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amalgamated its schools into one; Sheung Shui adopted this scheme in the following year. Both schools are doing satisfactory work. It is to be hoped that places like Kam Tin, San Tin, Wang Chow, Ha Chuen, etc. may in the near future follow this example.
21. The school at Ping Shan tried the experiment of school gardening. The senior boys were taught to raise vegetables and each pupil was allotted a plot of ground for his own cultivation. They are to be congratulated on having won awards in the last New Territories Agricultural Show.
22. It has to be reported with much regret that during the year, four schools had to be closed on account of the untimely death of their teachers and that another school suspended work in the middle of the year because its teacher was stricken with paralysis. Short holidays had also to be given to various schools owing to ailments of teachers.
17th March, 1933.
Y. P. LAW,
W. YU,
I. S. WAN,
S. W. LIANG,
Inspectors of Vernacular Schools.