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and 40 Grant Vernacular Schools. The average attendance at all these Lower Grade Schools is 2,196.
The total average attendance, at both grades of school, is 6,303.
The revenue derived from school fees was $76,056.25 (of which $40,435 was from Queen's College).
Two schools are limited to children of British parentage. Both these schools (one for boys, the other for girls) are under the Government. In 1911 the combined average attendance at them was 76.
Higher education is represented by the Technical Institute, where instruction is given in the evening in Mathematics, Machine Drawing, Building Construction, Field Surveying and allied subjects; in Chemistry and Physics; in the English and French languages, Book-keeping and Shorthand. There is also a Teachers' Class, at which the junior Chinese masters of Government and Grant Schools are expected to attend. A Kindergarten Class has also been started for teachers in Girls' Schools. The Institute is furnished with a well-equipped laboratory. The lecturers are chiefly Civil Servants recruited from the European staffs of Queen's College and the Public Works Department. These officers receive fees for their services.
The Hongkong University building, the gift of Sir Hormusjee Mody, was almost completed at the end of the year and was opened in March, 1912. It is expected to be open for teaching in the autumn of this year. The first chairs will be those of Medicine, Engineering and Arts. On 31st December, 1911, the Endowment Fund amounted to $839,970.11 in Hongkong currency and a sum £40,098 7s. 3d. in sterling.
V.—PUBLIC WORKS.
Of the important works in progress, the Post Office was completed by the middle of the year and the following departments were accommodated on three floors of the building :-Post Office, Treasury, Registrar General's Department, Sanitary Department, Education Department, the District Office for the South of the New Territories and the Audit Department. The extensive basement was partly utilized for postal purposes and partly for the storage of materials required by the Sanitary Department. A fourth floor, which is intended to provide for future expansion, remains unoccupied; but it has been decided to let it for offices in the meanwhile. Law Courts were practically completed. Substantial progress was made with the Mongkoktsui Breakwater, but all the work executed was invisible, being below low water level. A contract for the reconstruction of the old Western Market was let in September, and fair progress with the foundations had been made by the close of the year.
The following buildings were completed :-Kowloon Market; Additions to No. 2 Police Station; Staff Quarters, Kennedy Town Hospital; Police Station, Ts'ün Wan; Reconstruction of Government Pavilions; Hospital at the Quarantine Station, Lai Chi Kok; Work-
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and 40 Grant Vernacular Schools. The average attendance at all these Lower Grade Schools is 2.196.
at both grades of school, is 6,303.
The total average attendance,
The revenue derived from school fees was $76,056.25 (of which $40,435 was from Queen's College).
Two schools are limited to children of British parentage. Both these schools (one for boys, the other for girls) are under the Govern- ment. In 1911 the combined average attendance at them was 76.
Higher education is represented by the Technical Institute, where instruction is given in the evening in Mathematics, Machine Drawing, Building Construction, Field Surveying and allied sub- jects; in Chemistry and Physics; in the English and French languages, Book-keeping and Shorthand. There is also a Teachers' Class, at which the junior Chinese masters of Government and Grant Schools are expected to attend. A Kindergarten Class has also been started for teachers in Girls' Schools. The Institute is furnished with a well equipped laboratory. The lecturers are chiefly Civil Servants recruited from the European staffs of Queen's College and the Public Works Department. These officers receive fees for their services.
The Hongkong University building, the gift of Sir Hormusjee Mody, was almost completed at the end of the year and was opened in March, 1912. It is expected to be open for teaching in the autumn of this year. The first chairs will be those of Medicine, Engineering and Arts. On 31st December, 1911, the Endowment Fund amounted to $839,970.11 in Hongkong currency and a sum £40,098 7s. 3d. in sterling.
V.-PUBLIC WORKS.
Of the important works in progress, the Post Office was com- pleted by the middle of the year and the following departments were accommodated on three floors of the building :-Post Office, Treasury, Registrar General's Department, Sanitary Department, Education Department, the District Office for the South of the New Territories and the Audit Department. The extensive basement was partly utilized for postal purposes and partly for the storage of materials required by the Sanitary Department. A fourth floor, which is intended to provide for future expansion, remains unoccupied ; but it has been decided to let it for offices in the meanwhile. Law Courts were practically completed. Substantial progress was made with the Mongkoktsui Breakwater, but all the work executed was invisible, being below low water level. A contract for the reconstruction of the old Western Market was let in September, and fair progress with the foundations had been made by the close of the
year.
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The following buildings were completed :-Kowloon Market; Additions to No. 2 Police Station; Staff Quarters, Kennedy Town - Hospital; Police Station, Ts'ün Wan; Reconstruction of Government Pavilions; Hospital at the Quarantine Station, Lai Chi Kok; Work-
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