CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6] — Page 652

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on

repoints is of great value.

these points

In conclusion Mr Whitehead

in referring to the loyalty of the people of Hongkong says "We are educating the Chinese by

of a

our

meand

a number of schools, We are improving.

Streets, We are carrying out useful and repro-

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ductive public Works and we

" are

labouring to enforce Sani- tary Rules in that Augean stable "the Native portion of the city.

But our resources are

and we are

limited

already taxed up

"to

to the limit of endurance".

It would be interesting

to know to whom Mr Whitehead

was

referring when he used the word "We" and what the Colonial

party understood by it; for the Education of the Chinese is under the sole direction of a small but efficient Education Department. The streets and the useful

and reproductive Public Works are under the absolute management of a most capable Public Works Department, and the Sanitary-

Rules

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