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societies. Considerable contributions are made by local chiefs towards the Government schools.
The schools of the various Christian denomi- nations are supported partly by school fees, partly by voluntary subscriptions-consisting of church collections and of grants from missionary societies and partly by Government grants. The school fees are very low. The Moham- medans maintain their own schools.
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
The Government provides vernacular instruc- tion and instruction in English for all nation- alities. Malay vernacular education is free, English education as a rule is paid for. Some of the missionary and religious bodies allow children who cannot afford to pay fees to attend their schools free, and the Government under some circumstances has allowed, and continues to allow, a free education in English to Malay boys who attend or have attended vernacular schools. Nearly all the schools in the Colony are ver- nacular schools for Malays, under the direct con- trol of Government. All the expenses of these schools are defrayed by Government. The re- maining schools are, with the exception of three which are controlled and financed by Govern- ment, aided-schools managed by private bodies, and receive grants-in-aid from Government.
TRANSVAAL.
On many of the farms and in all the towns elementary schools have been opened at which Native instruction is provided free of cost. education is almost entirely in the hands of the different churches, the Government maintaining very few purely native schools. In addition to the above Government schools for white children there is a considerable number of private establishments.
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO.
About one-fifth of the schools are secular schools established and maintained entirely by Government, the rest being assisted denomina- tional schools which are established by private persons, who are, in nearly all cases, the clergy of the various religious bodies. School fees were practically abolished in 1901,
VIRGIN ISLANDS.
(Vide Leeward Islands.)
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done by the various churches in educating the natives of the Colony.
ST. HELENA.
There are about three or four schools entirely supported by the Government.
There are also five endowed and private day schools, one of which is aided by Government.
Section 12 of the Elementary Education Ordinance 1903, provides that whenever the parent of any child is unable, from poverty, to pay the school fees of such child, the Board may remit at schools provided by Government, or cause to be paid at other public elementary schools, the whole or part of the fees for a renew- able period not exceeding six months.
ST. CHRISTOPHER AND NEVis.
(Vide Leeward Islands.)
ST. LUCIA.
All the schools are denominational schools
assisted by Government grants. Education is practically free.
ST. VINCENT.
Practically the whole cost of primary education is borne by the Government. "No school fees are paid. The absence of any provision in the rules dealing with the point leaving it open to doubt whether the teachers can demand them, parents have elected to construe the omission as intentional and decline to pay them. The law, however, gives the Board power to regulate the charging of fees."
SEYCHELLES.
In 1905 there were over twenty denominational Secondary schools assisted by a Government grant, the Education for boys,
majority of them being under Roman Catholic vide
control. There are no primary schools of an undenominational character. Fees are paid in some schools.
Annual
Report
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SIERRA LEONE.
All the schools in the Colony are denomina- tional and charge fees. A system of Government grants and inspection was established in 1882. A scheme for the education, on Western lines, of Mohammedan children was started in 1901, and there are now four schools in receipt of a Government grant. There is a Government Mohammedan school in the Protectorate for the education of sons of chiefs. Moderate fees are charged.
SOUTHERN NIGERIA.
There are numerous undenominational Gov- ernment schools, intermediate and elementary, and others managed by the several missionary
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societies. Considerable contributions are made by local chiefs towards the Government schools, The schools of the various Christian denomi. nations are supported partly by school fees, partly by voluntary subscriptions-consisting of church collections and of grants from missionary societies and partly by Government grants. The school fees are very low. The Moham. medans maintain their own schools.
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
The Government provides vernacular instruc- tion and instruction in English for all nation- alities. Malay vernacular education is free, English education as a rule is paid for. Some of the missionary and religious bodies allow children who cannot afford to pay fees to attend their schools free, and the Government under some circumstances has allowed, and continues to allow, a free education in English to Malay boys who attend or have attended vernacular schools. Nearly all the schools in the Colony are ver- nacular schools for Malays, under the direct con- trol of Government. All the expenses of these schools are defrayed by Government. The re- maining schools are, with the exception of three which are controlled and financed by Govern- ment, aided-schools managed by private bodies, and receive grants-in-aid from Government.
TRANSVAAL.
On many of the farms and in all the towns elementary schools have been opened at which instruction is provided free of cost. Native education is almost entirely in the hands of the different churches, the Government maintaining very few purely native schools. In addition to the above Government schools for white children there is a considerable number of private establishments.
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO.
About one-fifth of the schools are secular schools established and maintained entirely by Government, the rest being assisted denomina- tional schools which are established by private persons, who are, in nearly all cases, the clergy of the various religious bodies. School fees were practically abolished in 1901,
VIRGIN ISLANDS.
(Vide Leeward Islands.)
March 27, 1907.
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