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29. We would go a stage further and suggest that the post-graduate training required should be deliberately provided in the Colony to such students from China in the road making, waterworks and building offices of the Public Works Department without any thought of their subsequent employment in the Colony.
35. We advise that this system should be greatly expanded if this is possible, but this means that there must be constant contact with the English engineering firms and their repre- sentatives in Hong Kong and China. We con- sider that Hong Kong will have done its proper
Resolutions of Senate and Faculties.
The Senate notes with satisfaction the declaration in paragraph 35 (which appears to negative the strictures of paragraph 32) that "Hong Kong will have done its share
by bringing the students as far as graduation This is precisely what the University has been
Resolutions of Council.
and should endeavour to interest the Federation of British Industries China Committee in this scholarship scheme and secure a contribution from them to- wards the training and apprenticeship of such students;
Provided that the elimination of the specialised courses in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering proposed under paragraph (b) should be con- tingent on the implementing paragraphs (c) and (d) and that the University should now recognise that specialised courses in Mechanical and Elec- trical Engineering may be justified at a time when Chinese industry is more developed. (See para- graph 37).
Resolved that the Council gratefully acknow- ledges the assistance given by the Public Works Department of the Colony in the matter of post- graduate apprenticeships, and that Government be asked to institute a cadre of locally appointed assistant Engincers to be recruited in the main from the graduates of Hong Kong University by selection after a period of apprenticeship in the Public Works Department.