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Your savingram No. 809 of 28th July.
Annual Report of the Director of Education for
1948/49.
I have the following comments to make on this
interesting repart which contains much very useful
information. The officers of the Education
Department are to be congratulated on the progress
that has been made since the end of the year in spite
of very great difficulties,
(i) It is gratifying to read in paragraph
149 of the report that Hong Kong is fortunate
in the health of its pupils in primary schools,
which maintain a very high average attendance,
trak and it is therefore a matter for regret the
was
School Medical Service were prevented from
having its full effect owing to inadequate
follow-up machinery (paragraph 89 of the report);
it is a pity that the issue of milk and biscuits
(paragraph 107) has had to be discontinued.
(ii) Paragraph 177 of the report states
that, in the King George V School "it is the
exception rather than the rule for a pupil to
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Wt. 29377/790 50M 11-48 Wa & Co. 51/3.
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