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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG, 25th. January, 1912.

I have the honour to enclose a request I have

received from His Lordship the Bishop of Victoria and to submit

the following observations thereon.

2.

The Diocesan Girls' School is an institution which has performed valuable service to the Colony. It is a Church of England Grant School established for the education of girls of races other than Chinese. The average attendance at the school last year was 69 (maximan enrolment 50) of whom 83 per centum were Europeans and Americens (other than Portuguese) and 17 per centum were local Portuguese, and of these 35 were board- -ers. The school has been declared "thoroughly efficient two years running and earns the maximun grant. It is supported in part by fees (maximum 86) in part by the Government grant, and in part by charitable subscriptions. Hitherto it has occupied premises be- -longing to the estate of the late Mr. Sharp for which it paid an Annual rental of $2,640.00.

3.

Owing to the unrest in China there has recent- -ly been an influx into the Colony of well-to-do Chinese from Canton and elsewhere who have bought up property, and to whom the trustees of the Sharp Estate have sold the site of the Diocesan School, which will therefore have to evacuate the premises and as you will see from the enclosure the Bishop has appealed to me for a site on which to erect a new school. He informs me that he feels

confident

RIGHT HONOURABLE

LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,

&c.,

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