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for the Yaumati Anglo-Chinese School has been put in hand
and is approaching completion.
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Anglo-Chinese Schools giving
instruction up to Standard III have been substituted for
Vernacular Schools at Tang Lung Chau and Aberdeen.
6.
In view of the application for
admission to Queen's College being considerably in excess
of the numbers that can be accommodated there, arrangements
are being made for gradually doing away with its prepara-
-tory classes there (VII and VIII) and extending the
secondary education given. At the same time it is intended
to make the three principal Anglo-Chinese Schools, which
are conveniently situated on the East and West of Victoria
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and in Kowloon Peninsula, better adapted to be preparatory
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schools for the Central College.
17.
In accordance with my Despatch
No. 6 of the 13th. January, 1905, Hygiene has been intro-
-duced as a subject of instruction in all the Government
and in some of the assisted schools and an examination in
it will be held in December next.
8.
I do not propose to deal in this
Despatch with the extremely complicated general problem of
education in this Colony where the community consists to a
small