HONG ZONG CHIEF INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS
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1.
The three Board of Education candidates
were interviewed by Sir Andrew Caldecott, är.
Gent and myself on 14th June. It was agreed that
I should draft a statement of our impressions for
mendment if necessary, or supplementing by Sir
Andrew Caldecott and Mr. Gent. It will, I think,
be convenient if I add my views, to which Sir
Addrew Caldecott and Mr. Gent will no doubt
attach their own.
2.
We agreed before the interview that, in
the light of previous correspondence and minuting,
we must bear in mind the probability of the
Directorship of Education becoming vacant within
the next two years, and the suitability of cundi-
dates for promotion to that post. Of the three
candidates, only Mr. Nicol asked us about the
prospect of such promotion. He was told that if
the post fell vacant his claims would be considered
on their merits. He did not seem to require any
No doubt the Board's proposal
further assurance.
for secondment in the first instance, to which no
objection has been raised so far by the Colonial
Jffice, has made the candiactes less anxious on
this point.
3.
We were all agreed in placing Mr.
Gibbon below the other two, noton grounds of
experience or ubility, which were quite satisfac-
tory, but with reference to personality end
temperament, so far as we can gauge it.
I may
add that the Board of Education papers spout him