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58 are some which should be further defined and considered, such for instance as the recommendation in paragraph 62 that "all boys of sufficient age should be required to join a cadet corps, if the military authorities can arrange to form one", if the recommendation contemplates more than the ordinary schoolboy drill, I understand that of the expenditure which Mr. Irving would like to include in the estimates for next year as set out in the enclosure to General Gascoigne's despatch No.183 of the 8th of May and on account of which I have suggested that a lump vote should be taken, he considers the most important items to be firstly those which concern the Anglo-Chinese District Schools, that is to say, the expenditure on giving them sufficient European supervision and improved salaries to the masters and