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of Chinese acquired by

Assistant Masters at the

Victoria College under the

present compulsory system of study,

is in the

majority

of cases unsatiofactory, and suggested that some

some meand

should be devised of stimulating the Masters to acquire a better knowledge of the language, a Committee of the Board was appointed by General Barker to report on the question.

2.

nclosure 1. 15th October 1891.

Jenclose

copy of

the Committee's report, in

which it was recommended

that the study of Chinese by masters at the College should cease to be

compulsory, and that Chinese translation -

lessons throughout the~.

College

other than those~

given by the Chinese

Assistant Masters should

be entrusted to specialists (not necessarily Masters of the College) who should be

remunerated