CO129-558-1 Education Department- staffing and re-organisation 22-4-1936 - 7-4-1937 — Page 12

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said in paragraph 3 of no. 2 on 53702.

Apparently it

has now been decided that no promise can be made of

the Directorship. This may be an obstacle so far as

enquiries through the Board of Education are concerned,

since the persons on the Board who would be interested

know the difficulties of educational work in Hong Kong

under a cadet Director of Education. If a really

first class man cannot eventually be found at home, I

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suggest that we should ascertain from the Governor,

while he is at home, what are his objections to Mr.

de Rome, who is apparently supported by the Department

of Education and local opinion, and whether he is

really satisfied that Mr. Sollis is a better man and

would be able to hold his own in the Department.

(Sgd.) ARTHUR MAYHEW,

18.2.37.

These minutes were written on 53541/36, but

this seems the more appropriate paper for them and

I have transferred them.

I am still of the opinion which I expressed in

my minute of the 8th of June last on 1132 Promotions.

I feel that continued importations into higher

educational appointments must be extremely dis-

couraging to the Service, and that some of those

which have been made (Major Bain Grey to British

Guiana and Mr. Jowitt to Uganda) have not been

experiments so successful as to justify further attempts of the

same kind, particularly when, as seems to be the

case here, there is available within the Service

a man who on his record is a good candidate for a

vacancy, and who is known to and recommended by the

Governor of the Colony where the vacancy exists.

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