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sine quâ non of appointment.
It was true that a proportion of such men
might be obtained in each year, but that for the
majority of our appointments we must rely on securing
raw material, i.e., on taking young men of good stamp
and education as soon as they got their Degrees.
These men muet either be sent out to obtain the ir
experience in the Department or if it was considered
pusines that they should have training in Educational matters
etc., such training must be given them here at the
expense of the Government which was going to use
them. This view has, I understand, been accepted
by the Native Advisory Committee, so far as Africa
is concerned, and it is this type of man whom we
are mainly recruiting for the African Educational
Departments,
So far as I could see Mr. McElderry agreed
with all my suggestions.
I asked him if he could
think of a suitable man to co-operate with me.
He said that personally, although he was his brother-
I was not be any in-law, he could not think of anyone better than Mr.
Keen. He is rathen
"Cranky":
A.
Orme. I do not know what view the Far Eastern Depart-
hold
ment or the Governor would have on this point, but I
do lay stress on the importance of obtaining a man of
the right personal stamp. So far as I know, the majority
of the older members of the Educational Department
in Hong Kong are not of the stamp which is now
required, and it would do more harm than good if
they were put into contact with University authorities
in this country; but there may, of course, be exceptio
whom I do not know.
(3.) With regard to the points of Captain