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second floor of the east wing marked dormitory on the plan,

used to be the boarders dormitory. It is now used as a

preparation room and the boarders have been removed to

the new room in the west wing marked Dermitory and Enter-

tainment Room. The new room in the east wing marked Infir-

mary is used as a

dormitory for the orphans who have been

removed from the top floor of the building in the Cathedral

Compound now occupied entirely by the Chinese Division.

The remaining rooms in the new part of this wing are used

as bedrooms for some of thr larger boys and rooms for

teachers.

I think therefore that the Manager of

St. Joseph's College cannot complain if the Government

takes the cost of the additional storey on the east wing

as the basis on which to calculate the grant, The cost of

this wing may be estimated as $ 4,500, as the two wings ape

pear to be built on the same plan, and the Government is

therefore now asked to make a grant of say $2,250.

In my previous letter I spoke of St.

Joseph's College as being practically a day school for

Portuguese. The present additions will however benefit the

orphans, whose dormitory is now brought under the same roof

as the class rooms and the dining room, and the Chinese

and will only incidentally benefit the day school for

Portuguese by relieving it of Chinese to whom the Manager

found it previously impossible to refuse admission.