CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907 — Page 716

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the Governor. It is true that I have failed in attempting to improve the method of teaching history at the College; nor have I been able to get the Course of Visual Instruction in Geography adopted. But I claim that I have been able to do a good deal, awkwardly situated as I am, to improve education at the College, while admitting that there still remains much more which might be done were my position regularised and streng- thened.

That the general condition of education in Hong Kong has in- proved during my tenure of office cannot (I am aware) be treated as a claim for consideration. At the same time I venture to draw attention to the following changes and developements which have taken place since my arrival in the Colony.

(1) Report of the Committee on Education.

(2)

New Grant Code passed.

(3)

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Establishment of Kowloon and Victoria schools for

schools English children; of 5 Anglo-Chinese and an Anglo- Indian school. (All the above are Government schools) Also of an Anglo-Chinese Grant school with an average attendance of 350.

(4)

(5)

Vernacular education put into a satisfactory state. Teaching of English to Chinese, the same.

(6)

Reorganization under English masters of the Anglo-

Chinese schools of Salyingpun, Yqumati and Wantsal.

(7)

Introduction of the teaching of hygiene in all Go-

vernment and grant schools.