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College comes under the Department. As it is, to inspect 70
or 80 schools properly, correcting their heaps of examination
papers, to attend to my duties in connection with the Board of
Examiners, and still to find time for office work and the ex-
cogitation and management of developements and improvements,
becomes yearly more difficult.
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WEI HAI WEI.
So far as unofficial or semi-official correspondence between
the High Commissioner and myself enables me to judge, education
has not yet been seriously tackled at Wei Hai Wei. If, as
seems to me possible, the problem must shortly be faced, I sub-
mit that there is no-one in a better position to set it on a
firm basis than myself. I would suggest that I should be sent
there in the first instance to report and draw up a scheme and
code.
Later it would probably be advisable to appoint a local
Inspector who would hold the same position with reference to
myself that the Inspectors of the Federated Malay States hold
to the Director of Public Instruction at Singapore.
Dr Wright will be 55 years old early next year. Should he then
elect to retire, so much of the foregoing changes as might ob-
tain the approval of the Colonial Office could come into force
without delay. If however he stays on, while Queen's College
would still have to retain its position outside my department,
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