Before the closure of the schools for the summer vacation it was apparent that the demand for admission to the Chinese primary Schools in' autumn. would "greatly exceed the accommodation a Provision was. therefore receive an additional 600 pupils by transferring two secondary schools to a bank-building on the Bund, and Cash. Grant using the vacated premises in Con aught Road as a part-time primary school. This move was advantageous also to the Ellis Kadoorie and Nieh Chih "Kuei Public Schools as. the more commodious structure on the. waterfront afforded. sufficient space for the complete range of classes to meet for two sessions dally.
By the close of the year accommodation had been found for about 90 per cent. of the normal number of pupils, four permanent and twelve leased premises being utilized for this purpose. "All foreign and chinese secondary schools had resumed their fall course of studies, only the primary schools remaining on a part-time bat "The desirability of an early return of all schools to full-time sessions in their own buildings is too obvious to require comment. A further step) {in this direction will be made possible as soon as conditions permit the removal of the three Municipal Hospitals at present occupying the Polytechnic and Ellis Kadoorie Pub-ie 'Schools, and the Sinza Road Primary' School.
In regard to the Council's Schools: coated north of the Soochow Creek should be realized that it—owing to some improvement in the local situation—any or all of these schools. should immediately become available, Uittle use could be made of them for educational purposes until public transport services have been completely restored and parents. are Eanvinced that their children may safely venture into this area. Even when that stage has been reached it may be found that' many families have no intention of returning to their former homes and they will look 10 the Council to provide educational facilities to an increasing extent in the districts where they now reside. recent inspection of the nine schools situated in the war zone re-voded that the Public School for [Chinese had suffered almost complete JGestruction, while the others, though but slightly damaged structurally, had sustained considerable loss. of: furniture and equipment. In view of which sum $100,000 was allotted to the seven schools operated by the Japanese Residents" Corpora on. In addition the Council eon= Armed the recommendation. of itx Finance Committee that for the our [Bent year jeclal grants of $7,500 and $5,000, respectively, be allocated "to the Shanghai American Schoo! and the Cathedral School for Girls, the total appropriation for foreign schools being thus increased to $143,000, ts 1991-1938, a a eT) hike soateo attic c2rtto tomy 488.880 into iuooeo Toner 3.00
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Nationality of Puplis—In Septem ber, 1998, of the 38° nationalities presented in in. the Council children, 43 {otal are of British pat 19 per cent, Russian 7 per cent. American Jand 4 per cent. Portuguese, while the laining 27 per cent, betong to. 34 ther nationalities.
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