12020
462
past years to the total expenditure of the Colony the
actual expenditure $158,678 - was approximately double what
it was 5 years ago
<
$79,994
(Table III); and that in the
same period the revenue derived from fees from Government
Schools other than Queen's College though still small had
increased about tenfold from $922 to $9,783 (Table II) and
now amounts to over a fifth of the gross expenditure on
them.
3.
These figures are on the whole satisfactory.
Paragraph 21 of Mr. Irving's report deals
with the question of making the three Anglo-Chinese Dis-
trict Schools, of which one is at Wanchai on the East of
Victoria, one at Sai Ying Pun on the West of Victoria and
the third at Yau Ma Ti on the Kowloon side, feeders to
Queen's College. This question was referred to in para-
graph 4 of my despatch No.50 of the 5th. March, 1906.
I
look upon the remaining Anglo-Chinese School near Victoria
(Tang Lung Chow), dealt with in paragraph 30 of the report,
as an overflow branch of the Wanchai School, near which it
is situated, and Your Lordship will remember that it will in
future be under the supervision of Mr. Yeung Hee the head-
master of the latter school. When funds can conveniently
be made available I have in contemplation the enlargement
of the Wanchai School-building and the abolition of the
separate establishment at Tang Lung Chow. I also propose at
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