Green Park House,
134 Piccadilly.
C.M.G.,
C.P.LUCAS,
Colonial Office,
*
Esq.
Downing Street.
23020/1902.
sir,
C.0.
206
41550
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6th October 1902.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 6th September in which you ask on behalf of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, whether, as there is no need for a Reformatory in Hong-Kong, I am prepared to sanction the use of the building which I caused to be erected for Re-
formatory purposes, as a school in Victoria for the children
of European British parents.
In reply I beg that you will inform Mr.Chamberlain that I have much pleasure in placing the building in question at his absolute disposal, unconditionally. I would point
out however that no parallel can be drawn between a school
such as the Secretary of State proposes and that recently
opened at Kowloon. The latter is in the middle of the
suburb of Kowloon and there is a considerable number of
British residents there. The Reformatory building is a mile
or more from the centre of Victoria and very few European
residents indeed are in its neighbourhood. I would therefore
suggest that it should be treated as a mixed school by the
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