School Attendance. 
15. An unduly large proportion of coloured children leave school before reaching 
Standard IV. 
To what cause is this, in your opinion, attributable, and what measures do you 
propose to obviate this? 
Continuation Schools. 
16. Are you of the opinion that part-time continuation schools should be estab- 
lished for coloured juveniles in employment? 
Rural Schools. 
17. What alteration in the existing system do you recommend in order to facilitate 
the establishment of schools on farms? Are you of the opinion that co-operation 
between the various churches in the rural portions of the country for the establishment 
of schools under joint control would meet the need? If not, do you suggest any other 
machinery? 
What should be the minimum number of pupils required for the establishment of 
such schools? 
Secondary Schools. 
18. ‘Are you of the opinion that the existing facilities for secondary education 
for coloured pupils are adequate? If not, what suggestion do you make for the exten. 
sion of such facilities, having special regard to the needs of the country child? - 
Industrial Schools. 
19. Do you recommend the establishment of ad hoe industrial schools for coloured 
children? If so, should an educational standard be exacted for admission. and what 
standard would vou recommend? 
Religious Instruction. 
20. Do you consider that any further facilities for religious instruction in mission 
schools, in addition” to the daily half-hour at present allowed by law, should be 
provided for? 
Language Medium. 
21. In the schools of which you have experience do the pupils receive instruction 
:hrough the medium of the home language? 
22. If so, up to what stage is instruction given through the medium of the home 
.anguage? 
23. Do you consider that the provisions of Chapter 22 of Ordinance No. 5 of 
1921 should be applied to schools for coloured pupils? 
If so, what modifications, if any, in the chapter do vou consider to be necessary 
in applying its provisions to these schools? 
24. If you do not consider that the provisions of the chapter should be applied 
to coloured schools, what recommendation with regard to language medium and 
teaching would vou make for these schools? 
Oral evidence was given before the Commission by witnesses representing fifteen bodies 
and organisations and by ten persons in their individual capacity 
~The following are the main points embraced by the terms of reference upon which 
ovidence was taken: — 
Control and Organization. 
Training of Teachers. 
Emoluments of Teachers. 
3chool Currieula. 
School Buildings. 
Compulsory Attendance, 
Rural Schools. 
Secondary Schools. 
[ndustrial Training. 
Religious Instruction. 
Language Medium.