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it would seem proper

proper to provide in the Estimates for the amount. which will presumably be actically required, and not- to place

on the Estimates

a sum which will certainly necessitate a large pro-rata reduction of the Grants to

of

be earned in the course

the

year by the Grant-in-Aid Schools. There have been pro- rală reductions on the Grants-

earned in 1882, 1883, 1887, 1889 and 1890. The last reduction amounted to 10.5 per cent. Some

years ago

the Supt of Education in Colombo was to some extent-

by

extted by the Managers and threaterded

· legal requent or

of

m

occurrence

of such pro-rata reductions._ I do not apprehend a similar-

outburst

outburst of temper in

stongshing,

but I think it would

and

materially injure the best. highest interests of education if the Government; which provides so liberally for the Government Schools and handicaps prival effort- by charging low fees al-

Victoria College, were not to provide cufficient to fulfil the moral promises contained in the rate of payment fixeed by the Grant-

a sum a

in-Aid Scheme. The Grant- in-Aid Scheme has worked

noothly here since 1879,

which is more than can

be said of the working of the same scheme in Great-

Britain and the Colomes.

It would be a pity to clesting

the entente cordiale with

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