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Hongkong. School to

to go

and there was no

to. This

other

therefore proves nothing necefulives of the

against the need and

Public School now. I think it will be

found that

very few English boys have

attended the Central School since the_

opening of the Public School. Out of the 62 boys at present in the latter school, Europeans, whereas the

about 50 are

number of European boys in the Central School is, an

already stated, not one · per cent. This fact shows how completely. the European portion of the Community differ from the Colonial Secretary's opinion the perfect enitability of the Autral School to the wants of European boys. Many of those who send their boy to the Public School are not wealthy, but they profeu paying $5 a month for the _

6 availing of the Central School at fla

Public School Education to a themselves month.

5.

It is not perhaps eufficiently

realized

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lized that the Central School, intended by the Government for all classer in Hongkong, mainly exists for the benefit of aliens . The vast majority of the pupils Butisk subject. They

who

are

are in no sense

are

Chinese subjects

abtracted from Canton and other

parts of the Province by the desire to bann English, the knowledge of which

When they

to them means

money.

leave the Antral School, Hongkong docs not derive much benefit from them, as the best of their go

for employment.

This

elsewhere

is not mentioned

any way

the effort of

fact

to disparage in the Government to give the Chinese a lack for Western knowledge, but simply to draw attention to the that it is Chinese subject and not. British subjects who chiefly

benefited. The English portion of the British onbject in Hongkong can, indeed, hardly devive any benefit

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