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I shall be much obliged if you will inform me to whom the cheque fór £M should be made payable?
I have, &c.,
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SIR,
No. 51.
NATAL
WILLIAM ARBUCKLE,
Agent-General.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE AGENT-GENERAL FOR NATAL.
[Copy to Mr. Mackinder, December, 19, 1905. L.F.]
Downing Street, December 19, 1905.
I AM directed by the Earl of Elgin to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th instant,* stating that the Government of Natal are prepared to contribute the sum of £20 towards the cost of the adaptation of a series of lantern lectures on the United Kingdom for use in South Africa, and intimating that steps are being taken to supply photographs of Durban Harbour, &c., for use in connection with the preparation of slides.
I am to thank you for your letter, which is duly noted, and to express Lord Elgin's pleasure that the Natal Government are prepared to co-operate in the pro- posed South African edition. A further communication will be made to you as soon as the initial arrangements are completed, and in the meantime I am to ask you to be good enough to hold the cheque in hand. The point now being considered is whether, for purposes of copyright, it would be more convenient that one Colony should nominally contribute the initial £100, being recouped in due proportions by the others, or whether there should be nominally joint ownership from the beginning.
The photographs when received at this affice will be handed to Mr. Mackinder for the preparation of slides, and they will be most acceptable.
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No. 52.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
CAPE COLONY.
Dr. T. MUIR (SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION) to MR. C. P. LUCAS.
(Received December 21, 1905.)
[Answered by No. 53.]
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lectures on the United Kingdom prepared by Mr. H. J. Mackinder, I am directed by the Earl of Elgin to refer you to Mr. Lyttelton's circular despatch of the 13th of April last, a copy of which is enclosed, and, by way of illustration, to a despatch which was addressed to the Governor of Trinidad on the 2nd of October last,† a copy of which is also enclosed.
The suggestion is that there shall be a special edition of the book and of the slides for each group of Colonies, that this edition shall be prepared at an initial west of £100, as shown in the circular, and that, as a matter of simplicity, one Colony in the group should preferably pay this preliminary sum and recoup itself from the other Colonies.
In the present case, if the Cape Government are good enough to incur the initial expense of a South African edition, that edition will become the property of that Government, with ownership of the copyright within South Africa (assum- ing that there are no obstacles to such copyright under the laws of the South African Colonies). The Cape Government would then make its own arrangements with the other Colonies for recouping a fair proportion of the £100.
On hearing from you that this arrangement is acceptable, a communication to that effect will be made to Mr. Mackinder, and it is hoped that you may be able to communicate with him yourself at the London School of Economics.
I am to enclose a copy of recent correspondence‡ with the Agent-General for Natal, and to add that the Governments of the Transvaal, Orange River Colony, and Basutoland have expressed their readiness to co-operate.
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I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
No. 54.
CAPE COLONY.
COLÒNIAL OFFICE to the AGENT-GENERAL FOR THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
SIR,
Downing Street, December 23, 1905. Wrra reference to the letter from this Department of the 5th May last,§ on the subject of lantern lectures, I am directed by the Earl of Elgin to request that you will be so good as to forward to Dr. Muir, C.M.G., Superintendent-General of Education for the Cape of Good Hope, the enclosed letter with regard to the preparation of a special edition of the lectures for use in South Africa.
I am to enclose, for your information, the accompanying copy of a semi-official communication from Dr. Muir to myself, upon which my present letter to him is based.
DEAR MR. LUCAS,
Thackeray Hotel, Great Russell Street,
London, December 20, 1905. BEFORE leaving for Scotland I consulted Dr. Jameson in reference to the lantern-slide scheme, and he agreed that we should co-operate in the way you desired..
Perhaps it would be well to have an official letter sent to me, with the terms of the proposal, my reply to which would complete the matter.
With kind regards,
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SIR,
No. 53.
CAPE COLONY.
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No. 55.
TRINIDAD.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
GOVERNOR SIR H. M. JACKSON to MR. LYTTELTON. (Received December 26, 1905.)
I am, &c.,
THOS. MUIR.
(No. 323.)
SIR,
COLONIAL OFFICE to DR. T. MUIR.
[Answered by No. 65.]
Downing Street, December 23, 1905. WITH reference to your letter to me of the 20th instant,† and to our personal interview, on the subject of the adaptation for use in South Africa of the lantern
Answered by No. 56.]
Government House, December 5, 1905.
REFERRING to your despatch, "General," of the 2nd October last,† on the sub- ject of the scheme for giving to the school children of each Colony a better knowledge of the United Kingdom and other parts of the Empire by means of a prepared series of lectures, illustrated by lantern slides, I have the honour to inform you that the following vote was passed by the Legislative Council yesterday:-
*
'That this Council approves the expenditure of £150 for the intro- duction of the scheme of lectures on the United Kingdom and other parts of
• No. 50.
↑ No. 52.
• No. 2.
§37132 not printed.
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† No. 35.
1 No. 53.
Nos. 50 and 51.
No. 52.
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
PC.O-885
17 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO
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