CO129-299 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [5-6] — Page 175

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sir,

I have the honour to submit for your

favourable consideration the enclosed copy of a letter from

the Bishop of Victoria applying on behalf of the Church Mis-

:sionary Society for the free grant of a piece of land near

: Kowloon City for the purpose of erecting thereon a Rescue

Home for Chinese girls, the existing Home-known as the

Victoria Home-at West Point being utilised by the Society

for other educational missionary' work.

I-enclose copies of the Annual Reports

HOME

relating to the Victoria for the years 1898 and 1399, and

I have ascertained from the Secretary of the Society that

* since 1891. eighty Chinese girls have been admitted into the

Institution, and that thirty-five of the number were sent

there by the Colonial Secretary or Registrar General

through the Po Leung Kuk Society.

Many of these girls would in all proba-

bility have been led into immoral lives, had they not come

under the care of the Church Missionary Society, and I learn

that the majority of those who have passed through the Home

have turned out well, generally marrying respectable Chris-

tian Chinese,

Apart therefore from the consideration

of the usefulness or its work, the Society has some claim

upon the Government, and I have to recommend that the land RIGHT HONOURABLE

( of

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,

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