CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8] — Page 137

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6.

"to speak English in our

principal

" Government school, and that imperfectly.

"After Hong Kong

میرا

enjoyed thirty years of Clonial Government and

large annual grants for education, I expected to find the new generation "with something like a knowledge of "English. The system unfortunately,

K

"is font after learning perhaps only "what we might call a smattering "of our language, a lew of the pupils "leave the school and

!!

go

at once into

"native busines houses, whilst nine

"tenths leave the Government school

entirely ignorant of the English "language."_

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In publicly mentioning these

facts I appealed to Mr. Stewart who was sitting

sitting on my right and he confirmed them, repeating the woods that out of the 610 surile that had

passed through the school last

but

sixty could exeak

year

fifty or sixty English, and that very imperfectly

6. The Colonial Secretary, Bi Fartiner Auction, and come other Europeans was

were present

thus

A much cumprise

کرده است اما سادات

learning

the real facts resrecting

the amount of English Education given

L

on the Central School. Mr Justin

in

told me that neither be un sir

Arthur Kennedy had

and idia that

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