No.39.
Hongkong.
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READ
R: 22 MAR 35
Goverment House,
Hongkong, 16th. February, 1905.
R 25560
I have given careful consideration to the
question of the establishment of special examinations in
History and Geography in connection with the Schools of Hong-
kong with regard to which you were good enough to invite an
O expression of my views in your Despatch No. 230 dated the
29th. July, 1904, and to send me a Memorandum by Mr. H. T.
Gerrans, Secretary to the Oxford Local Delegacy, in your Des-
350f patch No. 296 dated the 14th. October, 1904, I have also con-
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sulted in the matter Mr. E. A. Irving, Inspector of Schools,
and Dr. G. H. Bateson Wright, Head Master of Queen's Collere.
The latter is strongly opposed to the
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substitution of examination papers framed on a local syllabus
for any of those set at the Oxford Local Examinations in En-
gland and elsewhere. He is of opinion that Certificates of
having passed the various Oxford Local Examinations would be
of less value to their holders if the Examinations were known
to be in any way different from those parsed by the holders of
similar Certificates obtained in other places. He states that
the object of his boys is "to compete with English boys on
their
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,
&C.,
&C...
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