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35. Mr. TANG TSUNG-MUN, Assistant Teacher in the Saiyingpoon School, resigned on the 28th February, 1899. On the 1st Apri Mr. LI TAK-YUNG was transferred to the post from the Wantsai School and Mr. LAU TSUN-KWAI was transferred to Wantsai from Yaumati. Mr. NG FUNG-CHAU was appointed on the same date to be Master of the Yaumati School.

36. STATISTICS---The Tables attached to this Report are not arranged in the same form as those attached to the Report for 1898.

Table I. which is a Summary of Statistics relating to all schools under the Inspectorate of Schools, gives the Totals of the old Tables II. and III.

Table II. which gives Statistics regarding attendance at Government Schools and the cost of each school, and Table II., which gives the corresponding statistics relating to the Grant-in-Aid Schools, contain the statistics to be found in the old Tables II, IV, V, VI, VIII and IX. The following particulars which there appeared to be no need to place on record are omitted :-) -Maximum Daily Attendance (Monthly Average), Minimum Daily Attendance (Monthly Average), and Average Monthly Enrolment.

Table IV. corresponds to old Table III.

Table V. is a summary shewing the number of schools under the Inspectorate and the number of scholars attending them during the last eleven years and in the years 1869 and 1879. It is substituted for old Table VII.

Table VI. is the same as old Table X except that the total figures for all the schools and for each class of school is given.

Table VII. shews the percentage of passes in each standard in each class of school.

Table VIII. gives the particulars fomerly contained in old Tables XI. and XII., but no comparison is drawn between the results of the year under review and of the preceding year.

There is no Table corresponding to old Table I. which merely repeated details contained in old Tables II. and VIII.

Formerly Composition and Dictation were given under one heading, and it was impossible to discover from the Table what was the result of the Examination in Composition alone. Dictation and Composition now appear in separate columns and the percentage of passes in each subject can be ascertained.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient Servant,

The Honourable F. H. MAY, C.M.G.,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

A. W. BREWIN,

Inspector of Schools.