CO129-574-10 Vacancy for music master in Education Department 4-10-1938 - 28-10-1938 — Page 3

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With referenceto A. in Mr. Bickle's

minute, I hope that it will not be necessary to

defer all educational measures involving additional

expense until the outlook in South China is better.

But if there is a need for restricting expenditure

to obviously urgent measures, I agree that we should

get further information from Hong Kong about this

project.

Mr. Sollis, Director of Education, has

no doubt brought the idea with him from Malaya,

where as you know we were rushed into sanction of

the post by the persistency of Major Brown and Sir

Walford Davies. There is perhaps more to be said

for the post in Hong Kong, where there are at least two large and important schools for British children.

But the Hong Kong Government might, I think, be

reminded that music qualifications have been re-

quired in the case of several women's vacancies in

recent years, and that several women who have been

appointed have possessed these qualifications.

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