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den aminational schools, hile the Government has not only built King's College
at a cost of one million dollars
in what one may term a back street of Hong Kong and without adequate or suitable surroundings, but also proposed to build a now Central British School, likewise at the cost of one million dollars, in a place remote from the inhabitans whose children it is pposed to educate therein, and near the purlieus of Old Kowloon City.
For
41. The population of Rovloon numbers about 300,000. the education of the song of the Chinese section of this population the Government has provided one out-of-date District School at Yaumeti, which is one of the most congested areas in the peninsula.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 ( covering as it does twenty three acres) and the sum of $175,000, while it permits the Central British School, whers 240 boys and girls exe 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 comuaonsurate with the resources of that institution, and on a less ambitious
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