CO129-403 - Governor Sir May Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [8-10] — Page 435

CONFIDENTIAL.

3 NOV. 1913

COL OFFICE

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Governor's Despatch No. 229 of)

2nd. July, 1913.

Secretary of State's Despatch

No. 227 of 7th. August,

1913.

GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

HONGKONG. 10th. October, 1913.

With reference to the despatches noted in the

margin, I have the honour to report with

much regret that the Director of Education 25991

has informed me that he has no longer any

confidence in Mr. R. C. Barlow's ability

to perform satisfactorily the duties of Inspector of Vernacular

Schools.

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2.

Last month Mr. Barlow was absent from his duties

for two days, and there is I am afraid no reason to doubt that the cause was intemperance. As it was the first time such a lapse had occurred I did not consider it necessary to interdict Mr. Barlow from the performance of his duties, but I agree with the Director of Education that it would be most undesirable to have an officer, regarding whose habits any uncertainty existed, in a post which would require him to be alone in the New Territories for a fort-

-nignt at a time.

3.

I propose, therefore, that Mr. Barlow should return to Queen's College as an Assistant laster, where he will have plenty of work and be under proper supervision, and that lir. A. R. Cavalier, Assistant Master in the College, should be appointed to act as Inspector of Vernacular Schools. Mr. Cavalier has not yet passed his final examination in Chinese, and until he does so and

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P..

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