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instruction at an evening class. (In 1910 “ for the 
first time for many years ” the Penang scholarships 
found holders!) The recommendations of the 1902 
Commission led to Raffles Institution being provided 
■with a science master and a laboratory and for a 
few years a class flourished, until finally the war 
robbing it of a master extinguished it. After the 
war it was reorganized and science has become 
popular as a subject for the Cambridge Local 
Examinations. Hand and eye work is now part of 
the curriculum of most of the schools in Malaya. 
Evening classes have been opened at Singapore and 
Kuala Lumpor for teaching Mathematics, Physics, 
Chemistry, Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism 
and Mechanical Drawing. 
One special institution, the Treacher Technical 
'School, was opened at Kuala Lumpur in 1906 for 
training apprentices for the Railway and Public 
Works Departments and later for the Survey 
Department. Except as a Survey School it was not 
a success. The clerical service and commerce proved 
so attractive that it was impossible to get local 
students or indeed any students of the right type. 
Soon after the beginning of the war it was closed. 
Lately there have again come up the questions of 
restoring this class and of building a Trade or 
Artizans’ School, primarily for Malays who desire to 
be trained as motor mechanics or fitters in rubber 
factories. As early as 1897 Sir Frank Swettenham 
favoured such a school and in 1917 a site was 
selected and designs drawn up but the great 
financial depression and doubts as to its success 
have delayed its birth. In due course Raffles 
•College will supply higher education for students of 
Engineering and Agriculture proficient in English. 
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