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Your savingram No. 809 of 28th July.

Annual Report of the Director of Education for

1948/49.

I have the following comments to make on this

interesting repart 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,

trak and it is therefore a matter for regret the

was

School Medical Service were 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 107) 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

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