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He applied to education and they consider that it can be used to better advantage in other ways.
It is a matter in which local opinion should certainly prevail, but I must confess that I am sorry that, in the matter of Colonial scholarships Hongkong is not in line with other Colonies, and I should have thought that the provision of such scholarships was eminently likely to stimulate sound and thorough, as opposed to widely diffused, education.
I should also be sorry if the Oxford Local Examination were discontinued. The defects in it as a test of education in the Colony might be discussed with the University authorities, and possibly removed, and moreover the Government examination for certificates suggested in paragraph 22 of the report might supplement or be partly combined with the Oxford Local Examination.
13. The other points of detail in the report I can leave to your discretion. There are