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"Three of the Army Schools in the Garrison—Victoria, Lyemun and Stonecutters—are still open and have a total of 116 children attending.
"The Army School at Kowloon has been temporarily closed, and the scholars from it attend the local Civilian Schools.
The plan of outdoor classes under matshed roofs has been tried, and proves to be a decided success.
"The results of the year's working have been particularly good, and in the writing competition open to all Army Schools in the British Empire a large proportion of prizes was taken by the Hong Kong children: one of the pupils at Garden Road School taking the First Prize for children under 13 years of age.'
POLICE SCHOOL.
31. The Police School is an evening school for European, Indian and Chinese Members of the Police Force and Gaol Staff. It is staffed by an English Master and 3 Indian Masters from the Education Department, and is under the control of the Captain Superintendent of Police. The average attendance was 12, as against 51 last year. The decrease in attendance is probably due to the fact that attendance on the part of the Chinese constables is no longer compulsory.
EXCLUDED PRIVATE SCHOOLS.
32. St. Stephen's and St. Paul's Colleges belonging to the Church Missionary Society have an attendance of 450 boys (388 in 1913); and the same body manages St. Stephen's Girls' College which has an average attendance of about 130 (105 in 1913).
CONTROLLED SCHOOLS.
GRANT SCHOOLS.
(Table 1)
GRANT CODE.
33. A new edition of the Grant Code was published in 1914. This was necessary in order to bring it into line with the Education Ordinance. The occasion was taken to introduce a number of changes mostly of an unimportant character. The following deserve notice:—
The Code now recognises the principle that all teachers in schools must be either Certificated Teachers or Students (Passed or Present) from the Normal Classes of the Technical Institute. The Upper Classes of English Schools are encouraged by Grants to take the Matriculation and Junior Local examinations of the Hongkong University. This encouragement takes the somewhat novel form of