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Enclosure 7.
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Red 19 JUN 001
St. Paul's College,
87th. March, 1900.
To H.E. Sir Henry Blake, 0.C.M.G., Governor etc. etc.
sir,
I have the honour to address you on behalf of the
"Church Missionary Society", and to ask your favourable con-
sideration of an application made by that Society for a piece
of land near to Kowloon City.
The piece of land referred to lies to the South of
the Tan King Temple and opposite to the Church already arected
by the Church Missionary Society near the "Hill of the King
of the Sung" The area required is about 30,000 square feet.
The purpose for which it is required is in order to continue
and extend the "Rescue" work now being carried on by the
"Victoria Hoze" at Test Point, as it is considered that for
many reasons Kowloon is better suited for such work than West
Point. The building now occupied by the"Victoria Hoze" will
be used for other Educational work. As the work will be "Rescue"
work, admission to the Institution will be, as heretofore,
entirely irrespective of creed; though the work of education
will of course be on Church of England lines. It is hoped that
Your Excellency will grant a piece of land for this purpose,
at a rate to be fixed by the Surveyor General, without public
auction.
There is a precedent for a grant of land, under
these or similar conditions, in a grant made to the Basel
Mission