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supervision and control. We believe that Government will get the best return, in future as in the past, for money spent on education by trusting us, by trusting to our keenness, to our devotion, to our love for children, to our readiness to return any profits we make on our schools back into the cause of education to which our lives are given, rather than by forcing us into the official scheme of things.
Up to the present, during all the years that have elapsed since the Colony was founded, the Government attitude towards our schools has been this: "You are doing splendid work for education in Hong Kong; take this Grant-in-Aid to enable you to do it better. Why should this attitude suddenly have become suspect and untenable?
We admit that there is every case for reconsideration of the way in which the Grant-in-Aid should be calculated; but unfortunately the method of calculation proposed by Government carries with it a fundamental change in our old relationship to Government.
We humbly ask for consideration of this Memorandum in the light of the Memorandum on Educational Grant-in-Aid ( April,1933).
(Signed)
D. Donnelly, S.J. (Sec). R. W.Gallagher, E.J. Brother Aimar
G. A. Goodban,
Ronald Hongkong (Chairman)
E. S. Atkins, Lim Hoy Lan.
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