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ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE.
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Hongkong, December 21, 1923.
The Hon. The Colonial Secretary,
Sir,
Hongkong.
APPLICATION FOR A GRANT OF LAND AT STANLEY FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES, FOR ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE.
I an instructed by the Council of St. Stephen's Colleg which is a boys school belonging to the Church Missionary Society, to approach you with a request that the Government make to us a grant of land at Stanley for educational
purposes.
The College has to vacate its present premises at the end of this year, Temporary arrangements have been made elsewhere for class-room and boarding accommodation; but the Council desires to obtain a permanent site, and to provide thereon, as soon as possible, buildings and facilities for recreation which will enable it to develop the work and to make it more useful to the community.
The mly satisfactory site which the Council has been able to find on the island is that on the isthmus near Stanley, which was formerly War Department land. The intention is to run the school on the lines of an English Public School, with various "houses" for boarders, sach under the control of a married English Master, and with accommodation for fifty students and two unmarried graduates. Special attention will be given to English and Science. In the latter subject it is hoped to develop the school somewhat on the plan of Oundle Bchool in England wherein the workshop very largely takes the place of class-
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