CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4] — Page 241

CAN, MGHL

-4077

COPY.

No. 71.

Sir,

Enclosure 1.

C.

10950

Rre

Per 27 JAR OF

Education Department,

Hongkong, 15th. October, 1900.

236

I have the honour to forward herewith

for the favourable consideration of His Excellency the

Governor an application for a building grant in aid of

defraying the cost of school-rooms to be erected by the

Church Missionary Society at Yaumati on Kowloon Inland

Lot No.1085. Accompanying the application are a memoran-

dum from the Architects Messrs. Palmer and Turner

stating the estimated cost of the two school-rooms to be

$3,000 and a plan of the building. The Church Missionary

Society has had for some years two Schools at Yamati for

Chinese one for boys and one for girls, and they pro-

pose to move them into this building when it is complet-

ed. The application appears to me to be one which may

be granted without hesitation as the money is to be spent

on providing satisfactory and permanent quarters for

schools already in existence, and the expenditure does

not entail an increased expenditure on the Goverment

in future years,

I do not however recommend that the

ne Honourable

J. H. Stewart-Lockhart,C.M.0....

Colonial Secretary.

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