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former provides an excellent training for mechanics, electrical mechanics and carpenters. The school aims eventually to present candidates for the Hong Kong School Certificate. The Tang King Po School also includes a secondary technical school but maintains a trade school section, equipped with modern printing and type- setting machinery, principally for pre-apprenticeship training in the printing trades.

The Po Kok Vocational School is a Buddhist charitable institu- tion where girls from poor families receive a general education, together with instruction in book-keeping and dressmaking, in the medium of Chinese.

Of the private technical schools, the Far East Flying Training School offers day and evening classes in aeronautical engineering and in radio subjects. The Hong Kong General Chamber of Com- merce runs evening classes in commercial subjects. There is in addition a wide variety of evening classes in commercial and technical subjects, but these differ widely in enrolment and in efficiency. The commercial schools offer classes in book-keeping, shorthand and typewriting, while courses in radio subjects pre- dominate in the technical schools.

Adult Education. Adult Education is provided through classes organized by the Evening Institute, the Technical College Evening Department, the Evening School of Higher Chinese Studies, the Department of Extra-Mural Studies of the University of Hong Kong, private night schools and voluntary organizations. Enrol- ment in government institutions was as follows:

Evening Institute

Technical College Evening Department

Evening School of Higher Chinese Studies

8,963

6,545

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The Evening Institute offers different types of evening courses designed to make up educational deficiencies and to improve em- ployment prospects. At the beginning of the session there were 327 classes as compared with 299 classes in the previous year. Most of these classes are held in government school premises in both urban and rural areas.

There are 136 English classes ranging from Primary 5 to Lower Form VI standard; thirty five Teachers' classes for art, music, handwork, woodwork, mathematics, general science, domestic science and teaching of English; eighteen School Certificate classes