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TELEGRAMS: BISHOPRIC, HONGKONG

THE BISHOP'S HOUSE

HONG

KONG

TELEPHONE 25753

何明

香港

明香港

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From

THE BISHOP OF HONG KONG

(THE RT. REVD. R. O. HALL)

24th November, 1945.

prepared to take responsibility for its development.

It is vital therefore that a Grant Code should give

fullest scope to Managers, as well as guarantee

security for teachers.

In an effort to provide security for teachers and at the

same time to satisfy the financial authorities of the

Colony, the New Code has in fact taken the leadership of

voluntary education from the Managers and vested it in the

Director: not by specific statement but by the circumscrib-

ed financial provisions of the Code which necessitate the

Director giving previous approval to all appointments and

expenditure.

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I beg to request that a representative of the Roman Catholic Schools

and I myself on behalf of the Anglican Schools for which I am responsible

be given an opportunity to put this case in person before your

Educational Officers in London before the Code becomes final, unless you,

Sir, are willing to direct the modification of the Code to meet our

objections. I attach in an Appendix a new suggestion as to how this can

be done. Other suggestions have already been made - notably in the

Alternative Grant Code, November, 1939, and in the Memorandum on the

Basis for Calculation of Block Grant December 11th, 1939, copies of

which are attached to this letter.

Ronald Home Mone

Bishop of Hong hay & Soulis

Chena