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Under (d) is included the amount expended under conveyance of heads of schools as well as of the office staff, salaries of inspectors and sub-inspectors and Education office servants, but not those of the Director of Education (Cadet Service), Medical Officer of Schools and School Nurse (Medical Department) nor the cost of electric light and fans at the Education Office.
The sum of $24,795 under University Students in Training (e) is made up of Tuition Fees ($8,395), Maintenance ($9,200) and Personal Emolument ($7,200).
The subhead Miscellaneous (f) includes an annual grant of $1,500 to the Hok Hoi Library, a sum of $2,531 paid to the Kowloon Canton Railway as compensation for loss on school-children's tickets and a contribution of $2,191 towards the cost of the London Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies.
Details as to School fees will be found in Table 3.
3.-SCHOLARSHIPS IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS.
These may be either Internal Scholarships implemented through remission of fees by Government or External Scholarships provided by individual benefactors or groups of benefactors. Internal Scholarships may be:-
(i) Scholarships from Vernacular Schools to Government English Schools-free education for five years:
(ii) Scholarships from each class in Government Schools to the one above-free education for one year:
(iii) Scholarships from Lower Grade Schools to District Schools-free education for two years:
(iv) Scholarships from Class 4 in District Schools, Queen's College and King's College to the upper classes at Queen's College and King's College-free education for three years:
(v) Scholarships from the Garrison School (classed in Table 1 as "uncontrolled") to Central British School.
(vi) to which may be added a number of "free places" which are not strictly speaking scholarships but granted for eleemosynary reasons.
During 1929 the fees remitted by Government as above amounted to $20,371.
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