CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907 — Page 714

C.3 20984

25 Bampton Street

Tiverton

12th June 1907

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ear Mr Lucas,

At the end of last month you were so kind as to give

je an opportunity of laying before you two ideas of mine for

he developement of education in the Far East, and for the in-

rovement of my own position. You said at the time that while

Of course you could not commit yourself to any expression of Opinion upon them then and there, you would bear them in mind;

nd that better to enable you to do so, I might set them before

you for reference in the form of a letter. They are as follows:

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DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.

When Dr Wright, Headmaster of Queen's College,, retires, the College will be put under the Head of the Education Department. This was laid down in the correspondence arising out of the ram port on the Committee on Education in 1902 (I am sorry I am un- able to give now a more exact reference) The salary of the Headmaster of the College is the same as mine is at present €4,800 €5,400 with double compensation. The school has an enrolment of 1500 boys, and shelters besides the Evening Conw tinuation Classes which already number 200 students, and of which the direct control should be, as it now is not, in the hands of the Headmaster. I do not therefore think it likely

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