CO129-527-19 Annual Education Report 1929 30-9-1930 - 16-2-1931 — Page 9

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2 kichmond Terrace,

Whitehall, b.n.1.

28th October, 1930.

Dear Mr. de Martin,

The Advisory Committee on Education at its last meeting

showed considerable interest in the Education heport for Hong

Kong, 1929, prepared, I think, by hulphs. It was noticed that

attention had ben paid here qno there to the Committee's

suggestions, endorsed by the Secretary of State, regarding the

form and content of these Annual heports, but that a great deal

still remained to be done on the lines suggested by the

Committee in orde. to make the neport really intelligiba and

useful to outside readers not familier with local conditions.

I told the Committee that the Secretary of State had purposely

ubatsined from issuing any hard and fast instructions, and that

it was realised that uniform chapters and tables might not be

possible in all Colonies. I thought that there would be no

harm in my saying also that I was sure that in future heports

an effort would be made to go rather further along the lines

which had been suggested.

To take one example of what mignt, perhaps, te aone, the

Committee could find in the Kepart no separate treatment of