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pleasure to inform you, this the eve of my departure from "Hongkong, that the_ Honourable E. R. Belilios, C.M.G., has

a sum o

very generously pro- mised to the Government of $12,000 for the~ creation of a Reformatory for Juvenile offenders.

The need for such

an

Institution had long, since been recognised and

become more

has recently apparent owing to the ~

Failure

-failure of the West Point Cer. tified Reformatory School to -fulfil the object for which it was subsidised by the Government.

3.

for

the

A suitable site for

new

building has

been selected at Causeway!

and the cere

Bay, laying

was

seremony of foundation stone.

the son

-me on-

performed by. saturday

last, the 29th instant

in the presence of an in- terested and representative

assembly.

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