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routine letters should be
addressed "The Secretary
of the Missionary Council."
CHURCH ASSEMBLY.
MISSIONARY COUNCIL.
KEC
18 PARIS32
CHURCH HOUSE,
Telephone: VICTORIA 1326 & 1327. Telegrams: "Asmisscil," PARL, LONDON.
WESTMINSTER, S.W.1.
AWD/BJG
17th March 1932
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Sir,
1. I have the honour to refer you to your No. 82790/31, dated February 23rd, 1932, in which you state that the Secretary of State will be kind enough to await a memorandum on the subject of the Diocesan Boys' School, Hong Kong, from the Missionary Council of the Church Assembly.
2. The Missionary Council wishes to express its great appreciation of the opportunity afforded to it by submitting a memorandum on this subject.
3. It desires to support the appeal made by the Chairman and Committee of the above school for the cancellation of the unpaid balance of the loan granted by the Hong Kong Government on the authority of the Colonial Office in 1927, together with such interest and sinking fund charges as are overdue.
The importance of the Diocesan Boys' School and its value to the Colony have been fully set forth in the memorandum submitted to His Majesty's Government by the Chairman and Committee of the school. Without repeating the arguments set out in the said memorandum for the continuance of the school, the Missionary Council is desirous of drawing the attention of His Majesty's Government to two considerations which have, in its opinion, considerable bearing on the situation.
The Report of the British Economic Mission to the Far East, 1930 1931, drew attention to the extreme importance of establishing a more intimate cultural relationship between Great Britain and China, and this not only with a view to promoting trade but because of the benefit they believed would accrue to China itself, now passin through a complete transfor- mation of her political, social and industrial life. The