PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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21 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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All such moneys are to be held upon trust for the following purposes:
(a) Payment of all charges of or incidental to the execution of the Trust.
The literary upkeep of the text books and other publications. (c) The preparation and production of such books, editions, &c., as the Trustees may think conducive to the promotion of Imperial education. (d) The collection and dissemination of information bearing on the history and resources of the Empire, and the duties, rights, and privileges of its citizenship. (e) The establishment of scholarships and prizes open to citizens of the Empire generally, or to such citizens within any given areas of the Empire, and subject to such conditions (not being conditions based on difference of class or creed) as the Trustees may think fit. (Generally for any purpose which the Trustees think conducive to the furtherance of Imperial education without distinction of class, creed, or country.
The Trustees are empowered to invest in any Trust Funds, to work through or with any educational authority or association, to employ editors and officers, and to make contracts.
They are bound to keep accounts and to publish them annually after audit.
New Trustees may be appointed by surviving or continuing Trustees, and must be so appointed when the number of Trustees falls below three. Prospective Trustees may also be nominated to fill future vacancies.
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No. 135.
MINUTES OF MEETING OF THE VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE AT 3.30 ON THURSDAY, THE 28TH OF SEPTEMBER, 1911.
PRESENT:
Sir Cecil Clementi Smith (in the Chair).
Sir Philip Hutchins.
Sir Everard im Thurn.
Sir Charles Lucas.
Mr. Sadler.
Mr. Heath.
Mr. Mercer.
Dr. Roberts.
Mr. Noall (Secretary).
The minutes* of the last meeting, having been previously circulated, were adopted.
The correspondence was reviewed.
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Sir C. Lucas informed the Committee that after the meeting he proposed to put their views as to the future conduct of their work before the Secretary of State. suggested that he should remain on the Committee as a private member, and that the Secretary of State should be asked to appoint Mr. Keith to represent the Colonial Office on the Committee, that a Sub-Committee should be appointed to press on the production of lectures and to report to the main Committee at regular quarterly meetings. With regard to the future he thought that the possibilities of the Imperial Education Trust should be carefully considered.
The Committee discussed and agreed upon the recommendations which should be submitted to the Secretary of State, and directed that they should be substituted for those at the end of Sir C. Lucas's revised memorandum.t
Sir C. Lucas stated that the Committee was in a safe position financially for the next six months, and it was agreed that the Secretary's salary should be continued for that period.
• No. 126.
† See Miscellaneous No. 265.
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Sir Everard im Thurn and Sir C. Lucas were asked to form a Sub-Committee to supervise and expedite the production of lectures during the next six months, with power to invite a third member of the Committee to join them.
The date of the General Committee Meeting was fixed for the first Wednesday in the last month of every quarter.
The Sub-Committee were asked to consider the question of proceeding with the preparation of lectures on Africa. Sir Cecil Smith strongly urged that work on the South African lectures should be begun at once, and Mr. Sadler asked that the Sub- Committee should consider whether they would approach Mr. E. B. Sargent with a view to his writing those lectures.
Sir Everard im Thurn advised that the method of procedure should be to secure an author who should make a first draft of the lectures, and then to obtain the photo- graphs necessary to illustrate the proposed text.
Sir C. Lucas suggested that Mr. A. J. Sargent should write the South African lectures, and that he should be sent out to South Africa to obtain photographs. Sir Philip Hutchins considered it unnecessary to send out a man, and Sir Everard im Thurn agreed.
Mr. Sadler thought that photographs taken by amateurs were better suited to the purpose of the Committee than those taken by professionals, and laid stress on the value of pictures painted by an artist of high standing.
Sir Everard im Thurn doubted the value of even the highest grade of paintings in view of their excessive enlargement when thrown upon the lantern screen.
During the proceedings Mr. H. J. Read attended on the invitation of Sir C. Lucas, and promised to bring the Committee's work to the notice of the officials of Uganda and the East Africa Protectorate during his coming visit, and to obtain photographs and notes for use in the preparation of lectures on those Protectorates. He said that Major D. E. Smith, R.E., had a good collection of coloured sketches.
Dr. Roberts expressed the opinion that school authorities were deterred from buying the slides by their excessive cost, and by the fact that only complete lecture sets could be purchased. He advocated that they should be sold at cost price, and that they should be available for sale in small quantities to supplement slides already in the possession of teachers and school bodies.
Sir C: Lucas pointed out that the Committee had not the machinery for selling except through some established firm.
The Committee agreed that Messrs. Newton should be instructed to sell slides in smaller quantities with a minimum of two dozen.
The Committee discussed the means of bringing the lectures and slides to public notice. Mr. Sadler pointed out that, so far as elementary schools were concerned, the central authorities were the proper people to interest in the matter. Sir Cecil Smith said that in the public schools, on the other hand, the matter was in the hands of the head masters.
It was agreed that propaganda work was necessary, and Sir C. Lucas observed that the great difficulty was that the Committee had no paid manager or agent.
Dr. Roberts said that the Gilchrist Trust would, no doubt, co-operate in any large scheme for making the lectures known.
Sir Philip Hutchins gave it as his own view that if the work were handed over to the Imperial Education Trust a travelling secretary or agent would be employed.
Sir C. Lucas suggested that the Imperial Education Trust might combine with the Committee, the Committee forming the nucleus of the new body. Mr. Sadler was strongly of opinion that the work of the Committee should not be handed over to any one outside organisation. He considered that it would be a distinct advantage to maintain the connection with the Colonial Office.
Sir C. Lucas reported that the lectures on the Imperial stations were nearly ready to be put into proof, and that the first draft of the lectures on Australasia would shortly be delivered by Mr. A. J. Sargent.
Sir Everard im Thurn considered that Mr. A. J. Sargent might be entrusted with further work for the Committee.
It was agreed that the Colonial Office member of the Committee should be empowered to authorize payments.
The Committee directed that the following resolution, moved by Sir Cecil Smith and seconded by Mr. Sadler, should be placed on record :--
That, in view of the impending retirement of Sir Charles Lucas from the Colonial Office, the Committee desire to take the opportunity of recording their
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