No. 68.
5392.3/39
16
13 FEB 1939
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG,
30th January, 1939.
Sir,
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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your note of 6th January, 1939, regarding your 21despatch No.233 of 28th July, 1938, on the subject of
the Code governing the grant by Government of subsidies
to vernacular schools in the Colony and to inform you
that, as it is not contemplated that in any case the new
Code will come into operation until 1940, I have
deferred further consideration of the matter pending
the receipt of the recommendations of a Committee which
is now examining the question of grants to the English
and Higher Grade Vernacular Grant Schools, as these
may have some bearing on the present question. I can
say, however, that it is the intention to use the power
of approving the appointments of teachers to oblige
schools to employ fully qualified teachers, as far as
these are available, and thus to operate the new system
of grants as closely as is possible on the lines
contemplated by the Advisory Committee on Education in
the Colonies in the special conditions of Hong Kong,
where small groups or individuals are responsible for
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,
&C.,
&C.,
&C.