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Central School. The Central School for Girls was started by the Govern. the purpose of providing,

ment, for at public expense, what private. educationists would not supply, viz; education for Eurasian (half caste) girls

and unore

rian

particularly

English

ov

an unsecta.

Anglo-Chinese

education for girls of all classes and nationalities. There was no

ciable demand for such

The aim was a demand. The

Eurasian.

a

appre-

School.

to create

deliberately The facts were these:

girls,

as a clase, remained

outside the education net altogether;

Churieze

girls, whose

whose future husbands

receive an

English education, were

and are kept in the low groove. of

a

purely Churiese education and

thus under the curse

L...

of polygamy;

for European. and Indian girls

there was

zvo

unsectarian

L-

- English Girls

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Girls' school in the Colony. Governor Sir William Des Voeut having

courageously adopted these views, the School was opened, with 25 Extrasian children, on 14 March 1890. It had been intended to amalgan te with this new

English School two previously

existing Government Schools (Girls " Schools Nr. 1 and 2) which give

Churiese

Currese

1o.

girls a purely education. Want of accommodation however necessitated & postponement.

of

this amalgamation. Daving thus been started separately, the new Girls Central School got successively three different seadmistresses in 18 months, the first and second having resigned owing

to their getting These changes

married.

and the defective -

accommodation hampered

tarded the development of

the

school at its most critical period.

Nevertheless

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