with a similar application made, in G.S.O.1186 by Bishop Burdon, who, being Manager of one of the favoured schools (St. Paul's College), applied likewise that the Scholarships be thrown open to as wide a competition as possible, the third of the favoured Schools is the Government Central School whose Head master would, I believe, agree with the views taken by the Managers above referred to.
I have, &c.
(Signed) E. J. Eitel, Ph.D.
Inspector of Schools.
(Copy)
Sub. Enclosure to Enclosure I
Victoria School 423
RECD 4 JUN 87
Hongkong, 20th May, 1887.
The Manager and the Teacher of this school are making great efforts to promote its efficiency, and consider that they would be materially assisted and encouraged if their advanced pupils were eligible to become candidates for the Government's Scholarships.
There can be little doubt that these Scholarships are an inducement to clever boys, who will naturally leave schools in which they are debarred from this competition and enter one of the three favoured schools. The above school is a public school doing the same work as the other schools and subject to the same Government examination, and the fact that the pupils are debarred from this competition...