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Advisory Committee on Native Education. Inter alia
the effect of this would be that various important
educational authorities in this country would come to
take a definite interest in Hong Kong education
and would speak of it to others outside.
(6) That the Hong Kong Government should select
an officer of experience and of the right personal
stamp, who had retired, or was going to be in this
country for some time at any rate, and who knew what
was wanted in Hong Kong and the conditions of life
Theme
and service; and that he should co-operate with me
in getting one or two selected people at each of the
big Universities definitely interested in helping
Education in Hong Kong, so far as we were concerned
particularly/by looking out for promising men whom
they would recommend to apply for appointments,
leaving the Universities.
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I said that I thought it might or might not
be necessary to improve the financial and other
eur material attractions of the Service, and, provided that
and Content I thought that the
these were reasonably impertan
best chance of assuring a supply of good candidates
would be to call the attention of selected men to
the great opportunities of interesting work and
experience which they might obtain by contact with
Chinese civilisation, and of the good effect which
they might have if their teaching was on sound lines.
(c) I also told Mr. McElderry that, as I had
previously stated to the Native Advisory Committee
with reference to Africa, I considered that under
existing conditions it would be impossible to secure
a sufficient number of Educational candidates for the
Colonial Service if we made the possession of a Diploma
of Education, or of previous teaching experience,