Table shewing the Local Distribution of Secular and Religious Schools in 1898.
Districts
exclusive of Peak and
Tsimshatsui.
191
Grant-
Govern-
ment.
Kaifong. in-
Unclassed. Unclassed.
Total.
Total.
Aid.
Sec. Schools.
Scholars.
Sec. Schools.
Scholars.
Rel. Schools.
Scholars.
Sec. Schools.
Scholars.
Rel. Schools,
Scholars.
Sec. Schools.
Scholars.
Rel. Schools.
Scholars.
I & II. Kennedy Town and Shek-
tongtsui,
2
18 3 77
2
III. Saiyingpun,...
3
233
23
412
19 1,122
:
:
1 24
22
62
પ
2
18
5
139
26
645 20 1,146
IV & V. Taipingshan and Sheung-
wan,
3 1,143
36
737
22 | 1,662
1
26
:
40 1,906
VI. Chungwan,
2
192
30
509
21 1,685
1
367
1 272
33 1,068
2 2
22 1,662
22 1,957
VII & VIII, Hawan and Wantsai,
3
313
15
299
12 626
1
170
18
612 13
796
IX & X. Bowrington and Sookon-
1
pou,
73
4
64 3
106
:
...
XI. Villages of Hongkong,..
XII. Villages of Kowloon,
7 232 17 252 9
378
10
5
170
17 305 13 594
:
:
:
5
137 3
106
24 484
378
22
475 13
594
Total,........
242,356 | 144 | 2,596 | 102 6,250 2 393
Grand Total,...........................
5
10
528
170 5,345 107 | 6,778
277 Schools with 12,123 Scholars.
7. EDUCATIONAL EXPENDITURE OF THE GOVERNMENT.-The sum total of educational payments made by the Government during the year 1893 ($79,413.84 as compared with $86,627.00 in 1892) amounted, after deducting school-fees paid into the Treasury ($12,683.00 as compared with $12,857.00 in 1892) to $66,730.84 (as compared with $73,770.00 in 1892). This decrease in expenditure, amounting to $7,040.00, is however partly due to the fact that the expenditure of the preceding year had been swelled by exceptional causes. Still, retrenchments were made by me, at the request of the Government, and rigorously applied in every possible direction so far as it was found compatible with the maintenance of bare efficiency. Increase of expenditure is, however, unavoidable in the long run, as Schools must multiply and expand in proportion to the natural increase of the population. The details of educational expenses and reductions in the year 1893 were as follows:-Office of Education Department $5,273.95 (decrease of $946.40); Victoria College (not including cost or repairs of building) $22,078.42 (decrease of $2,138.40); Government Central School for Girls (including rent of building) $3,002.17 (increase of $141.98); twenty-four other Departmental Schools $7,180.38 (decrease of $1,524.23); Grant-in-Aid Schools $23,583.96 (decrease of $4,846.31, the preceding year's accounts having included Building Grants amounting to $5,500.00); Physical Training $192.00 (decrease of $147.72); Government Scholarships $4,219.96 (increase of $1,411.40); Student Inter- preters $1,200 (increase of $1,010.28). The net cost of education ($66,730.84) amounted, in 1893, to 3.22 per cent. of the total Colonial revenue (as compared with 3.29 per cent. in 1892 and 3.26 per cent. in 1891). The total number of scholars educated in Hongkong in 1893, at the expense or with the aid of the Government, being 8,606, the education of each scholar cost the Government (exclusive of two Scholarships held in England) $7.75 per scholar (as compared with $8.57 in 1892, and $7.49 in 1891). In the several classes of educational institutions in the Colony, the cost, to Government, of the education of each scholar under instruction was as follows:-in Victoria College (not including cost or repairs of building owned by Government) $21.81; in Girls' Central School (including rent of hired building) $23.45; at 24 other Departmental Schools $5.90; at 102 Grant-in- Aid Schools $3.77. The Managers of those 102 Grant-in-Aid Schools, who received from the Govern- ment in 1893, as Grants-in-Aid, based on the definite results ascertained by the individual examination of each scholar, the sum of $23,583.96, spent during the same year on those Schools, out of the resources of their respective Societies, supplemented in the case of seven Schools by school-fees, the sum of $71,266.95.
8. NATURE OF THE EDUCATION GIVEN IN THE SCHOOLS OF THE COLONY-As regards those 126 Schools, with 8,606 scholars, under the supervision of the Education Department in the year 1893, there were 24 Schools at work giving to 3,120 scholars of English, Portuguése, Indian or Chinese extraction an English education (combined with classical Chinese teaching in the case of 6 of these
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