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1.-STAFF.
Mr. T. J. Price, B.Sc. joined the Staff on appointment from England.
I have to report with deep regret the loss to this department by the death of Mr. R. J. Birbeck, M.A., who died in June while on leave, after twenty-five years service. A portrait of him was unveiled in Wantsai School where for many years he had been Headmaster and was held in affectionate esteem.
At the end of the year the staff consisted of:-
British Non-British Total Men Women Inspectors, Sub-Inspectors, 2 Teachers, 4 6 8 27 56 133 30 246 Total...... 291 56 145 30 260Four Students-in-Training and one Educational Scholar graduated at the University and were appointed to masterships in Government Schools.
At the end of the year the number of University Trained Teachers Graduated on the staff was 22.
2.-PUPILS IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS.
Particulars and Statistics of the various Government Schools are given in Table III.
A.-British Schools.
For the last 8 years Kowloon Junior School has been housed in the Gun Club Hill School Building leased by Government from the Military Authorities. In the autumn of 1928 notice was given by the latter of their intention to terminate this lease on January 31st, 1929, as the building would thenceforward be required for purposes of a Garrison School.