CO129-299 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [5-6] — Page 272

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Government House,

HongKong,

23rd May, 1900.

269

I have the honour to recommend for your

favourable consideration the free grant of a piece of land

of an area of 15,000 square feet near the Village of To-kwa-

Wan in the Kowloon Peninsula, to the Hildesheim Missionary

· Society which is a German Mission having for its object the

care and education of Blind girls in China.

The Missior established a School in this

Colony in 1897 and the number of blind pupils having now

reached 21 the Mission desires to erect a suitable building

for their accommodation and for the future extension of the

work of the Society.

I enclose a short report of the work

done by the Society, and I may mention that blind girls in

China are, as stated in the report as a rule trained to a life

of immorality.

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Flosure 1. inted Report,

1900.

sclosure 2 19th April, 1900.

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I enclose copy of a letter from Miss

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Postler, he representative of the Society here, in which she

states that her Society would be ready to purchase the site

I have recommended to be given to the Society, on condition

that the Crown rent is reduced to a nominal figure.

·

Having regard to the good work done by the

Society and to the fact that a free grant of land in the

neighbourhood of this site has been applied for on behalf

RIGHT HONOURABLE

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,

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