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repatriation passage until the school is in running order. hope that she will be able to proceed to England about the middle of November. Surplus Goverment teachers are being used in the grant schools.
We are subjecting all teachers to security examination, and while we have found four or five Government teachers who have actively assisted the Japanese and have now been dismissed, thore seems to have been, on the whole, considerable loyalty to the British cause amongst the teachers of this Colony.
As you will see, our future plans during this cmorgency period are necessarily bound up with the procurement of the necessary buildings and supplies, and we can merely go ahead and expand from day to day as those become available.
This is rather a long statement, but I thought these details would probably be of interest to you and the A.Č.E.C. sub-committco. I hope very shortly to forward the now Grant Code officially, but I should very much like to know, first of all, whether it has ever received any official blessing. As I have said, I searched high or low while I was with you for any indication that this had boon done but without success. It would help considerably if you could make enquiries and let me know by telegram whether the A.C.E.C. or the S. of S. had taken any action on it.
I trust that the general educational affairs of the Colonies are settling down to peace-time reconstruction; that the religious difficulties in the West Indies and the Gambia are resolving themselves; that Sir Fred Clarke's report on the situation in Basotuland has had the effect of clearing the educational impasse in that country, and I should dearly love to hear what his reactions wore to the "papal bull". Flease give him particularly my kind regards and my hopes that he enjoyed his trip.
With best wishes to yourself, Robison and Bieneman, (not forgetting Miss Barker and Mrs.. Haig.)
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Yours vory sincerely,
HpRowell
Colonel, C.A.