been taught writing and arithmetic at this school.
Arithmetic we take as far as vulgar fractions and percentages, which will enable the lads who desire to become Government clerks to transfer Indian coinage into sterling, cowrie shells into Indian currency, and so on. It proves a source of astonishment to many people to see how smart the boys are in working out very difficult examples after very short periods of teaching, many lads in two years’ time having gone from simple addition to very difficult vulgar fractions.
English is taught to boys specially selected by the Church Council as likely to benefit by it and be a credit to the Mission. We do not want to teach English to boys who are only Christians in name. They might go off as servants to Government men, saying that they know English, and have been taught in C.M.S. mission schools, inferring thereby that they are Christians and honest,
