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decision of the Legislative Council.

When the Bill was in Committee Mr.

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E. A. Hewett stated that he had been asked to represent the

view of the Senate of the College that the Director of

Education should be excluded from the Senate. I gave my

reasons for thinking that it would be advantageous to retain

him, and I attach a copy of the Hansard report on which this

debate appears. I said at the same time that I did not in any

way wish to prejudge the question, and that if an amendment

was moved every Member, Official or Unofficial, would be free

to express his view. Mr. Hewett, however, was satisfied with

the reasons given and declined to propose an amendment, as

also did Dr. Ho Kai, who is a Member of the Court of the

College, and has been associated with it since its inception.

Mr. H. E. Pollock, who is also on the Court, was not present,

but he had agreed to the inclusion of the Director of

Education. In these circumstances it may be said that the

whole Legislative Council, Official & Unofficial, were

unanimously in favour of the inclusion of the Director of

Education on the Senate. Mr. Clementi informs me that he is

confident that if the opinion of the numerous other graduates

of Oxford and Cambridge and other Universities in the United

Kingdom were taken it would be found that fully as many would

be