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Free Boys and about 60 to 70 are at reduced fees. pay full fees.
All Chinese
The school bought the top storey, which had a temporary roof, from the Military Authorities, for $25,000.00; the Government were informed about all details.
Since 1919 we have asked the Government for increased annual grants. Since 1923 we have definitely asked that the system be changed from a Capitation Grant to a Grant based on Cost; this latter system is now used in the Straits Settlements and in other parts of the Empire, as well as in the British Isles.
The Thomas Hanbury School and Orphanage in Shanghai, which is a similar school to the Diocesan School and Orphanage, is now fully supported by grants based on Cost paid by the Shanghai Muni- cipal Council.
Since 1923 the places of two English Masters, Cambridge men, at the Diocesan School, have not been filled. There are now only four English Masters on the Staff. There are about 100 Boarders and two hundred Day Boys.
In 1929 thirty two of our Old Boys were at the Hong Kong University, i.e. about eleven per cent of the Students there.
In 1929 we had four Old Boys in the Hong Kong Interport Cricket Team.
The Annual Grant for 300 boys at the Diocesan School is about $10,000.00. An Italian Convent for Girls, staffed by Italian Sisters, with nominal salaries, gets the same Grant as a British Boys School with British Masters etc.
In 1930-1 the loss on exchange at the Diocesan School, in passages and furlough pay alone, will be about $10,000.00.
All Staff on sterling salaries has been paid, and continues to be paid, at $10.00 to the £1. The dollar has been worth only 1/- for several months, and has been less than two shillings in value since September 1929.
A married master whose wife and son were at home for sixteen months before he could take his furlough, was paid at ten dollars to the pound when the pound cost from twelve to sixteen dollars.
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Two masters have postponed their furloughs for two years
The school has never been able to afford a second married master on the Staff, and has lost two excellent masters, in the last ten years, for this reason.
One assistant master married in 1930 and receives a single master's salary.
The Diocesan School has received no Building Grant or Equip- ment Grant for the new school.
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