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GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
HONGKONG. 7th April, 1923.
I have the honour to address Your Grace on the subject of the teaching staff in Government Schools in this Colony and would refer you to my despatches Nos. 70 and
Eo 19622/20 336 of the 3rd March and 29th October, 1920, in which I
622987 reported the vacancies then existing in the establishment.
These vacancies have never been wholly filled
and it has been necessary to make temporary local appoint- ments of partially trained assistant mistresses to meet the
emergency. It was hoped that as conditions after the war
became settled more candidates would be available.
It is now necessary also to expand further
owing to increasing numbers of pupils and it is proposed shortly to establish a new School for British children at
Quarry Bay where there is a large British community connecte with the Taikoo Dockyard and Sugar Refinery.
To provide for the full staffing of the
schools and to replace the temporary women teachers at
present employed nine Assistant Masters Class II and fifteen
Assistant Mistresses are required and I ask Your Grace's
authority to make provision accordingly in the Estimates for
1924. Fifteen temporary Assistant Mistresses on dollar
salaries on varying scales will not then be required.
If
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, K.G.,
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