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Chinese schools to half

a

dollar and

I that of Romanized. Chriese schools

quarters of

to three

a dollar. If the

same time this reduction, amounting to about $1457.66 per annum will

the cost very nearly

caver

of adding

a seventh standars in all the schools (about $1,500), whilst a redischon of the values of the needlework grant, to which the Managers have also consented in order to get

the Brithing. !tic added to the curriculum of the

Chinese schools, will save an an-

nual expenditure of about $645. Thus there will be a

saving of about

$2102.66 per

ramnum to balance the

increase of exper-diture involved in

Aid Code. It is impossible to estimate

enlarging the

scope of

the Grant-in-

& present

at present what the cost.

be, because it will take several years

before large numbers of scholars

sufficiently

trained to pass,

can

be

especially

as most of the teachers of. these schools know hardly the rudi. ments of Chinese Arithmetic (use

of the abacus). But I beceive the -

above mentioned m

monetary reductions combined with the revision of the

values of passes in Chinese schools and the limitation of

the number

of special subjects (to be taken up

by

individual classes or scholars in

English schools) will suffice for

many years

to come to balance the.

increased expenditure involved in the necessary changes

in the Code.

9.

of the addi-

changes

ion of European Arithmetic to the pensum of the Chinese schools will

nas untroduced

As regards purely educational made in the proposed

code, the vast majority of the

new

concern details and are so obvious.

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