CO129-529-1 Diocesan Boys' School and Orphanage- appeal for money 2-1-1931 - 10-5-1932 — Page 28

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The Under Secretary of State

for the Colonies.

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17th March 1932

School Council, requested the Secretary of the Missionary Council to try to find for the school a Headmaster and Assistant Master. In view of the financial position of the school the salary which is offered for these two posts is such that experienced Headmasters of En lish public schools express the utmost doubt as to whether any one could be found who was willing to accept the posts on such terms. Nevertheless we have received a definite offer from a member of the staff of Wellington Colle e to go out as Headmaster, and two young Oxford men have offered to take the post of Assistant Master. The Missionary Council has felt gravely doubtful whether it is justified in advising these men to accept the serious risks which would be involved in taking up these appointments in the present circumstances. It feels confident, however, that where young Englishmen of their type are to be found who are ready to forgo their own prospects at home because of the opportunity of service which a school like this affords, it cannot be the wish of His Majesty's Government that the Colony should be deprived of an institution which brings the boys and young men of the colony under influences of this kind.

In conclusion I am to express again the Missionary Council's high appreciation of the courtesy which has allowed this memorandum to be submitted.

I am,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

The Under Secretary of State,

The Colonial Office,

3.W. 1.

And arres

General Secretary.