Yesterday afternoon H.E. the Governor laid the foundation of a public school for Kowloon, to accommodate 200 children. The site is at the junction of Kimberley and Robinson Roads, Tsun-tso-tsui, and was presented by the Government. Mr. Ho Tung has undertaken to pay the cost of erection, estimated at $12,000, and he opened the proceedings in a long speech, in which he showed how the need for such an institution had developed in the peninsula. The Governor thanked Mr. Ho Tung, on behalf of the community, for the gift of the building, and expressed a hope that another benefactor, fired by his example, would come forward later on and present the community with a building for a secondary school. Sic Henry Blake then laid the stone, and cheers were given for. the donor, and' for the Governor and Laly Blake.
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