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I should also like to take this opportunity
of congratulating the Government of Hong Kong on
intricate bringing to a successful conclusion the lengthy
discussions on the Codes with the several parties
concerned. The Codes conform to the policy set out
in the Memorandum on Educational Grants-in-Aid by the
Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies, enclosed
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in Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister (now Lord Swinton) 's Circular (2) despatch of the 26th September 1933 and
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following point, I have no comment to exupt that.
make on them, I note that under the Grant Code it is proposed to meet from public funds the whole gap between the normal expenditure and the fee income of grant-aided schools, and I should be glad to learn to what purposes it is proposed that the voluntary funds hitherto available
to meet the difference are now to be applied.
I have etc.