MATATALT VIRTUS
OF HONG KONG. 2/
21st February, 1931.
Tel. No. 28056.
Code: A. B. C. 5th. Ed.
Arthur Mayhew Esq., C.I.E.,
Secretary to the Colonial Office Advisory Committee on Education,
2, Richmond Terrace,
Whitehall S.W.l.,
ENGLAND
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My dear Mayhew,
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Thank you for your letter of the 10th January, 1931, and
for your kind congratulations which you were good enough to convey
therein.
I trust that when my provocative memorandum went before
the Advisory Committee on the 22nd January, it did not upset them
too much. I am not in the least opposed to the teaching of Chinese
Classics and I hold that a proper study of the vernacular is
essential for every Chinese boy and girl who goes to school in this
Colony. But my difficulty is, that in the first place, nobody seems
to know what the vernacular of Hong Kong is. Some say that Cantonese
is merely one of the dialects of Kwantung and as I stated in my
memorandum, no less a person than the officiating Colonial
Secretary, who has been in Hong Kong all his working life, said that
Cadets and Police Probationers must go to Canton to learn Cantonese,