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12. Un Long School.-Head Teacher, Mr. Lam Pak To. The maximumn enrolment was 100 and the average attendance was 91.
13. The process of the conversion of this school into a Vernacular "Ko Siu" School continues. In September, a "Ko Siu" II was formed to take the place of an English Class 7. The Annual Examination showed very good results; over 90% passed. The high cost of transportation is an obstacle to the passed students who wish to further their studies in the Unban Districts.
GRANT SCHOOLS.
14. The number of Grant Schools has been reduced to three as a consequence of the amalgamation of the Fairlea Girls' School with the Victoria Home in the early part of the year. The amalgamated school is the Heep Yunn School, housed in a new modern school building in Kowloon City. The school follows the same policy as the former Fairlea Girls' School, i.e., unlike the Ying Wa and St. Paul's, it follows the prescribed syllabus for Vernacular Middle Schools. In the University Examination, 50% of the top class students of both the Ying Wa and St. Paul's passed. In the Class 2 Examination, 61% of Ying Wa's candidates passed, while St. Paul's did not enter its students for this examination. The total enrolment in the three schools was 1,080, and the average attendance was 865.
PRIVATE SCHOOLS-URBAN DISTRICTS.
15. The total number of schools which received subsidies for either a part of or the whole year was 173. A few having been either removed from the Subsidy List or closed during the year, the number of Subsidized Schools at the end of the year was 167, with a total enrolment of 15,007, (15,174 in 1936) and an average attendance of 14,120 (14,305 in 1936). The number of Non-subsidized Day Schools was 591, an increase of thirty-five over last year. (maximum enrolment-41,250: average attend- ance=38,580). The number of Night Schools has increased to 54, (24. Boys' and 30 Girls'). The total enrolment in these schools was 1,902 (740 boys and 1,162 girls), and the average attendance was 1,566. The majority of these schools are Free Schools for the Working Class, sons of labourers, servant-maids and factory girls. The total number of Private Vernacular Schools in the Urban Districts existing at the end of the year was 816 (784 in 1936), consisting of 1 Exempted, 3 Grant, 167 Subsidized, 591 Non-subsidized and 54 Night Schools. The total enrolment in these schools was 59,249 (36,943 boys and 22,306 girls), and the average attendance was 55,139.
16. The total amount of Subsidies paid was $92,130 which works out at about $532.60 per school, or $6.10 per pupil.
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17. Physical Training. For the second time, a competition was held in December. The number of entries was exactly the same as that of the previous year i.e. 21, but the display showed considerable inprovement in certain directions.
18. Scholarships.-Thirty Free Places tenable at various Government English Schools, and four at the Vernacular Middle School were awarded to boys from Subsidized schools and eighteen Places at the Belilios School were awarded to girls from various Vernacular schools. This was the first time that a suffi- cient number of suitable students were found to fill all the 18 Free Places offered at the Belilios School, and this may be accounted for by the tendency in Girls' Vernacular Schools to introduce English into their curriculum in the earlier stages.
PRIVATE SCHOOLS-RURAL DISTRICTS.
19. Subsidized Schools.-The number of Subsidized schools was 116 including 6 girls' schools. Subsidies paid amounted to $19,855 working out to an average of $171.15 per school, or $4.20 per pupil.
20. Non-Subsidized Schools.-There were 78 non-subsidized schools including 7 Girls' Schools. (6 Day Schools and 1 Night School.)
21. Attendance. The total enrolment in the New Territories Schools was 7,708 (4,781 pupils including 601 girls in Subsidized schools, 2,927 including 758 girls in Non-subsidized schools, and 50 girls in a Girls' Night School), the average attendance was 6,099.
22. Scholarships.-All the Free Places tenable in Govern- ment Schools offered to students from Subsidized Schools were eagerly sought and were filled by students selected at a com- petitive examination.
23. Secondary Schools.-During the second half of the year, a few of the Secondary Schools-both English and Chinese- that were forced by the Sino-Japanese conflict to remove from Canton or other parts of China to this Colony established them- selves in the New Territories, and it may be recorded that this is the first year that Secondary Schools appear on the New Territory School List. It will be interesting to see how many New Territories students will avail themselves of the oppor tunity, as we may judge therefrom what demand there is for Secondary Schools in these territories.
24. Every school has been visited at least once during the year.
($d.) Y. P. LAW,
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W. YU,
I. S. WAN,
S. W. LIANG,
Inspectors of Vernacular Schools
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