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Census Centenary Police
Prisons
A.R.P.
Coll.
inserted (i.e. the special war expenditure and accelerated work on a new fire station) a
are described
in the last two enclosures to (1). I mentioned
some of the most noticeable of them in my previous
minute, but not the proposed new Labor Office
Teachers Training costing $448,894 (Head 27B). It will be seen, however,
that this is dependent on the passing of new labor
legislation said to be in preparation (probably a
consequence of the Butters Report) about which we had
not previously heard. Judging by past experience
of such matters in Hong Kong this will not happen in
1940/41.
I notice also, under Head 9 (Education),
increased expenditure resulting from a new Code for
Subsidies to schools which I do not think we have been
sent, though I believe we asked to see it when ready.
There is also provision, on an increased scale, for
Scholarships at Hong Kong University which is
unexplained and which, as I have pointed out elsewhere,
almost certainly does not take account of the withdrawal
of His Majesty's Government's £300 grant for
King Edward VII Scholarships.
P.W.
The new undertakings under P. W. Extraordinary
for educational and similar purposes are
Tota Total cost.
Queer's College
1,200,000
1940/41.
5,000
Vernacular Girls'
College
194,000
50,000
Teachers' Training
College
267,000
235,000
Girls' Reformatory 200,000
5,000
The