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The principal items were $30,410 in respect of extensions of The sites of Kowloon permanent piers Nos. 23, 24, 25, and 34, $43,000 on the sale of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1304, $40,480 on the sale of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1301, and $15,000 in respect of an extension to Marine Lot No. 321,
In the New Territories the net amount received for premium on sales of land was $144,835 being an increase of $131,593 on the preceding year. The principal items were $75,000 for New Kow- loon Inland Lots Nos. 115 to 138 and $48,000 for a large area in the Ping Shan District.
The number of deeds registered in the Land Office was 2,670 or 516 more than the previous year, the total consideration being $42,201,540 ns against $30,250,789 in the previous year.
The Government resumed several properties at Hung Hom during the year in connection with the erection of carriage sheds for the railway, and also a large Oyster Bed in connection with the development scheine at Ping Shan.
The total area of land granted during the year was 1,855 acres of which 1,819 acres were situated in the New Territories; the total area of laud resumed was 1,345 acres; of which 1,211 acres was the area of the Oyster Bed above referred to.
In the Northern District of the New Territories there was an unprecedented demand for land, the revenue from this source far exceeding that of all previous years.
The scheme for the reclamation of an extensive area in Kowloon Bay is being carried out by a Chinese syndicate for the purpose of making a residential district for Chinese.
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IV.-EDUCATION.
No important changes have taken place in the Education Department during the year under review. The Staff has been depleted by causes doo to the war,
The total number of pupils at schools in the Colony excluding the Police School and the uncontrolled schools in the New Terri- tories are:
Grant Schools, Controlled
Number of Papils,
English School
Total.
Vernacular Schools.
Government Schools,
2,433
9,433
Military Schools,
105
105
Excluded Private Schools,
645
615
1,522
1,978
3,500
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Private
Schools.
2,633
10,159
12,702
Controlled Private
Schools, New Terri- tories,
1,093
1,093
Technical Institute,
Total.
535
7,873
535
13,280
21,103
IIL-LEGISLATION.
Fifteen Ordinances were passed during 1916, of which four were amendments of previous Ordinances.
The most important matters with which these Ordinances dealt were the Punishment of Incest No. 3). Marriage of British Sub- jects (Facilities) (No. 5), and Pharmacy and Poisons (No. 9),
The Tobacco Ordinance (No. 10) provided for the taxation of Tobacco consumed in the Colony.
The following Ordinances were necessitated during the con- tinuance of the war:—
The False Passports and Suspected Persons (No. 2), the Trad- ing with the Enemy (Extension of Powers) (No. 47, the Registration of Persons (No-6) md the Trading with the Enemy Amendment (No. 8).
The War Loan Ordinance (No. 12) provided for the raising of a sum of $3,000,000 as a gift to the Imperial Government for the purposes of the war.
The most important schools, apart from the excluded schools, are Queen's College for Chinese, four District Schools its feeders, and the Belilios Public School for Chinese girls. There is an Indian School of growing importance now housed in a new building pre- sented to the Colony by Mr. Ellis Kadoorie. Kowloon School and Victoria School for children of British parentage have an average attendance of about 120. There is also a school for the children of the Peak District. The Diocesan School and Orphanage and St. Joseph's College are important boys' schools in receipt of "an annual grant. The Italian, French, and St. Mary's Concents, and the Diocesan Girls' School, are the most important of the English Grant Schools for girls.
The Hongkong Technical Institute affords an opportunity for higher education of students who have left school. Instruction was given in 1910 in Mathematics, Machine Drawing, Architectural Design, and Building Construction; in Chemistry, Physics and Electricity; in Commerical English, Logic and Political Economy; in French, Shorthand and Book-keeping; and in Translation from and into Chinese Classes in Sanitation (Public Hygiene) are also held, the examinations being conducted under the auspices of the Royal Sanitary Institute, London. Classes for Men and Women Teachers, both "English" and "Vernacular ", are a feature of the Institute.
The Lecturers are recruited from the members of the Medical and Educational faculties of the Colony, and from the Department
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