The irsi^meeting of the Education Board for the Municipal year 1929, 1940 was held on May 26 when Mr. L. T. Yuan was unanimously elected Chairman of the Board It having been recommended by the Board for 1938/1939 and agreed by the Council that the question of the number of scholarships for the Council's Secondary Schools for Chinese should be reconsidered this year, departmental reports on the subject were submitted. Enrolments at these schools now total 2,616 as against 2,567 in 1938. Of the 42 scholarships at present in force, 11 will terminate on June 30 next. The cost of each scholarship is $115 and it was recommended to the Board that 17 additional scholarships be awarded as from September, 1939, bringing the number up to 48.
Several members expressed: the view that the number to be awarded this year should be increased from 17 to 25, for which the additional expenditure involved would be only $1000 this year. After discussion. the Board concurred in this proposal, ea the understanding that it did not form a precedent and that the question would be reviewed annually on its merits.
It was accordingly decided to recommend to the Council.—
(a) That twenty-five additional scholarships be granted in the Council's Secondary Schools for Chinese, t0 take effect from September 1929.
(b) that the twenty-five scholarships to be awarded be distributed s follows Internal 10: Two in each of the Secondary Schools.
Entrance 15: Six scholarships for boys from the Council's primary schools; Four scholarships for boys irom non-Council primary schools situated the Settlement; Three scholarships for girls from the unoil's primary schools; Two, olarships for girls from, non-council primary schools situated in the Settlement.
(c) that the conditions under which the scholarships are granted be exactly the same as those laid down in previous years.
(d) that the question of the number of scholarships to be awarded in future years be reconsidered annually.
The Council on May 31 endorsed the recommendation of the Education Board The worst enemy of
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