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There's Nothing Like

Zam-Buk for soothing pain and drawing disease and poison from the skin. In fact, wherever there is a cat, burn, or scald, a festering sore, patch of eczema or ringworm, a rheumaticky joint, surs hands, or a case of piles, the proper and regülar use of Zam-Buk will end the trouble once and for all.

It is really astonishing how swiftly and surely pain is banished and new healthy skin grown by this magic

Zam Buk

which is a rare herbal balm quite differ- ent in its character and results from cheap pore-clogging ointments and salvės.

Zam-Bak, which is a new scientific discovery, is a hundred per cent medicine, and has a very definite and important medicinal action on the skin. That is why Zam-Buk is endorsed by doctors

for Quick Clean Healing

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EDUCATION IN HONGKONG, EXTRACTS FROM THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR.

After deducting the school fees re- caived, the total tett expenditure on education was 9444.130.03 (8254.302 in 1910). The increase is mainly due to higher rates of salary. An additional sum of $90.000 was voted for Capitation Grants owing to more schools being in- cluded in the Grant Scheme. And dur ing the year the Grants to English schools, which had not been revised since the war, were increased, absorbing $21,030 additional. $20,500 above the Estimates of 1910 was voted for and spent upon Vernacular Education.

School and Technical Institute fees

amounting to 8103,030 were collected

(#103.503 in 1919).

In addition $4,781 fees. were remitted to free scholars (4.18 in 1919).

The estimated British Staff was men and women. At the close of the year it was 5 men and 16 women short. This shortage has been remedied to some extent by the employment of temporary women teachers, of whom several have Tairly good qualifications. Others have none at all: such teachers become after a few months of some value, but they need much supervision, and they can not take big Classes unaideti. The short age was increased by the necessity of coming to the assistance of the Univer sity as explained under that heading

below.

partment.

NUMBER OF PUPILS.

Geography is taught (very badly) Public School Dr. Alice Hicking, M.B.E. in the Fourth Standard, where many kinilly officiated. All suspect cases are If of the Scholars were at the last ex sent with a form to Dr. Haraton.

the fort is amination ignorant that Hongkong spectacles are not

British Colony: A number returned to the Headmaster for the in- hazarded the opinion that it belonged, formation of the inspecting Doctor on to Russia.

his next visit. Otherwise the pupil is

with. But this is not all the children passed

his

and Brescription from whom alone such knowledge was form to the opticing who sends the exported are a very small minority, as form to this office with his bill, and it the following figures Show, Out of then goes so the Head Master to note, 795 boys who obtained passes in the Under this system & record will easily last examination only 54 or 7 per cont be kept of cack pupil's eyesight as he higher Standards (Fourth passes from Class to Class be School to #wore in

School or above) As late as 1914 only 24 per cent. of the pupils were in Standards III: and above. In 1020 the proportion was 18

almost double, and that with a much higher standard set.

13,719

The present position is outlived in the following paragraphs.

"'roun District. There are children on the books of the Vernacular Day Schools of the Colony and 403 more in the Night Schools. The average at tendance at the day schools is as per cent. of the total enrolment. a high figure all things considered, and shews that there is considerable competi tion for seats.

This is

The Government does not operate any purely Vernacular Schools. but assists them in four wags:-(1) by Grants; (9) by Subsidies; (3) by Inspections; (4) by operating Normal Schools for teachers

a described below.

The figures up to the end of the year

School.

Queen's College. Elia Kadoorie Yaumati Belilios

glasses,

No. of pupils

No supplied

examined,

Percentage

491

1,247

14.5

There are thus great differences in the percentage needing glasses at the differ eat schools, of which I am not prepared at present to attempt an explanation,

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Grants. These except for a very few schools which are specially favoured-- vary from $3 to $5 for each unit of average attendance. The schools in re Table V. gives the number of pupils ceipt of these Grants are all managed receiving an English Education as nearby missionary or (latterly), non-Chris ly 10.000. or more than three times what tian charitable bodies. In the first cato it was 20 years ago. The desire for a gory there are 20 Mission Schools as compared with 78, twenty years ago knowledge of English is by no quare They are now mostly for girls. adequately skewa in this Table, is the

This falling of in numbers is explain English Schools are full and turning ed by the supetier attractions of the away candidates for admission.

