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Eitel) with the managers of different girls' schools in the Colony, and five prizes

awarded

the

were

year 1885, twe to pupils of the Italian Convent

and one cach to pupils of the

Victoria

day

school, the Bonham

Road and the Basle Mission

boarding schools.

3.

It was thought by

Mr. McEwen, one of the Trustees of the fund that it would have good effect if the prizes could

in the presence of the

Managers

be given

managers

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and some.

of the pupils

of all the girls schools in the _ but a difficulty

Colony

-arode as

to the place where such distribution

should be held, as Protestant

Managers and Parents might entertain objections to going

to

the Italian Convent, while the

Sisters would no doubt have

declined to accompany

their

pupils to a Protestant dohool - house. Mr. Me Ewen asked me

whether; under the circumstances,

I would

give

the prizes at

Government

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