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amount of useful work is done by these schools at a comparatively small cost to the Government, I consider that such a result would be injurious to the cause of Education in the Colony, and unjust to schools which have been established on the existing understanding with the Government. As instances of what I mean I would note:-
(a) The proposal that in existing "English Grant Schools" the proportion of Chinese Scholars to non-Chinese Scholars should not exceed five per cent of the average attendance." Whilst I am wholly in favour of the establishment of schools in which English Parents can obtain a separate education for their children, a step which has I am glad to say, already received the sanction of Government, I do not think it right to say that English and Chinese must not be taught side by side if the parents wish it, as in the Belilios Public School, and in the Diocesan School and Orphanage. The latter school for instance, is established for "English, Eurasian and Chinese" boys. It has done and is doing remarkably good work in the education of each of the three above-mentioned Classes.
It is much valued and used by English, Eurasians and Chinese; no one need attend it that does not wish to do so, especially now that schools for English children are to be established. A first-rate staff of English masters conducts it, brought out from England at considerable cost, on the existing understanding with the Government. It would in my opinion be impolitic and unjust to exclude any one class of boys from the benefits
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