The Archive · 1939

Appeal to Britons

I would further urge the extreme desirability of the British community so taxing itself that a really worthy fund be created to ensure the education on British lines of our children and our children's children. And when I say the British community I not orly mean all of us individually but I mean all those companies registered here as British and enjoying the security accorded by trading under the Union Jack.

I make bold to assert that they one ud all should contribute generously when fortune smiles upon them and if that were the case there would be no difficulty in financing a British school or schools, worthy of the name, in which an education could be provided which would adequately equip the rising generation to take their proper, place in the life of this great city. Great it is now but far greater will it be in future and we must prepare for it.

"Mr. Massey then handed the title deed to the land and the keys to the pavilion to Mr. S. C. Miskin, a member of the Committee of Management of the School, amid loud applause, After accepting the keys and title deed, Mr. Miskin expressed his thanks on behalf of the Committee of Management to the Trustees of the Fund and to the individuals and firms who, by their subscriptions, had made the building of the new sports pavilion and sports ground possible, Royal Family and Sport Facilities for sport had been lacking for some time, he said, and had been difficult to obtain. With the opening of ihe new ground and pavilion, however, a great step had been taken towards providing that aspect of school life.with the facilities it had

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