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decision of the Legislative Council.
When the Bill was in Committee Mr.
A
E. A. Hewett stated that he had been asked to represent the
view of the Senate of the College that the Director of
Education should be excluded from the Senate. I gave my
reasons for thinking that it would be advantageous to retain
him, and I attach a copy of the Hansard report on which this
debate appears. I said at the same time that I did not in any
way wish to prejudge the question, and that if an amendment
was moved every Member, Official or Unofficial, would be free
to express his view. Mr. Hewett, however, was satisfied with
the reasons given and declined to propose an amendment, as
also did Dr. Ho Kai, who is a Member of the Court of the
College, and has been associated with it since its inception.
Mr. H. E. Pollock, who is also on the Court, was not present,
but he had agreed to the inclusion of the Director of
Education. In these circumstances it may be said that the
whole Legislative Council, Official & Unofficial, were
unanimously in favour of the inclusion of the Director of
Education on the Senate. Mr. Clementi informs me that he is
confident that if the opinion of the numerous other graduates
of Oxford and Cambridge and other Universities in the United
Kingdom were taken it would be found that fully as many would
be