CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12] — Page 63

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expenditure of public money. That an undue proportion of the teaching power of the College is wastefully expended on coaching candidates for the Oxford University Local and similar examinations to the prejudice of the interests of the vast majority of the boys.

Dr Wright, as will be seen from enclosures Nos 2 and 5, not only impugns the justice of D. Eitel's observations, but defends the existing system, and alleges, as a proof of its success that it has provided all the best "Chinese clerks, compradores, &c. in the Colony, besides supplying the Colonial and Chinese Imperial service", and that "all the best native interpreters and translators" have been trained at Victoria College. Irrespective of its accuracy, which is controverted by the list which forms enclosure

Encl: 7

15th Sept. 1893.

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14 62 150 expenditure of public money. That an undue proportion of the teaching power of the College is wastefully expended on coaching candidates for the Oxford University Local and similar examinations to the prejudice of the interests of the vast majority of the boys. Dr Wright, as will be seen from enclosures Nos 2 and 5, not only impugns the justice of D. Eitel's observations, but defends the existing system, and alleges, as a proof of its success that it has provided all the best "Chinese clerks, compradores, &c. in the Colony, besides supplying the Colonial and Chinese Imperial service", and that "all the best native interpreters and translators" have been trained at Victoria College. Irrespective of its accuracy, which is controverted by the list which forms enclosure Encl: 7 15th Sept. 1893.
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expenditure of public money That an

on the College. (3) undue proportion of the ~ teaching power of the College is wastefully expended Coaching Candidates Oxford University Local and similar examinations to the

on

for the

prejudice of the interests of the vast majority of the boys.

Dr Wright, as will from enclosures

4.

be seen.

Nos 2 and 5, not only impugns the justice of D. Eitil's _

observations.

Enel: 7

15th Septer.

1893.

observations, but defends the existing system, and alleges,

as a

proof of its success that it has provided all the best "Chinese clerks, compradores

#

ets in the Colony, besides supplying the Colonial and Chinese Imperial service", and that "all the best native

#

interpreters and translators "have been trained at Victoria

"College." Irrespective of its

accuracy,

which is controverted.

by the list which forms

enclosure

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