Appendix O.
REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION FOR THE YEAR 1931.
SUMMARY OF CONTENTS,
Chapter 1-Preface.
Chapter 2-Review of Year.
Chapter 3-Report by the Inspectors of English Schools. Chapter 4-Report by the Inspectors of Vernacular Schools. Chapter 5-Report by the Director of the Technical Institute.
Tables I & II.-General tables of schools and pupils.
Tables III.-Provided schools.
Table IV. Controlled schools in receipt of a grant under the Grant Code.
Table V-Amount of fees remitted in provided schools in 1931.
Table VI.-Graph showing numbers of pupils between 1913 & 1931.
Chapter 1.-Preface.
CENSUS OF 1931.
The following figures which are of educational interest are quoted from the report on the census taken on the night of 7th March, 1931.
Chinese Non-Chinese Total population 821,429 28,322 849,751
2. Of the Chinese population 44% claim ability to write and read their mother tongue. If only persons of sixteen years of age and over are taken into account, the figure rises to 52%.
3. Of the non-Chinese population approximately 90% were literate in the case of children under eleven the figure drops to 87%.
4. Of the Chinese population 6% claim ability to speak English and 5% to read and write in that language.
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