Im connection with the grants-inald to be made in 1994 by the Municipal Council to private Chinese schools in the Settlement, the Eduation Board recently considered a Sub-committee's recommendations regarding the re-allocation of certain funds which had been ear marked for building purposes. and the use of funds so allocated in previous years but not yet disbursed.
After further discussion, the Board recommended that the principle be adhered to that, after the end of the current year, funds should not be allotted for capital expenditure other than is required for urgently needed sanitary improvements, but that special consideration may be given in exceptional cases where small building grants are required to enable schools to acquire their own permanent premises.
Dealing with the recommendations submitted by the sub-committee, a total sum of $15,900 for allocation as. building grants to five schools during 41084 was then approved by the Board.
The sub-committee's recommendation, that a sum of $5,600 previously allocated as building grants to three schools be withdrawn and distributed for ordinary purposes between the twelve other schools set forth in the report submitted, was also approved. The Council sanctioned these proposals last Wednesday.
'A new British naval visitor appeared in port on Monday (Apr, 30) making her first visit to Shanghai. She is INS. Advanture, a minelayer, and she moored at the British naval bonys with HMS. Keppel alongside EMS. Adventure isan interest ing type of vessel, being the first vessel designed and built for the! British Navy as a minelayer pure and) simple. She is officially designated cruiser-minelayer" and carries a large number of mines which can be dropped through ports in the stern, which is flat - without the Joverhany customary in minelayers.
Her length overall is 520 fect, ]with a beam of 59 feet and a draught fof 19% feet. Her displacement Is 16.740 tons. Her armament includes} four 47-inch guns and four three-pounders, and she is capable peed of 27.74 knots. She was built Devonport Dockyard in November 1922-1926, and commissioned in May, 1927. She served in the Alantic and the Home Fleets before coming out to China.
'Another new visitor to the China station is FINS. Calcutta, which arrived off" Woosung on' Sunday morning bringing relief crews, an¢ after a short stay at Woosung continued to Nanking and Hankow. The [Calcutta Is a light cruiser of 4,200) fons displacement and is 450 feet HIM. Whitehall, destroyer, arrived in port ind tied up at the S. buoys. The Keppel and Whitehall are leaving port on Thurs day for other stations.
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