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No 362.
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RECEIVED
11 AUG 1930
OOL, OFFIOR
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG. 8th July, 1930.
Vel-201
My Lord,
I have the honour to inform Your Lordship that in 1923 this Government was approached by a number of leading members of the Chinese community with a view to the
establishment in Hong Kong of an Industrial School for boys, which would help to solve the problem of young boys of the
poorer classes who find an honest livelihood hard to earn.
Between 1923 and 1925 certain sites were examined and in June
1925 it was decided by the Governor in Council to recommend
to the then Secretary of State for the Colonies the grant,
under appropriate restrictions, of a suitable area of Crown
Land for use as an Industrial School to the Salesian Fathers,
who already direct and manage in the Colony such a school on
a small scale known as the St. Louis Industrial School and
whose Superior Provincial in China has co-operated closely
with this Government in examining the possibility of extending
their work here. The Salesian Fathers, a body of Italian
origin, hold the very highest reputation and their energy,
experience and success in the management of Industrial Homes
for boys are well known throughout the East.
The general strike in 1925 and the economic
difficulties which followed caused this project to be laid
aside, but I am sanguine that funds for such a development
can
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LORD PASSFIELD,
&C.,
&C.,
&c.