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this suggestion, and matters were ultimately arranged by the
Inspector of Schools who on behalf of the Government agreed
with the Committee to provide a school-mistress to take charge of the school at a salary of $600 a year, to be defrayed from
Public funds. This arrangement was sanctioned for a period of
2 years from the 17th. April, 1895.
In August, 1896, the Inspector of Schools report-
ed that the temporary school buildings had been destroyed by
a typhoon and that the Committee had come to the end of their
resources, and submitted the following alternative proposals
to the Govt. on behalf of the Committee
(a) That the Govt. should establish & maintain
at its sole expense a school at Kowloon for European children
of both sexes,or
(b) Provide a piece of ground at Kowloon and
erect thereon a building suitable for a mixed school & teach-
ers quarters, whereupon the Committee, being entrusted with the
free use of the building, would be willing to keep the school
going at their own expense and responsibility under the pro-
visions of the grant-in-aid scheme.
Dr. Eitel recommended as a compromise the grant
of a free site and one half of the actual cost of the build-
ing under the conditions specified in the Building Grants
Regulation,No.27, of the new code for Educational grants-in-aid
but subsequently reported that the Committee was not prepared
to accept this offer, and recommended instead that the proposeti
English teaching school at Yaumati sanctioned by the Secretary
of