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on
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.