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higher degre of effectiveness to the wok of Education amongs ... the Chinese population. His time has also been devoted to the preparation of secilable Clars-books and to the formation of New & chools in the outlying districts.
The Committee, either in
a body.
or in the
person of a majority of its members, have within the
last month visited on a
tom of infuction the schole
of the Chinese schools on the Ielans, amounting at the jacent time #fiften and containing the aggregato memben and ac girls on the books with, an average daily of 510 bay Attendance of 280 Scholars. In serme of the outlying villages
the fishing
Reason during
the months of
of October
and
November Canses a conecdurable reduction in the average
_attendanc
people forms
of Scholan; and the
the general poverty of the
at all tenus a fpowerful inducement to
the Chinese (as to the lown classes in England) to.
remove then sons
temptation
a.
school at an early age.
is now sought to be counteractia by Commencing
System of forixes to the most derewaing prepils, by
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The increasing efficiency of the Government Native teachers has of late how the effect of attracting to then schools the fawr sinal.. a large number of chined fanpits, Chinese school maatios whose supposed intirato lay in a defueciation of the Government Schools, have in some cases Ceased to mate a livelihood from theiw in defensentin
excutions, and no
longer attracts the fenfils of the belle
Classes from the Government Schools.
A better system has been initiales; una the
increase.
ва
Confidence of Chinew Sparents seems to be decidedly on the.
The full benefits are not expected to be- immediately finceptible, but in the intellectual_
which is already observable in the Arines scholars, in the higher moral influence and self refeet.
improvement
of the Chinew leachers,
This
of gratitudo
...
improving the quality of the Chunrise education, and
by
-supplying the additional inducement in the Victoria...
and in
the evident marks.
in the minds of the parents, the local... Government hae row at the present time every reasonable
prafect of remuneration
remunerative sucess ana
indirect result
of
a
the not less valuabl
side recognition in Honperry and ito..
Vecinity of the paternal character and intentions of ar
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