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in his absence, as he never held an educational post higher

than that of Fourth Assistant Master at the College.

6.

With regard to the memorial from

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the Senior and Junior European Staff at Queen's College, I

would in the first instance refer Your Lordship to para-

-graph 5 of Mr. Chamberlain's Despatch No. 276 of the

29th. August, 1902, in which it is stated that there are

special objections to the transfer of Educational Officers

to other branches of the service and that the Secretary of

State considered that such Officers should not in future

be appointed to act in posts outside their own branch of

the service. The petitioners argue (in my opinion not un-

-reasonably) that the converse of this decision should also

hold good and that, if Educational Officers must not look

for promotion to other branches of the service, their pro-

-motion in their own branch of the service should not be

obstructed by the intrusion into it of Officers who do not

belong to the Educational Staff. There are, however,

special circumstances in the case of the proposed transfer

of Mr. Woodcock, for not only did he originally join the

service as an Assistant Master at Queen's College and serve

in the College for 10 years, but it has always been intend-

-ed that when opportunity offered he should be transferred

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