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## ENGLISH PRIVATE SCHOOLS.
The Inspector of English Schools reports:-
25. During the year 1 Girls' School (Day) and 19 Boys' Schools (1 Day and 18 Night) closed their doors, and 1 new Girls' School (Day), and 17 new Boys' Schools (Night) were opened.
26. The total number of Schools open was:- Day Schools,—5 Girls' and 22 Boys'; Night Schools,—45 Boys'; with a maximum enrolment of 97 girls and 1,440 boys in the Day Schools and 1,096 boys in the Night Schools, making a total of 2,633 pupils.
These figures include 2 Exempted Schools, the Catholic Seminary, a Day School with 18 students training for the priesthood, and a Night School maintained by the Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company for the instruction of some of their Chinese employees, with 67 in attendance.
27. Two Day Schools and one Night School have been transferred to the Vernacular Register.
28. The education given in most of the schools is necessarily very elementary. The methods of the teachers are improving, but until teachers who have been trained at the Normal Classes find it worth their while to conduct English Private Schools, no great increase in efficiency can be looked for.
29. Discipline is generally good, and an attempt is being made to insist on good manners. Punctuality is, as reported last year, in many schools almost an unknown virtue.
30. Some of the schools, however, are doing good work, and are conducted in a highly creditable manner.
## VERNACULAR PRIVATE SCHOOLS.
31. The Inspector of Vernacular Schools reports that fewer Private Day Schools were closed, and fewer opened: a good sign, pointing to greater stability among them. The number at the end of the year was 289 (266 in 1915). 54 schools were struck off the Register and 20 disappeared without notification.
32. Of these schools, only 13 are classified as thoroughly satisfactory; 188 are second rate. 88 were returned as inefficient, of which 16 have been struck off the Register and warning notices were issued to the rest, a proceeding usually followed by their voluntary disappearance.
33. Proceedings were instituted against two unlawful schools; in both cases, successfully.
34. New Private Night Schools—numbering 14—were registered and 11 were closed. One Night School for girls was opened by special permission. It was a failure.
## SUBSIDISED SCHOOLS—NEW TERRITORIES.
35. Of the 47 schools which were subsidised last year one (at Wong Toi Shan) was struck off the list as being inefficient, and five ...