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The Hong Kong Treasury Bills (London), (No. 6)-The object of this ordinance was to authorise the Governor-in-Council to request the Crown Agents for the Colonies to borrow by the issue in London of Hong Kong Government Treasury bills.
The Bank of Canton Limited (Capital Conversion). (No.8)— The object of this ordinance was to empower the Company to convert gold capital into silver.
The Wireless Telegraphy (No. 11)-The objects of this ordin- ance were to make it necessary for receiving sets to be licensed and to make it an offence to maintain, or possess, a wireless telegraph station without a license.
The Trade Loan (No. 13)--The object of this ordinance was to charge a certain loan upon the general revenue and assets of the colony of Hong Kong.
IV. EDUCATION.
The European staff was increased by nine during the year.
The total number of pupils at schools in the Colony excluding the Police School are:-
Number of Pupils.
Total.
English
Schools.
Vernacular Schools.
Government Schools
3,280
293
3,573
Military Schools
136
136
Excluded Private Schools
150
150
Grant Schools
3,901
1,041
4,942
Controlled Private
Schools
3,376
21,088
24,464
Controlled
Private
Schools, New Terri-
tories
15
4,890
4,905
Technical Institute
460
460
Total
11,318
27,312
38,630
The most important schools are Queen's College and King's College for Chinese, three District Schools their feeders and the Belilios Public School for Chinese girls. There is an Indian School of growing importance housed in a building presented to the Colony by the late Sir Ellis Kadoorie. The Central School and Kowloon Junior, Victoria and Quarry Bay Schools for children of
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British parentage have an average attendance of 272. There is also a school for the children of the Peak District with an average attendance of 42. The Diocesan School and St. Joseph's College are important boys' schools in receipt of an annual grant. The Italian, French, and St. Mary's Convents, the Diocesan Girls' School, and the St. Stephen's Girls School are the most important of the English Grant Schools for girls. There are two Vernacular Normal Schools for Men and Women respectively, and one Verna- cular Middle School.
The Hong Kong Technical Institute affords an opportunity for higher education of students who have left school. Instruction was given in 1926 in Building Construction, Chemistry (Practical and Theoretical), Physics, Electricity, Commercial English, French, Shorthand, Book-keeping and Cookery. Classes for men and women teachers, both English" and Vernacular" are a feature of the Institute.
The lecturers are recruited from the members of the medical and educational faculties of the Colony, and from the Department of Public Works, and receive fees for their services. The Institute is furnished with a well equipped chemical laboratory and excel- lent physical apparatus.
The University of Hong Kong was incorporated under a local University Ordinance, 1911, and opened in 1912.
It is a residential University and open to students of both sexes.
The late Sir Hormusjec Mody bore the entire expense of the erection of the main building and additions have been made through the liberality of benefactors of varied nationality and domicile. The latest addition to the buildings is a workshop built out of a contribution from Sir Robert Ho Tung.
The annual income of the University now amounts to about $510,000 of which about $315,000 comes from endowments and $50,000 from Government. Messrs. Butterfield and Swire gave £40,000 to the original endowment fund and subsequently $100,000 for engineering equipment. The Rockefeller Institution has endowed the University with three chairs in surgery, medicine and obstetrics, the endowment being in each case $250,000.
The expenditure for the year 1926 amounted to $495,556.
The University includes the three Faculties of Medicine, Engineering and Arts. Admission to all faculties is conditional upon passing the matriculation examination of the University or some examination recognised as equivalent thereto.
The Faculty of Medicine provides a six year course of study in the usual pre-medical and medical sciences, leading to the degree of M.B., and B.S. The degrees of M.D., and M.S., may
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