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Lectures

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Enclosure 2 in No. 64.

REPORT of the Finance Committee on Minute of His Excellency the Governor,

No. 45 of 1905.

[Meeting of Thursday, the 7th December, 1905.]

PRESENT:

The Honourable the Receiver-General, Chairman.

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the Auditor-General.

the Acting Collector of Customs.

Dr. V. Rohan.

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G. Gébert.

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L. S. R. du Vergé, I.S.O., Storekeeper-General.

Dr. H. Lorans, Director of the Medical and Health Department. P. E. de Chazal, C.M.G.

Léopold Antelme.

The Honorable L. Souchon.

Also in attendance:

READ: The following Minute of His Excellency the Governor, No. 45, dated 25th November, 1905:-

The Governor has the honour to invite

this very desirable object.

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[See Enclosure 1]

Your Committee recommend that the necessary expenditure, estimated at £100, to give effect to the above proposal, be voted by the Council.

Council Chambers,

1905.

December 7, 1905.

JAMES J. BROWN,

Chairman.

Laid before the Council of Government and adopted on the 12th December,

LÉON KENIG,

Clerk of the Council of Government.

Miscellaneous:

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15. Coromandel Railway Viaduct.

16. Le Reduit, residence of Governor,

17. Sugar Mill (Réunion Estate) with Trois Mamelles Mountains in back-

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ground.

Port Louis after cyclone of 1892. 19. Indians and hut.

20. Sea cocoanuts of Seychelles.

Enclosure 5 in No. 64.

DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION to COLONIAL SECRETARY.

(No. A/55.)

January 24, 1906. In continuation of my minute of to-day in M.P. 13433/05, of 14th December, 1905, I beg leave to send herewith a collection of 20 photographs, which I have obtained from Mr. Bernon, with a list of the subjects corresponding with numbers written on the backs of the photographs.

2. Nos. 1 to 19 are illustrative of Mauritius, No. 20 referring to Seychelles. I think that most of them are such as will give good lantern transparencies. Some few, as Nos. 6, 9, and 14, will probably not give very good results; but I send them since the subjects are interesting; and I doubt whether much more suitable photo- graphs of these subjects could be obtained.

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W. T. A. EMTAGE, Director of Public Instruction.

Port Louis:

Enclosure 4 in No. 64.

LIST OF PHOTOS FOR LANTERN SLIDES.

1. General view from Citadel.

2. Place d'Armes with statue of Labourdonnais.

3. Central Railway Station with statue of Queen Victoria.

4. Labourdonnais Square.

Waterfalls:

5. Chamarel.

6. Tamarín.

7. Rivière du Poste.

8. Rivière Savanne.

Mountains:

9. Pieterboth head.

10. Moka Mountains with Pieterboth.

('oast:

11.

Rivière La Chaux.

12.

Baie du Cap.

Trees:

13.

Palm trees in Pamplemousses Gardens.

11. Banyan tree on coast, with little creoles and fishing net.

CAPE COLONY.

SUPERINTENDENT-GENERAL OF EDUCATION to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received February 26, 1906.)

SIR,

[Answered by No. 69.]

Office of the Superintendent-General of Education,

Cape Town, February 6, 1906.

I AM desired to acknowledge the receipt of your letter* addressed to the Superintendent-General of Education while in London, regarding the adaptation for the use in South Africa of certain lantern lectures.

Dr. Muir desires me to state that he had proposed accepting the proposals contained in your letter, but on his arrival here found that correspondence had been carried on on this subject through the Agent-General. From this corre spondence it would appear that the estimated cost to the Government of this Colony would be (a) £20, being its share of the expenses of preparation of new lecture and slides, (b) £43 10s., cost of a set of slides, and (c) 2s. 6d. for each copy of lectures.

Upon instructions from the Honourable the Colonial Secretary here, this Department is prepared to incur these expenses and further to take the necessary steps for supplying Mr. Mackinder with a series of photographs necessary for the special South African set of slides. This material is at the present moment being gathered.

The proposal in Section 2 of your letter under reply* that the whole initial cost of adaptation should in the first instance be borne by one Colony, who would thereafter collect the contributions of the other co-operating Colonies, has not apparently been definitely put before the Government of this Colony or considered by them.

Although there is some slight difference in the working of the scheme, as indicated in your letter under reply* and as embodied in other correspondence here, Dr. Muir thinks that you will agree that it may be best for office convenience to

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