New School For Bsi Chinese
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From Our Own Correspondent
Honiara, Oct. 17.
IT was a big day in Chinatown (Matani kau), Honiara, on October 15, when the Acting Resident Commissioner of the Solomons (Mr. J. D. A. Germond) formally opened a school for Chinese children, which has been organised and financed by the Chinese community.
After the ceremony, European well wishers were entertained by Chinese re sidents at morning tea.
Up until now, there has been no formal education of Chinese children; but to day, when the school began work, 26 young scholars, smartly dressed in new uniforms, filed into the new building to make up for lost time. In the morning session they receive English instruction from Mrs. V. Anderson, wife of the Secre tary to the Government, who is a trained school teacher; and in the afternoons they study with a Chinese teacher, newly arrived from China.