Hongkong. School to
to go
and there was no
to. This
other
therefore proves nothing necefulives of the
against the need and
Public School now. I think it will be
found that
very few English boys have
attended the Central School since the_
opening of the Public School. Out of the 62 boys at present in the latter school, Europeans, whereas the
about 50 are
number of European boys in the Central School is, an
already stated, not one · per cent. This fact shows how completely. the European portion of the Community differ from the Colonial Secretary's opinion the perfect enitability of the Autral School to the wants of European boys. Many of those who send their boy to the Public School are not wealthy, but they profeu paying $5 a month for the _
6 availing of the Central School at fla
Public School Education to a themselves month.
5.
It is not perhaps eufficiently
realized
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lized that the Central School, intended by the Government for all classer in Hongkong, mainly exists for the benefit of aliens . The vast majority of the pupils Butisk subject. They
who
are
are in no sense
are
Chinese subjects
abtracted from Canton and other
parts of the Province by the desire to bann English, the knowledge of which
When they
to them means
money.
leave the Antral School, Hongkong docs not derive much benefit from them, as the best of their go
for employment.
This
elsewhere
is not mentioned
any way
the effort of
fact
to disparage in the Government to give the Chinese a lack for Western knowledge, but simply to draw attention to the that it is Chinese subject and not. British subjects who chiefly
benefited. The English portion of the British onbject in Hongkong can, indeed, hardly devive any benefit
CMR
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