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of 'extra' subjects, instruction in which should be paid for
by the pupils themselves. It is better that teachers in
these subjects should arrange with the parents as to their
fees, otherwise they will draw their salaries even though
there may be no one taking their particular subject.
38.
THE DIOCESAN BOYS' SCHOOL, KOWLOON.
Although the question as to the future of the Diocesan
Boys ↑ School, Kowloon, has not been specifically referred by
the Government to the Commissioners, and although they have
bean given to understand that the matter is sub-judice, they
feel it incumbent upon them to sound a grave note of warning
in this connection, as the subject has been forced upon them
by the Head Master, the Rev. Mr. Featherstone.
39.
They would first of all note that the Government has
advanced to the Diocesan Boys' School the sum of $175,000 and
that at present the School Authorities are in default as
regards the payment of sinking fund and interest. The
Commissioners regret to have to record their opinion that
adequate safeguards have not been taken for the security of
these public funds, and they consider that in future any such
advances of money or grant of land by the Government should
only be made with the express sanction of the Legislative
Council.
40.
It would seem also to the Commissioners a matter foz
regret that a site so fine and extensive, and indeed possibly
the best, in the 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
here again appear to be demonstrated. Two of the finest
sites in the Colony ( 1.0. the Diocesan Boys' School, Kowloon,
and St. Stephens College, Stanley), have been allotted to
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