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Catholic priest who receives a small grant from the Government towards it. At Darwin on the East Falkland there is a small hamlet where the Falkland Islands Company maintain a school, and this Company also employs two travelling schoolmasters.
There are three Governinent travelling school. masters engaged in instructing the children in the most remote shepherds' houses in the West Falkland, and two others for the East Falkland.
In Stanley the children pay school fees. In the "Camps," as the open country is called, there are no fees ; but the schoolmaster has board and lodgings free.
FIJI.
Education in the Board schools at Suva and Levuka is free to children between six and four- teen years of age who live within the school districts. A fee is charged in the case of children not residing within the school district, or who are under or above the school age. The expenses of the School Boards are paid out of a fund consisting
(1) of an annual grant from the Government, (2) of a contribution from the rating autho- rities, and
(3) of the fees already alluded to.
In addition to the public schools there are three private schools in Suva and Levuka, under the management of the Roman Catholic Mission, which are open to Europeans. They receive no pecuniary assistance from Government.
The education of the native Fijians is almost entirely in the hands of the Wesleyan and Roman Catholic Missions.
GAMBIA.
The schools are wholly in the hands of the several denominations and receive Government grants-in-aid.
Fees are charged..
There is also a Mohammedan school aided by Government.
GIBRALTAR.
There are thirteen elementary poor schools, subsidised by Government, and several private schoole. The Government-aided schools are chiefly managed by Boards of the different de- nominations, and small fees are charged.
GOLD COAST.
The primary schools are divided into two classes Government and Assisted. The former (about seven in number) have been established, and are maintained, solely by Government. Assisted schools (over 130 in number) have been founded by the Mission Societies and re- ceive annual grants towards their support.
Sec. 29. Primary Education Ordinance 1906.
Sec. 34.
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There are also in connexion with the Missions
a large number of small schools which do not receive any aid. In the two larger Government schools at Accra and Cape Coast fees are charged. The other Government schools are free. The majority of the Mission schools are free, but in a few cases fees are paid.
GRENADA.
About one-fifth of the schools are Government schools which are maintained and managed entirely from the revenues of the Colony. The remaining schools receive grants-in-aid and are under the local management of the ministers of the different religious bodies,
It is compulsory upon parents of children between the ages of six and twelve to cause such children to receive certain elementary instruction, and all elementary instruction when given in the school during the period of compulsory education is free.
School fees, if any, payable by scholars must Sec. 25 (8). not exceed in amount a scale fixed by the Board
of Education.
Hong KoNG.
The number of Government schools and schools which receive Government grant is 86, of which 25 are upper grade schools, and 61 are lower grade schools under purely native management. This number includes two schools which are reserved for children of European British parent- age. Broadly speaking, the upper grade schools are taught in English, and the lower grade schools are taught in the vernacular.
The grant-in-aid schools consist almost entirely of schools under the control of various missionary bodies.
The Government Boys' Schools are free; but
in the only Government Girls' School a small fee is charged. The classes in which a Chinese education is given are free.
JAMAICA.
There is a denominational system, with respect
to the management and establishment of schools, under which scholars pay no fees, and almost the whole of the annual expense of the schools and a very small part of the cost of school buildings are contributed by the Government from general revenue.
LEEWARD ISLANDS.
The system of elementary education is de- nominational, except in Dominica, where all the schools (with four exceptions) are supported wholly from public funds. There are also two Government schools in Antigua. The schools established by the denominations receive grants- in-aid from the local revenues of each Presidency.
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