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Eitel) with the managers of different girls' schools in the Colony, and five prizes
awarded
the
were
year 1885, twe to pupils of the Italian Convent
and one cach to pupils of the
Victoria
day
school, the Bonham
Road and the Basle Mission
boarding schools.
3.
It was thought by
Mr. McEwen, one of the Trustees of the fund that it would have good effect if the prizes could
in the presence of the
Managers
be given
managers
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and some.
of the pupils
of all the girls schools in the _ but a difficulty
Colony
-arode as
to the place where such distribution
should be held, as Protestant
Managers and Parents might entertain objections to going
to
the Italian Convent, while the
Sisters would no doubt have
declined to accompany
their
pupils to a Protestant dohool - house. Mr. Me Ewen asked me
whether; under the circumstances,
I would
give
the prizes at
Government
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