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Appendix C.

DIRECTIONS ISSUED IN CONNECTION WITH THEXAMINATIONS.

CIRCULAR.

To Managers of English Grant Schools.

His Excellency the Governor is very anxious to encourage a knowledge of Hygiene in the English Schools of the Colony. He has therefore had printed the accompanying work, which he wishes to make a compulsory subject in Grant Schools. Section 26 Note (1) of the Code will shortly be amended accordingly.

The book is divided into two Courses-Advanced and Elementary. The Elementary Course should be taken by Standard III, IV and V, and the "Advanced Course by Standards VI and VII. The lessons can conveniently be taken as reading leasons or as object lessons. and it is desired that each lesson should be taken first as the oue and then as the other. When taken as object lessons, they should be illustrated by simple apparatus. Two lessons a week of three-quarters of an hour each should be ample.

The books will shortly be on sale at cost price (about 25 cents), and I shall be much obliged if you will let me know as soon as possible how many copies are likely to be used this year in your schools. Each scholar in Standards III and above should have a copy.

With a view to stimulating interest in the subject, His Excellency has kindly offered 3 prizes of $100, $50 and $30, to be competed for among the scholars (boys and girls) of the Colony, at an annual examination to be held in December on the Advanced Course. Managers should forward the names of candidates to me not later than 1st November, 1905.

EDWARD A. IRVING, Luspector of Schools,

CIRCULAR.

To Managers of Government and Grant English and Anglo-Chinese Schools. With reference to my former Circular on the examinations in Hygiene (attached), I have now much pleasure in announcing that His Excellency the Governor has supplemented his former generous offer by undertaking to give further encouragement to the pupils in the lower Standards an 1 Classes, in the following manner :-

1. A Shield is offered to the School which sends in the best papers done

by a team of scholars.

II. Each team must consist of 5 scholars from Standar. IV, and 5 from Standard V (or from the corresponding Classes). When the Stand- ards or Classes are very small, it is in the discretion of the Inspector, on the application of the Headmaster or Manager, to allow a sinaller team to compete.

III. The Shield will be given to the School whose team obtains the greatest aggregate number of marks, allowance being made for teams of less than 10 under II above.

IV. One prize of $15 will be given to the best paper done by a Standard V competitor, and one of $10 for the best paper done by a Standard IV competitor, in the winning team.

V. The prizes will be the absolute property of the winners; but the Shield will be held by the successful School for one year only. The name of the School will be engraven upon it.

VI. The examination will be based upon the Preliminary Course in the Government Handbook upon Hygiene, and no questions will be set which do not arise naturally out of the text.

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