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COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,
HONGKONG, 18th February, 1902.
SIR,-I have the honour by direction of His Excellency the Officer Adminis- tering the Government to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th instant relating to the proposed change in the character of the British Kowloon School, and to express to you the thanks of the Government for the readiness with which have allowed your private wishes to give way to what the Government believes to be best in the interests of public education.
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2. As regards the two conditions mentioned in your letter under reply (a) that the Anglo-Chinese School at Yaumati be put under a properly qualified English Master; and (b) that the course of instruction pursued there be raised to the same level as that at the British Kowloon School, the Government is prepared, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to accept those con- ditions.
3. The Government does not propose at present to discuss the propriety of the policy of providing separate schools for the various classes of the community, as that question will be fully discussed in the Report of the Committee appointed to enquire into Education, which will be published shortly.
I have, &c.,
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Colonial Secretary.
Ho TUNG, Esq.
No. 4.
The Officer Administering the Government to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
[No. 180.]
GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 8th May, 1902.
SIR,-With reference to paragraph 2 of my despatch No. 177 of the 6th instant, in which I informed you that the Bishop of Victoria had tendered his resignation as a member of the Education Committee before its sittings were completed or its Report fully drawn up, I have the honour to transmit for your information the enclosed copy of the correspondence which took place between the Bishop and myself in connection with His Lordship's resignation.
2. The correspondence so fully explains itself that it is not necessary for me to enter into any further details. I have to inform you, however, that as I thought the Bishop's former colleagues on the Education Committee should be allowed an opportunity of reading and commenting upon his remarks, I caused the corres- pondence to be forwarded to them for that purpose, and received from them a Memorandum of which the second enclosure to this despatch is a copy.
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W. J. GASCOIGNE,
Major-General.
(Received 12th March, 1902.)
SIR.In the Summer of last year His Excellency the Governor did ine the hon- our to invite me to be Chairman of a Committee which he was appointing to inquire into and report on Education in this Colony, an honour which I gladly accepted.