Saving.
53541/2/50
From the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
To the Officer Administering the Government of
7 October, 1950.
Date
No...
030
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HONG KONG
Your savingram No. 809 of 28th July.
Annual Report of the Director of Education for 1 48/49.
I have the following comments to make on this interesting report which contains much very useful information. The officers of the Education Department are to be congratulated on the progress that has been made since the end of the year in spite of very great difficulties.
(i) It is gratifying to read in paragraph 149 of the report that Hong Kong is fortunate in the health of its pupils in primary schools, which maintain a very high average attendance, and it is therefore a matter for regret that the School Medical Service was prevented from having its full effect owing to inadequate follow-up machinery (paragraph 89 of the report); it is a pity that the issue of milk and biscuits (paragraph 1:7) has had to be discontinued.
(ii) Paragraph 177 of the report states that, in the King George V School "it is the exception rather than the rule for a pupil to work his way through the whole school course". I am interested to know why this is
as apparently most of the other schools do not have this experience.
80,
(iii) It is to be hoped that the measures outlined in
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