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residential portion of Kowloon, should have been
allotted for the purpose of building this school:
the lack of policy on the part of the Education
Department would hereagain appear to be demonstrated.
Two of the finest sites in the Colony (i.e. the
Diocesan Boys' School, Kowloon, and St. Stephens'
College, Stanley), have been allotted to
den aninational schools, while the Government has
not only built King's College - at a cost of one.
million dollars in what one may tenn a back
street of Hong Kong and without adequate or
suitable surroundings, but also proposed to build
a new Central British School, likewise at the cost
of one million dollars, in a place remote from the
inhabitants whose children it is proposed to
educate therein, and near the purlieus of old
Kowloon City.
41.
The population of Kowloon numbers about
300,000. For the education of the sons of the
Chinese section of this population the Government
has provided one out-of-date District School at
Yaumati, which is one of the most congested areas
in the peninsula. It may be remarked in passing
that not even this much provision is made for the
education of the Chinese girls. Further, while
cognisant of the fact that the Diocesan Boys'
School has filled an important place in the
educational life of the Colony, the Commissioners
cannot but wonder how Government reconciles its
liberality in granting to the school this large
site