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38. Two pupils passed the Matriculation Examination of the University of Hong Kong. 18 passed the Hong Kong School Certificate Examination, 7 passed and 2 obtained exemption from Matriculation as a result of the Cambridge School Certificate Examination.
39. For the second year in succession the school won the Governor's Shield for the Inter-school Sports Colony Championship.
The girls Senior Hockey team won the Brawn Cup and the B team were runners up in the same competition. The Net Ball team were runners up in the Schools Net-Ball League.
The School Cricket and Football XI's had a successful year.
40. Kowloon Junior School. Headmistress, Miss N. W. Bascombe, B.A. (London), Cambridge Teachers Diploma.
Miss M. Cooper resigned during the year.
Maximum enrolment 125. Average attendance 104 (94 in 1937).
41. 23 children passed the class 4 examination of whom 19 and one 10-year-old boy went to the Central British School.
42. Quarry Bay School. Headmistress, Miss K. M. Anderson, N.F.U. Higher Certificate. Maximum Enrolment 102. Average Attendance 81.9.
43. One Government Scholarship to Central British School awarded.
44. Peak School. Headmistress, Miss N. W. Newsholme. Maximum Enrolment 85. Average Attendance 67.41 (65 in 1937).
(Sd.) J. RALSTON,
(Sd.) W. L. HANDYSIDE, Senior Inspectors of Schools.
Appendix II.
REPORT ON VERNACULAR SCHOOLS, 1938.
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS.
1. Vernacular Normal and Middle School (formerly "Vernacular Middle School")-Head Teacher, Mr. Li King Hong, B.A. The maximum enrolment was 252, and the average attendance was 237.
2. Four boys entered for the Hong Kong University Matriculation Examination and three passed. Two of these boys also sat for the Combined Chinese University Matriculation Examination conducted by the Chinese Ministry of Education, and topped a long list of successful candidates. Seven out of nine boys entered, passed the Hong Kong School Certificate Examination.
3. In the Normal Division, five out of fourteen passed the final examination.