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Schools is nearly double per general supposed to what it was scholar be, and that the annual cost of the Central School is $99 per sobolan average daily attendance. It further correction in the same way necessary in estimating the real meaning of Table XIV attached to my Stewart's report.

Education in 1876. That Table is as follows:-

Number of Uneducated Children in the Colony in 1876.

Number of Children in the Colony under Sixteen years of age, as per Census, 26,247
Deduct, as being under six Years of Age may 2,607
Deduct, as attending Schools of all denominations 4,640
say-
14,247
Total Number of Uneducated Children --- 12,000

2.

392

In the neighbouring Empire of China where popular education, though rude and elementary, is widely diffused by every influence the Government can employ, and where such a lamentable result as this table shows would be impossible, it is customary to have children attending infant schools under six years of age. Indeed even in the number given by Mr. Stewart, 4640; as attending schools of all kinds in Hongkong, I have seen some children only five years of age. In other Colonies, and in England, children between 5 and 6 years of age are to be seen at infant schools.

Therefore for purposes of...

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Schools is nearly double per general supposed to what it was scholar be, and that the annual cost of the Central School is $99 per sobolan average daily attendance. It further correction in the same way necessary in estimating the real meaning of Table XIV attached to my Stewart's report. Education in 1876. That Table is as follows:- Number of Uneducated Children in the Colony in 1876. Number of Children in the Colony under Sixteen years of age, as per Census, 26,247 Deduct, as being under six Years of Age may 2,607 Deduct, as attending Schools of all denominations 4,640 say- 14,247 Total Number of Uneducated Children --- 12,000 2. 392 In the neighbouring Empire of China where popular education, though rude and elementary, is widely diffused by every influence the Government can employ, and where such a lamentable result as this table shows would be impossible, it is customary to have children attending infant schools under six years of age. Indeed even in the number given by Mr. Stewart, 4640; as attending schools of all kinds in Hongkong, I have seen some children only five years of age. In other Colonies, and in England, children between 5 and 6 years of age are to be seen at infant schools. Therefore for purposes of...
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