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but it is rendered even more so by the overlapping of 

 two sections and the further and increasingly difficult 

 situation afforded by the half-caste and Eurasian. 



For many years the education of the country was 

 entirely in the hands of the Missions, and no one can 

 exaggerate the good work done by them. The first 

 attempt to provide any State-aided education for 

 European children was the Railway School in Nairobi, 

 which school offered for some years in its turn almost 

 the only chance a settler had of educating his family. 

 At the present time the Government have seriously 

 grappled with the problem, and every year sees an 

 improvement in the facilities offered. The Protectorate 

 has now a Director of Education, Mr. R. J. Orr, from 

 whose energy and concentration of purpose much is 

 expected. Under him there is the Board of Education 

 and further on in the chain the various headmasters 

 and their staff. 



A sum of ,£7,000 a year is at present set aside for 

 educational purposes. This sum forms the basis for a 

 good deal of self-praise from our Government, and is 

 said to compare favourably with any similar grant in 

 any similar colony. For myself I would rather regard 

 it in connection with the work to be done and the 

 various classes to be considered, and if one does so no 

 man can say that it is excessive. This sum covers 

 buildings, repairs, and salaries, besides all incidental 

 expenditure connected with the education of the 

 children of 3,500 Europeans, of 20,000 Indians, and 

 two millions of natives. I cannot see that it is unduly 

 large. Compare it with the vote on military expendi- 

 ture ; or on the public works expenditure. It will 

 stand the comparison. It might reasonably be thought 

 that it would not be an egregious demand to ask that 



