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Educational Reports for 1884, vir. (1) The report of the Inspector of Schools (the pres

(Dr Eitel); and (2) The Report of the

Head Master of the Central School,

or Victoria College, (M. Bateson Wright).

2.

These Reports are of a

very satisfactory character. The

progress shown in

- paragraph 2 of - the first Report is particularly

remarkable. It will be seen that

there are now 51 more Schools and

3322 more Scholars under løvernment supervision than there were

ten

years

years age. In other words, the m number of both School and __ Scholars has doubled during that

ت

period. It should be remembered,

moreover, that little

the

more

than

twenty years have clapsed since

Government took up systematic Educational work in Hongkong; and

that the mixed nature of the population (although the Chinese form the overwhelming majority),

increases the practical

greatly

difficulty of this work.

From paragraph 13 of

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