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of the Inspector of English Schools is only the equivalent of
the salary paid by the London County Council.
2.
A consideration of the respective duties of the
two posts would indicate that, the foregoing argument apart,
the post of Inspector in the Colony should carry a higher
salary than that of Head Master Queen's College.
Comparison
Inspector of English Schools
Head Haster, Queen's College.
Hours
Usual Office Hours
9.a.m.-4.1.5.p.m. on 4 days each
week.
9.a.m.-12.45.p.m. on Wednesdays 9.a,m,-noon on Saturdays.
Evening duties
Inspector of Night Schools (80 at present). Most of the Schools are in unsavoury quarters of nongkong and Kowloon,& have to be visited at the inconvenient hour of 7.30-9.p.m. Each visit usual- ly occupies the whole of an evening.
Vacations
By Regulations, 3 months every 2 years; in actual practice a Vacation #if and when I can be spared", which occurs rarely. (5 days during the period 1914-1920)
Additional Sources of Income
None.
3.
None.
Some 3 months each,year, addition to all Public and General Holidays.
in
Private tuition, worth at least £100 p.a. generally considerably
more.
A more extensive knowledge of education is required
in the case of the Inspector of English Schools than of the
nead, Queen's College, and I have been at pains to acquire
that knowledge and to keep up to date in the special duties