CO129-258 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [1-4] — Page 513

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the

same

of the local - septem of education.

powers and prejudices kept all Chinese

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I wenty-five years

girls

in town out of

our schools. We

ceeded, by

neaug

of the Grant in-

any

have, to a

considerable extent, sue-

Aid system, and without an

ni

puisory attendance law, mi over-

coming all oby siow on hon and in

ringing

the

girls argely

wder

Minuchiav. Bilive we shale -

equally

ing

succeeds, mi hime, wi draw- he boat girls within the muses

of the education net, without

them with the mark

branding

of paricus by opening a flocking or other school for their separate instruction. Boat girl will mi

of time come to feel a

admitted, as is the

ride ai

pride

being

rule in all Grant ishid schools,

on terms of perfect equality

ai schools

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for the resident as these girls

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popercation, as soon can be got to go

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school at all, and an ordinary

school, which subserves the existing

movement of absorbing the boat people in the mass

of

the Chinese.

community will, in my opinion,

ba lin ve

far

more chance

e if doing sound educational work than any separate floating

for boat children on

only.

(digned) E. J. Eitel.

22′′2° Marok, 1073,

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