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and able to pay for it themselves. In giving prouxsienve report to the seemingly

my

retrograde step which the chidian

10.

of courtesy,

and in deference to

iri

of

its former

His school mito a

secondary school

the determination

and present readmasters, to hern

altogether, this institution

has of

formerly

called the Government Conkal School, late been treated as a secondry

lea Victoria College .

long

school and styled

I am conuiced that, so

Wish education isin

elementary English

the backward and ineffective. condition in which it is in this

Colony, it is a mistake to divent

the

public funds from

sadly needed expansion of elementary English education, which is for the benefit

which

the poor and of the lower middle of classes, to the extension of secondary education for erly minority of the nigher class care, people who are perfectly willing

and

Government had to take, un

offering

to hand over

ni

arry of its secondary Departmental schools to native educationists and thereby

to the

agency of the Grant-ui- stid system, my object was chiefly 10 educate public opinion with a views to provide for future contingencies same time, to warn the

and, at the

کو

Governmen

А

against expporting

any longer the hitherto existing sindency of rushing

education ei

any

innto secondary

Departmental

le

school, working at the steep

of

our educational structure before its foundatiors are well

said.

I take this opportunity

to forward, for the informationg

the