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on the Scheme and it was therefore abandoned. While on the
subject may I also mention, to prove the interest taken by
Chinese in this particular branch of learning, that though
the competition for medical scholarships that I established
for Chinese a few years ago was slack in the beginning the
scholarships seem far inadequate to-day for the number of
competitors.
This Chinese Medical College now supplies native
medical practitioners and these men have proved to be of great
necessity during the Plague epidemics.
Just as a Medical College for Chinese has proved to
be a great benefit to the Community, I have every reason to
urge that a Technical School will be found to be equally so.
Some years ago the queen's College devoted many
hours of the day to the teaching of the Chinese language.
This was strongly objected to by the parents of the children,
although the majority of the scholars who attended the
The Colony, at the expense of
College were Chinese.
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