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referred to your page reply
Dentary
A
the
Half Respite, I think
that compulsory education is not
universalised in Hong Kong unless it is
decreed it? Hidecay
I bring under the influence of education those two classes of Chinese girls viz. purchased
servant girls kept in a state of bondage,
in respectable Chinese families, and
purchased female children reared by
women of disreputable character for
immoral purposes, these two classes of
Chinese girls numbering probably
about 5000
or
6000
are children of school
going age,
not
reached for purposes of education
except by
compulsory
Education law. To introduce such
a law would, I imagine, not require
the
introduction of a school rate, but
merely the expansion of the Grant-in-Aid system, which the Diving revenues of the Colony might easily bear
As I further imagine that the Chinese
population of Hong Kong would hail the introduction of compulsory education with pleasure if it is worked gently
Greater provision than at present is made to enable the
children of the poor also to learn English