CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7] — Page 55

2. though

I cordially agree with the recommendation

"(par: 39D) that

one of What Smear's College

Shall be specially detailed

to the Masters

for training purposes receptivity," if I understand right [pars 76.7) additional payment at the rate of $4000 per

Colony, I cannot refuse to accept the

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summing up of the Committee in paragraph 94

of their report against the establishment

of such a school at the present time, supported

as their opinion is by Sir Cecil With

I am further fully prepared to concur in the

view that there should be a larger proportion of English masters in the Anglo

Chinese Schools, but I agree with Sir E.O.

Smith that in regard to the grant-in-aid

schools, the Government should demand certain

results and should not prescribe how those

results must be attained; and, in carrying out

any proposals made in the report which

affect these Schools action should only be

taken very gradually and with full notice

to the Manager. That teachers both English

and Chinese should be adequately paid, goes

without saying, and so far as the purely

Government Schools are concerned there should

be no difficulty in this respect.

It