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sir,
I have the honour to submit for your
favourable consideration the enclosed copy of a letter from
the Bishop of Victoria applying on behalf of the Church Mis-
:sionary Society for the free grant of a piece of land near
: Kowloon City for the purpose of erecting thereon a Rescue
Home for Chinese girls, the existing Home-known as the
Victoria Home-at West Point being utilised by the Society
for other educational missionary' work.
I-enclose copies of the Annual Reports
HOME
relating to the Victoria for the years 1898 and 1399, and
I have ascertained from the Secretary of the Society that
* since 1891. eighty Chinese girls have been admitted into the
Institution, and that thirty-five of the number were sent
there by the Colonial Secretary or Registrar General
through the Po Leung Kuk Society.
Many of these girls would in all proba-
bility have been led into immoral lives, had they not come
under the care of the Church Missionary Society, and I learn
that the majority of those who have passed through the Home
have turned out well, generally marrying respectable Chris-
tian Chinese,
Apart therefore from the consideration
of the usefulness or its work, the Society has some claim
upon the Government, and I have to recommend that the land RIGHT HONOURABLE
( of
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
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