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COLONIAL OFFICE,
Palace Chunbers,
Bridge Street, S.W.1.
25th January, 1946.
Dear Walton,
I am very sorry to learn by your letter of the 2nd of January that my cable to Rowell in November about the Codes has evidently not been received. On the 25th June, 1941, the Secretary of State sent to the Governor of Hong Kong, the following telegrain No. 606:-
"Your telegram No. 487.
School Grant
and subsidiary Codes enclosed in your despatches No. 238 and No. 502 ap roved. Despatch Follows.
This telegram was confirmed by despatch No. 78 of 30th of June, 1941. The Secretary of State had no coment to are on the Codes except that he noted that under the Grant Code it was proposed to meet fron public funds the whole gup between the normal expenliture and the fee income of grant-aided schools. He added that he would be glad to learn to what purpose it was proposed that the voluntary funds aitherto available to meet the difference were to be applied. Your letter is very informative and I can well under- stand the opposition to discrimination being exercised against the Roman Catholic Religious Orders. We are very interested to hear of your proposals about kindergarten training and of the
We are very re-opening of the Training College.
sorry to learn of the hardship under which Secondary Education is suffering, but hope that it
A. ST.G. WALTON, ESQ.
will