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deference to Mr. Mayhew's view that

Experience of Educational administration and development in this country, particularly in urban areas, is the most important qualification for the poot" This cuts right across my own sense of comparative values, but having seen the Cuttle I do not fear that this will be his only qualification and I refrain therefore from pressing my own views.

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Perhaps I may be permitted a word of explanation regarding the statement in para 7 of the Mayhew's Notes that I'admitted' that secondary concation problems in Malaya were way different from stone long problems. I did not 'admit' it;

I declared it and impressed it on m2- Nicol. My conception of the value of Colonial sxperience is not that what stands good for eg. Malaya