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Education Department.

HongKong, 15th. April, 1902.

I have the honour to forward the draft of cer-

tain proposed additions to the Estimates of 1902, and to request

the sanction of Government, before inserting them in my Esti

mates for 1903.

2. My recommendations are based upon those of the

Education Committee, in whose report they have been fully dis-

cussed. I shall therefore confine myself at present to the elu-

cidation of certain matters of detail,

3. The numbered entries in red ink are those which

embody the proposed increases. The entries in black ink corres-

pond exactly with last year's Estimates (except as regards the

order in which they are arranged) and except that I have been

able to recommend reductions in certain instances, By far the

most important of these reductions is concerned with the Beli-

lios Reformatory, the abolition of which has already been con-

sidered; the other reductions have been the subject matters of

correspondence between this Department and the Government or

will be before the end of the current year.

4. The following references are to the numbered

entries in red ink. (1) Justified by the considerable increase

in correspondence due to the erection of new schools. I may

possibly have to ask for some extra clerical assistance later.

(2 and 3) Already approved (0.0.0.65/102). (4) Recommended by

the Committee Report section 84, Infant School Mistress can be

engaged locally when the numbers of the School justify it.

(5)