Subsidy system; also, it may be pre No doubt a majority of us before leav The increase in Veroacular Education aumed by the competition of the Coning home cherished a hope that it would in the year under review is striking. fucian and Tung Wa Grant Schools be possible to begin saving a small por but is partially explained by the fact which with few exceptions give a free tion of our monthly incomes shortly that more schools in the Now Territories education.. All the Grant Schools ar have come under the hands of the De-bound by the conditions of the Grant after our arrival here, but a few months experience at the hands of landlords well Code.

versed in the gentle art of extracting Subsidies--The systern of subsidies was

extras and rent." quickly dispelled the first started in the New Territories. and idea, with the result that we are now Intely adopted in Hongkong. It consists thoroughly disillusioned and only desire in giving quarterly a lump sum of $5 to 220 to schools which appear to the exist 1 possible upon our incomes. Director of Editeation upon the advice foreigner's salary at Tis. 300. This sum of the Inspectors to be deserving. In 1990, 320,000 was thus absorbed by schools #ppeurs to be Iterative to the foreigner in the Colony, including $10,000 given who presumes to exist on the princely stipend of Mex. 8350 per mensein. sana to the Confucian Society and $7,200 by contract, holiday, home leave, and pros DAIRY schools in the New Territories. The

pects of a rise. The western district is Inapectors in forming their opinion area necessity to anyone who has been used guided by the absolute value of the to country, air and exercise at home, school judged from a technical stand- pornt; by thei: size; by their financial especially during the summer months. position, and by their usefulness. Thus bare-foot school in a poor district might receive a subsidy in preference to one corresponding to a private prepara tory school at home.. yes agree or di

The Subsidy can be withdrawn without

wherein lies a distinction be

The combined average attendance at the 3 British Schools, 183. was the same as in 1919. There was a falling off in attendance at the Peak School, for rea sons probably connected with the very great difficulty which was experienced in maintaining "the Sta. The Victoria School also shewed a falling off. partly the Caus, and party the consequence of a decision to confine it to girls and amali boys, The Kowloon School on the other hand began at the end of the year to grow exceedingly, and beyond its seating accommodation.

The total number of pupils at schools in the Colony excluding the Police School and the uncontrolled schools in the Now Territories are:

Number of Pupils

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English Terma-Total.

calar Schools, Schools. Government Schools... 2,920

* Military Schools

146

• Excluard Private

Schools....... 12

• Grant Schools ......... 2,330

* Controlled Priyate Schools...

3,679

+ Controlled Private

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The

notice.

tween the Grant and Subsidy systems Another is 'thit the subsidized schools get a lump sum, roughly proportioned to their size, and not a Grant calculated on the exact cumber of pupils. As the maximum Subsidy is $20 a month it is not at present possible to apply this sys- tem to big schools; but this is a remedi. able wenknews.

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In order to obtain the requisite amount of exercise at the minimumn cost, one club membership is unavoidable, and is also the means of providing companion ship, without which life out here would be unendurable.

An average month's expenditure works out roughly as follows:

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Washing

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With the remaining $146 one has to provide necessities such as clothes, boots, hats, medicine, etc., in addition to

It is obvious that the system requires inspectors and subinspectors of consid 588 erable qualifications, and experience. At present the Department is very well

cumsha" and "squeeze." Then one 18,016 23,707 | Served in these, respects.

Inspections.-In theory the Corres can squander the remaining candareens apon such things as insurance policies. * Averageattendance. Totul enrolment pondents of Grant Schools and the Man and/or join a unit of the E.V.C. (as a agers of Subsidized Schools control the change from the Army during the war). This is an increase of 2.021 over 1919, teaching and general conduct of their for which one has the privilege of pay the increase in pupils in English Schoolschools. In practice this is only rarelying a certain fixed sum for uniform, and being 647 and in the Vernacular Schools, the case. The teachers look more and 2,974.

more to the Inspectorial Staff for guidan unfixed" sum for ever afterwards.

Under the Grant Code, new Unions vorfer, and prices are raised Chinese shopkeepers strike, Street The writer has now completed his 20th teachers have to be approved by the De- accordingly, but the foreigner has to year in the Department and a very brief partment, and it follows that the ins make both ends meet on exactly the same comparison of the general, development in pections which take place at irregular salary

It is to be hoped that the Shanghai that period, may perhaps he allowed. intervals throughout the year do rot Twenty years ago, our effort in English merely result in reports on existing con Municipal Council will do all that lies education was largely moaningless, beditions, but are occasions for advice and in their power to follow the lead from canbe the teaching of spoken English instruction. In fact the duties of the Hongkong and pitt a stop pace and for Inspectors are really those of peripatetic all to the nefarious practices of those was almost entirely neglected.

