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1.-STAFF.
Mr. H. H. Beddow, Miss D. M. Jaques, Miss H. Gilmore, Miss D. S. Smith, Miss A. E. E. Steele, and Miss M. B. Watts joined the Staff on appointment from England.
At the end of the year the staff consisted of:-
Inspectors Sub-Inspectors Teachers British Men 2 3 27 Women 5 51 Non-British Men 8 140 Women 8 32 Total...... 29 51 151 32 263 250Four Students-in-Training graduated at the University and were appointed to masterships in Government Schools.
One Educational Scholar graduated took up an appointment at a Grant-in-Aid School.
At the end of the year the number of University Trained Teachers Graduated on the staff was 19.
2.-PUPILS IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS.
Particulars and Statistics of the various Government Schools are given in Table III.
A.-British Schools.
A much-needed extension was made to Kowloon Junior School by the addition of a large double-room, capable of accommodating 40 pupils, and certain other improvements to the building were carried out.
Provision was made in 1928 Estimates for a no less needed extension to the Central British School.
The total number of pupils on roll at the 5 schools, Central British, Kowloon Junior, Peak, Quarry Bay and Victoria British, was 409. In 1926 it was 397.