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the parents and the public can be interested in the work and inspired with some of the high aims which animate the teaching. In this respect our busy modern life puts us
life puts us at a dis- advantage, and Hongkong suffers like other big business towns: business is too insistent, and leisure is too scarce: and material things are sought without time to reflect that these are only a material-out of which to build a life of goodness and beauty and mutual understanding.
1. Staff.
I took charge of the Department on February 22nd in the place of Mr. Irving, who then went on leave, after being in charge since April 30th, 1901, and retired on July 22nd.
Mr. de Martin was appointed an Inspector of English Schools on January 1st.
Mr. Li King Hong was appointed an Inspector of Vernacular Schools on February 20th.
Two new masters and eight new mistresses were appointed from England, and three mistresses resigned.
At the end of the year the staff consisted of :-
Inspectors
Sub-Inspectors
Teachers
Total...
British.
Non-British.
Total.
Men.
Women. Men.
Women.
3
3
6
9
28
g:
50
103
34
215
31
50
115
$4
220
The above figures show an increase of 5 British and 12 Non- British staff over 1923, but there was a continued difficulty in obtaining British masters from home: and the deficiency was made up by the appointment of temporary mistresses who did excellent work throughout the year.
The Chinese English-speaking staff is now mainly replenish- ed by the appointment of Students in Training at the University, and it is hoped that before long equal facilities will be given for the training of Vernacular Teachers, whom we have had in the past to obtain chiefly from Canton.
2. PUPILS IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS.
Particulars and Statistics of
Statistics of the various Government
Schools are given in Table III.
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