CO129-529-1 Diocesan Boys' School and Orphanage- appeal for money 2-1-1931 - 10-5-1932 — Page 67

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enhanced if it were to make an effort to adjust itself to

its financial position, which for some years it has consistently failed to do. The Government representative on the Committee reported on the 22nd of September last as

follows:-

"It struck me at the meeting that the Committee

did not appear to realise their responsibilities.

They seemed to think that the $175,000 and other

debts due to Government need not be repaid".

The School is apt to mistake its own interests for those

of education in general, though I am prepared to admit

that from an educational point of view the School has been

well and successfully conducted.

5. Had the Committee accepted Government's offer it

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was proposed to utilize the buildings to house Queen's

College, which with the opening of the new and larger King's College is out place in its present location, while

the building itself is old, dark and unsuitable.

transference of Yaumati School to the Diocesan Boys' School

site was also contemplated. Thus not only would

Government's proposition have placed the Diocesan Boys'

School on a sound if less grandiose footing, but it would

have served the larger educational interests of the Colony

as a whole.

6.

The reference to La Salle College in paragraph 38

of the petition seems to imply that this College was

accorded more favourable treatment than the Diocesan Boys'

School. In point of fact this is not so, for whereas the

latter institution sold to Government its old site, for

which it had paid five dollars, for a quarter of a million

dollars and received its new site free, the former bought

its

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