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school with 12 classrooms, a spacious as sembly hall and sufficient open space for recreation, that will prove a boon to young students of this district.
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Plan of ground floor, section through
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Occupation to make room for a larger airport.
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immediate problem that crowded "Bishop Bianchi is now glad that a us; for there were over-riding considera- more beautiful shrine and a larger school tions of food and housing to be consider- are being erected here in honour of St. ed first. But the sponsors of this school. Francis of Assisi who chose poverty for and the church that will follow it, had his bride and whose love of nature, the wisdom to see that more relief was humility, simplicity and kindness have not enough, that even when children were become proverbial. The world, more than fed and clothed they were still in poverty ever, is in need of these sterling qualities if their minds were left uncared for. and his Lordship feels confident that the faithful and students of this parish will have good opportunities to admire and study the examples given by that great Saint and endeavour to copy his marvel- lous virtues.”
Msgr. Riganti thanked the Government for the site, and all benefactors.
At the
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ceremony Mr. Crozier,
"It may be already known to you that, Director of Education, said in part:- for some years before the last war, a chapel and a school in honour of St. "This new school will be a symbol of Francis of Assisi existed at Kowloon City, what I mean. It was thought of and buit through the generosity of the Misses planned at a time when the social fabric Anna and Wilhelmina Gomes, in remem- of this Colony was being tested by an brance of their father. That chapel and unprecedented strain. Education was not school was demolished during the Japanese the only, or perhaps the most important
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"Wisdom of this kind, pursued in the face of the distracting calls and of in- numerable difficulties, is a compound of faith and practical commonsense. my opinion, it is a blend of those two qualities that will give us all that we, who work for Education, hope eventually to realise."
General Contractor: Shiu Tai & Co. Metal Windows: Canton Metal Window
Mfg. Co., Ltd.
Roof Tiles: Grand Traders, Ltd. Wiring Installation, supply of exhaust fans and "Atlas" Fluorescent Light- ing Equipment: Jardine Engineering Corp., Ltd.
The entrance lobby leading to the church.
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The playground-auditorium looking towards the stage.
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