CO129-503-6 Vacancies for schoolmasters- difficulty in filling posts- terms of appointment and service 17-3-1927 - 15-11-1927 — Page 64

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with your Government in the inconvenience

which has resulted.

3. The nature of your despatch,

however, inclines me to the view that

there is probably an insufficient

appreciation in the Colony of the

conditions affecting the recruitment

of suitable candidates from this country

for educational posts in Hong Kong and

elsewhere in the Colonial Services, ard

of the difficulties which have been met

with.

4. As regards the question of

"publicity", i.e. the process of

bringing the existence of Educational

vacancies to the notice of potential

applicants, either of two methods may

be employed: either advertisement in

the Press, or a system of close personal

liaison with the Appointments Boards,

College Fellows etc., at the Universities,

and with the Headmasters of the Public

Schools.

Experience has snown that the

latter

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