Although more than 80 per cent. of the country was illiterate, continued Mr. Pan, China was proceeding gradually along the path of modernization. The present idea was universal mass education with the basis characters a8 a starting point. The Bureau of Social Affaire launched a large Scale character reading movement in 1935, and last year a character read-Ing education committee was formed. Six "hundred characters were decided upon as the basic characters in Increase in Meat Prices 'The Shanghai Beet and Mutton Dealers' Association has notified the public that, owing to the inadequate supply and. consequent rise. in cost of beet and mutton, It'has. been decided to increase the price of beef by 30 per cent. and of mutton by 60 per cent. fas from May 1. These increases will also apply to customers who have contracts at prior prices.
'Speaking on the institutional edusation organized by this bureau, BIN. Pan quoted figures to show the increase of kindergarten, primary, and middle schools, the number of pupils commodated' in these schools, and the corresponding decrease in the umber of private colleges, which he described a8 a good measure, as these colleges were not calculated to give their pupils the right kind of educa tion.
Mr."Pan also spoke of the rapid growth of new buildings In which the schools were now housed, instead of being situated In some dirty street they were formerly. Schools had een removed from the congested @istricis to the Civie Centre, which wag a most desirable step.
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