Ministry of Education Lays Down Regulations Nanking, July 5.
By order of the National Government transmitted through the Executive Yuan, the Ministry of Education has revised the Regulations governing the dress" of students, Special provision is made regarding bats for girl students. Hitherto Chinese girls have not been in the habit of wearing hats, and a proposal for rectifying this commission was recently made by Madame Wang Ching-wei, wife of the Chairman of the Central Political Council It is now provided that primary school girls should wear black or dark blue hats in winter and spring, and white hats in the summer and autumn, Such hats are also to be worn by girls in junior and senior middle schools and colleges.
Except in special circumstances primary school children may be exempted from wearing uniforms. Higher primary school pupils from poor families may also be exempted from wearing uniforms.—Kuo Min,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.