No.204.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Commission under the hand and seal of His Excellency the Governor, is published for general information.
By Command,
FREDERICK STEWART,
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Hongkong, 27th August, 1880.
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[LS.] J. POPE HENNESSY,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
Whereas Her Majesty's Government have sanctioned the building of five new Government Schools in this Colony; and whereas I deem it expedient, before authorizing the Plans and Estimates for such Schools, to enquire to what extent and at what cost and under what circumstances such new Schools may be made to take the place of the Central School in giving an elementary Education; and whereas I deem it desirable to enquire further at what cost and with what staff and organization the Central School may be raised into a Collegiate Institution, giving a Higher Education in English and Science and drawing Students from the new Subsidiary Schools and elsewhere; and whereas such enquiries will be most conveniently prosecuted by means of a Commission: I, Sir JOHN POPE HENNESSY, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, hereby appoint you The Honourable FREDERICK STEWART, Acting Colonial Secretary and Headmaster of the Central School, The Honourable Edward LOUGHLIN O'MALLEY, Attorney General, The Honourable JOHN MACNEILE PRICE, Surveyor General, The Honourable PHINEAS RYRIE, The Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK, The Honourable NG CHOY, ERNEST JOHN ETTEL, Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy, Inspector of Schools, and EMANUEL RAPHAEL BELILIOS, Esquire, to be a Commission for instituting and prosecuting all needful enquiries in that behalf and to take evidence in the premises and to report to me the evidence and your opinion thereon.
Given under my Hand and under the Seal of the Colony of Hongkong, at Victoria, in this Colony, this 27th day of August, 1880.
By Command,
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.