CO129-533-12 Additional revenue proposals- revision of postal rates 2-3-1931 - 8-10-1931 — Page 31

2, Richmond Terrace) Whitehall,

7th May, 1936.

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my dear Barney,

I wonder whether you sw when you were in Hong

'Kong the enclosed history? As it is probable that I

shell be out of England when the Hong Kong government's

views on your report are considered by the Committee I

am drawing your attention to the book because it seems

to me to indicate forcibly some of the defects that you

noted in the present school certificate course in Hong

Kong. Something will obviously have to be done to

insist on your plea for simplification receiving attention, whatever the Hong Kong Education Department

may asy.

In conversation with Handyside I gathered that

he could see no faults in the book or in the certificate

course for which it is intended. When I referred to

the difficulty of the language and of much of the subject

matter ne said that no attempt had been made to simplify

either beesuse school certificate candidates usually

steyed in the schools till the age of 19 or 20.

When