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demand for female education. I expect the new c. tab Girl's school

ban

will have in 1892.

average

attendance of over 100 children: of a were provided, Girls schools to 1 and

new and commodious bu

2, at present located, in hired

building

buildings (near the old Central School for Boys!,

and attended by

120 Chirieze Girls, might be

: amalgamated with the Girls contral

School, which would thus have a

total of 220 scholars. Such an amalgamation would tend to

Chnese families at present

encourage pakunizuig

Girls School H 1 and 2 to place their daughters, after passing through the Chinese classes of the school, into its English division, and thus improve the rate of

the attendance of the latter. Then when the amalgamated

inncrease

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school, is provided with enlarged accommodation, the Government

might take the lead in an educa- tional movement which is much needed in the Colony viz.

the starting of infant schools, by adding to the amalgamated school and infant department

on the lives of the Kindergarten system. This

measure would vastly increase the attendance of the school and

popularity without dra

any

5.

scholars

drawing away

from existing schools. Site for a new Girl's School Building. An essential condition for the contined success of the Girls' Central School is that

it must be located in a centra?

-part of the town and either on or below the level of Hollywood Road. The site of the old Central School for Boys awwivers these requirements;;

school

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