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Mr. Cox
In his talk with you the Bishop of Hong Kong has perhaps been more definite than he has in his letter of the 18th May 1948 to the Acting Director of Education, Hong Kong, which is enclosure No. 1 to (3).
Before serious consideration can be given to his very precise wish to dispense with the Code regulations I presume that he will offer much more definite reasons than the vague statements in paragraph 8 of his letter dealing with the Anglican tradition and particular genius and way of doing things.
I cannot find anything particularly irksome in sections 32 and 33 of the Grant Code (4) dealing with Other Charges. The expenditure on Other Charges in aided schools is estimated at the same rates as normally allowed for Other Charges in similar Government schools, and approved in advance by the Director. Approved expenditure on minor
If the repairs may be included in Other Charges. Bishop finds the obtaining of approval as irritating as is implied in the last sentence of paragraph 3, of the Governor's Despatch 166 of 14th July 1948 3 it would appear that this is a matter for personal adjustment with the Director and not for revising the principles of a Code.
Apparently the Bishop is quite prepared to allow the Director to scrutinize his accounts and refuge his Grants if there is extravagent expenditure (Paragraph 5 of his letter,.
I think we can regard the matter as the Bishop's attempt to charge what fees he likes. (paragraph 4 of his letter). The code in section 36 places no restriction on school fees except that the ordinary tuition fees, which are determined by the school managers, may not be less than those charged in Government schools; the manager, therefore, may charge what he likes as tuition fees. He may also charge school subscriptions but these must not exceed 50% of the tuition fees and need not be off- set against the annual recurrent expenditure or returned as income as tuition fees have to be.
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