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be

for these pay

appropriated ments need not much if at all. exceed the sun at present provided

for paying the Masters Churese

teachers.

7.

We

recommend

therefore that the present system of compulsory study of Clivviese, be abolished so far as the masters are

that the supply at

concerned, that the

· Government expense of a Chuviese teacher to each Master be discon- Arrived, and that individual. Masters possessing special vichi- nation and aptitude for the study of Churiese be

encouraged to qualify themselves for employ- mont, by availing themselves of the inducements which the giveral rules of the livil service

out to all Government offices

a Chiese

word

desirous of studying ciialect. The approval of

this

recommendation will

essarily invol

involve any

will not necessarily

innercase of expenditure.

(signed) I. St. Stewart Lockhart.

Registrar General,

Hongkong,

A. G. Mitchell-demes,

Treasurer.

E. J. Kitel,

Inspector of Schools.

A. I. May

Sect. Head Master, Vic College

15th October, 1891.