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class; and to recommend for dismissal all masters whose schools are below "Fair."
This would be an enormous, but well-earned, boon to those Masters who receive only $5 a month, and it would greatly enhance the value of the situations of those who receive the higher salaries. I may mention, in passing, that none of the masters for whose benefit this proposal is made receive more than $20 a month. The plan would also relieve me of having so often to decline forwarding applications for increase of salary.
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The sum necessary to carry out this proposal would be fully covered by the item in the Estimates for Grants-in-aid. Taking the result of last year's examinations as a basis for calculation, I find that 5 masters would have received $25 each, and 8 masters $15 each; that is, $245 in all.
A reward of this kind coming, as it would, opportunely at the Chinese New Year would, I am sure, do more for the prosperity