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The founding of the new school is reported in the S.C.M. Post of March 18, 1905, as follows:
"We are glad to learn that a new English School is to be opened in Hongkong at 9 a.m. on Monday, March 20. The school is situated close to the Cotton Mill. (This cotton mill was at Causeway Bay, operated by Jardines, but closed in November, 1914, and is now part of the French Convent). The following particulars will be of interest to our readers:
"School Hours. School will be opened on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, from 9 a.m. to 12.30 and from 1.15 to 3 p.m.
"Tiffin - Accommodation will be made for pupils to have their tiffin at school. Pupils should have their tiffin sent to them at the school by 12.30 and servants will be allowed to remain with the pupils at the tiffin table. No pupil will be allowed to leave the school premises during the tiffin interval except at the request of parents and with permission from the headmaster.
*Entrance All pupils must enter by the steps on the west side,
"Attendance - School registers will be closed at 9.15. Pupils not answering the roll call will be marked absent.
"Books and stationery will be supplied at the school through local booksellers, and accounts will be submitted to parents by the firm supplying the books.
"Transport Arrangements have been made with the Hongkong Electric Tramway Company to issue punch tickets at $5 per 100. The fare for school children will thus be 5 cents for a single journey first class. The tickets may be obtained at the Company's Offices on production of certificate that the applicant is a registered pupil of Victoria School. These certificates will be given to pupils after it is opened."
It will be seen that this institution was intended for young children. It came to be known as the Victoria British School, being conducted "for boys and infants of European and British parentage". To some extent it served as a feeder to the Central British School in Kowloon; but at the end of 1931 it was decided to close the Hongkong school, and the name Victoria, as applied to a purely scholastic institution, went out of use.
930
30.
The founding of the new school is reported in the S.C.M. Post of March 18, 1905, as follows:
"We are glad to learn that a new English School is to be opened in Hongkong at 9 a.m. on Monday, March 20. The school is situated close to the Cotton Mill. (This cotton mill was at Causeway Bay, operated by Jardines, but closed in November, 1914, and is now part of the French Convent). The following particulars will be of interest to our readers:
"School Hours. School will be opened on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, from 9 a.m. to 12.30 and from 1.15 to 3 p.m.
"Tiffin - Accommodation will be made for pupils to have their tiffin at school. Pupils should have their tiffin sent to them at the school by 12.30 and servants will be allowed to remain with the pupils at the tiffin, table. No pupil will be allowed to leave the school premises during the tiffin interval except at the request of parents and with permission from the headmaster.
*Entrance All pupils must enter by the steps on the west side,
"Attendance - School registers will be closed at 9.15. Pupils not answering the roll call will be marked absent.
"Books and stationery will be supplied at the school through local booksellers, and accounts will be submitted to parents by the firm supplying the books.
"Transport Arrangements have been made with the Hongkong Electric Tramway Company to issue punch tickets at $5 per 100. The fare for school children will thus be 5 cents for a single journey first class. The tickets may be obtained at the Company's Offices on production of certificate that the applicant is a registeredpupil of Victoria School. These certificates will be given to pupils after is opened."
It will be seen that this institution was intended for young children. It came to be known as the Victoria British School, being conducted "for boys and infants of Europe an British parentage". To some extent it s erved as a feeder to the Central British School in Kowloon; but at the end of 1931 it was decided to close the Hongkong school, and the name Victoria, as applied to a purely s cholastic institution, went out of use.
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