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from it at all. And yet the English and Evropean Community in Hongkong have made Hongkong what it is. They assist the Government in
are not
it,
very unreasonable
every way by their law-abiding character, and
not found,
like the Chinese, continually making efforts to defraud the Gavomment of its revenue. I then, altogether so for the Public School Committed to _ : petition for the comparatively trifling help asked for by the Dopulation lowards procuring a enitable site,
& for a School for British subjects, made necessary by the fact that the Government School is unsuitable for English trope? boys?
6.
It should not be omitted to
be mentioned that boys are received into the tublic School.
belonging
from families.
to Her Majesty's Army and Navy and the Government Offices . This shows that the opinion
the Official classes in Hongkong
of
agreeo
agrees with that of the other Europeans,
in
regarding a Special School for English bory a necessity in Hongkong.
The Scheme.
7.
of education adopted in the School is, for the higher forms, that of the Cambridge Loval. Examinations. Several boys
are
sent in every year for this Examination at Christmas . The results of the last Christmas Examination were 5
Frver.
certificates gained against I'm the previous year, a fact which speaks well for the character of the work done in the School. At Midon. the whole of the Upper School is examined by the Cambridge Syndicate and the Report of their examiner is -published in exknee. The Cambridger Local Examination Scheme
introduced two
tvas
years ago by the
present headmaster and it has has
a.
on
this
good effect mot only School but on many of the Schools in
the