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Enclosure 2 in No. 33.
GOVERNOR, Natal, to HIGH COMMISSIONER.
MY LORD,
Government House, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, September 1, 1905. WITH reference to your despatch, No. 25/25, of the 31st July, I have the honour to inform you that my Ministers concur in the suggestion made by you, that any other Government of South Africa, on agreeing to share the cost, should be allowed the use of the lantern slides which are specially adapted for schools. The Natal Education Department will prepare its own lectures.
I have, &c.,
His Excellency
The High Commissioner for South Africa,
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SIR,
&c., &c., &c.,
Johannesburg.
HENRY MCCAllum.
No. 34,
MAURITIUS.
MR. LYTTELTON to GOVERNOR SIR C. BOYLE.
[Answered by No. 64.]
Downing Street, October 2, 1905. In your despatch, No. 174, of the 17th June,* answering my circular despatch of the 13th April last, you asked that Mr. H. J. Mackinder might be invited to state whether he could take steps to edit the lectures on the United Kingdom which he has prepared for use in the Eastern Colonies for use in the schools of Mauritius. I have been in communication with Mr. Mackinder, and it has been arranged that the initial cost of £100 shall be reduced by one-half in the case of Mauritius, inas much as the first lecture of the series, which would have to be entirely rewritten in the case of, say, the West Indies or Canada, will not require so much change in the case of Mauritius, the route from that Colony to England being, from Aden onwards, identical with that from the Eastern Colonies.
2. But in that case it will not be possible or indeed advisable to have as many as forty-seven new slides, and, if you will refer to the schedule Miscellaneous, No. 174. which formed an enclosure to my circular despatch and a further copy of which is now enclosed for facility of reference, you will agree that from twelve to twenty slides to illustrate Mauritius and the voyage via the Seychelles to Aden would be all that would be appropriate. I would ask you to have some suitable photographs of, say, full-plate" size, sent home, together with such notes as you may think fit to add, in order that there may be no unnecessary delay. I do not gather that any special instructions need be given as to the size and shape of the photographs.
3. This special edition for use in Mauritius will, of course, be the property of the Mauritius Government, provided that it is only sold and used within the Colony itself or the Seychelles, this stipulation being made, as will be readily under- stood, in order to preserve the copyright outside those places. Should the Seychelles Government wish to take advantage of the adapted edition they will be expected to make such an arrangement with the Mauritius Government as will refund to that Government a proportion of the initial expense of £50.
4. I hope these explanations will be satisfactory to you, and I am intimating to Mr. Mackinder that he may proceed in the matter in advance of the vote of the Council of Government, who, I trust, will be ready to co-operate in the experiment. 5. I desire to express my appreciation of your despatch, which shows that you have fully understood and are in cordial sympathy with the purport of this scheme.
I have, &c.,
ALFRED LYTTELTON.
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No. 35.
TRINIDAD.
MR. LYTTELTON to GOVERNOR SIR H. M. JACKSON.
(General.)
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[Answered by No. 55.]
Downing Street, October 2, 1905. In your despatch, No. 174, of the 13th June,* answering my circular despatch of the 13th April last,f you stated that Trinidad would be glad to join the other West Indian Colonies in sharing the expense of adapting the lectures on the United Kingdom which have been drawn up for use in the Eastern Colonies to the require- ments of the West Indies. Some other of the West Indian Colonies have also expressed their wish to co-operate, and I am now in a position to recommend what should be done.
2. It will be remembered that in my circular despatch of the 13th April lasi, a copy of which is enclosed for facility of reference, I suggested that special editions of the lectures should be prepared for the different divisions of the Empire, the West Indies being one of those divisions.
3. The position stands as follows:-The present book now being printed off is the property of, and is designed for use in, the schools of the Eastern Colonies only, and it is not proposed at present to offer it to the public outside those Colonies. A considerable number of the slides which illustrate the lectures are also the property of those Colonies. It is contemplated that Mr. Mackinder shall prepare an edition of the book for use in the West Indies, which shall be the property of the West Indian Governments who pay for its preparation. The first of the present lectures, as you will see by reference to the enclosed syllabus,‡ deals with a voyage from the East to England. For this it will be necessary to substitute a journey from the West Indies to England with appropriate slides. A reference to page 3 of the circular will show that the cost of producing this new edition and arranging the slides will be about £100. For this sum the Colonial Governments which con- tribute it will receive a book of lectures which will be their exclusive property on the understanding that it will be sold and used only in the West Indies, this stipu lation being made, as will be readily understood, in order to preserve the copyright outside the West Indies. But when this preliminary expense has been incurred, it will be for the various Governments to determine how many copies of the book they will require and how many sets of slides, and the cost of the slides, which on page 2 of the circular is estimated roughly at £43 10s. a set, together with the cort of multiplying the copies of the book, will be over and above the initial outlay of £100.
4. Thus, if the Government of Trinidad were to undertake the West Indian edition solely on its own account, it would pay for producing the book. for printing If, however, a sufficient number of copies, and for one set of slides, about £150. other West Indian Governments co-operate in producing the book, the initial cost I am inclined to think, if your of £100 would be proportionately reduced. Government will agree, that the simplest course is that Trinidad shall make the venture on its own account, and become owner of the edition, selling copies to the other West Indian Colonies or otherwise making such a charge as will make good whatever proportion of the initial £100 would have been paid by them on the ce- operative system in the first instance. This course will simplify questions of owner- ship and copyright, and I should be pleased if you were inclined to adopt it.
5. The expenditure in any case being very trifling, I will await an answer at your early convenience, and in the meantime will instruct Mr. Mackinder to proceed with the preparation of a West Indian edition, leaving the question of the exact apportionment of the initial cost to be determined subsequently.
I have, &c.,
ALFRED LYTTELTON.
• No. 15.
† No. 2.
• No. 8.
† No. 2.
Miscellaneous No. 174.
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