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LANTERN

LECTURES

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BRITISH EMPIRE.

Colonial Office Letter of December 11, 1902, to the Agents-General of the Self-Governing Colonies, and their replies.

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COLONIAL OFFICE to THE HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR CANADA AND THE AGENTS-GENERAL FOR THE SELF-GOVERNING COLONIES.

MY LORD, SIR,

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Downing Street, December 11, 1902. I AM directed to inform your Lordship that by the Secretary of State's instruc- tions, a small committee being formed to consider the possibility and desirability of improving and widening education in the Crown Colonies by means of lectures and lantern slides illustrating life and industry in the Mother country and in other parts of the Empire, while at the same time suggesting the introduction, if possible, into the schools of this country of visual instruction by means of similar slides and lectures illustrating the conditions of the leading Crown Colonies.

2. Reference is only made at present to the Crown Colonies, and in the first instance regard would only be had to a few of their number, which might be in a position to contribute funds towards carrying out the object in view, but it is hoped that the results of what will be, in the first instance, a preliminary and informal enquiry by a small committee of persons interested in and cognisant with the subject may be of value to the Colonies generally, and possibly point a way to making the children of school age in all the various parts of the Empire conversant with those countries within its circle which are other than their own home.

'S. It is known that a good deal of educational work of this kind is carried out by some, at any rate, of the self-governing Colonies, and I am to ask to be favoured, with any information on the subject which in your opinion would be of guidance to the Committee.

It 'pecially desired to know what steps, if any, have been taken through your donres and lintern slides to familiarise the school children in this country ponthitions of life in

; and whether in the schools of as far as you are aware, any recognised system of visual instruction United Kingdom and the British Empire generally.

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRIPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPHENET TO

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON:

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