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and a High School for Chinese, but I am not at all prepared to accept as a general principle that education should follow the lines of race; and I cannot consent to exclude any nationality from the main school of the Colony - the Queen's College. Parents who do not wish to send their sons there are not compelled to do so, but if they wish to send them knowing any real or alleged objections to such a course, they should certainly not be prevented from carrying out their wishes.
In his despatch Fo.179 of the 8th of May, Sir W. Gascoigne has enclosed correspondence showing the conditions under which Mr. Ho Tung has consented that the School at Kowloon which has been built at his expense shall be maintained for children of European British parentage only and not as he had intended for children of all nationalities.
I can only say that in my opinion Mr. Ho Tung