once departed from, other schools would avail themselves of the precedent in urging similar pleas to those here advanced by Bishop Burdon and it would be impossible to draw a fixed line limiting the merits of such applications. Further, considering that this so-called "Public school held at St. Paul's College" is conducted as a Middle-class school, that it is not placed under any conscience clause in the Education Act of 1870, and that the Chinese and other portions of the community are virtually excluded from the benefits - boys only, the number of scholars is small and must always remain very small in the Colony.
The difficulties of this Public school held at St. Paul's College are, in my opinion, due to two conditions of the Grant-in-Aid Scheme: the general revenues of the Colony are used to pay out of the Grant, and to depart from this equitable principle is not advisable.
3. even a small annual grant for any school, it seems, would be...
326 the less advisable to depart from the conditions of the Grant-in-Aid Scheme.
A ...of this school, it seems to me.
of the Colony, and to pay out of the revenues as in the past period.
au small
In the first instance, as it confines its operation to a limited section of the foreign community.
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