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HONGKONG.

REPORT ON QUEEN'S COLLEGE, FOR THE YEAR 1907.

No. 1908

Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of

His Excellency the Governor.

1. During the year 1907, 645 boys applied for admission, of whom 396 secured seats. On the other hand 347 boys left in the course of the year. The total attendance for the

year was 1,401.

year.

2. In the former half of the year, the total attendances were reduced owing to two causes, viz.: the premature attempt to abolish Class VII, and the depletion of the Upper School in 1906 on account of the abnormal number of boys obtaining situations in that The result is a reduction in Daily Average Attendance from 1,005 to 991. In the latter half of the year, the numbers recovered their usual figures, and we have this month an exceptionally high attendance, 1,049, ie., 64 more than in January 1907.

3. There were 228 school-days, three being lost on the occasion of the Commercial Processions, when most schools in the Colony were closed as Chinese Masters and boys had relatives from the mainland whom they wished to entertain.

4. The total gross expenditure was $60,995, or $4,863 more than in 1906, the increase being due to the 2 rate for Exchange Compensation ordered by the Secretary of State. The public paid one half of the year's expenses of the college, and the cost of each boy to the public was $30.82 The statistics in this paragraph merely show a reversion to the conditions of 1905.