CO129-503-6 Vacancies for schoolmasters- difficulty in filling posts- terms of appointment and service 17-3-1927 - 15-11-1927 — Page 14

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sine quâ non of appointment.

It was true that a proportion of such men

might be obtained in each year, but that for the

majority of our appointments we must rely on securing

raw material, i.e., on taking young men of good stamp

and education as soon as they got their Degrees.

These men muet either be sent out to obtain the ir

experience in the Department or if it was considered

pusines that they should have training in Educational matters

etc., such training must be given them here at the

expense of the Government which was going to use

them. This view has, I understand, been accepted

by the Native Advisory Committee, so far as Africa

is concerned, and it is this type of man whom we

are mainly recruiting for the African Educational

Departments,

So far as I could see Mr. McElderry agreed

with all my suggestions.

I asked him if he could

think of a suitable man to co-operate with me.

He said that personally, although he was his brother-

I was not be any in-law, he could not think of anyone better than Mr.

Keen. He is rathen

"Cranky":

A.

Orme. I do not know what view the Far Eastern Depart-

hold

ment or the Governor would have on this point, but I

do lay stress on the importance of obtaining a man of

the right personal stamp. So far as I know, the majority

of the older members of the Educational Department

in Hong Kong are not of the stamp which is now

required, and it would do more harm than good if

they were put into contact with University authorities

in this country; but there may, of course, be exceptio

whom I do not know.

(3.) With regard to the points of Captain