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of a will-qualfed

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the Service from home

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at the transfer of M Soths

from Malaya.

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The position is difficult as the Government

has now accepted the suggestion, made by the Sec-

retary of State in no.2 on 53702 below, that Mr.

Sollis should be appointed if the Governor,

after considering the arguments in favour of a

home candidate, still prefers a man already in

the Colonial Education Service. Evidently the

Governor has not been impressed by the arguments

for a home man.

But as I was no party to the sending of no.

2. I support most cordially Mr. Gent's minute

and adhere to the views expressed in my previous

minute on this subject. The recent report of

the Advisory Committee on Education sub-committee

strengthens, I think, the arguments for a first

class man with home experience.

I recommend, therefore, reference of the

vacancy to Appointments, who will no doubt con-

sider the desirability of consulting the Board

of Education, though they have, no doubt, other

fields of enquiry.

I presume that in regard to prospects, the

Secretary of State will adhere to what he has