for Chinese, owing to the hostilities in the Shanghai area, the opening of the new school year was delayed until November 1, and the enrolment, was 987 instead of the expected 500 Apart from the interruption in the Autumn Form, when two valuable months of the school year were lost, the work of the school has proceeded steadily. Tt is feared that the absence fof facilities for laboratory practice Will react detrimentally upon. the general standards in these subjects in the near future, At the end of the summer vacation the unrest occasioned by. the local hostilities made it impossible to reopen the school on the scheduled date, The premises were subsequent~ ly occupied by US. defence-forces and by evacuated employees from. other institutions until mid-October. The schoo! building were then taken over by the Public Health Depa ment to house the Municipal Police: Hospital. Temporary premises were rented at 1107 Connaught Road, and the school was opened for the Autumn. Term on November 1, the teaching hours being from 8 a.m. to noon The temporary accommodation, which was shared with the Nich Chin Kuei School, was found to be adequate for an enrolment of less than four hundred pupils, there being no facility for the teaching of special subjects such as practical science or art. These conditions obtained up to the end of the year under review.
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