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once to do away with the Sheko Vernacular School the atten-

dance at which makes it not worth while to maintain it

(paragraph 33). The Anglo-Chinese School at Aberdeen, (para-

graph 29), the only remaining Government school for boys

on the island, I should like eventually to raise to the

same standard as the 3 District Schools referred to above.

4.

The Anglo-Chinese School at Un Long in the

Western part of the New Territories North of the Kowloon

Hills having proved reasonably successful (paragraph 31)

another at Tai Po in the Eastern part of those Territories

has been established this year and has made a good start.

At the request of the gentry at Pingshan and on their offer

of their ancestral temple for the purpose I propose next

year to initiate an Anglo-Chinese school at that place. It

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is not far from Un Long and I should have preferred to have

enlarged that school had accommodation been available.

Eventually I look to the educational needs of the New

Territories being provided for by two properly constructed

schools each under an English headmaster one near Tai Po

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and one near Un Long.

5.

The Government schools other than those

mainly for Chinese boys, viz:- the British Schools at Vic-

toria and Kowloon, the Anglo-Indian School at Victoria, and

the Belilios Anglo-Chinese and Vernacular Girls Schools are

sufficiently