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APPENDIX B.

PARTICULARS AND ESTIMATE OF PROPOSED INDUSTRIAL HOME.

1. It is proposed to build a home to accommodate five hundred girls.

2. It is proposed to request the Government to grant a piece of land with an area of 200 mow in the New Territory. Of this area, 150 mow will be used for agricultural purposes and cattle and fowl rearing: the remaining 50 mow will be used for building purposes including the laying-out of play grounds, etc.

3. A sum of three hundred thousand dollars for the erection of brick buildings will be required.

4. A sum of two hundred thousand dollars for equipment (including the cost of fixtures, looms, furniture, raw materials, etc.) will be required.

ment.

5. The total sum of five hundred thousand dollars is to be supplied by the Govern-

6. Education.-Facilities for the education of the inmates will be provided as follows:

Girls aged 12 years and under (Chinese reckoning) will study in the morning

and work in the afternoon.

Girls over 12 years (Chinese reckoning) will work in the day and study at

night.

7. Work. Agriculture (mulberry-growing, silkworm-rearing, vegetable-growing). Silk spinning and weaving and also embroider work.

Cattle and fowl rearing.

REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE PROPOSED Industrial HOME.

1. The inmates of this home will be taught general knowledge and given vocation- al training including washing, cooking and household management. The term of a full course is to be four years; but this time limit is not to apply to girls of tender age. On the completion of a full course, the student will be allowed to act as instructor in the home or to work for her livelihood outside the home with the permission of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.

2. The school is to be divided into two grades or sections:-

(a) For girls 12 years of age and under.

Vocational training will

Lessons will be given from 8 a.m. to noon. be given from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The time between 6.30 p.in. to 8 p.m. is to be devoted to revision of studies.

Clothes, socks, shoes, books and sundry expenses will be provided. gratis by the Home.

(b) For girls over 12 years of age.

Vocational training will be given from 8 a.m. to noon and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The time between 6.30 p.m. to 9 p.m. will be devoted to study. Clothes, socks, shoes, books and sundry expenses will be pro- vided gratis by the Home and small monetary reward will be given to industrious inmates according to the results of work.

3. The following subjects are to be taught in the home.

Chinese, Writing, Letter-writing, physical exercise, Lessons on Morality, Simple Arithmetic, Household management and Domestic Science, Silkworm-rearing, silk reel- ing, vegetable growing, cattle and fowl rearing, spinning and weaving, Elementary draw- ing, Embroidery, singing and Elementary English.

4. The Time-table is as follows:-

6.30 a.m. Physical exercise.

7.15 a.m. Breakfast.

7.45 a.m. Attendance in the Main Hall where a short discourse will be given.