नबांबणीव्र भ७°ब्रिदांद्भ ዓ6ድ The following is His Excellency's reply to the address :- "Gentlemen and you my young friends :-I am very glad indeed to meet you once more in the Park, and I thank you very sincerely for the address which you have presented to me. As you are well aware, I have, ever since I have been in this country, taken a great interest in the subject of education in Barrackpore and its neighbourhood, and I have done what I could to promote that important object each year that I have visited this place. When the new school was established at Nawabganj there was some fear on the part of those specially interested in the Barrackpore School lest its existence might interfere with their prosperity, but nevertheless, believing as I did, that in a large population such as that which exists in this district there was ample room for two schools, and in spite of the strong interest, which I took in the Barrackpore school, I thought it my duty to give all the assistance in Iny power to the Nawabganj school which has been established and supported by the signal munificence of the two gentlemen, whom I see present, Babu Sridhar Mandal and Babu Bansidhar Mandal. It is particularly gratifying to me under these circumstances to see these two schools gathered together here on this
