CO129-529-1 Diocesan Boys' School and Orphanage- appeal for money 2-1-1931 - 10-5-1932 — Page 35

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site (covering as it does twenty three acres) and

the sun of $175,000, while it permits the Central

British School, where 240 boys and girls are

educated, to be housed in a jumbled up collection

of wooden huts with no proper school amenities.

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The Commissioners even at this late date

would suggest that it might yet be possible to

take over the Diocesan Boys' School as the new

Central British School, sell that portion of the

ground not required and, with part of the one million dollars which it is at present proposed to spend on the erection of the new Central British

School, to provide instead a school for the

Diocesan Boys in a building and situation more

commensurate with the resources of that institution

and on a less ambitious scale than the existing

huilding. From an inspection of the present

premises it can be realised that the School has been

built and the grounds laid out in the most lavish

manner, with the result that the upkeep will be a

heavy annual charge, and one which will very likely and from time to time cause applications to be made for further aid from the public funds of the Colony.

Although such assistance on the part of the Government might be considered a laudable

action, the Commissioners feel that it would be

unfair to finance only one single institution when

it might mean neglect of the elementary education

of those thousands for whom the Government at

present does nothing, though the Commission

considers