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Government House,
HongKong,
23rd May, 1900.
269
I have the honour to recommend for your
favourable consideration the free grant of a piece of land
of an area of 15,000 square feet near the Village of To-kwa-
Wan in the Kowloon Peninsula, to the Hildesheim Missionary
· Society which is a German Mission having for its object the
care and education of Blind girls in China.
The Missior established a School in this
Colony in 1897 and the number of blind pupils having now
reached 21 the Mission desires to erect a suitable building
for their accommodation and for the future extension of the
work of the Society.
I enclose a short report of the work
done by the Society, and I may mention that blind girls in
China are, as stated in the report as a rule trained to a life
of immorality.
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Flosure 1. inted Report,
1900.
sclosure 2 19th April, 1900.
also
I enclose copy of a letter from Miss
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Postler, he representative of the Society here, in which she
states that her Society would be ready to purchase the site
I have recommended to be given to the Society, on condition
that the Crown rent is reduced to a nominal figure.
·
Having regard to the good work done by the
Society and to the fact that a free grant of land in the
neighbourhood of this site has been applied for on behalf
RIGHT HONOURABLE
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
&C.
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