The chief increases over 1924 were of $93,000 in Personal Emoluments, due chiefly to increase of European Staff, of $14,500 in Capitation Grants, and of $16,000 in provision for teaching of Physics and Chemistry.
Annexe A.
REPORT BY THE INSPECTOR OF ENGLISH SCHOOLS 1924.
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS.
(Table III).
Queen's College. The Maximum Enrolment was 741 (828 in 1923).
The Average Attendance was 611 (680 in 1923).
In his report the Head Master writes,-
"An unusually large number of boys left during, and especially toward the end of, the year; so that the number in attendance at the end of November was reduced to 550. Almost without exception the 200 boys who left were in the senior school, mostly in Classes 2 and 3, and in practically every case the reason given for leaving school was financial stress and the necessity, owing to increased cost of living and higher rents, that these boys should find employment and SO make some contribution, as wage-earners, to the income of their respective families.
Discipline and control, as well as the general wholesome tone of the school were maintained at the usual high level of excellence.
The general health of the school was not quite as good as usual and there was an unusually large number of applications for short leave of absence on account of sickness.
Dr. Paterson examined 198 newly enrolled boys, and others requiring attention. Of these, 92 were recommended by him for further treatment by specialists on account of defective vision, and 86 were supplied with spectacles.
The establishment of the regular school clinic promised by Government will prove a great boon; meanwhile to the medical staff of the Alice Memorial Hospital I have to offer our
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