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plans of the New Central School, or

Victoria College, prepared,

together

Enclosures

1 and 2

(Enclosure 1, 3 drawings, sent separately)

with the accompanying explanatory

memorandum.

Mr. Price, the

Surveyor-General and Director

of Public Works.

In my previous

despatch referred to above, I

mentioned that, of the total

number of Chinese Pupils in the

Central School (about four hundred and fifty) there are few young boys, while more than

one third

of the whole are older

than 18; many being older

than the majority of the students at Oxford and Cambridge; and about

one tenth are between the

ages

of 21

and 26; many of this latter class being married men with families. I added that, looking to the mature age of the majority of the students of the principal educational institution in this Colony, and to other circumstances, the name

of "School" would be obviously inappropriate to the new building, and that it

should be styled the "Queen's College", the "Royal College", or "Victoria

College"