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announced that it would be building a new building with 12 classrooms on the site for $ 150,000. It was to be completed in the middle of the following year. The foundation stone for the building was laid on 25 December. Chinese and
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Military Police permission to occupy the premises, which were only to be made available to the school in December. In 1951, the school
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