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HONG KONG ANNUAL REPORT

scholarship awards and gives advice and assistance to students intending to take courses in the United Kingdom.

In the educational scene, as described above, three main problems confront all interested bodies, public or private: a swollen population, due to influx of refugees, together with a high rate of natural increase; the scarcity of new school sites in a small and highly developed territory; and the problem of obtaining sufficient qualified teachers.

Expenditure on Education. A brief summary of expenditure by the Education and other Departments from August 1957 to July 1958 inclusive is given below:

Total $

Recurrent Expenditure :

Personal Emoluments

$17,900,168

Other Charges

4,192,077

Maintenance and Repairs of School

Buildings (Public Works Department)

450,940

22,543,185

Grants and Subsidies :

Recurrent

Capital

Grants to the University of Hong Kong:

28,009,944

4,186,562 32,196,506

=

5,700,000

554,674

6,254,674

Recurrent

Capital

Capital Expenditure :

Furniture and equipment for new

government schools...

971,478

New school buildings (Public Works

Department)

6,090,211

7,061,689

$68,056,054

Expenditure on Education by other Departments :

Medical Department

$

570,191

Kowloon-Canton Railway

104,356

Co-operative and Marketing Department

78,093

$ 752,640

Legislation. All colleges, schools and other institutions of learn- ing, with the exception of a small number of schools for the