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commendation of the lake Dr

Hewart.

Masters preparing for Examinations need a teacher to be at their back and call, requiring

then A. M. or P. M. sometimes at the Peak, sometinies at Kowloow; they cannot therefore be well com- pelled to share a master. Moreover the contre-temps that would arise. through part ownership would multiply the

applications for extension of thine

when summoned bran

7. Waste of Money.

The

examiriation.

Considering

the

necessity of

study of Chinese (explanied above) by all English Masters, Scannot consider that this expenditure is waste of Public Funds. There are no

specially paid Interpreters in this as in most other Departments. The knowledge of Chiriese by all English Masters is of the highest importance, and equally so the mainknance of this knowledge (however snull) after they have passed thet veram -

I trust therefore that the Govt.

"will

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will not subvert its policy of the last 30 years, by expecting masters (holding final certificates) to pay their own teachers, which would naturally

result in their abandonment.

of further Chinese studies, to the detriment of the prosperity of this bollege.

I have already dwelt in

of t

the Stead Masters

the duties

Teacher as exan

as examiner &c.

It is hardly necessary for

me lô add that the stead

master of Victoria College_ requires a teacher at least- as much as the dispector of

Schools.

Remuneration

In view of the recent

general mcrease of salaries "I do not think that the Government should incur

the