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8th February 1880.
Governa
John Bope Dennehy C.AG.
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The Right Honorable
For Michael Ficks Bench
Bt M. P.
Transmitting proceedings of Prix distribution of the 29 Government Schoo's outside the Central School and drawing attention to Impesto's remarks on English teaching-
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Instaure in Governor 8ope Hennepy's Despatch N. / 74 8th February 1880-
GOVERNMENT EDUCATION, HONGKONG.
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PRIZE DISTRIBUTION AT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS, AND A GRANT-IN-AID SCHOOL,
5TH AND 7TH FEBRUARY, 1880.
The following is extracted from the Local Papers.
His Excellency Governor HENNESSY, C.M.G., went on the 5th instant, to the Government School at Wan-tsai, to give away the rewards and prizes for the Masters and Pupils of the Government Schools (outside the Central School) in this Colony. The building was filled to overflowing, many of the Chinese inhabitants of the neighbourhood being present.
His Excellency arrived at 3 P.M., when some 200 boys, representing the prize boys of 29 different Government Schools, were in waiting, together with their Masters. When the Governor had taken his seat, the Inspector of Schools, Dr. EITEL, addressed His Excellency as follows:-
May it please Your Excellency, The Masters and pupils of the Government Schools of this Colony, outside the Central School, are here assembled to-day to receive the rewards and prizes allotted to them for the year 1879. The rewards to be given to the Masters are grants of $25 and $15 which have been sanctioned, since the year 1877, by the Secretary of State for annual distribution among those Masters of Government Schools whose schools are classed for the year as "very good" or as "good" respectively. In the present case I have, on the basis of my periodical inspections and of the annual examinations, determined upon the following classification.
I. ANGLO-CHINESE SCHOOLS.
1. Very good.
2. Good.
Sai-ying-pin, Mr. Fung Fú.
Wong-nai-ch'ung, Mr. Ch'an Man-kwong.
Wan-tsai, Mr. Lo Si-ling.
IL CHINESE SCHOOLS.
1. Very good.
Sheung-wán, Mr. Lan Sui-shang Stanley, Mr. Ng Chéuk-ts'ün. Girls School, M. Léung King-hám.
2. Good.
Há wán, Mr. Leung Tsản chi.
Tang-lung-chau, Punti, Mr. Wong Kon-t'ing. Tang-lung-chan, Hakka, Mr. Tsang Wai-hing. Shau-ki-wán, the late Mr. Shing Nghang. Yau-ma-ti, Mr. Ch'an I-hing.
Sai-ying-p'ún, Hakka, Mr. Ip Ch'éung-shin.
Your Excellency is aware that since your arrival in the Colony three schools for English teaching have been added to the one school, that of Aberdeen, previously existing. We have therefore now four schools, outside the Central School, in which English is being taught by the Government. Taking these Anglo-Chinese Schools first, I found that the English School kept by Mr. FUNG FU in Third Street, Sai-ying-pún, had to be classed as the best school. I am sure that the results which the examination of this school disclosed are fully equal to the results of teaching given at the Central School in corresponding classes. But I must explain that this school was at work all the year on the optional principle which, with Your Excellency's permission, I applied to this school as an experiment, that the school was opened at the beginning of 1879 with some 61 pupils, that at first the parents of
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