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preoluded by the

I

I regret very

o

Wollege, but it

of

S. Paul's

was the inevitable result of a

much the dislocation.

yet

I am

informed

that a late

elsewhere. Chinese who are

-regulations of the school from entering

- wish to learn English gladly pay

and

pupil of the Diocesan

for it.

Government

Ver Dus a

semi

private.

Institution.

In

School is

teaching

some 80 after a fashion

Street. I

at

two dollars a month, in W Wellington

cannot

low rate

say practically how far the present

of fees at the Central School acts as a preventive and hindrance to those who would

like to

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carry on

similar work, because I have

yet

been in a

position to

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Chinese School. But I know from

calculation that such avt

spite of all the efforts of those indefatigable gentlemen who have laboured to awake in the minds of their pupils a love for Knowledge

for its own sake,

my impression is that the school is calculated to convey to the Chinese

mind that we as a

nation

only

value.

learning

It

for the pecuniary profit it may bring

seems

to

me

that if the

if the object

of the

of

Ats.

-Government is to inspire respect for England

attempt would be

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hopeless whilst the present rate of Grand in Aid for passes in Schools under class V, continues

so out

of proportion to the cost which would

be incurred by the promoters of such a school

barned nation, the simplest

be to start

a svell

course would

organised collegiate.

university system, with power to grant degrees, similar to that which exists at baboritta. I

believe that this would indeed

give

an

impetus

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