HKG-CAR1904-1919

HONG KONG, 1906.

Subjects Taught and Number of Students Attending.

Subject. No. of Students. Engineering Section. Mathematics 15 Applied Mechanics Building Construction 39 28 25 Machine Drawing... 16 Science Section. Chemistry 11 Physics 18 Hygiene 5 Book-keeping. Elementary 15 Advanced 7 Commercial Arithmetic 2 English Junior 35 Commercial 10 Do. Senior 15 French. Elementary 15 Do. Advanced 8 German 12 Japanese 17 Shorthand. Elementary 10 Do. Advanced

During the year illustrated lectures were delivered at most of the schools on facts relating to the Empire. The lectures, which, together with the slides, were provided by Mr. Mackinder, were greatly appreciated by the scholars, whose interest in the various subjects was increased by the ocular demonstration of them. With the exception of minor matters, such as the darkening of rooms to make the lantern slides clearly visible, which was a somewhat difficult matter, and the length of the lectures, which had to be given in two parts as they were too lengthy for one sitting, the teachers are full of praise for the courses of lectures supplied, and are satisfied that they have proved highly instructive to their pupils.

V.-PUBLIC WORKS.

The principal public works in progress during the year, exclusive of the railway, dealt with in Section XII. of this despatch, were the Tytam Tuk Waterworks (1st Section) and the Kowloon Waterworks, both of which have been described in previous reports. The former made good progress and the latter fair. Though not completed, the Kowloon Waterworks were sufficiently advanced to enable them to be utilised for the supply of the Kowloon Peninsula, the water being turned on on the 24th December. The extension of the distribution system to the important villages of Sham Shui Po, Kowloon City, and Taikoktsui was undertaken towards the end of the year.

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