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In principle, a plan for sending one or more scholars periodically to complete their education in England from the chief local schools at Hong Kong, as is done in the case of Ceylon and Mauritius.
Accordingly, I brought the proposal before the Executive Council, which cordially agrees with it, as also with the enclosed Regulations, which have been drawn up, by my direction, by Mr. Stewart (D.P.D. Aberdeen), the Registrar General, and Mr. Bateson Wright (M.A. Oxon), the Acting Inspector of Schools, and Head-Master of Victoria College.
These Regulations are the result of careful study of the whole question by myself and by the above-mentioned experienced gentlemen. From the necessity of the case, they are, in some degree, tentative and experimental; but I recommend that they should be approved, subject to any modifications which subsequent experience may show to be desirable.
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