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to his eastern experience,
that he would certainly be put in charge in
due course and they think well of him. His
work has been in Nottingham, where his senior officer has given him much independent work. He has been advising local education authorities, municipal and county, regarding senior and central schools and talked intelligently on
the subject. He has taken English and science
courses in the Board of Education short courses
for teachers, and has recently made a special
study of retardation, and has added educational
psychology to his "subjects". Age 47, married,
but would not take his wife out to Hong Kong
with him. He has visited Hong Kong, but do es
not know it well. He had not contemplated an
application for oversea work before the Board
of Education wrote to him about Hong Kong.
he seems to feel irresistibly drawn towards
further work in the East. He is much attracted
by the prospect and feels no doubt on the score
of health.
7.
Sir Andrew Caldecott was inclined,
Now
subject to further consideration, to prefer him
and attached considerable value to Mr. Cuttle,/though he admitted that secondary
education problems in Malaya were very different
from Hong Kong problems, and also to his
personality and reputation in Malaya. Mr.
Gent and I were most favourably impressed by
Mr. Nicol, but felt doubtful on the score of
health. We questioned his stock of energy and
driving power in a climate admittedly difficult
for part of the year. I felt also that his
educational experience in this country was