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has already had, he tells me, a very good effect. During the past year 1 scholar
fromd
the Victoria school and 4 from that at Wongneichoong) have been admitted into
St. Paul's College school, ma
making with
those taken into that institution during past years a total of 11 boys who have been thus privileged : one of these has been lately elected to a Government scholarship.
That much is yet required to make the schools real instruments of good is, I believe, the unanimous opinion of the Committee; but, apart from the suggestion above made, I cannot, in the absence of
with whom I and associated,
the
: gentlemen
venture upon any
more important. recom-
mendations with a view to their improvement.
The Governments grant appears
to be well appreciated by the natives of
the different. Villages ;
conceive,
no measure is,
better calculated to conciliate
I
and give them confidence, and every effort should therefore be given towards placing the schools upon the most efficient footing possible.
I have, &e.
(signed) W. H. Medhurst.
A member of the Committee for supervision of Government schools,
(Fine Copy),
Mana
Colonial Secretary
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