CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878 — Page 403

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sumber consists of girls, and secondly. the great proportion of both boys and

to the Boat Population, girls belongs

who have no residence on shore. Now, the Chinese, like all Orientals, have

string opinions on the inexpediency of backing girls at all:

Corna

all; and

that prejudice

how to overs

is one

most serious forblems which we have

to colve in

Haughing. Again. the

boat people, in of China.

a

manner the praniaks

having

hand

themselves.

no education

antiamaly indifferent

in this matter of educations.

I men

tion these two things, and as reasons

譬

for doing outhing, but ocimply to point

out certain well.

all-recognized factors.

in the broblem under considerations.

It

here the whole or

It is est necessary to quote 3

any part of what have writ. this onliject. In 1865, for the first

reports.

Lea

ou

مسلم مسه الفستا

kept the Qad

Shave

all subsequent

state of matters frominently

before the Government and myself. On

ili qvil

consagrances

equencero

with people them-

selves, and to the well-being of the Colony those cannot be two opinions. I have thought of many

expedients.

there

&, ampalay

Duran as

education; but com.

pulsory education alone will out act complish the work. The provesting & the

herple is extrême, and the amallest

addition to their

eanings

which then

children can sufbly is of too vital

importance to be dispensed wilk. I

thought of beginning

area

with

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