Appendix 0.
REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION FOR THE YEAR 1932.
Chapter I-Preface.
SUMMARY OF CONTENTS.
Chapter II-Review of Year,
Chapter III-Report by the Inspectors of English Schools. Chapter IV-Report by the Inspectors of Vernacular Schools. Chapter V-Report by the Director of the Technical Institute.
Tables I & II--General tables of schools and pupils.
Table 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 1932. Table VI-Graph showing numbers of pupils between 1913 and
1932.
Chapter I.
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 28,322 649,7512. 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%