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If approval is granted for these appointments
I should be glad if steps may be taken to select suitable candidates for them at an early date. I would refer Your
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last. of the two masters then asked for one has been appointed (Mr. Rowell) nine more are required (inclusive of the one not yet appointed); no information has so far been received that any assistant mistresses have been appointed and the fifteen now asked for are inclusive of the eight originally notified.
I enclose a statement of the qualifications desired but I would point out that should this standard be found to be impracticable it would be preferable to appoint candidates with inferior qualifications and less experience rather than to obtain no teachers at all. Kindergarten mistresses should however be fully trained in the teaching of infants. One mistress capable of teaching mathematics and three kindergarten mistresses are urgently required and I trust therefore that as stated in your telegram of the
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17th March the Board of Education has already made recommendations. They should arrive not later than the end of August. It will be sufficient if the remainder are
appointed so as to reach this Colony before the end of the
year.
Mr. R. E. 0. Bird, Headmaster of Ellis
Kadoorie School is shortly leaving for Engl and on leave of absence and he has expressed his wil) ingness to give any assistance possible to the Appointments Committee of the Board of Education. He has been instructed to report at the Colonial Office on his arrival.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord Duke,
Your Grace's most obedient
humble servant,
D.L. Stubbs
Governor, &c.