Normal Masters. Under these condi standard reached by a few pupils, as

who, if allowed to continue shown by the Oxford Locul results was, tions the standard-of-efficiency-in-the unchecked, will force prices up to such Verancular Schools has risen very if at all, little below, what it is now. But the general improvement is demon rapidly in the past few years, and is an exorbitant height that it will become impossible for many of us to live in expected strable by the fact that all pupils in tow about as high as can be

of the general lovel of capacity displayed Shanghai. the two Senior classes of all schools are

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If. after: due consideration, the Coun Duw compelled to take the University Matriculation (or Senior) and Junior tunately a low one on the whole.

eil find it imposaible effectually 'to cope Examinations. Considering this, the the best hope cf a rapid improvement with this matter. Perhaps they would percentage of passes is fairly high and lies in teaching the teachers.

consider a "scheme which has often been compares favourably with that of the end, Evening Classes have for many roughly cullined between bachelors in selected candidates from outside schools. years en established. But it is much Shangbai, and, that is to procure a few in expect of is tencher, to attend such Also it varies little from year to year. Classes at a distance from his home at mow of land, say on the Rubiconi Road, When a comparison is made between such the conclusion of a day's work. Many and build thereon a Nissen Hut Colony, schools as Queen's College (Government) teachers besides are of an age and mental delighted to live. This scheme, if car- in which quite u namber of us would be St. Joseph's (int) altre be habit which render them irresponsive to find out would cause a lump in tho

(Grant) and St. Stephen's detected. The syllabuses adopted have again and again boen amended in detail 8083, the trairing of the next generation town with the consequent

of teachers is the most defcesary step Prices would have to decreas that by various strong committees As i

might be possible to build a light whole 1 am satisfied that there is not

railway to connect the proposed colony room for any startling change in method

with the Bund, or curriculum,

To liye in a. Nissen principal Grant Schools are would be a pleasure.

hut once again periodically inspected:

Especially after,

by the teaching staf.

And

To this

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Precedent to any further great advance in education a whole.

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MEDICAL INSPECTION OF ECHOOLS.

ei

It is a well-known fact that the candi dates who matriculate from the Straits

The British Schools are inspected by the impositions one has to put up with have a higher knowledge of English a

Government doctors. The reports shew in the majority of lodgings in the town, a whole than the avedage of Hongkong pupils: the reason in fairness to local that the general health is good. The and the very sight of a light railway schools should be known alto. Hers by condition of the children's teeth, during would make things seem quite homely.

It now remains for the Council to common consent Chinese boys are expect recent years appears as a result of these ed to study Chinese, and this involves inspections and the consequent informin take definite sters to remedy the present three years' preliminary study in a

tion to parents to have greatly improved, unfortunate state of affairs add thus The acdical inspection of eyesight in bring a certain measure of comfort to a Vernacular School, and about eight periods weekly for the eight years of Queen's College, Belilios Public School large section: of the community.

and the District School has at list been

is as fallsfactory basis. The system

their school career. In the Straits.on the contrary it is not held essential that put on a Chinese should be able to write their Anguage

VERSACULAR EDUCATION.

IF YOUR WEAR GLASSES there is almost as much comfort and An entrance fee equalling one month's school fee is now charged to new pupils, pleasure in wearing Pince-nez Eye which is credited to efund, against Glasses, as there is in possessing a Tweny years ago Vernacular Educa-which the fee for Medical Inspection by perfect pair of eyes-for they fit so com tion was known to the Department.solely Dr. Harston-at first 87 but now $10 fortable and secure that you forget you

is by the work of 78 Missionary Grant and the cost of spectacles (27) Schools. With a few exceptions it was charged. Ta return, "every pupil is have them on the most important im almost valueless. The Committee on entitled to free examination and

the past Education reported in 1002-

As this privilege provement in eye-glasses in spectacles if needed." Beginning with the Trimetricat is extended to all punila whereas only twenty-five years Pince-zez Eye Glasses and Thousand Character and certain new pupils pay fees, it was anticipated of any prescription in either regular or other Classics, which are learned by that for the first year or two the fund heart, the scholars are taught first to would show a deficit, but owing to the Toric form are manufactured by the read and then to write the characters. percentage of defective eyesight being Hongkong Optical Co., successors to Eubsequently they learn their mean-less than that anticipated, there was a

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