receive your explanations of the points

and comments

upon

raised in the enclosed memorandum,

but I may

state at once

that

It should be laid down plainly

that a Sitel is not director

Education but Inspector of

Schools, and that the higher

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classes at the college, should

no longer be inspected by him

be smart from his desperation.

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# MEMORANDUM

The Governor's despatch is summed up in

the words that "a continuation of the existing system

of education at the College coupled with a periodical

examination by the Inspector of Schools is practically an impossibility".

If this is the case it is due partly to

personal causes and partly to the absence of a clear

understanding as to what system of education should

be carried out at the College.

2. The first of these two points appears to be

the main cause of the difficulty. The friction between Dr Eitel and Dr Wright, has been more than once

brought to the notice of the Secretary of State and

has been evidently injurious to the cause of education in the Colony. Whatever may be the merits of

the questions at issue both the one and the other

ought to be given clearly to understand that their

personal altercations will not be allowed any longer

to interfere with the interests of the public service

and that if they wish to remain in that service they

must have the good sense to work in harmony with each

other.

3. As to the second point, the Secretary of

State is apparently invited to determine whether the

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