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GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

REONGKONG 4th September, 1920.

My Lord,

I have the honour to state that this

Government has had under consideration for some time past the question of moving the Saiyingpun School from its present quarters to a more suitable site.

This school provides for boys from the thickly populated western district of Victoria and the applicants for admission have far out-grow the accommoda- tion. The school buildings, temporarily supplemented by two matsheds, are cramped within an area of less than a quarter of an acre with no possibility of expansion, and they are placed between two busy roads with noisy Chinese houses in the immediate front. A Committee on educational matters, which was appointed in 1917, recommended the removal of the school to a more suitable site in the same district, and on two subsequent occasione Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council have pressed for the matter to be treated as one of urgency.

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The question has remained in abeyance owing to the difficulty of finding a new site in the same neighbourhood, but an opportunity has now arisen of acquir-

ing from the Catholic Mission an area which is suitable in every respect for the purposes of the school.

RIGHT HONOURABLE

VISCOUNT MILNER, G.C.B.,

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