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that a succe sor to Dr Wright will be found, at once competent and willing to accept the post at a lower salary than that now given.
It seems then not unreasonable to suppose that when the Col- lege is brought under my Department, I shall be granted an in- crease of salary, and that for 3 reasons:
Firstly because it would be unusual to ask me to undertake a task so largely increasing my responsibilities without addition- al remuneration.
Secondly because there would otherwise occur the anomaly of the Headmaster, my subordinate, drawing the same salary as myself. Thirdly I think I am justified in asking for some acknowledge- ment of the fact that in the weak position of Honorary Secre- tary to the Governing Body of the College I have for 6 years done a great deal of work in connection with it, and have suc- ceeded in effecting changes, which although strongly opposed at the time by the Headmaster, have proved their use, and are now acquiesced in by him. To give examples, the modern teaching of colloquial English (the results of which are very obvious in the reports of the Independent Examiners for the last two years) was inaugrated, under protest by Dr Wright, on a scheme
inaugrated,
drawn up by myself, which he received explicit instructions from the Officer Administering the Government, Mr May, to carry out. The present system of teaching written Chinese, which Dr
Wright's last report admits to have borne excellent fruit, was drawn up by Dr Ho Kai and myself and forced upon Dr Wright by
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