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Red 30 JUN 13

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG, 7th. June, 1913.

I have the honour to forward the enclosed copy

of a letter dated the 4th. of last February addressed to the Colonial Secretary by the Honorary Secretary of the Peak School.

2.

A private school at the Peak has now existed

for 2 years. It was opened by private enterprise in order to meet a much felt want and to test the support which such a school would obtain. The attendance is at present 12 only, the school being located in a private house where there is accommodation only for 13 or 14 children at most. But previously when the school temporari- -ly occupied the Government Pavilions the attendance was about 40 children, and it is anticipated that if a permanent school is established with good teachers an attendance of about that figure will be attained. There may, however, be large and frequent fluctuations: but it is considered that these will tend to diminish as many parents who are now forced to send their children home for education will keep them much longer in the Colony. This will in itself be an advantage as tending to diminish those separations of families which are a real hardship to Europeans who have to make their living in this Colony. Moreover I am of opinion that the Peak Residents, who pay rates and taxes which go among other purposes to education, are entitled to have, like the residents of other localities, (notably Kowloon), educational facilities of which they can avail themselves, provided that such facilities are not un- -reasonably costly.

It is intended that the school shall be open to the children of all residents in the Hill District without dis- -tinction of race, and it is proposed that the fees shall be as

follows:

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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,

&c.,

&c.,

&C...