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has already had, he tells me, a very good effect. During the past year 1 scholar

fromd

the Victoria school and 4 from that at Wongneichoong) have been admitted into

St. Paul's College school, ma

making with

those taken into that institution during past years a total of 11 boys who have been thus privileged : one of these has been lately elected to a Government scholarship.

That much is yet required to make the schools real instruments of good is, I believe, the unanimous opinion of the Committee; but, apart from the suggestion above made, I cannot, in the absence of

with whom I and associated,

the

: gentlemen

venture upon any

more important. recom-

mendations with a view to their improvement.

The Governments grant appears

to be well appreciated by the natives of

the different. Villages ;

conceive,

no measure is,

better calculated to conciliate

I

and give them confidence, and every effort should therefore be given towards placing the schools upon the most efficient footing possible.

I have, &e.

(signed) W. H. Medhurst.

A member of the Committee for supervision of Government schools,

(Fine Copy),

Mana

Colonial Secretary

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