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la cadet appointments with merely a proviso

that it is not necessarily reserved for cadets

should be altered, and it should be made clear

by a public pronouncement that the appointment

is definitely an Education Department appointment

which need not necessarily be given to Education

officers, but will be given outside the Depart-

ment only if no suitable person is available

within it. Unless this change of emphasis is

secured, and unless the Education Department know

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that the emphasis has changed, there will always

be a tendency on the part of the officers with

10 or more years service to be content with

routine work. They will not try to qualify

themselves for a Director's post by distinctive

work, by study leave or by Chinese studies if

they know that in fact cadets will always be

given preference. This is certainly the pre-

vailing impression at present, whatever the

Governor' may say in his despatches.

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that in

The Government should also anounce

selection for the post special atten-

tion will be paid to proficiency in Chinese and

acquaintance with Chinese thought and life. If

the existing departmental regulations provide

for courses of Chinese study and testing of the

results at various stages for educational

officers these regulations should be more

strictly enforced a seems, on the Governor's

admission to have been the case hitherto and if

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they do not so provide they should be amended.

Arrangements should also be made for necessary

tuition. From every point of view and not

merely with reference to this particular

question it is most desirable that familiarity