He proposes that they should be granted £100 for this quarter
in order to maintain them
at the Ministry for the period. When they go
to the long vacation they would be able to apply them to the Ministry
by the colonial government the language.
This arrangement might also be adopted in the case of the Thais
still quarter difficult?
where
Experienced in teaching Chinese than
Hong Kong
LAM
of Lad Samann
thinks
Although the proposal I think in full might be sent to
Director to communicate with Dr Lage on the
Subject.
I think it would be a fatal
in the hands of
the Government of Hong Kong the splendid Patronage invoked in die A. Kannist
Scheme.
Am 20/712
Mr Meade -
16
Speaking of renewing the Students Scheme, it has grown a staff of good men qualified to become head of Departments, which in the prime of life : and The sudden stoppage of the scheme leaves us without interrupting + without any specially good juniors in the other branches of the service; the best of Juniors mostly Portinguans x good as many of them
of them are we ought to keep up a supply. English clerks to fill up the posts which require not only general Education but also knowledge of Chinese. There is sound sense in the proposal that the students should study Chinese for a year in England = not only that they are likely to do better work in a cool climate, but that the additional Time spent at home will make them physically stronger to withstand the climate, & morally stronger to resist The social temptation of a fun on lazy plan like Hongkong. I have always been opposed to sending cadets to any Wing Foo Young
The details of this part of the scheme.
concerning it out by the Council
forming
5
the
average Rule
-
Concrete and wise arrangement by a Didappoint as
as by any this Persons - In selecting the students what it would be wise to require a special medical Examination as the first step-
When the students arrive, the Junior ones I suppose apportion their duties, which should not of necessity be interpreting, though every one should contemplate that as likely to be his work
The
interpreting staff is my difficult to organise, for besides Cantonese, of which there are two dialects Hakka dialect & Punti, and the Tin Chow or North China, from Amy Amoy upward, Malay, Hindostani, & various Russian languages are sometimes wanted.
It is temporarily desirable not to divert a good linguist