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With reference to the 3rd paragraph of your letter in which you state that His Excellency the Governor is of opinion that "pending the settlement of certain questions at issue between Wo Ryrie and some members of the Committee as to the management of the institution" the grant should be paid into Mr Ryrie's hands, I am instructed to point out that His Excellency appears to be under a misapprehension as there is no question pending between Mr Ryrie and the rest of the Committee as to the management of the Institution.
With regard to certain questions raised by His Excellency at the end of last year, Mr Ryrie's views did not coincide with those held by his co-committee members, he having seconded a resolution which would have set apart the whole of certain days in the week for Europeans and other whole days for the Chinese instead of allowing both to attend daily - the Chinese in the morning and the Europeans in the afternoons.