No. 71. Hongkong.
Sir,
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Government House, Hongkong, 29th February, 1904.
I have the honour to inform you that a letter has been received from the Inspector of Schools in which he recommends the establishment of a School for boys of Indian parentage. He points out that in the Belilios Girls School there are about 20 Indian boys in the lowest classes, varying in ages from 8 to 11. They seriously hamper the teaching of the Chinese girls, whose parents have thus some cause of complaint.
2. The Committee on Education anticipated the necessity of establishing a School for Indian boys. The need is now all the greater, since the Lower Classes at Queen's College are being more closely adapted than before to the wants of Chinese. The Inspector of Schools therefore recommends that a School mainly intended for Indians of various creeds - they would chiefly be Parsees, Jews, and Mohammedans - be started with the 20 boys now at the Belilios Girls School; that it should be under the Grant-in-Aid Code for the present; that an English lady teacher should be engaged; and that the School should at first be housed in a vacant wing of the Belilios School.
3. As this arrangement would involve the Government...
HE RIGHT HONOURABLE ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,