No. 3911
Hongkong.
C. 302 41764 V 10 DFC 04)
Government House,
Hongkong, 7th November, 1904.
Sir,
I have the honour to transmit copies of the Report of the Annual Mid-Summer Examination of Queen's College by the independent Examiners appointed for that purpose in accordance with the Regulations approved in your Despatch No. 82 of the 17th March, 1904.
(Sent by Book Post.)
2. The Report is generally satisfactory and shows considerable improvement in the teaching of English, especially colloquial. The weakness in Grammar in the Upper School pointed out by the Examiners is not unnatural with boys whose native language is singularly devoid of grammatical inflections and justifies the importance attributed in the Report to the teaching of correct talking from the commencement of the school course.
3. From answers received from boys in various classes when I inspected the School on the 3rd October, I formed a more favourable judgment of the teaching of history there than I had been led to expect from a perusal of the Examiners' Report. The Head Master, Dr. G. H. Bateson Wright, has pointed out that the Examiners were not quite correct in their...
The Right Honourable
Alfred Lyttelton,
K.C., M.P., &c.,
&c.,
&c.