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I do not propose to enter at length into a detailed examination of the Committee's recommendations.
Two of their number, the Bishop of Victoria and the Inspector of Schools, have already left for England, and will very shortly be followed by the Registrar-General. As all the Members of the Committee, therefore, with the exception of one, will be in England at the same time, and will be able to enter into any detailed explanations which you may desire with regard to the principles which guided them in the preparation of their able and interesting Report, it would be superfluous for me to offer a minute criticism or elucidation of details.
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I am glad, however, to have an opportunity of recording my entire approval of the principle of creating British Schools for the education of children of European parentage. Before assuming the post of Officer Administering the Government, I had already expressed my approval of this principle, in connection with the Petition for the establishment of a British School, transmitted to you in Sir Henry Blake's Despatch No. 343 of the 3rd September last. It was with much satisfaction that I received, in your Despatch No. 408 of the 6th December, an expression of your approval of the request in that Petition, and I shall address you in a separate Despatch on the subject of the steps which have been taken to carry it into effect.
In dealing with the Non-Chinese Schools of the Colony, the Committee recommend their division into two
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