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Board of Education, I have selected

for this duty Mr.E. Burney, M.C.,

one of H.M's Inspectors of Schools

in this country and he will join the

P & 0. s.s. Rawal Pindi at Marseilles

on the 14th December en route for

Hong Kong. I anticipate that Mr.Burney 3.

will be able to spend some 4-6 weeks in

the Colony and on his return he will

report to me on the present schools'

organisation and make such recommendations

as he may think fit as to how it should

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be developed. [t the same time,] I do

not desire that the range of his report

should be limited by being confined

strictly to terms of (those references]

and I have informed him [2ecordingly]

that it will be open to him in his

report to make recommendations with

regard to any aspects of the

educational system in Hong Kong on

which he may consider that his

observations can usefully be

any precise terms of reference