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2 kichmond Terrace,
Whitehall, b.n.1.
28th October, 1930.
Dear Mr. de Martin,
The Advisory Committee on Education at its last meeting
showed considerable interest in the Education heport for Hong
Kong, 1929, prepared, I think, by hulphs. It was noticed that
attention had ben paid here qno there to the Committee's
suggestions, endorsed by the Secretary of State, regarding the
form and content of these Annual heports, but that a great deal
still remained to be done on the lines suggested by the
Committee in orde. to make the neport really intelligiba and
useful to outside readers not familier with local conditions.
I told the Committee that the Secretary of State had purposely
ubatsined from issuing any hard and fast instructions, and that
it was realised that uniform chapters and tables might not be
possible in all Colonies. I thought that there would be no
harm in my saying also that I was sure that in future heports
an effort would be made to go rather further along the lines
which had been suggested.
To take one example of what mignt, perhaps, te aone, the
Committee could find in the Kepart no separate treatment of