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No. 11.
HONGKONG, [No. 185.]
Secretary of State for the Colonies to Governor, Hongkong.
DOWNING STREET,
19th May, 1903.
SIR,I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 161 * of the 30th March last, on the subject of Education in Hongkong.
2. I approve the Supplementary Estimate, enclosed in your despatch under acknowledgment, of the expenditure which you have authorised during the current year out of the lump sum of $20,000 provided on the Estimates for improvements in Education.
3. The solution of the difficulty in regard to the co-education of Chinese and English boys in Queen's College and other Government schools, which is suggested in the latter part of paragraph 4 of your despatch, should be acted upon.
4. I have also to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 191† of the 8th ultimo, and to inform you that I approve the New Education Code submitted
therein.
I have, &c.,
J. CHAMBERLAIN.
No. 12.
[No. 380.]
Governor to Secretary of State for the Colonies.
GOVERNMENT House, HONGKONG, 6th August, 1903.
SIR,-With reference to paragraph 6 of your despatch No. 300 of the 12th September last, in which you stated that the conditions upon which Mr. Ho TUNG consented to confine his school in Kowloon to the children of European British parentage only should be strictly carried out, I have now the honour to inform you that I have caused plans to be drawn up for the new school for Chinese and have given instructions for the work to be put in hand this year.
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2. As planned, the school will accommodate about 180 pupils, and will cost $21,000. Of this sum the Director of Public Works considers that he will be able to spend $6,000 this year, and I have authorised a vote to be taken in Legislative Council for this amount. The balance will be provided for in the Estimates for
next year.
I have, &c.,
HENRY A. BLAKE.
* No. 9.
† No. 10.