CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12] — Page 581

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1833

* 17 JAN OC

5781

No.

361.

Government House,

HongKong,

15th

December, 1899.

sir,

I have the honour to transmit for your

consideration the enclosed extract from a letter from the

nclosure. K Oetober,

1999.

Inspector of Schools of the 4th.October, 1899, recommending

that a Grant-in-Ald be allowed towards the cost of building

a Training Home for Chinese Girls.

2. Miss Davies reports that great success

is anticipated for this school in view of the fact that there

was a very large and successful Girls Day School in Taiping-

shan until it was closed on account of the Plague in 1894; and

that since that time there has been a large increase in the

numbers of the Chinese residents in the neighbourhood of the

site of the proposed Home.

3. The plans have been submitted to and ap-

proved of by the Director of Public Works; and as I am satis-

fied that all the necessary conditions prescribed by the

gulations

Re-

The Right Honourable

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,

8cc.

Zec.

&C.

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