CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12] — Page 108

low greasy

write with unsharpened slate pencils on slates frequently

to allow of legible writing, and finally the absence of any filter or filtered-writer for the boys,

things which it seems you do not consider it your duty to attend to or

bring

all these are

tc

to the Headmaster's

notice with sufficient perseverance and earnestness.

Again, I have failed to observe

any indication of any interest taken by the masters in the use of the playground by the

boys. Before expensive site was appropriated by the Government, special stress was laid on the absolute necessity of providing a large playground because of the opportunity

this extensive and

which it was said, it would afford

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afford to English-speaking boys to mix with Chinese boys

in English games, and it

was

expressly stated that English is learned on the playground

as well as inside the schoolroom. What

I have observed is that the

English-speaking boys (who have been mostly segregated in two distinct classes), keep

systematically aloof during the daily recess from the Chinese boys,

so that there is no

English speaking whatever in the hearing of the Chinese boys anywhere out of the schoolroom. I have heard of one

or two masters organizing school sports once

a year for a week or two, far away at the Happy Valley. But I have not

seen ...