1904-1919
HONG KONG, 1905.
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IV.-EDUCATION.
The number of Government and Grant Schools, including Queen's College, is 83, of which 25 are Upper Grade Schools with a staff competent to give instruction in all the subjects of Standard VII., and 58 are Lower Grade Schools, under purely native management. Broadly speaking the Upper Grade Schools are taught in English, and the Lower Grade Schools are taught in vernacular.
The total number of pupils in average attendance at Government and Grant Schools was 5,353 against 4,970 in 1904. Of these, 1,797 were in Government and 3,556 in Grant Schools; 3,207 pupils received instruction in English, and 2,146 in the vernacular. The proportion of boys to girls was 3,401 to 1,952.
The Victoria School for children of British parentage was opened at Caroline Hill in 1904. The average attendance at this and the corresponding British School at Kowloon, taken together, was 93.
Lower Grade Anglo-Chinese Schools were opened at Tang-lung-chau and Aberdeen.
Hygiene has been made a compulsory subject, and has been taught with satisfactory results in all Government and Grant Schools. 1,524 children received instruction in it during the year.
The revenue derived from school fees was $41,170.50. The expenditure was $158,677.58, being 2.28 per cent. of the total expenditure of the Colony.
V.-PUBLIC WORKS.
The principal public works in progress during the year were the Tytam Tuk Waterworks (1st Section) and the Kowloon Waterworks, both of which have been described in previous reports. The former made good progress, and the latter fair; a contract for two miles of the catchwaters in connection with it was let and was well advanced at the end of the year.
Of the larger buildings, the new Law Courts, Harbour Office, and Western Market were all under construction, and the foundations of the new Government Offices were almost completed; the decision to erect a clock tower necessitating extra foundations prevented this contract being entirely closed. The new Light and Tower at Green Island, the Disinfecting Station in Kowloon, Mongkoktsui Market, and Yaumati-
1904-1919
HONG KONG, 1905.
37
13
IV.-EDUCATION.
The number of Government and Grant Schools, including Queen's College, is 83, of which 25 are Upper Grade Schools with a staff competent to give instruction in all the subjects of Standard VII., and 58 are Lower Grade Schools, under purely native management. Broadly speaking the Upper Grade Schools are taught in English, and the Lower Grade Schools are taught in vernacular.
The total number of pupils in average attendance at Govern- ment and Grant Schools was 5,353 against 4,970 in 1904. Of these, 1,797 were in Government and 3,556 in Grant Schools; 3,207 pupils received instruction in English, and 2,146 in the vernacular. The proportion of boys to girls was 3,401 to 1,952.
The Victoria School for children of British parentage was opened at Caroline Hill in 1904. The average attendance at this and the corresponding British School at Kowloon, taken together, was 93.
Lower Grade Anglo-Chinese Schools were opened at Tang- lungchau and Aberdeen.
Hygiene has been made a compulsory subject, and has been taught with satisfactory results in all Government and Grant Schools. 1,524 children received instruction in it during the year.
The revenue derived from school fees was $41,170.50. The expenditure was $158,677.58, being 2.28 per cent. of the total expenditure of the Colony.
V.-PUBLIC WORKS.
The principal public works in progress during the year were the Tytam Tuk Waterworks (1st Section) and the Kowloon Waterworks, both of which have been described in previous reports. The former made good progress, and the latter fair; a contract for two miles of the catchwaters in connection with it was let and was well advanced at the end of the year.
Of the larger buildings, the new Law Courts, Harbour Office, and Western Market were all under construction, and the foundations of the new Government Offices were almost completed; the decision to erect a clock tower necessitating extra foundations prevented this contract being entirely closed. The new Light and Tower at Green Island, the Disinfecting Station in Kowloon, Mongkoktsui Market, and Yaumati-
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