685948-1879-Education-Annual-Report- — Page 3

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND APRIL, 1879.

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whom I may specially mention Mr. GEORGE

CHAPE. Mr. CHAPE conducted last year a private

day-school, unsupported by private or other ineans, except the fees of $2 per mensem_paid by each scholar. He had an average attendance of 80 scholars, each finding his own school ma-

terials. The importance of this fact will be understood if it be considered that the Central

School, with an average attendance of 459 schol- ars, charges $0.50 per mensem in the lower classes and $1:00 per mensem in the higher classesy

but supplies each scholar liberally with school- materials (even Dictionaries included) and costs the Government, apart from the value of the house rent, $27.54 per annum for each scholar. At the examination, lately held, of candidates for admission into the Central School, it was

found that out of 114 candidates found qualified

for admission, all but 39 had been studying

English in 1878, being able to read English fairly well. Among the schools from which these

came I may specially mention, besides St. Paul's

College and the school held by Mr. CHAPE, the

private schools conducted by the following mas-

ters, Mr. Lo YAM-TING, Ho TSING-NGAM, CHAN Ts'AN-IP,LUR TIT-FO, KWAN YUN-FAT, Tst

KUN-NAM, CHỦ LUK, FUNG SEUNG-NAM, CHỦ These facts are

KAM-T'ONG and CH'AN NGAI-P'o. sufficient to show that Engli ginning to be appreciated in ti

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5. With reference to the Govern. School, I confine myself to amplemer of the Acting Head Mast which I few criticisms, based on what jaw of on the occasion of periodicnt, pection what I learned from the masters and by a special conference I hela vit test the correctness of my views. I must premise that, as a locum tenens, I did not feel justified to examine the whole school myself at the end of the year, because I was informed that the practice had been all along for the Head Master and the masters. in committee to conduct the annual examinations of the school themselves.

The Central School may be divided into two departments, one for English and one for Chinese teaching, an equal amount of time being devoted every day to both languages.

To begin with the English department of the Central School; there was in 1878, with an aver- age monthly enrolment of 459 scholars, an effective staff of 4 European masters, 6 native assistant rasters and 3 paid monitors. Apart from the monitors, therefore, and including among the masters both Europeans and Chinese, we had about 46 scholars to each master. Considering, however, that none of the assistant masters can be said to pronounce English perfectly and to speak it idiomatically, it is well to note that there were in reality about 115 scholars to each European

master.

Moreover the native masters being per- mitted to accept outside employment when off duty-a matter which during the present scarcity of English speaking native masters cannot be helped---used to give every day, morning and

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