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No. 11.
LAGOS: SOUTHERN NIGERIA,
GOVERNOR EGERTON to MR. LYTTELTON.
(Received July 13, 1905.)
SIR,
Government House, Lagos, June 24, 1905. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your circular despatch of the 13th April last,* addressed to me as Governor of Lagos and also as High Commis- sioner for Southern Nigeria, submitting a scheme for lectures to be prepared and delivered with the object of giving to the school children of the United Kingdom a better knowledge of the Colonies, and of giving to the school children of each Colony a better knowledge of the United Kingdom and of other parts of the Empire.
2. I submitted the despatch to my Executive Council here and the scheme meets with the unanimous approval of its members. I advise joining with Southern Nigeria in the course of lectures proposed. Southern Nigeria and Lagos will, I presume, be considered as one Administration for this purpose, and the £100 re- quired for adapting the lectures or such other sum as you may deem desirable can be easily provided.
3. In the first lecture there should be at least five views of Southern Nigeria and five of Lagos, and I presume the Niger will take somewhat the place that the Nile does in the lecture on the journey from the East to London.
4. I shall be glad to procure suitable photographs of places in Southern Nigeria and Lagos as soon as I know the number required, and request that one full set of slides for each lecture, when these lectures have been prepared, may be supplied for use out here.
(No. 105.) SIR,
No. 13.
GAMBIA.
GOVERNOR SIR G. C. DENTON to MR. LYTTELTON. (Received July 22, 1905.)
Government House, Bathurst, Gambia, July 5, 1905. I HAVE the honour to inform you that your circular despatch of the 13th April,* on the subject of the introduction here of a course of lectures illustrated by lantern slides has been laid before the Board of Education, and I now forward a copy of a report by a Sub-Committee of the Board appointed to go thoroughly into the whole matter.
2. It will seen that the Sub-Committee consider that there are only a very few children who are sufficiently advanced, and have a good enough knowledge of English, to derive any benefit from these lectures, and that, therefore, it is unadvisable to spend money on them.
3.
In this view I am bound to concur, looking to the fact that it is reported to me that, were the lectures rewritten in a plain simple manner, the number of children who would be able to follow and understand them would not exceed twenty- five, and that in their present condition only five or six would be able to do so.
4. With regard to the proposal that catalogues of lantern slides should be obtained from Messrs. Frith and Company, Messrs. Newton and Company, and Messrs. Valentine and Company, I have instructed the Officer in charge of the Secretariat to comply with the suggestion and write for the catalogues in question, as I think an expenditure of five or ten pounds not too much to incur for such an object as the one indicated by the Sub-Committee.
I have, &c.,
GEORGE C. DENTON,
Governor.
I have, &c.,
W. EGERTON,
Governor.
Enclosure in No. 13.
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No. 12.
NEW SOUTH WALES.
LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR SIR F. M. DARLEY to MR. LYTTELTON.
(No. 42.)
(Received July 17, 1905.)
[See No. 26.]
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State Government House, Sydney, June 12, 1905. WITH reference to your circular despatch of the 13th April last, I have the honour to state that my Ministers advise me that they fully recognise the desirability and importance of giving to the school children of the United Kingdom a better knowledge of the Colonies, and of giving to the school children of each Colony a better knowledge of the United Kingdom and of the other parts of the Empire, and that enquiries have been instituted with a view of ascertaining to what extent the scheme mentioned in the despatch now under notice can be adopted by this State, and how it can be advantageously varied.
I have, &c.,
FREDK. M. DARLEY,
Lieutenant-Governor.
REPORT of the Committee appointed to consider the adoption of Lectures prepared by Mr. Mackinder.
The Committee met on the 21st and 24th June and considered the project of purchasing a set of lectures to be illustrated with lantern slides prepared by Mr. Mackinder. It appears to the Committee that as a set of slides would cost about £43 10s. Od. and a share of the cost of adaptation of the slides and lectures would have to be borne by this Colony, and allowing for incidental expenses, that the total cost of obtaining and delivering these lectures would amount to at least £70.
The Committee consider that the benefit which would be derived from these lectures by the limited number of children who would properly understand them would not be such as to justify the expenditure of this sum of money.
The Committee considered the suggestion made by His Honour the Chief Magis- trate as to the conjoint purchase by the West African Colonies of a set of slides. Having regard to the large number of schools in the other Colonies and consequently the very prolonged periods for which those Colonies would probably require the slides, the Committee are of opinion that the scheme would not produce any sub- stantial educational results in this Colony.
The Committee, however, think that much benefit would be derived by the illustration by lantern slides of general scenes and views of particular mountains, towns, rivers, &c., of the different countries which are specified in the education rules for the examination in geography.
The Committee understand that such slides can be purchased at 1s. each, so that if properly selected a most useful collection could be obtained at a cost of £5 or £10. The slides would he always in the Colony and could be obtained at any time by a schoolmaster when he wished to illustrate his lectures in geography.
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