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Report.
90. We recommend that the Finance Com- mittee should carefully scrutinize the existing rules regarding passages.
Resolutions of Senate and Faculties.
accompaniment of higher academic employment in the Empire, and that in the case of Hong Kong such study leave is peculiarly desirable. It would further point out that courses of study pursued by members of the staff whether on extended leave or on ordinary furlough, are paid for by the members concerned, and that in the majority of cases financial outlay entailed by the grant of Study Leave upon the University, involving as it does provision for some two and a half months part- time assistance beyond what would be required for the ordinary period of home leave, has been small.
(Report para. 90). The Senate is of the opinion that the grades to which first class passages for members of the staff and their families are allocated should be determined by the general practice in analogous grades within the Colony, a principle which would appear to in- dicate the payment of first class passages in the case of all members of the teaching staff of the University recruited at home, whose qualifications are based upon University degrees.
Resolutions of Council.
Resolved that for future recruits to the service of the University free passages, in addi- tion to single passage on first appointment and a single passage on retirement, be given in accord- ance with the following calculation (the normal retiring age being taken as 55);
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(i) For a professor, a reader or a lecturer, and his wife passages at any time amounting in all to one return passage for every 5 completed years of service (including periods of leave).
(ii) For each child: passages to a maximum cost of two return half-fare passages.
Note: Passage expenditure will be calculated at the P. & O. rates for the appropriate class: but an account will be maintained to enable a man to gain the advantage of travel by cheaper rates in the form of additional passages to the total