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Director of Education:-

Yes, Sir, I can assure Mrs. Chow that we'll be keeping

statistics from now on over the next few years, and I'm sure

the trend will have established after a few years' time.

But in practice we've adopted a wastage rate of 9 per cent to

10 per cent over the years in forecasting future demands, and

this figure is quite close to the overall figure which we

have in mind.`