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RrGE 2 JUN 13:

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG. 10th. May, 1913.

sir.

I have the honour to inform you that in 1906

at the suggestion of Sir M. Nathan a Cadet Company consisting principally of boys of the Victoria British School was formed. In

1908 there were 18 boys of that school and 4 other schoolboys in the Company. After Mr. W. H. Williams, Headmaster, left the school

the Company seems to have died away.

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There has been in existence for some years in

Kowloon an organisation of the Boys Brigade, and it was recently suggested to me by a representative of the Boy Scouts Organization in England that Boy Scouts should be organised in this Colony.

In the result I came to the conclusion that

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the best course was to establish a new Cadet Company under the Hongkong Volunteer Ordinance. In this the Boys Brigade at Kowloon,

which is decadent, will be merged.

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I have now to transmit for your information

copy of regulations under which the new Company has been establish- -ed. 44 boys have been enrolled. It is anticipated that the Company will soon be up to its full strength. The only expenditure that it is necessary to incur this year is shewn in the attached schedule. In next year's Estimates it will be necessary to provide the suns shewn in the schedule and I have to request your authority for

providing accordingly.

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losure!

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,

&C.,

&c.,

&C...