{ts present location, is handicapped by Ils distance from the residential area, although for some boys living, say,'in Hongkew, its site is convenient. 'On' other grounds it is quite unsultfable, "Urban surroundings produce conditions which prevent the boys from receiving insteuetion in a satis factory atmosphere of quietness and freedom from distraction, Tis playing ground. facilities are restricted. has not even the space by which the ordinary urban school elsewhere able to keep athay the hustling noise of passing traffic, That these con-Aitions have militated against use of the school by parents who are, able and willing to send thole boys*to a Council schoo! can hardly be doubted, The main object of the School's undation is to provide education for ritish boys of respectable European parentage." Tu actual practice this oes not prevent boys of non-Church fof England parents from attending the school, Dut itis generally ade milled that the close association with, find. the obvious dominance of the Interests of, the Cathedral in the minds of some who can exercise conflderable influence on the School's direction make many British parents '=Non-conformists, Jews, Roman Catholies—unable'to regard it as a national Institution. Removal toa Site away from the Cathedray will Giminish. this drawback, "especially fs, by eliminating the rent issue, it will, or should, enable the representa~ tives of the Cathedral Trustees. to. take a less biassed view of the School's requirements, The mere fact that the Cathedral "draws twenty choir boys from the school is une Important, Indeed it is easy to con-cive conditions in which the Cathe ral choir might be thrown open to boys of the" Church congregation generally and s0 relieve the School fof certain. of its responsibilities that ro yard. If membership of the Cathedral choir has any' religious significance it Is not easy to see how justification for confining it to the Himited category prescribed by +the Lester Will can be maintained.
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