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moderate fees to be educated in the various handicrafts.

Being born in the country they can stand the climate better

than Europeans. A Technical School, I feel confident, will

be a success.

There is no such institution in Hong-Kong

nor in any of the ports of China and the Reformatory build-

ing being built with boarding accommodation will be found

exactly adapted to the purpose. Students from all parts

of South China will avail themselves of it. As an instance

of the willingness of the Chinese to be educated in Western

learning may I quote the following. There has been for

years an institution in Hong-Kong called "The College of

Medicine for Chinese" and all the medical men in the Colony

support it by giving free lectures to the Chinese Students.

It has no habitation though a few years ago I offered land

and a new building to supply this want, end Sir William

Robinson, who was then administrating the Government of the

Colony, supported the project by recommending it to the

This body, however, threw cold water

Legislative Council.

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