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expenditure of public money. That an undue proportion of the teaching power of the College is wastefully expended on coaching candidates for the Oxford University Local and similar examinations to the prejudice of the interests of the vast majority of the boys.
Dr Wright, as will be seen from enclosures Nos 2 and 5, not only impugns the justice of D. Eitel's observations, but defends the existing system, and alleges, as a proof of its success that it has provided all the best "Chinese clerks, compradores, &c. in the Colony, besides supplying the Colonial and Chinese Imperial service", and that "all the best native interpreters and translators" have been trained at Victoria College. Irrespective of its accuracy, which is controverted by the list which forms enclosure
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15th Sept. 1893.