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MINUTES OF THE EIGHTY-EIGHTH MEETING OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION IN THE COLONIES.
Held in the Colonial Office on Thursday, 27th October, 1938.
LORD DUFFERIN (in the Chair).
MR. DAWE.
MR. BURNEY.
MR. CALDER.
SIR DONALD CAMERON.
MAJOR CHURCH.
PROFESSOR COUPLAND.
MR. CREECH JONES.
PRESENT:
MISS GIBSON (representing Mr. Dougall).
DR. ESDAILE.
DR. RAYMOND FIRTH.
PROFESSOR MACKINNON. MR. MAYHEW.
BISHOP MYERS.
MR. SCOTT.
SIR RICHARD WINSTEDT.
MR. WINTER.
MR. R. C. ALLEN (Superintendent of Education, Gambia).
MR. LUSBY (Official Secretary).
LORD DUFFERIN welcomed MR. ALLEN.
The Draft Minutes of the last meeting* were approved, subject to one verbal amendment.
Official Secretary.-LORD DUFFERIN announced that owing to his having been assigned to other duties in the Colonial Office, Mr. Grossmith had relinquished the post of Official Secretary to the Advisory Committee, and that he had been succeeded by Mr. G. A. Lusby.
Resignation of Dr. Burstall.-LORD DUFFERIN reported that the Secretary of State had been informed by Dr. Burstall that she was compelled by ill-health to resign her membership of the Committee. The Secretary of State had accepted the resignation with deep regret, and had expressed his gratitude to Dr. Burstall for the most effective services she had rendered for so many years. He had also written to the same effect. Dr. Burstall had had longer continuous service on the Committee than any other member, having been appointed to the original Committee on Native Education in Tropical Africa very soon after that body was established. The Committee might like to express its regret at the loss of a member who was, he felt sure, highly esteemed by all her colleagues.
DR. ESDAILE believed that it would take time for the Committee to realize how great their loss would be through Dr. Burstall's resignation. She had been so constant in her attendance and so continuous in her interest. DR. ESDAILE said that she would be very glad to associate herself with any letter that might be sent.
It was agreed that Lord Dufferin should write to Dr. Burstall, on behalf of the Committee, expressing their deep regret at her resignation.
2. Makerere College, Uganda.-Lord Dufferin announced that the Empire Cotton Growing Corporation had granted £10,000 towards the building fund of the new higher college at Makerere. The Secretary of State had expresed his gratitude to the Corporation for this gift.
The Governor of Uganda had emphasized to the Secretary of State his desire to have the constitutional and administrative framework of the new Makerere College in being by the beginning of 1939. To enable this to be done the Governor had asked that the necessary legislation should be introduced at the Uganda Legislative Council meeting on the 29th of October. The Committee would recollect that in May an Inter-Territorial Conference met at Kampala to consider the practical steps necessary to establish a higher college on the lines recommended by the Makerere Commission. The Report of that Conference was circulated to members with other papers which were to have been considered at the September meeting. That meeting had to be postponed. In the circumstances, in order to accelerate consideration of the question and enable the Governor to introduce the required legislation during 1938, he (Lord Dufferin) had agreed to a suggestion that the Report of the Inter-Territorial Conference should be examined by a small Sub-Committee of members having a special interest in the questions at issue. Of the members invited to serve, Professor Coupland, Major Church and Sir Richard Winstedt were unable to attend the Sub-Committee meeting, convened on the 12th of October, at which Sir Franklin Sibly, Dr. Esdaile, Mr. Scott and Mr. Mayhew were present. A note by Professor Coupland had been considered at the meeting. The
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