C. 80047/9/31 [No. 8]. *
[Confirmed]
REVISE.
MINUTES OF THE THIRTIETH MEETING OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION IN THE COLONIES,
HELD IN THE COLONIAL OFFICE ON THURSDAY, THE 1ST OCTOBER, 1931, AT 11 A.M.
Present:
Sir JOHN SHUCKBURGH (in the Chair),
Miss BURSTALL,
Sir JAMES CURRIE,
Archbishop GOODIER,
Mr. HORRABIN,
Lord LUGARD,
Sir GEORGE MAXWELL,
Mr. MAYHEW,
Sir PERCY NUNN,
Mr. OLDHAM,
Sir MICHAEL SADLER,
Mr. SOMERVILLE, Mr. L. BEALE
The Hon. C. FARRER
(Department of Overseas Trade),
Mr. LACEY (Director of Education, Nyasaland),
Dr. LINDSAY (Chairman, Universities China Committee, Master of
Balliol College, Oxford),
Mr. SEWELL (Secretary, United Committee for Christian Univer-
sities of China),
Professor SOOTHILL (Professor of Chinese, Oxford University), Mr. CALDER (Colonial Office) (for Item 4),
Mr. POYNTON (Official Secretary).
1. The CHAIRMAN welcomed the visitors present. He announced that Sir Robert Hamilton had succeeded Dr. Shiels as Chairman, and said that Sir Robert much regretted that he was unable to be present on this occasion. He then read a letter from Dr. Shiels expressing his regret at leaving the Committee.
Sir MICHAEL SADLER, on behalf of the Committee, said that the members had appreciated serving under Dr. Drummond Shiels who had always shown an active, strong, sustained, and encouraging interest in the work. He asked that Dr. Drummond Shiels might be informed of the Committee's great regret that he would no longer be serving on the Committee.
2. The Minutes of the 29th Meeting* were confirmed. Miss BURSTALL, referring to the education of Mohammedan girls (Item 4, paragraph 3 of the Minutes of the 29th Meeting), said that she understood that it had been decided to close the Govern- ment girls' school at Tabora, Tanganyika, and that Miss Hake, the Headmistress, had been retrenched. She asked for a statement of the position. The CHAIRMAN replied that the Tanganyika Government had recently appointed a Retrenchment Commission which had referred in its report to a suggestion it had received that this particular school could be managed and run on secular lines by Mission sisters at one-third of its present cost, or alternatively that the school might be closed and the pupils sent to a Mission school at Ndala. The Commission had not definitely recommended either alternative, but had confined themselves to saying that the suggestion was "worthy of investigation." The recommendations of the Governor upon the Retrench- ment Commission's report had not yet been received. Miss Hake had been retrenched, but so far as the Secretary of State was aware no final decision had yet been taken as to the closing of the school.
3. Secretaries' Notices.-Mr. MAYHEW reported the following:-
(a) Mr. Caldwell, Assistant Director of Education, Nyasaland, had been appointed Director of Native Education, Northern Rhodesia, in place of Mr. Latham, who had recently retired. Mr. Scott, Director of Education, Kenya, was expected in England on 6th November this year.
Sir Percy Nunn informed the Committee that Mr. Caldwell, while on leave last year, had taken the course at the London Day Training College and his presence at the College, side by side with the younger men, had been a very valuable feature of the year's work.
The Committee agreed.
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