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improvement that they require no comment. The important changes made in paragraph 14 concerning

the number

of daily

attendances.

(200 reduced to 100] required, and in the Building Grant Regulations (paragraph 29 or 27 subsection of have come into forec severals

with

years ago wr the approval of the secretary of State (ou Notification to 430 in Govern-

ment Gazet

the of 18th October 1890 and

Gazette of

382

7-8

Secretary of States despatch 16 of it for January 1888). The principal oncis- sions that require explanation are the two sections, # 17 and 20 of the old scheme, offering high rates grant for the encoura

schools giving

with English

schools

ui

argenrent

ent of

of

a Chinese education.

English in addition (A.

17) and

qiring a European education

any European language with Chinese in addition. The fact that

for

for

the last twenty years only

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one

school attempted the former kind of

work / proving

within the

a disastrous failure

year of its starting) and

that no school whatever attempted

the hybrid

in

:brid kind of work involved teaching English

and Chinese

side by side / with the signal

the Victoria College

exception of

which is not under the Grant-in

Aid Scheme and has the purse of t to draw upon) is

the

of

Government to draw sufficient excuse for dropping out

is

the scheme provisions which re- manied a dead letter all along. mapplicable to the educational require. ments of the Colony.

10.

to

I beg h

recor

mena

therefore that the new Code of Re- :- gulations for Educational Grants-in-

Aid, which I now submit in draft

from, be approved by

the Govern

ment

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