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was provided with a minimum amount of books and equipment. Little committees were formed of the schoolmasters who numbered about sixty and these helped in preparing a syllabus that could be worked with the books and equipment at their disposal. They arranged from the beginning to have a School, Certificate Examination and hoped that it would be recognised by the Cambridge Syndicate
authorities, as he was now glad to say had been the case. They had had one period of seven months when the Japanese forbade classes and teaching was then carried on surreptitiously. Unfortunately, the girls' schooling had to be dropped as women were under much more severe control. Those boys in the Camp received better education than those outside it, as they had almost individual tuition from teachers more highly qualified than those teaching cutside the Camp.
The most important educational work in the intern- Mont period was in bringing Europeans into contact with the people of the country. There had been some contact in recent years but not anything like as alas