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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS

OF A

CONFERENCE

HELD AT THE

377

COLONIAL OFFICE, DOWNING STREET, S.W.,

On Thursday, July 10th, 1902, at 11.30 a.m.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

TPELLI C.O. 885

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-

COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH——NOT TO

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF ONSLOW, the Under Secretary of State for

the Colonies, presided, and there were also present:-

THE VICE-CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

MR. H. F. PELHAM, President of Trinity College.

MR. WARREN, President of Magdalen College.

MR. P. E. MATHESON, New College.

MR. H. T. GERRANS, Worcester College.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR EDMUND BARTON, Fellow of the Senate of the

University of Sydney.

MR. G. KNIBBS, New South Wales.

MR. J. W. TURNER, New South Wales.

PROFESSOR NEIL SMITH, Tasmania.

THE HONOURABLE H. B. LEFROY, Agent-General for Western Australia.

MR. R. RUSSELL, Superintendent of Education, Natal.

THE REV. DR. J. CAMERON, Member of the Council of the University of the Cape

of Good Hope.

THE HONOURABLE W. PEMBER REEVES, Agent-General for New Zealand. PRINCIPAL PETERSON, McGill University, Canada.

THE LORD GRENFELL, Governor of Malta.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. WEST RIDGEWAY, SIR CECIL SMITH, SIR WALTER SENDALL, and SIR W. MACGREGOR, for the Crown Colonies.

MR. C. P. LUCAS, MR. F. R. ROUND, and MR. T. C. MACNAGHTEN, Secretary. NOTE--The Agents-General for Victoria and South Australia sent letters ex- pressing regret that it was not possible for their Governments to be represented.

The Agents-General for the Cape Colony and Queensland were unfortunately prevented from attending.

THE EARL OF ONSLOW: Gentlemen, this Conference has been summoned here to-day at rather a busy moment, when everybody has his hands full, but I think that

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