CO129-591-3 Education Department- revised grant code 24-10-1945 - 11-12-1945 — Page 93

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"may also be approved for the wife and family of a European "teacher in accordance with the regulations for the time being "in force with respect to similar teachers in Govermont servico".

"Expenditure" refers to the expenditure approved by the Code and includes salarios, passages, rent and other charges.

You will see, therefore, that I am most anxious to discover whether the Codo over received official sanction from the Secretary of State because it appears that in November 1941 all grant schools were circularised to the effect that the terms and conditions of the now Code would be considered as having come into cffcct as from the 1st September 1941.

I have gone very carefully through the Code, first, on my own; thon, with Mr. Walton, the Acting Director, and finally, at a full meeting of all the Feads of grant schools. Being woll aware of the state of fealing in the ost Indies and other Colonics towards the provisions made in such Codes, I was careful to inform the mooting that while discussion would be permissiblo on any sections of the Code, where the moaning or intention was doubtful, tho meeting had really been called in order that they might refresh their minds as to the principles and conditions of the now Codo. I am glad to say that the mooting was, so far as I am aware, a complete success. I spoke aftorwards with both the Roman Catholic and Protestant representatives who seemed to consider that the mooting had been most useful; they asked who thor they might submit memoranda on certain points which were still obscure or which, they felt, placed their own denominations at a disadvantage. They fully realised that tho now Code, as it stood, could not be changed in form or detail, but I agreed that any momor anda they cared to put up would be forwarded to London together with the Code, or later, if it had already been sont. So far as I know, the conditions in the Code had already been agrood but, I was told,under protest in some cases: The question of the assessment of salaries for Serving Brothers of a Religious Order was causing some concern to the Catholic Mombors. I gathered that it was not so much that they wished these Brother stoto have the same salary as lay teachers but that they wished it appear so. Thoy suggested a basic salary for all European teachers (male) whether Frothers or lay, in the grant aided schools, with generous allowances for marriage and for children. In this way, they said, the lay teachers would, in fact, be able to receive a salary which was within the scale laid down for Europeans, viz: £150.- to £60C.- per annum. have not oxamined this question in detail, but it is to mo, at least, an entirely new way of assessing the difference in salarios between the teaching Brothers (who, of course, would not get married) and the lay teachers, (who, presumably, would). I mado no comment on the suggestion. I am forwarding to you an advanco copy of the Grant Code in the form in which I found it on arrival, and in which, presumably, it came into force on September 1st, 1941. I shall later give you my comments on the

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