Satisfactory arrangements were made to adapt "Parkside" to the uses of the Kowloon Junior School, and were nearing completion at the end of the year.
A valuable extension to the Central British School was made during the year. This took the form of an Annexe at the back of the main building and consists of four spacious classrooms and a cloakroom. One of these rooms is specially furnished as an Art Room.
The total number of pupils on roll at the 5 schools, Central British, Kowloon Junior, Peak, Victoria British and Quarry Bay was 436. In 1927 it was 409.
B.—English-teaching Government Schools.
(for other than British pupils.)
The total number of pupils on roll in 1928 was 3,238 as against 3,119 in 1927.
King's College, which had been used by the Military Authorities as an emergency hospital in 1927, performed its proper function throughout 1928, and in December 1928 the number of pupils on its roll was 619 as against 496 in December 1926.
The four Government Schools (Queen's, King's, Belilios and Central British) which enter pupils for the Hong Kong University Matriculation, Senior and Junior Local Examinations did very well this year, with a total of 141 passes and 48 failures.
A report on the work throughout these schools is given in Annexe A.
In December the new school at Cheung Chau was completed and occupied. At last, after 21 years, we are in a permanent building of our own. It is a fine brick building, of which the P.W.D. may well be proud, with accommodation for 150 pupils and up-to-date equipment.
A munificent endowment to provide free scholarships was made by Mr. Woo Hay Tong, an old boy of Queen's College. He has drawn up an Indenture by which a sum representing a present income of some $8,400 a year is secured for the provision of free scholarships distributed through all the Government Anglo-Chinese Schools, and for substantial provision of a similar kind at St. Joseph's College, the Diocesan Boys' School and the Diocesan Girls' School.
Another generous gift to education was made by the late Mr. Tsoi Kung-po, who bequeathed a sum of $10,000 for provision of free scholarships.