To the Editor of the Nowtit-Cawwa DAILY News." this week'
Gazette we read the following dren administered by the Covneil will close for the on Thursday Apri re-open for the Summer Term on Monday April 28 at the usual time, To me it seems rather absurd that a 10 days holiday should given at this time of the year, The usual long week-end certainly, but why extend it over the following week? If it were possible for the children to get any real benefit out of such a holiday there would bbe some excuse, but this is not the time when people can got away from Shanghai for anything better [than a few days up-country, with the result that the children find themselves doing nothing for a whole week when they might quite usefully be carrying on at school. It would, perhaps, be another thing' if the summer term were a lon lone, but it closes at the end of Ju when the real holiday which chil: dren require commences, Tam, ete, Parner,
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