CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12] — Page 543

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Hongkong.

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Referring to the 4th. paragraph of

your Despatch No. 338 of the 25th. November, 1904, in which

you approved of the scheme for the Victoria British School

put forward in the Estimates accompanying my Despatch No

363 of the 7th. October, 1904, and in which you left to my

discretion the question referred to in paragraph 3 (v) of

that Despatch as to the admission of girls to the school,

I have the honour to inform you that it was eventually de-

-cided to admit girls to the lower and infant classes and

that a Head Mistress was duly appointed.

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The school opened in March last

with only 17 pupils. In my Despatch No. 184 of the 14th.

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July, I informed you that there were then 30. There are now

41, whose monthly fees amount to $121, and it is expected

that the number will exceed 50 before long.

ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

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