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a better knowledge of the attractive
features of such a career in Hong Kong,
and particularly of the special interest
which attaches to the education of the
Chinese race and to the contact with
Chinese civilisation thereby given. It is
possible that this might best be done by
getting one or two influential members of
each of the principal Universities to take
a special interest in this question, with
a view to their encouraging a certain
number of picked undergraduates in each
year to apply for these appointments when
they take their degrees. It would be neces-
sary to supply such individuals, or informal
Committees, with good first-hand information
as to local conditions and life in the
Education Department. For this purpose it
would be a great assistance if you could
inform me of any really suitable officer
had
of the Service who b
retired or who was
likely to be in this country for some time
and