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Diocesan School is equally, if not more, deserving of a Building Grant for the following.

e is

The Diocesan School

is more ui need of a Building Grant than St. Joseph's College ever was, because, while St. Joseph's College is worked by a Staff of the Brothers of St. Joseph's who, working simply as Missionaries

good of the Roman Catholic Church require merely maintenance and the Staff is easily supplied from the head quarters of the Order of St. Josephe

Paris, the Diocesan School

For

the

has to manitair an

expensive

salaried Staff to be kept up by sending from time to time for Master's from England. For the

same reason also the Diocesan

Senvol is comparatively

of

Public School, less denarnaviational

man

Khan Itseph's College, for

although the Diocesan Schoo's is worked under the supervision of a Bishop of the Church of England,

the Committee of the School represent the English Community

of HongKong whore of the funds of the School are subscribed by the Eocal English

community without

as a whole, and the

any regard to denominational distinctions. Although the Diocesan School is -practically patronized chiefly by the parents of Eurasian children,

actually

it is open to, and a

scholars

framan

has,

all classes of the

munity, English and Annieve,

and as the Eurasian children of the Colony

are the most neglected

class, while they

are

the

off-spring

of both the European and the - Chiriese sections of the community,

it is wident that a

Building Grant

for

: