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leaving certificate examination, Government should pay the fee for each entrant from Grant in Aid schools once only.

(c) Dealt with under paragraph 21.

Faragraph 13. The 1929 figure of $100,000 for subsidies to elementary vernacular schools which was reduced to $95,000 in 1930 and to $80,000 in 1931, has been restored in the Estimates

for 1932.

Paragraph 14. The proposals contained in the sub- paragraphs (a) (b) (c) were all referred to the Treasurer.

The

amount of work thrown on the heads of schools is small, since it is divided up amongst many, whereas to concentrate it all on the head

office would be to over-burden that office.

The probable result of carrying out the Commission's recommendations would be an increase in the Head Office staff without any corresponding decrease in the staffs of the schools.

Paragraph 15. To lay down one hard and fast rule for the different categories of Government schools does not appeal to Government. It prefers to leave the arrangement and supervision of school time-tables to the Director of Education and his Inspectors, by whom all teachers' time-tables have to be passed.

Paragraphs 16 18.

These far reachin: proposals

have received the anxious consideration of the Government. The

unsuitability of the present Queen's College building has long been recognized but the Government is far from satisfied that the

proposals of the Commissioners represent the best possible solution of a difficult educational problem, which involves consideration of the facilities available in the eastern end of Victoria and in

Kowloon