women who had passed the sixth, fifth, and even fourth
standard were utilised temporarily." With the new year, 1902, drafts
of carefully chosen and well-qualified teachers from England began to
arrive. Both the Board of Education for England and Wales and the
Scotch Education Department took up the work of selection and
appointment, and the co-operation of the Canadian, Australian, and New
Zealand Governments was obtained.[307] From this time forward the
system of the camp schools was steadily extended; and on May 31st,
1902, the date of the Vereeniging surrender, when the attendance
reached its highest point, more than 17,000 Boer children were being
thus educated in the Transvaal camps, and more than 12,000 in those of
the Orange River Colony.[308]

[Footnote 307: These imported teachers worked harmoniously
with the South African teachers, whether of British or Dutch
extraction; they filled the gap left by the Hollander
teachers, who had returned to Europe after the outbreak of
the war, and formed a valuable element in the permanent staff
of the Education Departments of the new colonies. In 1903
there were 475 of these over-sea teachers at work in the two
colonies, as against some 800 teachers appointed in South
Africa.]

[Footnote 308: Some idea of the significance of these figures
may be gathered from the fact that the highest number of
children on the rolls of the Government schools of the Orange
Free State was 8,157 (in the year 1898). That is to say, the
British Administration in the Orange River Colony was
educating one-third more Boer children in the camp schools
alone than the Free State Government had educated in time of
peace. Cd. 903.]

[Sidenote: Administrative progress, 1901.]

Apart from this unique and significant effort, the reports furnished
by the various departmental heads to Lord Milner in December afford
striking and sufficient evidence of the progress of the civil
administration in both the new colonies during the year 1901. In the
Orange River Colony the sphere of operations of the departments
existing at the time when Sir H. Gould-Adams was appointed
Deputy-administrator (March, 1901), had been increased, and new
departments were being organised. A statement issued by the financial
adviser on August 29th showed that for the period March 1