New Site and Building Required to House 1,000 Chinese Boys The faculty of &t. Francis Xavier's College entertained a number of prominent local Chinese and. Chinese alumni at a banquet held on Wednesday at the college building at Nanzing Road. General Ho Feng-lin presided. Rev. Bro. An-tonic, Director of the College, in an address of earnest welcome outlined the circumstances which demand immediate action to be taken for the extension of the work done by the College for the education ofthe Chinese. He recalled that 25 years ago the Chinese attendance was 50 only. Now the attendance is 300 instead of 1,000 which would have been the case had accommodation been available. Bro. Antonin reported with regret that in February last no fewer than 690 Chinese student-applicants had been turned away because there was no room for them. The scheme in view is to- raise some Tls. 200,000 for the purchase of some 30 mow of land for. the erection of a new school for Chinese boys capable of accommodating a total attendance of 1,000.
General. Ho Feng-lin, Mr. Sung Nan-chang, Chairman of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, and Mr. Loo Pak-hung, Managing Director of the Chinese Tram Car Company in the-City, all delivered addresses pledging their support to the new undertaking: which, they declared, is worthy of enthusiastic support in view of the excellent educational work which the Marist Brothers have done in China, Messrs. Francis Zia and Michael Ting spoke on behalf of the alumni and offered the wholehearted support and cooperation of the alumni to make the fund-raising campaign a success. They appealed to the prominent Chinese present.as representatives of the official, commercial and journalistic elements of the Chinese community to give the campaign-workers their full moral support, and paid a tribute to the Brothers for what they have achieved in training up young men for responsible positions in the various walks" of life.
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