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27975
Rec 31 JULH
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
HONGKONG.
9th July,
1914.
493
I have the honour to inform you that Mr. Ellis
Kadoorie, a wealthy philanthropist whose name is already fami-
liar to you, has offered to present the Colony with a building
to cost $20,000 in which to house the School for Indian boys
which is at present accommodated in premises in Victoria leased
at an annual cost to the Government of $540 per annum.
2.
The existing school, which is held in two very
unsuitable flats in a Chinese tenement house, and the smaller
Indian School at Kowloon are used to prepare boys for the
District Schools. These schools are filled with, and were
instituted for, Chinese boys and the presence in them of Indian
boys creates difficulties the greatest of which is that the
education is not suited to Indian boys.
I therefore propose, if you are prepared to
sanction the acceptance of Mr. Kadoorie's generous offer, to
strengthen the Staff of the Indian School in Victoria by the
addition to the staff set out on page 78 of the Estimates for
the current year of an English Master at a salary of £300 rising
to £550 and to make this Indian School a feeder to Upper Schoo1 at Queen's College like the three District Schools at Salying-
pun, Wantsai and Yaumati.
school is 52.
The present number of scholars attending this
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P., &C. 1
&C
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