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site (covering as it does twenty three acres) and
the sun of $175,000, while it permits the Central
British School, where 240 boys and girls are
educated, to be housed in a jumbled up collection
of wooden huts with no proper school amenities.
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The Commissioners even at this late date
would suggest that it might yet be possible to
take over the Diocesan Boys' School as the new
Central British School, sell that portion of the
ground not required and, with part of the one million dollars which it is at present proposed to spend on the erection of the new Central British
School, to provide instead a school for the
Diocesan Boys in a building and situation more
commensurate with the resources of that institution
and on a less ambitious scale than the existing
huilding. From an inspection of the present
premises it can be realised that the School has been
built and the grounds laid out in the most lavish
manner, with the result that the upkeep will be a
heavy annual charge, and one which will very likely and from time to time cause applications to be made for further aid from the public funds of the Colony.
Although such assistance on the part of the Government might be considered a laudable
action, the Commissioners feel that it would be
unfair to finance only one single institution when
it might mean neglect of the elementary education
of those thousands for whom the Government at
present does nothing, though the Commission
considers