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Enclosure 4
Hon. Colonial Secretary,
C.O.
11907
107
We mast the Vernacular Education Board today. There
Fact were present all members (Messrs. Hallifax, Irvine pe fuk, Lau- -chu-pak, Chan Kai-ming, and Ho Fook) except Sir Kai Ho Kai. I explained that I had asked the Board to meet me in order to speak to them about Vernacular Education and the connection of the
Board therewith. I said that I found that the object of the form -ation of the Board was in the words of Sir F. Lugard "to interest the leading Chinese in Vernacular Education and to get them to improve the system under which it is conducted". I added that I had
examined the subject with the more care because I knew how great an interest Sir F. Lugard took in education generally and how
anxious he was to promote Vernacular Education; and the conclusion I had arrived at was that having regard to the large population of
the Colony comprising as it did over 400,000 Chinese and to the
scattered location of Vernacular schools numbers of which were
situated in the New Territories in positions very inaccessible to
the Board, the task laid upon the Board was too great for it to
undertake successfully. I expressed the opinion that it would be
better for the Government itself to undertake the supervision and
control not only of Vernacular Education, but of all Education in the Colony. At present it was open to anyone irrespective of his nationality to open a school in the Colony and to teach therein any -thing he pleased. This was not desirable. I said that following the example of other Crow Colonies (e.g. Fiji where I had lately been) legislation should be passed to give the Government the power to sanction and inspect all schools and to control the education therein. Later on when perhaps educational rates might be levied the question of appointing a Board to assist the Government in this work might be considered. At present I did not wish to increase taxation for this or any other purpose and I proposed therefore merely to enlarge Education Department by the appoint- -ment of some additional Staff and to defray the extra cost out of general revenue. I said the work of organising Vernacular
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