the prevention of these abuses was the amendment of the Education Ordinance and the framing of new regulations con- trolling the payment of fees. The effect of the amendment was
to provide that tuition fees and all extras should be paid monthly as an inclusive monthly fee and that this inclusive monthly fee, which is the maximum amount which the parent pays, must be shown in returns to the Director of Education for publication in the Government Gazette. Assistance to pupils to continue their education after leaving school is given by Government in the form of annual scholarships to Hong Kong University. Many holders of these scholarships take up teaching as a career.
The University.
The University of Hong Kong was incorporated in 1911 and formally opened in 1912. The supreme governing body of the University is the Court, which comprises life members, ex officio members and nominated members, with the Governor as chairman. The Council, which is the executive body, is composed of the Chancellor, the Vice-Chancellor, the Treasurer, certain Government officials, Chinese members of the Legislative Council, the Deans of the Faculties, two repre- sentative of the commercial community, and two additional members appointed by the Governor. The Senate is composed of the Vice-Chancellor, the Director of Education, and the Professors and Readers. There are in existence four faculties, medical, engineering, arts and science.
The invasion of the Colony by the Japanese in December, 1941 abruptly dispelled the prospects of a very successful session. A new science building had just been opened and plans had been approved for a temporary annex to house a number of new students many of whom had come from Malaya. There was classroom accommodation for about 500 students, six hostels, laboratories, staff residences, a Students' Union, gymnasium, workshops and playing fields. Wholesale looting during the war resulted in the loss of all scientific equip- ment and fittings and the serious damage of all buildings except the main floor of the University, in which is housed the main Library, the Fung Ping Shan Chinese Library and the Tang Chi Ngong School of Chinese Studies.
On December 31st, 1945, the Secretary of State appointed a Committee to advise whether the University of Hong Kong, as such, should continue to exist and if so to indicate the policy which should govern its resuscitation, and in addition to advise on what steps were necessary to re-start such of the work hitherto
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