416
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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
PAPERS RELATING TO
No. 5. To repeal No. 3 and re-enact its provisions with corrections of certain verbal errors and omissions pointed out by the Colonial Office.
No. 6. To apply a sum not exceeding $730,000 to the public service of the year 1875.
No. 7. To control recruiting in the Colony for the service of foreign states.
Education.
The schools reported in the Blue Book are as follows:-
Scholars. Cost. 1 Central Government school, Victoria 528 $ 9,672 94 £ 2,015 s. 3 d. 11 15 Village Government schools 1,054 3,979 828 19 2 14 Village schools aided by Government 349 933 38 194 9 1 9 Denominational schools receiving Government aid 632 1,391 50 289 17 11 39 2,563 15,976 82 3,328 10 1In the Government schools, properly so called, there was an increase of 93 scholars, and of 190 in the schools receiving grants in aid.
In attendance, too, there was a marked increase, the minimum being 126 in advance of 1873, which is all the more satisfactory considering that the typhoon of September was at one time supposed to have disorganised most of the village schools for the remainder of the year.
The break in the attendance was, however, of comparatively short duration, as where the school-houses were demolished others were rented within a fortnight by Mr. Stewart, who gave further evidence on this occasion of the untiring zeal and ability with which he presides over the educational arrangements of the Colony.
It will be seen by his report that the central school has more than maintained its position; that the study of geography, which is considered an innovation by the Chinese masters, was progressing satisfactorily at the village schools, and would be supplemented by arithmetic as soon as suitable books can be prepared, and that some of the village schools aided by Government grants were maintaining a high place in the order of efficiency. All this is very satisfactory.
Mr. Stewart again draws attention to the defective state of the central school building, which he truthfully characterises "as being inadequate as regards size, insecure as regards foundations, and unhealthy as regards ventilation."
In respect to the grant in aid schools he reports that they have increased from six to nine, with a consequent rise in scholars from 442 to 632, that the scheme continues to give satisfaction, and that no practical difficulties have arisen in the working of it; the managers who had grants during the first year of its operation
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416
250
Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
PAPERS RELATING TO
No. 5. To repeal No. 3 and re-enact its provisions with cor- rections of certain verbal errors and omissions pointed out by the Colonial Office.
No. 6. To apply a sum not exceeding $730,000 to the public service of the year 1875.
No. 7. To control recruiting in the Colony for the service of foreign states.
Education.
The schools reported in the Blue Book are as follows:-
Scholars.
Cost.
1
Central Government school, Victoria
528
$ 9,672 94
£
s. d.
2,015 3 11
15
Village Government schools
1,054
3,979
828 19 2
14
Village schools aided by Government
349
933 38
194 9 1
9
Denominational schools receiving
Government aid
632
1,391 50
289 17 11
39
2,563
15,976 82
3,328 10 1
In the Government schools, properly so called, there was an increase of 93 scholars, and of 190 in the schools receiving grants in aid.
In attendance, too, there was a marked increase, the minimum being 126 in advance of 1873, which is all the more satisfactory considering that the typhoon of September was at one time supposed to have disorganised most of the village schools for the remainder of the year.
The break in the attendance was, how- ever, of comparatively short duration, as where the school-houses were demolished others were rented within a fortnight by Mr. Stewart, who gave further evidence on this occasion of the untiring zeal and ability with which he presides over the educational arrangements of the Colony.
It will be seen by his report that the central school has more than maintained its position; that the study of geography, which is considered an innovation by the Chinese masters, was progressing satisfactorily at the village schools, and would be supplemented by arithmetic as soon as suitable books can be prepared, and that some of the village schools aided by Government grants were maintaining a high place in the order of officiency. All this is very satisfactory. Mr. Stewart again draws attention to the defective state of the central school building, which he truthfully characterises "as being inadequate as regards size, insecure as
' regards foundatious, and unhealthy as regards ventilation."
In respect to the grant in aid schools he reports that they have increased from six to nine, with a consequent rise in scholars from 442 to 632, that the scheme continues to give satisfaction, and that no practical difficulties have arisen in the working of it; the managers who had grants during the first year of its operation
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