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that the subject has recently received very great attention and is constantly referred to since the Educational conference held in the colony in the Year 1878.
I shall be glad to consider any specific suggestions which you may wish to make for the encouragement of English speaking, provided that such encouragement does not result in the neglect of Vernacular Education:
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Mr. Wingfield. Mr. Bramston. Mr. Meade. Sir R. Herbert. Mr. Ashley. Lord Derby.
and I may notice that Dr. Eitel's proposals for raising the standard of work and reducing the amounts of grants for the purely Chinese Schools in Class I of the Grant in Aid