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schools that are

to be aided; but the

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the scheme.

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definition given in the Hong Kong scheme

Elementary

is the definition of the term School in the English codes, namely, " a school u have elementary education is the principal hart off the education given, and where us child is refused admittance grounds." "that

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I think it is better that the

word should be se

lained.

t'o nent abjection is to the

word "pocular" wherever it occurs, and to the provisions that religios sustivatione must be either before or after the four hours of secular instruction required by

I have already explained in what sense the word Secular is poedin

Code.

Whi

it and to allow

religions instivation to be given during

the lime

soquire

I for the subjects of the

standards would involve a casifics of

the princifule in which Government grants Jos education are

and allowed. Y.

the Bishop a Caims, distinctive Catholi teaching must pervade the whole work

his schools, the Givem-

and time

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mant by allowing this, would be depart ing from the Losition of religins neutrali- by which it has hithert's thought it add

Vizable to main lam.

All it

Protestant denominations that have

acceplex the scheme cumply un- grudgingly with the regulation, which would the afore appear to be a

and

smalle

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