the honour to forward to you the Annual Report and Returns, connected with this School, for 1882. In reviewing the events of the past year, the following facts deserve to be noted.
(1) With the approval of His Excellency, the Officer Administering the Government, Euclid and Algebra have been restored to the Time Table. As these subjects with Mensuration occupy half of the 6 hours given weekly to Arithmetic, no loss accrues thereby to the Study of English.
(2) Elementary Geography and Grammar are now taught in the lowest classes outside the Preparatory School, by which arrangement increased proficiency in English may reasonably be expected in the upper classes in two or three years' time.
(3) A half-yearly examination was held at the end of July, in the work of the past 5 months, with the satisfactory result in the English School of 80.75 per cent. passing, although no time was given for special preparation.
(4) By the return of Mr. MCKINNEY (4th Master) the School, for the first time, enjoyed for 4 months the benefit of the full complement of 6 European Masters; which rendered the discipline of the School highly efficient, and contributed to the satisfactory result at the Annual Examination.
(5) On the other hand, toward the close of the year, the staff suffered severely by the temporary removal of Mr. ARTHUR (5th Master) to the Magistracy, on the score of ill-health; and by the permanent loss of Messrs. CHAN-KAI-MING, TSANG-KIT-FAN, LAU-HO and A. RAMJAHN. The interests of the School have, however, been secured by suitable appointments.
(6) The statistics call for no remark, as they have for some years attained a somewhat fixed average; no alteration for the better can be made in the Roll Returns in the present building.
(7) It is, however, satisfactory to observe that the Central School continues to meet a demand, having in the past year supplied 30 important vacant situations, in the Colonial Service, in the Chinese Imperial Customs and in leading legal and mercantile firms.
I have the honour to be, Sir, The Honourable F. STEWART, LL.D., Acting Colonial Secretary. Your most obedient Servant, GEO. H. BATESON WRIGHT, Head Master.
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