CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907 — Page 717

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(8)

Introduction of Visual Instruction.

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(9)

Introduction of Evening Continuation Classes.

(10)

Average attendance at English and Anglo-Chinese schoo

increased from 2450 to 3400 (about)

(11)

Number of English teachers in Government schools in-

creased from 3 to 13.

(12)

Revenue (school fees) increased from

(Estimate 1908)

$41.000

to $18,000

(13)

It is within your knowledge that the late Bishop of

Victoria and the missionary educational Bodies were

any

at the outset strongly opposed to my radical changes.

That in carrying them out there has been no recrudes-

cence of this feeling argues, if I may say so, that discretion and tact were employed in the process.

My status and salary are far below those enjoyed by the Direc-

tor of Public Instruction, Straits Settlements. Is it too much

to ask, that this inferiority might be remedied; and that my

staff might be strengthened or rather created by the the

appointment of a Passed Cadet as Inspector under me as Director

of Public Instruction?

title of my office

^

With regard to the first-point, such work as drawing up schemes of education, starting new methods of instruction, are

hardly duties of an Inspector of Schools, while the strengthen-

ing of the Staff will soon be imperative if education in the New

Territory is to be seriously undertaken, if the Evening Con-

tinuation Classes continue as they have begun, or if Queen's