GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION—No. 126.
The following letter, with enclosure, from the Inspector of Schools, reporting the result of the examination of the Grant-in-Aid Schools, is published for general information.
By His Excellency's Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th March, 1882.
W. M. DEANE, Acting Colonial Secretary.
No. 53.
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT,
HONGKONG, 27th February, 1882.
SIR, I have the honour to forward under this enclosure the usual Tabulated Summary of the grants earned, in 1881, by the various Grant-in-Aid Schools, amounting to $10,466.01, which sum exceeds the sum provided in the Estimates for 1882 by $1,966.01. But as the sum of $240 has already been paid, under C.S.O. 482 for rewards to Masters of Government Schools, and debited as usual to the Grants-in-Aid Account, the actual excess of expenditure over the sum provided in the Estimates amounts to $2,206.01.
This excess is caused by the increased number of Grant-in-Aid Schools, ten new Schools having been brought under the provisions of the Grant-in-Aid Scheme in 1881. The number of Grant-in-Aid Schools has risen from 27 in 1880 to 37 in 1881.
As regards the excess of amount of grant earned by certain of these Schools over their respective amounts of actual expenditure, I have solicited the attention of the Government to the matter in my Letter No. 43 of 24th January last, when I recommended to reduce the grants (under Rule No. 7) to two-thirds or three-fourths of the expenditure incurred by each School. As this recommendation has not met with the approval of His Excellency the Governor, I can under the circumstances only recommend that the Grants be paid as per tables enclosed, but that notice be given to all the Managers of Grant-in-Aid Schools that steps will be taken to introduce in the Grant-in-Aid Scheme the following Rule, which I herewith beg His Excellency the Governor to introduce into the Scheme, as an addition to Rule No. 9:-
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"No grant will be made to any School for any one year to an amount exceeding two-thirds of the expenditure incurred by the School during that year. But in cases where rent is not actually paid, the rental of the premises occupied by the School may be valued by the Government Valuators and a sum equal to the value of the rental of the premises included in the expenditure of the Schools."
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
E. J. EITEL, Inspector of Schools.
The Honourable M. S. TONNOCHY,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION—No. 126.
The following letter, with enclosure, from the Inspector of Schools, reporting the result of the examination of the Grant-in-Aid Schools, is published for general information.
By His Excellency's Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th March, 1882.
W. M. DEANE, Acting Colonial Secretary.
No. 53.
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT,
HONGKONG, 27th February, 1882.
SIR, I have the honour to forward under this enclosure the usual Tabulated Summary of the grants earned, in 1881, by the various Grant-in-Aid Schools, amounting to $10,466.01, which sum exceeds the sum provided in the Estimates for 1882 by $1,966.01. But as the sum of $240 has already been paid, under C.S.O. 482 for rewards to Masters of Government Schools, and debited as usual to the Grants-in-Aid Account, the actual excess of expenditure over the sum provided in the Estimates amounts to $2,206.01.
This excess is caused by the increased number of Grant-in-Aid Schools, ten new Schools having been brought under the provisions of the Grant-in-Aid Scheme in 1881. The number of Grant-in-Aid Schools has risen from 27 in 1880 to 37 in 1881.
As regards the excess of amount of grant earned by certain of these Schools over their respective amounts of actual expenditure, I have solicited the attention of the Government to the matter in my Letter No. 43 of 24th January last, when I recommended to reduce the grants (under Rule No. 7) to two-thirds or three-fourths of the expenditure incurred by each School. As this recommendation has not met with the approval of His Excellency the Governor, I can under the circumstances only re- commend that the Grants be paid as per tables enclosed, but that notice be given to all the Managers of Grant-in-Aid Schools that steps will be taken to introduce in the Grant-in-Aid Scheme the following Rule, which I herewith beg His Excellency the Governor to introduce into the Scheme, as an addition to Rule No. 9:-
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"No grant will be made to any School for any one year to an amount exceeding two-thirds of the expenditure incurred by the School during that year. But in cases where rent is not actually paid, "the rental of the premises occupied by the School may be valued by the Government Valuators and "a sum equal to the value of the rental of the premises included in the expenditure of the Schools,"
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
E. J. EITEL, Inspector of Schools.
The Honourable M. S. TONNOCHY,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
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