98 to provide
therefore to ask your authority, if you approve the Bill, accordingly in the Estimates for 1914 and to add provision for such additional subordinate staff as I may consider necessary.
I have also to recommend that in view of the largely increased duties and responsibilities of the Director of Education the post he occupies may be raised to one of the First Class on a salary of £800 to £1,000 with Duty Pay of £150 per annum. I am addressing you separately on the subject.
9.
If you approve the Bill I propose to continue the grants, provided the efficiency of the schools justify it,
made by the Board of Chinese Vernacular Education and to take over
the two Free Schools opened by it.
It will be for future consideration what policy the Government will adopt in the matter of Vernacular Education,
especially in the Northern District of the New Territories where
there are at present no aided schools. Application was made to
Government recently to enrol a Vernacular Mission School there on
the Grant-in-aid list.
In view of the fact that the Mission has not
the means of supervising a school in such an isolated position and pending the definition of the Government's policy for dealing with
Vernacular Schools in the District I declined to accede to the
application.
I have the honour to be,
Sir.
Your most obedient,
humble servant,
B
may
Governor,&c..
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