The Archive · 1941

Proportionate Assessment

4, Educational funds should be applied for the benefit of (a) Chinese, (b) Japanese and (c) other foreign children in proportion to the contribution of these three groups towards Municipal revenue in the form of rates, 5. As soon as financial conditions permit, additional funds should be appropriated for education, over and above the minimum stipulated in paragraph 3, and such additional funds should be used to facilitate application of the principle contained in paragraph 4, 6, However desirable as being logically consistent with the principles contained in paragraphs 1, 2 and 4, transfer of the management or financial responsibility of any of the existing Municipal schools to national groups is under present conditions impracticable.

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