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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
COLONIAL REPORTS-ANNUAL.
in connection with the scheme for providing quarters for Government Officers.
The total area of land granted during the year was 143 acres of which 122 acres were situated in the New Territories; the total area of land resumed was 91 acres.
In the Northern District of the New Territories large areas of salt-water marshes situate in the north-west corner were being negotiated for: the transaction had not been completed at the end of the year. The demand for land reached its usual level, shewing a slight increase on all previous years except 1916.
In the Southern District the demand for land has been about the same as in previous years.
III.-LEGISLATION.
Thirty-two Ordinances were passed during 1917 of which twelve were amendments of previous Ordinances.
The most important matters with which these Ordinances dealt were Crown Land Preservation (No. 6), Liquors (No. 24), Deportation (No. 25), Opium (No. 27), Ferries (No. 28), Importation and Exportation (No. 30), and Fire and Marine Insurance Companies Deposit (No. 32).
The following Ordinances in connection with the war were enacted :- The Alien Enemies (Winding-up) Amendment (No. 11), Trading with the Enemy and Export of Prohibited Goods (No. 15), Rating (Special War Rate) (No. 18), Military Service (No. 19), Legal Proceedings against Enemies (No. 22), and Contracts (War Restrictions) (No. 31).
IV. EDUCATION.
No important changes have taken place in the Education Department during the year under review. The staff has been depleted by causes due to the war, but the deficiency has been met in part by the appointment of mistresses resident in the Colony.
The most important schools, apart from the excluded schools, are Queen's College for Chinese, four District Schools as its feeders, and the Belilios Public School for Chinese girls. There is an Indian School of growing importance now housed in a new building presented to the Colony by Sir Ellis Kadoorie. Kowloon School and Victoria School for children of British parentage have an average attendance of about 120. There is also a school for the children of the Peak District. The Diocesan School and Orphanage and St. Joseph's College are important boys' schools in receipt of an annual grant. The Italian, French, and St. Mary's Convents, and the Diocesan Girls' School, are the most important of the English Grant Schools for girls.
The Hong Kong Technical Institute affords an opportunity for higher education of students who have left school. Instruction was given in 1917 in mathematics, machine drawing, architectural design, and building construction; in chemistry, physics, and electricity; in commercial English, logic, and political economy; in French, shorthand, and book-keeping; and in translation from and into Chinese. Classes in sanitation (public hygiene) are also held, the examinations being conducted under the auspices of the Royal Sanitary Institute,
392
10
Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
COLONIAL REPORTS-ANNUAL.
in connection with the scheme for providing quarters for Government Officers.
The total area of land granted during the year was 143 acres of which 122 acres were situated in the New Territories; the total area of land resumed was 91 acres.
In the Northern District of the New Territories large areas of salt-water marshes situate in the north-west corner were being negotiated for: the transaction had not been completed at the end of the year. The demand for land reached its usual level, shewing a slight increase on all previous years except 1916.
In the Southern District the demand for land has been about the same as in previous years.
III.-LEGISLATION.
Thirty-two Ordinances were passed during 1917 of which twelve were amendments of previous Ordinances.
The most important matters with which these Ordinances dealt were Crown Land Preservation (No. 6), Liquors (No. 24), Deportation (No. 25), Opium (No. 27), Ferries (No. 28), Importation and Exportation (No. 30), and Fire and Marine Insurance Companies Deposit (No. 32).
The following Ordinances in connection with the war were enacted :- The Alien Enemies (Winding-up) Amendment (No. 11), Trading with the Enemy and Export of Prohibited Goods (No. 15), Rating (Special War Rate) (No. 18), Military Service (No. 19), Legal Pro- ceedings against Enemies (No. 22), and Contracts (War Restrictions) (No. 31).
IV. EDUCATION.
No important changes have taken place in the Education Department during the year under review. The staff has been depleted by causes due to the war, but the deficiency has been met in part by the appoint- ment of mistresses resident in the Colony.
The most important schools, apart from the excluded schools, are Queen's College for Chinese, four District Schools its feeders, and the Belilios Public School for Chinese girls. There is an Indian School of growing importance now housed in a new building presented to the Colony by Sir Ellis Kadoorie. Kowloon School and Victoria School for children of British parentage have an average attendance of about 120. There is also a school for the children of the Peak District. The Diocesan School and Orphanage and St. Joseph's College are important boys' schools in receipt of an annual grant. The Italian, French, and St. Mary's Convents, and the Diocesan Girls' School, are the most important of the English Grant Schools for girls.
The Hong Kong Technical Institute affords an opportunity for higher education of students who have left school. Instruction was given in 1917 in mathematics, machine drawing, architectural design, and building construction; in chemistry, physics, and electricity; in commercial English, logic, and political economy; in French, short- hand, and book-keeping; and in translation from and into Chinese. Classes in sanitation (public hygiene) are also held, the examinations being conducted under the auspices of the Royal Sanitary Institute,
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