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Blong would be most grateful to the Government for epicting them
in
getting the crunch prized schooling
I for their children.
met
I have only
Gentleman who differs with this subject,
all other authorities
and that Gentleman. I am sorry
to say is Mr. Stewart.
One hapage
in the report I now enclose has not
me
t
been corroborated by any whom I have spoken on the eubject.
Mr Stewart
says:-
"The decrease in the native Schools
maintained by the government
was fifteen, equivalent to one and
Fifth per cent, and is
therefre
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hardly worth noticing. The chief decrease is to be found in the native
aided schools.
In this it amounted
to forty-one, equivalent to nine and
a
half per
cent.
No catisfactory
reason could be obtained An the
falling off, except the usual ones of the poverty and indifference of "the people?
3.
The members of the Roncation
Conference confirm my own obrervations that there is no such indifference to
the lower clapes
scholing among
M. Stewart imagines. Nor was in Hongkong
there more
among
poverty
the labouring population
ست