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this suggestion, and matters were ultimately arranged by the

Inspector of Schools who on behalf of the Government agreed

with the Committee to provide a school-mistress to take charge of the school at a salary of $600 a year, to be defrayed from

Public funds. This arrangement was sanctioned for a period of

2 years from the 17th. April, 1895.

In August, 1896, the Inspector of Schools report-

ed that the temporary school buildings had been destroyed by

a typhoon and that the Committee had come to the end of their

resources, and submitted the following alternative proposals

to the Govt. on behalf of the Committee

(a) That the Govt. should establish & maintain

at its sole expense a school at Kowloon for European children

of both sexes,or

(b) Provide a piece of ground at Kowloon and

erect thereon a building suitable for a mixed school & teach-

ers quarters, whereupon the Committee, being entrusted with the

free use of the building, would be willing to keep the school

going at their own expense and responsibility under the pro-

visions of the grant-in-aid scheme.

Dr. Eitel recommended as a compromise the grant

of a free site and one half of the actual cost of the build-

ing under the conditions specified in the Building Grants

Regulation,No.27, of the new code for Educational grants-in-aid

but subsequently reported that the Committee was not prepared

to accept this offer, and recommended instead that the proposeti

English teaching school at Yaumati sanctioned by the Secretary

of