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Annexe A.
REPORT BY THE INSPECTOR OF ENGLISH SCHOOLS, 1923.
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS.
(Table I.)
Queen's College.-The Maximum Enrolment was 828 (779 in 1922).
The Average Attendance was 680 (645 in 1922).
The Discipline of the school is still satisfactory and reflects credit on the prefects and other senior boys. The Health Report is satisfactory. Dr. Esler examined 215 new boys of whom 91 had to be supplied with spectacles. In his annual report the Head Master expresses his indebtedness to the Alice Memorial Hospital for prompt attention to minor casualties and boys suffering from slight ailments.
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Referring to the perennial falling off in the numbers of Class 3 the Head Master says : Quite a number of boys regularly seek admission here for the sole purpose of enabling them to describe themselves as Queen's College boys. Occasionally such a boy presents himself and applies for a leaving certificate after being here for a mere matter of a week or two. This has led to the introduction of a rule by which no boy is now granted such a certificate until he has been in attendance for at least six months and has taken a half-yearly or an annual examination. For some years, also, no leaving certificate has been issued without having the photograph of the applicant attached and other
other precautionary measures being taken. I first realised that such precautions were necessary some years ago when, after correspondence with the then Postal Commissioner in Canton, it was discovered that certain unprincipled holders of the older certificates were turning them to account by letting them out on hire to applicants for positions in the Chinese Postal Department and other places and so enabling them to pose as old Queen's boys."
During the year under review 40 boys sat for the Matricula- tion examination of the Hongkong University of whom only 17 passed and 4 obtained Senior Local certificates. Of 89 Junior candidates, 54 gained certificates. There were 2 Matriculation honours and 4 distinctions, while 26 distinctions were gained in the Junior Local examination. The top boy of the school gained the "President of China Scholarship."
Games continued to be increasingly popular, and Football, Basket-ball, Volley-ball, Lawn-tennis, Cricket, Swimming, Running and Boxing-each under the direction and control of a specially interested master-all attract a keenly enthusiastic following.