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AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
BUTTER
NEW SITE SOUGHT FOR UNIVERSITY
Important
MUCH ACTIVITY TYPHOON WELL TO
Proposals For AT THE Development
QUAI D'ORSAY
receiving, in turn, the Soviet Am-
Paris, To-day. Creation of an Institute of Public Health, to be es-
Diplomatic activity at the Quai tablished by co-operation between the Govern- D'Orsay was marked yesterday by ment and the University, able to offer a D.P.H.. the Foreign Minister, M, Bonnet, The transfer of the University to a new site, the
Government to contribute to the cost the differ-bassador, M. Suritz, the Rumanian ence in values of the old and the new sites, Ambassador, M. Tatarescu, and the which it is thought would be substantial; Are among the recommendations of the Committee appointed by the Chancellor, Sir Geoffry North- cote, to study the development of the Univer- sity.
In a covering letter, the chair-, the question of the transfer of the man of the Committee writes to University to a larger site outside the town should immediately be His Excellency:
"I have the honour to submit a taken into consideration but that now projected or Report on the changes and deve- new buildings lopments thought desirable by proposed in this Report should not your Committee, if the Univer- be deferred until the transfer is sity is to be useful, not only to made.. the Colony of Hong Kong but to the Chinese people, to students from the interior of China as well as to those from Malaya and the East Indies.
SOUTH AGAIN
Only .44 of an inch of rain fell in the last 24 hours, according to the Royal Observatory this morning.
Maximum temperature yesterday was 79 degrees, minimum last night 74 degrees. Reading this morning was also 74 degrees, with
humidity 93 per cent.
The Royal Observatory reports that a moderate anti-cyclone covers Manchuria, north Japan A ridge of extends from it to
and the adjacent seas. United States Ambassador, Mr.high pressure
south-east China. Bullitt.
A depression is moving north- About the conversation with M. eastward over the northern Loo-- Suritz, the Quai D'Orsay refused choos. The depression is filling up to made any statement but pointed to the north of Kwangchowwan. to M.. Maisky's simultaneous call Pressure remains low
over Indo- at the Foreign Office in London, China and the China Sen.
said that agreement with and Moscow on the basis of latest Syrian Sanjak of Alexandretta, Franco-British proposals could be the present State of Hatay, is to expected.
be ceded to Turkey is now officially Nevertheless, it is considered admitted. possible that M. Suritz asked for certain changes in proposals.
DECISION TO-DAY?
1
It is pointed out that negotia- tions about a number of special That a Universities Bureau, or-
questions will still be necessary, M. Molotov is to address the for example, protection of French ganised by the Chinese Ministry of Education, would assist the order-Soviet Congress to-day and it is interest in the railway, protection development of University hoped in Paris that he will then of minorities, etc., but these are education in China and that Hong announce that agreement with the expected to be brought to a satis- Kong University should seek asso-Western Powers has been reached. factory conclusion in the course
Trans-Ocean. The fact that the former North- of this week. ciation with such an organisation.
That an attempt be made
ly
to
a fund to provide post- raise graduate research studentships in Medicine and Public Health.
That an attempt should be made to raise a fund of $28,000 yearly to maintain a comprehensive scheme of scholarships for graduates and student's from under-graduate China.
"We have been conscious in all our deliberations that to put our into effect recommendations would involve the University in expenditure greatly in excess of Our terms its present income. of reference did not limit us to the consideration of what can be done within the present resources of the University; in fact we were asked to say what changes we thought desirable and practic-
STUDENT MESSING able, without immediate refer-
That the authorities of one of ence to what they would cost. We have done this, influenced by the attached Hostels be asked to the conviction that the Univer-experiment with student controlled sity by the influence of external messing and perhaps with dormi- circumstances has now a chance tory in place of single-room ac- of approximating more closely to commodation of students
towards cheapening the the ideal of its founders and that means if the chance is missed it is un- costs of University education. That the Government be likely to recur.
proached for the provision of more adequate athletic grounds.
"We make proposals for the establishment of scholarships in- tended to benefit mainly students from inland China. Our proposal is merely exemplary, not final. We feel strongly that unless aid is given in volume sufficient to open the doors of this University to such students the greater part of our proposals, in the present circumstances of the University, Jack justification.”
CHIEF PROPOSALS · The chief recommendations of the Committee are --- That to provide for
development
&
ap-
That as new general hospital accommodation is provided in the Colony the Queen Mary Hospital should be organised, by stages, completely as a teaching hospital.
That hostel provision should be made at the earliest date for resi- donce of students at the Queen Mary Hospital for casualty and emergency work.
NEW LECTURESHIP That provision be made for fuller use of Government medical officers, (Continued on Page 28)
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