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said in paragraph 3 of no. 2 on 53702.
Apparently it
has now been decided that no promise can be made of
the Directorship. This may be an obstacle so far as
enquiries through the Board of Education are concerned,
since the persons on the Board who would be interested
know the difficulties of educational work in Hong Kong
under a cadet Director of Education. If a really
first class man cannot eventually be found at home, I
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suggest that we should ascertain from the Governor,
while he is at home, what are his objections to Mr.
de Rome, who is apparently supported by the Department
of Education and local opinion, and whether he is
really satisfied that Mr. Sollis is a better man and
would be able to hold his own in the Department.
(Sgd.) ARTHUR MAYHEW,
18.2.37.
These minutes were written on 53541/36, but
this seems the more appropriate paper for them and
I have transferred them.
I am still of the opinion which I expressed in
my minute of the 8th of June last on 1132 Promotions.
I feel that continued importations into higher
educational appointments must be extremely dis-
couraging to the Service, and that some of those
which have been made (Major Bain Grey to British
Guiana and Mr. Jowitt to Uganda) have not been
experiments so successful as to justify further attempts of the
same kind, particularly when, as seems to be the
case here, there is available within the Service
a man who on his record is a good candidate for a
vacancy, and who is known to and recommended by the
Governor of the Colony where the vacancy exists.
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