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the report of D? Ectel, the Acting.

before you Bispector

in which he

says:-

"I have

-found that the teacher is unsuited to the "place, incompetent for the post, inattentive to his duties, irregular in keeping his ____

roll, and out of all sympathy with the

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· people

in the

-village.

I have farther

found that there are three other schools

" in the village, where fees

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fees are charged..

" whilst the Government school charges

· fees, that these ( the former) schools

"

"well attended, whilst the Government

- School is left nearly empty, and that

few boys of the village

are even

sent

it s

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are

far as Stanley

-Stanley to attend the Government

school there.

At a meeting I held with

d

M

Spr. 2.

"the" "Kai-Tong

کو بیگم

I was told that the villagers

"would like English and Chinese to be

"taught at the school, but that they..

"desired to have a better teacher and a

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"stricter system of teaching.

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I also enclose the Report of

Mr. Falconer, the Acting Head Master of the

Central School on the teacher of the

Ĺ..

Government school at Aberdeen.

3.

I entirely agree with the

views expressed by Dr. Eitel in the last -paragraph of the enclosed report,

As

to

the desirability of endeavouring to -- combine the wishes of the Government

with the wishes and interests of the

people

in matters.

affecting

the education

of