having the misfortune of being the sons of Chinese residents of this Colony, though paying exactly the same fees, are excluded from the benefit of those specially favoured classes.
This segregation of non-Chinese boys is not only a flagrant injustice to the Chinese community for whose special benefit this School has been established, but deprives the whole School of the benefits of emulation arising from the inter-mixture of nationalities and prevents the Chinese boys hearing conversational English spoken by any one except their few English Masters if they happen to have one.
That the Headmaster should have considered himself at liberty to introduce such an unconstitutional measure without the knowledge and consent of the Government is incomprehensible to me, and by no means palliated by the incidental reference to the measure included in his annual report for 1892, which reference naturally escaped the observation of the Government.
7. Staff of the English Division. The staff of the English division of the School is numerically so devised that one English Master may be on furlough in England without devolving additional work on the other Masters. As the Headmaster does not teach himself and has of late years abandoned also the weekly examinations of each class which in the printed Rules of the School he had imposed upon himself, he may also be absent for a year or longer without disarranging the working of the School.
That in such cases the forfeited half-pay of the English Master absent on leave should be divided among the other English and Chinese Masters seems hardly justifiable. A useful and economical distribution...
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