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boys to go further and master the necessary dry details that have to be got up in Geography. The heavy cost is the only objection. I can only add that if the Govern- ment do purchase the complete set, I am ready to undertake to the best of my ability the carrying out of the rest.
May 31, 1905.
T. A. POPE.
At a meeting of the Executive Council held on the 6th July, 1905, it was decided that the matter should be submitted to the Combined Court.
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No. 38.
ORANGE RIVER COLONY.
MR. C. P. LUCAS to MR. H. F. WILSON.
Downing Street, October 3, 1905. MY DEAR WILSON,
You will no doubt have seen the enclosed circular from Mr. Lyttelton of the 13th April last,* about lectures on the United Kingdom for use in the Colonies. As the original book of lectures for the three Eastern Colonies is now complete, and being printed off, we are in a position to take up special editions for other divisions of the Empire, among them being South Africa.
2. You will see from the replies received to the circular that the Transvaal. the Orange River Colony, and Basutoland are prepared to join in the scheme, while I gather that at first the attitude of Cape and Natal is somewhat uncertain.
they did not fully understand what is intended, but I have now explained it to the Secretaries to the Agents-General. However, my object in writing to you is to say that it would simplify matters very much if the initial cost of £100 were paid by a single Colony which would re-sell or make some small necessary charge to the other Colonies desiring to use the Look of lectures and the slides, and it has occurred to us that possibly the Orange River Colony might take it in hand.
3. You will understand that the £100 mentioned on page 3 of the circular is for producing a special edition of the set of lectures which will be owned by the Colony or Colonies paying the £100, but that the cost of multiplying the copies of the book and the slides, one set of which is, as you will see, roughly estimated to cost £43 10s. will be over and above this £100. If the Orange River Colony were to pay this £100 it would own a book which would be its exclusive property within South Africa, provided that the book wasn't sold or used outside South Africa, this proviso being necessary in order to preserve copyright in the original edition, and the Colony could recoup itself by charging a proportionate amount to the other South African Colonies. But it would have to pay for multiplying copies of the hook for its own use and for the slides, which, after all, are the main element of expense.
4. If you are inclined to the view that the Orange River Colony might bear this small initial cost, I wish you would kindly make it convenient to call, some day after next Wednesday, on Mackinder, at the School of Economics, Clare Market, W.C., and discuss the matter with him, as he has discussed it with me.
5. I am leaving town on Wednesday for a month.
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and we are in a position to take up special editions for other divisions of the Empire, among them being West Africa.
2. You will see, from the other West African replies received to the circular up to the present, that the Gold Coast is prepared to join in the scheme, while Gambia and Northern Nigeria stand out. My object in writing to you is to say that it would simplify matters very much if the initial cost of £100 for adapting a West African edition were paid by a single Colony, which would re-sell or make some small necessary charge to the other Colonies desiring to use the book of lectures and the slides, and it has occurred to us that possibly Southern Nigeria might take it in hand.
3. You will understand that the £100 mentioned on page 3 of the circular is for producing a special edition of the set of lectures which will be owned by the Colony or Colonies paying the £100, but that the cost of multiplying the copies of the book and the slides, one set of which is, as you will see, roughly estimated to cost £43 10s., will be over and above this £100. If Southern Nigeria were to pay this £100, it would own a book which would be its exclusive property within West Africa, provided that the book wasn't sold or used outside West Africa (this proviso being necessary in order to preserve copyright in the original edition), and the Protectorate could recoup itself by charging a proportionate amount to the other West African Colonies. But it would have to pay for multiplying copies of the book for its own use and for the slides, which, after all, are the main element of expense.
4. If you are inclined to the view that Southern Nigeria might bear this small initial cost I wish you would kindly make it convenient to call, some day after next Wednesday, on Mackinder, at the School of Economics, Clare Market, W.C., and discuss the matter, including the points raised in paragraphs 3 and 4 of your despatch, with him, as he has discussed the matter with me.
5. I am leaving town on Wednesday for a month.
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No. 40.
Yours, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
COLONIAL OFFICE to MR. H. J. MACKINDER.
Downing Street, October 9, 1905.
SIR,
In answer to your letter of the 28th ultimo* and with reference to the inter- view held at this Office on the 29th ultimo, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to enclose prints of a lettert to the High Commissioner for Canada and of despatchest to the Governors of Trinidad and Mauritius, with private letters to Mr. W. Egerton, C.M.G., Governor of Lagos and High Commissioner for Southern Nigeria, and to Mr. H. F. Wilson, C.M.G., Colonial Secretary of the Orange River Colony, on the subject of the development of the scheme for visual instruction.
These communications have been written as a result of the understanding which was come to at the recent interview, and I am to ask you to be good enough to guide yourself in accordance with their terms.
Yours, &c.,
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C. P. LUCAS.
No. 41.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
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MY DEAR EGERTON,
No. 39.
SOUTHERN NIGERIA.
MR. C. P. LUCAS to MR. W. EGERTON.
Downing Street, October 3, 1905. I SHOULD like you to look agair at Mr. Lyttelton's circular of the 13th April and your reply of the 24th June, † copies of which are enclosed, now that the original book of lectures for the three Eastern Colonies is complete and being printed off,
• No. 2.
† Nos. 2 and 11.
(No. 520.)
SIR,
GOLD COAST.
ACTING GOVERNOR BRYAN to MR. LYTTELTON.
(Received October 27, 1905.) [Answered by No. 109.]
Government House, Accra, October 9, 1905. In continuation of my despatch, No. 256, of the 30th of May last, I have the honour to inform you that the Director of Education (Mr. Robertson) häs, hitherto,
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