CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6] — Page 489

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the various Christian Missions cannot, I think,

be extended to cover the required schools. These

Grant Schools receive a very small Grant from the

Government (83 to 85 per head per year). They make

both ends meet by charging very considerable fees..

But the parents whom it is desired to aid are hard-

-ly in a position to pay any fees, perhaps 20 to

50 cents a month at the outside. The Grants would

have to be very largely increased, and even then

there would be no security that the class of

children whom it is intended to benefit, were

really being benefited.

After careful consideration and consulta-

-tion with the Secretary for Chinese Afairs and

the Senior Chinese Member of the Council, I recom-

-mend that the Body to be employed in developing the proposed new Vernacular Schools should be the Confucian Society, and that it should be aided in

the following manner: The Confucian Society already manages about 20 schools. Owing to the smallness of

the school fees charged, they are a great drain

on the Society, which cannot extend its efforts

very far on these terms, nor would the small grant

offered to Vernacular Schools be a sufficient

relief. I propose that a different system should be adopted. A lump sum of, say, $10,000 should be

voted, and this should be disbursed to the Society

at the end of the year upon the recommendation of

the Director of Education that the schools are

being properly conducted, and upon receipt of properly audited accounts showing that at least 820,000 has been expanded by the Society on the schools. I am told by the Secretary for Chinese

Affairs that there will be no difficulty in auditing

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