CO129-529-1 Diocesan Boys' School and Orphanage- appeal for money 2-1-1931 - 10-5-1932 — Page 34

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residential portion of Kowloon, should have been

allotted for the purpose of building this school:

the lack of policy on the part of the Education

Department would hereagain appear to be demonstrated.

Two of the finest sites in the Colony (i.e. the

Diocesan Boys' School, Kowloon, and St. Stephens'

College, Stanley), have been allotted to

den aninational schools, while the Government has

not only built King's College - at a cost of one.

million dollars in what one may tenn a back

street of Hong Kong and without adequate or

suitable surroundings, but also proposed to build

a new Central British School, likewise at the cost

of one million dollars, in a place remote from the

inhabitants whose children it is proposed to

educate therein, and near the purlieus of old

Kowloon City.

41.

The population of Kowloon numbers about

300,000. For the education of the sons of the

Chinese section of this population the Government

has provided one out-of-date District School at

Yaumati, which is one of the most congested areas

in the peninsula. It may be remarked in passing

that not even this much provision is made for the

education of the Chinese girls. Further, while

cognisant of the fact that the Diocesan Boys'

School has filled an important place in the

educational life of the Colony, the Commissioners

cannot but wonder how Government reconciles its

liberality in granting to the school this large

site