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of State, should he abandoned, that the lot of ground reserved

for that purpose should be sold, and that a school building

similar to that at Saiyingpun should be erected on a vacant

lot of Crown land at Tsimshatsui at Govt. expense to be loaned

to a Committee of European residents to use it at their own

expense for the purposes of a grant-in-aid School. The estimate

furnished by the Director of Public Works of the cost of car-

rying out this proposal was as follows

Value of site

Preparing site &

erecting buildings

-

$5000

8000

Total $13000

Value of site at

Yaumati

3000

Nett cost

$10000

The Executive Council advised the grant of a

site, if the residents were prepared to build the school. This

offer was duly communicated to the Committee by the Inspector

of Schools, and rejected and in January, 1897, application was

again made for the temporary loan of an English Master from

Queen's College, with which it was not possible to comply. On

the 19th. January, 1897, correspondence was re-opened between

the Hon. Secretary of the School Committee and the Private

Secretary, and an offer was made for the grant of a suitable

site and buildings to be erected at Government expense at a

cost