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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 7TH MAY, 1881.

fore been a steady increase during the last four years in the general number of Schools and scholars subject to Government supervision.

3. Distinguishing, however, the Schools under Government management from the Schools under denominational managers, to whom the Govern- ment gives Grants-in-aid on the basis of Govern- ment inspection and examination, we had in 1880 in the Government Schools 2,078 scholars,

as compared with 2,043 in 1879, 2,101 in 1878, and 2,148 in 1877, whilst we had in 1880 in the denominational Grant-in-aid Schools 1,808 schol- ars, as compared with 1,417 in 1879, 1,051 in 1878, and 996 in 1877. There has therefore been a steady increase during the last four years in the number of scholars attending denomina- tional Grant-in-aid Schools, subject to Govern- ment examination, and an almost continuous

decrease in the number of scholars attending Government Schools, although the number of Government Schools was gradually increased from 30 in 1877 and 1878 to 31 in 1879, and 36 in 1880.

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四其國可十時千百八於三百 年學家見有八五年一千七六有 六九千之理之有時時年賞百八千於察倘 間年八數之各九有有時之七百八一助將 時百則義聖百一一有各十七百千賞國 有七遞學會九千千一聖七十七八家 三十年學義十四千會年八十百較自 十八加童學六五百八義時年九八而理 間年增總學名十-百學有時年十別義 一時即數童由一十界所二有時年之學 千有一 則總此 名七八千二有時則與 八三千遞數親一名名學一千二有國各 百十八年遞之千——童百一千二家聖 八間百渐年四八千千於四百零千自會 十一七減漸年百八八一十零四雰理義 年千十惟增間七百百千八一十七之學 時八七國而國十七七八名名三十義受 有百年家國家七十七百但一名 三七及書家考年八九八領千一名學家 十十一館自察時年年˦助八千一童考

4. But whilst there has been thus à continuous steady increase during the last four years in the total number of Schools and scholars subject to the supervision of the Government, the popula- tion of the Colony has also been increasing, and although the number of native Schools, unaided and uncontrolled by the Government, has also steadily increased, I do not think that we have reduced, to any appreciable extent, the number

of children in the Colony (from 6---15 years of age) for whom there are no Schools of any sort provided. I calculate the number of such un- educated children in the Colony, for whose edu- cation no provision is made, to amount still to about 14,000.

5. As regards the education of girls, which continues to be strangely neglected in Hongkong, the number of girls in Government Schools fell from 257 in 1877 to 235 in 1878, to 179 in 1879, and to 138 in 1880. The cause of this

steady decrease in the number of girls attending Government Schools is the natural objection the Chinese have to men teaching in and superin- tending Girls'-schools, in consequence of which the Chinese much prefer to send their girls to the denominational Girls'-schools, which, though subject to Government supervision and examina- tion, are taught and managed by Ladies. In these Grant-in-aid Schools, the number of girls steadily advanced from 343 in 1878 to 431 in 1879, and 561 in 1880. But this number is still out of all proportion to the number of girls for whose education provision ought to be made.

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