CO129-245 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [5-7] — Page 77

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Secondary Schools in Hong kong, in 1889, copy of which I enclose, and that the Victoria College is in danger of falling behind is evidenced by the fact that at the last public compétition for Belilios Medals ( December, 28 1889) when 16 boys from Victoria College competed with 13 boys from the Schools mentioned, in the annexed Comparative Statement, the best competitors from the Victoria College barely gained the fifth prize, the first

of the

and second being carried off by boys

of the Hongkong Public School, the third and fourth by boys from St. Joseph's College .

(12) If

it is a sound educational policy, to take care that the different branches of Public Instruction should, if possible,

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equal

forward together and with

step than hitherto ; that private must be called into action to relieve.

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agency

and assist the public funds; that the

Cementary education of the

masses should

-be-